Geezer Butler
Geezer Butler was born in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom on July 17th, 1949 and is the Bassist. At the age of 74, Geezer Butler biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) is an English singer and songwriter.
Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the Black Sabbath band.
He has also performed and appeared with Heaven & Hell, GZR, and Ozzy Osbourne.
He appears as the bassist of Deadland Ritual.
Early life
Geezer Butler, as he is popular, adopted the term "Geezer" at an early age. "It came because my brother was in the army while attending school and was based with a large number of Cockneys." And Londoners call everyone a 'geezer.' [It means] just a man,' like, 'Hello, mate.' It's just like someone yelling 'dude' over here (In the United States). It'd be 'geezer' in England.' So my brother used to come home from army service, and he'd be heading for 'Hello, geezer.'How are you, geezer?'
So, since I looked up to my brother when I was around seven years old, I'd go back to school and call everybody a geezer. So here's how I got cursed with it."Butler grew up in Birmingham's working-class Irish Catholic family. The Butler family had seven children and was poor, with the majority having "no money." Two of Butler's older brothers had been ordered to service in the army, and Butler was afraid that he would be next. However, compulsory service in England had been suspended a few years before he was scheduled to be summoned.
As a child, Butler was heavily influenced by Aleister Crowley's writing. He had stopped attending Mass by his late teens. He cited a lack of faith and said that everybody should decide for themselves what to believe in sooner or later. Butler was "going to Mass every Sunday to see all the nice girls that were going to church," he said years later.
Personal life
Butler is married to Gloria Butler, who formerly ruled Heaven and Hell. In 1980, he was divorced from his first wife. He also shares his Los Angeles home with many cats, some of whom he has posted on his website. Biff Butler, his oldest son, was the frontman in the nu metal band Apartment 26. Biff, according to Butler, is very religious and takes his children in the Catholic faith. Butler's older son James obtained a degree in social sciences from Oxford University and lives in London. Butler likes him as "very politically minded." "My youngest is very left-wing, and I believe it's because he was brought up with wealth and resources, not that I was brought up having no money at all." "Everybody knew each other on the street and everybody helped each other out," Butler said.
Butler has been a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club, and during Black Sabbath's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he was heard yelling "Up the Villa" as the members of the band left the stage. He has referred to football as his "religion" and has said that Villa legend Peter McParland is his "all-time hero."
Butler, on the other hand, "never uses foul words." He was raised on a vegetarian diet, mainly because his family was too poor to buy meat on a regular basis, and has been a vegan since about 1994. His mother was also a vegetarian.
Butler appeared in a public ad for People for Animal Care in 2009 and then advised followers not to boycott Fortnum & Mason until they completely ban foie gras from their shelves. "I've seen some bizarre things in my time," Butler said, "but watching those poor birds die simply so that their diseased livers can be sold on your shop floor is horrific."
Butler has grown disillusioned with politics, saying, "For me, it's almost pointless voting now," because it seems that no matter what party or political party you support, it remains the same." To me, it all seems that it has been corrupted. It's all the same old people who rule the world." He has also expressed worry about the increasing degree of government involvement in people's lives. "Every time I go back to England, there are certain things that never thought would happen in England," the BBC claims. "People seem to have so much power these days," he said in 2014.
Butler was briefly arrested following a bar brawl in Death Valley, California, and charged with misdemeanour assault, public intoxication, and vandalism in January 2015. Following detoxification and a citation, he was released. "This guy started yelling off about something" at the event in 2016. He was, like, some bloke at night. He started to talk about Jews and everything, but not Jews. My missus is Jewish and I'd just had enough, and me hand almost touched his chin. "I screamed at him one."
Career
In late 1967, Butler formed Rare Breed, with John "Ozzy" Osbourne soon joining as the lead vocalist. Butler was dating a girl who lived near Tony Iommi, and Iommi's earliest memories of Butler involved him walking past his house every day to visit her. Iommi and Butler became acquainted when their bands appeared at a nearby nightclub. Osbourne and Butler reunited in Polka Tulk, along with guitarist Iommi and drummer Bill Ward, who had left the band Mythology earlier this year. They renamed their new band Earth, but they were forced to change the name yet again. Butler suggested the term Black Sabbath in early 1969, inspired by Boris Karloff's famous horror film of the same name.
Butler, inspired by John Lennon, played rhythm guitar in his pre-Sabbath days, including with Rare Breed. When Sabbath first emerged, Iommi made it clear that he did not want to play with another guitarist, so Butler switched to bass. "I'd never played bass until I was on stage at the first gig that we attended," Butler said. Borrowed the bass guitar off one of my friends, but it only had three strings on it." Butler cites Jack Bruce of Cream as his best-known bassist. Butler was described as "from another planet" in the band's early days; he took LSD, wore Indian hippie clothing, and was very patient. Butler was studying to become an accountant at the time, and his involvement with the band helped with the band's finances in the early days.
Butler briefly left the band after Black Sabbath dismissed vocalist Ozzy Osbourne in 1979 to deal with his first wife's divorce. Craig Gruber's 1980 album Heaven and Hell was released, but Butler returned to the band at the last minute and re-recorded the bass parts prior to releasing. He departed the band in 1984 after touring in support of their 1983 album Born Again, but he returned months later as the band attempted a comeback with vocalist David Donato.
Butler participated in the No Rest for the Wicked World Tour in 1988 and was accompanied by his former Sabbath bandmate Osbourne. He returned to Black Sabbath in 1991 for the Mob Rules line-up's revival, but the group was forced to resign after the 1994 Cross Purposes Tour.
Butler appeared on Osbourne's band's record in 1995 and 1996. He founded G/Z/R in 1995, releasing Plastic Planet after recording Ozzmosis. Black Science, his next solo album, came in 1997. Butler performed on Sabbath once more for the 1997 Ozzfest and has been with the band since. Ohmwork, his third solo album, was released in 2005. Butler and Tony Iommi would rewrite the Dehumanizer-era Black Sabbath line-up with Vinny Appice and Ronnie James Dio, according to the band's Diote version.
He returned to Iommi and Osbourne for 13 years and toured in favor of the album, which came to a close in 2017.