A 2-CD set of rarities and recordings culled from the careers of Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Deep Purple's Ian Gillan will be released on August 28th.
The tracklist includes the two charity songs that the pair recorded with Jon Lord, Jason Newsted, Nicko McBrain, and Linde Lindström under the name "WhoCares," an unreleased Deep Purple jam, a song by Repo Depo (Gillan's pre-Deep Purple reunion band), two Tony Iommi songs featuring Glenn Hughes, and much more.
"As I said once in the song 'Razzle Dazzle,' it's a real fine line between an orgy of destruction and a wonderful time,'" states Gillan. "The destruction of conformity in this case: some of these pieces never really fitted into their contemporary program and got sidelined or forgotten, and some of the album tracks never had much exposure. As the track listing for this album came together, I noticed many of the titles had character similarities: a combination of freshness as they finally felt the sun on their backs and rebellion in a 'yeah told you so' kind of way. And that adds up to a wonderful time and more money for the music school we are building in Armenia."
"The ad-hoc benefit WhoCares band," continues Gillan, "was a band put together by Tony Iommi and myself on a flight home from Yerevan, where we'd been deeply humbled by the honor and expectation bestowed upon us. Well that's it really, in a nutshell, so to speak, what more can I say? It's all there in the music."