Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler has come down with pneumonia, his spouse confirmed over the weekend.
In a submit shared to Instagram on Christmas Day (December 25), Gloria Butler jokingly defined that Geezer’s analysis got here after two days of study, following unfavorable checks for the flu, COVID-19, strep and tonsillitis: “I stated, ‘Effectively, he’s optimistic for being a ache in my arse,’” she quipped. “Day [two] at [the doctor’s], he was advised he has pneumonia. Though nonetheless optimistic for being a ache, I now really feel responsible for considering that.”
Butler himself has not but addressed his sickness, although he has been energetic on-line, sharing a Christmas message of his personal on Instagram.
The long-lasting bassist has stored a comparatively low profile since Black Sabbath disbanded in 2017, although in March of this 12 months, he linked up with Apocalyptica to carry out on their standalone single ‘I’ll Get By way of It’. He later appeared on the Taylor Hawkins tribute live performance in Los Angeles, performing two Sabbath tracks – ‘Supernaut’ and ‘Paranoid’ – with Sebastian Bach, Lars Ulrich and the surviving Foo Fighters.
Sabbath had a micro-reunion at this 12 months’s Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham, nevertheless Butler was not current. Explaining why after the gig, Tony Iommi stated: “I don’t suppose he wished to return over as he hadn’t been properly with COVID. He’d been on vacation to Kenya and to Italy and had had an accident on a ship, cracking or breaking a rib about three weeks in the past, so he was not fairly in wonderful fettle to return over to play.”
