Geezer Butler has been talking about his band’s ... early days the band were so impoverished that they had to boil his bass strings to clean them because he couldn’t afford to buy new ones.

Geezer Butler (born Terence Michael Joseph ... Iommi made it clear that he wouldn't want to play with another guitarist, so Butler moved to bass.

But, unlike the rehearsal, which featured Nicholls on bass while Geezer Butler took a brief hiatus from the band to deal with a divorce, Geezer says he performed on “Slapback,” saying the song “didn’t ...