Tony Iommi w/ Glenn Hughes 'The 1996 DEP Sessions' Interview 2004

An audio interview featuring a Q&A session with Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes from September 2004. Find the questions below, their answers are in the video!

"The 1996 DEP Sessions" featuring Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes was released on Monday, September 27th, 2004 : http://amzn.to/1A96MHU

Q1.
Why did "The 1996 DEP Sessions" remain unreleased until now?
A. Glenn/Tony

Q2.
Was this originally intended to be a Black Sabbath album?
A. Tony/Glenn

Q3.
Were you satisfied with the music at the time? How did the song writing come together?
A. Tony/Glenn

Q4.
The style of "The 1996 DEP Sessions" is stripped-down, blues-oriented rock. Was this a natural approach given the style of Deep Purple during your (Glenn) tenure and the solo work you were doing around that time, and Tony's early influences and the early days of Black Sabbath when it was a blues-based band known as Earth?
A. Glenn/Tony

Q5.
Did you have Don Airey and Geoff Nicholls in mind immediately to play keyboards? Describe the difference their contributions made to the project.
A. Glenn/Tony

Q6.
You had both stayed in touch personally in the 10 years since the "Seventh Star" album. Had you two done anything musical together in that time, even dabbling in song writing?
A. Glenn/Tony

Q7. "Seventh Star" had a sleek, contemporary sound and feel at the time and has since been re-evaluated by many and referred to as an underrated album. The story about the record company is insistence at billing it as Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi is well known. Did that hurt the album's reception at the time because the name resulted in preconceived notions of what the music would or should be like? How do you look back on that album and compare it to the different musical direction taken on "The 1996 DEP Sessions"?
A. Tony/Glenn

Q8.
Were there any musical ideas left over from "The 1996 DEP Sessions" that reappeared in some way on the 2000 album "Iommi" which featured a number of special guests?
A. Tony/Glenn

Q9.
Are there any touring plans - either a full tour, a handful of performances or a one-off performance?
A. Tony/Glenn

Q10.
Are there plans for you both to record again in the future?
A. Tony/Glenn

Q11.
Anything you would like to add?
A. Tony