Separating the Nicholses from the Connollys
I don’t want to bite too hard off of what the good folks at MetalSucks do (because, so far as I know, no one has ever stolen anything from anyone on the internet), but two things occurred to me when Blabbermouth posted a story yesterday about Tony Martin touring the US to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Black Sabbath‘s Headless Cross. First, how awesome it would be to see what kind of crowd made it out to that show. Second, that god damn, keyboardist Geoff Nichols — a former Sabo himself — looks like Scottish comedian Billy Connolly. Dig the photo:
Now, as a dude with long hair and a beard, I’m used to people telling me I look like all kinds of folks, from Some Douche in the band My Morning Jacket to their own relatives. I once had a woman stop me in a parking lot and ask me if I was her nephew. The answer, of course, was “Are you rich?”
I thought maybe there was some of that going on, like how I’ve always kind of thought Iron Maiden‘s Nicko McBrain looked like the recently-killed-by-ninjas David Carradine even though they’re just two blond guys with big foreheads. After some further investigation (and by that I mean a Google Images search), I concocted the following Nichols/Connolly side-by-side. See what you think:
