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Jack Black's Black Sabbath Cover Band Performs With Geezer Butler at Power to the People Festival
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In Short: Jack Black's Black Sabbath tribute band, Jack Sabbath, performed at the Power to the People Festival, featuring Geezer Butler.
Jack Black's Black Sabbath tribute band, Jack Sabbath, performed at the Power to the People Festival in Columbia, Maryland, on October 3, featuring Geezer Butler from the original Black Sabbath lineup.
Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs' was a highlight of the set, with Black praising Ozzy Osbourne and the band's legacy in heavy metal.
The festival, organized by Tom Morello, featured a lineup of notable musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Stephen Stills.
Springsteen performed songs such as Bob Dylan’s 'Chimes of Freedom,' Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 'Fortunate Son,' and Neil Young’s 'Rockin’ in the Free World,' alongside Baez.
Stills joined Morello and Nathaniel Rateliff for a rendition of the classic protest song 'For What It’s Worth,' highlighting the festival's focus on social and political activism.
The festival's proceeds will be donated to VoteRiders and HeadCount, organizations working to eliminate barriers to voting and help fans register.
The event concluded with a performance of John Lennon’s 'Power to the People,' featuring dozens of performers.
Jack Black brought his usual energy to the stage, performing harmonica during 'The Wizard' and engaging in dance moves during solos.
The festival was livestreamed on YouTube, allowing fans who couldn't attend in person to watch the performances.
The Power to the People Festival is known for its high ticket demand, with tickets often selling out within an hour.
In recent years, the cost of attending major music festivals has risen, with Glastonbury Festival tickets now exceeding £400.
Despite the rising costs, the festival continues to attract a diverse lineup of performers, including Jack Black and his tribute band Jack Sabbath.
What this adds
The festival's lineup included many other notable acts, such as Serj Tankian, David Grohl, Public Enemy, and Killer Mike.
The performance of 'War Pigs' was particularly special, as it featured Geezer Butler, a founding member of Black Sabbath.
The festival's focus on social and political activism was evident in the choice of songs and the donation of proceeds to pro-democracy organizations.
What's confirmed
- Jack Black's Black Sabbath tribute band, Jack Sabbath, performed at the Power to the People Festival in Columbia, Maryland, on October 3, featuring Geezer Butler from the original Black Sabbath lineup.
- Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs' was a highlight of the set, with Black praising Ozzy Osbourne and the band's legacy in heavy metal.
- The festival, organized by Tom Morello, featured a lineup of notable musicians including Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and Stephen Stills.
- Springsteen performed songs such as Bob Dylan’s 'Chimes of Freedom,' Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 'Fortunate Son,' and Neil Young’s 'Rockin’ in the Free World,' alongside Baez.
- Stills joined Morello and Nathaniel Rateliff for a rendition of the classic protest song 'For What It’s Worth,' highlighting the festival's focus on social and political activism.
- The festival's proceeds will be donated to VoteRiders and HeadCount, organizations working to eliminate barriers to voting and help fans register.
- The event concluded with a performance of John Lennon’s 'Power to the People,' featuring dozens of performers.
- Jack Black brought his usual energy to the stage, performing harmonica during 'The Wizard' and engaging in dance moves during solos.
- The festival was livestreamed on YouTube, allowing fans who couldn't attend in person to watch the performances.
- The Power to the People Festival is known for its high ticket demand, with tickets often selling out within an hour.
- In recent years, the cost of attending major music festivals has risen, with Glastonbury Festival tickets now exceeding £400.
- Despite the rising costs, the festival continues to attract a diverse lineup of performers, including Jack Black and his tribute band Jack Sabbath.
What's still developing
- “This motherfucker invented Heavy Metal, along with Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, and the immortal Tony Iommi, the darkest, heaviest shit the world had ever heard,” Black said of Ozzy in his speech.
- “He invented a genre, then had the greatest second act come back in rock history.” We want to hear it.
- That festival was organized by Tom Morello and saw Black joined by his young ‘ Back To The Beginning ‘ cohorts in Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yoyoka Soma and Hugo Weiss.
- Also performed were renditions of Sabbath ‘s “ The Wizard ” and the aforementioned take on “ War Pigs ” with Butler guesting.
- Black, Morello and Revel as well as Yokoyo Soma and Hugo Weiss played a set featuring many of the band’s most iconic songs, and as Consequence reports, their closing performance of “War Pigs” added an even more special guest to the already exciting line-up, with none other than Black Sabbath bassist himself Geezer Butler joining.
- Videos of the performance can be found posted online.
- Steven Taylor October 3rd, 2026 - 5:17 PM Photo Credit: Brett Padelford “Jack Sabbath” – a Jack Black -led group of teenage performers including Tom Morello’s son Roman and Scott Ian’s son Revel – banded together at Tom Morello’s Power to the People festival to perform a slate of tribute covers to (as their name might imply) the legendary Black Sabbath.
- The performance is one of many in the stacked Power to the People festival – including names like Serj Tankian, David Grohl, Public Enemy, Killer Mike, as well Scott Ian and of course host Tom Morello – but stands as a unique tribute to one of the biggest icons to metal and the music world at large.
- Headliners for the festival, which takes place from 23 to 27 June, have yet to be announced, but rumours are already swirling, with everyone from Harry Styles and Fontaines DC to Taylor Swift and Stevie Wonder said to be in the mix.
- Tickets for the festival typically sell out in less than an hour, with thousands of fans joining online queues to fight for their place.
- You can check your registration on its website., external In recent years, the festival has also introduced an automatic queuing system on the day of sale, with fans needing to be online before the start of the sale with a valid registration number.
- Analysis by BBC News found the cost of attending the UK's major festivals has surged over the past decade - rising above the rate of inflation.