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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 17, 2020 11:14:12 GMT
What's yer verdict on Black Sabbath? I reckon if I was five years older I'd have loved them As it is I never really paid em much heed aside from dancing to Paranoid down at the youth club disco in the pre punk days I wonder if it's too late to try and fall in love with them? The 1970 debut certainly has a bit of punk immediacy about it....
According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founder member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in a single day on 16 October 1969. The session lasted twelve hours. Iommi said: "We just went in the studio and did it in a day, we played our live set and that was it. We actually thought a whole day was quite a long time, then off we went the next day to play for £20 in Switzerland." Aside from the bells, thunder and rain sound effects added to the beginning of the opening track, and the double-tracked guitar solos on "N.I.B." and "Sleeping Village", there were virtually no overdubs added to the album. Iommi recalls recording live: "We thought, 'We have two days to do it and one of the days is mixing.' So we played live. Ozzy was singing at the same time, we just put him in a separate booth and off we went. We never had a second run of most of the stuff."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2020 11:20:45 GMT
The early stuff rips but I can't pretend to like all of it.
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Post by personunknown on Jun 17, 2020 12:27:05 GMT
Accept no substitutes, they were metal. First four albums meisterworks then America and the cocaine took over. Dio's brief stint with them was okay as well. I met Geezer Butler at a vegan festival a few years ago, lovely bloke.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 17, 2020 12:54:15 GMT
Thanks PU - inspiring. Thanks Rogue.
Is Geezer a vegan then?
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 17, 2020 12:55:58 GMT
That'll be a yes to my question above...
Love his Praise Seitan t shirt
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Post by personunknown on Jun 17, 2020 13:10:02 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 18, 2020 8:47:54 GMT
I'm on to their second album, Paranoid, today
Black Sabbath are often credited with inventing Metal and yet the early stuff is as much blues rock as anything
I've just been watching this live performance of War Pigs from 1970 and whilst all the antecedents of Metal are there especially the seismic rigging from Tony Iommi it's a work in progress
It's bracing stuff as you'll see...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 9:06:24 GMT
Masters of Reality is their best I reckon but I'm certainly no expert.
Might dig it out later as I give my windows a wash.
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Post by personunknown on Jun 18, 2020 9:51:01 GMT
Volume 4 for me. The heavy bluesy workouts (though great) have gone by this album and its Tectonic Iommi riffs, Supernaut the blueprint for bands to come. Next album Sabbath Bloody Sabbath has the synthesizer creeping in, fine album but a change is coming and not for the better. Last two with Ozzy, Tech Ecstasy and Never Say Die are best avoided.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2020 10:24:37 GMT
Yes Sunday Bloody Sabbath is good too, anotherone I'll have to dig out.
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Post by stu77 on Sept 18, 2020 15:07:15 GMT
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Post by politician2 on Sept 18, 2020 15:18:17 GMT
One of the five most influential bands of all time. Yes, some blues-rock traces remain on the early albums, but the moment the slow riffing starts at the beginning of their eponymous song you know hard rock has become heavy metal.
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Post by smogquixote on Sept 19, 2020 0:38:45 GMT
Black Sabbath are up there with LZ for me in terms of consistency and innovation. “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” or “Master of Reality” are probably my favourites from them.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 19, 2020 6:55:31 GMT
Black Sabbath are up there with LZ for me in terms of consistency and innovation. “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” or “Master of Reality” are probably my favourites from them. What are you favourite Sabbath tunes Smog? |
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Post by smogquixote on Sept 19, 2020 9:19:17 GMT
Black Sabbath are up there with LZ for me in terms of consistency and innovation. “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” or “Master of Reality” are probably my favourites from them. What are you favourite Sabbath tunes Smog? “Into The Void” “War Pigs” “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” “Snowblind” |
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