A young Black Sabbath

iblive said:
My preference really became music where the bass and drummer’s beat would hit me in the chest hard enough to stop the heart.
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Standing in front of Geezer Butler on the Heaven and Hell tour in 1980, I felt like someone was hitting me in the chest with a sledgehammer for an hour. Nevermind what my eardrums felt like. I saw them twice on that tour.
 
iblive said:
What I’ve always, even in the beginning, found interesting. You can’t understand a word Ozzie speaks when he talking. But put a mic in front of him and tell him to sing a song. All of a sudden, you understand every single word. Never figured that one out.
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In the song Black Sabbath, I love the way Ozzie sings. " Oh no, no, please God help me !"

In the '80's when the group of mothers tried to sue metal bands like BS and Judas Priest because a kid killed himself, they claimed it was from listening to their music, Ozzie had to explain Suicide Solution.
They say he is promoting suicide when actually he is alarming the dangers of substance abuse.
They say he says "I tell you to end your life" but he struggled to make them understand, with the way he speaks, that he is actually saying
"I tell you to enjoy life, I wish I could but its too late"

The tape of that is really intriguing as it is so hard to understand his spoken speech.
 
That Paris show from 1970 is so iconic. It is out there in full form and some very good recordings.

Sabbath opened me up to Metal and much heavier stuff than I had been listening to. I heard them
for the first time in 1972 and I was just blown away! My life changed that day...
 
Sp8ctre said:
That Paris show from 1970 is so iconic. It is out there in full form and some very good recordings.

Sabbath opened me up to Metal and much heavier stuff than I had been listening to. I heard them
for the first time in 1972 and I was just blown away! My life changed that day...
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Mine too, in September of 1972 I bought the album Paranoid , the next one I found was Master of Reality, Iommi is one of the big reasons I play, their music never gets old to me, and my song Trash is the best Sabbath style I can play.
Cheers
 
Here is my ODE to Sabbath.

I am sure DONO and Gball will likely have not flown the coop to land on the West Coast before experiencing Record and Tape Traders in at least 1 of their multiple Baltimore area stores. LONG into my musical road and many listens to Sabbath in the decades from 70's, 80's 90's... I liked Sabbath but never had such an epiphany as I did the day I was cd shopping in the last of the Towson Md Record and Tape Trader shops. The staff had what I remember as a compilation CD on the system in the store. It was at that time, my ears could seriously tell my musical organ how perfect the playing was that I was expereiencing. ( that is what I can only describe the part of me that gets in tune with playing as if it were air or blood flowing in me involuntarily)

At that moment, I could feel just how polished., how tight, how meant to fit together, Ozzie's players were. Sorry Randy, but it was Geezer, Tony, and Bill Ward that I could just tell had IT together.

I know you guys know what I am talking about that I experienced that day.

Something along the lines of what is on display in this clip.

 
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MAN just listen to that jam on In for the Kill. The guitar riffs, phrasing, overall THUMP make me also think of some of Dharma's work with BOC

If it was never brought up, I am sure Dharma had to have had some Budgie in his ears as he developed with Cult.
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
Here is my ODE to Sabbath.

I am sure DONO and Gball will likely have not flown the coop to land on the West Coast before experiencing Record and Tape Traders in at least 1 of their multiple Baltimore area stores. LONG into my musical road and many listens to Sabbath in the decades from 70's, 80's 90's... I liked Sabbath but never had such an epiphany as I did the day I was cd shopping in the last of the Towson Md Record and Tape Trader shops. The staff had what I remember as a compilation CD on the system in the store. It was at that time, my ears could seriously tell my musical organ how perfect the playing was that I was expereiencing. ( that is what I can only describe the part of me that gets in tune with playing as if it were air or blood flowing in me involuntarily)

At that moment, I could feel just how polished., how tight, how meant to fit together, Ozzie's players were. Sorry Randy, but it was Geezer, Tony, and Bill Ward that I could just tell had IT together.

I know you guys know what I am talking about that I experienced that day.

Something along the lines of what is on display in this clip.

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Oh yeah, I remember those stores well. I grew up in Columbia, so my regular haunt was the Harmony Hut in Columbia Mall. Big bonus was they sold guitars/amps/gear there also.

That must have been 'We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'n' Roll" they were playing....literally everyone I knew had that record in high school
 
gball said:
Oh yeah, I remember those stores well. I grew up in Columbia, so my regular haunt was the Harmony Hut in Columbia Mall. Big bonus was they sold guitars/amps/gear there also.

That must have been 'We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'n' Roll" they were playing....literally everyone I knew had that record in high school
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too early gball, this happened to me in the 2000's
 
Gball. Here is one of the songs that illustrates the synergy I felt in Tony, Geezer and Bill's playing that made this memory last decades later in me. And I have short term memory problems LOL

 
In many of my efforts to learn music like guitar, bass and drums, many pro players have mentioned how many folks want to play fast. Then they also say how playing SLOW is the real challenge.

To follow Goo's last message about Iommi, Yup, Just listen to him in Hand of DOOM, HE and Geezer really nail it when playing slow.

 
BFT Gibson said:
When Sabotage album came out..i was 11 & to this day, is what i think music is

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No joke: I use this song to clear rooms sometimes, along with a few choice others. See, the neighborhood I live in is full of 20-somethings, and really swells with them on the weekends (it's a beach town after all) but I still like to go out to the local pubs and knock back a few. There are plenty of us older locals that don't love when the bars get too full and rowdy and definitely don't prefer their taste in music, so I will sometimes plug the jukebox at my local joints with songs sure to displease the youth, this prime among them. And, since they are an impatient lot, generally, I put on some long-format stuff just for flavor: 2112, Close To The Edge, Achilles Last Stand, etc.
 
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