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ROCK AND ROLL! => Black Sabbath => Black Sabbath General => Topic started by: Zzzptm on February 12, 2018, 04:16:48 PM
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I'd heard the "big three" Sabbath tunes on the radio... "Iron Man", "Paranoid", and "Heaven and Hell". Every now and again, some DJ would play "The Wizard" as a bit of fun. I liked them all enough to go out and buy a Black Sabbath album, kind of at random. At the record store, all they had in stock for some reason was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The cover was garish, but I decided, hey, man, it goes with the name of the band, so I bought it.
Go home, remove the plastic wrap, drop the vinyl on the turntable, slide on my headphones, put the needle in the groove and...
DA-NA-NA-NAAAH DA-NA-NA-NAAAH DA-NA-NA-NAAAH NAAAH NAAAH NAAAH NAAAAH :rhythm:
My mind went sideways with those opening chords. The radio stuff was good, but that opening SBS track... that had a bite in it that maybe was too dangerous for rock and roll radio back in 1983. I loved it and, after that, Sabbath wasn't just a cool band to collect... I was hooked.
What's your story about when you knew Sabbath was more than just another decent band?
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My first experience with anything Sabbath related was with Nativity In Black. I'd been a drummer in the schools marching band for half a year, maybe a year.
And my sis' then boyfriend, also a drummer said "check this out" and put Sepulturas Symptom Of The Universe on through headphones for me. My jaw totally dropped, "is it possible to play drumrolls that fast?". Later i ofcourse realized it wasn't hard, just fast.
Totally hooked on the album, being an Ugly Kid Joe fan from before it was cool that they were on the album, but what really hooked me was Type O's Black Sabbath, which was really scary with all the sound effects, and Cathedrals Solitude which was both beautiful and scary in a pagan way. Really, all the tracks quickly became close to my heart.
Didn't take long before checking out the real deal, beginning with the debut and Sabotage (ofcourse because of Symptom), and those two are still two of my three fave albums, along with MOR.
And i was stunned that it was actually just as heavy, given the 20-25 yrs of technological development that devided them. The blues/jazz of the debut was also intriguing for a kid. It was all music to let thoughts and dreams flow along by.
And the damage was done, i never looked back, and quickly ended up with the whole discography. Ozzy era first, but everything else too. I think NSD! was the fourth one i aquired, due to all the flac it got, so i had to check out what it was all about, which is why it's still near and dear to my heart.
Well, UKJ (first album only), Guns N' Roses and Metallica along with some 70's/80's glam stuff like Scorpions and Nazareth did follow me further, the latter two just for a little while, as that was music i had inherited from my 6 and 7 yrs older sisters. Still listen to certain tracks for nostalgia, though but very seldom. And a few bits and pieces here and there. Some Zep and Purple, some Norwegian singer/songwriter, Norwegian 80's Glam (TNT, Stage Dolls, Tindrum), some of the hits of the day, still being a kid. All kinds of stuff, really, but nothing could ever match Sabbath. That boyfrend of her turned out to be a junkie asshole, but i'm still greatful for those headphones he put on my head that time. He also turned me on to Sepultura and Type O as a whole, as well as what was happening in the Norwegian Black Metal scene at the time. :rockon:
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The first BS song I heard was Paranoid. I think I wrote something about it elsewhere on the internets.
I soon discovered that the name of the band was Black Sabbath, so at my first opportunity I hit the local head shop (that had way cooler records than Tiger Records). I found a Black Sabbath record. The only one they had, and it was their first album. I didn't know tit from tat, plus they only had two records released at the time, so I bought it thinking the Paranoid song was in there somewhere.
I fell out of my chair when I heard the title track. Those guys were able to convince me via a recording that they MEANT IT.
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It was 1994, I was 15 years old. I had already heard Paranoid (the song, not the album) some times, either on the radio or because it was included in some rock compilation CD of my father. So I had heard the name "Black Sabbath" before, and I did like Paranoid - I remember I thought that the singer sounded like a saw or other electric device. But I wasn't really in love with it. I was listening to Metallica, Scorpions, UFO, also Blind Guardian. Then my father, a pretty liberal and open-minded vicar who had regularly listened to Sabbath with his friends during his studies, purchased Cross Purposes on CD. And that was it. I took the CD to my room, and my father wouldn't see it again for quite a while. Then I bought the Paranoid album (a 1991 reissue of the 1986 Castle editions - luckily one of the best-sounding masterings of that album on CD). It was fascinating for me how different it sounded (though I was prepared because I new the title song, as mentioned), but I did like it more and more the more I listened to it. Next was the BS Story Vol1+2 VHS tapes. I loved Die Young, so I bought H&H. Was totally mesmerised. In 1995 I got the CPL album and went to a concert. Was disappointed by Tony Martin's live singing because he started to have problems with his voice, but the music was just great. I got TYR, then HC, then Sabotage, Live Evil, and so on. I remember I was unhappy when I noticed that a live recording of Die Young didn't seem to exist.
Then in 2005, I stumbled across some Sabbath live bootleg on Soulseek (good old peer-to-peer sharing software). I hadn't been aware of bootlegs until that day. So when I noticed that such a thing existed, I thought: maybe there is a live recording of Die Young somewhere? Started searching. Found it, on an AUD recording from Manchester, 1980. Quality was not great, so I went on searching... I found many much better copies of the song, but soon forgot I was specifically looking for that song anyway. Instead, I became a Sabbath bootleg collector.
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It was 1994, I was 15 years old. I had already heard Paranoid (the song, not the album) some times, either on the radio or because it was included in some rock compilation CD of my father. So I had heard the name "Black Sabbath" before, and I did like Paranoid - I remember I thought that the singer sounded like a saw or other electric device. But I wasn't really in love with it. I was listening to Metallica, Scorpions, UFO, also Blind Guardian. Then my father, a pretty liberal and open-minded vicar who had regularly listened to Sabbath with his friends during his studies, purchased Cross Purposes on CD. And that was it. I took the CD to my room, and my father wouldn't see it again for quite a while. Then I bought the Paranoid album (a 1991 reissue of the 1986 Castle editions - luckily one of the best-sounding masterings of that album on CD). It was fascinating for me how different it sounded (though I was prepared because I new the title song, as mentioned), but I did like it more and more the more I listened to it. Next was the BS Story Vol1+2 VHS tapes. I loved Die Young, so I bought H&H. Was totally mesmerised. In 1995 I got the CPL album and went to a concert. Was disappointed by Tony Martin's live singing because he started to have problems with his voice, but the music was just great. I got TYR, then HC, then Sabotage, Live Evil, and so on. I remember I was unhappy when I noticed that a live recording of Die Young didn't seem to exist.
Then in 2005, I stumbled across some Sabbath live bootleg on Soulseek (good old peer-to-peer sharing software). I hadn't been aware of bootlegs until that day. So when I noticed that such a thing existed, I thought: maybe there is a live recording of Die Young somewhere? Started searching. Found it, on an AUD recording from Manchester, 1980. Quality was not great, so I went on searching... I found many much better copies of the song, but soon forgot I was specifically looking for that song anyway. Instead, I became a Sabbath bootleg collector.
If you'd only been a BOC fan, you would have watched "Black and Blue", which closes out with "Die Young". That song was pretty much the *second* time Sabbath blew my mind, but not the last.
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If you'd only been a BOC fan, you would have watched "Black and Blue", which closes out with "Die Young". That song was pretty much the *second* time Sabbath blew my mind, but not the last.
True! Regrettably I had never heard of BÖC, and I didn't know anyone else who was into either Sabbath or BÖC. So it was only sometime around 2006 to 2010 that I came across B&B. Loved it of course, though I still haven't really fallen in love with BÖC. Funny enough though, the song lyrics of BÖC play a very prominent role in the book I have just read, "Career of Evil" from Robert Galbraith aka Joanne Rowling.
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If you'd only been a BOC fan, you would have watched "Black and Blue", which closes out with "Die Young". That song was pretty much the *second* time Sabbath blew my mind, but not the last.
True! Regrettably I had never heard of BÖC, and I didn't know anyone else who was into either Sabbath or BÖC. So it was only sometime around 2006 to 2010 that I came across B&B. Loved it of course, though I still haven't really fallen in love with BÖC. Funny enough though, the song lyrics of BÖC play a very prominent role in the book I have just read, "Career of Evil" from Robert Galbraith aka Joanne Rowling.
Whatever you do, don't try to make too much sense of a BÖC lyric.
/me shudders
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Whatever you do, don't try to make too much sense of a BÖC lyric.
/me shudders
LOL, that's pretty much what I thought when I once read the lyrics for 2 or 3 BÖC songs. I have no idea what Rowling likes about them. She writes explicitly in her afterword that they (the lyrics) are amazing.
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1980, 15 years old, I had been into some commercial rock like Queen, T-Rex and Slade for a few years and had been into punk for a couple of years. I had seen Motorhead performing "Overkill" on Top of the Pops, Judas Priest also (but I forget which songs), and I was intrigued by these songs which seemed harder and more angry than you got with Queen. Then in 1980 Black Sabbath re-released Paranoid as a single and then the single Neon Knights in quick succession. I really enjoyed both and bought them as 7" singles. Just after that a kid at school who lived around the corner was trying to get some money together by selling his dads old records and one of them was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I knew nothing of this album but bought it anyway... it became my favourite album overnight... it is still my favourite album of all time. We can safely assume my head was blown in those first listens.
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1980, 15 years old, I had been into some commercial rock like Queen, T-Rex and Slade for a few years and had been into punk for a couple of years. I had seen Motorhead performing "Overkill" on Top of the Pops, Judas Priest also (but I forget which songs), and I was intrigued by these songs which seemed harder and more angry than you got with Queen. Then in 1980 Black Sabbath re-released Paranoid as a single and then the single Neon Knights in quick succession. I really enjoyed both and bought them as 7" singles. Just after that a kid at school who lived around the corner was trying to get some money together by selling his dads old records and one of them was Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I knew nothing of this album but bought it anyway... it became my favourite album overnight... it is still my favourite album of all time. We can safely assume my head was blown in those first listens.
Had to go for that SBS... found this... now I'm into that riff!
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^^^ Always loved the part where Ozzy sings out of synch. And the bad bow & arrow "special effects" :))
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^^^ Always loved the part where Ozzy sings out of synch. And the bad bow & arrow "special effects" :))
That "Bill Ward in 3-D" part is pretty awesome, not gonna lie. :headbanger:
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The first time Dr. John fully explained the awesomeness of Sabbath to me, I was hooked! ;D
I got into all things prog/classic rock at a very tender age, exactly what age is a mystery. A couple of my older brothers had extensive record collections and I loved rifling through their boxes of records. One of my first memories of life is listening to Alice Cooper Love it to Death while sitting on my brother's lap, gazing at the freaky eyes of the gatefold.
Earliest Sabbath memories, The gatefold for We Sold Our Soul with the dead lady used to scare the crap out of me. :death:
As far as mind being blown, not quite certain, they helped mold my mind so they never really blew the thing, haha
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I was 10 years old when I first heard Sabbath. I had older brothers who turned me on to some amazing music like Jimi, Zep, Cream, Grand Funk, Purple, Humble Pie, etc. But Sabbath was just like WTF man, this is cool. My brothers kept buying albums and I was hooked.
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I was 16 or just 17 years old when one of my mates elder brothers loaned me Black Sabbaths first album. At this point I was listening to T Rex, Roxy Music, Status Quo etc so when I played the album for the first time it was quite a shock to the system. The title track blew me away and I was quite taken with Behind The Wall Of Sleep & N.I.B too. The rest of the tracks did not make a massive impression on me at this time though I came to like them all at a later time. Not long after this I bought my first Sabbath album, the double album "We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'n' Roll" I did not earn a great deal of money in those days so I could not afford to go out and buy loads of albums by one band so buying compilations and best of's was a cheap way of getting some of the best stuff by a band. I played it to death.
I saw Black Sabbath for the first time at Bingley Hall in Stafford in 1977 on their Technical Ecstacy Tour. They were very loud and I remember thinking as a young kid that I could never possibly see anything better. Little did I know.
I ended up buying all the Sabbath albums eventually when I started earning better money. I got to see Sabbath again with Ozzy one more time before he left, or was told to leave? The venue was the New Theatre in Oxford 1978. It was not long after the did Never Say Die on Top Of The Pops. I thought the band played OK and if you have heard all the bullshit about how Van Halen blew them off the stage don't believe it. They were bloody good to say the least and they easy got an encore which was not easy for support bands in those days but blowing them off the stage? I think this story has kept growing over the years. I don't remember anyone shouting for Van Halen at any time during Sabbaths set. At the end of the show the band come to the front of the stage to thank the audience but Bill Ward fell off his platform and had to be picked up off the stage and carried to the front with the rest of the band.
When I heard RJD was the new front man with Sabbath I was very pleased as he was already my all time favorite rock/metal singer. I loved him with Rainbow but wondered how he would sound doing ozzy's old numbers. Saw them again at Bingley Hall 1981 and could not believe how good they were with Dio.
Never saw Sabbath again but liked the rest of the line up's and bought all the albums. I did see Heaven & Hell once, always great to see RJD. When RJD passed away I think it was one of the saddest days in my life. A great loss.
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I was 16 or just 17 years old when one of my mates elder brothers loaned me Black Sabbaths first album. At this point I was listening to T Rex, Roxy Music, Status Quo etc so when I played the album for the first time it was quite a shock to the system. The title track blew me away and I was quite taken with Behind The Wall Of Sleep & N.I.B too. The rest of the tracks did not make a massive impression on me at this time though I came to like them all at a later time. Not long after this I bought my first Sabbath album, the double album "We Sold Our Souls For Rock 'n' Roll" I did not earn a great deal of money in those days so I could not afford to go out and buy loads of albums by one band so buying compilations and best of's was a cheap way of getting some of the best stuff by a band. I played it to death.
I saw Black Sabbath for the first time at Bingley Hall in Stafford in 1977 on their Technical Ecstacy Tour. They were very loud and I remember thinking as a young kid that I could never possibly see anything better. Little did I know.
I ended up buying all the Sabbath albums eventually when I started earning better money. I got to see Sabbath again with Ozzy one more time before he left, or was told to leave? The venue was the New Theatre in Oxford 1978. It was not long after the did Never Say Die on Top Of The Pops. I thought the band played OK and if you have heard all the bullshit about how Van Halen blew them off the stage don't believe it. They were bloody good to say the least and they easy got an encore which was not easy for support bands in those days but blowing them off the stage? I think this story has kept growing over the years. I don't remember anyone shouting for Van Halen at any time during Sabbaths set. At the end of the show the band come to the front of the stage to thank the audience but Bill Ward fell off his platform and had to be picked up off the stage and carried to the front with the rest of the band.
When I heard RJD was the new front man with Sabbath I was very pleased as he was already my all time favorite rock/metal singer. I loved him with Rainbow but wondered how he would sound doing ozzy's old numbers. Saw them again at Bingley Hall 1981 and could not believe how good they were with Dio.
Never saw Sabbath again but liked the rest of the line up's and bought all the albums. I did see Heaven & Hell once, always great to see RJD. When RJD passed away I think it was one of the saddest days in my life. A great loss.
Thanks for telling! Oh, you attended the Oxford 1978 show. Are you aware of this already? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R6J0zAZc0s
Take care,
Linda
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Thank you Linda, no I have never seen this before.
Would be nice if the whole show exists, I could hear if it was as good as I remembered it to be.
Very interesting to hear your father was a Vicar. Can't imagine a Vicar being into Black Sabbath.
He must be a very cool guy :);):)
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Thank you Linda, no I have never seen this before.
Would be nice if the whole show exists, I could hear if it was as good as I remembered it to be.
Very interesting to hear your father was a Vicar. Can't imagine a Vicar being into Black Sabbath.
He must be a very cool guy :);):)
He's a pretty relaxed vicar. ;D Not specifically a Sabbath fan, just listens to LOTS of music, Sabbath's just one of many bands he likes. Not the kind of parent you could freak out with loud rock music and devil's horns. ;D When he was young, his parents pretty much hated him for going to anti-war manifestations and listening to the Rolling Stones (their opinions about rock music were deeply racist), so he decided to become a better parent then they were, and he did pretty well.
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Very cool solo Linda. I like how it starts out as an instrumental before going full blown solo, almost like getting new music. Thanks for posting.
Paul