Black Sabbath with DAVE WALKER

[Charger]

Well well well!

I have not seen this before...and frankly I don't think very many have...

This is from the TV show Look Hear where Sabbath played with Dave Walker.

The one and only time.

I have always thought that musically this version is better than the album version...also Walker's vocals aren't too bad at all...but had the gone with him I don't really know which direction they would have gone...certainly not as heavy as they went with Ronnie...

But this is non the less a nice find from someone. A small treasure!

[Jack the Stripper]

To me, the Dave Walker version only highlighted how great Ozzy was with melody and exactly what his strengths were and what he brought to the table in Sabbath and everything else. This version is ok but the album version is far far superior.

[Zzzptm]

Those late 70s graphics... the steam that must have been pouring out of the 400 KHz processors!

The song has that familiar groove to it, check. Walker's singing here reminds me of Phil Mogg with UFO and then the harmonica... that takes it towards early 70s Fleetwood Mac, and then I hear a cousin of "Green Manalishi".

But the presenter at the end still called it Heavy Metal... go figure! If Black Sabbath had stuck with Dave Walker, would bands like Megadeth and Slayer have had someone on harmonica?

[Charger]

I agree that there is a Fleetwood Mac vibe present...hadn't even thought about that.

[Zzzptm]

It was kind of in the back of my mind, knowing that Walker had sung with that band for a while. Then when I heard it get kinda Peter Green-y there, I couldn't un-hear the Mac.