Old Sabbath Appreciation Thread

[skorb]

I LOVE Ozzy era Black Sabbath. totally fucking love them.

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is by far my favorite album, it's just non-stop all the way through and has Spiral Architect, the song that to me is the most definitive of the Sabbath sound of all of their stuff, when they were at their peak musically and creatively.

many of those albums were kind of uneven, but think about when they were made. those guys were doing some unreal experimenting, musically and in the studio. they broke so much fucking ground. most of those first 8 albums have at least 4-5 incredible classic songs on them, if not more.

many people consider them as being the first metal band.

[scotty]

43 years old here. Never a true Sabbath fan but always liked them. Ozzy rules but Dio was an amazing singer. I always wished that Dio would have done something bigger than he did. He is truely an amazing volaclist. I would have given up the guitar if I had his voice.

[Newc]

Nothing will ever be better than Ozzy-era Sabbath. Yeah you can find more technically proficient players and singers, but they cannot write better songs.
Sabbath had a wider range because there were no artificial boundaries - listen to "Am I Going Insane" - today that would be pop, and if a "Metal" band did something like that, their "fans" would laugh them off the stage. Black Sabbath was not confined by the narrow-minded perspectives of what you can and cannot do in order to be classified as "Metal", because they wrote the book.

Unfortunately, like most great books, it's been chopped up and deformed and perverted to make it easier to spoon-feed to the simplistic.

[Shawn Lutz]

Old Sabbath started it all for metal for me and lead me to my first true guitar hero..Randy Rhoads. I remember only beeing interested in Ozzy's new band because he was e Sabbath singer and really didnt expect it to be as good as original Sabbath Black Sabbath are true heavy metal. I like the Ozzy era better but still love sabbath with Dio. I was just listening to We Sold our Souls for Rock & Roll on my to/fro work the other day...great old stuff. They have way too many great songs to pick a single one, Snowblind, Sabbath bloody Sabbath, the Wizard etc etc etc. Their songs have so manyt riffs an d changes they could have put out 80 more albums if they broke them up

[Guitardude86]

To quote Rob Zombie on Sabbath: "Thanks for not suing all of us!" In his opinion every metal band since the Sabs are in some way copying them; they may be playing it faster, slower, more down-tuned or whatever, but Black Sabbath laid down the groundwork!
Other bands may have had an occational groovy riff, but Sabbath.. They were just plain evil! Geezer Butler has written some of the best lyrics of metal history - period. I don't think Geezer always gets the credit he deserves, at least not nowadays - he's a much bigger part of Sabbath than most would like to give him credit for.
Yes, Tony Iommi is the Riff General, and Ozzy is Ozzy (clown or not, the crowd (and me) loved him), but what would they be without the lyrics?
To me the lyrics are what make Black Sabbath THAT more interesting

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[dd3keegs]

Vol.4!

[Guitardude86]

Nice guitar! Is that a Gibson Sig or some custom piece? Never seen Iommi sigs in anything but black myself:p

[dd3keegs]

U.K. made JayDee Guitar....Very Sweet. Wish I had the $$$$ for it... Tony had a couple of these, I believe.

[Newc]

What many people fail to realize is that Iommi used Gibson SGs for most of the Ozzy era, and didn't get the Customs until about Technical Extasy or Never Say Die.

Paranoid was done on a Gibson SG (one with single-coils, I believe).

Sadly for all the interviews with today's geetar heroes about their gear, I don't think I've seen one where Tony was quizzed about what he used on the Ozzy-era Sabbath albums - the tone that laid the foundation for all things Metal has rarely been discussed, but everybody and their mother has a guitar, amp, and/or pickup that someone else was well-known for!

Now everyone chases the JayDee and Burch (Birch? whatever) SGs that Tony used for the later Ozzy stuff, and it's NOT what the quintessential Sabbath tracks were recorded with!

[Shawn Lutz]

yup....the old closet classics videos of Ironman he had the SG and I think Orange amps

[Tashtego]

I've seen an old-time hippie style video of live Sabbath and Iommi did appear to be using an Orange.

[dd3keegs]

What many people fail to realize is that Iommi used Gibson SGs for most of the Ozzy era, and didn't get the Customs until about Technical Extasy or Never Say Die.

Paranoid was done on a Gibson SG (one with single-coils, I believe).


Now everyone chases the JayDee and Burch (Birch? whatever) SGs that Tony used for the later Ozzy stuff, and it's NOT what the quintessential Sabbath tracks were recorded with!

I think Iommi started with a Fender Stratocaster...I've seen early footage of Sabbath playing "Blue Suede Shoes" with it. I think the Strat died and he had a SG as back up...and stuck with it...Oh Yeah don't forget the Patrick Eggle Iommi SG and the B.C. Rich Iron Bird and Mockingbird(Iommi Crosses with Scallopped fingerboard just on the bottom 4 strings) that was made for him. I'd love to get my hands on any one of them.

[horns666]

I think Iommi started with a Fender Stratocaster...I've seen early footage of Sabbath playing "Blue Suede Shoes" with it. I think the Strat died and he had a SG as back up...and stuck with it...Oh Yeah don't forget the Patrick Eggle Iommi SG and the B.C. Rich Iron Bird and Mockingbird(Iommi Crosses with Scallopped fingerboard just on the bottom 4 strings) that was made for him. I'd love to get my hands on any one of them.

This is true.