The ride that is Black Sabbath. A lot of us grew up listening to Sabbath and we turned out way more normal than those that didn't. It's so fantastic seeing your minds open to such influential music.
The song was inspired when the band toured US Armed Forces bases. Geezer Butler talked to a lot of the soldiers. They had just come back from Vietnam. Many of them had undiagnosed PTSD. A lot of them could only cope by using heavy drugs.
You nailed it. They wrote this song after performing for the troops in Vietnam. Its absolutely about how rampant heroin abuse was among troops in Vietnam. You guys are awesome.
In 1974 when I was 9, my friend and I were riding our bikes behind a K-Mart and I found 2 Eight Track Cassettes by an industrial dumpster, 'Paranoid' and 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'. Black Sabbath's 2nd and 5th albums. That's when I started getting all the Sabbath albums. My mom hated it.
Black Sabbath is plain and simple the TRUTH!!! My favorite band since I was 7 and I heard them at my uncles house 40 years ago. It’s also when I realized what pot was. It wasn’t incense Uncle Kevin!!! It’s was weed!!! Haha! They just don’t miss. I see a lot of people that haven’t heard full sabbath songs that are into hip hop and r & b loving them. Mainly because of you really listen, they overlap. And it honest. There’s a lot of soul, groove, funk and blues in Black Sabbath. Love your reactions guys. Keep it going. Peace and love
This is one of my favorite songs. So good musically and lyrically. Y’all nailed it, as far as the meaning. Definitely doing drugs to escape reality, the hand of doom pushing the needle in. My uncle was in Vietnam, I don’t know if he ever got into drugs, but the shit he went through. It’s horrible. Horrible. What you had to do to survive. I don’t even want to say because it’s so bad. How anyone does not want to escape that, I don’t know. Sad stuff.
A lot of soldiers came back addicted to heroin from Nam. Geezer the bass player wrote the song after seeing all of the syringes left on the ground by the audience. This came out in 1970. I heard it around 72, when I was 10. Been listening to them since.
Yet another great reaction from "my time".. I fell asleep to this kind of music. Never learned a single kids song because my parents were all about the music, whiskey and being hip 🤣 I love you guys and your reactions. You are REAL ✌✌🌻🌻🇧🇻
Yes indeed, going to school, working part time, party hard and stick in a 8 track tape of Black Sabbath with head phones, rinse and repeat he, he, he !!!!!
I paused your video 2 seconds in so I could comment before I listen. I have to say that you've chosen a great song and i predict a great reaction. I cant wait to see how floored you will be. Good choice. I've been waiting for more Hand of Doom reactions. Again... great song.
Those higher pitched guitar wails or jabs when the heavy parts of the song kick in never fail to give me goosebumps. It's like the psychedelic trippy music that came years before it (Iron Butterfly, etc.) only ten times heavier. My parents were terrified of this band back in the day.
The song as about how many of us coped after Vietnam and Ozzy speaks reality of how many reacted after their service back then. We had no Help coping with PTSD except vets getting together and talking with each other and DRUGS sadly . I lost some good friends because of that lack of Help then
This song was written after Sabbath played some shows for troops during the Vietnam was and discovered the totally rampant herion addiction among the soldiers. Asia nailed it.
The first 5 Sabbath albums are legendary. A couple that nobody reacts to are Warning, solitude, megalomania, rat salad hole in the sky and so many more. But if you like a lot of changes in a song I recommend Warning first.
The albums 'Technical Ecstasy' and 'Never Say Die' are actually pretty good too, and if you add 'Heaven and Hell' and 'Mob Rules', Sabbath's first 10 albums are worth listening to.
I was too young to see Black Sabbath with Ozzy, but saw them with Ronnie James Dio in the Mob Rules tour. Was awesome. I was lucky enough to see Ozzy on his solo tour as well. I think it was Diary of a Madman.
thanks you guys for reviewing the song. metal music is definitely an expression and a reflection of how many of us metal fans feel on the inside about the world we live in and the issues that are typically avoided by the mainstream media structures.Black Sabbath is from Birmingham england, heavy industrial city, rough place to grow up in and you were gonna be working in a factory after high school for the rest of your life. Stuck there. Ozzy said in America all this popular music was mainly about peace and love and lovey dovey bullsht and were they are from was quite the opposite and they were going to reflect that because they’re fucking real. They were responsible for creating a new type of music and that was coined “Heavy Metal” by a british music journalist referring to Black Sabbath specificalqly. Im 50 and growing up were were told that this type of music was crap and would not last but us early fans knew that was wrong, and we knew there was something special happening around this music. Metal music has literally created a sub-culture of people word wide which I am proud to be a part of. Metal is an attitude and a way of life for us that are real and ain’t afraid to express our realness. I love and respect ALL forms of music that is REAL and would have never taught myself how to play guitar 30 years ago if not for Metal. Metal came from Blues music. Blues music was REAL and powerful and genius. Im very thankful for that and those who created it. Anyway thanks I much enjoyed watching you all listening and reacting to this tune. You missed NOTHING in my opinion. You felt the energy the way it was meant to be felt proving to me that you’re both very talented. More that you think. I know this. 👍
I love to think about this coming out in 1970 and Master of Puppets in 1986. Both songs with a very strong anti-drug message that parents hated because of the music itself. Both have crazy transitions and are relevant today.
I have always love Black Sabbath, and this song rocks. I'm big on lyrics, and I have seen about three different lyrics for the line 'Price of life too high.' First one I saw a long time ago was 'Frights of life you hide,' then 'Price of life you cry,' and now this one. They actually all fit when talking about PTSD.
You guts are on point with your analysis of this song. This song is really about PTSD before it had a name. A lot of veterans came home from Vietnam with mental issues from the war and turned to hard drugs to cope with their feelings. The musical sections of this song also mimic the downward spiral of drug abuse that an individual experiences when enveloped in drug addiction. Brilliant composition. 👏
I am in my 7th decade of life and hard core Black Sabbath from the beginning. As a heavy surf/skate party animal in the 70’s this song scared the absolute Shiite out of me ad well as everyone around me. As with all of Sabbaths early work, it is not a glorification of saten and drugs but instead a WARNING. This piece stopped countless 70’s casual drug users dead in their tracks and saved countless lives!
You notice how the music changed after they stuck the needle in? Now they're going through a euphoric phase. Hi Uncle was hooked on Heroin in the Vietnam War. By Uncle told me how many ways they used it.
So many good, heavy rock/metal classic to try with Sabbath. Supernaut, War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are a few more to give a listen to. Riff magic with this group.
You know you two there was another thing that I forgot to tell you my good friend and myself we went to the fabulous Forum in Inglewood California and we saw Black Sabbath right after they put out this album and they did the whole album paranoid which is like one of their most legendary albums of all time probably one of their best
Proud to say I went to black sabbaths last ever concert a few years back in Birmingham England where they came from. They played hand of doom in their set. Check out ‘Sabbath bloody Sabbath’ ‘Snowblind’ and ‘changes’ which is one of the most beautiful songs ever written
Yeah there's kind of a little bit of a jazz element to this song with a drumming and I want to tell you something my brother and sister there's a little inspiration here because you know the guitarist he worked at a butcher shop when he was younger and unfortunately had like two or three of the tips of his fingers cut off with a bandsaw but that didn't stop him he got Prosthetics to go over those fingers and he went on to play guitar and he made legendary music so you know that thing didn't stop him and thank the good Lord that it didn't cuz a lot of people would just give up shit people have two hands most of them don't even try anyway you know it's amazing alright you two youngsters
Saw the 1983 tour...Ian Gillan from Deep Purple had taken lead vocal duty from Ozzy by then, but still a fantastic show. Stonehenge stage setting was awesome! Quiet Riot led in for the show...think I paid $12 for a ticket back then...damn times have changed in that respect.
I'm 60 and I experienced some heavy drug use in the 70's. I have never stuck a needle in though being around the scene and I give some of the credit to this song. Not much turns my stomach but the sight of an addict shooting up does every time.
My bro-in-law told me some stories from Vietnam, he was a gunner on one of those riverboats. ....It's a wonder they ALL didn't come back using...Anyhoo,...he just passed not too long ago from many forms of cancer...he had been exposed to Agent Orange...He was a cool dude....
What an apt name I was tripping the first time I heard this and it appositely blew my mind I kept playing it till I came down about 18 hours fantastic band
Paranoid LP is not just a masterpiece but also it s an artistic image of an era not just about the vietnam war but the end of innocence of hippies era and the cruel reality of the world.Not anymore LSD trips and happy naked people dancing.Drugs kills, politicians send people to be killed without reason,the fear of nuclear war is there
Great analysis guys. My favorite part of the song, aside from the strong message, is the opening bass line, with that little drum kickin in. Very bluesy. They were mostly known for their heaviness, but they were able to transcend across different genres. Rock, metal, blues, folk.
It's kind of interesting how these guys got their sound. Tony iomi the guitar player, was at his last day of work at the Mill and was cutting a piece of steel and cut off the tip of his middle finger I believe it was. This was the last day he was to work before they went and started playing to get famous. Tony iomi went home and made his own prosthetic fingertip and that's what makes their sound.
I forgot about this song. My eldest daughter's Dad was a medic in Vietnam. He came hope addicted to heroin from having to do things he could not live with in his soul. She was born in February 1971 and he died trying to kick the doping in Sept. of 1971. Drinking while taking detox meds, Trauma and the Vietnam war killed more men when they returned than the actual war itself did. Sad but true. This song was John's complete story after returning home.
Asia and BJ you guys are great and great take on this song likely prevented a lot of people from doing Heroine in my generation when i was in middle school ( when this song came out) I saw them live in 1975 and I remember them playing the song.. Ozzy was very good live back then,
you were both right ... its a song specifically about GI's coming back from viet nam with big time "H" habits they picked up coping with the war and in general people living under the constant threat of nucellar annulation back in the world, and i think Asia's thought that the music simulates the trip is correct ,, the rush , coming down ..dealing with reality, dying. the reality of the world on the brink of destruction was something we dealt with in different ways back in the day,, thank you , keep up the good work!
The ride that is Black Sabbath. A lot of us grew up listening to Sabbath and we turned out way more normal than those that didn't. It's so fantastic seeing your minds open to such influential music.
IKR? I love seeing these kids discover these tunes like we did so many years ago!!
I had to reread that second sentence three times. Did you really just say "I am more normal than others because I grew up on Sabbath"? :D
63 and ageing . professionally qualified , with my wife since 83 and still I listen to Sabbath
... Amen to that
Amen im 50 so i grew up on it
The song was inspired when the band toured US Armed Forces bases. Geezer Butler talked to a lot of the soldiers. They had just come back from Vietnam. Many of them had undiagnosed PTSD. A lot of them could only cope by using heavy drugs.
The bases were 'halfway houses' in England and West Germany. Our boys hadn't crossed the pond by that time.
The sickness of and caused by war
exactly happy eggs the copeing .
Morphine shots too.
Exactly.
Timeless content backed by genius musicianship, 50 years later it still has relevance.
the DRUMS! Bill Ward is awesome. He has a groove and when he's in it, the band follows and kills.
Thanks for the reaction as always!
mad respect to geezer butler ! phenomenal base too!
Bill Ward is a drumming God
The drums the beat the bass the lyrics the delivery. 🔥
It’s an absolute jam, no two ways about it! Everything on the paranoid album is good. Bill Ward was a beast on drums
You guys really missed how significant that drum beat is. This was 1970 and that beat has been used countless times in hip hop.
Black Sabbath every song has so much meaning so much truth !
So glad you chose this one. Sabbath is so groovy.
I think you nailed it with your take on this Asia
They have so many really good songs. Here are a few more to check out:
INTO THE VOID.
BEHIND THE WALL OF SLEEP.
A NATIONAL ACROBAT.
SNOWBLIND.
You should also add “Lord of this World”! Heavy lyrics
@@mnob1122Definitely, that belongs
You forgot “Symptom of The Universe”
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Definitely...that's a great one.
@@CANDOKNOWHOW 👍🏻 another Sabbath classic.Definitely a favorite
the early years of Sabbath are some of the greatest music penned and played! unfortunately music like this is not coming around again.
The funkiest bass and drums ever, hip hop before there was hip hop. This one has been sampled to hell and back, for good reason🧨
I really like how people are rediscovering this lost era. :)
You nailed it. They wrote this song after performing for the troops in Vietnam. Its absolutely about how rampant heroin abuse
was among troops in Vietnam. You guys are awesome.
Rampant? Vast majority served cleanly and honorably
In 1974 when I was 9, my friend and I were riding our bikes behind a K-Mart and I found 2 Eight Track Cassettes by an industrial dumpster, 'Paranoid' and 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath'. Black Sabbath's 2nd and 5th albums. That's when I started getting all the Sabbath albums. My mom hated it.
That dumpster had taste.
My grandparents took them and said they burned them. Black Sabbath and Paranoid. They lied.
Found them about 30 years later in their house.
Black Sabbath is plain and simple the TRUTH!!! My favorite band since I was 7 and I heard them at my uncles house 40 years ago. It’s also when I realized what pot was. It wasn’t incense Uncle Kevin!!! It’s was weed!!! Haha! They just don’t miss. I see a lot of people that haven’t heard full sabbath songs that are into hip hop and r & b loving them. Mainly because of you really listen, they overlap. And it honest. There’s a lot of soul, groove, funk and blues in Black Sabbath. Love your reactions guys. Keep it going. Peace and love
I've seen plenty of your reactions and I know you've covered some heavy stuff but I now feel you have really earned your rock wings!
This is one of my favorite songs. So good musically and lyrically. Y’all nailed it, as far as the meaning. Definitely doing drugs to escape reality, the hand of doom pushing the needle in. My uncle was in Vietnam, I don’t know if he ever got into drugs, but the shit he went through. It’s horrible. Horrible. What you had to do to survive. I don’t even want to say because it’s so bad. How anyone does not want to escape that, I don’t know. Sad stuff.
My bible thumping Granny told me that my dad probably did drugs in 'Nam.
It was that bad apparently. My dad grew up an Opie Taylor kind of guy too.
A lot of soldiers came back addicted to heroin from Nam. Geezer the bass player wrote the song after seeing all of the syringes left on the ground by the audience. This came out in 1970. I heard it around 72, when I was 10. Been listening to them since.
The music is timeless because it's so real!
Yet another great reaction from "my time".. I fell asleep to this kind of music. Never learned a single kids song because my parents were all about the music, whiskey and being hip 🤣 I love you guys and your reactions. You are REAL ✌✌🌻🌻🇧🇻
Yes indeed, going to school, working part time, party hard and stick in a 8 track tape of Black Sabbath with head phones, rinse and repeat he, he, he !!!!!
Classic Black Sabbath
I paused your video 2 seconds in so I could comment before I listen. I have to say that you've chosen a great song and i predict a great reaction. I cant wait to see how floored you will be. Good choice. I've been waiting for more Hand of Doom reactions. Again... great song.
You nailed it. Being a solder twisted to something retable in that era (drugs)! A massive contrast!
Great choice guys! My personal fav Sabbath song. PLEASE keep em coming and God Bless 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Black Sabbath! The ultimate OG's of metal. Completely original. Totally new sound.
This why black sabbath is so iconic in music. Ozzy and the guys really could write good music and lyrics that made you 🤔 think.
Those higher pitched guitar wails or jabs when the heavy parts of the song kick in never fail to give me goosebumps. It's like the psychedelic trippy music that came years before it (Iron Butterfly, etc.) only ten times heavier. My parents were terrified of this band back in the day.
The high jabs seem like Tony is emulating jazz horn stabs - and damn me if it doesn't work perfectly.
Thats an Extended 7th Chord with a 9sharp... [E7#9]
AKA the "Hendrix chord"
lol, dark old school sabbath. I think my mom thought i was going to hell listening to this when i was a teen
I love when Asia gets the stank face during the guitar solo
The song as about how many of us coped after Vietnam and Ozzy speaks reality of how many reacted after their service back then. We had no Help coping with PTSD except vets getting together and talking with each other and DRUGS sadly . I lost some good friends because of that lack of Help then
God bless you,my brother...you are appreciated !
This song was written after Sabbath played some shows for troops during the Vietnam was and discovered the totally rampant herion addiction among the soldiers. Asia nailed it.
Dark and dirgeful song. This tune takes you on a ride.
Great reaction to a classic song. We’re craving more vintage Sabbath
The first 5 Sabbath albums are legendary. A couple that nobody reacts to are Warning, solitude, megalomania, rat salad hole in the sky and so many more. But if you like a lot of changes in a song I recommend Warning first.
First 6 albums Black Sabbath , Paranoid , Master Of Reality , Vol.4, Sabotage , Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
The albums 'Technical Ecstasy' and 'Never Say Die' are actually pretty good too, and if you add 'Heaven and Hell' and 'Mob Rules', Sabbath's first 10 albums are worth listening to.
Mike B I agree but it's the first 6 that they are at the top of there game
Born Again is fantastic as well
I was too young to see Black Sabbath with Ozzy, but saw them with Ronnie James Dio in the Mob Rules tour. Was awesome.
I was lucky enough to see Ozzy on his solo tour as well. I think it was Diary of a Madman.
thanks you guys for reviewing the song. metal music is definitely an expression and a reflection of how many of us metal fans feel on the inside about the world we live in and the issues that are typically avoided by the mainstream media structures.Black Sabbath is from Birmingham england, heavy industrial city, rough place to grow up in and you were gonna be working in a factory after high school for the rest of your life. Stuck there. Ozzy said in America all this popular music was mainly about peace and love and lovey dovey bullsht and were they are from was quite the opposite and they were going to reflect that because they’re
fucking real. They were responsible for creating a new type of music and that was coined “Heavy Metal” by a british music journalist referring to Black Sabbath specificalqly. Im 50 and growing up were were told that this type of music was crap and would not last but us early fans knew that was wrong, and we knew there was something special happening around this music. Metal music has literally created a sub-culture of people word wide which I am proud to be a part of. Metal is an attitude and a way of life for us that are real and ain’t afraid to express our realness. I love and respect ALL forms of music that is REAL and would have never taught myself how to play guitar 30 years ago if not for Metal. Metal came from Blues music. Blues music was REAL
and powerful and genius. Im very thankful for that and those who created it. Anyway thanks I much enjoyed watching you all listening and reacting to this tune. You missed NOTHING in my opinion. You felt the energy the way it was meant to be felt proving to me that you’re both very talented. More that you think. I know this. 👍
I love to think about this coming out in 1970 and Master of Puppets in 1986. Both songs with a very strong anti-drug message that parents hated because of the music itself. Both have crazy transitions and are relevant today.
I have always love Black Sabbath, and this song rocks. I'm big on lyrics, and I have seen about three different lyrics for the line 'Price of life too high.' First one I saw a long time ago was 'Frights of life you hide,' then 'Price of life you cry,' and now this one. They actually all fit when talking about PTSD.
Great breakdown of a truly brilliant song.
You guts are on point with your analysis of this song. This song is really about PTSD before it had a name. A lot of veterans came home from Vietnam with mental issues from the war and turned to hard drugs to cope with their feelings. The musical sections of this song also mimic the downward spiral of drug abuse that an individual experiences when enveloped in drug addiction. Brilliant composition. 👏
This used to be my all-time fave song to jam out to on guitar. That 2 chord riff is still the heaviest thing ever.
I am in my 7th decade of life and hard core Black Sabbath from the beginning. As a heavy surf/skate party animal in the 70’s this song scared the absolute Shiite out of me ad well as everyone around me. As with all of Sabbaths early work, it is not a glorification of saten and drugs but instead a WARNING. This piece stopped countless 70’s casual drug users dead in their tracks and saved countless lives!
I grew up with BLACK SABBATH. MUCH LOVE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY 💕BRANDI MODRAK.
You notice how the music changed after they stuck the needle in? Now they're going through a euphoric phase. Hi Uncle was hooked on Heroin in the Vietnam War. By Uncle told me how many ways they used it.
amazing track!!!! ps you guys are awesome
Bj thank you for translating Asia for us Bro your the man !! You got this !!
So many good, heavy rock/metal classic to try with Sabbath. Supernaut, War Pigs, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are a few more to give a listen to. Riff magic with this group.
Sabbath toured in 76 with Nugent opening for them. Had to be EPIC !!!
Gizzar butler is an amazing bassist
You know you two there was another thing that I forgot to tell you my good friend and myself we went to the fabulous Forum in Inglewood California and we saw Black Sabbath right after they put out this album and they did the whole album paranoid which is like one of their most legendary albums of all time probably one of their best
Proud to say I went to black sabbaths last ever concert a few years back in Birmingham England where they came from. They played hand of doom in their set. Check out ‘Sabbath bloody Sabbath’ ‘Snowblind’ and ‘changes’ which is one of the most beautiful songs ever written
I was lucky growing up my, I lived with my dads family & they all had great taste in music, even Grandma liked Black Sabbath!!
They had a radio program called for head phones only back in the receiver wars, high fidelity was in speakers were huge and so were the amps.
You both are awesome, jamming to Black Sabbath
i'm 50..got into them in early 80's during teenage time,still listen and having that goosebump everytime.. that's Black Sabbath,The Metal Icon!
Thanks!
Welcome! and thank you!!!
Yeah there's kind of a little bit of a jazz element to this song with a drumming and I want to tell you something my brother and sister there's a little inspiration here because you know the guitarist he worked at a butcher shop when he was younger and unfortunately had like two or three of the tips of his fingers cut off with a bandsaw but that didn't stop him he got Prosthetics to go over those fingers and he went on to play guitar and he made legendary music so you know that thing didn't stop him and thank the good Lord that it didn't cuz a lot of people would just give up shit people have two hands most of them don't even try anyway you know it's amazing alright you two youngsters
I love your observations on this song! Has given me a new appreciation for it. Thanks for sharing
Saw the 1983 tour...Ian Gillan from Deep Purple had taken lead vocal duty from Ozzy by then, but still a fantastic show. Stonehenge stage setting was awesome! Quiet Riot led in for the show...think I paid $12 for a ticket back then...damn times have changed in that respect.
LOVE the fact you got it,,, you got the message ... LOVE that
One of my favorite Sabbath tracks. I really like the follow-up record "Master of Reality", particularly the track "After Forever".
Black Sabbath. My childhood in music. With you guys. Wonderful.
I'm 60 and I experienced some heavy drug use in the 70's. I have never stuck a needle in though being around the scene and I give some of the credit to this song. Not much turns my stomach but the sight of an addict shooting up does every time.
The first heavy metal band,,,Black Sabbath is the gold standard!
My bro-in-law told me some stories from Vietnam, he was a gunner on one of those riverboats. ....It's a wonder they ALL didn't come back using...Anyhoo,...he just passed not too long ago from many forms of cancer...he had been exposed to Agent Orange...He was a cool dude....
Was in a Sabbath cover band for a few years. Glad to see folks can still dig it
Black Sabbath are insanely underrated by those who never heard them. Us converts can’t properly express the rating
ELECTRIC FUNERAL 🔥🔥🔥
Osbourne on vocals, Iommi on guitar, Geezer with thee filthy bass and Bill Ward on drums started something in the 60s that still is relevant in Feb 22
What an apt name I was tripping the first time I heard this and it appositely blew my mind I kept playing it till I came down about 18 hours fantastic band
She nailed it.
Paranoid LP is not just a masterpiece but also it s an artistic image of an era not just about the vietnam war but the end of innocence of hippies era and the cruel reality of the world.Not anymore LSD trips and happy naked people dancing.Drugs kills, politicians send people to be killed without reason,the fear of nuclear war is there
Yeah you guys nailed it. This is about soldiers with PTSD turning to drugs and taking it too far
First concert I went to.they were awesome
Black Sabbath - Into The Void....heavy message, heavy bassline :)
Great analysis guys. My favorite part of the song, aside from the strong message, is the opening bass line, with that little drum kickin in. Very bluesy. They were mostly known for their heaviness, but they were able to transcend across different genres. Rock, metal, blues, folk.
The lyrics are from the bass player, Geezer Butler. I suggest Children of the Grave by Black Sabbath with a lyric video like this.
You nailed it guys. I'm the biggest black sabbath fan..
My favorite Sabbath song 🎵 of many many more.
One of my top 3 Sabbath songs 🤘🏻💀🤘🏻
Song is pure fire
My first time hearing this song although I listen to some black sabbath but with so many music out there I see why I miss gems like this
It's kind of interesting how these guys got their sound. Tony iomi the guitar player, was at his last day of work at the Mill and was cutting a piece of steel and cut off the tip of his middle finger I believe it was. This was the last day he was to work before they went and started playing to get famous. Tony iomi went home and made his own prosthetic fingertip and that's what makes their sound.
HAND OF DOOM uuuummmm. I Clicked here immediately. Have not heard the track in ages. Man but that was heavy .
Might be the greatest anti-drug song out there. Sabbath is a big hole that always satisfies. Hope to hear more reactions to them.
There are references to Vietnam and what soldiers did to cope with the horrors of war!
I forgot about this song. My eldest daughter's Dad was a medic in Vietnam. He came hope addicted to heroin from having to do things he could not live with in his soul. She was born in February 1971 and he died trying to kick the doping in Sept. of 1971. Drinking while taking detox meds, Trauma and the Vietnam war killed more men when they returned than the actual war itself did. Sad but true. This song was John's complete story after returning home.
Asia and BJ you guys are great and great take on this song likely prevented a lot of people from doing Heroine in my generation when i was in middle school ( when this song came out) I saw them live in 1975 and I remember them playing the song.. Ozzy was very good live back then,
You guys nailed it👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Neil Young sang about the same thing
with “Needle And The Damage Done”.
Great song…check it out!
Black Sabbath is the SHIZNIT!
Best reaction yet to my all time favorite song! Great job
Bill Ward on the drums 🙇
You are exactly right it's about soilders coming home from Vietnam hooked on heroin because of the horrors they witnessed
*This one and "Sweet Leaf" are my two favorites, by Sabbath, to play on guitar.*
Asia, I love your thought out reasoning. Very intuitive. 🙏❤️👍🤘🏼
great song! talked about a thing in the times, off the paranoid album,,,,metal was growing at this point in time
you were both right ... its a song specifically about GI's coming back from viet nam with big time "H" habits they picked up coping with the war and in general people living under the constant threat of nucellar annulation back in the world, and i think Asia's thought that the music simulates the trip is correct ,, the rush , coming down ..dealing with reality, dying. the reality of the world on the brink of destruction was something we dealt with in different ways back in the day,, thank you , keep up the good work!
I'm glad you love the journey
Asia you are one sharp lady . First reactor who nailed what this song is about!