"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" was a syndicated television show showcasing live musical performances back in the seventies. This clip is from a show Black Sabbath performed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on September 4, 1975. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, as a concert venue, has a seating capacity of 3,000. Black Sabbath performed the next day for 15,000 fans at the Orange Show Stadium in San Bernadino CA, along with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Peter Frampton. I was curious so I looked into all that.
A great reaction, Fay! I enjoyed this a lot! Your interpretation was very correct, also! This was from a concert in 1975 of a song written in 1972. This was broadcast on national TV, and for the time, it was as good as possible for sound and picture quality. Ozzy (John) Osbourne was never a great singer as far as being able to be on key and hit high notes live (as opposed to Dio), but he was much better at it in the studio. The greatest part about this is that it shows well the world class chemistry between Tony Iommi ((eye-OWE-me) the most creative and influential guitarist ever, who invented metal), who wrote all the music and Geezer (Terry) Butler, who was by far the greatest bass player ever, and who wrote the band's lyrics. Butler was originally a rhythm guitar player who converted to bass for the sake of the band. Nobody was playing anything remotely like this in the early 70's when this was created. The heaviness and style of this did not exist anywhere else. For example, this is when the Bee Gees and disco , and soft rock like Air Supply, Jim Croce and even The Captain and Tenille were big, which makes it even more amazing. Incidentally, notice that Iommi typically stood in the middle of the stage a lot of the time, which was because he was the one people came to see, and he was considered the star, even though he wasn't the singer, unlike with every other band before or since. For my generation, the kids in the audience were our older brothers and sisters, haha! To quote Rob Zombie, in more recent times, "Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. Anything everyone else does is just basically ripping it off."
There's an interesting corrrelation here with Led Zepelin Robert Plant (the singer from Led zeppelin) use to wear bright colours allot where Jimmy Page (the guitarist from Led Zeppelin) use to wear black most of the time which in this Black Sabbath video you can see it with Ozzy Osbourne and Toni Iomi Wish I was around when the original members of Black Sabbath where gigging 🤘
Hi👋 Cutie pie, I love your reactions.. "A National Acrobat" by black Sabath is one of my favorites.. a really good tune.. you would like it too.. very haunting and mysterious overtone to it, check it out.
The slight downside to Sabbath appreciation is that it's always tempered by the weakness of the band itself. For every story about the glory of God or the immorality of war, there's a tribute drug culture (which the band in its early 1970s heyday could increasingly afford). At this distance it sounds like they hated it. But there is a double standard...
"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" was a syndicated television show showcasing live musical performances back in the seventies. This clip is from a show Black Sabbath performed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on September 4, 1975. The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, as a concert venue, has a seating capacity of 3,000. Black Sabbath performed the next day for 15,000 fans at the Orange Show Stadium in San Bernadino CA, along with Lynyrd Skynyrd and Peter Frampton. I was curious so I looked into all that.
oh this will be fun
Check out Black Sabbath at the California Jam, a Young Ozzy gives a lesson in crowd control during their sins Children of the grave
A great reaction, Fay! I enjoyed this a lot! Your interpretation was very correct, also! This was from a concert in 1975 of a song written in 1972. This was broadcast on national TV, and for the time, it was as good as possible for sound and picture quality. Ozzy (John) Osbourne was never a great singer as far as being able to be on key and hit high notes live (as opposed to Dio), but he was much better at it in the studio. The greatest part about this is that it shows well the world class chemistry between Tony Iommi ((eye-OWE-me) the most creative and influential guitarist ever, who invented metal), who wrote all the music and Geezer (Terry) Butler, who was by far the greatest bass player ever, and who wrote the band's lyrics. Butler was originally a rhythm guitar player who converted to bass for the sake of the band. Nobody was playing anything remotely like this in the early 70's when this was created. The heaviness and style of this did not exist anywhere else. For example, this is when the Bee Gees and disco , and soft rock like Air Supply, Jim Croce and even The Captain and Tenille were big, which makes it even more amazing. Incidentally, notice that Iommi typically stood in the middle of the stage a lot of the time, which was because he was the one people came to see, and he was considered the star, even though he wasn't the singer, unlike with every other band before or since. For my generation, the kids in the audience were our older brothers and sisters, haha! To quote Rob Zombie, in more recent times, "Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. Anything everyone else does is just basically ripping it off."
Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘
There's an interesting corrrelation here with Led Zepelin Robert Plant (the singer from Led zeppelin) use to wear bright colours allot where Jimmy Page (the guitarist from Led Zeppelin) use to wear black most of the time which in this Black Sabbath video you can see it with Ozzy Osbourne and Toni Iomi
Wish I was around when the original members of Black Sabbath where gigging 🤘
Hi👋 Cutie pie, I love your reactions.. "A National Acrobat" by black Sabath is one of my favorites.. a really good tune.. you would like it too.. very haunting and mysterious overtone to it, check it out.
Ozzy is on a verge of singing false during the bridge . Better listen to the studio version to judge this monumental track , one of their very best.
Ozzy Osbourne is cool ✌
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The slight downside to Sabbath appreciation is that it's always tempered by the weakness of the band itself. For every story about the glory of God or the immorality of war, there's a tribute drug culture (which the band in its early 1970s heyday could increasingly afford). At this distance it sounds like they hated it. But there is a double standard...
How many drug songs do they have? Two? Many of Geezer's songs are about a moral position, whether drawn from a spiritual, arcane or domestic place.