SOUL SINGER discovers BLACK SABBATH! Then changes SPECIES!
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- Black Sabbath is like a blabbermouth ruining the end of the movie, and I’d say there’s things we don’t want to know. Important things!
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Later in his career, Ozzy used a teleprompter to read the lyrics as he sang. Here, he actually drifts between the lyrics of War Pigs and an earlier version of the song called Walpurgis the record company didn't like.
I believe this was recorded early in '70, before they had recorded the version that ended up on Paranoid. They were probably still polishing it at this point. 🤘
@m2pmd70 Officially, this was recorded in Paris on Dec 20, 1970.
However, many fans insist this is incorrect, and that "Live in Paris" was actually recorded in Brussels on Oct 3, 1970, before the second album's release.
Paranoid was released in September 1970
Oh OK, I assumed this was the April '70 recording that's on The Ozzman Cometh compilation.
@@SylviusTheMad It is officially Brussels, that's how it's labeled on the 50th anniversary Paranoid album with the extras and live recordings from Montreux and Brussels (the exact audio is from the concert labeled as "Paris" bootlegs.)
Bill Ward's drumming on a relatively simple kit is nothing short of amazing. Absolutely stunning.
Pure shuffle/Jazz drumming!
YES! Ozzy is a little pitchy here but this performance by the whole band (especially the drummer, Bill Ward) is INSANE, and Ozzy's lack of polish kind of works really well with it.
Yeah I agree! Sometimes polish detracts and in this case I really think ozzy give a phenomenal performance 😊💪
@@SoulSingerDiscovers if f**ing rocks, which is something no one can teach or learn. They have it or they don't. This was just a year into their career, so you were right that it seems early on for them, but sometimes that's the best, when a band is completely raw and unrefined. "Feral," as you put it, is the right word.
At this point they didn't even have monitors lol
A polished voice wouldn't convey the raw emotion of the average person bearing their soul in protest to a war that you can be drafted into.
Bill Ward is a beast. Maybe the most underrated drummer from back in the day. And I can't imagine what the stage volume was like back then, the guitar & bass stage volume was the volume for the whole hall. Last random thought: Geezer wrote almost all the lyrics, and was very great at it. The studio version is worth hearing, because the lyrics are great, strong, classic anti-war poem. This version pre-dates it, and the lyrics aren't finalized or Ozzy's just forgetting them (sorry for repeating stuff others have covered).
I've heard at least 7 versions, and everyone is different from the studio version.
Black Sabbath is such an important band and your discovery of it is a joy to watch.
It was a joy to hear 😊🌸
The wildness of rock and metal in the early days was fantastic. No rule books, no direction, just getting the message out as clearly as possible. The drummer in this video, Bill Ward, is actively trying to fight the drum kit instead of using it as an instrument. The dialogue of feet and hands makes the story even more enormous. He's just raining blows down on it like a boxing match. I like that you use live videos, and the 70s footage is stunning.
The mid-90s would be the start of the switch. 2008 is often considered the year for this change, but it took a long time, and you could hear it seeping in. Once home recording became accessible, that's when it became really noticeable, around 2008.
Interesting facts,
Rob Halford sang for Black Sabbath for two shows. Before forming Black Sabbath, band members hung out at soul and blues clubs.
Again, I've gone on, but to finish, thank you for the video :-) I'm looking forward to the next one.
Early Black Sabbath did quite a bit of experimentation. The genre was new, so they were free to discover the boundaries. If you want to have a taste of their range check out Killing Yourself to Live (a song that abandones its chorus after 2 minutes and changes), or Into the Void (maybe their heaviest song).
Also I think it's noteworthy the BEST cover of War Pigs by Faith No More. There's also an insane live version from 1990.
Also noteworthy might be the war pigs cover by Samatha Fish. A friend from England told be about her.
1970 is an early but very successful point of their career. Ozzy said in interviews, that the main difference was essentially, that they could afford the "better" drugs, and you can see this very clearly in this early phase. The nasal sound in the voice, the excitement, the very hard drum attack, let's face it, they could have been a perfect example for how being on coke makes hippies become metal musicians...
Sabbath for sure is the marking point of the harder classic rock becoming metal. Of course, you have to name bands like Led Zeppelin, when it comes to metal vocals, or Jimi Hendrix, as for what crazy things you can do with a guitar, as soon as you start to drive amps with pedals in insane areas. But Sabbath is by far the biggest influence of everything that became "heavy metal".
Funny, how little of today's genre mania applies to the music of this era. If Tony Iommi hadn't cut the fingertips in a saw (ouch), he would have played in Jethro Tull, VERY different music, and probably had a whole different guitar sound. Because, with his DIY prosthetics, you have to develop a totally different way to play a guitar - no feel in the fingertips changes everything. Making for a straighter, harder sound, less intuitive control of bendings etc...
And now - we have heavy metal since decades because of all these delicate details.
Nice video, Melisa, keep them coming. Very entertaining, and I like the details you find in the vocals. Yes, the raw, untrained character of these early bands, and the strong will to bring the point of the lyrics across on stage, rebellion against establishment etc., leads to a great performance that is believable and has some kind of honesty you often miss in bands today...
Yeah I learned about his fingers and it’s impressive but also makes you wonder how different his playing would be but also his music would have been a completely different expression 🤔
Ward beating those drums like they owe him money. This show is insane. Not sure how many times I've watched it
I saw Black Sabbath just a few years ago. Ozzy toddles out, a small old man. I think, "At least I've seen Black Sabbath once, but this is unlikely to be a great show." Then Ozzy starts singing and the power and charisma of the man just start pouring from the stage. Amazing!
Bill Ward is beating those drums like they owe him money.
Bill War is one of my favorite drummer. Together with John Bonham, Ian Paice, Cozy Powell and Keith Moon. All hard hitting rock drummers. Edit: please also react to Deep Purple - Child in Time Live 1970 from the British tv show “Doing their thing”
Bill Ward is hitting those drums like the owe him money!
Got Deep Purple to come soon! 😊💪
@@SoulSingerDiscovers Deep Purple - Mistreated (Cal Jam 74) A live video of a Raw David Coverdale (Later to form Whitesnake) doing his thing with Glenn Hughes on Bass & Vocals. Power n raw emotion!
Heck! Even check out Whitesnake! The song Slow n Easy. :)
@@IronCalf dude had to be sore AF the day after the show
You can't go wrong with old Black Sabbath... I saw them when I was 15... Blew my mind...
Black Sabbath is often considered the "first metal band", in the sense that they published the first metal album, which happened to be also their first studio album. There are previous (proto-)metal *songs* by other bands (Born to be Wild comes to mind, also Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer...even Helter Skelter by The Beatles), but those bands were not metal, their usual stuff was different. Of course these are arbitrary categorizations, late 1960/early 70s music evolved FAST.
Yeah I feel that! What a time to be making music when some of the biggest influences were only being created!
The term "heavy metal" was coined by a music magazine writer who had heard sabbath perform for the first time .
The article he wrote included the words "like heavy metal falling from the sky"
Can't remember the guys name
@NefastoCipa - Good post. 👍 There was a lot going on in 66-68. Iron Butterfly's first album "Heavy" (released Jan 68) had some pretty heavy proto metal on it as well - the last track, "Iron Butterfly Theme" is definitely pure heavy metal. A lot of seeds were being planted at the same time.
You really got the raw feeling that was so much Black Sabbath in the early 70's. Ozzy was and is one of the great stage performers even if his voice not always has been on top. But he always delivers a 100% on stage and we just love that. Both in Black Sabbath and Ozzy. Love this early concert from 1970 the year their first album was released.
If you are intrigued to hear a later live performance, then you have the last tour they did here: th-cam.com/video/zY5nYmTUfnQ/w-d-xo.html
Fantastic 💪😊
When reactors have thousands of subscribers, they are afraid of stepping on anyone's toes, so they never say that they don't like something, and it comes off as disingenuous. It also gets boring to watch eventually. So, stay true to yourself and don't let success spoil your honesty just to be "agreeable."
Thank you for this! I am nothing if not stubborn as a mule 😊💪😂
This recording is interesting because the instrumental aspect of this song hasn't changed a note--- but the lyrics have tightened up a LOT.
I think you're ready for Faith No More now Melisa. The lead singer Mike Patton is widely regarded as being one of the most versatile and great singers in the rock genre. He's also sang with numerous different side bands such as Mr Bungle, Tomahawk and Fantomas. I'd suggest Ashes To Ashes as a good starting point.
On it my dude! Thank you for the suggestion 😊💪
Metal went through many changes and transformations through the 80s. The speed and technicality of metal today is a direct influence from hardcore punk prog and jazz. Id say Black Sabbath songs that really show off his voice are Electric Funeral, Never Say Die, and Symptoms of the Universe. Into the Void too
Hey! Glad to see you surviving and spreading your wings! Good times😊 I love all instrumentation, but the drums in this are almost second to none.
I did really enjoy the drummer’s performance 🔥 thank you 😊🌸
The song War Pigs is actually anti-war song (Vietnam war). About half the album off "Paranoid" are commentaries on the Vietnam war. Hand of Doom, Iron Man, and this song illustrate this. Sabbath definitely sings about occult, devils deal, and such on other albums. But not so much on this one. This album was more about the Vietnam war and drug addiction.
Tony Iommi has said in interviews That he's love for horror movies and the rush of being frightened led him to try to recreate it in music. Tony also Had lost his finger tips in an industrial accident and had plastic finger tips made so he could play guitar. most guys can't play that good with good fingers. Love your disclaimer at the beginning of your review, hope nobody has to fill out a hurt feelings report ...lol..
Yeah I use learned about his fingers which makes it all the more impressive! Looking forward to doing more Sabbath. Oh, there will be a few cry baby reports by the end of the day for sure 😂
That transition from the raw sound to the more technical rehearsed sound started in the eightys
I would suggest “the Writ” album version for a Layla style “where did that sunshine come from?” moment. Sabbath always change a song’s direction and mood
Sting me!
Also the Writ is one of Ozzy’s best vocal performances in the studio from his entire career - so much emotion, at turns mournful or desperate, kind of frenzied.
@@thursoberwick1948 it took me years to work that out. Stick me, sock me nearly every spelling option till i thought what a writ actually was
@@boldmeregarden637 I think he does say "sock" at one point.
I'd say its just become gradually more technical with time likely as a response of it getting faster and heavier with time. When you get to the era of thrash and especially death metal the complexity is needed to stop such heavy sounds from devolving into noise. When you get to the really heavy stuff like black metal it does take a trained ear not to be completely overwhelmed .
Black Sabbath grew up listening to and playing blues and R&B, and I think you can hear it in the way Ozzy phrases his vocal lines and the way the rhythm section plays. Later metal bands grew up listening to Black Sabbath, and took on more the rock side of Sabbath than the bluesy side. That's my theory for why younger bands perhaps sound more technically precise and less soulful. Though I'd argue if you listen to something like "One" by Metallica you'll hear both soul *and* precision.
This was from the 2nd release from Black Sabbath in 1970. The album is called Paranoid. First release was between 1969 and 1970 self debet album simply called Black Sabbath. This was the beginning!
Yup. This is pretty much where it all began. Judas Priest was actually founded around the same time but only really started to become successful when Black Sabbath was fading in the late 70's.
I think the short answer to your question about when Metal became more like an equation is "when more people who make Metal started to be middle class kids who could afford to go to Berklee instead of working class kids from Birmingham."
Ooaft!! That is a hot take and tbh I can absolutely get behind, jazz suffers greatly for this!
Not sure when that happened. There were both middle class and working class people right at the beginning of metal and right through the eighties and nineties.
The original Black Sabbath created something very unique w/ the 4 members that created what would become the template of what 'heavy metal music' would become... the band was formed in Birmingham, England (same area that Robert Plant and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin came from) in the late 60's as a blues rock cover band, but when they started writing original songs in 1969, they decided to make 'scary music' and once their first 2 records dropped in 1970... they started a musical revolution in Europe and N. America, and would spread globally. Metal music would evolve from bands like Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple... and u had bands like Alice Cooper, Kiss, Aerosmith, Rush, Heart, and Blue Oyster Cult in N. America... In Europe, we got Thin Lizzy, Nazareth (from Scotland!), the Scorpions, Judas Priest and U.F.O.
In the late 70's, Van Halen was the rock anomaly in the US in the age of disco... AC/DC came out of Australia... Rainbow became prominent in Europe...
Then, came 1980... people were sick of disco and punk rock... and a new crop of heavy metal bands emerged from the UK - Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Venom, Def Leppard, Saxon... they were called the 'New Wave of British Heavy Metal'... and they inspired the next evolution of metal music w/ bands like Judas Priest, a solo Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen, Black Sabbath (w/ Ronnie James Dio on vocals), and others. Dio was the band formed in 1983 after Ronnie left Black Sabbath...
In America, a new crop of bands emerged from the L.A. and New York scenes in the early 80's ... which had competing philosophies... On one hand, u got hard rock bands that appealed to women w/ their big hair, makeup and costumes... Twisted Sister, Motley Crue, Quiet Riot, Dokken, Ratt, etc... and then u had the hardcore metal bands that loved to shred and became thrash metal bands - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Exodus, Exciter, Voivod, Anvil, etc...
By the late 80's, the commercial appeal of hard rock bands like Whitesnake, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Europe, Poison, Bon Jovi, Tesla, Skid Row, Great White ... were countered by the thrash metal scene w/ the likes of Testament, Death, Morbid Angel, Death Angel, Kreator, Annihilator, Sodom, Destruction, Sepultura, etc... Europe also produced the 'power metal' scene w/ the likes of Helloween, King Diamond... and then, Gamma Ray, Primal Fear, Blind Guardian, Rhapsody (now Rhapsody of Fire), etc.
The 90's began diluting the rock acts w/ rather tame bands like Trixter, Firehouse, Slaughter, Saigon Kick, Mr. Big, Enuff Znuff, etc... and people wanted that heavy rock that Black Sabbath championed... That came when Nirvana broke big in 1992 w/ a stripped-down, underproduced sound that went back to the Black Sabbath/ Led Zeppelin delivery... It ended the 80's rock trends and ushered 90's "grunge rock" w/ the likes of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Tool, Smashing Pumpkins... and introduced more diverse bands w/ funk and punk rock influences, like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus, Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, etc... But after the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in 1994, the music industry filled the scene w/ doppelgangers like Bush, Silverchair, Seven Mary Three, Toadies, Local H, etc... Heavy rock was becoming a parody by 1996. Punk rock had inspired the 'pop punk' movement w/ the likes of Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, Blink 182, etc.
Thankfully, the extreme metal scene thrived in the 90's w/ the death metal and black metal scenes of America and Europe... bands like Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Obituary, Emperor, Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Napalm Death, Opeth, At the Gates, Carcass, etc... and Pantera was leading the pack of US extreme metal bands... Fear Factory, Machine Head, Deftones, KoRn, etc. kept the genre vital and thriving in the 90's... Also, the genre adopted the industrial metal scene w/ bands using beats, samples and electronic sounds... Ministry (in the 80's), followed in the 90's by Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh, Marilyn Manson, Gravity Kills, Filter, Disturbed, etc... going into the 2000's...
It all came from Black Sabbath... 🤘🤘
Oh my god this comment is amazing! Thank you! I really appreciate anyone taking the time to give me a historic take on any band to be honest! I’m going back to read again and digest 😊🌸
@@SoulSingerDiscovers as someone who's been a musician and Rock/Metal head for well over 40 years, what you read from
@sumonjamal1653 is as good an overview as you can get, but it's the last line that's most important.... it all came from Black Sabbath. Great and as always, an honest reaction Melisa 😊
Well said!
Ooh Nazareth!...
I appreciate the a
Reaction and commentary. As a huge Black Sabbath fan I love see people experience them for the first time. They have always been a huge influence on me as a musician.
Also, you are quite beautiful and I could listen to you talk all day!
Thank you my dude! I’m glad you’re enjoying the vids 😊❤️
You gotta understand Ozzie was always high as a kite from the time he woke up until he passed out.Its amazing how well he performed!!!!
Thats totally fair. I dont think i could walk let alone lone perform being as high as Im sure he was on occasion :)
That drummer should be as well known as Neil Peart or John Bonham.
An absolute animal on those drums.
I know you already know about Beth Hart & the Teskey Bros but would LOVE to see you react to either of them
Early metal was basically hard rock with edge. They were pushing boundaries, experimenting, and creating a new genre as they went. Ozzy once said that they called it "Doom Rock" due to its darkness and subject matter. Black Sabbath paved the way for future artists. Always with new things, new sounds, there is an element of wildness, of the untamed. Then, as others picked it up and ran with it, you have the advent of formulation. Deliberately wild, as opposed to breaking boundaries wild. It happens with every genre of music. We still have artists that push the envelope, but they are few, and they usually don't make it to the top of the charts because they putting out what everyone else is at the time.
I've heard it said that true metal flourishes in the shadows, in the clubs, where they can innovate without record label interference. There is plenty of raw, wild metal out there. You just have to venture out of your comfort zone to find it.
Regarding the switch between old metal and new metal... I think it's to do with their respective heroes/idols. Old metal (mainly) had blues and rock'n'roll as references where the newer metal bands were influenced by the likes of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Nowadays you have so many styles within the genre and looking to the outside there are near endless possibilities!
There are lead singers and there are front men. Ozzy is the quintessential front man who blazed a trail for others to follow.
This particular performance was at the beginning of their career (1970). Black Sabbath actually put out two albums that year. So many great songs on those albums!
THIS! I agreed wholeheartedly 😊
You are not kidding, it was for metal what Led Zeppelin did for hard rock the previous year, 2 albums of greatness from both bands, when I was a freshman in high school.
'Being a force' is a good way to describe singers like Ozzy.
you're lovely 😄 This is a great version of this song, I've never heard it before. Of course the fans know every note and every change. These lyrics I've never heard before, so cool. All the musicians were fantastic!
This was recorded live in Paris in 1970 so the sound is not of high quality but it's raw and brilliant we where kids and this band came out and smacked us right between the eyes loved it and still do
First album I ever bought was 1970-71 Master of Reality I was 13. Was hooked ever since. Still play it in my car today. You have to listen to this on the album. I never really liked live recordings of any bands.
I've never understood the Satanic label for Black Sabbath, almost everything they did was against evil like this anti war song.
I suggest putting what song you are reacting to in your description. This War Pigs song has different lyrics than the studio version.
"On medication for things" LOL.. Thats one way to put it... :)
I was trying to be a bit diplomatic there 😂
As far as Ozzy goes, legends are legends for a reason.
The man attended a protest to his own performance!
Ozzy is the only singer who sounds amazing when he sings but you can't understand a word he says when he simply speaks. My dad was a massive Black Sabbath fan, their first album released a couple months after I was born, he said he would play them to keep me from crying...I did the same to my son, Anthrax - State of Euphoria, the song Be All End All, he loved it, I made a 30 minute mixtape loop of the opening bit for him. Seen Ozzy 3 times, first time was with Motley Crue, my dad hated Crue. Ozzy's drummer was Tommy Aldridge on that tour, dude is nearly 80 and still beating drums in 2023 like they owe him money.
I never actually saw Sabbath live, my dad had tickets to the Born Again show in Vancouver, 1983 with Quiet Riot opening but Geezer caught bronchitis and they cancelled a handful of shows so I missed out. My dad took his girlfriend to Vegas for a week to see them when the tour started again, left me in Vancouver because school. That was the album/tour with Deep Purple's Ian Gillan replacing Dio and the Stonehenge set that was too big for the stage, it was such a funny story the movie This Is Spinal Tap added a wee tiny Stonehenge parody scene during reshoots, arguably the funniest scene in the movie...next to "It goes to eleven".
This is as raw as it gets Bill killing those drums excellent reaction
I actually love that your dare.
Polite people seldom make lasting impressions 😂
One of the greatest drumming performances i have ever heard.
The infamous “Bill Ward murders a drum kit” video lol also hi fellow Scot! 🏴
Black Sabbath's heyday were their first six albums (this song appeared on album #2, but this recording seems to be from before then).
After Ozzy got the boot, Sabbath went through a series of objectively better singers (including the great Ronnie James Dio) and wrote some very good heavy metal, but they never quite got that original magic back.
As for when metal became less bluesy and more angular, that was the '80s. Metal was trying to transcend its roots, and started bringing in influences from prog (more intricate songwriting, a desire to show off technical prowess, flirting with classical) and punk (raw aggression, speed, and grit). Along the way it lost some of its "soul," but at the same time became more distinct as a genre.
I am still buzzing about the idea that Dio was singing with BS although early Ozzy has a pass in my book. Thank you for this my dude 😊🌸
@@SoulSingerDiscovers I say they never got the old magic back after Ozzy, and that's true, BUT their first album with Dio, called 'Heaven and Hell,' does have quite a bit of magic of its own, and gets a lot of love even from diehard Ozzy loyalists like myself.
It feels like Ozzy Black Sabbath had groove and soul that largely wasn't there with other frontmen.
The one thing I love about this song is the verses remind me so much of an old Baptist sermon or song. My family are a part of an old regular Baptist church and this always reminded me of a darker, inverted version of a Baptist sermon. Love how sabbath was able to create such powerful images with their music!
The equation you talk about came about when the record companies figured out they could make money off of metal. They found what songs and albums made the most money and developed the metal "formula" very similar to what was done with Motown music in the 60s. They applied the formula to songs to determine what mix of guitar solos and lyrical topics and speed all that would result in the most records sold. This is why if you listen to most modern metal and most music in general that it all tends to have the same flow and sound to it. It's sad that they have taken something that should be very raw and wild and free spirited, and turned it into a product being cranked out like some cheap table from a factory.
This track War Pigs is my fave though it is sheer perfection from start to finish everyone kills it I do have to say I prefer the studio version just so you can hear the melody everything is so much sharper and clearer.And they changed the lyrics later on and spaced the song out better.Having said that you can never tire of seeing Bill batter those drums
He’s blisteringly good 😍
So these are the original lyrics or the later lyrics. These lyrics are not the ones usually associated with War Pigs- didn't even know they had an alt version (lyrically)
This was 1970 Black Sabbath put out their first album that year, so yes this was very early in their career. Another interesting song to listen to is Black Sabbath off their first album. The thing to keep in mind with that song is that was the first song on the album and before that song the majority of people were used to hearing bands like the rolling stones, the Beatles, the hardest band out there was the who. And then that dropped and nobody had heard anything like it.
I never dug into Sabbath's catalog; only familiar with their "hits".
Of course, I've played this one 🥁 on stage. 🔥🤘🏽 It's a fun one!! The band that was opening for us had a no call, no show by their drummer. So I played for them... Cold. This was one of the standouts as I'd only heard it, but had never played it. 😳😎
That’s a tough gig 😱
@@SoulSingerDiscovers It was a fun, and ultimately successful, challenge. 😁
The live version unfortunately has different lyrics. That's why I always like listening to the studio version 1st.
No idea if these were "demo" lyrics or if Ozzy was just making things up
@@lewe666 This was probably recorded before the finalized studio version came out. I found a demo called Walpurgis with different lyrics. The studio version lyrics are much better.
th-cam.com/video/67JcYZb8VG4/w-d-xo.html
@@rockandrollmd541 I've listened to the album version for more than half my life, so the earlier versions are always jarring 😂
I realised this after starting recording! 😂
Naaah this version from Paris beats any other studio or live version. So i don’t bother different lyrics here on there 👀🤷🏻♂️ This performance is legendary 🔥
This song has evolved , it was originally called "War Purgis" with those lyrics. Ps Ozzy is suffering with Parkinson's Disease these days .
Welcome to the beginning, our beginning. You are most very welcome 🤘🏻🇬🇧🖤
Thank you Russell! What a wonderful beginning it is 😊💪
@@SoulSingerDiscovers this performance is right at the beginning of their career and you are right it is raw. Just 4 musicians with their instruments and very little technology, back in the day 🤘🏻
Early pre-studio live version, before he had the lyrics down, so I have a feeling he’s kind of riffing on this performance, making it up as he goes. Still, an excellent version, aside from the lyrics being very different than you expect (if you already know the studio version), and they dont work quite as well together.
Literally their entire first 6 albums are phenomenal … its hard to go wrong, picking anything from any one of them. However, for your next forays into Sabbath, Id suggest Children Of The Grave, Faeries Wear Boots, Symptom Of The Universe, Hand Of Doom, OR you can skip to a bit later when Ronnie James Dio was singer, and do Lonely Is The Word, Sign Of The Southern Cross, or Heaven And Hell.
BTW, we’re all well aware of Ozzy’s shortcomings. He does fit the music very well, but he is not a technically excellent vocalist, by any means lol
Oh, and as for Metal being wilder back in the day … absolutely! There’s a reason it gained the reputation it had, just as punk gained the reputatiin it had, for a very good reason… because it was wild, and crazy, and scared the pants off the establishment, which was the point, and thats a good part of the reason why we fell in love with it. It was rebellion, epitomized. Now? Not so much.
For sure he was ad libbing the lyrics but as she said it was about the performance
@@Trucker231610 most definitely
These are kind of a mix of the original lyrics and how they changed them afterwards. The original version is called Walpurgis, but was too extreme for the record label.
Paranoid was released in September 1970. This performance was in December (or October depending on source).
@@21Piloteer Hm good point, I didnt know the date and assumed by the lyrucs that it was before they were finalized. So either he’s totally riffing, or perhaps these are the lyrics for the “Walpurgis” version … regardless, Im glad they went with what they did for the recording, as these ones dont fit very well lol
This is so new at this time Ozzy is singing the old place holder lyrics, or he forgot them and reverted to the old lyrics. He still pulls it off and no one is the wiser at the time.
No fighting here, My Fine Scottish Lady. Glad that You enjoyed Ozzy on Black Sabbath's second album. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Scott! 😊🌸
This is right at the beginning of their career. Ozzy is also clearly not yet properly familiar with the final lyrics.
You'll have seen it already in the comments, but this is early in their career, from their second album in 1970.
This song was written whilst the Vietnam war was on , it resonates a lot with the american soldiers who were there. If my memory serves me right it was on Paranoid album their second album me thinks.
Bill Ward described choking up at a US show, where a row of Vietnam vets rose from their wheelchairs to applaud War Pigs.
This song was originally called "Walpurgis", and was about a witches' sabbath. The lyrics were changed and it was turned into an anit-war song.
Give Either Perry Mason or Thunder Underground a shot, both are particular favourites of mine :)
came out of the blues rock/jazz vibe and just literally wrote the book on how to metal. audiences had no frame of reference and didn't know what hit them... worth remembering that Ozzy was probably utterly shitfaced here so the lyrics go a bit squiffy!
I like when a vocalist whose job is over stays on and stays engaged even though they have no lyrics to deliver. they could just bugger off and go to the bog but they stay because they're part of the band and they're connected to the audience.
Bill Ward is a beast on the kit
He doesn't get the plaudits he so rightly deserves by the industry IMO
No bill,no sabbath
Glad someone else thought that.
Weird story I enlisted in the Army in 2000 and when I got to basic and infantry school we had this Drill who used this anti-war song as a running cadence and added some infantry specific and inappropriate for public use. But it kicked ass!
Completely correct, I feel that’s the thing with Black Sabbath they have to be experience life Ozzy might not be the most technically proficient singer, but he has so much emotion in his voice that you just can’t teach
Honestly I would rather listen to young ozzy over a more proficient singer any day 😊💪
As far as vocalist go steelheart wasn't my style of music but when I seen them perform on MTV unplugged with just a singer in the piano blew my mind that somebody could sing like that and chew bubble gum at the same only Geoff Tate had that stunning reaction that I got from seeing this man sing live
"Black Sabbath were some of the first metal bands to be doin' things like this..." Black Sabbath were the first metal band, full stop :)
The phrase Heavy Metal was used to refer to Hard Rock before Black Sabbath.
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You might say this us early in their career. This is from a concert they put on in Paris before their second album War Pigs came out in 1970.
After Ozzy they got Ronnie James Dio to sing... That stuff is great too .. actually all the vocalists they had were great...
Best anti war song and the beginning of metal. Pure raw talent like most of the bands singers in the days no tricks no production. ets... Just awesome times. No bleeding hearts. ❤️
Maybe the beginning of metal era I guess.
But there were bands like deep purple and others that were kicking it hard at the same time
This was 1970 at the birth of metal, when it was first invented by the great lead guitarist, Tony Iommi (eye-OWE-me), who wrote the music, and with the great bass player and lyrics writer, Geezer Butler. Great drumming by Bill Ward. The lyrics on this are messed up, so it's worth checking out the studio version for the proper effect of everything.
Being from Stornoway in the Utter Hebrides I don't understand a thing but.... Both you and your reaction were bruwyin! 🤗💖
Oh cheers mate! I’m glad some of my terrible accent was still entertaining 😂💪
OMG! The original lyrics version! That's awesome!
Funny, the thumbnail shows the Oz and Tony as old dudes then you see that the video is of them as youngens
I like Black Sabbath but this version of War Pigs is hard to listen to.
A totally different recent band that you probably would really appreciate is Dirty Loops. Maybe their song Work Shit Out,
I don't know if you read comments on older videos but you asked an interesting question at around 9:00 about the evolution of Metal as a genre and when this switch happened. There is a very interesting video titled "Weaving Influences: A Talk by Don Anderson from Agalloch" in which guitarist Don Anderson of Agalloch (obviously), he presents a theory of the catalyst moment in metal being the album "Unquestionable Presence" by Atheist. For context, Don Anderson has a PhD in English focusing on horror cinema and critical theory and is a professor at West Chester Community College and was giving a guest lecture.
A lot of the thrash bands of the early/mid 80s were influenced by Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Motorhead sound which is where you get that 80s Megadeth thrash sound. However, in the late 80s early 90s we begin to see newer thrash bands shift into death metal, focusing on lower tuning, more aggressive vocal fry techniques, etc. Atheist was a jazz fusion/progressive death metal band. Anderson cites the 1991 album "Unquestionable Presence" (though there were other albums around the same time or slightly earlier) that really refocused death metal into the "technical death metal" style for most of the mid 90s. Today we see many bands, even the ones that are not very progressive will play with tempo, influenced by those early 90s tech death albums. Hope this reads clearly, cheers!
Hey Mikey! I most certainly do read as many comments as I can get through! This is actually a great comment. I think this is possibly the best explanation I’ve had so far. It makes total sense that with the changing of the generations and the advancement of technology that bands influences would change creating new sounds. I’ll check out this video you’re talking about. Thanks so much for the comment. Really insightful 😊💪
The sole thing I dislike about this version is that the lyrics were unfinished at this point. That aside, it's still cool.
Glad you get to discover one of the most classics of bands. Got to see them back in 2014, which I am thankful for. Ozzy sang too, and he was in shape =) I consider Black Sabbath to be proto-metal , or just hard rock - because they are so blues-y.
Metal started out rather simple before mostly in the early 90s diversified, and then a decade later exploded into several subgenres. Nowadays there are too many bands, too little time to listen to them all.
Yeah it’s fascinating how the genre has fracture so much since bands like this and I haven’t even covered half the ground yet 💪
@@SoulSingerDiscovers It is fascinating indeed. But if by covered ground you mean the amounts of bands, then you have barely scratched the surface. Important scratching, but only just begun ;)
Have been listening to Black Sabbath for more than 20 years.. it's funny how you listen to almost any metal subgenre and you think "Sabbath did this already". The first 5 or 6 albums are the blueprint for everything
Absolute killer drums
I think the switch you are hearing from chaotic to more precise and orderly really begins in earnest in the early’80’s A lot of people think metal began in the’80’s; the term became more widely used and the styles that became prominent then really shaped the subgenres that followed. So when people hear current metal and then listen to’80’s metal, they can kind of hear the roots. When they hear ‘70’s metal, if they heard more modern stuff first, they may not hear how things went from there to here.
But metal did start in the’70’s or even the very late ‘60’s (Sabbath first got together in 1968, for instance), and it was huge but had a much less rigid and codified sound. As the ‘70’s bled into the’80’s and punk and new wave took hold, metal (along with progressive rock and most arena rock) was more or less pronounced dead. But it resurgent rather quickly thanks to a few factors. In England, the New Wave of British Heavy Metal brought together disparate young groups flying the metal banner. Taking some cues from punk (in some cases reluctantly, in other cases enthusiastically), these bands updated the sound for younger audiences that wanted faster tempos, generally shorter songs and less long, self-indulgent guitar solos. The bands that comprised the NWOBHM were stylistically diverse but shared some similarities, at least in comparison to the older bands. The spare, early rock n roll inspired music of AC/DC and the party hearty, radio friendly rock of Van Halen also helped keep metal alive and sell it to a new audience (Eddie Van Halen reinvented the concept of the guitar hero). Several European bands that weren’t technically part of the NWOBHM (because they, well, weren’t British) charted a similar course to the English bands, speeding up the tempos and tending towards catchier tunes.
With AC/DC as a notable exception, one thing almost all these bands had in common was a move away from the blues roots that almost all ‘70’s metal shared. There was also a move away from the kind of jam band style improvisation that early metal inherited from’60’s psychedelic acts. The crassly commercial glam metal and the faster, more extreme grooves of thrash metal that followed the NWOBHM just a few years later drove things even further in this direction.
This all probably had to happen for metal to survive and evolve. That said, as much as I love ‘80’s metal (and much of what has come in the decades after), ‘70’s metal is by far my favorite. That chaos that you so keenly pick up on is one of the biggest reasons why, as is the obvious influence of soul, blues and r & b that is missing from most metal from the’80’s onward. I love some of your observations; one in particular that hit me right was referring to modern metal as more angular. I’m not always a fan of the extreme precision; I like things messy.
The funny thing about these particular "satanic lyrics" is that they're really painting governments and powerful people as exactly that: satanic. At least, in the way that society wants you to think of things that are satanic. People doing and planning malicious things for their own self-interest and at the expense of others. Despite the fact that these people they're singing about, are the ones that we are supposed to look up to in order to protect our society.
First thing- these lyrics are not the ones most people associate with the song. I didn't even know the band had a different version (lyrically) and I've never heard this before. Early Sabbath indeed. Learn something new every day but these are not the usual lyrics for War Pigs! Quite amazing!
Tony Iommi and Bill Ward were in a Carlisle band Mythology before Black Sabbath and Black Sabbath were popular around Carlisle and Cumbria in their early days.
"Generals gather in their masses, just like witches in black masses" is the only example of identical rhyming that I will forgive 😊
I suspect Atomic Rooster might have been an early forerunner of Black Sabbath - try Death Walks Behind You
Recommend Lovebites Edge of the World live Five of a Kind
Soul singer with a Heavy Metal band.
I have a feeling that the majority of metal artists over a certain age will have Black Sabbath in their "influences" section on Wikipedia.
Standing alone, Ozzy might not have the greatest voice, but it works so well in the context of Sabbath and even his solo work. The only vocalist I've heard do justice to Ozzy songs (IMHO) is Zakk Wylde.
Yeah I’ve heard a lot of Zakk and I think he has taken on a lot of qualities Ozzys older voice has, which is interesting. Great comment my dude 😊🌸
@@SoulSingerDiscovers I've always thought of Zakk having a pedal at the base of his mic stand that kicks in his Ozzy mode 😂
Like in the live in Paris version of In This River. He starts out singing like old Zakk and kicks into Zakkozzy mode
"Black Sabbath were one of the fist metal bands..." You coulda stopped right there 😆
These lyrics were different from the studio version, that they recorded, which I don't like as much, so you to listen to the studio version.
Nothing but raw fkn talent 💯🔥
I'm really enjoying your journey here Melisa. Most of the stuff I was going to say has already been covered in the comments. One thing to repeat of what others have said is that Dio era Black Sabbath is a must listen - try tracks like Heaven & Hell or Children of the Sea. Sabbath inspired basically the entire Metal genre that followed in their wake in different ways but in particular sub genres like Doom, Sludge & Stoner metal. One band nobody else - that I could see anyway - in the comments has mentioned though is a Swedish band called Candlemass. Try tracks like Samaritan or Gallows End from their Nightfall album.
Thank you Gary! I’m glad you’re enjoying it, I know I am! So a few people mentioned Dio for Sabbath which just sounds amazing! I’ll check out Candlemass though, could be a good one for the list 😊💪
Check out hand of doom for lots of changes in dynamics. Great anti drug song. It’s so good!
Led Zeppelin basically started modern hard/stadium rock & Sabbath had the metal. Each song seemed to invent new sub genres of metal. Yeah Ozzy maybe pitchy & forgot some lyrics but was an amazing front man!
Bill Ward is a criminally underrated drummer. Glad you like this performance very early in their career
Ozzy's "been on medication for things and his health hasn't been so good" his entire career 🤣
Early days of heavy metal we're much more free form versus the speed metal formuleic that they do nowadays. I would agree with you that this was the heyday of Black Sabbath but it continued until the Heaven and Hell album when Ozzy Osborne exited the band. 1979-80 I think...