00:00 - Intro 01:32 - Start of Tony Iommi Interview 01:55 - Ian Gillan joining Black Sabbath 02:09 - Playing Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water 02:50 - Why Ronnie James Dio left Black Sabbath 03:10 - The addition of Bev Bevan from ELO 03:47 - If former Sabbath drummer Bill Ward will be back 04:01 - The story behind Black Sabbath’s song Disturbing the Priest 04:38 - Blowing up Ian Gillan’s boat 05:06 - The comparison between Black Sabbath’s debut album and Born Again 05:58 - His thoughts about former bandmate Ozzy Osbourne’s music 06:10 - What he thought of Randy Rhoads 06:22 - On Ozzy remaking old Black Sabbath songs 06:54 - Black Sabbath’s influence on other bands 07:34 - What music does he listen to 07:59 - A very surprising favorite song of Iommi’s 08:11 - Talks about Born Again’s live show. 09:21 - Iommi plays a bit of a joke on Newton 09:46 - Why growing up, he didn't think he would play the guitar 10:14 - His main influences on the guitar 10:36 - How he doesn’t actually play a Gibson SG 11:46 - His current amps
That's great , I used to do dressing room security for years at BC place and Northlands , but didn't get to interview like this . These are amazing to hear . Too bad Gillian didn't do a second album with Sabbath like Iomi mentioned here
Those evil pinch harmonics coupled to Ian’s screams in Disturbing the Priest are yet to be matched! Love this album, its mix is part of its unique charm. Still curious to hear the new upcoming mix!
This is one of the greatest and most underrated albums of all time IMO! Tony's playing is purely evil and Ian's screams are insane , it's in my top 5 Sabbath albums. The tour was also incredible!!!
I've always preferred the deeper tracks of Sabbath which is why I have always liked this album. Imo it was the last "evil" type of Sabbath record. I'm more of a 70's Sabbath fan but Born Again was so unique in its own way it always stood out to me. Every Sabbath album has it's own sound. My favorites have been Vol-4 and Sabotage for decades. People who think the band's best output are songs like Paranoid and Iron Man that the radio has overplayed to no end are really missing out. In the last 20 years Sabbath have finally got their just due but for the longest time even a lot of those great records made with Ozzy (besides Paranoid) flew under the radar. It's like if the mainstream only played the same 3 songs off Zeppelin 2 and ignored the rest of their discography, that's what basically happened with Sabbath and it's criminal.
I think Born Again was a great album but I am biased, Ian Gillan is one of my favorite singers. Tony says he didn't understand why Ozzy released the Speak of the devil album because he'd had his own songs. Ozzy released it because he was under contract and didn't want to release what would become the Ozzy/Randy tribute album. Ozzy said it was too early at that time and didn't want to exploit Randy basically as a commodity. RIP Randy... Rock on Master Tony.
I was fortunate to see Black Sabbath back then. It was one of a kind show, and was one of the best shows I've ever seen. It competes with Judas Priest when I saw them during the DOF tour, and it also competes with another Black Sabbath tour, and then another Black Sabbath tour, lol. Yes, I've been to over 100 concerts, but, relatively speaking, there's a short list of the best.
Black Sabbath's 'Born Again' was the 1st big stadium show I had ever seen. For a kid deeply into rock and metal in the early 1980's, it blew my fucking mind. When that little demon baby came out, with the glowing eyes clawing at the crowd! I can still remember feeling my shirt moving from the sound of Geezer's bass. Incredible memory and thanks for the release of this vid.
@@TheTapesArchive In the years since, I've looked and never found it, but I believe it was during the opening/1st couple songs (Stonehenge/Disturbing the Priest). I do remember 2 hooded priests bathed in fog came out right after and opened the center stone henge monolith to reveal a cross of spotlights that blasted the audience (as you can see in most videos), but being a 14yo kid and the camera restrictions back then, pre-vhs(?), etc. A friend still has the tour book but you can find those online. I so wish I could help! fwiw, Quiet Riot opened and it was Rudy Sarzo's birthday and they hit him in the face with a pie during the set. This was at University of Chicago (UIC Pavillion), 1983. I will tell Huckle you like his most intimate moment. THANK YOU for your content. It takes me back and puts a smile on my face. Keep it up!!
The played inside of a molasses vat thrown in the bottom of a swamp, recorded on a Fisher Price microphone run thru a Marshall stack with a slashed cone and a half broken Sears distortion pedal with sketchy wires while consumption of literal mountains of Peruvian marching powder was under way is the sound that a lot of people didnt like about this lp. This however is EXACTLY the reason I love it so dearly. Gillan screaming and screeching his unhinged whirlpool of deliciously tongue in cheeky evil lyrics is the other. You dont even really have to be a Sabbath or Purple fan to love Born Again. Sheer transcendant brilliance.
I think I need to listen to it again. Back when I did the interview I didn't really care for that album. I was a Sabbath Bloody Sabbath kinda guy at that point
Born Again is a fantastic record. I remember reading the reviews and they were so bad. The one I read the person was saying he loved Vol 4, but later people told me it's a great record and it really is. Just love it. Always felt the production was not really what it could have been, but still is great.
I saw Fastway, and Quiet Riot open for Sabbath on this tour… back then news didn’t come quick, so I was disappointed that Bill Ward was replaced by Bev Bevan. I wasn’t impressed. Too much screaming by Gillian, the guitar was muddled. I missed the earlier Dio years and last saw Sabbath in ‘78 in Philly… I am glad I saw Fastway and Quiet Riot.
The guitar solo on The Fallen a Born Again outtake has got to be one of Tony's best totally raw fast extreme piercing sonic madness. Innovator! Btw almost lost my V card listening to this album to a ridiculously sexy acid dealer named Jackie she was in a pair of daisy duke cutoffs and a tube top and had me dosed to the gills but unfortunately I was too tripped out to get it together...no regrets though I will always love you wacky Jackie. So fine! Anyway ...great record.
"piercing sonic madness." great way to put it...haha I can't imagine doing something "sexy" to this album though. And I don't think I have ever seen a sexy acid dealer..lol 😎
@@TheTapesArchive Jackie was one of a kind for sure...yeah I was all upset about this other girl who I had a crush on plus Jackie had already slept with two of my friends and I didn't want to be involved in some kind of weird situation I was freaked out by the music too admittedly! This is back when acid was ACID too I was mega high. From what I hear Jackie is still hella foxy tho
The Heaviest Metal ( by 1980s standards) were definitely Mob Rules, and Born Again. Some people think Dehumanizer is the Heaviest. It's the swampiest but nothing is as Heavy as Sign of the Southern Cross, and Disturbing the Priest. There is more to being Heavy than down tuning the guitars
Glenn Hughes - superb voice but totally wrong for sabbath.....Ian Gillan was BETTER for sabbath than Dio.....Ronnie Dio would have been better staying with rainbow....
@@TheTapesArchive I'd heard the master tapes were lost making a new edition difficult, then were recently rediscovered. All this album ever needed was a good remastering. Though I do like the rawness of it, almost sounds like a demo tape.
Iommi's thought process around what Deep Purple song to cover is so broken. Do the most known song? NO. You do Highway Star. It's the one of the most metal songs they do and way more appreciated by DP fans than Smoke on the Water.
I think his main concern was which one could he play, i watched the encore where they do the Purple stuff at the Montreal gig (here on uTube), and he does not play it right, and the lead does not even start on the same note or have any phrasing or melodies from the original. I stopped it half way through it was such a mess. I was disappointed but have learned since then that none of these guys can play other peoples stuff. That's not the kind of Guitar Players they are, they have been jamming and writing their whole lives, not sitting in a bed room learning Randy and Yngwie. Any covers they learned (Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Elvis) were not even close to what they ended up doing. The only one from that era I have seen do a cover note for note is Alex Lifeson playing a Zeppelin Song for a charity event, he NAILED it. Look up Andy Kim and Alex Lifeson. you should be able to find it of you are interested. And his Lerxst Amp creates a sound just like the song as well. That also surprised me.
Ozzy's management thought his career was Sabbath, but the bubble gum Sabbath, Iron Man, Paranoid ect, no Spiral Architect or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath... it's sad watching Ozzy concerts, it's was the exact same show/setlist for 30 years. Watch him in 1983 or 2013 and you get the same songs in almost the same order. I was wondering if Tony ever said anything about Randy. Very little it seems.
ESTE DISCO ES MUY MUY BUENO. CON UNA MEJOR PORDUCCION HABRIA SIDO PERFECTO. LASTIMA QUE FUE SABOTEADO COMO TANTAS OTRAS COSAS BUENAS QUE HIZO SABBATH. GRAN BANDA
of course Iommi mentions Dio was working on his solo album while he was in sabbath, that is false because Dio on started his solo album after he left sabbath, warner gave Dio a record contract with the success of heaven and hell but he was not going to use it while the band was active, Warner themselves even forgot they gave Dio a record contract. but Holy Diver and Don't talk to strangers were intended for Sabbath's next studio album with Dio. Dio having wrote these himself.
I thought that was off too. I'm guessing Warner Brother's PR team gave Tony some talking points on Dio. And as with most things, the truth prob lies somewhere in the middle. BTW I have an unreleased Dio interview from 1985 coming out next. He speaks on it as well.
I remember the day Born Again came out. i was in the 12th grade. I think it cane out in 83, because we saw them in early 84 at long beach arena from excellent riser seats about 10 rows back from the stage. On Iommi’s side I was let diwn when they did not perform TRASHED, which was the first song on the album, if I recall. They had a Stonehenge stage set up that was cool, even if it was a little bit cheesy. With Dio in 82 at the Forum, they were one of THE loudest bands i had seen (a record they hold to this day.. they were in the top 3 loudest bands I have seen). With Ian Gillian they were not quite as loud and they seemed to have a grungier sound. Trashy, in a sense, which I figured to be their new sound with this lineup. Apparently I liked that lineup better than the average Sabbath historian, as i noticed lots of criticism over the years since that tour. Why they didnt perform “Trashed” is beyond me. It was a jammin’ tune and could have been a hit in many tours to come. Or at least thats how I felt about it. It definitely wasnt their best work, but it WAS interesting. The album, i mean. I saw them with Dio again in 92 and finally again on August 11th, 2009 at The Greek, Row R , orchestra ( got those seats at noon the day of the show from the Greek box office by phone-yaaaaaay! Again, on Iommi’s side, right in front of him. And again, they were louder than hell. They were quite good, too. Dio died 5 months later. Was so glad we got to see them again before he died.
Not a bad album really, not anywhere close to to the original Ozzy Sabbath or Dio era, but way better than anything after Born Again the Born Again album.
What a blast from the past that was. Took me straight back to where I was at in my life. I bought the album as I had all Sabbath records. To hear him talk of the next record with Ian was interesting in as much as we know what happened to Ian in 1984. And he's still at it today . . .
Born Again is a classic. Saw Black Sabbath with Ian and Bev during this tour. One of the greatest shows I have ever seen still and Tony was having superb night.
Is it true that there are no rock musicians that can place their right palm on the KJV and say these words once only-> I refuse to attend satanic ceremonies where they stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast.👹 ??? Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord ✝️shall be saved. PRAISE JESUS!✝️❤️
It must have been a total trip back in the early 80s to find out that the former vocalist of Deep Purple and former drummer of The Move/ELO were going to be on a Black Sabbath record!!!
@@TheTapesArchive Just listened to the Dio interview. A swirling vortex into another dimension opened upon hearing his great singer choices. This is a must-listen interview!
This interview made me cringe and I understand why musicians get agitated by them . The interviewer clearly hadn’t done his research properly, asking how the tour was going when they weren’t currently on tour , and asking nonsense like why are you playing Smoke on the Water ? Heaven forbid.
Wow tony was only 36 on this interview? And thanks it was released on my birthday jan 11th... and also born again was the most incredible sabbath ever made
I saw sabbath at the Long Beach arena w/ Ian Gillian 198? I was blown away by the set of pipes on his lungs I could go on and on about the greatest bands I saw at the same venue ( price less ) long live Heavy Metal!!!!
I liked this album quite a bit, especially the title track which I think is one of the best songs they have ever done. The production ecording of the album turned me off and I was hoping one day it would get remixed. I also thought the album cover was pretty bad, but you cannot judge an album by the cover. I also think the Heaven and Hell cover was a bit silly but it is my favorite Sabbath album!
@@TheTapesArchive If u don't know what the term means , then let me take a guess your american . Use your imagination , it starts with F and finishes with F . Understand now ! . . .
These are the years that Iommi was having his interviews done by a friend that have similat tone to his voice. As he was often too coked up and never care less about fame and exposure as most musicians care so much and crave s much! Nowadays how many legendary egomaniacs are interviewed by teens from their mom basement suites studio,, Not saying this is not Iommi but between 1983-1987 more than often for the little interviews he did many was his friends speaking. As there is no "live"interview,the artist always knows the questions ahead of the interviews.
I have never heard this, any info to substantiate what you are saying? Not saying you are wrong just never heard this. BTW I sent this to Iommi's manager and he approved it, so this one is def him.
@@TheTapesArchive Hi, Please understand I am not doubting your video here. I just meant that during the era of 1983-1986-7ish this happened a lot. You can read it in the Black Sabbath book from Mick Wall. He is a goofy but he is respected and accepted by the business and the musicians in general. He wrote Dio las book also if I'm right.
@@TheTapesArchive Just because Tony's manager approved it, doesn't mean it was definitely him. I noticed something was off with his voice right from the beginning.
@@marcrogers1051 I think it sounds strange to you because I used this AI software to sweeten the sound. It manipulates the frequency etc. I have to disagree with you on Tony's manager. He's a good dude and very protective of Tony. He probably sent it to him as well.
@@stevedamien638 All good brother...In some of my videos, I pointed out "facts" Mick Wall got wrong. (I get stuff wrong too.) I'm not shizzing on Wall either. With any history, it's tough to be 100% accurate 100% of the time. I appreciate you bringing this up. By no means am I saying you got anything wrong either. 🤘🍻
To Tony, whenever another member of the band wants to contribute songs and new ideas it means they have a drug and alcohol problem. Dudes a legend but a hell of an egomaniac
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - Start of Tony Iommi Interview
01:55 - Ian Gillan joining Black Sabbath
02:09 - Playing Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water
02:50 - Why Ronnie James Dio left Black Sabbath
03:10 - The addition of Bev Bevan from ELO
03:47 - If former Sabbath drummer Bill Ward will be back
04:01 - The story behind Black Sabbath’s song Disturbing the Priest
04:38 - Blowing up Ian Gillan’s boat
05:06 - The comparison between Black Sabbath’s debut album and Born Again
05:58 - His thoughts about former bandmate Ozzy Osbourne’s music
06:10 - What he thought of Randy Rhoads
06:22 - On Ozzy remaking old Black Sabbath songs
06:54 - Black Sabbath’s influence on other bands
07:34 - What music does he listen to
07:59 - A very surprising favorite song of Iommi’s
08:11 - Talks about Born Again’s live show.
09:21 - Iommi plays a bit of a joke on Newton
09:46 - Why growing up, he didn't think he would play the guitar
10:14 - His main influences on the guitar
10:36 - How he doesn’t actually play a Gibson SG
11:46 - His current amps
it was so cool to interview Tony Iommi back in '84. I chatted with him again in 2007. Awesome chap. You can't beat the Riffmaster General!
Thanks again for letting us share it.
I'd have shat my pants in your stead. Great work!
@@maverickjoga thanks buddy!
That's great , I used to do dressing room security for years at BC place and Northlands , but didn't get to interview like this . These are amazing to hear . Too bad Gillian didn't do a second album with Sabbath like Iomi mentioned here
Sadly overhated album. The evilness in those 9 tracks cannot be underestimated. My favourite Ian performance and a great great tour.
I have never understood the hate. And I think most of that hate has died down.
Those evil pinch harmonics coupled to Ian’s screams in Disturbing the Priest are yet to be matched! Love this album, its mix is part of its unique charm. Still curious to hear the new upcoming mix!
@@clem2867 are yet to be matched? You don’t get out much do ya 😂😂😂holy fuck dude
Awesome album ❤
My favorite tour seeing Sabbath
This is one of the greatest and most underrated albums of all time IMO! Tony's playing is purely evil and Ian's screams are insane , it's in my top 5 Sabbath albums. The tour was also incredible!!!
Imagine if they did a follow up! I mean back in 84' - 85'.
@@mrmaxaxl That would have been awesome , because the song writing took a different direction on Born Again. Definitely would have been interesting!
Agreed 100%
The tour was awesome! One of my top 3 concerts and I've seen amazing things. I still have the tour shirt in excellent condition.
@@SciaticaDrums Nice! Who opened when you saw them? It was Quiet Riot when i saw them , also their stage set up was killer with the Stonehenge thing!
I love the Born Again album, and I saw them on the tour, and they were fantastic, I wish they would have done at least one more with Ian.
I love Born Again even the muddy mix.Gillan is great as are the band. The songs are brilliant too.
I've heard they found the masters..hopefully, they will remaster it!
I've always preferred the deeper tracks of Sabbath which is why I have always liked this album. Imo it was the last "evil" type of Sabbath record. I'm more of a 70's Sabbath fan but Born Again was so unique in its own way it always stood out to me. Every Sabbath album has it's own sound. My favorites have been Vol-4 and Sabotage for decades. People who think the band's best output are songs like Paranoid and Iron Man that the radio has overplayed to no end are really missing out. In the last 20 years Sabbath have finally got their just due but for the longest time even a lot of those great records made with Ozzy (besides Paranoid) flew under the radar. It's like if the mainstream only played the same 3 songs off Zeppelin 2 and ignored the rest of their discography, that's what basically happened with Sabbath and it's criminal.
I think Born Again was a great album but I am biased, Ian Gillan is one of my favorite singers. Tony says he didn't understand why Ozzy released the Speak of the devil album because he'd had his own songs. Ozzy released it because he was under contract and didn't want to release what would become the Ozzy/Randy tribute album. Ozzy said it was too early at that time and didn't want to exploit Randy basically as a commodity. RIP Randy... Rock on Master Tony.
Kind of cool hearing Tony talk about the next album with the Ian. Too bad that didn't play out, although perfect strangers was a cool album.
I heard, from Ian, he got tricked into singing for Sabbath.
They got him drunk and high flying. Ian laughs about it now.
I loved this album. Had it on cassette.
I played mine out.
So did I brought it second hand in late 80s
Born Again is one of my favorite Sabbath album
I was fortunate to see Black Sabbath back then. It was one of a kind show, and was one of the best shows I've ever seen. It competes with Judas Priest when I saw them during the DOF tour, and it also competes with another Black Sabbath tour, and then another Black Sabbath tour, lol. Yes, I've been to over 100 concerts, but, relatively speaking, there's a short list of the best.
At least they had proper Stone'enge replicas.
#spinaltap
Black Sabbath's 'Born Again' was the 1st big stadium show I had ever seen. For a kid deeply into rock and metal in the early 1980's, it blew my fucking mind. When that little demon baby came out, with the glowing eyes clawing at the crowd! I can still remember feeling my shirt moving from the sound of Geezer's bass. Incredible memory and thanks for the release of this vid.
Is there video anywhere of that baby form the concert? I don't think I have ever seen it. BTW you still have the best avatar. lol 💩🐕
@@TheTapesArchive In the years since, I've looked and never found it, but I believe it was during the opening/1st couple songs (Stonehenge/Disturbing the Priest). I do remember 2 hooded priests bathed in fog came out right after and opened the center stone henge monolith to reveal a cross of spotlights that blasted the audience (as you can see in most videos), but being a 14yo kid and the camera restrictions back then, pre-vhs(?), etc. A friend still has the tour book but you can find those online. I so wish I could help! fwiw, Quiet Riot opened and it was Rudy Sarzo's birthday and they hit him in the face with a pie during the set. This was at University of Chicago (UIC Pavillion), 1983. I will tell Huckle you like his most intimate moment. THANK YOU for your content. It takes me back and puts a smile on my face. Keep it up!!
The played inside of a molasses vat thrown in the bottom of a swamp, recorded on a Fisher Price microphone run thru a Marshall stack with a slashed cone and a half broken Sears distortion pedal with sketchy wires while consumption of literal mountains of Peruvian marching powder was under way is the sound that a lot of people didnt like about this lp. This however is EXACTLY the reason I love it so dearly. Gillan screaming and screeching his unhinged whirlpool of deliciously tongue in cheeky evil lyrics is the other. You dont even really have to be a Sabbath or Purple fan to love Born Again. Sheer transcendant brilliance.
Haha I love how you write. Are you related to the Central Scrutinizer?
Agreed
I think I need to listen to it again. Back when I did the interview I didn't really care for that album. I was a Sabbath Bloody Sabbath kinda guy at that point
@@earofnewt You can have both! 😀🤘🍻 Nothing wrong with SBS, either.
@@TheTapesArchive damn straight!
"On the next album with Ian and Bev..."
Born Again is a fantastic record. I remember reading the reviews and they were so bad. The one I read the person was saying he loved Vol 4, but later people told me it's a great record and it really is. Just love it.
Always felt the production was not really what it could have been, but still is great.
I saw Fastway, and Quiet Riot open for Sabbath on this tour… back then news didn’t come quick, so I was disappointed that Bill Ward was replaced by Bev Bevan. I wasn’t impressed. Too much screaming by Gillian, the guitar was muddled. I missed the earlier Dio years and last saw Sabbath in ‘78 in Philly… I am glad I saw Fastway and Quiet Riot.
Great interview, Tony is a genius and a nice person too. If I was as good as he is not sure I could stay so level. He is amazing.
I was happy to hear him mention Stanley Clarke, Angus Young and the SG
The guitar solo on The Fallen a Born Again outtake has got to be one of Tony's best totally raw fast extreme piercing sonic madness. Innovator! Btw almost lost my V card listening to this album to a ridiculously sexy acid dealer named Jackie she was in a pair of daisy duke cutoffs and a tube top and had me dosed to the gills but unfortunately I was too tripped out to get it together...no regrets though I will always love you wacky Jackie. So fine! Anyway ...great record.
"piercing sonic madness." great way to put it...haha I can't imagine doing something "sexy" to this album though. And I don't think I have ever seen a sexy acid dealer..lol 😎
@@TheTapesArchive Jackie was one of a kind for sure...yeah I was all upset about this other girl who I had a crush on plus Jackie had already slept with two of my friends and I didn't want to be involved in some kind of weird situation I was freaked out by the music too admittedly! This is back when acid was ACID too I was mega high. From what I hear Jackie is still hella foxy tho
The Heaviest Metal ( by 1980s standards) were definitely Mob Rules, and Born Again. Some people think Dehumanizer is the Heaviest. It's the swampiest but nothing is as Heavy as Sign of the Southern Cross, and Disturbing the Priest. There is more to being Heavy than down tuning the guitars
Cool album (production aside) the instrumentals are very dated to the era, but I feel this was Gillan's peak. Good interview.
thanks!
The Seventh Star really should have had Ian on vocals. It would have been great for his voice and there would be a continuity on two albums.
My god, man that would have been awesome!🍻
@@TheTapesArchive Oh yeah. : ) : )
We got a much better album with the Purple reunion!
Glenn Hughes - superb voice but totally wrong for sabbath.....Ian Gillan was BETTER for sabbath than Dio.....Ronnie Dio would have been better staying with rainbow....
@husq48
Perfect Strangers was a rainbow album with Gillan on vocals....the classic PURPLE sound had been watered down into an 80's rock sound....
This album is so unfairly maligned. I'd like to hear that 2nd Sabbath album with Ian Gillan.
ME TOO!! Or have a reissue and have Ian do some bonus tracks.
@@TheTapesArchive I'd heard the master tapes were lost making a new edition difficult, then were recently rediscovered. All this album ever needed was a good remastering. Though I do like the rawness of it, almost sounds like a demo tape.
They blew up Ian's boat!! Now that's hilarious.😂🤣😂🤣
glad he wasn't in it!
Ian about blew himself up flipping his ride 😂
this is an interesting document
thanks for posting
be safe, be happy, work hard
peace \m/
Born Again!!!!! 🦾⚡️⚡️
One of my favorite Sabbath albums.
@@TheTapesArchive Inthe top 4 for me🦾. There’s a pretty good Live in Reading bootleg on YT.
Playing the song at my funeral
@@bloodredcrown This one is pretty good. th-cam.com/video/IOU_6kbXb58/w-d-xo.html
I saw the born again tour in San Antonio…great live show for the time.. Ian g. Was dead-on that night. What a voice 🤘🏼
Thanks for the radness! This was eleventh grade!
Always wished they’d done another with Ian, really!
Born Again is a wonderful, thicc anomaly!🤘🔥💀
Man, me too...And really why couldn't they do a re-issue and team up with Ian again for some bonus tracks?
Tony Iommi is a great guitar and a great person!!!! And of course.... The Father of The Darkest and Loudest Riffs!!!!
Cheers from Argentina.....
Iommi's thought process around what Deep Purple song to cover is so broken. Do the most known song? NO. You do Highway Star. It's the one of the most metal songs they do and way more appreciated by DP fans than Smoke on the Water.
I think his main concern was which one could he play, i watched the encore where they do the Purple stuff at the Montreal gig (here on uTube), and he does not play it right, and the lead does not even start on the same note or have any phrasing or melodies from the original. I stopped it half way through it was such a mess.
I was disappointed but have learned since then that none of these guys can play other peoples stuff. That's not the kind of Guitar Players they are, they have been jamming and writing their whole lives, not sitting in a bed room learning Randy and Yngwie. Any covers they learned (Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Elvis) were not even close to what they ended up doing.
The only one from that era I have seen do a cover note for note is Alex Lifeson playing a Zeppelin Song for a charity event, he NAILED it. Look up Andy Kim and Alex Lifeson. you should be able to find it of you are interested.
And his Lerxst Amp creates a sound just like the song as well. That also surprised me.
Smoke on the Water, Sunshine of your Love, Whole Lotta Love and Iron Man everybody knows them !
Tony is such a well spoken, down to earth guy but damn his riffs just melt your face off!! The heavy metal master 🤘🤘🤘
Ozzy's management thought his career was Sabbath, but the bubble gum Sabbath, Iron Man, Paranoid ect, no Spiral Architect or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath... it's sad watching Ozzy concerts, it's was the exact same show/setlist for 30 years. Watch him in 1983 or 2013 and you get the same songs in almost the same order.
I was wondering if Tony ever said anything about Randy. Very little it seems.
ESTE DISCO ES MUY MUY BUENO. CON UNA MEJOR PORDUCCION HABRIA SIDO PERFECTO. LASTIMA QUE FUE SABOTEADO COMO TANTAS OTRAS COSAS BUENAS QUE HIZO SABBATH. GRAN BANDA
¡Acordado! Escuché en alguna parte que pueden remezclar el álbum. ¡Gracias por ser un suscriptor! 🤘🍻
of course Iommi mentions Dio was working on his solo album while he was in sabbath, that is false because Dio on started his solo album after he left sabbath, warner gave Dio a record contract with the success of heaven and hell but he was not going to use it while the band was active, Warner themselves even forgot they gave Dio a record contract. but Holy Diver and Don't talk to strangers were intended for Sabbath's next studio album with Dio. Dio having wrote these himself.
I thought that was off too. I'm guessing Warner Brother's PR team gave Tony some talking points on Dio. And as with most things, the truth prob lies somewhere in the middle. BTW I have an unreleased Dio interview from 1985 coming out next. He speaks on it as well.
@@TheTapesArchive with the Sabbath guys you kinda have to read in-between the lines at times, and I look forward to the Dio one!
Yeah that ain't true. WB did "offer" Dio a solo deal. But I'm not way was he "working on his solo album" during The Mob Rules Tour lol
@@TheTapesArchive can't wait to hear that!
@@Dehumanizer3000 So true! After Dio, we have Bruce Dickinson from 83. @earofnewt has so many good interviews.
I remember the day Born Again came out. i was in the 12th grade. I think it cane out in 83, because we saw them in early 84 at long beach arena from excellent riser seats about 10 rows back from the stage. On Iommi’s side
I was let diwn when they did not perform TRASHED, which was the first song on the album, if I recall. They had a Stonehenge stage set up that was cool, even if it was a little bit cheesy.
With Dio in 82 at the Forum, they were one of THE loudest bands i had seen (a record they hold to this day.. they were in the top 3 loudest bands I have seen).
With Ian Gillian they were not quite as loud and they seemed to have a grungier sound. Trashy, in a sense, which I figured to be their new sound with this lineup.
Apparently I liked that lineup better than the average Sabbath historian, as i noticed lots of criticism over the years since that tour.
Why they didnt perform “Trashed” is beyond me. It was a jammin’ tune and could have been a hit in many tours to come.
Or at least thats how I felt about it.
It definitely wasnt their best work, but it WAS interesting. The album, i mean.
I saw them with Dio again in 92
and finally again on August 11th, 2009 at The Greek, Row R , orchestra ( got those seats at noon the day of the show from the Greek box office by phone-yaaaaaay! Again, on Iommi’s side, right in front of him.
And again, they were louder than hell. They were quite good, too.
Dio died 5 months later. Was so glad we got to see them again before he died.
Not a bad album really, not anywhere close to to the original Ozzy Sabbath or Dio era, but way better than anything after Born Again the Born Again album.
Iommi seems in a really good place here showing lots of sympathy towards Bill Ward and praising Ozzys solo stuff
the songs on Born Again are great...not so much for the production..it's high end-y and tint-y .
What a blast from the past that was. Took me straight back to where I was at in my life. I bought the album as I had all Sabbath records. To hear him talk of the next record with Ian was interesting in as much as we know what happened to Ian in 1984. And he's still at it today . . .
I Love that lp
Too bad they didn't end up doing a second album with Ian. I would have totally preferred to hear that over the 'Perfect Strangers' album with DP.
That amp statement is very interesting! That's my preference too
Loved zero the hero
Born Again is a classic. Saw Black Sabbath with Ian and Bev during this tour. One of the greatest shows I have ever seen still and Tony was having superb night.
Thanks Alan love the interview
Hey Brother! Thanks for checking it out! I have Dio one coming week after next. 🤘
That guy smoke on the water every kid can play it!
Thank you! I saw Sabbath with Quiet Riot in Green Bay, WI! I was 18 years old back then, and was standing in front of Tony Iommi the whole time.
Quiet Riot opened for Sabbath on the Born Again tour? Wow, learn something new today. Thanks!
@The Tapes Archive Yes sir! You're welcome!
Yep … I had tickets & got grounded for a C in math. 😂
8th-grade … I was 13.
@@hailmaryrecordings8255 Lol!
@@hailmaryrecordings8255 I see you're old like me. Good times! 🤘
Tony found the Born Again master tapes and he's remixing and remastering the whole album.
Can't wait!!!! I may do a doc on that album. Love it!
My favorite sabbath album so heavy and evil sounding Gillian really goes for it too . Just bad mixing got the import much better
Not my fav Sabbath album but up there. Gillian kills it. Lets hope for a remixed version soon.
Is it true that there are no rock musicians that can place their right palm on the KJV and say these words once only-> I refuse to attend satanic ceremonies where they stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast.👹
???
Romans 10:13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord ✝️shall be saved.
PRAISE JESUS!✝️❤️
🤨
@@Void-ez2it post a video of yourself voicing these words once only in a calm coherent manner-> I refuse to be full of demons.
love born again
Def Leppard did not strike it rich in just a few years. They have paid their dues. They did not hit it big until the 3rd album
It must have been a total trip back in the early 80s to find out that the former vocalist of Deep Purple and former drummer of The Move/ELO were going to be on a Black Sabbath record!!!
They sound like Hell’s House band in this record.
They really do. Love that imagery.
What a lovely interview.
I cannot believe it’s 40 years old. The quality of sound and of questions. 🤌 Mwah perfection
If I was Tony I’d have hung up. This guy’s questions are remedial at best.
Are you talking to me? 😅 Seriously tho..come on man it was the 80’s no internet. You didn’t have the same access to info you have today.
@@TheTapesArchive okay. Fair enough hehe
This album deserves much more recognition, probably the original mix is bad but when you listen to it LIVE it's absolutely mind blowing.
I love this Album
I never knew Iommi used Mesa Boogies.
Tony likes Flashdance? Wait...what?
lol...I thought the same thing. This week we will be putting out a Dio interview. Wait until who he thinks is great singer. lol
@@TheTapesArchive Just listened to the Dio interview. A swirling vortex into another dimension opened upon hearing his great singer choices. This is a must-listen interview!
@@PriestUnleashed2012 glad you lliked it!
I know, right?
This interview made me cringe and I understand why musicians get agitated by them . The interviewer clearly hadn’t done his research properly, asking how the tour was going when they weren’t currently on tour , and asking nonsense like why are you playing Smoke on the Water ? Heaven forbid.
Born again rules
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Wow tony was only 36 on this interview? And thanks it was released on my birthday jan 11th... and also born again was the most incredible sabbath ever made
Iommi liking Flashdance is great. Wish he had given new wave a chance too.
Camped out overnight at ticket master. Was first in line and got 4th row center stage tix for this tour.
Great show.
I saw sabbath at the Long Beach arena w/ Ian Gillian 198?
I was blown away by the set of pipes on his lungs
I could go on and on about the greatest bands I saw at the same venue ( price less ) long live Heavy Metal!!!!
El albun mas pop de black sabbath y me encanta.
That album has some good stuff on like Zero the Hero 😊
Born Again album have a lot's of best tracks that should be played during there concerts. Too sad it never happened.
They played it live.
11:53 he said: 300 watt head.
good ears!
300 watt Meso Boogie Coliseums. Combine all that with his godly riffs, no wonder it feels like your chest is caving in when you hear it.
Down to earth interview, my ears used to ring for days after their concerts
Mine too..Started to wear earplugs at concert and found out it actually sounds better that way and no ear ringing the next day.
Their last great album
I liked this album quite a bit, especially the title track which I think is one of the best songs they have ever done. The production
ecording of the album turned me off and I was hoping one day it would get remixed. I also thought the album cover was pretty bad, but you cannot judge an album by the cover. I also think the Heaven and Hell cover was a bit silly but it is my favorite Sabbath album!
fantastic interview, what a find
Great Sabbath Album.
Keep it warm was the lamest
Love the Born again album since it came out, saw them live so awesome, every song great, Ian Gillian killed it , 1983,
We need a remastered and remixed version of it.
bring your earplugs. bam
I loved that too!
Exactly
Is the intro guy the same dude that does Mr. Nigjtmare?!?
Haha no..It's me..That dude sounds like a pro. I do it because I can't afford to hire a pro. 🤣🤘🍻
he brought his boat & it went. LOL
Not horrible, but certainly at the bottom of the Sabbath heap!
Thank You 🙏
You’re welcome 😊 Dio interview this week.
Doesn't sound like Tony at all. 🤷
Oh it's Tony. 🤘🤘
you have to understand phones use audio for speaking that is so compressed, ever heard music over the phone and why it sounds awful? it has no depth
@@Dehumanizer3000 Yep! This!..Plus the cassette tape is over 40 years old which can mess with the pitch. I tried to EQ the best I could.
???
pretty sure it's him.
Aftrr all that i'm watchin' a bloody cassette going round ! . . . Yeah right , do me a favour
Aftrr all that i'm watchin' a bloody cassette going round ! . . . Yeah right , do me a favour
Aftrr all that i'm watchin' a bloody cassette going round ! . . . Yeah right , do me a favour
What did you expect for free? Plus you could have just hit the chapter marker and skipped the intro.
What favour may I do for you?
@@AlanBerry Of course its free its youtube you do'nut ! . . .More like skip the fu##in' lot ! . .
@@TheTapesArchive If u don't know what the term means , then let me take a guess your american . Use your imagination , it starts with F and finishes with F . Understand now ! . . .
@@onionjohnny4998 I bet your breath smells like a$$ chips.
These are the years that Iommi was having his interviews done by a friend that have similat tone to his voice.
As he was often too coked up and never care less about fame and exposure as most musicians care so much and crave s much!
Nowadays how many legendary egomaniacs are interviewed by teens from their mom basement suites studio,,
Not saying this is not Iommi but between 1983-1987 more than often for the little interviews he did many was his friends speaking.
As there is no "live"interview,the artist always knows the questions ahead of the interviews.
I have never heard this, any info to substantiate what you are saying? Not saying you are wrong just never heard this.
BTW I sent this to Iommi's manager and he approved it, so this one is def him.
@@TheTapesArchive Hi,
Please understand I am not doubting your video here.
I just meant that during the era of 1983-1986-7ish this happened a lot.
You can read it in the Black Sabbath book from Mick Wall.
He is a goofy but he is respected and accepted by the business and the musicians in general.
He wrote Dio las book also if I'm right.
@@TheTapesArchive Just because Tony's manager approved it, doesn't mean it was definitely him. I noticed something was off with his voice right from the beginning.
@@marcrogers1051 I think it sounds strange to you because I used this AI software to sweeten the sound. It manipulates the frequency etc. I have to disagree with you on Tony's manager. He's a good dude and very protective of Tony. He probably sent it to him as well.
@@stevedamien638 All good brother...In some of my videos, I pointed out "facts" Mick Wall got wrong. (I get stuff wrong too.) I'm not shizzing on Wall either. With any history, it's tough to be 100% accurate 100% of the time. I appreciate you bringing this up. By no means am I saying you got anything wrong either. 🤘🍻
this is awesome, thanks man
Always happy to share some Sabbath!! 🤘
glad you liked it!
The band hasn't started the tour but they're half way through it. Drug f@#ked anyone?
To Tony, whenever another member of the band wants to contribute songs and new ideas it means they have a drug and alcohol problem. Dudes a legend but a hell of an egomaniac
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haha I know spam when I see it.