For me, it's the bell, thunder and rain at the beginning of black Sabbath. Not saying the siren isn't fkn awesome, but i get the chills for the Black Sabbath song.
Its the air raid siren , that's what makes it so harrowing and hair raising, the song is about evil politicians and dictators making War. Black Sabbath created some awesome music that they had nothing to reach from really, there was no one like them before, but the lyrics as well, written mainly from Geezer Butler, some very heavy thinking from young people back in the day, the incomparable percussion of Bill Ward, the incomparable bass playing of Geezer Butler and already mentioned Tony Iommi, and that unique vocals of Ozzy of course. The only thing the tempo is a little too quick in this live version, I think the song really speaks better when it's slowed down just a bit, could go a bit quicker than the studio version but in my opinion this live version is a little too jacked up, but what do I know look at the crowd haha so Electric
INTRO to SHOCKWAVE. Used once and thrown away. What?? Please can I have just one of those that are bouncing around in your head. The man seemingly pulls them directly from the metal ether and that's that. I WISH!!!!❤️❤️
For real man, he honestly has so many random 'throwaway' riffs in sabbath songs that could be used as the main riff in many other bands songs and be a hit!
That’s why bands like Pantera and Gojira are so good, they’ve really blended that groove element into their music, some real evolution of grooving heavy music!!
Agreed! Bill Ward really has got the jazzy and bluesy swing - and that adds an extra element to Sabbaths sound. No discredit to the other drummers Sabbath have had such as Vinnie Appice and Tommy Clufetos - great drummers but that little swing thing Bill has they dont.
To this day Geezer’s bass is the single loudest thing I have ever heard in my life. First time I saw them with Ozzy they opened with the trio of War Pigs, Into the Void, & Under the Sun… nothing comes close to how mindblowingly heavy that was
I agree the bass was thundering when I saw them at the 1999 reunion in LA I was right in front of Geezer in the front row,and it was the loudest show I had ever attended.,and my ears rang for three days after.
1997 Nissan Pavilion - The actual reunion show. The field crowd was ripping up the wet sod and tossing it into the pavilion seating. It was pandemonium. Amazing time.
i saw them at milton keynes england 98 supported by pantera, slayer, fear factory, foo fighters, soulfly, and ozzy doing a solo set immediately before sabbath. ozzy is a fucking legend
You should react to the performance to when they were very young and they slaughter it ! The video is called war pigs live in Paris 1970. Just in case you haven’t seen it I would love to see your reaction and definitely recommend it !
Really the whole Paris '70 show is fucking incredible, and worth an active listen. None of that background music nonsense, really watching and listening
What a band. They’ve meant so much to me over the years it’s crazy. Tony and Geezer are unequivocal geniuses, and Ozzy and Bill are no slouches either. But far more important is how the band is greater than the sum of their parts. They are storytellers with sound.
Man, you got it. I'm 62 years old and when I first heard this in the very early 1970's the same words where going through my head, this is epic, it's it! the start, middle and future of it all musically.
Epic indeed. It's difficult to nail Tony's sound on that Em riff. Takes a knack from playing it a hundred times. Tony is an epic riff creator. Huge fuc#ing tone and addictive riffs and memes. This song changed my life too. My neighborhood clan called ourselves the War Pigs and would jam this tune for hours in my parents garage. Keg party and all that. 1979/1980 thereabouts.
This is a great video. Your excitement matches mine, and you smile the entire time as you watch the video. You have that true appreciation for Sabbath that makes one feel like a kid, no matter their age. I still get chills when I hear live Sabbath, and I’ve been listening since 1970. As a grown man, I cried the first time I saw them live from the front row in 1975. No words can describe that sound, and I’ve never heard a recording that accurately recreates that devastating blast from the amps and sound system. Nobody can touch what they did 52 years on, nor will they in the future. Those four guys created something unique and lasting. Only God himself could lead them to develop those incredible sounds and songs with the power they managed to harness. Thank you for posting this sweet, inspiring video!
I saw them on Nova Rock 2014. A line-up so packed it puts a lot of festivals to shame. Seen a lot of great bands, and just on Sunday afternoon/evening i went directly from Off Spring to Soungarden to Black Sabbath. Lot of great music throughout the weekend, but boy did Black Sabbath show everyone how it's done. It almost seemed like everyone else were a local band :D Just a whole other level. I was in tears of pure joy and the power i recived. I doubt i will ever see a performance so epic again. Truly one of the gereatest bends tro ever do it!
Tone, Tone, Tone is everything. We can get it, it's a whole new ballgame if we can play it. Not so easy. Sabbath had an incredible rhythm maybe one of the best in the Heavy Rock, period. You can listen to other bands play the same song, it is missing something. That depth, feel, and thick sound.
That sound like ozzfest 2000 at Nissan I was there also I remember getting knocked out in the pit during pantera's set and woke up covered head to toe in mud
Man, I'm with you. I saw Black Sabbath in 1971 on their 'Paranoid' tour. I've never been the same since. In a good way. This is one of the greatest songs in rock history. And this is one of the best reaction videos I've seen.
50 years of success... what more is to sabbath to say... and not one really bad song in all this years... one in a lifetime band together with tool, new model army and nick cave...
Dude, I was second rough at that concert. And totally remember the entire scene play out. They were telling the crowd to leave because of the tornado warning and remember the entire place was completely wet and muddy. I've been playing guitar since I was 4 years old, and now 51. Black Sabbath is definitely one of my all time influencing bands for sure. I believe it was the first reunion concert since they broke up.. And also I to went to every Ozz Fests until they stopped in 2007.. Love the axx btw
I heard them live too and i totally agree. I never heard a guitar sound more intense then Tony Iommi´s. Theres something uniquely powerfull about his style. I describe it as a claw reaching out from the speakers directly gripping you by your intestines.
Black Sabbath was one of the only trios that I have ever heard that doesn't lose any power from the guitarist goes to play leads. So many other bands get instantly thinner in sound but that never happened with Black Sabbath. Tribute to Geezer, Bill and how Tony plays and that massive, brain crushing power he has.
@@jimmyb4728 one of...not only. Rush, Led Zeppelin, Cream and many more. But Sabbath was unique in how huge they sounded even when Tony went to play leads.
@@pjones8404 you can't compare or even mention Rush and Cream in the same sentence with ZEPPELIN n SABBATH the thing he was talking about how Bill Ward makes their sound work, that was started by Bonham without Bonham ZEPPELIN doesn't work that's why they broke up when he died.
@@jimmyb4728 actually I can. And did. Bill's playing style was perfect for Sabbath. Baker's was perfect for Cream. Bonham's for Zeppelin. But please, it didn't start with Bonham.
It's awesome to see folks that know the technical music part explain Black Sabbath. My favorite band, always will be. Junior's Eyes is my favorite jam to air drum along to!
completely agree with you about bill ward. his absence is the reason i didn't go to final tour show in my town. i fell in love with sabbath's music around age 10 or 11, An older kid in my neighborhood was a guitarist and had a band that played in his basement. wasn't allowed down there but I used to hang around his house and listen to them practice Black Sabbath songs like Electric Funeral, Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man. Since 76 up to Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz I loved all their music but then stopped listening to them for over 20 years then revisited their albums. I understand now why I liked and still like their music so much. there is something so special about the 4 of them together that's impossible to replicate. For that reason I refrained from attending the last tour because Bill Ward wasn't there, it's just not Black Sabbath without him.
I was at that show. The guy driving decided it was time to leave. I’ll never forget pulling out of the parking lot and hearing the beginning of War Pigs. To this day I never let him live this down.
you gotta check out Soft Machine’s “Hazard Profile Part 1” and “Land of the Bag Snake.” Allan Holdsworth - proof that shredding and blues melody aren’t mutually exclusive
"The Beacon the calling card" and the song was 30 years old when you saw them. I saw them 1978 front row Charleston Civic Center. Transformative. Timeless they are.
Love your reviews!! Black Sabbath did it for me back in the early 1970's after I went to their concert in November 1974 at the Horden pavilion here in Sydney Australia...and....the support band was someone we had never heard of before....AC/DC....they opened with some kid dressed for school with a red SG reaching up to his Marshall stack and started playing She's Got Balls!! Then came the Sabbath...they just blew the house down. I am 64 and still playing their songs!
New to this channel, but love how Mike gets sincerely amped up..sometimes even emotional (I see those eyes) lol..its how I feel too! Loved his Mike Love looper reaction video, too:)
Black Sabbath!!! When I put Paranoid on my turn table I played side one three times before flipping to side two......that same day I first played the Montrose (Rock the Nation, Bad motor scooter...) - the best day of discovering new music life!!!!
It’s great to see someone who teaches music hearing/seeing the music their talking about be nearly speechless during a performance. Black Sabbath isn’t just a band or music, it’s an experience to be witnessed and appreciated.
Anyone else marvel at the fact there are no smart phones waving around? Was the time when people went to really enjoy music and let their hair down (literally).
Great video. Your smiling as you explain and play the techniques that Sabbath use made me smile so thank you. Iommi's riffs are still epic, 50 years on. Geezer's bass lines just motor whilst shaking your insides and as for Bill Ward, we'll, the hammer of the God's. Did I forget Ozzie? Simply a true rock legend.
2000 OZZFEST HARTFORD CONNECTICUT I SAW THIS TOUR AS WELL AS MANY YOU MENTIONED..IM A NEW SUB AND A DRUMMER BUT ALSO NODDLE ON THE AXE AND WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A METAL HEADN . ROCK ON HOPE UR WEATHERING THE APOCALYPSE BROTHER 🤘
I was smiling and laughing the whole time because I was watching your reaction and how absolutely hard you're nerding out about this song. I feel that. I was 13 watching Rise Against play Audience of One at Red Rocks Amphitheater (best damn concert venue in the world, if you ask me) to the thunder and lightening crashing behind them over Denver: it's transformative.
Well if I wasn't already feeling nostalgic enough today as it is, this was 25 minutes of Black Sabbath reaction vid clearly worth every second of watching. It brought me back to my first time hearing their first album in the early 70's. I wanted to jump out of my skin trying to describe to everyone who'd never heard them how they MUST listen and how much their music affected me. This band still moves me and motivates my days in ways that I could go on an on, but I'll just stop here. I'll only say this.... with 100% certainty that I will till the day I die forever be a fan of the greatest band that ever lived! Thanks so much for your vid. I truly enjoyed it!!
Thank you so much for this video my brother this family has had such an impact on me even when I watch the video it brings me to tears in Goosebumps over my entire body. It's like when the siren comes on in your in the crowd this feeling that goes through your body is an absolute addiction and you get to leave this god-awful place for a short. Period in the journey it takes you on is just Indescribable in words I just appreciate the fact that somebody else has tried to illustrate that in a video just like the concert you have also given me goosebumps sir thank you
I saw Sabbath live in Duisburg, W Germany, in 1971. Amazing gig which went smoothly. At the end the crown suddenly went crazy and wrecked the place! In all an amazing memory.
We had to sneak to listen to the 1st album...it literally changed music and scared the shit out of us....Sabbath will never get the credit they deserve....fricking one of the top 5 rock bands ever...ever
I saw them in 1999 on the reunion tour. It was Deftones, Pantera, Sabbath. All the confederate flags were Pantera fans whom I'm sure opened up for them in this show.
Dude, obviously you’re an EXTREMELY talented Musician and a Great Teacher. Your reaction and respect and fandom for Black Sabbath, have made me a fan of you! I’m glad Rick was wrong and it stayed up, Thank you SO much for recognizing Bill Ward was an unbelievable drummer & was SO important to the Sabbath sound but yet he’s so underrated! If you don’t get what Michael said, then you just don’t get it, period! Awesome breakdown bro, awesome, I just subscribed to your channel 👍
Insane how you pick these things up by ear! Truely inspiring! Picked my guitar up 1.5 years ago and still enjoying every minute of it! Hope to be able to do such things aswell one day! Thanks a bunch!
I don't feel this old but my first love was the day my best friend's big sister put their Dad's headphones on me and placed the needle on Black Sabbath. The debut album from 1970. As others have said it was life changing. 1974 Black Sabbath is coming to the Hampton Coliseum, my hometown. Will I be able to get tickets and will my Mom let me go? My friends and I got tickets and all the Mom's got together and put the most senior friend, probably 17, in charge. The excitement waiting for the date was excruciating. The day arrived, we had prepared ourselves with the required recreational goods. What I remember most was the volume. The loudest show I have ever heard. My ears rang for two days and I couldn't sleep for one. Ozzy had on a white leather vest with full body length fringe that made him look like an angel when he lifted his arms up showing double peace signs. My personal disappointment was how little they played from the first album. Duh they were promoting the current album which I think was Black Sabbath 4. Absolutely amazing even after all these years. My collection includes a signed photo of Geezer Butler. I loved that bass guitar. Never to be repeated and that night was awesome.
Went to Ozzfest I think 2003 or 2005 the one with Iron Maiden. I can remember how great Sabbath sounded live. Ozzy throwing buckets of water on the crowd and scratching himself lol. It was Epic. Tony Iommi was legendary
Bill Ward is so underrated. I'm not a drummer fan but Bill Ward is on another level. When I went to see Sabbath in 1980 in England, Ozzy couldn't sing a note in tune. The rest of the band were brilliant, though they were blown off the stage by the support act, Van Halen
it's absurd how little respect and credit he gets, when every single OG member of Sabbath is essential. his fills have such a heavy groove to them and slot in perfectly. so epic.
Never enough respect for Bill Ward. Thank you for paying him his respect 🖤 I purposely did not see Sabbath in Toronto a few years back as it was missing Bill Ward. In hindsight, I probably should have😑
Bill Ward was the real life incarnation of "animal" from the Muppets. The only other drummer that compares in style is Dave Grohl. But Dave still has a ways to go.
Hey Michael, I was in the 10th grade when Black Sabbath One came out. I first listened to it ,on headphones, in a strobe light room filled with posters....having my first psychedelic experience. Love your content.
7:23 its why I have multiple guitars in different tunings. I am a massive Black Sabbath fan and Tony Iommi is definately one of my guitar idols so I have a couple of guitars tuned to C# standard which also doubles up as my drop b guitars for doing Slipknot.
I am a huge metalhead because i can memorize over 3000 metal songs (Not kidding) yet the only song that still gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to is WAR PIGS And over all the metal songs I've heard in my life I would definitely consider WAR PIGS to be Greatest Heavy Metal Genre defining song of all time and always will be. It is not just epic it is EPICNESS at it's finest....
Like many thousands of concert goers, like myself, just too bloody high to remember those things. Hell, we couldn't even remember where we parked our cars. Still the best days and times of my life.
I'm so happy you pointed out the value of his touch. He is known for his sound and riffs but in my humble opinion his lead style just as good. He has a certain way of playing leads and he phrase simple blues licks to sounds completely different than they usually sound.
you had a FULL BODY experience: all your senses were under 'attack' , esp as your body was getting hit by the weather, and then music has an EXTREMELY powerful effect on your body AND soul. (i never did BS live, but i hear yah)
Me too man.. I heard this when I was 14 and I threw out the beatles and all that stuff.. 😛 I saw Ozzy right after Randy died in Louisville. They had canceled the show because RR died.. I had tickets to see them with Randy.. Sadly I never got the chance to see RR the best guitar player to ever live IMHO.. Bill Ward is killer.. The bass is bad ass.. What a great song.. Just epic! Great stuff man..
Man, I have LOVED watching you do all the Dead stuff. I listen to that more than anything. But to find out you love the old Sabbath? Man, when they started expanding their sound... Sabotage, SBS, Rick Wakeman adding keys, it really got interesting then.
I agree 100% with your initial statement. You'd assume that one regrets tattoos you get when you're eighteen, but fifteen years later I'm still happy about having the cover of Paranoid on my chest.
saw the Technical Ecstasy tour: 1976 Crapitol Centre Landover Md tickets were 11 bux at the most. pretty sure it was general admission.i was 16 and saw them a bunch around this time
My guitar tutor once said "Toni Iommi has wrote every riff you're going to think of, and that's ok".
Great video. I got chills listening to this.
Haha, that’s great
He actually said all riffs were written. They just played them..
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And he probably has hundreds on tape that we’ll never hear.
Every time I write a riff three weeks later I’ll hear it on a sabbath song
When it comes to the start of a musical journey, the siren of War Pigs is about as good as it gets
Correct.
Grand Funk has a song that starts out the same way
One of the best rock songs ever written. And still so very relevant today.
For me, it's the bell, thunder and rain at the beginning of black Sabbath.
Not saying the siren isn't fkn awesome, but i get the chills for the Black Sabbath song.
Its the air raid siren , that's what makes it so harrowing and hair raising, the song is about evil politicians and dictators making War. Black Sabbath created some awesome music that they had nothing to reach from really, there was no one like them before, but the lyrics as well, written mainly from Geezer Butler, some very heavy thinking from young people back in the day, the incomparable percussion of Bill Ward, the incomparable bass playing of Geezer Butler and already mentioned Tony Iommi, and that unique vocals of Ozzy of course.
The only thing the tempo is a little too quick in this live version, I think the song really speaks better when it's slowed down just a bit, could go a bit quicker than the studio version but in my opinion this live version is a little too jacked up, but what do I know look at the crowd haha so Electric
I love how much this guy loves Black Sabbath
"Every little thing he plays is a riff" best description of Tony Iommi
Correct
Iommi will put more solid riffs in one song than some bands do in their entire careers
INTRO to SHOCKWAVE. Used once and thrown away. What?? Please can I have just one of those that are bouncing around in your head. The man seemingly pulls them directly from the metal ether and that's that. I WISH!!!!❤️❤️
He makes it look easy !
For real man, he honestly has so many random 'throwaway' riffs in sabbath songs that could be used as the main riff in many other bands songs and be a hit!
Even a 50 string guitar cannot match the heaviness of Tony Iommi's SG
All the kings horses and all the kings men cannot either.
With banjo strings haha
Men i got chillz just listening the story without hearing the actual show. Your love for music is inspiring
I know right 😂 I wish I was older and could have gone to these shows.
I got goosebumps when he said ozzy screamed and the sirens went off
Geezer butler was a monster on bass and those pounding drums from ward and iommi and his rediculus guitar and ozzy's chilling voice.
But imagine being told theres a Tornado WARNING....then to hear the War Pigs SIREN? Spooky AF!
Tornado warning sounds: "oh, shit, a tornado!"
Sabbath air raid siren sounds: "what tornado?"
🙌🔥🔥🔥🤘😲🤘⛈🌪🌪🌩
Who knew Bradley Cooper was so good at teaching music. Fantastic.
Nah bro, i’m pretty sure that’s paul rudd
Omfg I have a client I call Bradley
Thought the same!
Lady Gaga gave lots of personal tutoring after-hours
Yeah I loved him in that swallow a pill, get smart, movie.
Is it just me or does he seem to like Sabbath a little bit? 🤔
I completely understand!!
I'm sure he touched himself after....lol
I saw OG Sabbath at OzzFest in 2003. Probably the same tour. I ate like ten hits of acid.
@@harrysachs2274 yeah, you're gonna have that on your bigger jobs
Sabbath swings. Bill Ward had jazz roots. Heavy music with a groove. Can’t be beat.
That’s why bands like Pantera and Gojira are so good, they’ve really blended that groove element into their music, some real evolution of grooving heavy music!!
Poor bill ward. Dude is out to lunch nowadays. Iommi was the one to escape unscathed.
Agreed! Bill Ward really has got the jazzy and bluesy swing - and that adds an extra element to Sabbaths sound.
No discredit to the other drummers Sabbath have had such as Vinnie Appice and Tommy Clufetos - great drummers but that little swing thing Bill has they dont.
Before this music came out - the only work for drummers was Jazz gigs! Same for John Bonham who was also a Monster on the drums!
You're absolutely right sir!
To this day Geezer’s bass is the single loudest thing I have ever heard in my life.
First time I saw them with Ozzy they opened with the trio of War Pigs, Into the Void, & Under the Sun… nothing comes close to how mindblowingly heavy that was
I agree the bass was thundering when I saw them at the 1999 reunion in LA I was right in front of Geezer in the front row,and it was the loudest show I had ever attended.,and my ears rang for three days after.
It has to be loud to be heard over Iommi’s 8 x Laney TI100 amps he has as his live rig.
Just massive sound, all around. The original Doom/Stoner band.
1997 Nissan Pavilion - The actual reunion show. The field crowd was ripping up the wet sod and tossing it into the pavilion seating. It was pandemonium. Amazing time.
Yes!
I was there....had to pick sod out of my underwear lol...was pelted repeatedly.Good times
i saw them at milton keynes england 98 supported by pantera, slayer, fear factory, foo fighters, soulfly, and ozzy doing a solo set immediately before sabbath. ozzy is a fucking legend
Dude I remember that covering my beer with my hand as I walked
Crazy I had same experience at ozzfest in detroit in 98 or 99 I believe
You should react to the performance to when they were very young and they slaughter it ! The video is called war pigs live in Paris 1970. Just in case you haven’t seen it I would love to see your reaction and definitely recommend it !
Mora agreed! It’s badass
Yup, was going to suggest the same thing. And look at the size of Bill's drum kit back then.....awesome.
Word! Mindblowing Performance, esp. Bill Ward nailed it!
Really the whole Paris '70 show is fucking incredible, and worth an active listen. None of that background music nonsense, really watching and listening
The entire Paris concert is great
What a band. They’ve meant so much to me over the years it’s crazy. Tony and Geezer are unequivocal geniuses, and Ozzy and Bill are no slouches either. But far more important is how the band is greater than the sum of their parts. They are storytellers with sound.
4 guys from the arse end of Birmingham, maybe there is a higher God , that's how brilliant they are .
Tony Iommi is the Vito Corleone of Heavy Metal - period!
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Man, you got it. I'm 62 years old and when I first heard this in the very early 1970's the same words where going through my head, this is epic, it's it! the start, middle and future of it all musically.
He has such a good touch and he’s missing the tips on his two middle fingers! Absolutely phenomenal. There will never be another Toni Iommi.
Yep, just shows it takes a lot to stop someone with talent and determination
Epic indeed. It's difficult to nail Tony's sound on that Em riff. Takes a knack from playing it a hundred times. Tony is an epic riff creator. Huge fuc#ing tone and addictive riffs and memes. This song changed my life too. My neighborhood clan called ourselves the War Pigs and would jam this tune for hours in my parents garage. Keg party and all that. 1979/1980 thereabouts.
Geezer + Bill : the absolute reference rythmic section. Cannot get any better.
This is a great video. Your excitement matches mine, and you smile the entire time as you watch the video. You have that true appreciation for Sabbath that makes one feel like a kid, no matter their age. I still get chills when I hear live Sabbath, and I’ve been listening since 1970. As a grown man, I cried the first time I saw them live from the front row in 1975. No words can describe that sound, and I’ve never heard a recording that accurately recreates that devastating blast from the amps and sound system. Nobody can touch what they did 52 years on, nor will they in the future. Those four guys created something unique and lasting. Only God himself could lead them to develop those incredible sounds and songs with the power they managed to harness.
Thank you for posting this sweet, inspiring video!
i love that its Bill Ward playing Drums. i feel it bro i feel it!!!!!
I saw them on Nova Rock 2014. A line-up so packed it puts a lot of festivals to shame. Seen a lot of great bands, and just on Sunday afternoon/evening i went directly from Off Spring to Soungarden to Black Sabbath. Lot of great music throughout the weekend, but boy did Black Sabbath show everyone how it's done. It almost seemed like everyone else were a local band :D Just a whole other level. I was in tears of pure joy and the power i recived. I doubt i will ever see a performance so epic again. Truly one of the gereatest bends tro ever do it!
His guitar face is always like he's questioning his life choices
Tone, Tone, Tone is everything. We can get it, it's a whole new ballgame if we can play it. Not so easy. Sabbath had an incredible rhythm maybe one of the best in the Heavy Rock, period. You can listen to other bands play the same song, it is missing something. That depth, feel, and thick sound.
Bill Ward is in my top 5 all time. Bill in his prime was like a freight train, unstoppable. Even here just powerhouse!
That sound like ozzfest 2000 at Nissan I was there also I remember getting knocked out in the pit during pantera's set and woke up covered head to toe in mud
Lmao! That sounds amazing.
Man, I'm with you. I saw Black Sabbath in 1971 on their 'Paranoid' tour. I've never been the same since. In a good way. This is one of the greatest songs in rock history. And this is one of the best reaction videos I've seen.
50 years of success... what more is to sabbath to say... and not one really bad song in all this years... one in a lifetime band together with tool, new model army and nick cave...
Thank you!!!
Seen them in 72 bro like going to church they were part of the holy trinity back then Sabbath Zeppelin and Purple!!
When I was in the military, I would occasionally blast War Pigs at full volume while driving past the General’s HQ. Fun times.
Dude, I was second rough at that concert. And totally remember the entire scene play out. They were telling the crowd to leave because of the tornado warning and remember the entire place was completely wet and muddy. I've been playing guitar since I was 4 years old, and now 51. Black Sabbath is definitely one of my all time influencing bands for sure. I believe it was the first reunion concert since they broke up.. And also I to went to every Ozz Fests until they stopped in 2007.. Love the axx btw
I heard them live too and i totally agree. I never heard a guitar sound more intense then Tony Iommi´s. Theres something uniquely powerfull about his style. I describe it as a claw reaching out from the speakers directly gripping you by your intestines.
Dude, I love your enthusiasm for Sabbath. I love me some Sabbath too. Each time I saw them live, it was like a religious experience. Just tremendous!
Geezer’s bass tone is so awesome!
Always amazed how calm Tony plays, and then you see Geezer totally rockin out.
Shows that there's no wrong way to go about music.
Its amazing how it seems that Ozzy just got 40 years younger when hes on the stage.
Black Sabbath was one of the only trios that I have ever heard that doesn't lose any power from the guitarist goes to play leads. So many other bands get instantly thinner in sound but that never happened with Black Sabbath. Tribute to Geezer, Bill and how Tony plays and that massive, brain crushing power he has.
Correct
Don't get me wrong I absolutely love Sabbath but ever hear of a little unknown band by the name of LED ZEPPELIN.
@@jimmyb4728 one of...not only. Rush, Led Zeppelin, Cream and many more. But Sabbath was unique in how huge they sounded even when Tony went to play leads.
@@pjones8404 you can't compare or even mention Rush and Cream in the same sentence with ZEPPELIN n SABBATH the thing he was talking about how Bill Ward makes their sound work, that was started by Bonham without Bonham ZEPPELIN doesn't work that's why they broke up when he died.
@@jimmyb4728 actually I can. And did. Bill's playing style was perfect for Sabbath. Baker's was perfect for Cream. Bonham's for Zeppelin. But please, it didn't start with Bonham.
It's awesome to see folks that know the technical music part explain Black Sabbath. My favorite band, always will be. Junior's Eyes is my favorite jam to air drum along to!
completely agree with you about bill ward. his absence is the reason i didn't go to final tour show in my town. i fell in love with sabbath's music around age 10 or 11, An older kid in my neighborhood was a guitarist and had a band that played in his basement. wasn't allowed down there but I used to hang around his house and listen to them practice Black Sabbath songs like Electric Funeral, Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man. Since 76 up to Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz I loved all their music but then stopped listening to them for over 20 years then revisited their albums. I understand now why I liked and still like their music so much. there is something so special about the 4 of them together that's impossible to replicate. For that reason I refrained from attending the last tour because Bill Ward wasn't there, it's just not Black Sabbath without him.
I was at that show. The guy driving decided it was time to leave. I’ll never forget pulling out of the parking lot and hearing the beginning of War Pigs. To this day I never let him live this down.
See. You know.
@op I'm surprised you still speak to the guy.
The more I watch the video I feel like its me talking lol. This is so unreal lol
you gotta check out Soft Machine’s “Hazard Profile Part 1” and “Land of the Bag Snake.” Allan Holdsworth - proof that shredding and blues melody aren’t mutually exclusive
One of my favourite tunes. Hazard profile part 1
What about Brand X: Malaga Virgin. Brilliant
Dude, you get it
That song is insane! Whenever it comes on, I grab my guitar and die in frustration!
"The Beacon the calling card" and the song was 30 years old when you saw them. I saw them 1978 front row Charleston Civic Center. Transformative. Timeless they are.
Love your reviews!! Black Sabbath did it for me back in the early 1970's after I went to their concert in November 1974 at the Horden pavilion here in Sydney Australia...and....the support band was someone we had never heard of before....AC/DC....they opened with some kid dressed for school with a red SG reaching up to his Marshall stack and started playing She's Got Balls!! Then came the Sabbath...they just blew the house down. I am 64 and still playing their songs!
New to this channel, but love how Mike gets sincerely amped up..sometimes even emotional (I see those eyes) lol..its how I feel too! Loved his Mike Love looper reaction video, too:)
War Pigs is to Black Sabbath as Locomotive Breath is to Jethro Tull. Both masterpieces.
Black Sabbath!!! When I put Paranoid on my turn table I played side one three times before flipping to side two......that same day I first played the Montrose (Rock the Nation, Bad motor scooter...) - the best day of discovering new music life!!!!
Same lol, side one of the album literally changed my life
It’s great to see someone who teaches music hearing/seeing the music their talking about be nearly speechless during a performance.
Black Sabbath isn’t just a band or music, it’s an experience to be witnessed and appreciated.
Sabbath is the best. Period. You should react to "Sign of the Southern Cross live at Radio City Music Hall" !!! Excellence from everybody
Nobody mentioned his smile throughout the entire song? 😀😃😄😁😆
Caught him laughing at Ozzy mooning the crowd at one point too.
Anyone else marvel at the fact there are no smart phones waving around? Was the time when people went to really enjoy music and let their hair down (literally).
Great video.
Your smiling as you explain and play the techniques that Sabbath use made me smile so thank you. Iommi's riffs are still epic, 50 years on. Geezer's bass lines just motor whilst shaking your insides and as for Bill Ward, we'll, the hammer of the God's. Did I forget Ozzie? Simply a true rock legend.
2000 OZZFEST HARTFORD CONNECTICUT I SAW THIS TOUR AS WELL AS MANY YOU MENTIONED..IM A NEW SUB AND A DRUMMER BUT ALSO NODDLE ON THE AXE AND WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A METAL HEADN . ROCK ON HOPE UR WEATHERING THE APOCALYPSE BROTHER 🤘
Half the fun of watching your videos is watching your face when things get smokin’
Love your channel!
It was 1974 for me when I first heard sabbath, they immediately became my favorite band and still are.
I learned how to play guitar with 3 bands, and THIS is one of them
It's not that you don't have the touch for it, it's that you can't play Sabbath on a PRS... these are just facts of life ;)
Jup.. Sg or nothing haha
Lol you're right. They seem to me to be too surgical for playing Sabbath...
I was smiling and laughing the whole time because I was watching your reaction and how absolutely hard you're nerding out about this song. I feel that. I was 13 watching Rise Against play Audience of One at Red Rocks Amphitheater (best damn concert venue in the world, if you ask me) to the thunder and lightening crashing behind them over Denver: it's transformative.
Well if I wasn't already feeling nostalgic enough today as it is, this was 25 minutes of Black Sabbath reaction vid clearly worth every second of watching. It brought me back to my first time hearing their first album in the early 70's. I wanted to jump out of my skin trying to describe to everyone who'd never heard them how they MUST listen and how much their music affected me. This band still moves me and motivates my days in ways that I could go on an on, but I'll just stop here. I'll only say this.... with 100% certainty that I will till the day I die forever be a fan of the greatest band that ever lived! Thanks so much for your vid. I truly enjoyed it!!
Thank you so much for this video my brother this family has had such an impact on me even when I watch the video it brings me to tears in Goosebumps over my entire body. It's like when the siren comes on in your in the crowd this feeling that goes through your body is an absolute addiction and you get to leave this god-awful place for a short. Period in the journey it takes you on is just Indescribable in words I just appreciate the fact that somebody else has tried to illustrate that in a video just like the concert you have also given me goosebumps sir thank you
Ozzy is gonna out live us all
DO MORE PHISH.
"Goosed up" I like that, Sounds like something my dad would say.
That song definitely blew everyone away when it came out... Still does today! Epic
I saw Sabbath live in Duisburg, W Germany, in 1971. Amazing gig which went smoothly. At the end the crown suddenly went crazy and wrecked the place! In all an amazing memory.
This my dude is 2005 donnington Park England, I was right at the front for this entire show and it was epic.
Glad you mention geezer butler, one of the best bassists for me.
We had to sneak to listen to the 1st album...it literally changed music and scared the shit out of us....Sabbath will never get the credit they deserve....fricking one of the top 5 rock bands ever...ever
Huge fan of black sabbath from South Africa. 21 yrs old. Wish I could see them live 💔 that fkn siren!
I saw them in 1999 on the reunion tour. It was Deftones, Pantera, Sabbath. All the confederate flags were Pantera fans whom I'm sure opened up for them in this show.
Dude, obviously you’re an EXTREMELY talented Musician and a Great Teacher. Your reaction and respect and fandom for Black Sabbath, have made me a fan of you! I’m glad Rick was wrong and it stayed up, Thank you SO much for recognizing Bill Ward was an unbelievable drummer & was SO important to the Sabbath sound but yet he’s so underrated! If you don’t get what Michael said, then you just don’t get it, period! Awesome breakdown bro, awesome, I just subscribed to your channel 👍
I had that same experience at a Sabbath show in 1999. It was the reunion tour.
Insane how you pick these things up by ear! Truely inspiring! Picked my guitar up 1.5 years ago and still enjoying every minute of it! Hope to be able to do such things aswell one day!
Thanks a bunch!
LOVE IT with you totally getting it!!!!!!! Black Sabbath is like thunder LIVE..........carry on my friend
I don't feel this old but my first love was the day my best friend's big sister put their Dad's headphones on me and placed the needle on Black Sabbath. The debut album from 1970. As others have said it was life changing. 1974 Black Sabbath is coming to the Hampton Coliseum, my hometown. Will I be able to get tickets and will my Mom let me go? My friends and I got tickets and all the Mom's got together and put the most senior friend, probably 17, in charge. The excitement waiting for the date was excruciating. The day arrived, we had prepared ourselves with the required recreational goods. What I remember most was the volume. The loudest show I have ever heard. My ears rang for two days and I couldn't sleep for one. Ozzy had on a white leather vest with full body length fringe that made him look like an angel when he lifted his arms up showing double peace signs. My personal disappointment was how little they played from the first album. Duh they were promoting the current album which I think was Black Sabbath 4. Absolutely amazing even after all these years. My collection includes a signed photo of Geezer Butler. I loved that bass guitar. Never to be repeated and that night was awesome.
Went to Ozzfest I think 2003 or 2005 the one with Iron Maiden. I can remember how great Sabbath sounded live. Ozzy throwing buckets of water on the crowd and scratching himself lol. It was Epic. Tony Iommi was legendary
Bill Ward is so underrated. I'm not a drummer fan but Bill Ward is on another level. When I went to see Sabbath in 1980 in England, Ozzy couldn't sing a note in tune. The rest of the band were brilliant, though they were blown off the stage by the support act, Van Halen
it's absurd how little respect and credit he gets, when every single OG member of Sabbath is essential.
his fills have such a heavy groove to them and slot in perfectly. so epic.
I saw Ozzy in 1986 and it was the worst concert I think I ever went to. Ozzy was so wasted he couldn’t remember the words to half the songs.
Dude....this video.made me love this guy a million times over lol. Fuck yes !!!
Never enough respect for Bill Ward. Thank you for paying him his respect 🖤
I purposely did not see Sabbath in Toronto a few years back as it was missing Bill Ward. In hindsight, I probably should have😑
Bill Ward was the real life incarnation of "animal" from the Muppets. The only other drummer that compares in style is Dave Grohl. But Dave still has a ways to go.
Dave couldn't hold Bill's sticks...
I had the same thought. BILL Ward , and to me, Keith Moon always seemed like the inspirations for Animal.
Geezers bass is criminally underrated. Vastly. Monster of bass
Hey Michael, I was in the 10th grade when Black Sabbath One came out. I first listened to it ,on headphones, in a strobe light room filled with posters....having my first psychedelic experience. Love your content.
Great story Mike!Black Sabbath changed my life too!They are my favorite band!
7:23 its why I have multiple guitars in different tunings. I am a massive Black Sabbath fan and Tony Iommi is definately one of my guitar idols so I have a couple of guitars tuned to C# standard which also doubles up as my drop b guitars for doing Slipknot.
Not only is this one of Black Sabbaths greatest songs, it's one of the greatest songs in rock n roll history...
I am a huge metalhead because i can memorize over 3000 metal songs (Not kidding) yet the only song that still gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to is WAR PIGS And over all the metal songs I've heard in my life I would definitely consider WAR PIGS to be Greatest Heavy Metal Genre defining song of all time and always will be.
It is not just epic it is EPICNESS at it's finest....
Unsure of the concert date? Pro tip: save your ticket stubs.
take a picture of it and let it get sucked into the cloud!
Like many thousands of concert goers, like myself, just too bloody high to remember those things. Hell, we couldn't even remember where we parked our cars. Still the best days and times of my life.
I'm so happy you pointed out the value of his touch. He is known for his sound and riffs but in my humble opinion his lead style just as good. He has a certain way of playing leads and he phrase simple blues licks to sounds completely different than they usually sound.
Jeez, Ozzy has the most impressive monitor setup I've ever seen!
you had a FULL BODY experience: all your senses were under 'attack' , esp as your body was getting hit by the weather, and then music has an EXTREMELY powerful effect on your body AND soul. (i never did BS live, but i hear yah)
You've given me a whole new appreciation for the song🎸
Me too man.. I heard this when I was 14 and I threw out the beatles and all that stuff.. 😛
I saw Ozzy right after Randy died in Louisville. They had canceled the show because RR died.. I had tickets to see them with Randy.. Sadly I never got the chance to see RR the best guitar player to ever live IMHO.. Bill Ward is killer.. The bass is bad ass.. What a great song.. Just epic!
Great stuff man..
Randy Rhoads was it for me. That tone on Flying High Again just became ingrained in my mind. That solo is just a thing of beauty.
Thats not Sabbath
Great vid for a Saturday morning! Anytime really but this was smooth.
Man, I have LOVED watching you do all the Dead stuff. I listen to that more than anything. But to find out you love the old Sabbath? Man, when they started expanding their sound... Sabotage, SBS, Rick Wakeman adding keys, it really got interesting then.
YES!
I agree 100% with your initial statement. You'd assume that one regrets tattoos you get when you're eighteen, but fifteen years later I'm still happy about having the cover of Paranoid on my chest.
saw the Technical Ecstasy tour: 1976 Crapitol Centre Landover Md tickets were 11 bux at the most. pretty sure it was general admission.i was 16 and saw them a bunch around this time
Black sabbath change the music I listen to I became an instant metal head from there on out Randy Rhoades is the reason I play guitar today.
PLEAS3 DO RAILROAD EARTH
Railroad Earth is the real good stuff. 30 seconds of metal is just bs too much bull shit. More Bluegrass influence