Geezer isn't underrated, he just doesn't hug the limelight as much as Ozzy and Tony 'God' Iommi. All Sabbath fans know he was the main song writer as well as a fantastic bassist, just a quiet rock god..... Long live Geezer, Tony, Bill.....keep fighting Ozzy
Ghoul nah, Page is universally more well known as a all-around well-rounded guitarist than Iommi. People have it in their heads that some badass riff makes a guitarists great. I can make up up cool riff right now on the spot that has never been heard, it doesn't make me one of the all-time greats. Page did a lot more than writing riffs, he could write songs using all kinds of different tunings. I just has a different style then Tony Iommi, does it make either one better than the other just different, but it's that way with all musicians really
My 2 cents...When it came to sound Page is a painter, Iommi is a Black Smith. Two different approaches that serve two different purposes. Personally, I never pit Sabbath against Zepplin because, in my mind, they, along with Deep Purple, were pieces of the same puzzle that came together to pave the way for the modern Hard Rock and Metal that came after them.
25 years or so ago I was in my local store in North London and standing there thinking the guy behind me in the queue for the till really looks like Tony Iommi. I thought I had spotted him a few years earlier in the same store but was mercilessly ridiculed by my friends. Anyhow determined to find out the truth this time I waited for him outside the store and as he emerged asked “ excuse me but are you Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath?” He replied “ yes I am mate” I was dumbfounded and obviously not worthy. I expressed my worship of his music he thanked me graciously and we parted. Before the days of phone cameras so I’ve no proof and I’m still not sure my mates believe me. You may not too but it happened and it remains my greatest living legend encounter 🎸
I walked across the street from where I was working on a Saturday morning to Office Depot. As I was walking across the parking lot a black Mercedes G Class Cut across the parking lot and I caught black hair in my peripheral vision. As I was walking up to the store, I hear someone say "it's a G Class." I turned around and it's Ronnie James Dio. I said is your name Ronnie? "Yea" and he proceeds to talk to me. We end up in a half hour conversation. He was wearing a shirt that I also had from a Brasilian soccer club that my father was a member of. He gave me Niji managements number and invited me to lunch. R.I.P. Ronnie. Super nice as you would expect. We had a mutual friend. I can't believe we lost him 13 years ago already.
It wasn't just the countless riffs that Tony used to bang-out it was that dark, evil sound that he produced. The Master of Reality album was just filled with them. As a young teen there wasn't one song you didn't like. Forty years later I can hear three notes of any of those riffs and immediately name the song. I know I am not alone.
@@crunchytheclown9694 "Dirty Women" off Technical Ecstacy is a great song and I saw them play it live at the Ozzfest (with Iron Maiden). Sabbath let that song go over 10 minutes with Tony doing an extended guitar solo. "Gypsy" is another honorable mention as well as "You won't Change Me" - Dare you omit the song Bill Ward sings on it, "It's Alright." - I still tell people that Bill Ward sang a Sabbath tune and they disbelieve me until I play it. There's a TH-cam video circulating where Bill sings it live.
I was 11 when this came out. My buddies and I would wait until a stormy night (which was not unusual in Florida), get together in someone's room, turn out all the lights and put this song on. Scared the shit out of us all - great times!
@@jasonteqja7262 ACDC played a heavy Blues-influenced Hard Rock, while Black Sabbath played a style of music no one had heard before, so you can't really compare one to the other. Then again, I've heard some people classify Sabbath as Classic Rock, while others have called them Blues, go figure.
The sound that the original Black Sabbath no one had, not deep purple, not led zeppelin, hendrix, I mean no one people I grew up as a kid in the 60s and was a teenager from 1970 until 1977 and listening to Sabbath back then, I had never heard anything like that ever, Heavy Metal indeed.
We were blessed to have bands who were allowed to sound different. When virtually from the first note you could identify one of these bands points to the wonderful uniqueness they brought to the world
i just love the way he cuts his finger tips off at work . goes home and makes himself some metal tips so he can still play his guitar . the man is way beyond rock hard . a true hero . no complaint . just solves the problem . what a man !
I love how the stroke of a chord can immediately transport you to the instant it became part of you. There’s a form of time travel quantum physicist can chew on for while. It’s magical and wonderful.
@@Cthulhu_Awaken Hey. Thanks for getting back to me. I initially thought that you were pointing out Mustaine's tendency to promote himself as the big pioneer of all things Metal. Discussion should be fun and respectful, so I thank you for that too. I can't recall having seen the particular clip you mention, and wouldn't mind seeing it. As a teenager I was big into the idea of Dave being the 'anti-Metallica'; the 'against the grain' dude. I later got frustrated as it increasingly dawned on me that he trod a very similar path to Metallica, and would often accuse them of something, only to do it himself. And that was the other thing, his continuing obsession with perpetuating a rivalry with old friends. There are so many bands out there to consider, and so much room for individuality, that I started to feel sorry for Mustaine always feeling that he HAD to prove himself. He is still one hell of a great player and songwriter in his own right, and I enjoy me some Megadeth. Apologies for the long-winded reply. I'll gladly check out the Holy Wars vid to gain some more context.
@@roelofzinn8227 i know i'm 7 months late into this, but if you haven't seen it, here's the video: th-cam.com/video/l8eV1zLDj0Q/w-d-xo.html it's on the 4:40 mark
dude i dunno how Tony ever played with those fake fingertips. there's absolutely no feeling in those so it makes his guitar playing even more extraordinary
It never occurred to Iommi that he could play normally if he learned how to play right handed, since he wouldn't need those injured fingers to hold a pick. In his own words: "If I knew what I know now I probably would have switched. At the time I had already been playing two or three years, and it seemed like I had been playing a long time. I thought I’d never be able to change the way I played. The reality of the situation was that I hadn’t been playing very long at all, and I probably could have spent the same amount of time learning to play right handed. I did have a go at it, but I just didn’t have the patience. It seemed impossible to me. I decided to make do with what I had, and I made some plastic fingertips for myself. I just persevered with it. (...) It became a burden. Some people say it helped me invent the kind of music I play, but I don’t know whether it did. It’s just something I’ve had to learn to live with. It affects your playing style; you can’t feel the strings, and there are certain chords I can’t play. Right at the beginning I was told by doctors: “You won’t be playing guitar.” But I believed I could do it, and I did."
Its that third note, the tritone, that grips your body twists it, sending chills and shivers down your spine. The tritone(devils note) is exactly half way between the octaves. Why that should sound evil, when played with the octaves, I dont know, but it does and its magnificant in this song.
It gives a whole new perspective to the musical tastes out there. Since The Planets is one of my all time favourite collections and Black Sabbath was a fresh departure from classic rock of the era, this was good information to learn.
The track is still utterly amazing. It had NO precedent that came before it. To this day upon hearing it you are instantly transported to another realm and atmosphere that other music still doesn't have, not even Sabbath's other wide variety of songs.
Back in 1970 I wanted to be a drummer. But then I listened to the Album "Black Sabbath" and I got aware of the bass. And suddenly a message from Geezer appeared on the turning black vinyl: "Go boy, learn to play bass 'cause to sound like me will be your only goal for the rest of your life!". Geezer is still my idol (among e. g. J. P. Jones, J. Bruce). BTW I've been to Birmingham, love the accent! 0:00 and 0:10 Ampegs in the background.
@@hmpz36911 And King Crimson in his first years played a ive version of Mars of Hoslt, than it becomes The Devil Triangle of The Wake of Poseidon record, that also has the famous 5/4 rhythm figure from Mars
Gustav Holst-English composer (1874-1934) "The Planets" Sub -piece "Mars". Preeeetty much got his sound jacked by Geezer Butler, 51 years later. All hail Holst, the creator of Heavy Metal! Told you they were all vampires.
That song probably scared the shit out of people back early in 1970. It's such a simple song to play, but it's brilliant. Like Tony, I also get chills every time I hear it or most of the early Sabbath. ALL HAIL THE SABBATH. GODS OF METAL.
It DID scare the shit out of me back in the day! I had never heard anything like it! I was like "Holy shit! This guy is dying!" And a metal head was born. Now, I'm a sixty two year old metal head. Rock on mother fuckers!
An even scarier fact is that the lyrics are a true story of what happened to geezer. He saw an apparition of a figure in black staring at him near his bed
Today, it seems like it HAS to have a million different notes and tuned down to drop Z tuning to be Metal anymore. People should remember their roots. K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid). You'll not only sound more Metal, but you'll sound different from all the other bands who are trying to BE Metal, and you'll end up BEING Metal, without trying.
Black Sabbath are the founding fathers of metal, the Beatles showed up in 65 singing "she loves me" Sabbath was here in 66 with WarPigs , Paranoid, they were so far ahead of their time, if they were a brand new act today releasing the same music they would still be huge. Sabbath rules.........
For sure..especially when you consider he has no feeling in those 'tips'. I know that if I was to inject some lidocaine into the tips of my fingers, I would have a very hard time playing.
@monokhem I've played guitar for over 10 years, having calluses is not tantamount to losing your nerve endings due to amputation. You still get some stimulus
@monokhem bold of you to assume things about a stranger over the Internet. Not sure why you seem so worked up about this but I'd rather trust my own experience and that of far more experienced musician friends on this
When you’re trying to figure out how to play the theme from the first movement of a 1914 orchestral suite but accidentally end up creating the greatest music genre ever
My first bass player enjoyed bending his strings ala Butler. He also put on the fuzz and talked us into letting him play the opening riff of Into The Void. Did I tell you he was BIG?
I know exactly what you mean. I went to a Black Sabbath concert in Athens about 10 years ago (all 4 original band members where there) and when they played Black Sabbath it was E L E C T R I F Y I N G. Purple lights, smoke, eveyone got their lighters out, the crowd went berserk. And the riff amidst that atmosphere was like an incantation. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. I consider myself very lucky to have witnessed that.
That takes me back. We totally blew the tweeters in my dad's HiFi speakers. We decided to share it with the world and moved the speakers to front window which we opened, and cued up the end of the first verse and let it rip! OH NOOOOOOOOOO LOL 50 bloody years ago. I'm 72 now and still think that was funny as fuck. My dad was not amused.
Yes, and don't let anyone else try and tell you different. That band with that song is what metal is all about, how it's defined. Some will try and give you all this bullshit about Cream, of Blue Cheer or even Hendrix. Don't listen. Sabbath are the fathers of Heavy Metal. Now, the blues may be the mother, meaning that Sabbath stared out as a blues band, but that's it. Iommi, Butler, Ward and Osbourne. The four horseman of the metal apocalypse.
They decided to use "the devil's tri-tone" and made a song/ran with it. simple but effective(especially at that time when people were accusing them of being satanic). Brilliant absolutely brilliant
Is that WTF happened? I had to rewind the video and pause it. I couldn't figure out WTH that was. Weird how Phil Keaggy lost a finger and is also a master. Check out Phil Keaggy - The Ransom (a track from 1983). It's here on youtube.
Thanks God for giving these guys the ideas which they then developed into what later became all sorts of metal music. Primarily I am a Rolling Stones fan, but Black Sabbath added so much value to music, one can hardly imagine it. Without Black Sabbath, for example, no Soundgarden etc.
When I first heard the song "Black Sabbath" in 1976 I was 8 yrs old and I remember thinking "I can't let my parents know I'm listening to this" THAT is one of the things that makes them the best metal band EVER And STILL scaring parents now as they have been for the last 40 years You gotta love that :)
econoroller My parents listened to Sabbath before I was born, and when I later discovered them on my own, I couldn't help but think, "what? Mom, you listened to THIS!?", because it was shocking in the sense that it sounded like it was hand-crafted specifically for me. It spoke to me that much, and still does. It's always great to see I'm not alone in my appreciation for their music.
This is why i really appreciate the first albums of black sabbath and the albums of Led Zeppelin, everybody in the group work together. In later album of sabbath was like "Tony do the riff, the others follow him."
hi, i am the oldest metal guitarist on planet earth and these are the 3 notes i invented. back then, nobody ever thought of playing these notes and we were the first ones to do it
In the interview with Sam Dunn's Heavy Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, he states that he lost the two ends in a sheet metal shear and made the fingertips from melted bottle tops with leather tips for grip. Then detuned one and a half steps from standard and used 9 gauge strings. All that combined to give us the signature Black Sabbath sound. Thank God!
When I was a novice guitarist, I had never heard of black sabbath, and I wrote this riff entirely on my own... lol, I was kinda pissed when I found out someone had written a song with it about 30 years ago...
0:45,Tony said The Hairs on your arm would stand up! Or for me Goose Bumps! Well that happened again for me on the new CD,13,song #2,God Is Dead? around 6:19,When that guitar riff and then the drums and bass kick in! I Got Goose Bumps! COOL!
kinda disappointed that this was about the 'slow riff' origin, whereas i wanna know where they came up with the 'faster riff' ("is it the end, my friend?" to Outro)
The riff of Black Sabbath, the song was from Holst the planet: Mars????? I never knew ! And i read and listen to everything about them since decades...
Trivia : The term heavy metal was originally coined by Beat novelist William Burroughs in his Naked Lunch, reintroduced into the pop vocabulary by Steppenwolf in their hit 'Born to be Wild' ('heavy metal thunder')
my brother (58yold mech engineer) say the same thing about the borrowed sabbath album we had. I heard it at about 10y old.....and till this day have heard nothing "heavier" (50 now!)
As a kid I always wondered why his lead work was more FX driven than fast until I discovered his accident. I’m not glad it happened as it limited him but he’s nothing short of an inspiration of a man who doesn’t quit and finds his own path to be great.
You also have to remember he was playing in the 70s, e.g. before Eruption and therefore before tapping. Soloing "fast" (by modern standards) was reserved for only the most godlike guitar players (Page, Blackmore, very few others) back then.
This and when Phil Taylor (RIP) described rehearsing his double bass kick drum beat that became the intro for Motörhead’s “Overkill” are landmarks of the history of heavy metal
@albi169 That's something you have to realize about Sabbath. Whether they played it in a different key, octave, faster, slower, backwards, whatever, they've written every Heavy Metal riff out there.
There's this little known album by Black Sabbath called Born Again with Ian Gillan on vocals. Disturbing the Priest is a track from that album with an even scarier riff.
First time I heard this was in my car on my 8-track player. Pulled over and listened to it all the way through before driving off. I had the same reaction many years later when I first heard "Smells like Teen Spirit". Sometimes you hear something and you just know it's going to change everything.
When I heard "Paranoid" for the first time, none existing hair on my back stood up, what I am saying is: the train has left the station and will never stop.
Same. I remember in 79 getting stoned with the the new kid in school listening to his music collection in his bedroom and he was a total metal head and he turned me onto hm and into a metal head but the one song that that really grabbed my attention...Paranoid
Geezer just made a fucking revolution with his fucking Mars riff xdd
Geezer is a fucking god,for her I'd ,site of
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It's criminal how underrated Greezer is as both a bassist and a songwriter. He wrote everything practically.
Mordred's Quest umm...everyone really
@MythsQueue Ozzy didn't do anything, he is one of the most overrated guys in Music today
Geezer isn't underrated, he just doesn't hug the limelight as much as Ozzy and Tony 'God' Iommi. All Sabbath fans know he was the main song writer as well as a fantastic bassist, just a quiet rock god..... Long live Geezer, Tony, Bill.....keep fighting Ozzy
@Mordred's Quest Rush fans.
@Nairam Diam Because 99% of Bass players are actually not that good.
Geezer looks so happy sitting there with his bass. These guys gave a lot of love and respect for music. \m/
Got a lot of love from music...
Animals
as well they should, for they 'sold their soul for rock 'n roll' !
"Satan's sitting there, he's smiling" Oh wait...maybe Geezer was sitting there smiling for helping birth this song.
I love how Geezer describes himself as a medium sized fan...
I frankly dont think he is a fan at all.. he looks human to me
@@sekritdokumint9326 we will never know. he may have a clever disguise on
"I have free will to do what I want but I choose to oscillate" -medium fan
@@ext93 best youtube comment
This video should be retitled: "How heavy metal was born."
so weird how you can retrace the origin of a whole branch of music to a particular moment:'))
How doom metal was born
@@RockoEstalon Yeah symptom of the universe really feels like the start of thrash
Doom metal my friend, Doom metal, the sabbath inspired music is not of their making but definitely an important part of so much music now days
I got you your 666th like. Pretty proud of that
They say it was Jimmy Page who inspired a million people to learn guitar, but I tell you if that is true Iomi inspired a million and one.
Zigz Zagz bore off. Page is a master
David Sheppard iommi is way better
I play guitar ,both page and Tony both have a place in history it is what was influencing myself and others
Ghoul nah, Page is universally more well known as a all-around well-rounded guitarist than Iommi. People have it in their heads that some badass riff makes a guitarists great. I can make up up cool riff right now on the spot that has never been heard, it doesn't make me one of the all-time greats. Page did a lot more than writing riffs, he could write songs using all kinds of different tunings. I just has a different style then Tony Iommi, does it make either one better than the other just different, but it's that way with all musicians really
My 2 cents...When it came to sound Page is a painter, Iommi is a Black Smith. Two different approaches that serve two different purposes. Personally, I never pit Sabbath against Zepplin because, in my mind, they, along with Deep Purple, were pieces of the same puzzle that came together to pave the way for the modern Hard Rock and Metal that came after them.
The origin of the riff: "i just did this" *plays riff* ... "and then tony played dis" *plays Tony’s riff*
Who the hell is Tommy? Edit again.
@@shiftyfitter you are right
I mean, that's how 90 percent of songs are made.
Toni
That's the riff for Electric Funeral he starts to play there.
25 years or so ago I was in my local store in North London and standing there thinking the guy behind me in the queue for the till really looks like Tony Iommi. I thought I had spotted him a few years earlier in the same store but was mercilessly ridiculed by my friends. Anyhow determined to find out the truth this time I waited for him outside the store and as he emerged asked “ excuse me but are you Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath?” He replied “ yes I am mate” I was dumbfounded and obviously not worthy. I expressed my worship of his music he thanked me graciously and we parted. Before the days of phone cameras so I’ve no proof and I’m still not sure my mates believe me. You may not too but it happened and it remains my greatest living legend encounter 🎸
you are very lucky, i’d give a limb to meet the inventor of my favorite genre
I believe you mate, awesome anecdote
I believe you,I myself met Jeff Beck sitting on a bus bench I'm Los Angeles CA. He was very nice and gave me an autograph.
I walked across the street from where I was working on a Saturday morning to Office Depot. As I was walking across the parking lot a black Mercedes G Class Cut across the parking lot and I caught black hair in my peripheral vision. As I was walking up to the store, I hear someone say "it's a G Class." I turned around and it's Ronnie James Dio. I said is your name Ronnie? "Yea" and he proceeds to talk to me. We end up in a half hour conversation. He was wearing a shirt that I also had from a Brasilian soccer club that my father was a member of. He gave me Niji managements number and invited me to lunch. R.I.P. Ronnie. Super nice as you would expect. We had a mutual friend. I can't believe we lost him 13 years ago already.
It wasn't just the countless riffs that Tony used to bang-out it was that dark, evil sound that he produced. The Master of Reality album was just filled with them. As a young teen there wasn't one song you didn't like. Forty years later I can hear three notes of any of those riffs and immediately name the song. I know I am not alone.
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Every sabbath album bar technical ecstasy and the last
You are not alone my brother, I know just what you mean
@@crunchytheclown9694 "Dirty Women" off Technical Ecstacy is a great song and I saw them play it live at the Ozzfest (with Iron Maiden). Sabbath let that song go over 10 minutes with Tony doing an extended guitar solo.
"Gypsy" is another honorable mention as well as "You won't Change Me" - Dare you omit the song Bill Ward sings on it, "It's Alright." - I still tell people that Bill Ward sang a Sabbath tune and they disbelieve me until I play it. There's a TH-cam video circulating where Bill sings it live.
Geezers face when he played the riff 😂
Saw that too, so cool.
I was 11 when this came out. My buddies and I would wait until a stormy night (which was not unusual in Florida), get together in someone's room, turn out all the lights and put this song on. Scared the shit out of us all - great times!
...and there was doom.
We just call it Rock. Even Black Sabbath don't call themselves a Heavy Metal band. Just a Rock band.
Aiden Macleod it’s not rock really
@@jasonteqja7262 Elaborate.
Aiden Macleod what AC/DC song have you heard that’s like Black Sabbath (the song)
@@jasonteqja7262 ACDC played a heavy Blues-influenced Hard Rock, while Black Sabbath played a style of music no one had heard before, so you can't really compare one to the other.
Then again, I've heard some people classify Sabbath as Classic Rock, while others have called them Blues, go figure.
Hearing the tone on Butler's bass gave me the chills!!
The sound that the original Black Sabbath no one had, not deep purple, not led zeppelin, hendrix, I mean no one people I grew up as a kid in the 60s and was a teenager from 1970 until 1977 and listening to Sabbath back then, I had never heard anything like that ever, Heavy Metal indeed.
We were blessed to have bands who were allowed to sound different. When virtually from the first note you could identify one of these bands points to the wonderful uniqueness they brought to the world
You will be celebrating your 64th birthday this year.
Born in 1958, as well! You took the words right out of my mouth!!!
Blue Cheer Vincebus Eruptum release in January 1968.
@@Rayburn58 I would suggest they sound more like cream than proto metal.
i just love the way he cuts his finger tips off at work . goes home and makes himself some metal tips so he can still play his guitar . the man is way beyond rock hard . a true hero . no complaint . just solves the problem . what a man !
I love how the stroke of a chord can immediately transport you to the instant it became part of you. There’s a form of time travel quantum physicist can chew on for while. It’s magical and wonderful.
_- OhHhHhH I'M So EvIiIiIL!_
*Dave Mustaine, probably after learning to play this riff the first time.*
Dave Mustaine is such a whiny, self-righteous douche. The dude needs a reality check.
@@roelofzinn8227 I respect your opinion, but I was referring to the video where he showed how to play Holy Wars.
@@Cthulhu_Awaken Hey. Thanks for getting back to me. I initially thought that you were pointing out Mustaine's tendency to promote himself as the big pioneer of all things Metal. Discussion should be fun and respectful, so I thank you for that too. I can't recall having seen the particular clip you mention, and wouldn't mind seeing it. As a teenager I was big into the idea of Dave being the 'anti-Metallica'; the 'against the grain' dude. I later got frustrated as it increasingly dawned on me that he trod a very similar path to Metallica, and would often accuse them of something, only to do it himself. And that was the other thing, his continuing obsession with perpetuating a rivalry with old friends. There are so many bands out there to consider, and so much room for individuality, that I started to feel sorry for Mustaine always feeling that he HAD to prove himself. He is still one hell of a great player and songwriter in his own right, and I enjoy me some Megadeth. Apologies for the long-winded reply. I'll gladly check out the Holy Wars vid to gain some more context.
@@roelofzinn8227 i know i'm 7 months late into this, but if you haven't seen it, here's the video:
th-cam.com/video/l8eV1zLDj0Q/w-d-xo.html
it's on the 4:40 mark
@@ilhamakbar5482 Thanks mate!
“Almost like a magical force pushing these things out.”
Yes, Tony.
You.
Thumbs up for your subtle burn there lol
Geezer's smile @ 0:30 -> priceless
Made the hairs on my arms stand up the first time I heard it, can't image what it was like creating it! It made history!!!
The best one minute of my day....
Mine was having sex .....
The girls don't call Me "Lightening Lover" as a compliment ....
@@stevenattanasso2003 xddd
black sabbath - iommi, butler, ward and fucking ozzy, the best band in the world
They were good with dio too though...
Bill wards drumming is criminally under appreciated
@@manicdgr they're were good, but Dio will never be as legendary as Ozzy.
@@SPENCERH30 Maybe not in a Sabbath sense, but Dio is absolutely as legendary as Ozzy otherwise
Dio was way too overrated
dude i dunno how Tony ever played with those fake fingertips. there's absolutely no feeling in those so it makes his guitar playing even more extraordinary
It never occurred to Iommi that he could play normally if he learned how to play right handed, since he wouldn't need those injured fingers to hold a pick. In his own words:
"If I knew what I know now I probably would have switched. At the time I had already been playing two or three years, and it seemed like I had been playing a long time. I thought I’d never be able to change the way I played. The reality of the situation was that I hadn’t been playing very long at all, and I probably could have spent the same amount of time learning to play right handed. I did have a go at it, but I just didn’t have the patience. It seemed impossible to me. I decided to make do with what I had, and I made some plastic fingertips for myself. I just persevered with it. (...) It became a burden. Some people say it helped me invent the kind of music I play, but I don’t know whether it did. It’s just something I’ve had to learn to live with. It affects your playing style; you can’t feel the strings, and there are certain chords I can’t play. Right at the beginning I was told by doctors: “You won’t be playing guitar.” But I believed I could do it, and I did."
@@BrunodeSouzaLino I love it. Where is that quote from?
@@standandeliver8376 Those are quotes from two separate interviews Iommi did. It's on his wikipedia page.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino Doctors: "You won't be playing guitar"
Iommi:
the pastic tips have pins in them like thumb tacs - that's how they stay on and that's how he feels every bend in the strings
Sabbath has to have made some of the most iconic riffs.
Wicked riff from the master. The beginning of an era. Hail almighty Iommi.
Neat how The Planets influenced Heavy Metal and Star Wars music
"Death Star" sounds like it could've been the name of a Sabbath song written by Geezer lol
Its that third note, the tritone, that grips your body twists it, sending chills and shivers down your spine.
The tritone(devils note) is exactly half way between the octaves. Why that should sound evil, when played with the octaves, I dont know, but it does and its magnificant in this song.
First heard this in 5th grade1971 a bunch of us at a school mates house, left feeling a little uneasy.
Geezer is one of the absolute greats on any bass. Watch him in concert and no less that all five are playing all the time.
G. Holst - Mars. Who would have guessed that was an inspiration for Black Sabbaths sound.
It's basically a metal song written in the 1800s
It gives a whole new perspective to the musical tastes out there. Since The Planets is one of my all time favourite collections and Black Sabbath was a fresh departure from classic rock of the era, this was good information to learn.
"Am I Evil?" is also a "cover" of this masterpiece
Still sounds like it was made yesterday, timeless and totally unbeatable track. Geezer was my inspiration to pick up a bass, legend and genius !
The track is still utterly amazing. It had NO precedent that came before it. To this day upon hearing it you are instantly transported to another realm and atmosphere that other music still doesn't have, not even Sabbath's other wide variety of songs.
@@yearginclarke YES ! 👌
Back in 1970 I wanted to be a drummer. But then I listened to the Album "Black Sabbath" and I got aware of the bass. And suddenly a message from Geezer appeared on the turning black vinyl: "Go boy, learn to play bass 'cause to sound like me will be your only goal for the rest of your life!". Geezer is still my idol (among e. g. J. P. Jones, J. Bruce). BTW I've been to Birmingham, love the accent! 0:00 and 0:10 Ampegs in the background.
"Oh no, I can't think of anything."
-Tony Iommi early in the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath recording session
Riff Master......Tony Iommi all others be afraid,very afraid! Sabbath rules
Gustav Holts inspired Geezer and John Williams. So two great things finally come together: Black Sabbath & Star Wars.
dar km And Diamond Head's Am I Evil as well
@@hmpz36911 And King Crimson in his first years played a ive version of Mars of Hoslt, than it becomes The Devil Triangle of The Wake of Poseidon record, that also has the famous 5/4 rhythm figure from Mars
Tony is inspiring. Great vibrato and pull offs.
Gustav Holst-English composer (1874-1934) "The Planets" Sub
-piece "Mars". Preeeetty much got his sound jacked by Geezer Butler, 51 years later. All hail Holst, the creator of Heavy Metal!
Told you they were all vampires.
That song probably scared the shit out of people back early in 1970. It's such a simple song to play, but it's brilliant. Like Tony, I also get chills every time I hear it or most of the early Sabbath. ALL HAIL THE SABBATH. GODS OF METAL.
It DID scare the shit out of me back in the day! I had never heard anything like it! I was like "Holy shit! This guy is dying!" And a metal head was born. Now, I'm a sixty two year old metal head. Rock on mother fuckers!
Randy Quick Yessir!
An even scarier fact is that the lyrics are a true story of what happened to geezer. He saw an apparition of a figure in black staring at him near his bed
Today, it seems like it HAS to have a million different notes and tuned down to drop Z tuning to be Metal anymore. People should remember their roots. K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid). You'll not only sound more Metal, but you'll sound different from all the other bands who are trying to BE Metal, and you'll end up BEING Metal, without trying.
Yes. Yes it did. Sabbath scared the living shit out people. “The Devil’s Music”
Black Sabbath are the founding fathers of metal, the Beatles showed up in 65 singing "she loves me" Sabbath was here in 66 with WarPigs , Paranoid, they were so far ahead of their time, if they were a brand new act today releasing the same music they would still be huge. Sabbath rules.........
That is a beautiful bass.
That first riff is still the definition of metal.
The homemade replacement finger tips Tony made for his left hand after his sheet metal accident are truly amazing.
For sure..especially when you consider he has no feeling in those 'tips'. I know that if I was to inject some lidocaine into the tips of my fingers, I would have a very hard time playing.
@monokhem But they still feel some sort of tactile feedback whem playing whether they are aware of it or not.
@monokhem I've played guitar for over 10 years, having calluses is not tantamount to losing your nerve endings due to amputation. You still get some stimulus
@monokhem bold of you to assume things about a stranger over the Internet. Not sure why you seem so worked up about this but I'd rather trust my own experience and that of far more experienced musician friends on this
When you’re trying to figure out how to play the theme from the first movement of a 1914 orchestral suite but accidentally end up creating the greatest music genre ever
Thus Heavy Metal was born
This song tells you why they are called - BLACK Sabbath.
Most darkest sounding song I’ve heard, and the lyrics fit it perfectly.
the band who inspired thousands band around the world... THE GOD
"It was like there was this force pushing these things out of us.."
Verily, that force is The METAL. \m/
*Plays Black Sabbath riff*
and so the world got heavier...
....Is there some sort of problem with the earths gravitational pull in the future?
First time I heard this song was probably ten years ago, and even then, I thought, "That's like nothing I've heard before!"
Geezer and Toni were successful in at least two aspects: they had incredible talent and both played their instruments like lead guitars!
My first bass player enjoyed bending his strings ala Butler. He also put on the fuzz and talked us into letting him play the opening riff of Into The Void. Did I tell you he was BIG?
I know exactly what you mean. I went to a Black Sabbath concert in Athens about 10 years ago (all 4 original band members where there) and when they played Black Sabbath it was E L E C T R I F Y I N G. Purple lights, smoke, eveyone got their lighters out, the crowd went berserk. And the riff amidst that atmosphere was like an incantation. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. I consider myself very lucky to have witnessed that.
The literal "invention of HEAVY METAL 101" right there, kids.
Interesting story by Geezer and Tony behind the original Black Sabbath song, one of my all-time favorites!
That takes me back. We totally blew the tweeters in my dad's HiFi speakers. We decided to share it with the world and moved the speakers to front window which we opened, and cued up the end of the first verse and let it rip! OH NOOOOOOOOOO LOL 50 bloody years ago. I'm 72 now and still think that was funny as fuck. My dad was not amused.
U guys are so Amazing! Up to now your music is still in the atmospher of 5 decades. Well done! 100%...
Back in the late 60's Black Sabbath was the best "lets smoke a doobie" music...Original head banger
Yes, and don't let anyone else try and tell you different. That band with that song is what metal is all about, how it's defined. Some will try and give you all this bullshit about Cream, of Blue Cheer or even Hendrix. Don't listen. Sabbath are the fathers of Heavy Metal. Now, the blues may be the mother, meaning that Sabbath stared out as a blues band, but that's it. Iommi, Butler, Ward and Osbourne. The four horseman of the metal apocalypse.
fukkk off, chuck berry is the father of metal
They decided to use "the devil's tri-tone" and made a song/ran with it. simple but effective(especially at that time when people were accusing them of being satanic). Brilliant absolutely brilliant
Geezer is the man, always has been, always will be
How Heavy Metal was Born?
Well, a guitarist lost a finger to an accident, and the rest is history...
:chuckles: So close to the true!
An accident in an actual METAL SHOP
Is that WTF happened? I had to rewind the video and pause it. I couldn't figure out WTH that was. Weird how Phil Keaggy lost a finger and is also a master. Check out Phil Keaggy - The Ransom (a track from 1983). It's here on youtube.
It is a miracle that the core 4 are still alive today
Thanks God for giving these guys the ideas which they then developed into what later became all sorts of metal music. Primarily I am a Rolling Stones fan, but Black Sabbath added so much value to music, one can hardly imagine it. Without Black Sabbath, for example, no Soundgarden etc.
When I first heard the song "Black Sabbath" in 1976 I was 8 yrs old and I remember thinking "I can't let my parents know I'm listening to this"
THAT is one of the things that makes them the best metal band EVER
And STILL scaring parents now as they have been for the last 40 years
You gotta love that :)
econoroller My parents listened to Sabbath before I was born, and when I later discovered them on my own, I couldn't help but think, "what? Mom, you listened to THIS!?", because it was shocking in the sense that it sounded like it was hand-crafted specifically for me. It spoke to me that much, and still does. It's always great to see I'm not alone in my appreciation for their music.
This is why i really appreciate the first albums of black sabbath and the albums of Led Zeppelin, everybody in the group work together. In later album of sabbath was like "Tony do the riff, the others follow him."
LEGENDS.
hi, i am the oldest metal guitarist on planet earth and these are the 3 notes i invented. back then, nobody ever thought of playing these notes and we were the first ones to do it
i get your point but Tony Iommi is not the oldest metal guitarist. Glenn Tipton of Judas Priest was born earlier
In the interview with Sam Dunn's Heavy Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, he states that he lost the two ends in a sheet metal shear and made the fingertips from melted bottle tops with leather tips for grip. Then detuned one and a half steps from standard and used 9 gauge strings. All that combined to give us the signature Black Sabbath sound. Thank God!
Thank Tony... is more appropriate.
Devil's interval...
not sure if they...nahh they just brought it to the broad public.
Sounds awesome ofcourse when Iommi does it.
Isn't it also known as a tritone or is that something else
Note, octave and diminished 5th = tritone
As far as i know ;)
The video cut too short. Geezer and Tony are both brilliant!! The ad placement is criminal
Toni is the greatest guitarist of our time!
...and he saw that it was good. He amplified his riff and the oceans parted and a holy light shone upon thy brow and metal was born.
It really was different. There was Vanilla Fudge and later on Budgie, but nothing was as dark and heavy as this. Not even close.
And from the first time I heard them have been in love with the music !
When I was a novice guitarist, I had never heard of black sabbath, and I wrote this riff entirely on my own... lol, I was kinda pissed when I found out someone had written a song with it about 30 years ago...
Apple does that all the time, then sues the actual innovators for copyrights infringement.
This album is amazing
0:45,Tony said The Hairs on your arm would stand up! Or for me Goose Bumps! Well that happened again for me on the new CD,13,song #2,God Is Dead? around 6:19,When that guitar riff and then the drums and bass kick in! I Got Goose Bumps! COOL!
wow, that is a beautiful gold bass guitar that Geezer is playing!
The God.
Gods*
Even in the day, I couldn't believe the sound that three musicians' could produce, absolutely amazing
kinda disappointed that this was about the 'slow riff' origin, whereas i wanna know where they came up with the 'faster riff' ("is it the end, my friend?" to Outro)
Their music and lyrics have really stood the test of time . Classic metal is never out of date !
The riff of Black Sabbath, the song was from Holst the planet: Mars????? I never knew ! And i read and listen to everything about them since decades...
simply awesome! I LOVE GEEZER!!
And so, metal was born...
Trivia : The term heavy metal was originally coined by Beat novelist William Burroughs in his Naked Lunch, reintroduced into the pop vocabulary by Steppenwolf in their hit 'Born to be Wild' ('heavy metal thunder')
Jesus, that trill on 00:55
Still love that stuff.
Oh God, I love that Birmingham accent....
First time I heard that song I turned it off midway. I was alone in my room at night it scared the hell out of me.
my brother (58yold mech engineer) say the same thing about the borrowed sabbath album we had. I heard it at about 10y old.....and till this day have heard nothing "heavier" (50 now!)
Its funny, how every favourite musician has a favourite musician
Woaaah 🤨😟🤯🤯🤯
Just look at that last frame of the clip. I still find it amazing that he plays so incredibly well despite those cut off fingers.
As a kid I always wondered why his lead work was more FX driven than fast until I discovered his accident. I’m not glad it happened as it limited him but he’s nothing short of an inspiration of a man who doesn’t quit and finds his own path to be great.
You also have to remember he was playing in the 70s, e.g. before Eruption and therefore before tapping. Soloing "fast" (by modern standards) was reserved for only the most godlike guitar players (Page, Blackmore, very few others) back then.
This and when Phil Taylor (RIP) described rehearsing his double bass kick drum beat that became the intro for Motörhead’s “Overkill” are landmarks of the history of heavy metal
"They didn't call it heavy metal when I invented it" - Dave Davies.
@albi169 That's something you have to realize about Sabbath. Whether they played it in a different key, octave, faster, slower, backwards, whatever, they've written every Heavy Metal riff out there.
The most scary riff I ever came across
There's this little known album by Black Sabbath called Born Again with Ian Gillan on vocals. Disturbing the Priest is a track from that album with an even scarier riff.
First time I heard this was in my car on my 8-track player. Pulled over and listened to it all the way through before driving off. I had the same reaction many years later when I first heard "Smells like Teen Spirit". Sometimes you hear something and you just know it's going to change everything.
When I heard "Paranoid" for the first time, none existing hair on my back stood up, what I am saying is: the train has left the station and will never stop.
Same. I remember in 79 getting stoned with the the new kid in school listening to his music collection in his bedroom and he was a total metal head and he turned me onto hm and into a metal head but the one song that that really grabbed my attention...Paranoid
0:31 Notice how he puts vibrato on a bass note. You never see that, this guys really PLAYS his bass.
I heard somebody say once that if you played those three notes in the Middle Ages, they would have burned you at the stake.
The dreaded devil's triad.
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Why do people keep spreading this myth...
Geezer's a Beast so under appreciated