This song was the beginning of my love for metal, when your 12 years old and your hot neighbour says she's got something that'll blow your mind ... and gives me this album to listen to, it wasn't what I wanted but it was definitely what I needed, 41 years later and it's still my favourite album.
FUN FACT: What I found to be completely astounding, and it definitely adds a lot of context to these recordings....this first Black Sabbath album was recorded in one day. ONE DAY. TWELVE HOURS in a studio, and it was a done deal. The rest, as they say...is history.
Good morning Andrew... The rain storm that starts this song announces the arrival of a new kind of music.... HEAVY METAL!! The first 3 albums are the benchmark for Sabbath's sound and influence..Spot on with the Sean Kinney comment.. he's such an underated player...Thx for doing these vids...Peace...
Followed the same path, about a year ago. Had mis conception about what Black Sabbath was. Started with this album. The first track got me hooked forever. Bill Ward is now my favorite drummer and Geezer Butler my favorite bassist.
This was a great 15 minutes of super entertainment, Andrew! Thanks! I loved it! No one who has any sense of music can doubt that this song is the first metal song and the first metal album. No one in 1969 was doing anything like this. Things started as Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, both essentially jazz/blues players who knew each other as kids and lived near each other going over to Ozzy (John) Osbourne's house to answer an ad Ozzy posted on a wall, saying "Ozzy Zig needs a gig." Interestingly, Tony Iommi (a real musician's musician who plays excellent flute and is a decent keyboard player as well) started out wanting to be a drummer, but couldn't afford drums as teenager, so he shifted over to guitar, and then added flute (he was briefly in Jethro Tull for this versatility before deciding he wanted his own band and to be the boss instead of Ian Anderson). At first when they met him, and Iommi realized that he knew him from school, one year behind Iommi, Iommi said to Ward, "Forget it; I know this guy, and he can't sing." But later, Osbourne showed up at Iommi's house (Bill Ward happened to be there at the time) with a well regarded local rhythm guitarist, Terry "Geezer" Butler, who suggested he could switch over to bass, at which point, Iommi said, "OK, let's give it a go." Amazingly, Iommi, Butler and Ward (amazingly, all teenagers from the same neighborhood in post war bombed out industrial Birmingham, which Iommi later described as "a real shithole") had unbelievable live chemistry. Iommi asked Butler to write the lyrics because he thought of him as "the smart one" of the group, who Iommi thought would end up being an accountant or a similar career. Iommi and Butler had the idea, based on their growing up in this awful area, to rebel against the flower, peace and love generation and "write music about the darker side of life". Across the road from their rented rehearsal space was a movie theater showing an old Boris Karloff horror movie called "Black Sabbath". Seeing the people lining up to buy tickets, Iommi and Butler came up with the idea of writing "horror music". This was aided by the fact that Iommi had the middle two fingertips of his fret playing hand severed in a work accident, which caused him a lot of pain to try to play with. He melted down a plastic soap bottle and tied leather over the top to fashion his own homemade prosthetic fingertips, and detuned drastically to loosen the strings, and even at one point had to use banjo strings, which are much lighter, until he could also "invent" superlight flex strings to lessen the pain. This not only created a heavier, creepier effect, but it gave him an unparalleled ability to bend and wobble notes; and it also helped Osbourne greatly, who had trouble hitting higher notes and staying in key. Bill Ward described his playing as "complimentary" to whatever Iommi was doing. For example, he said, when Iommi would play louder, Ward would play softer, to make the guitar sound even louder. He would also try new things, like in this instance, where the drumming was made more ominous by adding a little echo in the spaces between the guitar notes.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums thanks! By the way, for when you get to the classic track at the end of side one, which is "NIB", Butler named the song after Bill Ward's beard, which he said looked like a pencil nib, haha! That song's lyrics, as described by Butler, are about the devil falling in love with a human woman. The lyric you missed on this track was "Figure in black which points at me. Turn round quick and start to run. Find out I'm the chosen one."
Fantastic album. I'm thrilled you're listening to this album all the way through. I remember my first listen back in 75 or 76--changed me forever. Heavy blues, some jazz, great vocals and lyrics...what an album. Great reaction!
@@axilleaskazuya5370 Awesome story. The destination is what matters. I got my first bass a year later. I wanted to be Butler or JPL. This album opened so many doors.
Back in those days, that's what the had for influence. Jazz and classical. Black sabbath pioneered the metal scene. So many bands looked to them. I love the jazz influence
The one and only 1st Heavy Metal song that "Truly" started it all !!!!!!! And it still hold up with it's scary Gothic Fearful Vibe !!!! 😬🥺😰🌩🧟♂⚰🪦 🎶🎸🥁🎤🎼🤘
Just imagine the impact this had back in 1970 when it was released every was listening to things like Bridge Over Troubled Water and Tears of a Clown then this album comes out. The Last track is a cover of a song called Warning and it is epic
@@AndrewRooneyDrums trust me I loved that stuff too, James Taylor, Cat Stephens, Donivan et al, but this was so different, this opening track was like watching a horror movie through your ears. Based on the fact that the whole album was recorded in 12 hours was crazy, made even, this is why the epic guitar solo on The Warning is so extraordinary as it was pretty much totally improvised
Can't wait nice taste of Bill Ward who is highly underrated. The GREAT Geezer Butler the top 3 rock bassist in the world. Also the brainchild Sabbath lyrics that he wrote not Ozzy.
Geezer was the main writer, but Ozzy did help out. Tony once said Ozzy never got enough credit for being able to come up with stuff on the fly, ie planet caravan
Sabbath members aren't appreciated enough. Been waiting years for someone to talk about them like this. Geezer is never talked about, it's dumb, he's definitely a top five rock bassist
@Anthony Silva yes he would hum along during song in practice for a melody. Geezer wrote at least 90% of the lyrics. BTW, so did Bob Daisly he get ripped off by Sharon. Bob Daisly is hired now by Ozzy to write his lyrics a few LPS ago you wont see him in the credits because he paid salaries. But when Bob was in the band, he wrote most if not all lyrics got no credit. I love Ozzy, but he can't write his own lyrics, nothing wrong with that. He was a great entertainer, a pretty good singer in his day. I got some inside ball for you. I'm a musician for 30 or so years. I never made it big but had my moments cd some national air play and backing major acts in arenas in the day. Here's the scoop Ozzy has a singer. he pays a 150k to go into the studio and fix some of his work, and even pro-tools can't fix it. I have people in the know, but I have not seen it myself, so it's just BS until it's confirmed. That will never happen; we all get ole. But I trust this friend close to Ozzys camp. So take it or leave it BS ? I don't know, but this guy is a close friend. If he's lying to me, I'm going to piss in his beer, lol rock on my brother cheers 🍻
This album was released on my 4th birthday,heard it for the 1st time a couple of years later as my dad bought it,he later gave it to me,which I still have + also on cd,I think it's one of the best debut albums ever.
Does anything have more vibe than this opening track? Imagine hearing this as a 16 year old in 1969. Mind blowing. And Ward owns that slow sludgy tempo. The use of the floor toms to create a mood is a lost art.
I first heard this in Feb 71, to put it in context the number one song at the time was I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson. My mind was BLOWN! I was 15 yo.
You're absolutely right Andrew. They didn't absolutely nail the ending because they were performing it just like they would do it in front of an audience in a club. That's the beauty of the album.
Watched the band playing "Children Of The Grave" on the Texxas Jam show, Bill Ward looked and drummed like a Viking Warrior behind the massive kit. There's lots of good live performances of the group on TH-cam.
"Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first." - Rob Zombie
Many great bands of this period often made little errors on their album recordings. Black Sabbath, Wishbone Ash etc. At the time it was never really noticed but today things have changed so much in the recording studio and to a degree have become so clinical but have lost so much feel and spontaneity.
This was so awesome! Even though I have been a fan since 1971, I never knew about how much greater Ward was than I had thought. He and Butler are my favorite combo Bass/drums.
HAHA !!!! I am going to use that line from now on !!! "I like my coffee the way I like my Sabbath.." In 1994, my fusion trio did a 9 song demo, recorded and mixed in 12 hours. It was from a flyer I saw on a telephone pole where you tear off the phone number. That engineer recorded us in his garage for $25 /hr. It cost us $225 bucks. The engineer went on to be a Grammy award winning engineer. Gary's Ridgeway on Bandcamp if you want to hear it. Just like Tony Williams Believe It, we left in the mistakes. It was all done in one take, except for two songs, we had to start over. WAY before Protools.
This is the first live band that I saw in concert 1981-1982 never saw the original lineup. Black sabbath has a special place in my heart for that reason. Thank you for sharing your journey. Great band.
Wooow, man the journey of the wicked sounds begun, sure you may hear blues or what not in their technique but the essense of the music there's in inspirations except for a wicked mind , they were giving birth to a genre
Many of the great Metal drummers had jazz backgrounds, which is not surprising when you consider what the musical landscape was like before the creation of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock.
Recorded October 1969.Released Friday the 13th February 1970.We put the needle down on the album and this came out.We were amazed was a under statement..GREAT!!!!!
Fun little factoid: The live performance of this song from the 1970 concert had a solo in place of the rain and Thunder. The solo was supposed to make the album, but the editor cut it and put the weather clip at the start of the album.
The band broke up for a while when they got back together I went to the concert some dudes named Van Halen opened then this band called Boston both bands just released their first album first tour with a headliner Black Sabbath came on they played for about 20 minutes and the PA went out the only ones you could hear were Bill Ward and Geezer Butler for 30 minutes they played most incredible two-man pounding Jam I ever heard and I wish that somebody would have recording is that night I heard the most incredible concert down here in San Antonio
"According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969"
It was - because they had to get on a ferry in order to make their date in a club in Germany. I have 2 albums in my collection done in 24 hours ("Needletime" by Warsaw Pakt" - who did Direct To Digital so that the record was in the shops [one or two] 24 hours after they went into the studio, and "24 Hours" by Transmitter) They both sound hurried and nothing like as complete as this.
Don't forget my recommendation of the song, the wizard...the next song on this album.Also as Bill's career progressed after this he considered himself a percussionist more than a drummer.
First song on first album remember. It's hard to remember this 50 years on that this was just the start point and not the pinnacle of their musicality.
Back in the day my counsin's from Ohio came to West Virginia and played this song. our grandmother heard and asked them to turn it off - she said it is scaring me. She understood more than we realized.... Sabbath is a damn good rock band!!!! Does this song and the lyrics paint a picture or what???? Bill changes the drums in a while. As usual Ward is great.... All of them are!!!! Well Andrew, did you love this song??? Each one of these men were MASTERS of their craft. And WARD punished his drum kit......
Oo so glad you’re starting at the beginning! This is gonna be quite the road to travel! Youre gonna love this Andrew :) As an aside, at some point you should check out Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii … recorded in 1972, mostly at the coliseum in Pompeii, with some studio embellishments. Some of Nick Mason’s drumming (and Im thinking specifically of Saucerful Of Secrets, and secondarily, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun) is quite extraordinary, and not what you generally associate with Pink Floyd from Dark Side, on…
What is most important about all of this is that this was a type of music that had not been made before at all. Each of the players is in fact setting the standard for what metal music is even today. You can find that most of the riffs of this single album are the source material and inspiration for pretty much all of it since. The cord progressions, the drum sound, the freewheeling bass... It's the blueprint for more than 50 years of a style.
When I was 7 I had to put the pillow over my head at night when this song was playing as I shared a room with my much older brother it SCARED the crap out of me. I did everything possible not to hear this album including the cover as you will notice is quite eerie but the music is incredible but for a kid it keeps the light on all night
AND YEAH ANDREW, THIS WAS THEIR CONCEPT / STORY ALBUM, THEIR DEBUT, INSANE AND UNBELIEVABLE! :) WHAT AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BAND FOR THEIR VERYYYYY 1ST SONG RIGHT OUT THE GATE HUH? :) CRAZY
This band was my group’s theme music in high school…in the early 90’s. I’m so glad you’re discovering them. Because of the name and the theatrics and Ozzy’s later reputation for insanity, I don’t think they get the respect as amazing artists that they should. I remember when becoming a huge fan of their music how much I loved getting 3 different songs in every track. I distinctly remember getting this fantastic horror movie vibe hearing this first track of the album. I was hooked. I still am ❤️
Glad you are finally getting to the first Album. Its one of their best IMHO. Hope you do listen to the whole album. Just imagine hearing this in 1969. Crazy unique sound. Love the heavy mean muscle sound.
Hi, Happy that you dig Bill Ward ? I never thought about Sean Kinney having an influence from Bill Ward but right when you mentioned this instantly I thought you hit the nail on the head ! Thanks !That makes incredible sense.I think Sean is also not praised for his unique skill on the drum
I always thought it was interesting when Tony Iommi said that when Black Sabbath did their first tour in the US people backstage were reluctant to even talk to them because people assumed they were devil worshipers.
Truly brilliant Your reactions are great Andrew. You speak of modern bands I think the answer is the mighty Sabbath are the for fathers and have inspired so many bands coming forward in to the rock seen Truly the best band ever
In that 70's live gig you watched Ozzy missed the words all over that show, they had lots of not ideal moments and you don't notice because its the groove and they don't lose the grove. It give it like we are making this up moments where you know this has never been heard before or will this exact way again. Live individual performance of a song. Like snowflakes or tripping to much.
Still my favorite Black Sabbath album I think. People will probably mention different ones, where Sabbath is more 'defined', but I think there was just some beauty in there search for their identity - Black Sabbath, Wizard, NIB - each song sounds so different it could've been by three different artists. I love this album. Plus Black Sabbath (song) is the only song I know that has a little 'jump scare', at the end ;) The creepiest song ever, in my opinion.
🤩👌💥💯 Mr. Toni Iommi The Godfather of Heavy riffs knuckles out solos with two missing fingertips like there's no tomorrow!!!! 😈 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙 This one was fortunate to see them back in the days at Helsinki 🇫🇮 on their "Reunion" tour 1999 with line up Mark I...
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Imagine saying that to Satan! ,"actually I don't want to leave " he'd be a bit flummoxed.. " oh , er OK make yourself at home .... er Cup of Tea ? " 👹
This album hit me when I was 13-14 around 1970. From being a 60s pop lover who loved the harder tracks by Kinks, Beatles etc this really was perfect for my curious mind. Sabbath, Purple, Zeppelin, UFO, Judas Priest, Uriah Heep etc took me on a musical journey in heavy music that continues to this day. And, yes, Soundgarden was very influenced by Black Sabbath.
Andrew, As you're a drummer does "Limb Independance" mean the same thing as "muscle memory"? Like a Vocal Coach said practiced singers don't think about every individual nuance, placement, it just comes to naturally. They hit the notes they want 'cos their vocal-chords - muscle-memory kicks in & knows their job!!
I miss the old school days. Analog equipment. Single takes. Etc. Nowadays everything has to be perfect And I love jazz 😍. And anything Ozzy 🤘🤘🤘 go listen on your own to NIB. Awesome song. You can react if you want, but it's something I am asking you to do personally 💜. Much love my brother. Great commentary
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What you are talking aboit with the comping. I remember him saying that when Tony hit those heavy dark riffs it gave him room to like get down. Damn it I can't remember the end of it. But basically he could get behind them and just get after it basically. God I wish I knew where to find that.
This song was the beginning of my love for metal, when your 12 years old and your hot neighbour says she's got something that'll blow your mind ... and gives me this album to listen to, it wasn't what I wanted but it was definitely what I needed, 41 years later and it's still my favourite album.
HAHA! Great memories for you :)
Soo....what ever happened with the hot neighbor???
@@greekpapi she instead went out with a slew of macho assholes and got tossed around like trash and I'm her insecurity, nurtured a drug addiction. 👍
@@greekpapi She's probably old af and not hot anymore.
FUN FACT: What I found to be completely astounding, and it definitely adds a lot of context to these recordings....this first Black Sabbath album was recorded in one day. ONE DAY.
TWELVE HOURS in a studio, and it was a done deal. The rest, as they say...is history.
Yes amazing!
AND:
Ist was released on FRIDAY the 13th of february 1970.
Was that a good omen or what?
BTW: That was my 3rd birthday 😉
The Wizard will knock your socks off, Andrew. This is a dark, bluesy and ballsy album from start to finish. Astonishingly good for a debut. Enjoy 🍻
Yes Robert. Some bands are lightning in a bottle. This is DEFINITELY a case of that
Absolutely one of the great debut albums. As an introduction to a band it’s right up there.
Agree Darryl
Good morning Andrew... The rain storm that starts this song announces the arrival of a new kind of music.... HEAVY METAL!! The first 3 albums are the benchmark for Sabbath's sound and influence..Spot on with the Sean Kinney comment.. he's such an underated player...Thx for doing these vids...Peace...
Thank you Brian! Yup I felt the importance of that intro!!
The first four, you mean. Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, and Volume 4.
Followed the same path, about a year ago.
Had mis conception about what Black Sabbath was.
Started with this album. The first track got me hooked forever. Bill Ward is now my favorite drummer and Geezer Butler my favorite bassist.
WOW!!!
This was a great 15 minutes of super entertainment, Andrew! Thanks! I loved it!
No one who has any sense of music can doubt that this song is the first metal song and the first metal album. No one in 1969 was doing anything like this. Things started as Tony Iommi and Bill Ward, both essentially jazz/blues players who knew each other as kids and lived near each other going over to Ozzy (John) Osbourne's house to answer an ad Ozzy posted on a wall, saying "Ozzy Zig needs a gig." Interestingly, Tony Iommi (a real musician's musician who plays excellent flute and is a decent keyboard player as well) started out wanting to be a drummer, but couldn't afford drums as teenager, so he shifted over to guitar, and then added flute (he was briefly in Jethro Tull for this versatility before deciding he wanted his own band and to be the boss instead of Ian Anderson). At first when they met him, and Iommi realized that he knew him from school, one year behind Iommi, Iommi said to Ward, "Forget it; I know this guy, and he can't sing." But later, Osbourne showed up at Iommi's house (Bill Ward happened to be there at the time) with a well regarded local rhythm guitarist, Terry "Geezer" Butler, who suggested he could switch over to bass, at which point, Iommi said, "OK, let's give it a go." Amazingly, Iommi, Butler and Ward (amazingly, all teenagers from the same neighborhood in post war bombed out industrial Birmingham, which Iommi later described as "a real shithole") had unbelievable live chemistry. Iommi asked Butler to write the lyrics because he thought of him as "the smart one" of the group, who Iommi thought would end up being an accountant or a similar career.
Iommi and Butler had the idea, based on their growing up in this awful area, to rebel against the flower, peace and love generation and "write music about the darker side of life". Across the road from their rented rehearsal space was a movie theater showing an old Boris Karloff horror movie called "Black Sabbath". Seeing the people lining up to buy tickets, Iommi and Butler came up with the idea of writing "horror music". This was aided by the fact that Iommi had the middle two fingertips of his fret playing hand severed in a work accident, which caused him a lot of pain to try to play with. He melted down a plastic soap bottle and tied leather over the top to fashion his own homemade prosthetic fingertips, and detuned drastically to loosen the strings, and even at one point had to use banjo strings, which are much lighter, until he could also "invent" superlight flex strings to lessen the pain. This not only created a heavier, creepier effect, but it gave him an unparalleled ability to bend and wobble notes; and it also helped Osbourne greatly, who had trouble hitting higher notes and staying in key.
Bill Ward described his playing as "complimentary" to whatever Iommi was doing. For example, he said, when Iommi would play louder, Ward would play softer, to make the guitar sound even louder. He would also try new things, like in this instance, where the drumming was made more ominous by adding a little echo in the spaces between the guitar notes.
Incredible input Mike! THANK YOU
Try listening to BlueCheer pioneers
@@AndrewRooneyDrums thanks! By the way, for when you get to the classic track at the end of side one, which is "NIB", Butler named the song after Bill Ward's beard, which he said looked like a pencil nib, haha! That song's lyrics, as described by Butler, are about the devil falling in love with a human woman. The lyric you missed on this track was "Figure in black which points at me. Turn round quick and start to run. Find out I'm the chosen one."
Entire band is 100% underrated- I have shown the live in Paris too many people and all are speechless at the end.
I bet!
OMG yes!! best day of your life. I wish I could go back and re listen to this for the first time with virgin ears to appreciate it over again
I hope to do that for you Adam!!!
Ward is 'reactionary'. He said it himself. Totally awesome. 😎
If this song sounds so heavy even nowadays I can't imagine how it was in 1970. What a masterpiece.
Exactly! Must’ve been scary. Shaken things up a bit
I bought this in 1970 at 12 years old. I didn't think it was scary. All I remember thinking is that my parents must never hear this.
Fantastic album. I'm thrilled you're listening to this album all the way through. I remember my first listen back in 75 or 76--changed me forever. Heavy blues, some jazz, great vocals and lyrics...what an album. Great reaction!
Thank you for watching!
I'm stunned AGAIN
I came 20 years later, 95 or 96 getting a VHS from the videoclub as we used to call them, never say die live 1978 , I was 11 , it was a done deal
@@axilleaskazuya5370 Awesome story. The destination is what matters. I got my first bass a year later. I wanted to be Butler or JPL. This album opened so many doors.
The technical breakdown is great. Comping is such a good summation.
I think so!!!
The birth of metal as we know it today. What a great album. Can’t wait for you to experience the rest of this one - you’re in for a sonic treat.
Great interpretation of Bill Ward on the very first song Black Sabbath played on vinyl! I learned a lot, on this video, Thanks!
Great to hear!
Nothing more Black Sabbath, than Black Sabbath playing Black Sabbath, from the album Black Sabbath.
Back in those days, that's what the had for influence. Jazz and classical. Black sabbath pioneered the metal scene. So many bands looked to them. I love the jazz influence
Me too Mike!
The one and only 1st Heavy Metal song that "Truly" started it all !!!!!!!
And it still hold up with it's scary Gothic Fearful Vibe !!!! 😬🥺😰🌩🧟♂⚰🪦
🎶🎸🥁🎤🎼🤘
I love the rain and thunder in the beginning great opening to an album.
They closed 13 with the same sounds.
Bill Ward is the genuine article! I love that drum slinger!!!!
Great reaction! I can listen to real music all day!!! Keep it coming!!!
More on the way Michael!
I was a rocker before 1970,but the first time I heard 'Paranoid',it just opened my mind to this kind of music. I only heard the first album in 1975.
With your analysis, I understand a lot more Bill Ward’s skills. Thank U Andrew.
Just imagine the impact this had back in 1970 when it was released every was listening to things like Bridge Over Troubled Water and Tears of a Clown then this album comes out. The Last track is a cover of a song called Warning and it is epic
Some of that pop was tremendous also. But this is a whole other vibe
@@AndrewRooneyDrums trust me I loved that stuff too, James Taylor, Cat Stephens, Donivan et al, but this was so different, this opening track was like watching a horror movie through your ears. Based on the fact that the whole album was recorded in 12 hours was crazy, made even, this is why the epic guitar solo on The Warning is so extraordinary as it was pretty much totally improvised
😅😅😅
Can't wait nice taste of Bill Ward who is highly underrated. The GREAT Geezer Butler the top 3 rock bassist in the world. Also the brainchild Sabbath lyrics that he wrote not Ozzy.
Yeah that's interesting that Ozzy wasn't writing the lyrics!
Ozzy wrote with Geezer a bunch.
Geezer was the main writer, but Ozzy did help out. Tony once said Ozzy never got enough credit for being able to come up with stuff on the fly, ie planet caravan
Sabbath members aren't appreciated enough. Been waiting years for someone to talk about them like this. Geezer is never talked about, it's dumb, he's definitely a top five rock bassist
@Anthony Silva yes he would hum along during song in practice for a melody. Geezer wrote at least 90% of the lyrics. BTW, so did Bob Daisly he get ripped off by Sharon. Bob Daisly is hired now by Ozzy to write his lyrics a few LPS ago you wont see him in the credits because he paid salaries. But when Bob was in the band, he wrote most if not all lyrics got no credit. I love Ozzy, but he can't write his own lyrics, nothing wrong with that. He was a great entertainer, a pretty good singer in his day. I got some inside ball for you. I'm a musician for 30 or so years. I never made it big but had my moments cd some national air play and backing major acts in arenas in the day. Here's the scoop Ozzy has a singer. he pays a 150k to go into the studio and fix some of his work, and even pro-tools can't fix it. I have people in the know, but I have not seen it myself, so it's just BS until it's confirmed. That will never happen; we all get ole. But I trust this friend close to Ozzys camp. So take it or leave it BS ? I don't know, but this guy is a close friend. If he's lying to me, I'm going to piss in his beer, lol rock on my brother cheers 🍻
This album was released on my 4th birthday,heard it for the 1st time a couple of years later as my dad bought it,he later gave it to me,which I still have + also on cd,I think it's one of the best debut albums ever.
I love watching people discover Sabbath and share in the excitement. They were so damn good on the early albums!
Love that you are discovering this band like in “real time” for all of us fans to watch. Every member of this band for the first 6 albums…..
Also, think about the sound of music in 1970 compared to this.
@@robdaniel3211 Yes I can't even imagine how this was received in 1970!
Overall, one of my favorite songs they ever recorded.
Me too so far Topher.
Outstanding
Does anything have more vibe than this opening track? Imagine hearing this as a 16 year old in 1969. Mind blowing. And Ward owns that slow sludgy tempo. The use of the floor toms to create a mood is a lost art.
So huge and evil!!! When Geezer makes that slide and BOOOM the guitar comes with the drums and blows our f*cking minds!!! Masterpiece.
Yup.
This is heavy. In every sense
Bill Ward, the funkiest of the metal drummers
Song still gives me that chilling feeling
NICE
I first heard this in Feb 71, to put it in context the number one song at the time was I Never Promised You A Rose Garden - Lynn Anderson. My mind was BLOWN! I was 15 yo.
You're absolutely right Andrew. They didn't absolutely nail the ending because they were performing it just like they would do it in front of an audience in a club. That's the beauty of the album.
Watched the band playing "Children Of The Grave" on the Texxas Jam show, Bill Ward looked and drummed like a Viking Warrior behind the massive kit. There's lots of good live performances of the group on TH-cam.
"Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first." - Rob Zombie
Many great bands of this period often made little errors on their album recordings. Black Sabbath, Wishbone Ash etc. At the time it was never really noticed but today things have changed so much in the recording studio and to a degree have become so clinical but have lost so much feel and spontaneity.
100% agree.
I want to hear humans
And Metal was born with this song...
Rat Salad has some furious jazz drumming. Bill Ward is awesome. His creativity on The Wizard is also inspiring.
He already reacted to Rat Salad, albeit the live version, which is shorter. It's at the end of the Hand Of Doom video.
@@nopenope9416 Yeah though I usually prefer people reacting to the studio versions first.
This was so awesome! Even though I have been a fan since 1971, I never knew about how much greater Ward was than I had thought. He and Butler are my favorite combo Bass/drums.
They are unreal
HAHA !!!! I am going to use that line from now on !!! "I like my coffee the way I like my Sabbath.."
In 1994, my fusion trio did a 9 song demo, recorded and mixed in 12 hours. It was from a flyer I saw on a telephone pole where you tear off the phone number. That engineer recorded us in his garage for $25 /hr. It cost us $225 bucks. The engineer went on to be a Grammy award winning engineer. Gary's Ridgeway on Bandcamp if you want to hear it. Just like Tony Williams Believe It, we left in the mistakes. It was all done in one take, except for two songs, we had to start over. WAY before Protools.
That's the way! Snapshot/photograph of a moment in time Michael
"What a way to start an album"
You mean "What a way to start metal music."
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The atmosphere this song creates is one of a kind
My first coherent thought after feeling like I'd been literally blown away on first listening to Black Sabbath was: EVERYONE should listen to this!
FYI - Brad Wilk (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE drummer) has recorded with Sabbath recently. Hand picked by iommi.
Yes I was aware of that. I was a big Brad Wilk fan so I need to check it out
This is the first live band that I saw in concert 1981-1982 never saw the original lineup. Black sabbath has a special place in my heart for that reason. Thank you for sharing your journey. Great band.
Wooow, man the journey of the wicked sounds begun, sure you may hear blues or what not in their technique but the essense of the music there's in inspirations except for a wicked mind , they were giving birth to a genre
Amazing
@@AndrewRooneyDrums yes, in the feeling tone, there wasn't any inspirations for them prior to their sound, maybe the image or technical music stuff
Many of the great Metal drummers had jazz backgrounds, which is not surprising when you consider what the musical landscape was like before the creation of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock.
100% correct
Great review and reaction! I was just 12 years old when this song came out. It took America by storm!!!
Listen the wizard,I was 16 when I heard this song I was floored .I m a compadre from canada
The wizard out tmrw Pierre :)
Recorded October 1969.Released Friday the 13th February 1970.We put the needle down on the album and this came out.We were amazed was a under statement..GREAT!!!!!
Remember seeing them round 71 in Toronto fantastic!!!
Oh wow! Great stuff Keith 🤘
Fun little factoid: The live performance of this song from the 1970 concert had a solo in place of the rain and Thunder. The solo was supposed to make the album, but the editor cut it and put the weather clip at the start of the album.
The band broke up for a while when they got back together I went to the concert some dudes named Van Halen opened then this band called Boston both bands just released their first album first tour with a headliner Black Sabbath came on they played for about 20 minutes and the PA went out the only ones you could hear were Bill Ward and Geezer Butler for 30 minutes they played most incredible two-man pounding Jam I ever heard and I wish that somebody would have recording is that night I heard the most incredible concert down here in San Antonio
1st song 1st album, what a way to start a Movement in the World.
YES
"According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the group's debut album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969"
It was - because they had to get on a ferry in order to make their date in a club in Germany.
I have 2 albums in my collection done in 24 hours ("Needletime" by Warsaw Pakt" - who did Direct To Digital so that the record was in the shops [one or two] 24 hours after they went into the studio, and "24 Hours" by Transmitter) They both sound hurried and nothing like as complete as this.
CRAZY
The first time I ever heard this I became a total fan and have been since 1972
I can’t wait to see all the reactions to this. Can’t wait until you get onto the Master of Reality album (third album). Some monster tracks there
Yes; It's the greatest album of al time.
Don't forget my recommendation of the song, the wizard...the next song on this album.Also as Bill's career progressed after this he considered himself a percussionist more than a drummer.
Hi Jonathan. I did it about a week ago :)
First song on first album remember. It's hard to remember this 50 years on that this was just the start point and not the pinnacle of their musicality.
Yup it's quite an opening statement
Back in the day my counsin's from Ohio came to West Virginia and played this song. our grandmother heard and asked them to turn it off - she said it is scaring me. She understood more than we realized.... Sabbath is a damn good rock band!!!!
Does this song and the lyrics paint a picture or what???? Bill changes the drums in a while. As usual Ward is great.... All of them are!!!! Well Andrew, did you love this song??? Each one of these men were MASTERS of their craft. And WARD punished his drum kit......
Oo so glad you’re starting at the beginning! This is gonna be quite the road to travel! Youre gonna love this Andrew :)
As an aside, at some point you should check out Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii … recorded in 1972, mostly at the coliseum in Pompeii, with some studio embellishments. Some of Nick Mason’s drumming (and Im thinking specifically of Saucerful Of Secrets, and secondarily, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun) is quite extraordinary, and not what you generally associate with Pink Floyd from Dark Side, on…
What is most important about all of this is that this was a type of music that had not been made before at all. Each of the players is in fact setting the standard for what metal music is even today. You can find that most of the riffs of this single album are the source material and inspiration for pretty much all of it since. The cord progressions, the drum sound, the freewheeling bass... It's the blueprint for more than 50 years of a style.
When I was 7 I had to put the pillow over my head at night when this song was playing as I shared a room with my much older brother it SCARED the crap out of me. I did everything possible not to hear this album including the cover as you will notice is quite eerie but the music is incredible but for a kid it keeps the light on all night
AND YEAH ANDREW, THIS WAS THEIR CONCEPT / STORY ALBUM, THEIR DEBUT, INSANE AND UNBELIEVABLE! :) WHAT AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BAND FOR THEIR VERYYYYY 1ST SONG RIGHT OUT THE GATE HUH? :) CRAZY
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Live this is absolutely crushing I've seen Motorhead and the thrash bands and this still tops them all.
I bet Neil!
It took my years before I could listen to this alone, and in the dark... 🤨👍
Album #1.
Track #1.
And that was that...
This band was my group’s theme music in high school…in the early 90’s.
I’m so glad you’re discovering them.
Because of the name and the theatrics and Ozzy’s later reputation for insanity, I don’t think they get the respect as amazing artists that they should. I remember when becoming a huge fan of their music how much I loved getting 3 different songs in every track.
I distinctly remember getting this fantastic horror movie vibe hearing this first track of the album.
I was hooked.
I still am ❤️
at a session, Geezer was warming up by playing Holts the Planets Mars. Tony came in the next day with this.
Glad you are finally getting to the first Album. Its one of their best IMHO. Hope you do listen to the whole album. Just imagine hearing this in 1969. Crazy unique sound. Love the heavy mean muscle sound.
I should have saved this for nighttime 😆
YES Paul! HAHAHA
Hi, Happy that you dig Bill Ward ? I never thought about Sean Kinney having an influence from Bill Ward but right when you mentioned this instantly I thought you hit the nail on the head ! Thanks !That makes incredible sense.I think Sean is also not praised for his unique skill on the drum
It's guaranteed that any song that starts with church bells is great!
HAHA!
What a way to start a new genre of 🎶
YUP!
The good ol devil's triad! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Black Sabbath song Black Sabbath. Heavy Metal was born.
...when you play this live with a band, with attitude, you get your neck hair standing...
First album my Dad ever gave me to listen.
WOW! HAHA
I always thought it was interesting when Tony Iommi said that when Black Sabbath did their first tour in the US people backstage were reluctant to even talk to them because people assumed they were devil worshipers.
Truly brilliant
Your reactions are great Andrew. You speak of modern bands I think the answer is the mighty Sabbath are the for fathers and have inspired so many bands coming forward in to the rock seen
Truly the best band ever
In that 70's live gig you watched Ozzy missed the words all over that show, they had lots of not ideal moments and you don't notice because its the groove and they don't lose the grove. It give it like we are making this up moments where you know this has never been heard before or will this exact way again. Live individual performance of a song. Like snowflakes or tripping to much.
Yes totally unique shows back in those days!
Still my favorite Black Sabbath album I think. People will probably mention different ones, where Sabbath is more 'defined', but I think there was just some beauty in there search for their identity - Black Sabbath, Wizard, NIB - each song sounds so different it could've been by three different artists. I love this album.
Plus Black Sabbath (song) is the only song I know that has a little 'jump scare', at the end ;) The creepiest song ever, in my opinion.
💯I’m with you. I like to hear bands find their feet
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Mr. Toni Iommi The Godfather of Heavy riffs knuckles out solos with two missing fingertips like there's no tomorrow!!!! 😈
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This one was fortunate to see them back in the days at Helsinki 🇫🇮 on their "Reunion" tour 1999 with line up Mark I...
That "wow" said it all
Nice one Andrew. You'll love track 2. It would have encouraged many to take Up drumming.
I sabbath sono dei grandi è affascinante tutta la storia che li riguarda.
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"Welcome, you'll never leave!"
🙈🙉🙊. Muwahahaha .....
I don't want to leave!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums Imagine saying that to Satan! ,"actually I don't want to leave " he'd be a bit flummoxed.. " oh , er OK make yourself at home .... er Cup of Tea ? " 👹
This album hit me when I was 13-14 around 1970. From being a 60s pop lover who loved the harder tracks by Kinks, Beatles etc this really was perfect for my curious mind. Sabbath, Purple, Zeppelin, UFO, Judas Priest, Uriah Heep etc took me on a musical journey in heavy music that continues to this day. And, yes, Soundgarden was very influenced by Black Sabbath.
I hear a lot of jazz in Bill and Geezer play.
DEFINITELY
Bill Ward kicks ass.
Magnificent Album listen to it most days
and metal was born
Yup!
A song that launched heavy-metal ..
Andrew, As you're a drummer does "Limb Independance" mean the same thing as "muscle memory"? Like a Vocal Coach said practiced singers don't think about every individual nuance, placement, it just comes to naturally. They hit the notes they want 'cos their vocal-chords - muscle-memory kicks in & knows their job!!
A little bit different. But yes in the end it should be natural and musically coherent
The song that birthed metal.
I couldn't imagine hearing this when it first came out. 1970, Jesus. Nothing sounded like this.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW'S VIDEO!!!!!! (sorry for the shouting - 'The Wizard' is my favourite Sabbath tune)
Yeah come on that hurt my ears!
I miss the old school days. Analog equipment. Single takes. Etc. Nowadays everything has to be perfect
And I love jazz 😍.
And anything Ozzy 🤘🤘🤘 go listen on your own to NIB. Awesome song. You can react if you want, but it's something I am asking you to do personally 💜. Much love my brother. Great commentary
Mike, Andrew is going to react to the whole album, so NIB is coming up.
@@mikeg.4211 I forgot it was on that album lol
Hey Mike! Yup entire album this week!
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What you are talking aboit with the comping. I remember him saying that when Tony hit those heavy dark riffs it gave him room to like get down. Damn it I can't remember the end of it. But basically he could get behind them and just get after it basically. God I wish I knew where to find that.