Sabbath ....

[bruno]

I saw them on the Heaven and Hell tour with Dio - friggin awesome, at the Hammy Odean. 5th row, by the bass bins - ears were ringing for a full week! That was a gig! I remember they broke out into a jazz number in the middle - quite odd!

I bought the classic sabbath teeshirt, with a cross. Got dragged to church next day, wearing the teeshirt, and went up for holy communion ... My mum still talks about the look on the Priest's face - opps.

B

[Facemask93]

````bruno , i sat next to Tony iommi at a wedding once , my first wife was best friends with his niece , he is a top guy , we saw sabbath two nights in a row at Birmingham town Hall , 3rd row from the front , my most favourite band ever

[bruno]

````bruno , i sat next to Tony iommi at a wedding once , my first wife was best friends with his niece , he is a top guy , we saw sabbath two nights in a row at Birmingham town Hall , 3rd row from the front , my most favourite band ever

Great story FM, that doesn't surprise me. There are some that you meet who a fantastic, and some you meet who are knobs. I met Jon Lord once, he was a top guy - really, really nice. Was going to the Marquee, and he was having a fag in a door way across the road - he spent ages talking to us, and signed all our jackets. Can't even remember who it was we were going to see! Sabbath were an almighty band. However, I find it odd now - as they were always an 'underground' band - not at all mainstream in any way. And now, Ozzy is such a high profile character - its all gone mainstream. Its odd, coz I was always in the 'out' crowd coz the music I liked! I used to work at the record counter in WhSmith. They music they played I hated at the time (I quite like it now - 70's disco), still, at the end of the day I'd get a chance to play my music (when nobody was in the store). I played a new band, the manager said to me "I don't know why you like that, they will never sell anything". The record was Hello America by Def Leopard. I had the last laugh. I've still got the single somewhere, along with Get Ya Rocks Off!!

The thing about Sabbath is they don't sound at old old - if you know what I mean. Some bands, even bands from the 90's, sound like they were recorded on wax cylinder :-) They sound from the past. Even the first album (still one of my faves - Songs my mum knows by heart), sounds relevant now. In fact there later albums sound more washed out (Technical Ecstasy), but Iron Man, War Pigs, Black Sabbath, The Wizard etc wow! Awesome and fresh. if you get my drift.

B

[phantasm777]

always was a sab fan THOUGH, I do not like all their songs, as a matter of fact, even the groups I like best I do not like all their songs! but they got me into metal, as the beatles got me into rock, so is it any wonder those are my 2 fav genre's!?

[peterp]

Good disks, picked the 2cd pack up from CostCo today!

Does have the sound reminiscent of the original early Sabbath!
Ozzy, Tony, and Geezer sound great and Brad Wilk the replacement "guest" drummer did an excellent job!