Magnificent bastards!

Crakerasscracker: Magnificent bastards!

Perfectly said. Think about the state of music when these guys crashed the scene. And this was always one of my favorite songs by them.

Superb all the way around. Tony was fantastic, Ozzy's voice was amazing, Bill's drumming was monstrous, and Geezer was... well, Geezer was simply off the freakin' charts.

My favorite songs of theirs to play on the guitar.

KellyLockhart: Geezer was... well, Geezer

Funny you mention that. As I was listening to it I'm reminded that he is one of Rock's least appreciated and talented bassists. I guess it's Alex Lifeson Syndrom - greatness outshined by perfection.

A nice shot of the drummer's plumbers crack, too.

Hail Sab

Great stuff.

Was the ever a more unlikely rock star than Ozzy?

That sweet sounding "octaves" part of the guitar lick at about 0:40
is pure Wes Montgomery.

I play bass in a three piece band and I stole the bass line from "Planet Caravan" and we do some kinda spacey early Pink Floyd
sounding stuff around it that sounds a bit like "Careful With that Axe,Eugene"

...so naturally,our shamelessly derivative song is called:

"Planet Eugene"

son, youve gone too far

trippin and smokin is all they probably did :)

I love the way these guys rock.

Without the power cord, they'd just be Kansas.

kaminariko: Without the power cord, they'd just be Kansas.

Without the power cord, nobody could hear them. And they couldn't surf for pr0n.

kaminariko: cord

Terrible. Sorry bout that. It was early and my "H's" were still sleeping.

Even better (search for it your damn self) is that the saw that cost Iommi the upper part of his fingers sold for around $20K at an auction when the shop sold off old equipment, the owner didn't know Tony even worked there until told.

Many expletives were unleashed by the owner after realizing he owned the machine responsible for dropped "D" tuning and the birth of heavy metal. (No - Led Zepplin were NEVER heavy metal.)

Jedekai .....dropped "D" tuning


"Dropped D" is when you only flatten the E string to D.

Black Sabbath never played in "drop D" to my knowledge.

Iommi always lowered all six of the guitar.
Usually c# and sometimes C.

Live in Paris 1970 (new window)

it's all about dropped A, yo. metal means the strings are hanging limply of the neck.
//pretty sure sabbath was standard tuning a few steps down...

satanicsantoku: it's all about dropped A, yo. metal means the strings are hanging limply of the neck.
//pretty sure sabbath was standard tuning a few steps down...

Yeah, but I think Iommi uses very thick strings to get a heavier sound.

craigdamage

"Dropped D" is when you only flatten the E string to D.

Black Sabbath never played in "drop D" to my knowledge.

Iommi always lowered all six of the guitar.
Usually c# and sometimes C.

Dropped D is the standard tuning on a seven-string guitar so the top three, when barred, form a universally tacky chord.

Or, if you were a teenager during the god-awful "Nu Metal" years the "Korn" chord.

C#, not c#, btw, heavy difference (sorry, pun): c# is the standard tuning for most death/thrash (Slayer, Death) guitar while C# is more classical influence and perjorative of NWOBHM (notably Saxon or or latter-form Scandinavian death and black metal. Referenced in slang as the "Gothenberg" sound.)

Iommi was also prone to using full-fledged bass strings for E, A and D and the normal EAD wraps for G, B and E. "Symptom of The Universe" and "Hand of Doom" are notable for this.

/Far as I remember.
//

Thanks Subby!

/It's great to get home from a hard day of drinking and find this gem.

Jedekai:Dropped D is the standard tuning on a seven-string guitar so the top three, when barred, form a universally tacky chord. Or, if you were a teenager during the god-awful "Nu Metal" years the "Korn" chord.

It's a power chord, you prig. As used by the Pistols, the Clash, Nirvana, and every other goddamn band to ever use overdrive or distortion, just played in a different tuning. Neil Young uses drop-D to play acoustic, too, although I think he drops both top and bottom strings.

C#, not c#, btw, heavy difference (sorry, pun): c# is the standard tuning for most death/thrash (Slayer, Death)

I know Slayer didn't start using c# until 2001 and God Hates Us All (on Diabolus In Musica they used, guess what, Drop-D), and I'm kind of dubious about the extent to which it's used in other thrash, especially the 80s stuff. Death metal bands turn up with anything from E to A, there's no significant 'standard'.

To quote the last line in this song ...

"YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHH!"

/heh I suggested this last week, cool subby

Black Sabbath drinking game:

Put on any of the first three Sabbath albums, and do a shot every time Ozzy says "All right now!"

power CORD, subby?