black sabbath

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Yes, but why do you like Slayer and the perennial awful Pantera? What is there possibly to like about a band where the lead vocalist sounds like he has had a red hot poker shoved up his **** just prior to going onstage, and the band just make a god-awful racket?

Stone Temple pilots and Soundgarden both left me cold. I can't recall ever listening to anything by The Screaming Trees, back in the days when I listened to a shedload of rock stuff.

Back in those days, I did like the 2 albums Dio made with Sabbath. Those two were much better than their '76 release from the band

Ozzy will be performing sitting down, I understand.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Ozzy will be performing sitting down, I understand.

If he survives until the gig

The original line up of sabbath were an incredible band but like all bands they burned out

It was great to see them in 1998 when even then they were huffing and puffing

But this is just a bit of a circus really

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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It's about taste isn't it ?

I think DIO was a dungeons and dragons midget , albeit with a powerful voice

I liked The Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell but Sabotage basically invented metal , Sabbath 70 to 76 were unstoppable and people into metal always refer back to them

Soundgarden were not a Grunge band .....they were a heavy rock band in the Led Zep school

Pantera and Slayer was all about the power and sometimes someone with a musically great voice just doesn't fit into a heavy style ......dimebag darrel was an incredible guitarist and changed metal from all the poodle haired and make up style , started by van halen but copied by poison and other rubbish .....to heavy riffing with a groove

Slayer after their first few albums of silly fret wanking slowed things down like sabbath and that's why they were such a success

I liked the 70s rock like rainbow , purple , uriah heep , whitesnake etc but it wasn't heavy enough

That's my opinion

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Yes, but why do you like Slayer and the perennial awful Pantera? What is there possibly to like about a band where the lead vocalist sounds like he has had a red hot poker shoved up his **** just prior to going onstage, and the band just make a god-awful racket?

Stone Temple pilots and Soundgarden both left me cold. I can't recall ever listening to anything by The Screaming Trees, back in the days when I listened to a shedload of rock stuff.

Back in those days, I did like the 2 albums Dio made with Sabbath. Those two were much better than their '76 release from the band

https://youtu.be/wddKYpdO1Mw?si=7cfnxnpq9lRqBhqP

Slayer slowed down , superb lyrics , clear and easy to hear

Powerful riffing , tight bass and drums

I can't stand silly speed metal , this sort of thing is top draw for metal heads with half a brain

The power might be too much for some , that's fine but it's not screaming nonsense with guitar solos so fast it's silly ��

[Tuerto]

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Ozzy will be performing sitting down, I understand.

On a commode.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Yes, but why do you like Slayer and the perennial awful Pantera? What is there possibly to like about a band where the lead vocalist sounds like he has had a red hot poker shoved up his **** just prior to going onstage, and the band just make a god-awful racket?

Stone Temple pilots and Soundgarden both left me cold. I can't recall ever listening to anything by The Screaming Trees, back in the days when I listened to a shedload of rock stuff.

Back in those days, I did like the 2 albums Dio made with Sabbath. Those two were much better than their '76 release from the band

https://youtu.be/p4nNvXvrWlE?si=13O2ZlCtxJLFfgwh

I close my eyes and walk 1000 years

That fecking voice is immense and that wailing constant riff in the background

Now for some people you mention heavy rock or metal and they back away and think it's all screaming and fast guitar but the best stuff is slow yet powerful

Lamb of God do some amazing guitar riffs but it's spoilt by silly grunting by the lead singer ....I am with you on that , not my thing

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Well we all get there in the end

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Ozzy will be performing sitting down, I understand.

I suppose that singing 'Iron Man' whilst wearing calipers would work.

[Heathblue]

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Just seen some video of this concert, incredible that a band throughout the period that they lived through are all still Alive and Kicking!! but seeing Ozzy sat in a chair doing this is sad. I did see BS at the capitol theatre Nov 13, 1975 I would have been 14 and remember the concert as brilliant and whilst a massive fan of Richie Blackmores work at the time (i also saw Rainbow at the same venue during this period) I do remember thinking that Tony Iommi shaded it for sound although still think that Blackmore was/is technically a better player with more attitude.

[ToTaL ITK]

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See! we can have a normal thread without arguing about who killed who.

[Moodybluebird]

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I forked out 75p and saw them in the Capitol (with two supporting bands) in 1973.

I'm pretty sure I was there. I saw them twice in the Capitol in the early 70's. The first gig was great but the second was beset by technical issues, which ruined the continuity of their performance.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I'm pretty sure I was there. I saw them twice in the Capitol in the early 70's. The first gig was great but the second was beset by technical issues, which ruined the continuity of their performance.

They were supported by Badger and Necromandus if I remember rightly.

[Armitage Shanks]

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I wonder if Sludge went

[FormerlyJohnnyBreadhead]

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Jeez Sludgey, Pantera and Slayer are just plain awful. What do you see in either band? I had the misfortune of seeing Pantera at Donington Monsters of Rock in 1994. Phil Anselmo cannot just cannot sing, he grunts, and shouts, no finesse in his vocal abilities at all, and the band play a tuneless racket at 1000mph. Totally awfuk!! AIC to my ears anyway, were the only half decent band to come out of the Grunge movement

Slayer get a bit of shit because they weren't the most technically gifted band (although Dave Lombardo was/is a superb drummer).

I've gotta say you're way off to call Pantera a tuneless racket though. The heart and soul was always Dimebag, who was an absolutely phenomenal guitar player, and the current iteration of the band (without him and Vinnie) are a shadow. Phil's voice has always been about power rather than finesse, although his vocals on some of Down's stuff is surprisingly melodic.

Each to their own though, of course.

As for Sabbath, everyone's talking about the state of Ozzy when all I could think was how good Geezer Butler still is. Looks like he could smash out a world tour with no issues.

[dandywarhol]

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My mate bought the first Sabbath album but in the day. The following week he, said he'd bought another albumn. I said what have you bought he said the new seekers..