![]() Pittsburgh 74 (A National Acrobat Live, Cornucopia, better than Alexandria 73)īristol 75 and San Berandino 75 - not best quality but good w a good pair of headphones, overall a good tour Sheffield 71 (Into the Void, After forever live)ĭayton 72 (Wheels of Confusion and Under the Sun live)Īustralia Tour 73 shows (Changes, all around solid shows and good remastered recordings)Īustralia Tour 74 shows, specfically Sydney (Megalomania demos, great jams, etc. San Francisco 70 (Speed corrected version is tolerable early sabbath very nice) Nashville 1978 <- horrid vocals but great qualityĪbilene 1978 <- bill ward kills it on this tour, there's a lot of 76-78 soundboards out there so im missing a lotĭumfries 69 (Warning Live, A Song for jim, etc)īerlin 70 (A solid early show bootleg thats very common) Hammersmith Odeon 1978 <-great quality but not best performance Steve Huey LP Track Listing:1 Wheels of Confusion 2 Tomorrow's Dream 3 Changes 4 FX 5 Supernaut 6 Snowblind 7 Cornucopia 8 Laguna Sunrise 9 St.Been collecting and listening to sabbath bootlegs since i became a fan in 2011.īrussels aka Paris 1970 (available in parts on "past lives")Įlectric Circus Lausanne 1970 (recently surfaced)īrescia 1973 <- the new 2nd master blew me away in terms of how amazingly clear it sounds, guitar bass and drums all great, only thing is vocals are quiet and clapping is noticeable, its better than live at last thoughĪsbury Park 1975 (available in parts on "past lives")įresno 1976 (soundboard and fm mixes are all over the place but great quality, look up "All Moving Parts Stand Still") Die-hard fans sick of the standards come here next, and some end up counting this as their favorite Sabbath record for it's eccentricities and for it's embodiment of the band's excesses. 4 is a less cohesive effort than it's two immediate predecessors, but is all the more fascinating for it. The underrated "Cornucopia" strikes a better balance of those elements, but by the time "Under the Sun" closes the album, the lyrics are mostly lost under a mountain of memorable, contrasting riffery. Many doom and stoner metal aficionados prize the second side of the album, where Osbourne's vocals gradually fade further and further away into the murk, and Iommi's guitar assumes center stage. 4 lies in the midtempo cocaine ode "Snowblind," which was originally slated to be the album's title track until the record company got cold feet, and the multi-sectioned prog-leaning opener, "Wheels of Confusion." The latter is one of Iommi's most complex and impressive compositions, varying not only riffs but textures throughout it's eight minutes. The notorious piano-and-Mellotron ballad "Changes" ultimately fails not because of it's change-of-pace mood, but more for a raft of the most horrendously clich?d rhymes this side of "moon-June."Even the crushing "Supernaut" - perhaps the heaviest single track in the Sabbath catalog - sticks a funky, almost danceable acoustic breakdown smack in the middle. ![]() Vitus Dance" is surprisingly upbeat, yet the distant-sounding vocals don't really register. The effectively concise "Tomorrow's Dream" has a chorus that could almost be called radio-ready, were it not for the fact that it only appears once in the entire song. 4 are as ultra-heavy as Master of Reality, yet the band also takes it's most blatant shots at accessibility to date - and then undercuts that very intent. Ozzy Osbourne's wail is becoming more powerful here, taking greater independence from Tony Iommi's guitar riffs, yet his vocals are processed into a nearly textural element on much of side two. As a result, there are some puzzling choices made here (not least of which is the inclusion of "FX"), and the album often contradicts itself. 4 has all the messiness of a heavy metal Exile on Main St., and if it lacks that album's overall diversity, it does find Sabbath at their most musically varied, pushing to experiment amidst the drug-addled murk. And it isn't just in the lyrics, most of which are about the blurry line between reality and illusion. 4 is the point in Black Sabbath's career where the band's legendary drug consumption really starts to make itself felt. 2015 Sanctuary Records UK repress180g Vinyl LP?Vol.
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