You two are so much fun to watch, great chemistry together! Geezer and JPJ were my first two idols of rock bass, so thank you so much for this vid. It reminds me so much of learning his lines as a budding young bassist 45 years ago. Geezer is probably THE most influential bassist of his era. I mean, how many of us started out in our first band, learning Paranoid, and Iron Man?? Millions I'm sure. I know I did.
Actually sir, Rotosounds have been around since about 1966. (Check out the Who Sell out Album commercial for them). They became available in the U.S. a year or so later. Ronnie Wood was using them on his Tele bass in the Jeff Beck truth band in 68. That’s when I met him at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit and he recommended them to me. So round wound bass guitar strings have been around for a while. Great show ya’ll. Enjoy it very much!
Geezer didn't use flat strings but old round strings. Geezer said that in an interview, he used roundwounds that were so old and worn and sounded like flats.
Geezer is the reason i play bass today, the first time i heard the "thunder fingers" line in iron man, i was like I NEED TO SOUND LIKE THAT... 20 years later the rest is history, i never clicked an SBL video so fast, good job on learning those on the fly btw!!!! love to see the gears chugging along in someones head.
LOVE GEEZER! He's the GOAT, and one of the reasons I play bass. I don't think I ever clicked on one of your videos so fast. I also love that you gave props to the "Dehumanizer" album, which is criminally underrated.
I saw Sabbath the 1st time they played Detroit, the Eastown theater, 1970 opening for Fleetwood Mac. After a bombastic nonstop set 1/2 the crowd left when Fleetwood started to play, in shock after experiencing Butler & Iommi peeling the paint off the walls.
Geezer will always be one of the greatest bassists and one of the absolute metal GOATs, I've always loved his playing and my band has played Paranoid and War Pigs at our own shows (which sound really damn good on my Rickenbacker, since Geezer had a brief stint with one in the late '70s) and it's always been fun to play his riffs. Also to answer Ian's question about NIB at 13:53 it is indeed a bend that he's doing and that always made the riff sound so damn cool to me, and regarding the amps Geezer recorded Sabbath's debut with a Laney amp and a cabinet that only had three working speakers and that was how he got his distortion and that Tycobrahe was the wah he used and it actually belonged to Tony
I’d be down with that for sure, got a totally different (and more extreme) vibe to the things they usually do. Some of the great sludge bands (early Mastodon, Thou, early Melvins, early ISIS, etc.) would be another good place to mine some extreme bass goodness…
Black Sabbath Paranoid was the first vinyl I stole from my mother. Later came Iron Maiden, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Nazareth etc - but Black Sabbath started it all! I now have ALL her vinyls 😈 I brought out my P with flats and EMG Geezer pups for this video, and my neighbours are getting introduced to my new Ampeg tubeamp 🤘
This episode has the appropriate amount of Bill Ward appreciation. 🥁 Also, Geezer Butler wrote most of Black Sabbath's lyrics. My apologies if you mention that later (I haven't yet finished watching).
Their drummer, Bill Ward, was a huge force like many a British drummer… For me, they’re an alternative blues and rock band. Geezer fueled. Doesn’t matter if you use Rotosound (Jazz) flats or any other strings: just play your P hard!! You’re your own compression pedal for this music! 😂
Many don't know that Ronnie James Dio was a BASS player before getting famous as a singer. Check out the first self titled album by his band ELF. That's all Ronnie on bass!
RJD was also an amazing person. I was at dinner at a nice restaurant with my parents when he sat down at the table next us. He saw me staring and asked if I knew who he was. Stupefied I said "you're Ronny James Dio" and he said "I didn't know I had many fans you're age" He chatted with us until our order came. He was so kind and thoughtful.
Children of the Grave is a fantastic riff, as is Supernaught. Fairies Wear Boots and Planet Caravan show a different side to Sabbath as well. I would like to seee a video on Scorpions, specifically the Uli Roth era. Francis Buchholz is horribly underrated.
This was the perfect video! Sharon is too good to have only had to learn one of these songs. And…. I may have been playing NIB wrong for the last 30 years
Yes! Black Sabbath are the godfathers of Metal! Thank you, thank you and thank you again for featuring Geezer! 👍 Oh yes, and shame on you for missing out on "Mob Rules". 😁 THE iconic heavy metal album from the inventors of metal themselves! Every song a winner and an iconic shredder in their own right.
Get Jared Smith from Archspire on the show or Forest from First Fragment. We need to give tech death some more love. Under appreciated genre with amazing instrumentalists.
I'm going to suggest Rammstein as a band you have a blindspot for Some of those lines are what got me started on bass. They're simple, but they serve the song. Sonne is a bit of an interesting one as I think the bass plays something slightly different to the guitars, Engel is good for hammer ons and pull offs, Laichzeit is good for starting on the off beat, Buck Dich is good for building stamina. Those are my picks, definitely more rhythm focused than melodic. Afaik, Olli plays with his fingers on the recordings, but with a pick when playing live.
Excellent video as always, thanks. I know you already gave us the Dirk Lance interview, but please do a video with this format for Incubus, 311, Pearl Jam or Rage Against the Machine 🤘🏻🎸
We've got a RATM one here: ua-cam.com/video/peZ_JYViSS8/v-deo.htmlsi=fCKQ8AIdMdFjfvvE Most of the others ARE actually in discussion so hopefully in the near future 👀
Sharon and Jeri rocked the house!!!! Huge kudos... Is it me, or do I hear Black Sabbath influences in LOTS of bands thereafter; i.e.: Metallica????? Can y'all do STP? That would be great, but finding someone that hasn't already hear their songs would be tough.
How about some love for the late great Phil Lesh? I've never seen the Grateful Dead discussed on this page and while they're DEFINITELY NOT for everyone (let's face it, the Dead are a very divisive band), Phil was an absolutely amazing bass player.
Man, if I say 7 more , will you do a part 2, pleeeease? There you go: Hand of Doom, Fairies Wear Boots, The Wizard, Into the Void, Sweet Leaf, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Black Sabbath, there, 7 more
Very fine work chaps, glorious and well done. Please please please please make a similar vid about the great Sir Roger Glover. Please look at most of the songs from the Machine Head album (but not "Smoke"... please🙏). And note the subtle hint of jazz... (try Lazy) that's not usual in heay rock and the ultra rare bass solo in Pictures of Home. It's the best rock album ever and Mr Glover the backbone (with Mr Lord close behind GRHS ❤)
Would love to see a "punk rock takes no talent" look at bass parts from Rob Wright, Klaus Flouride, Scott Shiflett, Fat Mike, Matt Freeman, and a host of others from that world that write some rippers.
Never clicked as thumbnail as fast. Geezer's basslines got me into the instrument.
same🔥
@@maximgulyaev1635Same here Guys! And that right hand technique is awesome.
same
Same here bro. Huge influence
Ditto
You two are so much fun to watch, great chemistry together! Geezer and JPJ were my first two idols of rock bass, so thank you so much for this vid. It reminds me so much of learning his lines as a budding young bassist 45 years ago. Geezer is probably THE most influential bassist of his era. I mean, how many of us started out in our first band, learning Paranoid, and Iron Man?? Millions I'm sure. I know I did.
I’ve been waiting so long for a geezer episode!! And yes it is a bend in NIB
Saw him live at 17, picked up the bass instead of the guitar, never stopped. The best of the best
Actually sir, Rotosounds have been around since about 1966. (Check out the Who Sell out Album commercial for them). They became available in the U.S. a year or so later. Ronnie Wood was using them on his Tele bass in the Jeff Beck truth band in 68. That’s when I met him at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit and he recommended them to me. So round wound bass guitar strings have been around for a while. Great show ya’ll. Enjoy it very much!
FINALLY SOME GEEZER LOVE also at 3:17 the note on the 7th fret bends up instead of sliding to the 8th
Nib that 8th fret should be a 7 bent up
I thought the same thing
FINALLY! Sabbath rules. Can we get a John Paul Jones video next?
Geezer didn't use flat strings but old round strings.
Geezer said that in an interview, he used roundwounds that were so old and worn and sounded like flats.
I was waiting for Ian to do the "Oh yeah!" in NIB, and he didn't disappoint! Great job on Geezer y'all.
Sharon's great. Really liked watching her pick things up. Would have liked to have seen her reaction to the bass behind the first solo on War Pigs.
A correction: Vinnie Appice didn't join Sabbath until the Heaven and Hell tour, Bill Ward plays on the album!
Geezer is the reason i play bass today, the first time i heard the "thunder fingers" line in iron man, i was like I NEED TO SOUND LIKE THAT... 20 years later the rest is history, i never clicked an SBL video so fast, good job on learning those on the fly btw!!!! love to see the gears chugging along in someones head.
You two are great fun. Ian you consistently inspire me with your positive attitude and love of music. Sharon great playing and awesome pup.
How about The Cure iconic basslines?! Simon Gallup!
LOVE GEEZER! He's the GOAT, and one of the reasons I play bass. I don't think I ever clicked on one of your videos so fast. I also love that you gave props to the "Dehumanizer" album, which is criminally underrated.
I saw Sabbath the 1st time they played Detroit, the Eastown theater, 1970 opening for Fleetwood Mac. After a bombastic nonstop set 1/2 the crowd left when Fleetwood started to play, in shock after experiencing Butler & Iommi peeling the paint off the walls.
Loved every riff on this on this one. Excellent work!
The inventors of heavy metal. They’re absolute legends.
YOU KNOW WHO ELSE IS ABSOLUTE LEGEND?
Sharon is AWESOME. More Sharon content please. And pay her more ok scott.
There is no Black Sabbath without Bill Ward. A tribute band.
No Bill, no thrill
Geezer will always be one of the greatest bassists and one of the absolute metal GOATs, I've always loved his playing and my band has played Paranoid and War Pigs at our own shows (which sound really damn good on my Rickenbacker, since Geezer had a brief stint with one in the late '70s) and it's always been fun to play his riffs. Also to answer Ian's question about NIB at 13:53 it is indeed a bend that he's doing and that always made the riff sound so damn cool to me, and regarding the amps Geezer recorded Sabbath's debut with a Laney amp and a cabinet that only had three working speakers and that was how he got his distortion and that Tycobrahe was the wah he used and it actually belonged to Tony
Love this. Spent months getting “War Pigs” down. Lots of box shapes and very quick. Sounds awesome 🤘
Wow, you completely made my day!! Geezer has always been a primary influence on my sound. Good job guys!!
Woooo been hoping for a Geezer video at some point. One of the GOATs!
I’d love some Sleep and Om riffage on this channel
I’d be down with that for sure, got a totally different (and more extreme) vibe to the things they usually do. Some of the great sludge bands (early Mastodon, Thou, early Melvins, early ISIS, etc.) would be another good place to mine some extreme bass goodness…
Black Sabbath Paranoid was the first vinyl I stole from my mother. Later came Iron Maiden, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, Nazareth etc - but Black Sabbath started it all!
I now have ALL her vinyls 😈
I brought out my P with flats and EMG Geezer pups for this video, and my neighbours are getting introduced to my new Ampeg tubeamp 🤘
SOOO OVERDUE! Thank you! Geezer is why I chose bass
Thank you!!! This was my first bass influence. I love exposing young people to this music
one of my favorite players across any genre
I love the excitement in Ian’s face throughout this whole video 😊.
OMG thank you for the Geezer highlight!!!!
This episode has the appropriate amount of Bill Ward appreciation. 🥁
Also, Geezer Butler wrote most of Black Sabbath's lyrics. My apologies if you mention that later (I haven't yet finished watching).
Oh, and Bill Ward was still in the band on 'Heaven and Hell'; he left before 'Mob Rules.'
Couldn't click on this one fast enough. GZR = the GOAT!!!!
MIIIIIIIIIIIKE 🤘
@@devinebass YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH boi!!!! :)
Classics SBL omitted - Fairies Wear Boots, Sweet Leaf and HOLE IN THE SKY!!!
Their drummer, Bill Ward, was a huge force like many a British drummer…
For me, they’re an alternative blues and rock band. Geezer fueled.
Doesn’t matter if you use Rotosound (Jazz) flats or any other strings: just play your P hard!! You’re your own compression pedal for this music! 😂
First time I've heard Master of Insanity. What an amazing bassline!
Tony Iommi, the Riff Machine! 🤘🤘🤘
Many don't know that Ronnie James Dio was a BASS player before getting famous as a singer. Check out the first self titled album by his band ELF. That's all Ronnie on bass!
Never clicked on a video faster🔥🔥🔥
Slipping Away off Mob Rules is an absolute killer line. It also comes with a dualing bass and guitar solo as a bonus!
RJD was also an amazing person. I was at dinner at a nice restaurant with my parents when he sat down at the table next us. He saw me staring and asked if I knew who he was. Stupefied I said "you're Ronny James Dio" and he said "I didn't know I had many fans you're age" He chatted with us until our order came. He was so kind and thoughtful.
Finally I almost gave up hope. Great choice! I love you guys.
I love everything from Sabbath, so, please... mr. NEIL MURRAY! He made sick lines in Whitesnake too.
GEEZER!!! He is the only reason I picked up a bass and never looked back. GOAT!!
Iron man was the first song I remember hearing at the age of 6. Still one of my favourite songs.
Geezer Butler is one of my favourite bassists ever
Children of the Grave is a fantastic riff, as is Supernaught. Fairies Wear Boots and Planet Caravan show a different side to Sabbath as well.
I would like to seee a video on Scorpions, specifically the Uli Roth era. Francis Buchholz is horribly underrated.
This was the perfect video! Sharon is too good to have only had to learn one of these songs. And…. I may have been playing NIB wrong for the last 30 years
It's one thing to play the riff at home but it's another to play on stage with power and conviction and also to full the holes in a three band.
Yes! Black Sabbath are the godfathers of Metal! Thank you, thank you and thank you again for featuring Geezer! 👍
Oh yes, and shame on you for missing out on "Mob Rules". 😁 THE iconic heavy metal album from the inventors of metal themselves! Every song a winner and an iconic shredder in their own right.
Caravan bass lines by Richard Sinclair, or Ray Shulman on Gentle Giant!
Thanks guys! 😃
Get Jared Smith from Archspire on the show or Forest from First Fragment. We need to give tech death some more love. Under appreciated genre with amazing instrumentalists.
I'm going to suggest Rammstein as a band you have a blindspot for
Some of those lines are what got me started on bass. They're simple, but they serve the song. Sonne is a bit of an interesting one as I think the bass plays something slightly different to the guitars, Engel is good for hammer ons and pull offs, Laichzeit is good for starting on the off beat, Buck Dich is good for building stamina. Those are my picks, definitely more rhythm focused than melodic. Afaik, Olli plays with his fingers on the recordings, but with a pick when playing live.
I’ve been waiting for the geezer vid
NIB was titled after Tony's beard. NIB as in the tip of a pencil. According to Geezer in his book Into The Void
Gotta listen to Geezer's riffs on the 13 album, and his solo G/Z/R material is killer too.
Tycho Brahe was danish astronomer, it's a spacy pedal.
Awesome! Great bassist in this video. Sharon, you crush, crash, smash and bsh.
finally some love to GZR. extra like for remembering Junior's Eyes
Ian, giving proper respect to Geezer and Dio...there's a man who knows his rock! RIP Dio, best front man ever.
You're probably right about the strings. Geezer uses DR Strings and usually uses Black Beauties. Love these strings myself.
PJ bass with active pickups and La Bella flat wounds right here!
HELL YEAH GEEZER IS LEGENDARY
YESSSS ABOUT TIME GEEZER FRIGGIN RULES
Wishing Well would have been a fun one for this format.
FINALLY!!!
N.I.B drive thing is Geezer going into Tony's pedalboard and maybe amp
Very cool
Electric Funeral is one of his bests
Geezer is the reason i play bass today
Excellent video as always, thanks. I know you already gave us the Dirk Lance interview, but please do a video with this format for Incubus, 311, Pearl Jam or Rage Against the Machine 🤘🏻🎸
We've got a RATM one here: ua-cam.com/video/peZ_JYViSS8/v-deo.htmlsi=fCKQ8AIdMdFjfvvE
Most of the others ARE actually in discussion so hopefully in the near future 👀
@devinebass Thank you so much. Kind regards 🤘🏻
Love you two. Thank you.
I beg for more Bootsy stuff 60s era. And how about Winton Felder, Come On In Love, Barry White?❤
Sharon and Jeri rocked the house!!!! Huge kudos... Is it me, or do I hear Black Sabbath influences in LOTS of bands thereafter; i.e.: Metallica????? Can y'all do STP? That would be great, but finding someone that hasn't already hear their songs would be tough.
geezer is the goat. got my flats. got my EMG Geezer PUs.
Iron Man IS in Em. But... The main riff starts on the fifth, the B
I love the Ironman bit. 😂 such good spirits
@26:00 GHOST. You can include their cover of Phantom of the Opera by Iron Maiden
WOW!
bro lord of this world, wicked world
Dio played the trombone before becoming a pro vocalist. He credited the horn with giving him the breathing technique that gave him his power.
That 5 string IS metal as heck
How about some love for the late great Phil Lesh? I've never seen the Grateful Dead discussed on this page and while they're DEFINITELY NOT for everyone (let's face it, the Dead are a very divisive band), Phil was an absolutely amazing bass player.
I would love to hear a 311 one... P-Nut kicks ass
finally, SBL teaches us how to play iron man.
Would love to hear and see some Ian Dury And The Blockheads!!! 🤠👍
Man, if I say 7 more , will you do a part 2, pleeeease? There you go: Hand of Doom, Fairies Wear Boots, The Wizard, Into the Void, Sweet Leaf, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Black Sabbath, there, 7 more
That was great fun! try REALLY old Judas Priest
With the holiday's coming up, here's a fun fact: The lyrics for "War Pigs" and "Deck the Halls" can be swapped in either direction.
R.I.P. Ronnie. Best metal singer of all time!
Very fine work chaps, glorious and well done. Please please please please make a similar vid about the great Sir Roger Glover. Please look at most of the songs from the Machine Head album (but not "Smoke"... please🙏). And note the subtle hint of jazz... (try Lazy) that's not usual in heay rock and the ultra rare bass solo in Pictures of Home. It's the best rock album ever and Mr Glover the backbone (with Mr Lord close behind GRHS ❤)
Now pt2 with some songs from Master of Reality? Pretty please haha
Geezer is one of the men who taught me to play bass, even if he is unaware of it.
26:37 - the dog styling on us
Please dig into The Cure.
Their sound defined a culture, and the bass is equally as important as the vocals.
Check out Dave Driewitz of Ween. Especially the live stuff, it really showcases their exceptional rhythm section.
Now do Cliff’s five best bass riffs.
Chi cheng deftones video🙏
Love the content keep it up
I love "Hand of doom" by BS
It's a Laney guitar amp he's playing through with a blown speaker
Matte black, it’s so metal. Giggle.
This was fun
Would love to see a "punk rock takes no talent" look at bass parts from Rob Wright, Klaus Flouride, Scott Shiflett, Fat Mike, Matt Freeman, and a host of others from that world that write some rippers.