@Lloyd Porter That will never happen because the media and a few demagogues who benefit from it, will continue to push the racist victimization narrative. The real situation has NEVER been about race, it is about classism...plain and simple. It's a Divide and conquer tactic and idiots still continue buy into it.
The really mind-blowing thing is that they started as a blue eyed blues band, got inspired by a horror movie and mutated their blues sound into what is generally considered the first metal album. Jethro Tull started as blue eyed blues too and Iommi was very briefly part of Tull. Both iconic bands ended up being pioneers in new genres.
@@herrbonk3635 It's just a term that was coined for blues and soul played by white (usually British) musicians who were deeply influenced by the previous generation of African-American artists. The artists weren't necessarily blue eyed. It was just a reference to a typically caucasian trait to describe their particular style of Blues, which drew from a different set of struggles (often white working class experiences) but paid homage to the musicians that influenced them.
I'm 73, and as a Double Jeopardy Vietnam War Veteran, this song was my personal anthem. I still rock right out to it. Thank you Black Sabbath, and you too Jamel for bringing it to me.
Rock on Brother! I’m female, Army veteran from early 80 and still head bang to this. Can’t bang my head , neck , hip and back too much because of surgeries but I turned my young grand children on to it. Told em this is the real shit. So , naturally they told their parents Grammie was head banging to shit music. My kids grew up with it so they didn’t freak just watch the bad words. Ha!
Damn everyone talk'n about the drums, (yeah he's killing them) but if the camera was on Geezer more y'all realize the drum kit probably feels sorry for what the bass is going through
9:15 That transition gets me all the time. Billy Ward is killing it, Oz gnashing his teeth, Tony burning his guitar, and Geezer holding down the fort. This is not a simple piece of music to build and arrange. This is when they came into their own and started a whole gendre. Different from Hendrix and The Who…another animal entirely. Thanks for pulling this one out.
Fun Fact: Tony Iommi, the guitarist, lost the tips of his fingers in an accident while working his day job at a steel mill . Normally, this would spell the end of one's career as a guitarist, however he crafted leather-covered thimbles and tuned his guitar lower than standard to make it easier for him to play. These changes only served to make his sound more darker and evil-sounding, going with the aesthetic that Sabbath were working on. So lift your goblet high and drink a toast to Tony Iommi, the inventor of heavy metal guitar.
Tony melts down plastic liquid soap bottles to make thimbles for his missing fingers . Then he glues leather strips to the plastic so he can grip/bend strings . He did down tune to C from E standard on their 3rd album but this was a response to Ozzys inability to hit certain notes . At least according to Geezer and Tony . If your interested you’ll notice while this was originally recorded in E standard this version is tuned down a half step .
@@gilbertspader7974 And he used very thin strings (8, 8, 11, 18, 24, 32) tuned down a semi-tone. Together with a Laney Supergroup and a Dallas Rangemaster he got that heavy sound. Don't believe people who say that heavy strings are necessary for tone.
somehow they thought that the drummer from rage against the machine was a suitable replacement for their 13 album... i just don't understand that, still..... BILL WARD IS HARDLY SIMILAR to him. that dude wishes he was bill ward level lol. not that he's a bad drummer... just... not the same whatsoever
@@fonsecorona No doubt there were many bands that contributed, but there isn't a rock band out there whose influences can't be traced back to the Sabbath DNA .
Everyone knows that Sabbath is based on Iommi's riffs and Geezer's lyrics. It's nice to see someone acknowledge Bill Ward's frenetic drums and Ozzy's passionate vocals. This is why this is my all time favorite band,
I remember many years ago now, while Ozzy still had a TV show, after he had an accident on his quad bike, broke his neck, and he's all messed up from the years of drug abuse, and hard living, he did a show, and he shuffles up onto the stage, mumbles something incoherent into the microphone, and hes's kinda sad looking, then he starts to sing, and all of a sudden that voice comes out strong and powerful, the words clear, and it's like he's 20 again, he just starts to rock the stage. Does the full concert, and he's a powerhouse through the whole thing. And when the concert is over, and the music stops ... all that energy seems to leave, and then he's just Ozzy again, you watch that, and it's both magical and painful. He's still got it though, that magic that makes a mere mortal into a god (at least for a little while), it's in there somewhere, whenever he sings.
@@nooneofimportance2110 Yeah - we’re all getting older. I always said to my friends when I was a teen that I’ll end up in a rocking chair, rocking to this music. Now I’m pushing 70 and still love rocking to all the bands of the 60s and 70s.
I'm going to remember your line "when you are singing with your eyes closed, you are not there. You are where those lyrics were created" for the rest of my life. That's beautiful.
That's exactly how I feel when I'm performing a song I wrote. If am playing someone else's song and singing I am transported to where I was when that song took on a meaning for me
I just thought about blast beats in metal today....they wouldn't exist if it weren't for the founders or metal...just incredible this happened in the '70s and is a driving force in today's music. Just simpily amazing
Black Sabbath. Live 1970. War pigs with the original "Walpurgis" lyrics. It doesn't get better than this. Glad you enjoyed;Bill Ward is an absolute BEAST!!!
One of the all time great war protest songs. This was also a time period where rock started becoming harder and edgier with heavier distortion on the guitars. The drumming for this song is iconic and insane. If you want another example of crazy good drumming, check out No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age. Dave Grohl's drumming in that song reminiscent of Bill Ward's drumming in this song
@@thewildhealer541 No, I'm sure that I joke about it being Bill Ward and specifically this performance. But you can modify that joke for yourself any way you see fit, it's public domain
@@aaronsilver1975 no, I'm pretty sure I say Bill Ward. You all can stop naming drummers because it doesn't make any sense. Animal is modelled after Keith Moon btw., but I still make that joke with Bill Ward, because of his look and his behaviour in this video
@@lafoonxiii5311 thanks for throwing Geezer in there, he's doing shit on the bass that makes the drums think "damn we got rough, but at least we aint that bass!" Besides he's the primary songwriter.
Yeah Bill is a powerhouse. Ozzy never sounded better, and Geezer is a mad man on bass. But Tonni Iommi guitar playing can't be denied. Also on his right hand? He has homemade prosthetic finger tips. Lost them in an accident while working in a foundry in England.
Iommi explained in an interview if he had realized how much pain he would in for the rest of his career he would have switched hands immediately and learned to play left handed
Did you have to say it like that?!?! I was born 1970 and you come out with that "half a century ago? You are a sadistic person. Just having some fun with you (some might take that seriously).
Their music is so intense in this, it sounds like they're exorcising all their anger, pain and sadness at once and only this level of heaviness could've expressed it. Tony Iommi's guitar sometimes seriously sounds like it's screaming and crying out these melancholic melodies, it gives me shivers every time I hear this. When you consider what this band was, basically the burnouts and rejects nobody else wanted to play with according to Ozzy's book, with a guitar player with no fingertips, a bassist with a drug charge, a singer with jailhouse tattoos and a drummer who couldn't afford shoes...all at a time when none of this shit was a cool, corporation-sanitized image...you understand how honest and hard every aspect of it is and what an amazing band Black Sabbath was. PS: Your reaction videos make me listen to my favorite music like it's the first time again, thanks for that!
Summed up perfectly, especially the last part. I'm always at a loss because there's no "love" button and "like" just doesn't express my gratitude for these videos!
My Vietnam Veteran neighbour says if it's too loud he'll be knockin on the front door to my house with a 6 pack of beer. Black Sabbath fully rock. Turn em up cob🤙😎
Bill ward is one of the most underrated drummers. He was doing what no one else could do and didn't know it himself. Neil has the technique but bill has the groove and feeling m
@@rosemarie92123 Helter Skelter was a song to move your head up and down, but Ozzy is headbanging through the songs on the stage, that's the difference. Same goes with horns sign and Dio.
There are many earlier predecessors It can be argued that metals roots are as early as Helter Skelter by the Beatles and its heavily influenced by Jazz
@@dustinjames1268 Yeah, but no one did the way Sabbath did, most bands had a little something on Heavy Metal creation, but Sabbath was a 100% a metal band, Sabbath metal was closer to what Heavy Metal became than other bands before.
@@gabrielmartines3510 Yup, actually, I found this in a book; it explained it perfectly:"Let me put it this way: We technically call something "innovative" if we weren't prepared for it to happen, for example, thanks to the new wave of British heavy metal, the ingredients of thrash were in the air when Metallica came on the scene, or death metal was just a neutral step from Slayer-like music. But there was nothing close to the doomy, evil sound of Black Sabbath in 1968, it wasn't "in the air" like the stomping rock n roll of Deep Purple and the combination of folk and blues rock of Led Zeppelin, sure, by combining these two elements, Zeppelin DID create something new, but was it an unpredictable breakthrough? No. I mean, who expected such a dark,gloomy and scary sound that Sabbath created? We're talking about the late 60s. Sure, Sabbath was influenced by the Beatles and blues rock of the time, but they took things in a direction that was not anticipated, the world was simply taken aback by the sound of the song "Black Sabbath ", it's definitely the first heavy metal song( I'm not even gonna argue about Blue Cheer)."
This type of reaction videos are so weird, I don’t get why I kinda like them, but I do. It’s the ultimate proof that we humans derive meaning from social contact. I don’t really have friends I can sit down and show these clips to so I see this mans reactions in order to have mine are validated in some kind of way.
I've had a theory that what we like about music can be categorized in five different ways: 1- Is it beautiful, aesthetically pleasing? (Melody, harmony) 2- Does it move us physically? (Rhythm) 3- Does it move us emotionally? (Art... can easily be conflated with #1) 4- Socialization. (Sometimes related to #2, but also related to how we use it to have shared experiences with others) 5- Is this new and interesting? (Experimentation) That fourth one has always been such a big deal. We feel the emotion of music differently when it's a social experience. Concerts can be more emotional than records, especially when you participate by singing along in a group... this is one reason worship music is often greater than the sum of its parts. I think it's why Top 40 pop songs are such a focus for so many people. Pop songs aren't inherently good or bad, but the simple fact that they are popular in their particular time and place sort of ties people to those times and places. I'm 35, it's easy for me to relate to someone else who is around my age, because we might both hear Outkast's "Hey Ya" and immediately both feel transported to our college years, nostalgic about our early adulthood. And I think it's why we desire to talk to others about the music we like. Ultimately, this is what these reaction videos are all about. Many of us aren't here to expand our horizons like Mr. Jamel is. Many of us look for that validation and confirmation: yes, other people enjoy our music too, let's share that love together.
I’ve always thought that the drum variations throughout the song were meant to represent the sound of different gunshots on the battlefield... cannons, machine guns, rifles, bombs 💣 💀
This was probably recorded before the song was recorded for the Paranoid album, if only because of the extra lyrics not included on the album version of the song. Not unheard of for a band to "test out" a song in front of a live audience and see if it works before committing the time and effort to put it on record. The entire Paranoid album is something of an eye-opening listen, especially if you have the preconceived notion that Black Sabbath is somehow a "satanic" band. Most notable is probably the third track "Planet Caravan", a sort of jazzy space-rock song full of psychedelic imagery. The second side opens with another cautionary tale of nuclear holocaust in "Electric Funeral", the somewhat scary (for the time) imagery of "Hand of Doom" and it's decidedly anti-drug message is followed by the instrumental "Rat Salad" that leads directly in to another song about the dangers of drug abuse, although this one is a bit more fanciful, called 'Fairies Wear Boots". All of the tracks on this album, including the title track and "Iron Man" (yeah, that Iron Man) are extremely heavy, especially for 1970. This version of the band was both learning what worked and exploring that heavy sound, finding out where it could go. It's ultimate strength is in its coherence. Every song complements the next allowing the whole of the album to work almost seamlessly. This is more effective on the second side than the first, to be sure, but the effect is also prevalent on the first side. Worth listening to as a whole sometime.
they went through several sets on lyrics on this song before settling on what we now know best from the lp there is a live version from germany in concert that are different from this
The fact that Ozzy is still with us releasing albums is amazing. Can't understand half he says talking but when he signs it is clear. Thank you Sharon for keeping him with us all these years.
I went to so many concerts when I was a teenager and now l'm in my 60's and l'm reliving those days by watching Jamal connect to the music l grew up with and enjoying it as much as I do, still to this day😜🤟Thanks!
Black Sabbath. The name says it all. The darker realities of life conveyed in masterpiece after masterpiece. The best way to journey with this legendary foursome is to start at the beginning. That starts with their own title track. The song is about a nightmare. Fittingly the name of the piece is called Black Sabbath. And at the perfect season as Halloween approaches. To say listen to the song doesn't do it justice. It must be absorbed into the darkness of the soul. Happy Halloween season. Metal makes the world go round.
One of the funniest comments I ever read were WTTE that "Bill Ward was beating those drums like they owed him money". But it wasn't just Bill Ward; the entire band was feeding off of each other's energy during that song. You can see it in the occasional eye contact they make with each other. That performance meant something to them, and still wows us (or at least me) over 50 years later.
This performance was 11/10. No auto tune, no back track, no bullshit. Just four lads who would become legends. I only wish it was with the final lyrics, I believe this was before Paranoid released and I much prefer the lyrics that ended up on the album. Still fucking dope though. Edit: I'm wrong. Paranoid was released in Sept 1970 and this performance was in Dec 1970.
I started listening to sabbath as a young boy in the 70s because of my older brothers. If I got close to volume knob I got punched in the gut repeatedly.
It is so great to see a younger man and have a honest opinion on the songs of my youth. makes me feel good to see you appreciate our time in music. peace.
Different lyrics than the studio version so you got to listen to that version too. Song was new at this time and Ozzy probably forgot them but he improvised like a champ. The guy they never show in this video is the author of this masterpiece...on bass Geezer Butler.
If you are taking about the original demo version the song war pigs by Black Sabbath is Walpurgues (Witchs gather in black masses bodies burning in red ashes on a hill a church in ruins is the seen of evil doing you)my favorite version
@@davidprobst4161 Nope those were the original lyrics from when the song was still called 'Walpurgis' as above poster stated,infact the song went through several rewrites before the version they recorded.
@@minners71 As I understand it, one of the reasons for the changed lyrics were the some murders by the Manson cult in the US and it was a pretty tense time and so they didn't want to freak people out. I prefer the Walpurgis lyrics myself.
For me Bill Ward is one of the best drummers ever...what a living legend
Really the rhythm section was dope period
Indeed, and just one bass drum
@Blue Orbee Political Predictions for me he’s tied with Neil peart
It's crazy cause it's a live performance, and they going ham.
This song is one of the main reasons why I wanted to play the drums
The nine dislikes are from Bill Ward's drums.
Now it is 13. Are the drums multiplying?
@@burnt-reynolds It's becoming a class action lawsuit on behalf of all percussion.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He still owes them time in an anger management class.
I lought my arse of when I read this. Sensational song.
Bill Ward is one of the greatest drummers in the world. The whole band was raw talent and groundbreaking
Bill Ward, Keith moon, John Bonham and Ginger Baker couldn't be touched in those days 🔥
@@scottbegonias313 hell yeah.. Bonham was something else entirely.. like from the 'dimension of drums'.
50 years later, and the war machine still churns.. nothing has changed!
War Machine = Money Maker for Big Banks … It's all about the money and power. It will never stop.
@Lloyd Porter That will never happen because the media and a few demagogues who benefit from it, will continue to push the racist victimization narrative. The real situation has NEVER been about race, it is about classism...plain and simple. It's a Divide and conquer tactic and idiots still continue buy into it.
" It's a big club, and you ain't in it." - George Carlin
It's regular rotation on the classic rock station I listen to.
What war has Trump started? Maybe that's why the Military Industrial Complex is lying about him?
If you think this is heavy, just imagine how heavy this was in 1970
I remember.
I was ten and it changed my world. It's why I picked up the guitar.
The really mind-blowing thing is that they started as a blue eyed blues band, got inspired by a horror movie and mutated their blues sound into what is generally considered the first metal album. Jethro Tull started as blue eyed blues too and Iommi was very briefly part of Tull. Both iconic bands ended up being pioneers in new genres.
Blue eyed? Haha! In my part of the world, all blues bands were blue eyed. Or all bands in fact.
@@herrbonk3635 It's just a term that was coined for blues and soul played by white (usually British) musicians who were deeply influenced by the previous generation of African-American artists. The artists weren't necessarily blue eyed. It was just a reference to a typically caucasian trait to describe their particular style of Blues, which drew from a different set of struggles (often white working class experiences) but paid homage to the musicians that influenced them.
He beats the drums like they owe him money
Now that was funny.
Canadian spotted
Black Sheep Squadron where? 🇨🇦
They kinda do! Lmao
This made me laugh so hard. It's true. Thanks for the visual.
I'm 73, and as a Double Jeopardy Vietnam War Veteran, this song was my personal anthem. I still rock right out to it. Thank you Black Sabbath, and you too Jamel for bringing it to me.
Rock on Brother! I’m female, Army veteran from early 80 and still head bang to this. Can’t bang my head , neck , hip and back too much because of surgeries but I turned my young grand children on to it. Told em this is the real shit. So , naturally they told their parents Grammie was head banging to shit music. My kids grew up with it so they didn’t freak just watch the bad words. Ha!
Ty sir for your service to this country 🙏
What do you mean by "Double Jeopardy Veteran"? Two tours or you served time for dodging/desertion and couldnt be prosecuted again?
Thank you for your service Bless you and your family all the best!!
The best anti-war song ever...50 years later and I still love this song! I was brought up with Black Sabbath
Those drums spent the next several weeks in intensive care.
..if there was anything left of them.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Sadly, two of them... didn't make it. 🥺
@@brettmanus7904 good >:D
Definitely one of the best anti-war songs ever made.
and everybody who was at the concert should say thank you to god, because they was at the right time at the right place...^^
I agree.i remember this group in the 70s .im 53 now still love.
Brothers in Arms-Dire Straits. Almost as far as you can get from this song in the rock world, but brilliantly written with excellent guitar work
@Randall Kildare Their Label, the original ones were too satanic for the time, so they mixed it for this concert and album.
Before all the crap a down and dirty and hungry hard rock band. The only other anti war song that matches this to me anyway guns n roses civil war
Damn everyone talk'n about the drums, (yeah he's killing them) but if the camera was on Geezer more y'all realize the drum kit probably feels sorry for what the bass is going through
If I could upvote this 100x I would. Literally one of the greatest bass lines ever written 🙌
Oh 100%
Yeah... quite surprising how they just didn’t focus on him through the entire video
Try listening to this song with the bass track off, the soul of it is gone.
at 9:40 you get to see it too 😄
9:15 That transition gets me all the time. Billy Ward is killing it, Oz gnashing his teeth, Tony burning his guitar, and Geezer holding down the fort. This is not a simple piece of music to build and arrange. This is when they came into their own and started a whole gendre. Different from Hendrix and The Who…another animal entirely. Thanks for pulling this one out.
Fun Fact: Tony Iommi, the guitarist, lost the tips of his fingers in an accident while working his day job at a steel mill . Normally, this would spell the end of one's career as a guitarist, however he crafted leather-covered thimbles and tuned his guitar lower than standard to make it easier for him to play. These changes only served to make his sound more darker and evil-sounding, going with the aesthetic that Sabbath were working on. So lift your goblet high and drink a toast to Tony Iommi, the inventor of heavy metal guitar.
On his last day before quitting too, or so I’ve hard
Tony melts down plastic liquid soap bottles to make thimbles for his missing fingers . Then he glues leather strips to the plastic so he can grip/bend strings . He did down tune to C from E standard on their 3rd album but this was a response to Ozzys inability to hit certain notes . At least according to Geezer and Tony . If your interested you’ll notice while this was originally recorded in E standard this version is tuned down a half step .
Divine...or dare I say, wicked intervention??
@@gilbertspader7974 And he used very thin strings (8, 8, 11, 18, 24, 32) tuned down a semi-tone. Together with a Laney Supergroup and a Dallas Rangemaster he got that heavy sound. Don't believe people who say that heavy strings are necessary for tone.
@, shut up? Well now, when did you become the gatekeeper of who gets to say what when? You shut up, you tool.
Bill Ward (the drummer) is criminally underrated. He really is a beast.
somehow they thought that the drummer from rage against the machine was a suitable replacement for their 13 album... i just don't understand that, still..... BILL WARD IS HARDLY SIMILAR to him. that dude wishes he was bill ward level lol. not that he's a bad drummer... just... not the same whatsoever
Ward went full Nyango Star
absolutely
It's called the 🐐
Ward rules!
Geezer Butler, the bass player is incredible as well.
Hell, the entire band at this point were all phenoms.
The Principle Songwriter as well
I love how Ozzy's the biggest fan of the band.
Bill Ward got arrested after that show for beating his drums within an inch of their lives ..
he beat those drums like they owed him money
He going way to fast
Lol
It's okay, they're masochists and he and they discussed limits before hand. The safeword is timbales.
Drums lives matter
Congrats, bud. You just watched the Big Bang of hard rock. The literal genesis of all that is metal.
You have to add though the Red Album from Grand Funk..peviews year, if we're talking the birth of hard Rock....
@@fonsecorona No doubt there were many bands that contributed, but there isn't a rock band out there whose influences can't be traced back to the Sabbath DNA .
It's simplistic, but I used to say that Tool took the break in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and said "Bingo!"
Deep purple Led Zepp Hendrix were all doing hard rock before Sabbath
fonsecorona birth of metal is more like it
I like the fact that when J presses pause he backs up before continuing.
I've seen this video so many times, but I still get chills watching THE Bill Ward on that tiny drum set killing it lol 😂😍
This is a war protest song. They took the hippie talking point and rocked it the hell out
I play drums and I honestly can’t for the life of me understand how that Kit survived this ENTIRE show... Seriously. I 🖤 you Bill
It was nailed to the ground using hammers.
Something else shocking is that when led zeppelin drummer John Bonham played on wards drum set he broke the skins
Everyone knows that Sabbath is based on Iommi's riffs and Geezer's lyrics. It's nice to see someone acknowledge Bill Ward's frenetic drums and Ozzy's passionate vocals. This is why this is my all time favorite band,
I remember many years ago now, while Ozzy still had a TV show, after he had an accident on his quad bike, broke his neck, and he's all messed up from the years of drug abuse, and hard living, he did a show, and he shuffles up onto the stage, mumbles something incoherent into the microphone, and hes's kinda sad looking, then he starts to sing, and all of a sudden that voice comes out strong and powerful, the words clear, and it's like he's 20 again, he just starts to rock the stage. Does the full concert, and he's a powerhouse through the whole thing. And when the concert is over, and the music stops ... all that energy seems to leave, and then he's just Ozzy again, you watch that, and it's both magical and painful. He's still got it though, that magic that makes a mere mortal into a god (at least for a little while), it's in there somewhere, whenever he sings.
True. Always amazed me how he could get it right on stage, AWESOME!!
I agree. Saw them at the Oakland Coloseum
It’s like a switch is flipped.
@@u4riahsc Exactly, when it's "on" it's amazing, but it kinda hurts to see it get turned off. Don't know how to describe it better than that.
@@nooneofimportance2110 Yeah - we’re all getting older. I always said to my friends when I was a teen that I’ll end up in a rocking chair, rocking to this music. Now I’m pushing 70 and still love rocking to all the bands of the 60s and 70s.
I'm going to remember your line "when you are singing with your eyes closed, you are not there. You are where those lyrics were created" for the rest of my life. That's beautiful.
That's exactly how I feel when I'm performing a song I wrote. If am playing someone else's song and singing I am transported to where I was when that song took on a meaning for me
Not true, Ozzy did it because he had the lyrics tattoed on the inside of his eyelids :-)
His eyes were shut because he was hammered, like he was at most of his concerts.
Yeah, but, it's not his lyrics.
He had his eyes open until the spotlight hit him. Those things are like looking at the sun...
You can almost feel it across the ages how damn hard he's hitting them there drums.
Yes with the stickes turned upside down
I think Bill Ward is one of the greatest drummers.
"Going ham on those drums", indeed.
The acoustics in that hall really bring it out, too
I just thought about blast beats in metal today....they wouldn't exist if it weren't for the founders or metal...just incredible this happened in the '70s and is a driving force in today's music. Just simpily amazing
Black Sabbath. Live 1970. War pigs with the original "Walpurgis" lyrics. It doesn't get better than this. Glad you enjoyed;Bill Ward is an absolute BEAST!!!
One of the all time great war protest songs. This was also a time period where rock started becoming harder and edgier with heavier distortion on the guitars. The drumming for this song is iconic and insane. If you want another example of crazy good drumming, check out No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age. Dave Grohl's drumming in that song reminiscent of Bill Ward's drumming in this song
only Bill Ward could go from being a drummer in a Jazz band to this. him and John Bonham are the greatest rock drummers
Put Ginger Baker and Neal Peart on that list.
For my lifetime it’s always going to be Bonham. ❤️🎼✌🏼
jayscollops don’t forget Keith Moon when it comes to drummers
Correct Bill Ward is a jazz drummer.
EH! DONT FORGET NICKO MCBRAIN !! AND DANNY CARREY !
I always joke that The Muppets' Animal was modelled after Ward's performance in this. What a beast on the drums.
Or Jon Bonham
@@thewildhealer541 No, I'm sure that I joke about it being Bill Ward and specifically this performance. But you can modify that joke for yourself any way you see fit, it's public domain
@@saschaschneider6355 Did I ever say you didn't? Stop overthinking, buddy.
Or Ginger Baker...
@@aaronsilver1975 no, I'm pretty sure I say Bill Ward. You all can stop naming drummers because it doesn't make any sense. Animal is modelled after Keith Moon btw., but I still make that joke with Bill Ward, because of his look and his behaviour in this video
Bill award definitely one of the greatest to ever do it🤘🏻
To me, someone who has listened to metal for 35 years, this is the moment when it began. Such incredible heavy guitar in this live version.
After the performance that day, the drum-set went to look for a lawyer and the guitar went for a cigarette!!
And the bass took the sound tech out back and kicked his ass. The bass lines in this song are so sick, but you can barely hear them the entire song
@@lafoonxiii5311 thanks for throwing Geezer in there, he's doing shit on the bass that makes the drums think "damn we got rough, but at least we aint that bass!" Besides he's the primary songwriter.
Geezers bass playing is hard hitting blues sound amazing.
Yeah Bill is a powerhouse. Ozzy never sounded better, and Geezer is a mad man on bass. But Tonni Iommi guitar playing can't be denied. Also on his right hand? He has homemade prosthetic finger tips. Lost them in an accident while working in a foundry in England.
Iommi explained in an interview if he had realized how much pain he would in for the rest of his career he would have switched hands immediately and learned to play left handed
Except Ozzie screwed up the words to the 1st section!
Glenn SIGUR I think at about this time they played around with the lyrics to war pigs
@@dasfunkateer7573: I believe he's actually singing part of "Walpurgis", the original version of this song. . .
Riff master
A singer, a guitar player, a bass player and a drummer and 4 talented guys. That's all you need for a epic song.
One of the greatest songs ever written. Still holds truths today. I have had this lp forever
The definition of heavy metal...50 years ago
We were lucky! ✌🏼
Jay Edwards Dave Lombardo, Dave Grohl all inspired by Bill Ward
Literally wrote the definition themselves. Still heavier than 75% of the crap produced since
When you realize this was half a century ago.
Did you have to say it like that?!?! I was born 1970 and you come out with that "half a century ago? You are a sadistic person.
Just having some fun with you (some might take that seriously).
Aaargh! This was one of the first 45" singles I ever bought! Thanks for that! :-)
I kindly reject your reality and replace it with my own
@@jathygamer8746 Considering the current state of this reality, I will gladly accept an alternate.
Crazy, But true!
They invented a whole new genre of music, just like that, we have a lot to thank them for.they were so good.
And this my friends is how head banging got started.
Black Sabbath was exactly what the 70's needed in rock music
Their music is so intense in this, it sounds like they're exorcising all their anger, pain and sadness at once and only this level of heaviness could've expressed it. Tony Iommi's guitar sometimes seriously sounds like it's screaming and crying out these melancholic melodies, it gives me shivers every time I hear this.
When you consider what this band was, basically the burnouts and rejects nobody else wanted to play with according to Ozzy's book, with a guitar player with no fingertips, a bassist with a drug charge, a singer with jailhouse tattoos and a drummer who couldn't afford shoes...all at a time when none of this shit was a cool, corporation-sanitized image...you understand how honest and hard every aspect of it is and what an amazing band Black Sabbath was.
PS: Your reaction videos make me listen to my favorite music like it's the first time again, thanks for that!
Melmoth The Wanderer Good statement this is so damn heavy.
Very well put. Cheers.
Summed up perfectly, especially the last part. I'm always at a loss because there's no "love" button and "like" just doesn't express my gratitude for these videos!
I couldn’t have said it better. And they never got a good review from the wankers at rolling stone
For some reason this song never gets loud enough, ever... my neighbors are banging on the door to, I assume, turn it up!
Great attitude.
My Vietnam Veteran neighbour says if it's too loud he'll be knockin on the front door to my house with a 6 pack of beer.
Black Sabbath fully rock.
Turn em up cob🤙😎
If they don't want it turned up ship them off to the GULAG the Commies!
Bill ward is one of the most underrated drummers. He was doing what no one else could do and didn't know it himself. Neil has the technique but bill has the groove and feeling m
The “birth” of headbangin
Yeah , but i think HELTER SKELETER WAS THE START TO MY EARS , LOVE THIS SONG BUT JUST MY THOUGHT. JT FROM MEX
@@rosemarie92123 Helter Skelter was a song to move your head up and down, but Ozzy is headbanging through the songs on the stage, that's the difference. Same goes with horns sign and Dio.
@@chupasaurus NEVER GOT INTI DIO OR HORNS? BUT I LIKE SKELTER AND OZZIE DURING ALL HIS AND THE BEATLE YEARS, BOTH TIMELESS. JT FROM MEX
Absolutely. So many metal bands point to Sabbath as the beginning.
Larry Martin Honestly it’d be a shock to find some aspect of heavy metal that wasn’t influenced by Sabbath
Can you imagine being there watching that and thinking. In 50 years this still holds up as a kick-ass song.
Yeah I can because when I go somewhere I usually do some thinking. How do you know in 50 years it'll still be a kick-ass song?
Bill Ward killing it on the drums, and Geezer's bass just rumbling underneath. Wow they were good.
Bill Ward underrated drummer, those drum fills are insane. Likewise Geezer's bass playing.
Black Sabbath never gets old .. it just get better
exactly! in some ways i feel like I enjoy it more NOW than back when it was new...
Favorite comment... "I hope those drums were 18!"
Man I always forget how good a set of pipes ozzy had on him, cant imagine how heavy this must have been in 1970
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It was badass. It started it all.
This version really is a showcase of Mr. Ward's incredible talent.
"Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most" ~ Ozzy Osbourne
I can just watch bill on those drums, damn
The birth of what was later called "heavy metal"
There are many earlier predecessors
It can be argued that metals roots are as early as Helter Skelter by the Beatles and its heavily influenced by Jazz
@@dustinjames1268 Yeah, but no one did the way Sabbath did, most bands had a little something on Heavy Metal creation, but Sabbath was a 100% a metal band, Sabbath metal was closer to what Heavy Metal became than other bands before.
@@gabrielmartines3510 Yup, actually, I found this in a book; it explained it perfectly:"Let me put it this way: We technically call something "innovative" if we weren't prepared for it to happen, for example, thanks to the new wave of British heavy metal, the ingredients of thrash were in the air when Metallica came on the scene, or death metal was just a neutral step from Slayer-like music.
But there was nothing close to the doomy, evil sound of Black Sabbath in 1968, it wasn't "in the air" like the stomping rock n roll of Deep Purple and the combination of folk and blues rock of Led Zeppelin, sure, by combining these two elements, Zeppelin DID create something new, but was it an unpredictable breakthrough? No. I mean, who expected such a dark,gloomy and scary sound that Sabbath created? We're talking about the late 60s.
Sure, Sabbath was influenced by the Beatles and blues rock of the time, but they took things in a direction that was not anticipated, the world was simply taken aback by the sound of the song "Black Sabbath ", it's definitely the first heavy metal song( I'm not even gonna argue about Blue Cheer)."
Steppenwolf.. Cream. Blue cheer
When dave davies cut an amp with a razor blade fuzz sound was invented.
This type of reaction videos are so weird, I don’t get why I kinda like them, but I do. It’s the ultimate proof that we humans derive meaning from social contact. I don’t really have friends I can sit down and show these clips to so
I see this mans reactions in order to have mine are validated in some kind of way.
Dude, same.
I've had a theory that what we like about music can be categorized in five different ways:
1- Is it beautiful, aesthetically pleasing? (Melody, harmony)
2- Does it move us physically? (Rhythm)
3- Does it move us emotionally? (Art... can easily be conflated with #1)
4- Socialization. (Sometimes related to #2, but also related to how we use it to have shared experiences with others)
5- Is this new and interesting? (Experimentation)
That fourth one has always been such a big deal. We feel the emotion of music differently when it's a social experience.
Concerts can be more emotional than records, especially when you participate by singing along in a group... this is one reason worship music is often greater than the sum of its parts.
I think it's why Top 40 pop songs are such a focus for so many people. Pop songs aren't inherently good or bad, but the simple fact that they are popular in their particular time and place sort of ties people to those times and places. I'm 35, it's easy for me to relate to someone else who is around my age, because we might both hear Outkast's "Hey Ya" and immediately both feel transported to our college years, nostalgic about our early adulthood.
And I think it's why we desire to talk to others about the music we like. Ultimately, this is what these reaction videos are all about. Many of us aren't here to expand our horizons like Mr. Jamel is. Many of us look for that validation and confirmation: yes, other people enjoy our music too, let's share that love together.
You're so right.. I would love to show my friends songs and videos but they don't always like them like me...
Haha loser
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This is one of those top 3 I wish I could travel back in time and be at concerts
To be honest, back then the sound was terrible when you were in the audience :(
Dude. It was my first concert. BlAck oak Arkansas opened. Purple microdot. Smoking Korean kite. I was never the same.
I am just being turned onto this song!! The drummer, who I learned is Bill Ward, looks wild and frenetic but his chops are clean AF!!! DAMN!!!!!!
Very clean af!!
he still rocks out like that, the ozzy that took no shit his entire life is amazing
I’ve always thought that the drum variations throughout the song were meant to represent the sound of different gunshots on the battlefield... cannons, machine guns, rifles, bombs 💣 💀
Black Sabbath is a kick in the balls man. Legendary band.
The two best bands in the world Black Sabbath and Led Zep.
@Boop hmmm i would add deep purple also all groundbreakers imo
Bill Ward quebrando a bateria..sensacional
Reação de quem manja é demais... Ma essa apresentação do Sabbath é td irmão 🙏🤘
Bill Ward and Geezer Butler were Jazz player’s at one time.This is what you get when you get a heavy guitar player in Tony Iommie
He was jazz and blues first too
Also, remember that Tony is actually missing some finger tips on his right hand! He lost them in an accident, or something. He’s incredible!
9:45 Bill Ward warps the space-time continuum.
One of the greatest drummers ever. Those drums are still registering as an earthquake he hits them that hard.
Bill Ward, One of the least talked about drummers of all time but one of the best heavy metal drummers ever 🤘
This was probably recorded before the song was recorded for the Paranoid album, if only because of the extra lyrics not included on the album version of the song. Not unheard of for a band to "test out" a song in front of a live audience and see if it works before committing the time and effort to put it on record.
The entire Paranoid album is something of an eye-opening listen, especially if you have the preconceived notion that Black Sabbath is somehow a "satanic" band. Most notable is probably the third track "Planet Caravan", a sort of jazzy space-rock song full of psychedelic imagery. The second side opens with another cautionary tale of nuclear holocaust in "Electric Funeral", the somewhat scary (for the time) imagery of "Hand of Doom" and it's decidedly anti-drug message is followed by the instrumental "Rat Salad" that leads directly in to another song about the dangers of drug abuse, although this one is a bit more fanciful, called 'Fairies Wear Boots".
All of the tracks on this album, including the title track and "Iron Man" (yeah, that Iron Man) are extremely heavy, especially for 1970. This version of the band was both learning what worked and exploring that heavy sound, finding out where it could go. It's ultimate strength is in its coherence. Every song complements the next allowing the whole of the album to work almost seamlessly. This is more effective on the second side than the first, to be sure, but the effect is also prevalent on the first side. Worth listening to as a whole sometime.
Yes, it was...I was looking in comments to see if anyone noticed. You did!!
they went through several sets on lyrics on this song before settling on what we now know best from the lp there is a live version from germany in concert that are different from this
One of the greatest live performances ever. you should watch the entire comcert.
They never did this song better than this version. Bill Ward never got the respect he deserves.
Did from me lol
^this
50 years ago to me ,it still sounds fresh. When it's meant to be it will stay fresh for another 50 years. One of my all time bands.
The fact that Ozzy is still with us releasing albums is amazing. Can't understand half he says talking but when he signs it is clear. Thank you Sharon for keeping him with us all these years.
This is one of the songs that made me fall in love with rock'n'roll
DEFINITELY
"I ain't never seen a set of drums take a whoopin' like that !"
I see Ozzy has been forgetting the lyrics from the beginning
Glad I'm not the only one that's seeing make up lyrics as he goes...
This was the original lyrics before they were changed for the album
Early version, Ozzy did not write lyrics, Only melody's. Geezer wrote the words ..
@@ubcphilco Yeah, good stuff Maynard.Like those cereals back in the. 70s. Yeah!!!
@@carywest9256 Are we REALLY showing are age here or what? haha
These are different lyrics. I've never heard this version before! Thank you dude!
Bill Ward is a freaking beast, so sad he didnt play on their farewell tour :(
Bill Ward is on my Holy Trinity of Drummers
Bonham and who else?
Neil
Yes Neil
I tried to have a Holy Trinity, and it was the same as you folks - but I couldn't leave off Ian Paice, so now I have a Holy Quadinity.
Kevin Burgess couldn't agree more. Paice is my number one, very underrated drummer.
never gets old . So much a part of who i was in 1970 . Am 67 now .WOW!!!
This is amazing. The drummer sounds and looks like Animal from the Muppets 😂🤣
All things metal come from these Brummies. I love that. I also love that the average age of the audience is now about 70.
This was a song against War in general, but also about the US Vietnam War.
I went to so many concerts when I was a teenager and now l'm in my 60's and l'm reliving those days by watching Jamal connect to the music l grew up with and enjoying it as much as I do, still to this day😜🤟Thanks!
You will be even more blown away by Geezer and Ward on Hand of Doom and Rat Salad from same concert
That whole concert is amazing
Black Sabbath. The name says it all. The darker realities of life conveyed in masterpiece after masterpiece. The best way to journey with this legendary foursome is to start at the beginning. That starts with their own title track. The song is about a nightmare. Fittingly the name of the piece is called Black Sabbath. And at the perfect season as Halloween approaches. To say listen to the song doesn't do it justice. It must be absorbed into the darkness of the soul. Happy Halloween season. Metal makes the world go round.
Imagine....this was 50 years ago. Damn I'm old
Yeah - when did that happen?
Please do "Fairies wear Boots" on same album just an unbelievable song and guitar rifts to die for.
Fairies wear boot, you gotta believe me... I saw it with my own two eyes.
Agreed. My favorite on the album. (And it's an anti-skinhead song!)
He did do one and it’s awesome
Those drums! Chills.
The stamina these rockers had. Unbelievable.
Bill ward's beating those drums like a man possessed! The guy's a beast.
One of the funniest comments I ever read were WTTE that "Bill Ward was beating those drums like they owed him money". But it wasn't just Bill Ward; the entire band was feeding off of each other's energy during that song. You can see it in the occasional eye contact they make with each other. That performance meant something to them, and still wows us (or at least me) over 50 years later.
1970 in the midst of Vietnam’s destruction & death, BS calling them out, must appreciate the context!
D. NjR exactly
Except in regard to this song you're completely wrong.
This song sounds as dark, dangerous and menacing as ever.
As it Should.
It's an absolute classic. Piece of history.
This performance was 11/10. No auto tune, no back track, no bullshit. Just four lads who would become legends. I only wish it was with the final lyrics, I believe this was before Paranoid released and I much prefer the lyrics that ended up on the album. Still fucking dope though.
Edit: I'm wrong. Paranoid was released in Sept 1970 and this performance was in Dec 1970.
I started listening to sabbath as a young boy in the 70s because of my older brothers. If I got close to volume knob I got punched in the gut repeatedly.
It is so great to see a younger man and have a honest opinion on the songs of my youth. makes me feel good to see you appreciate our time in music. peace.
Ain't heard this one in many many years. Thx for bringing it back
This song still applies today, that's when you know you haven written a great song.
stank face is quite literally the best compliment you can give to a Tony Iommi solo. Glad you enjoyed it!!
stank face and head bobbin
This still gives me goosebumps
crazy amazing
Jamel loving it
Everytime i look up one of my favorite songs, in the recommended is you reacting to it. Love this channel!
Different lyrics than the studio version so you got to listen to that version too. Song was new at this time and Ozzy probably forgot them but he improvised like a champ. The guy they never show in this video is the author of this masterpiece...on bass Geezer Butler.
If you are taking about the original demo version the song war pigs by Black Sabbath is Walpurgues (Witchs gather in black masses bodies burning in red ashes on a hill a church in ruins is the seen of evil doing you)my favorite version
I think Ozzy just botched it up at the start tbh.
@@davidprobst4161 Nope those were the original lyrics from when the song was still called 'Walpurgis' as above poster stated,infact the song went through several rewrites before the version they recorded.
@@minners71 As I understand it, one of the reasons for the changed lyrics were the some murders by the Manson cult in the US and it was a pretty tense time and so they didn't want to freak people out. I prefer the Walpurgis lyrics myself.