Yea every time someone recommends some songs I'm wondering if they have even heard anything besides the greatest hits.. I am probably guilty of that though , i reckon I have a shorter attention span these days. But with sabbath at least, I know the albums already from years of listening, trying to learn the songs on bass and guitar with my friends who played drums
When I hear Planet Caravan, I think of teenage years... late at night in someone's garage... a few red lightbulbs... bourbon & coke... and a ton of weed, and just a burning desire to understand the meaning of life. Something like that...
This is in between "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" on the LP. Tony Iommi says about Sabbath's music: “We always put something in, like an acoustic bit, to give the album a bit of light and shade," Iommi said. "So when you come in with everything, it sounds [even] heavier." Glad you enjoyed. -DW
Discovering Black Sabbath is like walking down a hallway opening doors and having no idea what you’ll find but knowing it will be amazing. This song was one of our favorites. Because it’s beautiful and shows the bands versatility. ❤️
I heard this when I was in my teens when the album was released. It blew me away. I listen to it now aged 64. It reminds me of my life. Everything we cannot change, in the background, just keeps going around and around. There is my story to tell, highlighted by guitar fills, highs and lows, and, inevitably, fading away.
Hey @Andrew Rooney Drums, since you did LED ZEPPELINs JOHN BONHAM and BLACK SABBATHs BILL WARD now, can you complete the trilogy with IAN PAICE from DEEP PURPLE, please? Thank you for your inspiring content! All the best from Germany! Michael ✌️😉
Yea I heard how you like those old sabbath videos from the 70s ... put on "child in time" "highway star" you'll probably be like yeeeeeah.. or whatever songs people will recommend from them. One of my personal favorite of theirs was "Lazy" and it looks like theres a brilliant live 1972 version on youtube with tons of jamming for 11 minutes. I'm listening to that for the first time and I'm like 🤤🤤
This song is absolutely beautiful! It always brings me so much joy and at the same time a little bit of sadness, as it appears to translate in musical and lyrical terms that our travel through this universe in our Planet Caravan is an awesome but finite experience. One of Sabbath's greatest tunes! 🖤🌎💫🌌🖤
I’m always delighted to see how people react to hearing Sabbath for the first time, and you certainly didn’t disappoint. I like how you describe them as a quartet and not just a band because you respect the skill and ability of each of the members. You’re in it now, you will always love Sabbath, you’ll remember what you were doing or where you were each time you discover a new song. Enjoy it! I would love the excitement and adrenaline of discovering a band like this for the first time.
Welcome to the enigma and genius of early Black Sabbath... they are a latent jazz band wrapped in blues rock and METAL ! and imo the mighty Bill Ward is the driving force behind it all...
Love this song, and Pantera do it justice at the end of the "Far Beyond Driven" album as a break from the heaviness of the rest of the LP. Planet Caravan forever!
Dear Andrew, you absolutely need to start with the beginning, where it all started. Please listen to the very first track of the very first album (Black Sabbath, on Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath). Everything you love about this group was there from the start. Once you're at it, continue on the second track (The Wizard) and listen to Bill style.
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I'm very much in your situation. Although older than you are, I discovered BS only a few months ago. With the track I just mentioned. I was instantly blown away. I thought BS was heavy metal, with screaming, guitar shredding at 300 bpm and low musicality. How wrong I was. I followed more or less the same path with Led Zeppelin about a year ago. Came to them after a cover by Yoyoka, which got me to discover John Bonham which in turn took me to LZ. Never looked back.
I constantly see reactors and reviewers discover Black Sabbath first era and it is always magical, and to think the 4 original members are still alive and maybe they can also see people reacting to their masterpiece for the first time! Just awesome
My favourite band. Really been enjoying your coverage. It's kinda like re-discovering them, or at least appreciating them from a whole different angle :)
Awesome song! They kind of made a thing for a few albums to throw in a few mellow, jazzy, spacey, songs in there between the madness. "Solitude" from Master Of Reality, "Fluff" from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and "Laguna Sunrise" from Volume 4 come to mind! A stripped back, more laid back sound from them!
This is the song that really did it for me. I'd heard some metal before that I was kind of on the fence about. I heard Pantera's cover of this and really dug it, and then learned it was a cover. That led me to my dad's vinyl collection, which included Paranoid and the rest is history. Over the next year, I bought every Sabbath album available at that point and spent most of the next decade going down the metal rabbit hole.
Paranoid was one of the first albums I ever bought, I used to save the money from my paper round to buy interesting albums, I bought paranoid and have been hooked on Sabbath ever since and this is still one of my favourite Sabbath tracks 😎🏹🙏
I think Bill's most impressive performance was on Symptom of the Universe. Those fills were just nuts. Never to be duplicated. Even by Bill. One of my all time favorite drummers.
I'm glad, that is an all timer. I'll go check them out. Thanks! This and Burn from Deep Purple are for me the most mind boggling fills of that era, imo.
Yes, it's Bill Ward on the congas and Iommi playing the flute parts, with Ozzy singing through a guitar amp. Geezer imagined his lyrics as being a description of a cosmic great date.
Geezer Butler on the bass is the one who wrote all of their lyrics, guy is definitely awesome! Also, Tony Iommi briefly played for Jethro Tull before Sabbath took off, so maybe that's when he learned the flute. He says that he learned a lot about being a professional band, stuff like scheduling, from his time in Tull.
Tull is often considered the 4th of the Big 4 first gen English Heavy Metal bands… a bit too eclectic to be real Heavy Metal but they certainly had some VERY heavy albums!
I'm glad someone mentioned this. They really did sabbath justice and it goes without mentioning what an influence they were on Pantera and most other rock and metal bands.
The piano on this was played by the band's sound engineer. Terrific song, but not one I'd have chosen to highlight Bill Ward. Rat Salad is the obvious choice, basically being one big drum solo. For more obvious jazz influences there's Air Dance. Or The Fallen, from the Born Again demos.
Lol I saw that he’d done this and I was all “……….um …….. is there even drums on that?!” Of course, there is, but ya, def not my first choice for showing to a drum reactor! Fortunately he appreciates congas as well! Rat Salad is def like, their Moby Dick. I still say Children Of The Grave, Lord Of This World, and After Forever would be excellent, drum-heavy tracks to react to.
I was nine when my grandmother took me to the record store with ten dollars of Christmas money. After much mulling about I chose this album. It was a random pick from the new release rack. I remember the look on Mama Lou's face. "Are you sure?" I wasn't sure at that second. About three songs into the album, later, at home, alone, I was sure. Woah! Nine!
Ian Paice from Deep Purple was a 19 year old kid when he joined DEEP PURPLE in1968. He is a greatly overlooked drummer with massive chops. Please consider doing some DP reactions.
I guess I missed "Snowblind". The groove that Bill Ward creates is just special. Even if it didnt make the list, take a listen, its off the album "volume 4".
One overlooked influence on their music was Django Reinhardt and gypsy guitar music. It was something Iommi picked up after his injury, because Reinhardt himself played with an disfigured hand. A understated influence, but on several of their accoustic tracks you can hear it.
Dear Andrew, it's a pleasure to hear you talk about this band and these fantastic songs that are so dear to me, you make me relive the same emotions I had many years ago when I was listening to Black Sabbath for the first time!
Andew, thanks for your review of BS druing your Black Sabbath week. I am so pleased that you are a convert! I came across them by accident in 1970 at age 18yrs, not long after the release of the Album. I visited my favourite record shop in Cardiff, South Wales, UK to seek out another Almbum that the store didn't have in at that time and the shop keeper recommended this 'new band'. It was the days when the record stores had soiund proffed listening booths and he put the record on and I listened ti the whole album and loved all the tracks, including the lovelky 'planet caravan' - an amazing contrast, as you say. I looved this track immmediately. I lost my love of the band after they slit - it just wasn't Sabbath to me. I still have my originl albums and play them frequently althugh I do adoimt I have ourchesed the CD's too. Thaks again for you 'deep dive' into the band. Regards from SWales, Howard
Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler - who composed the song's lyrics - said the song is about floating through the universe with one's lover.[1] Black Sabbath lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne uses a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocals' treble and vibration effects.[citation needed] The piano parts on the track were played by album engineer Tom Allom.[citation needed] Iommi overdubbed flute to the reversed multitrack master which was then re-forwarded and treated with stereo delay.[citation needed] On 31 May 2020, "Planet Caravan" was used as wake-up music for the crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon before the craft's launch later that day. It was the first time music was used to wake astronauts since the last shuttle mission in July 2011. The craft was bound for the International Space Station.[2] Personnel Ozzy Osbourne - vocals Tony Iommi - guitar, flute Geezer Butler - bass guitar Bill Ward - congas Tom Allom - piano
Way back in my day in the 70s this was without a doubt one of the main songs people got together in their friends "Pad" Garage or fixed up Basement to Hang out and Chill with friends etc !! 😊
What's the best reaction I've ever seen sir as I was watching you myself I'm still in awe speechless absolutely awestruck by what I'm hearing and trying to figure out where my imagination is taking me with the collaboration of instruments in musicians I'm still speechless after all these years thank you for putting it down like that
I remember listening to tht , the first time . My reaction was like URS. I was not expecting that. But it took me out into space. I absolutely love this song.
Sabbath are so good. Heard them when I was 13 (i'm 47 now) and they literally blew my mind. So heavy, so melodic, so groovy, so much pocket and fare and invention and the proggy/psychedlic vibes. I'd recommend you tap some of the tracks off the Dio era albums, Heaven and Hell especially, it's an absolute masterpiece.
I found their debut album Black Sabbath in C-cassette when I was about seven or eight from a flee market. I'm also 47 now.... still have that and it's always been one of my all time faves
Most early albums had a light and dark element. Loved listening to these with headphones in bed. The turntable used to turn the amp off at the end. Played with King crimson, Pink Floyd, Family, Yes etc. Didn't do or need drugs.
Dear fiend.... I BS fan since 1990.... i glad than you enjoy and discover the greatest band ever.... is indispensable than you hear THE WIZARD and UNDER THE SUN..... bill on that are out this world..... remember THE WIZARD and UNDER THE SUN..... greetings from Argentina!!!!!!!
I’ve been catching up on your Sabbath week Andrew. I’m delighted you appreciate them so much. I watched them live with Ronnie as lead vocals and I was blown away. Thoroughly enjoying this coverage, thank you. Pat 🏴
After listening to the first few tracks this was a complete shock. As i've gotten older i have grown to love this gentle inner piece experience. It has been played live but as an instrumental.
Atmospheric light music Jazz solo between 2 heavy tracks Tony also plays flute on Solitude from Master of Reality Tony got interested in the flute with his short stint with Jethro Tull
I was 7 in 1970. My cousins were in their late teens and got into this new Band "Sabbath . blew me away the first time i heard them . Didnt have a clue what they were on about but the sound was crazy mad , still is . Enjoy .
I heard an interview with Iommi and he said “ at the time we smoked a lot of w**d and we really wanted to make a song that we can chill on. We jamed for a couple of nights and (name?) put an filter to Ozzy’s voice and we loved it”…
There was usually one gentle song on each album. It just showcased their talent. Tom Allom the engineer plays the keys on that song. The rest of the band plays the rest. Gezzer Butler wrote most of the lyrics by Black Sabbath
Great reaction again. I feel even when they do more introspective, slower pieces, there’s still that eerie vibe about them that only Sabbath can do. ‘She’s gone’ from Technical Ecstasy will also surprise you, I’m sure. It’s really beautiful. Ozzy is magnificent on it.
Notice that Tony’s throwing in some Kenny Burrell licks that sound like they’d be right at home on the “Midnight Blue” album. Deep jazz/blues roots within the whole band!
There's a video someone made of 5 hours of Planet Caravan. Pretty much won UA-cam at that point. There's also one slowed down by 800% that's pretty damn amazing.
What a hell of a week, Andrew !!!!!!!!! I agree, Black Sabbath month. Tony Iommi is THE riff master. Seeing your reaction to the band that influenced EVERY rock band today in someway was priceless !
If you wondered what Black Sabbath sounded like fully blown out on good 70's cocaine, check out pretty much anything from Volume 4. I highly recommend "Snowblind".
@@AndrewRooneyDrums that's brilliant Andrew. Mine get plenty of wear as well.. check out their song" falling off the edge of the world" it's of the " mob rules" album.
I highly recommend listening to Bill Ward on the Sabbath song 'It's Alright' (Technical Ecstasy' album 1978) ! Why..? Because not only does he play the drums, but he is also the singer instead of Ozzy! Proof drummers can sing!
Riding on the Planet Caravan, controls set for the heart of the sun. As soon as I have purchased my FTL star cruiser, both songs will be on top of the playlist (they are, anyway).
Just wait and see for "Solitude", another strange kind of Jazz ballad. And after this one: Into The void. btw. Bill always is playing alongside with Iommi's play. He's just improving and building up drum figures all the time and studied them by himself.
This was really my gateway to metal. I'd heard a bit of Metallica, but then I heard Pantera's Far Beyond Driven, which isn't my cup of tea, but they covered Planet Caravan on that album. The liner notes said it was a Sabbath cover and not long after that I found Paranoid in my dad's record collection. That album blew me away, and Sabbath is still in my top 3 all time greats to this day.
This song really has to be heard in the context of the album. Back when you know track order mattered.
Exactly right.
Truth.
Yea every time someone recommends some songs I'm wondering if they have even heard anything besides the greatest hits.. I am probably guilty of that though , i reckon I have a shorter attention span these days. But with sabbath at least, I know the albums already from years of listening, trying to learn the songs on bass and guitar with my friends who played drums
TRACK ORDER MATTERS!
I never knew that! Care to elaborate?
When I hear Planet Caravan, I think of teenage years... late at night in someone's garage... a few red lightbulbs... bourbon & coke... and a ton of weed, and just a burning desire to understand the meaning of life. Something like that...
Yup! I hear that!
I still do that today😊
This is in between "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" on the LP. Tony Iommi says about Sabbath's music: “We always put something in, like an acoustic bit, to give the album a bit of light and shade," Iommi said. "So when you come in with everything, it sounds [even] heavier."
Glad you enjoyed. -DW
Like embryo on Master of realty
Laguna Sunrise and Changes on Vol. 4.
@@tonyanderton3521 Yep! That one too... also, Changes...
Still has that heavy vibe with that light and shade tone
@@mikekeeler6362 They still sound amazing, Mike, even after 50 years.
No matter how loud or quiet, Geezer and Bill work together like magic.
Discovering Black Sabbath is like walking down a hallway opening doors and having no idea what you’ll find but knowing it will be amazing.
This song was one of our favorites. Because it’s beautiful and shows the bands versatility.
❤️
I heard this when I was in my teens when the album was released. It blew me away. I listen to it now aged 64. It reminds me of my life. Everything we cannot change, in the background, just keeps going around and around. There is my story to tell, highlighted by guitar fills, highs and lows, and, inevitably, fading away.
Wow. Love it Maurice
Very eloquently stated Maurice....
Keep the outro going for as long as possible Maurice! Nice comment 👏👏
"Can you imagine hearing that in 1970?" I don't have to imagine it ... I did and I thought it was as cool then as I do now.
Your reaction says it all, closed your eyes and just listened, no words needed. Ended up mindblown. That’s sabbath for you
The playing of Bill Ward on congas is so subtle that at first I thought it was tablas.
Yes!
Once again, the Greatest band of all time.
I've been thinking that way for 50 years
This song is such a mood. I’ve always loved it!!!!! It shows their talent and range.
Hey @Andrew Rooney Drums,
since you did LED ZEPPELINs JOHN BONHAM and BLACK SABBATHs BILL WARD now, can you complete the trilogy with IAN PAICE from DEEP PURPLE, please?
Thank you for your inspiring content!
All the best from Germany!
Michael ✌️😉
Absolutely...THE UNHOLY TRINITY as it was called in the USA.
Yea I heard how you like those old sabbath videos from the 70s ... put on "child in time" "highway star" you'll probably be like yeeeeeah.. or whatever songs people will recommend from them. One of my personal favorite of theirs was "Lazy" and it looks like theres a brilliant live 1972 version on youtube with tons of jamming for 11 minutes. I'm listening to that for the first time and I'm like 🤤🤤
This song is absolutely beautiful! It always brings me so much joy and at the same time a little bit of sadness, as it appears to translate in musical and lyrical terms that our travel through this universe in our Planet Caravan is an awesome but finite experience. One of Sabbath's greatest tunes! 🖤🌎💫🌌🖤
I’m always delighted to see how people react to hearing Sabbath for the first time, and you certainly didn’t disappoint. I like how you describe them as a quartet and not just a band because you respect the skill and ability of each of the members. You’re in it now, you will always love Sabbath, you’ll remember what you were doing or where you were each time you discover a new song. Enjoy it! I would love the excitement and adrenaline of discovering a band like this for the first time.
Welcome to the enigma and genius of early Black Sabbath... they are a latent jazz band wrapped in blues rock and METAL ! and imo the mighty Bill Ward is the driving force behind it all...
SO GOOD
swing that chain
Love this song, and Pantera do it justice at the end of the "Far Beyond Driven" album as a break from the heaviness of the rest of the LP. Planet Caravan forever!
Yes!! The pantera cover is phenomenal
Pantera does an excellent version of Electric Funeral too
Dear Andrew, you absolutely need to start with the beginning, where it all started. Please listen to the very first track of the very first album (Black Sabbath, on Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath). Everything you love about this group was there from the start. Once you're at it, continue on the second track (The Wizard) and listen to Bill style.
Don't worry I'm going to go right through from the start.
Was hoping to do a listening party somehow
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I'm very much in your situation. Although older than you are, I discovered BS only a few months ago. With the track I just mentioned. I was instantly blown away. I thought BS was heavy metal, with screaming, guitar shredding at 300 bpm and low musicality. How wrong I was. I followed more or less the same path with Led Zeppelin about a year ago. Came to them after a cover by Yoyoka, which got me to discover John Bonham which in turn took me to LZ. Never looked back.
Try “ Solitude “ off Master of Reality ...Opeth did a great cover of it ...and a great instrumental off Volume 4, “ Laguna Sunrise”
I constantly see reactors and reviewers discover Black Sabbath first era and it is always magical, and to think the 4 original members are still alive and maybe they can also see people reacting to their masterpiece for the first time! Just awesome
My favourite band. Really been enjoying your coverage. It's kinda like re-discovering them, or at least appreciating them from a whole different angle :)
Awesome song! They kind of made a thing for a few albums to throw in a few mellow, jazzy, spacey, songs in there between the madness. "Solitude" from Master Of Reality, "Fluff" from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and "Laguna Sunrise" from Volume 4 come to mind! A stripped back, more laid back sound from them!
and don't start ,.too late, before symptom
This is the song that really did it for me. I'd heard some metal before that I was kind of on the fence about. I heard Pantera's cover of this and really dug it, and then learned it was a cover. That led me to my dad's vinyl collection, which included Paranoid and the rest is history. Over the next year, I bought every Sabbath album available at that point and spent most of the next decade going down the metal rabbit hole.
People always overlook the gentle stuff. Yes...as mentioned below..Light and shade on an album!!!
Definitely Bruce. What an amazing song
Paranoid was one of the first albums I ever bought, I used to save the money from my paper round to buy interesting albums, I bought paranoid and have been hooked on Sabbath ever since and this is still one of my favourite Sabbath tracks 😎🏹🙏
Yes I did hear it in 1970 age 7 thought it was perfect companion to the rest of the album
Agree! Spacey 👽🛸
ozzy sang out of a leslie amp that was made for a hammond organ
The way you are listening to the music with your eye's closed with Headphones is to me the Best way to really appreciate music. No distractions!!
I think Bill's most impressive performance was on Symptom of the Universe. Those fills were just nuts. Never to be duplicated. Even by Bill. One of my all time favorite drummers.
I did the live and studio of that one!
I'm glad, that is an all timer. I'll go check them out. Thanks! This and Burn from Deep Purple are for me the most mind boggling fills of that era, imo.
Been thinking about those fills for 42 years
Yes, it's Bill Ward on the congas and Iommi playing the flute parts, with Ozzy singing through a guitar amp. Geezer imagined his lyrics as being a description of a cosmic great date.
Absolutely magical. Moving
Geezer Butler on the bass is the one who wrote all of their lyrics, guy is definitely awesome! Also, Tony Iommi briefly played for Jethro Tull before Sabbath took off, so maybe that's when he learned the flute. He says that he learned a lot about being a professional band, stuff like scheduling, from his time in Tull.
Cheers Charlie
Tull is often considered the 4th of the Big 4 first gen English Heavy Metal bands… a bit too eclectic to be real Heavy Metal but they certainly had some VERY heavy albums!
@@buzzbomb67 As the old joke goes, the flute is a heavy, metal instrument.
@@MarathonVidmaster
Lmao indeed it is!
Pantera did a cover of this song, and its awesome
yes,one of best coverˋs ever👌
I'm glad someone mentioned this. They really did sabbath justice and it goes without mentioning what an influence they were on Pantera and most other rock and metal bands.
Agree! Killer cover🤘🏻👌🏻
The piano on this was played by the band's sound engineer.
Terrific song, but not one I'd have chosen to highlight Bill Ward.
Rat Salad is the obvious choice, basically being one big drum solo. For more obvious jazz influences there's Air Dance. Or The Fallen, from the Born Again demos.
A huge 👍💪🤘for Air Dance! Lots of prog in that song too btw
Personally, I feel the Wizard truly showcases him
Lol I saw that he’d done this and I was all “……….um …….. is there even drums on that?!” Of course, there is, but ya, def not my first choice for showing to a drum reactor! Fortunately he appreciates congas as well! Rat Salad is def like, their Moby Dick. I still say Children Of The Grave, Lord Of This World, and After Forever would be excellent, drum-heavy tracks to react to.
Yes Tom Allom i think the engeners name is
I was nine when my grandmother took me to the record store with ten dollars of Christmas money. After much mulling about I chose this album. It was a random pick from the new release rack. I remember the look on Mama Lou's face. "Are you sure?" I wasn't sure at that second. About three songs into the album, later, at home, alone, I was sure. Woah! Nine!
The synth thing is a five position switch being turned - this is 1970 :)
Keys are the engineer Tom Allom. Bill loves his hand percussion.
Supernaut and A National Acrobat next :)
Supernaut was Bonham’s favorite song ... on the famous Sabbath -Zeppelin jam, that’s what Bonham played
I love this song. It’s closer to jazz than metal imo
So good Dean!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums I wish you would listen to Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
I heard it in about 86 it blew us away
Awesome Rob!
please check out the studio version of The Warning it will blow you away
What a beautiful song....We loved it back in 70's n sounds just as cool now. Glad you got to hear this Andrew
Yes we did Susanne...and I get a kick watching others discover "our" music...Rock ON!!
Bill Ward is also a great singer as well. The song "It's Alright" from the album Technical Ecstasy. Sounds like The Beatles 👍
Ian Paice from Deep Purple was a 19 year old kid when he joined DEEP PURPLE in1968. He is a greatly overlooked drummer with massive chops. Please consider doing some DP reactions.
I guess I missed "Snowblind". The groove that Bill Ward creates is just special. Even if it didnt make the list, take a listen, its off the album "volume 4".
I'll get to it Dan!
I remember listening to this in 1973 many nights to go to sleep, What a hypnotic song.
Incredible piece of art
I first learned of this song threw Pantera’s cover of this song. Both just as mesmerizing.
One overlooked influence on their music was Django Reinhardt and gypsy guitar music. It was something Iommi picked up after his injury, because Reinhardt himself played with an disfigured hand. A understated influence, but on several of their accoustic tracks you can hear it.
Great bands show you that they can do anything. Not just rock crazy.What a band......
If you like bill Ward then you should listen to it's all right on the technical ecstasy album
I'll be doing all the Babbath stuff
one album with Paranoid, Iron Man, War Pigs, Fairies Wear Boots, Electric Funeral and Planet Caravan. Paranoid is my favorite Black Sabbath Album.
Dear Andrew, it's a pleasure to hear you talk about this band and these fantastic songs that are so dear to me, you make me relive the same emotions I had many years ago when I was listening to Black Sabbath for the first time!
Andew, thanks for your review of BS druing your Black Sabbath week. I am so pleased that you are a convert! I came across them by accident in 1970 at age 18yrs, not long after the release of the Album. I visited my favourite record shop in Cardiff, South Wales, UK to seek out another Almbum that the store didn't have in at that time and the shop keeper recommended this 'new band'. It was the days when the record stores had soiund proffed listening booths and he put the record on and I listened ti the whole album and loved all the tracks, including the lovelky 'planet caravan' - an amazing contrast, as you say. I looved this track immmediately. I lost my love of the band after they slit - it just wasn't Sabbath to me. I still have my originl albums and play them frequently althugh I do adoimt I have ourchesed the CD's too. Thaks again for you 'deep dive' into the band. Regards from SWales, Howard
Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler - who composed the song's lyrics - said the song is about floating through the universe with one's lover.[1] Black Sabbath lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne uses a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocals' treble and vibration effects.[citation needed] The piano parts on the track were played by album engineer Tom Allom.[citation needed] Iommi overdubbed flute to the reversed multitrack master which was then re-forwarded and treated with stereo delay.[citation needed]
On 31 May 2020, "Planet Caravan" was used as wake-up music for the crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon before the craft's launch later that day. It was the first time music was used to wake astronauts since the last shuttle mission in July 2011. The craft was bound for the International Space Station.[2]
Personnel
Ozzy Osbourne - vocals
Tony Iommi - guitar, flute
Geezer Butler - bass guitar
Bill Ward - congas
Tom Allom - piano
Thanks for all the clarification Lester. Brilliant
What a great week!
Way back in my day in the 70s this was without a doubt one of the main songs people got together in their friends "Pad" Garage or fixed up Basement to Hang out and Chill with friends etc !! 😊
That is Bill Ward on the Congo's Tony Iommi was playing the riff and Mr. Bill Ward grabbed the Congo's and of course started playing.
Perfect. Thanks Mark :)
What's the best reaction I've ever seen sir as I was watching you myself I'm still in awe speechless absolutely awestruck by what I'm hearing and trying to figure out where my imagination is taking me with the collaboration of instruments in musicians I'm still speechless after all these years thank you for putting it down like that
Thank you! 🙏
This track shows the versatility of their music style true talent.
I remember listening to tht , the first time . My reaction was like URS. I was not expecting that. But it took me out into space. I absolutely love this song.
Sabbath are so good. Heard them when I was 13 (i'm 47 now) and they literally blew my mind. So heavy, so melodic, so groovy, so much pocket and fare and invention and the proggy/psychedlic vibes.
I'd recommend you tap some of the tracks off the Dio era albums, Heaven and Hell especially, it's an absolute masterpiece.
I found their debut album Black Sabbath in C-cassette when I was about seven or eight from a flee market. I'm also 47 now.... still have that and it's always been one of my all time faves
One of my favourite Black Sabbath songs.
you should listen PANTERAˋs version of this song.itˋs Great as well
..and VINNIE PAUL drumming,he was one of the best metal drummers.RIP VINCENT PAUL ABBOTT
Far Beyond Driven!!!1🤘
@@ShapeshifteR-TheAnomalyGameCat Vulgar Display Of Power💪
Most early albums had a light and dark element. Loved listening to these with headphones in bed. The turntable used to turn the amp off at the end. Played with King crimson, Pink Floyd, Family, Yes etc. Didn't do or need drugs.
This is a love song,about lovers flying through the universe,to quote geezer didn't want to write the usual "get a bag of chips cobblers"
Dear fiend.... I BS fan since 1990.... i glad than you enjoy and discover the greatest band ever.... is indispensable than you hear THE WIZARD and UNDER THE SUN..... bill on that are out this world..... remember THE WIZARD and UNDER THE SUN..... greetings from Argentina!!!!!!!
I’ve been catching up on your Sabbath week Andrew. I’m delighted you appreciate them so much. I watched them live with Ronnie as lead vocals and I was blown away. Thoroughly enjoying this coverage, thank you. Pat 🏴
Let me know when you have Black Sabbath month. Believe it or not, you have only cracked the surface with this band.
Check out "Changes" on Volume 4!!!!
I'll get to it Nelson!
After listening to the first few tracks this was a complete shock. As i've gotten older i have grown to love this gentle inner piece experience. It has been played live but as an instrumental.
Atmospheric light music Jazz solo between 2 heavy tracks Tony also plays flute on Solitude from Master of Reality Tony got interested in the flute with his short stint with Jethro Tull
Wow. Great info Justin
One of my fav Black Sabbath songs ever. Ever. It's a for sure 'put on a loop' song....and Tony Iommi going full on Django Reinhardt. Love. It.
I was 7 in 1970. My cousins were in their late teens and got into this new Band "Sabbath . blew me away the first time i heard them . Didnt have a clue what they were on about but the sound was crazy mad , still is . Enjoy .
Just watched this review July '23. "Changes" from Vol.4 is another track without any percussion.
A very heartfelt vocal by Ozzy.
NICE!
Solitude is another calm, moody one that doesn't get enough recognition. Iommi even plays flute on it I think. Just doesn't have any drums...
Opeth did a great cover of it
I heard an interview with Iommi and he said “ at the time we smoked a lot of w**d and we really wanted to make a song that we can chill on. We jamed for a couple of nights and (name?) put an filter to Ozzy’s voice and we loved it”…
Magic Patrik
There was usually one gentle song on each album. It just showcased their talent. Tom Allom the engineer plays the keys on that song. The rest of the band plays the rest. Gezzer Butler wrote most of the lyrics by Black Sabbath
Great reaction again. I feel even when they do more introspective, slower pieces, there’s still that eerie vibe about them that only Sabbath can do. ‘She’s gone’ from Technical Ecstasy will also surprise you, I’m sure. It’s really beautiful. Ozzy is magnificent on it.
Notice that Tony’s throwing in some Kenny Burrell licks that sound like they’d be right at home on the “Midnight Blue” album. Deep jazz/blues roots within the whole band!
There's a video someone made of 5 hours of Planet Caravan. Pretty much won UA-cam at that point. There's also one slowed down by 800% that's pretty damn amazing.
Oh damn! HAHA
This track is an absolute masterpiece by the masters themselves
LOVE YOU Bro, whoever convinced you to do a UA-cam channel was correct!
What a hell of a week, Andrew !!!!!!!!! I agree, Black Sabbath month. Tony Iommi is THE riff master. Seeing your reaction to the band that influenced EVERY rock band today in someway was priceless !
i hope you do a reaction to fairies wear boots, the drums in that song are a blast to listen to
Yes I've heard that's a must!
If you wondered what Black Sabbath sounded like fully blown out on good 70's cocaine, check out pretty much anything from Volume 4. I highly recommend "Snowblind".
Fantastic review. You have got how this band are, perfectly. 👏👏👏👏
I adore this stuff now.
Wear my Black Sabbath shirts out with pride!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums that's brilliant Andrew. Mine get plenty of wear as well.. check out their song" falling off the edge of the world" it's of the " mob rules" album.
Love to see you dive into this song!
I highly recommend listening to Bill Ward on the Sabbath song 'It's Alright' (Technical Ecstasy' album 1978) ! Why..? Because not only does he play the drums, but he is also the singer instead of Ozzy! Proof drummers can sing!
This is a very good night driving song/ flying . Basically it's a good song for anyone who's traveling and want to make the journey sound epic
100% Henrik!!!
One of the coolest songs I have ever heard whilst cruising the universe on this crazy spaceship we call earth.
Bill Ward could also sing too: ua-cam.com/video/-Eed4Rfu6Ug/v-deo.html
Riding on the Planet Caravan, controls set for the heart of the sun. As soon as I have purchased my FTL star cruiser, both songs will be on top of the playlist (they are, anyway).
NICE
I really loved Sabbath week! Heres to hoping you ll do more of the band in the future.
Just wait and see for "Solitude", another strange kind of Jazz ballad. And after this one: Into The void. btw. Bill always is playing alongside with Iommi's play. He's just improving and building up drum figures all the time and studied them by himself.
Ozzy sings through a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocals' treble and vibration effects...
You had to be there for this song when it came out some people were like huh but I'd love this tune so soothing
Love this song and i love the Pantera version too!!! Awesome 👏 👏👏👏
Quite possibly my favorite song ever.
Caravan is a stunning piece of music🌟
Hello from New England Andrew....1 word...DRUGS!!!
Go for MEGALOMANIA if you want a full prog/psyschedelic song.
One of my fave Sabbath songs
This was really my gateway to metal. I'd heard a bit of Metallica, but then I heard Pantera's Far Beyond Driven, which isn't my cup of tea, but they covered Planet Caravan on that album. The liner notes said it was a Sabbath cover and not long after that I found Paranoid in my dad's record collection. That album blew me away, and Sabbath is still in my top 3 all time greats to this day.
Saw sabbath in 1976 in San Diego. More sabbath !!!
Remember. Toni Iommi was a Jazz guitarist growing up.
Very much in his wheelhouse.