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Classic Album War: Black Sabbath 'Live Evil' vs Ozzy Osbourne 'Speak of the Devil'
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2019
- Join host Pete Pardo and special guest Chris Alo in a discussion about two classic live heavy metal albums, Black Sabbath 'Live Evil' vs Ozzy Osbourne 'Speak of the Devil'. #blacksabbath #ozzyosbourne
I don't care what you say, Brad Gillis tore it up on "Speak of the Devil. I love his performance/interpretation on all these classic Sabbath tunes
Speak Of The Devil by miles
Still listen to this regularly. One of the greatest guitar tones in hard rock history. Album is flawless.
Speak Of The Devil, Brad Gillis kills it, Symptom Of The Universe is my personal favorite on the album.
Yes, Symptom of the Universe is a standout. I would go with Children of the Grave as my favorite. Never Say Die is an improvement on the original. The thing that bothered me about Speak of the Devil were Ozzy's multitracked vocals. Gillis, Aldridge and Sarzo played their asses off.
Ha, mine too 👍👍
@@kenm.3512 the multitracking is still much better than the original, if youve heard the un-edited vocal track. ozzy sounded attrocious lol
"LIve Evil" also features what might be the greatest artwork on any album, ever released. So dark, ominous, it just jumped head-first into the darkest side of Sabbath.
Tommy Aldridge's drumming on "Talk of the devil" is incredible. So inventive & powerful !
I don't care how much they helped Ozzy's voice in making of Speak of the Devil, the album is damn good. Rudy Sarzo on War Pigs is fantastic.
"Live Evil" for me. It's always nice when you Chris Alo on. His love for Sabbath is immense. Can he be on more of your videos, even if he's just sitting behind you and making facial reactions to what you say? That would be awesome.
Speak Of The Devil Album! Simply killer! I thought Brad Gillis added something SMOOTH different to the Sabbath songs, that had nice updated twist on each song. I loved Speak Of The Devil much more!..... Both are fantastic albums though!....Buttttttttt!
In my opinion Speak of the Devil is great. Ozzy’s voice was phenomenal. SOTD all day every day.
Ozzy for me. I never owned this album until this year. I like it a lot. Live Evil I bought when it came out. I love Sabbath and Ozzy(&Randy). I never got in to RJD singing the old stuff. I would have preferred Live Evil to showcase more from those 2 great albums & fewer Old Sabbath tunes.
I was happy that the ‘Heaven & Hell’ Band, could finally just feature songs from RJD’s tenure.
I am a Sabbath fan first, so I will go with Live Evil.
Though I'm always amazed by how Ozzy delivers the Sabbath stuff, "Live Evil" is much more mystical and emotional to me. I have this in vinyl since 1983, and "Sign of the southern cross" together with "Heaven & Hell" are purely magical. And "Mob Rules" live version kills it. Very very few live albums contain the feeling of the era and the awe of the early 80's pure heavy metal, and Live Evil does that! 👌
“Speak Of The Devil” to me is the best album. Brad Gillis simply sounds amazing (maybe his finest moment on guitar). “Live Evil” is also great. Ronnie James Dio made Black Sabbath a better band. It’s difficult to choose one over the other, but one thing is for sure: both are essential live albums to own in any decent music collection 🤘😎
I agree Ronnie made Sabbath a better band
This has been a classic album war since the day these albums were released! 😂
Definitely going with Live Evil. I like the SOTD recording, it's a decent listen, but Live Evil captures the all-too-brief version of Black Sabbath at their best. The set-list could've included a few more songs from Heaven And Hell and Mob Rules but that's a small complaint.
Live Evil is also my favorite live album of all time.
Live Evil all day long. Dio saved Sabbath when he joined them in my opinion. Heaven and Hell is easily my favourite Sabbath album so this an early round knockout for me.
This is a no brainer. ‘Live Evil’ by a country mile.
Live Evil. No contest. Easily the best lineup Sabbath ever had. I think Dio did really good with the Ozzy era songs, though I think Ian Gillan and Tony Martin did a slightly better job covering those tunes. I've always really loved the live version of Voodoo, and in my opinion it surpasses the original studio take.
Great to see Chris Alo back! He's my favorite guest of your's and I look forward to his future appearances.
I agree about Voodoo! The bluesy middle section they added takes the song up several notches, IMO. I always loved when bands switched up arrangements on stage and added new parts or just jammed. Who wants to hear exact renditions of album tracks at a concert? Not me.
Live Evil for me. This was one of my first Sabbath albums and it's a sentimental favourite. Speak of the Devil always seemed like a cheap knockoff.
Live Evil, hands down the best.
Brad Gillis was a beast on Speak of the devil!
@LVswim InVegas I saw this show to in Columbus Ohio, I watched Brad all nite he was on fire. Apparently Sharon fired Brad & Jake auditioned & got the nod next.
Sharon fired alot of great musicians, Lee Kerslake was an awesome drummer. Hell,Bob Daisley wrote all of the tunes practically & was fired. Weird.
@@beckblowbyblow No, Brad was NOT fired. Once the "Diary" tour was over he wanted to go back to Night Ranger, and had Ozzy's blessing to do so. George Lynch was brought on for a few weeks before Jake joined. George WAS fired by Ozzy, probably due to his attitude, but I am only guessing because it has never come out why he was fired.
All the Ozzy fans talked shit about devil and Gilli's after Randys death ,but I always stood by Brad. I recently filmed him with night ranger and he's still got it!
@@beckblowbyblow Like Lemmy said : Don't mess with Sharon, she's like a man! LOL
In Rudy Sarzo's book about his time in the Ozzy band, he noted that Sharon intentionally did an all Sabbath live album to stick it to the Sabbath organization. She only wanted to hurt their sales, nobody in Ozzy's band wanted to make that album and it was a big part of Randy's ultimate decision to leave after the third Ozzy studio album (what became Bark at the Moon).
That's not what happened. Ozzy was scheduled to release a live album, the album that would later be known as Tribute. Randy died before it could be released and Ozzy didn't want to release the album and look like he was capitalizing on Randy's death. So, Ozzy decided to release an all-Sabbath live album to meet his obligation.
@@independenceltd. not according to Rudy. It was a planned Sabbath album from the beginning.
@LVswim InVegas he's great. He meticulously journaled everything around that time.
Live Evil for me.Dio was an amazing singer.Iommi is the Sabbath sound.Speak of the Devil is a cop out and yes Sharon did it get to back Sabbath.
Iommi & Geezer is sabbath sound through & through. I prefer Live Evil
From what I read, it was Ozzy’s idea. He didn’t take too kindly to Sabbath releasing a live album with songs he felt were his.
@@juniorsandoval9624 without ozzy that sound is incomplete
Excellent album War. I personally prefer Speak of The Devil but I agree with both of your assessments on the differences from the originals. Pete, I know you're doing live albums but have you done a Mob Rules VS Diary of a Madman episode? If you have, I've not seen it. Keep up the great work!
Speak of the Devil totally gets my vote. I rarely play Live Evil. Sounds like it was recorded in an empty hockey rink.
Live Evil wins for me. I had a friend that owned Speak of the Devil, but it never grabbed me. I wish I had seen Sabbath for that tour, too.
Dio will always Beat Ozzy. Always taking nothing away from Ozzy but Dio is too Talented.
Dio in Sabbath is like Paul Rodgers in Queen.
Speak of the Devil is awesome and was my first introdiuction to many of those Sabbath classics. But there's a tangible gloominess, and powerful heaviness, that Live Evil (and not many other records) delivers! The Dio-lead version of Sabbath is rarely topped.
Black Sabbath Live Evil hands down. Dio every day of the week.
Live at last was way better than both of them and it was only a single live album.
@@gregberry1812 That album used to crack me and my friend up whenever we'd listen to it. Poor Iommi had a bad feedback problem back then. To get his sound back then, he'd have to push his stacks to the max. That coupled with a thin bodied SG (known for feedback), he'd get ungodly feedback all the time. He's have to keep the volume down on his guitar until the second he'd start playing. When we listened close we could almost hear a "oh bloody hell, not again!" at the beginning of every song :D ua-cam.com/video/gTIhZcEI5uo/v-deo.html
I listened to both albums religiously grown-up,it's a tie!
I was lucky to see Heaven and Hell tour at Arizona Jam , Mob Rules Tour and Born again Tour at Arizona Colesium. Then saw the later Sabbath tours with Ozzy in California. All GREAT. Live Evil, no comparison
SOTD and it's not even close. The mix on Live Evil is horrid.
Dio over Ozzy any day, all day.😍
Oh..."Live Evil"....Epic, majestic, heavy, thunderous, DIO! What more is there? Back in the day...my college roommate and I would have "Ronnie Hour" after our lunch period. Of course..I had the best stereo in our dorm and without fail every afternoon we would play Ronnie for an hour at stupid DB levels! LOL! "Live Evil" was often the album of choice. I am still hoping to find video from that "not only are we filming tonight.." comment from Ronnie during "Heaven and Hell" and hope that we might actually see footage from this stuff..(one can dream you know!!)... Vinny Appice's drums are mammoth as well. Now...I could have done without the Ozzy era stuff....but it was the first "official" Black Sabbath live recording so I am sure they needed to present that stuff as well...but songs like "Country Girl", "Wishing Well", and others would have been great. (The Hammersmith shows on New Year's Eve..cover that very nicely indeed).
Now the Ozzy. I played the crap out of it...mostly to hear Tommy Aldridge demonstrate why he is who he is. Of course Brad Gillis does a tremendous job...but it wasn't Randy....and once I heard "Tribute"..I rediscovered once again what made him so remarkable. "Tribute" is a superior album..."SOTD"..is good..but not up in "Live Evil" territory.
My listening of "SOTD" has diminished greatly over the years..but not "Live Evil"..that says it all.
Well said. Live Evil has the staying power.
Great album war Pardo! I have to say Speak Of The Devil wins, this is the album that got me into Sabbath, live this album!!!!’
Brad Gillis did an admirable job after Randy died, but you can’t beat the sabbath Dio years.
Live evil...,
Knockout
My vote goes to Ozzy's SOTD. Brad Gillis and Rudy Sarzo's bass just knocked it totally out of the park imo.. and I'm a huge Iommi and Geezer Butler fan
Dio sabbath for me. A band that got a new lease of life when Ronnie joined. great riffs/vocals and strong songs. Ozzy - the clown prince of rock imo but he managed to have some great players - Aldridge/Rhoads/Gillis/Wylde and others
No question for me, SOTD wins. Gillis did a superb job breathing new life into B.S. material, while Live Evil sounded lackluster.
Live Evil such a classic
Great show, thanks, I enjoyed that.
Live Evil for the win
Speak of the Devil by a landslide. I heard it way before Live Evil. So many memories. And at the time I was a big Ozzy fan. As much as I love Dio, I do not like to hear Dio doing the Ozzy songs. I remember being disappointed as I was trying to get into Live Evil. I just couldn't get it into the Ozzy songs with Dio singing them. The Dio Sab songs on live Evil do sound good. But Speak with Brad Gillis just makes that record so much better.
Live Evil. This one was pretty easy.
I was about 11 or 12 when Live Evil came out... bought it on cassette immediately. I already had Live At Last, on cassette also (which I got in a clearance bin at the grocery store). So those were my first two Sabbath albums....and I wore them out! Live Evil is still a favorite.
Haha Guys! Yup..Gillis rules! One of the greatest Guitar Tones EVER! And YES...I'll always take Gillis' take over the old Sabbath way! Yes..I said it! :) Lol
This is not to belittle your opinion in the least, but show you the contrast of opinions. I thought Brad Gillis guitar tone was terribly thin and shrill and tuned to standard tuning, if I remember right. I hated just about everything about that album and had no idea why someone would listen to it,rather than Sabbath.I think that I was still in mourning over the death of Randy Rhoads and couldn't make sense of Ozzy's thought process in doing that album.
@@brucefranklin6295 If you thought his tone was thin, I'd really hate to know what you REALLY call a thin tone. That's one of the thickest Mesa Boogie tones ever documented and has been loved by tons for 30 years
@@butchjones3497 half the thickness of the Iommi tone and standard tuning didn't help either.
@@brucefranklin6295 Pffffff
@@butchjones3497 I have to honestly say that you are the only person I have ever heard praise the guitar tone of Brad Gillis,but the praises of Iommi's tone are uncountable. I am fine to leave it as you like what you like and we just differ on that.
Ozzy is a fantastic front man and ROCK STAR but Dio is simply the greatest voice metal has ever produced. It's Live Evil for me.
Another Sabbath fan first, Live Evil all the way. I agree with Chris' take on SOTD.
I was blown away that "the dude from Night Ranger" was the lead player on this! I mean....Night Ranger? Brad Gillis gave many of us one of the best surprises in metal history - he killed it! Tone heaven, and fiery soloing all over this thing ....
Live Evil!! Hands down.Both great but Live Evil is unparalleled. Still listen to it often. Chills when it begins
Damn what a war here!!!!! I grew up on these albums.
I love both. Always felt Gillis was tasteful with the Iommi stuff. Not show off like Rhodes or Zakk.
Live Evil was my first ever Sabbath album. In fact I traded my friend Scorpions Def Leppard and Iron Maiden cassettes for the live Evil cassette. Iommi’s solo is so scary good. Dio delivers. Geezer and Vinny awesome. I really love Vinnys drumming on this.
This is so tough. But by an inch
Live Evil wins!!
Agreed. Gillis plays really great and he doesnt show off like the others as you mentiones, especially Zakk imo. Love bith albums but Live Evil wins just by a little tad...
Kurt Gøran Andersen the positive thing about Zakk though. He does love the Sabbath but those pinch harmonics get annoying really quick. I think he means well though. Rhodes was supposedly just bored playing the Sabbath stuff and he was never a Sabbath fan to begin with. And I don’t know for sure maybe it was Sharon who told him to overplay the Iommi stuff to belittle him. This is just speculation on my part. So don’t mean to offend anyone however I have suspicions. Not sure how Jake E Lee approached the Sabbath material live. If anyone knows I’d like to be educated
I sure love those Badlands albums though.🤘🏼
@@Mike-aka747 No, it isn't speculation. Randy did hate having to play the Sabbath songs. He didn't like Sabbath, and definitely did NOT want to record what would become SOTD, although he reluctantly agreed to do it before he was killed. Randy wanted out of that band, had had enough of the "rock star" nonsense, and figured that by doing this record, it would bring him one step closer to his contract to Ozzy being fulfilled. I think that Randy played the three Sabbath songs with his own style because he did find them quite boring. Iommi and Rhoads are two completely different guitarists, but both brilliant in what they specialized in.
Definitely Speak over Evil.
And I don’t have a problem with the Gillis shred versions of the songs - it brought them more up to date.
The Speak VHS/DVD is from the same tour, but the normal Ozzy set. Also very good with him onboard.
I agree that Gillis should have gone on to become a bigger star than he did, but he chose to leave and go back to Night Ranger.
Brad did a great job considering he had 5 days to learn and memorize all of those tunes. Doable, but not easy to do. Brad makes many mistakes on Faries Wear Boots, but he did it so gracefully. Brad Gillis is one of the best ever. And his tone. Wow! I saw the Mob Rules tour, btw. And the first Ozzy tour. It’s strange, Ozzy already had Rudy and Tommy in the band. I was expecting Bob Daisly and Lee Kerslake.
I know this an old album war but I listened to both recently. Live Evil wins for me.
There is no competition, Ozzy Speak of the Devil is by far some of the best Sabbath Live recordings that exist.Period. Also..there is a complete set of Ozzy and Randy songs that were also played with Brad. The Speak of the Devil album only contained the Sabbath music..where as the video Speak of the Devil is actually all Randy tunes..I also own both the US and British releases Speak and Talk :)
Hiw have i not seen this till now? What a great topic!
Speak Of The Devil blows Live Evil out of the water for me! The album is dynamite!
I love Ozzy, both with Sabbath & solo, but I think I prefer the Live Evil album. I also love just about everything Dio ever did and it's actually quite refreshing to hear Dio's interpretations of the old Sabbath classics as well as the songs he played a role in with Sabbath. There's also the differences in production, I don't know much about that sort of thing but I just prefer the way Live Evil sounds. So, yup, I prefer Black Sabbath "Live Evil".
Ozzy is not Dio and Gillis is not Iommi. Live Evil all the way.
This is an epic battle and SO tough to choose for me, all I know is the OZZY l.p cover is WAAAAY better.
Great vid.
❤️👹❤️👹❤️
Btw.... Chris,on the show gets a big 👍 He’s an awesome addition.
Enjoyed it✌️🤘🎶🍺
Chris here, many thanks!!!
Thanks for the great breakdown of both albums. Love both albums. Sabbath for my vote.
VERY good show! It was an interesting and strange time in metal. NWOBM has definitely caught on and, in Metal's founding and flagship band, Ozzy's gone and on his own. I remember fellow teens tuning into him that probably never even knew about Sabbath. Meanwhile, Sabbath picks up...Dio!..wow! And a lot of Elf/Rainbow listeners then became Sabbath fans. It was also interesting seeing live albums with some of the same songs! All things being equal and IMHO, Sabbath beat out Ozzy. The Sabbath album art was insane and each little picture represented a song which was a very cool idea.
Again, an odd time. It got even odder later, not so much because Dio left but because Ian Gillan joined the band and brought over another element in the Deep Purple-sphere. Like you, I was like 'game on' with Gillan being there. What it means is that by the time Ian Gillan joined them, Sabbath had enlisted two of the best hard rock/metal vocalists ever (Dio and Gillan) and I guess I'd have to say that both Ozzy and Dio were two of the best frontmen ever. Amazing stuff and, once again, this was a very good show!
Of course live evil-dio could sing anything!!! On the other hand is unfair because ozzy never sang dio songs (not that he could)
@LVswim InVegas I agree, I think remember reading an interview a few year ago that he said he would never sing any Dio songs with sabbath out of respect for RJD.
no way in hell Ozzy could sing ANYTHING Dio did
@@chriswoosley3883 I don't know but it would sound awkward and Ozzy stated he choose not to sing any songs from the Dio era out of respect for RJD.
Chris Story - Haha! Because he knew he couldn’t dream of singing any Dio songs, so he spun it like he was being “respectful”. This from the guy who hung a midget onstage nicknamed “Ronnie”. Give me an Fin’ break!
The Ozzy album always seemed like a cover band.
That's exactly what it sounded like.
@@brucefranklin6295 Are you the Trouble Bruce?
@@ledzeplover58 Yes sir
@@brucefranklin6295 Honored Mr. Franklin,big fan of yours.
@@ledzeplover58 Thank you. Nice to hear that.
Man we used to get loaded and blast SOTD back in highschool. After the firing of Bob and Lee, Randy said he was quitting. Sharon talked him into doing the tour but he refused to do the live SABBATH covers album. Yes SOTD was conceived while Randy was still alive. It was the 3rd album in the contract signed with Jet Records.
Tribute beats both.
The Wizard on Speak of the devil is Down right Bad ass
My favorite Sabbath album (sorry Ozzy) is "Heaven and Hell." I always play the whole album!
😎🎸
I discovered Sabbath just about the time that Ozzy was fired and I LOVED ALL the original Ozzy era material and still do to this day. However, when Dio and Vinny joined The Sab's line up, I was not jaded towards the Ozzy years (have ALWAYS been an Iommi fan first and foremost anyway) and I found the then "new" Sabbath sound to be much more aggressive and "menacing" and that's what I craved musically. When I saw the Mob Rules Tour in '82 at the LA Forum, the first REAL concert I ever attended, well that show just sealed the deal for me as Sabbath became ALL that was Heavy Metal in my mind. My ears rang for three days after that show and the buzz of it still lingers to this very day! I wear my Live Evil shirt proudly and I listen to Live Evil tracks on a regular basis and still bang my head. If you ask me, NOBODY belts out a DIZZ BUSTIN' power chord better than Lord Iommi and his solos are over flowing with emotional expression (am NOT a fan of shredding for the sake of shredding) it just doesn't get any better than that as far as I'm concerned. All hail THE MIGHTY Black Sabbath!!
Speak of the Devil over Live Evil by a mile. Back when they both came out I was all Live Evil but over the years Speak of the Devil emerged as a better live record. Ozzy’s vocals are the best they sounded in years and Brad Gillis’s guitar is original yet affective. Most good guitar players can play the sabbath material note for note but would struggle playing like Gillis. Tommy Aldridge was awesome, Ruddy was great. And lastly the production on speak of the Devil was much better then Live Evil.
this is rough.
We had guitars all around the house since before i could walk,,,,Popeye 'music box' version for me when i was 4. '61
Took Mountain and Sab to get me sorta serious.
That said, i was playing in a cover band in the early '80s. NYE, we get invited to spend the night with family.
Had KSJO on the box and they played Ozz from this with Paranoid.
My band was 2 guitars. Worked good.
THIS, Brad Gillis BLAZING with just bass and drums. Ass kicking.
I just loved how everything dropped out.
I quit the band about 4 months later..
oh, Sab ? never heard anything from this.
OZZY !
Love both albums but Live Evil by a mile because of Ronnie's voice, the setlist, and the overall atmosphere just kills
Thanks guys. Both excellent albums for different reasons.
Speak of the Devil was my introduction to Sabbath. Given that I had only recently started digging metal (Diary in particular) this was the perfect introduction to Sabbath for me. Gillis simply 1983ed the playing. Live Evil was my introduction to Ronnie James Dio (a few months later Holy Diver was released I believe). My only issue with Live Evil was that the set list was too Ozzy era heavy. Would have preferred a couple of more Dio era songs. They never should have done Iron Man for sure but he crushed on NIB. Children of the Sea and Voodoo really shine on this set.
Also, Randy died March 19th shortly after my birthday, I listen to Tribute every year on that day.
Would love to hear your thoughts on the Randy Rhoads Tribute album.
it's a fantastic live album....one of the 80s best!
Now you're talking!! Especially "No Bone Movies" ....I don't even listen to the studio version of the song that much anymore, but the live version is a part of the soundtrack of my life and a version I play on guitar.
Live Evil for me . And by the way, I have the same JP t shirt that you have on Pete. I bought here in Tj cost me about 9 dolls.
I know this comment is way after you released this video but I gotta say.. I was at the Speak of the devil show at the Ritz. We were 17 and it was a 21 and over club but a cool bouncer let us in. We caught the evening show and I have to pick SOTD over live Evil cause SOTD was one of the best metal shows I've ever seen. Ozzys voice definitely cracked a bunch of times but Brad Gillis was absolutely smokin and really made the show for us. I was bummed about not seeing Randy since he died so shortly before the MSG show on the Diary tour. That was actually the saddest and one of the worst shows I've ever seen. Bernie Torme was a good Gtr player but not in the same league as Randy. The SOTD show went a long way in helping me get over the loss of Randy. It was a super rowdy show. The crowd was jacked up and I remember a few fights as well as seeing the bouncer who let us in beat the crap out of some guy. Live Evil.. As much as I love Dio.. The production is awful. Thankfully I saw the Mob Rules tour and that was insanely great. I think I remember Blue Oyster cult opening and they were always great too. Brad's playing was phenomenal though on SOTH and he was smart to leave ozzy cause he would have gotten shit on the same way Sharon's crapped on just about every musician who helped make ozzy's solo career happen. The setlist on SOTD was a Sabbath Dream setlist without a doubt. Love Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules though. Dio was easily one of the best singers in metal ever.
Another thing here. Whenever people say Iommi is just a boring simple guitarist with limited skills. All I have to simply do is play the mind melting solo and they shut up in a hurry! Sometimes their jaws were almost to the floor!
Live Evil for me great CD I just love it
This is definitely a battle, my vote is Live Evil by a nose, hard to go against Dio, such an amazing vocalist. This is the first time I heard Brad Gillis, I thought he was incredible. Good to see Chris back, hope you guys are still planning to do a history of Iron Maiden, cheers.
I grew up with both of this classic live albums. I’d have to say Live Evil 🔥🔥🔥 I still think Ozzy should have made a normal live album with songs from his first 2 albums plus some Sabbath stuff
My favorite live version of "Paranoid" is the one in "Live eviL" and my favorite version of "Children Of The Grave" is the one in "Speak Of Devil".
Live Evil for me.
Vinny Appice's drumming really grabbed me.
Great review! I agree... Live Evil wins!
People always argue whose better, Ozzy or Dio. Look at the late seventies and the place that both Ozzy and Ronnie were in. Sabbath had fizzled out for Ozzy same as Rainbow did for Ronnie. The rock world needed heaven and hell and mob rules the same as it needed blizzard of oz and diary of a madman. The change gave us four of the greatest rock albums in history. And as far as the live sets go, both are equally righteous in their own aspects. 🔥🖤🔥
I’m obsessed with the way Gillis played “Children of the Grave”.
I give it to ‘Speak of the Devil’ for that alone. I love ‘Live Evil’, but I’m not a fan of Dio singing Ozzy era songs.
Cant separate the two albums (once again).
Love them both but the recording quality is slightly better on Ozzy's in my opinion.
On live albums,have you checked out Bowies concert at Hammersmith Odeon,1973?
Mick Ronson at his awesome and most rocking best.
It slips under many a radar but well worth checking out.
YT may butcher it into separate songs but STILL worth it.Start with Width of a Circle,blistering solo from Mick.
Great video again and always keeps my attention and i learn shit too.
“Unleashed in the East” vs “Tokyo Tapes “
Unleashed by a hair!
I like Judas Priest more than Scorpions...but I like Tokyo Tapes better than Unleashed In The East. Unleashed sounds like they rushed a live album in 1979 to fulfill a record contract obligation. Columbia were assholes to Judas Priest and other rock acts...they would never have treated Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel or Barbara Striesand like they did the hard rock acts. No way...those three acts would have got another record contract at the drop of a hat and left Columbia yearning for their former golden geese.
Live Evil for me, Dio over Ozzy
I had a radio broadcast of the concert Tribute is from, and it’s probably the same as the Speak of the Devil bootlegs, the music sounds the same, but the vocals were redone…
Black Sabbath's Live Evil is an EPIC metal experience from start to finish, the opening track Neon Knights alone is enough to blow the doors off SOTD, I've always liked SOTD, but it kinda just goes through the motions, but Live Evil to me is my favourite live album of ALL TIME from the greatest Sabbath line up 🕇👊🤘👊🕇
What Ozzy did in 1982 with that album was brilliant. Pete you said it, "they Van Halenized the music"
That to me was no accident. Sharon is pretty shrewd.
What they did by doing that was introduce Sabbath to a whole generation of guitar shredders and just hair metal fenatics in general.
Eddie Van Halen was king then. Just a few years earlier, Van Halen was blowing Sabbath off the stage.
So the Sabbath shakeup was necessary. I definitely think there's more to the story than just Ozzy leaving the band.
These are very shrewd business people that we are talking about here.
FYI: Randy died in March '82. He reluctantly agreed to record what would become SOTD, although he did not like Sabbath and didn't want to do it. Randy thought that it would be a step backwards in his own career, and he also didn't see the point in Ozzy recording Sabbath songs when he was trying to establish himself as a solo artist. After he was killed, Bernie Torme' was brought in for about a month, and then Brad Gillis. Gillis, Sarzo, and Aldridge only had 5 days to learn the 10 Sabbath songs that they were not familiar with, which is most likely why Brad had to fill in some gaps on the songs with his own solos. Ozzy has said that he doesn't care for the record and that it was done to get him out of his contract with Jet Records/Don Arden and that "the songs were a bunch of bullshit Sabbath covers." Don Arden was trying to force Ozzy to put out the live recording with Randy, but Ozzy refused, saying that he "wasn't going to make a whore out of Randy" for the sake of Don Arden's wallet.
I went to both tours,sabbath at philly spectrum, ozzy at Atlantic city convention hall,both kicked ass
I had both those awesome albums when they were new. I actually saw the Mob Rules concert which was exactly the setlist of Live Evil. Loved Speak Of the Devil too, but to be fair, Live Evil was a real live album. Ozzy re-tracked his vocals in the studio.
Live at Hammersmith is far better than live evil. Sound quality is on point. And bonus I was at the show. 🤘🏼
Randy died on March 19th 1982 .... not February .... can’t believe how long it’s been