My favorite bass intensive Black Sabbath song. The song is about Satan falling for a woman, lol. Good explanation T on the origins of metal. Tasha, speech is much different in pronunciation when speaking than it is when you sing, hence why it's easier to understand Ozzy when he's singing than talking.
If you go and watch Black Sabbath documental you will find out that BS change the lyrics because it sound to cheesy for there style but it was all the time about a man who follow in love with a woman they add the Lucifer name to make it sound dark and not sound like a love song.
I love newbies hearing sounds for the first time but what struck me most by her reaction was the fact that she was awestruck that blues crossed the pond to England. That's actually the beauty of that era of music. They were all feeding off each other from an inspirational point of view. Music was in the air in a big way. Radio was the catalyst.
Sabbath were from Aston, in Birmingham. ...Not London. And old American bluesmen were practically worshipped when they toured the UK in the late 50s and 60s. Influencing just about every major British and Irish musician, of the time.
A lot of that worship was because Britain after WWII went into an enormous post-war economic funk. These British musicians were predominantly from poor, working class families, and had few prospects for improving their situation: a perfect place for blues to flourish.
Indeed you're correct Luke Bloom - Birmingham was a gritty, grimy heavy industrial town with majority of very poor folks, in fact it's known as the "Black Country" for that particular reason. Devil went down to Georgia. There was a Robert Johnson version too.
@@Markplaysmusic Birmingham isn't known as the black country ... There's an area outside of Birmingham known as that, but that's more Dudley/Wolverhampton etc ..
Great explanation to your lady regarding the blues. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Yardbirds, Cream, Rolling Stones, The Who. Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards and a lot of bands from England and The UK were very inspired by the blues. I forgot one, Richie Blackmore, Deep Purple, Rainbow. The list is extremely long.
So? He's writing a song from the perspective of Lucifer..... pretty smart writing. It was done before,and will be done again. Like Metallica writing Creeping Death. The bible told the story in the perspective of the Israelites. Metallica told the same story of Exodus,but from the perspective of the destroyer. Same story..but changing the perspective made a huge difference. And to add some true context to all of Black Sabbath's songs....they treated the devil as something to be feared. They don't prop him up.
This album changed my life as it did to most of my friends, one of the great debut albums and they just went on from there, creating a sound that is a template for all hard rock and metal bands to come. You need to hear the amazing suite found on side 2 of that LP, it goes Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning, an amazing musical statement, with perhaps Tony Iommi's greatest solo. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Before the term "Rock and Roll" it was called Rhythm And Blues Robert Johnson made a deal in Crossroads, and the Devil made a deal with Charlies Daniels in The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Basically, Sabbath wanted to explore darker themes and ideas than most had done in music. They saw there were different genres of movies--romance, comedy, etc.--and they thought why not have a horror genre in music. They took their name from a movie that had Boris Karloff (he had played Frankenstein in old scary movies in the 1930's) and combined these ideas with their new darker sound. They even did some sci fi (Iron Man and others), and explored themes of war, drugs, the occult, mental illness, and so on--in ways you didn't hear much in popular music at the time. Btw they were from Birmingham.
Most of Ozzy's music promotes love over evil, but once you get a reputation that makes waves... you take out the surfboard and ride it as long as you can!
She is correct in her assessment of the blues influence in Black Sabbath music. Don't worry, there is no such being as Lucifer, it's all mythological stories. Rock on!
For me this song isn't just about the devil falling in love with a woman like most think, I delve deeper into it. I see this song as a warning about Satan's seduction and we humans falling in love with all that is promised to us from him. Once he has us, he then exposes who he really is but then it is to late as he now has us under his control. Listen to it again with this in mind and you can't miss it.
It’s literally a love letter from the devil to a woman he’s fallen in love with and makes him want to be better. The song writers said this in interviews
Yah, I always figured the devil actually fell in love with a human, but didn't know if she'd ever really love him because he knew he was irresistible and even though she'd say it she'd never mean it. Just like he had a trillion times before, he says I love you, but doesn't mean it, now it's on him for the first time.
Funny that you say it sounds bluesy . They actually started off as a blues band and their influences were : CREAM - Hendrix and other bands. There is one song where they do have the harmonica and another one where they start off with the violin .
IN their early stage ,some said they sounded like Iron Butterfly and the song In A Gadda Davida vibe sounds like Black Sabbath to the ears if you never heard it before even though that song came out two years before Back Sabbath released their first album
Great first reaction! One of the famous songs that made people believe they were Satan worshippers, when, in fact, it’s really showing how Lucifer uses people’s need for love to entice them to him. Btw Black Sabbath is from Birmingham, not London :)
They started as a blues band Earth, Geezer Butler, a catholic, wrote the lyrics, they all wear big✝, christian metal. Ozzy does the ✌Vol. 4 cover Dio came up with the 🤘A lyrical breakdown would be good.
I really love the blues foundation of this music. Remember Jimi Hendrix went to England just when these guys were witnessing the fallout of the Vietnam War, heroin addiction, the assassination of MLK, the protests against our own veterans, and then Jimi, Janice, and Jim all died in 1970. America still had a military draft going on. As crazy as things are now it was crazy 60 years ago when JFK got killed in broad daylight in front of everybody. But yes I would like going over the lyrics to this song and other songs by Black Sabbath.
Lady I can feel the blues vibe from you ,I'm a old man but still Rock,to tell you the price of my black Sabbath ticket was$10:50 listen to more ,im Lem from Corpus Christi Texas ✌️✌️🙏❤️.
I heard a story from Geezer Butler about this song. He said the name NIB was a joke on the drummers beard, they were teasing him and said it looked like a pin nib. The song came out when all of these bands in the US were singing about love and peace, they thought it would be funny to write a song that was kind of anti what everyone else was doing so they made a love song about the devil falling in love. From what I understand it really upset a lot of folks back in the day.
Ozzy always got a bad rap people try to censor him ban him since the beginning with Sabbath. That’s because he was known as the prince of darkness, and he played up that stage persona. Of course he was a drug addict most of his life., but if you listen to the lyrics, Ozzy is all about peace, love harmony, antiwar, anti-hate anti race, you name it it’s the complete opposite of what people think he is. Look at the lyrics in every song, he puts a positive message in almost every song if not all songs
Black Sabbath, like so many British bands from that time period, was heavily influenced by the blues, so it's not surprising that it reminds you of the blues. Once riff-meister Tony Iommi started using drop tuning and the tritone in his guitar playing, Sabbath's sound started becoming something all its own, super heavy and less outright bluesy and more along the lines of what later on was called metal.
There are a few songs about putting one's soul against the Devil. Charlie Daniels - The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Robert Johnson/Cream - Crossroads...
Thank you for playing the original! The Primus and ozzy version is good, but nothing beats the original!! I find it interesting she mentions about it sounding like a blues track. A LOT of those British bands and musicians of the time period were heavily influenced by American blues and jazz
When people talk about Sabbath it’s all about Ozzy or Tony Iommi but for me the main man was the bassist Geezer Butler, there would be no Sabbath without him. No Geezer no Sabbath. BTW Sabbath are from Birmingham UK not London.
Ozzy came and stayed with me for a while after he got out of jail. He told us he was going to be a rock star and we all laughed. That went well for us, didn't it?
Black Sabbath are from Birmingham. "The Sun the Moon, the stars all bear my seal" is true, as Lucifer was the carrier or bringer of light. He was the king of light and religion made him the prince of darkness.
American Blues music hit the youth of England really hard in the late 50s and into the 60s. It was very big there at the time. Most of the future generation of British Invasion rockers were influenced by Blues and learned to play from Blues records. Future Cream guitarist Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend from The Who, The Animals, all very much influenced by American Blues. Pete Townsend has said that they "re-packaged American Blues, amplified it and then sold it back to America" (paraphrasing). Black Sabbath in particular were big Blues fans, they were originally called Earth and played Blues covers. They came out of Birmingham which is in the Midlands region of England. Coal mines, very industrial and polluted city at that time. In fact, Birmingham was at the center of the Industrial Revolution. Very much a working class city. Ozzy referred to it as a miserable place where his only hope was spending his life in a dingy factory. Guitarist Tony Iommi lost the tips of of fingers in an accident while working in one of those factories, that incident helped him discover the heavier sound which is associated with Black Sabbath and later heavy metal in general. The more you know. I have spent and continue to spend quite a bit of time in England and the UK in general, it's a very fascinating place with lots of interesting history. From the Celts to the Romans to the Anglo-Saxon migration from (what is now) Germany and Netherlands (and from whom early English began to form as English is a West Germanic language) to the Viking-Norman conquest in 1066. It was and is a major world power and cultural influence for centuries. Everyone should visit.
Make me feel old. " this is something my grandmother listened to". This was cutting edge new music when I was a kid. Never associated it with "grandma"
That's Ozzy with the tambourine. Playing it off his leg ! And other songs you will hear him play the harmonica as well as the piano. There are stories of him picking up the guitar and playing little parts for Tony or Geezer to show them what he wanted it to sound like.
Get your money gurl haha, the rolling stones got theor name from Muddywaters song and they wanted him to open at a show back in the 60s their manager didn't know who he was and they said we won't play unless he plays true story
Blues developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War (1861-65). It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population.
Apparently a lot of Satanists from San Francisco in the 70s used to think this song meant Nativity in Black, but I think Black Sabbath probably had their own meaning for it which was more lighthearted
When Black Sabbath came out, there was a movement to try and stop them from getting Radio play because they said its "Devil Music"! The name Black Sabbath loosely translated means The "Dark Rest"!
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads hence the song Crossroads by Johnson covered by Cream and Lynyrd Skynyrd among others. Legend has it that all who cover that song experience bad luck like Creams Eric Clapton's son falling from his mothers skyscraper apartment or in Skynyrd's case the plane crash
You're talking about Robert Jonson and Crossroads (covered brilliantly by Eric Clapton and Cream). It's funny - i got into RJ as a result of listening to bands like Sabbath and Led Zep in the 70s to discover where their sound came from. I've said it many times before, this is what you get when music is not segregated - UK radio played everything - i was as familiar with Aretha Franklin/ Marvin Gaye as i was with the Stones and the Beatles - there are tamla motown influences when you listen to The Who - everything went into the melting pot. ❤😎 incidentally - Ozzy was from Birmingham not London.
FYI Black Sabbath are from Birmingham not London. Black Sabbath started as a blues band originally called Earth Blues Company
She is so awesome. Her energy is infectious. Love this channel. Great reaction to a rock classic
The into track before NIB is a bass solo by Geezer Butler called "Bassically"
My favorite bass intensive Black Sabbath song. The song is about Satan falling for a woman, lol. Good explanation T on the origins of metal.
Tasha, speech is much different in pronunciation when speaking than it is when you sing, hence why it's easier to understand Ozzy when he's singing than talking.
If you go and watch Black Sabbath documental you will find out that BS change the lyrics because it sound to cheesy for there style but it was all the time about a man who follow in love with a woman they add the Lucifer name to make it sound dark and not sound like a love song.
She looks like she has angel wings behind her. Such a naturally positive person - keep up the honest reviews.
I love newbies hearing sounds for the first time but what struck me most by her reaction was the fact that she was awestruck that blues crossed the pond to England. That's actually the beauty of that era of music. They were all feeding off each other from an inspirational point of view. Music was in the air in a big way. Radio was the catalyst.
2:50 Their song with harmonica is The Wizard. Another great track from the first album.
My favorite Sabbath song.
Metal is Blues taken to the extreme, no blues no metal, the roots of metal is black music.
Sabbath were a blues band for a while before they invented heavy metal. They are from my home city of Birmingham not London.
Sabbath were from Aston, in Birmingham. ...Not London. And old American bluesmen were practically worshipped when they toured the UK in the late 50s and 60s. Influencing just about every major British and Irish musician, of the time.
A lot of that worship was because Britain after WWII went into an enormous post-war economic funk. These British musicians were predominantly from poor, working class families, and had few prospects for improving their situation: a perfect place for blues to flourish.
Indeed you're correct Luke Bloom - Birmingham was a gritty, grimy heavy industrial town with majority of very poor folks, in fact it's known as the "Black Country" for that particular reason. Devil went down to Georgia. There was a Robert Johnson version too.
Ozzy used to get records from the guys off the ships from America and they were blues records! !!
@@Markplaysmusic Birmingham isn't known as the black country ... There's an area outside of Birmingham known as that, but that's more Dudley/Wolverhampton etc ..
Not every. Dont exaggerate.
Great explanation to your lady regarding the blues. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Yardbirds, Cream, Rolling Stones, The Who. Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards and a lot of bands from England and The UK were very inspired by the blues. I forgot one, Richie Blackmore, Deep Purple, Rainbow. The list is extremely long.
They are from Birmingham England.
So? He's writing a song from the perspective of Lucifer..... pretty smart writing. It was done before,and will be done again. Like Metallica writing Creeping Death. The bible told the story in the perspective of the Israelites. Metallica told the same story of Exodus,but from the perspective of the destroyer. Same story..but changing the perspective made a huge difference. And to add some true context to all of Black Sabbath's songs....they treated the devil as something to be feared. They don't prop him up.
This album changed my life as it did to most of my friends, one of the great debut albums and they just went on from there, creating a sound that is a template for all hard rock and metal bands to come. You need to hear the amazing suite found on side 2 of that LP, it goes Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning, an amazing musical statement, with perhaps Tony Iommi's greatest solo. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
They are from Birmingham, and british bands influnced by the blues include Sabbath, Zepplin,The Stones, just to name a few lol
You missed the Lucifer line the first time as you were groovin but the second time through your reaction was priceless 😂🤙
Yes she did miss it. Lol.
These boys are not from London! These boys are from Birmingham!
If you want the other side of the story ,please listen to - after forever its on Master of Reality album. Regards.
They wrote a song about the devil falling in love. And did a brilliant job.
Before the term "Rock and Roll" it was called Rhythm And Blues
Robert Johnson made a deal in Crossroads, and the Devil made a deal with Charlies Daniels in The Devil Went Down To Georgia
Tasha, church credit is taken away lol great bass line in this track
Basically, Sabbath wanted to explore darker themes and ideas than most had done in music. They saw there were different genres of movies--romance, comedy, etc.--and they thought why not have a horror genre in music. They took their name from a movie that had Boris Karloff (he had played Frankenstein in old scary movies in the 1930's) and combined these ideas with their new darker sound. They even did some sci fi (Iron Man and others), and explored themes of war, drugs, the occult, mental illness, and so on--in ways you didn't hear much in popular music at the time.
Btw they were from Birmingham.
Birmingham - Kipper Tie
@@michaelharvey75 i hit the “translate to English” hoping for cup of tea..they need a translate from Brummie or Black Country option
Most of Ozzy's music promotes love over evil, but once you get a reputation that makes waves... you take out the surfboard and ride it as long as you can!
Most songs they wrote are truth.I never thought they were satanic at all.I am born again and still love them.Saw them in 78 with VH.
1970 this was heavy metal and all rock bands have some blues in it
'National Acrobat' is another Sabbath track with great lyrics that I just know you would enjoy.
Yes, Black sabbath song, NIB is blues it's awsome. Your right.God bless. Keep on rockin with hard rock. Peace
Check out “Sign Of the Southern Cross.”
LOL.....I can't help but think Tosh just lost her innocents....I don't think her Gram's listen to this...
Lol
I remember this reaction lol. It's the one that made me a fan and subscriber of you guys.
Pls come teach my wife to appreciate rock😛
everyone was waiting for the last verse and it was amazing reaction
love your content TNT!
She is correct in her assessment of the blues influence in Black Sabbath music. Don't worry, there is no such being as Lucifer, it's all mythological stories. Rock on!
U don't believe Lucifer is real?
@@FrankdispensaHe’s definitely real
@@lloydbraun6026 Yea
For me this song isn't just about the devil falling in love with a woman like most think, I delve deeper into it. I see this song as a warning about Satan's seduction and we humans falling in love with all that is promised to us from him. Once he has us, he then exposes who he really is but then it is to late as he now has us under his control. Listen to it again with this in mind and you can't miss it.
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It’s literally a love letter from the devil to a woman he’s fallen in love with and makes him want to be better. The song writers said this in interviews
@@JamesMcgrogan-t2h What part of "For me" don't you understand?
Yah, I always figured the devil actually fell in love with a human, but didn't know if she'd ever really love him because he knew he was irresistible and even though she'd say it she'd never mean it. Just like he had a trillion times before, he says I love you, but doesn't mean it, now it's on him for the first time.
Funny that you say it sounds bluesy . They actually started off as a blues band and their influences were : CREAM - Hendrix and other bands. There is one song where they do have the harmonica and another one where they start off with the violin .
IN their early stage ,some said they sounded like Iron Butterfly and the song In A Gadda Davida vibe sounds like Black Sabbath to the ears if you never heard it before even though that song came out two years before Back Sabbath released their first album
Great first reaction! One of the famous songs that made people believe they were Satan worshippers, when, in fact, it’s really showing how Lucifer uses people’s need for love to entice them to him.
Btw Black Sabbath is from Birmingham, not London :)
Makes perfect sence to me as a tennesseean ican see blues and gossiple in many black Sabbath songs
They started as a blues band Earth, Geezer Butler, a catholic, wrote the lyrics, they all wear big✝, christian metal. Ozzy does the ✌Vol. 4 cover Dio came up with the 🤘A lyrical breakdown would be good.
Dancing, singing, guitar faces, oh yeah!
Double bass drums, heavy distorted guitar, the bluesy feal,this is metal raw!
I really love the blues foundation of this music. Remember Jimi Hendrix went to England just when these guys were witnessing the fallout of the Vietnam War, heroin addiction, the assassination of MLK, the protests against our own veterans, and then Jimi, Janice, and Jim all died in 1970. America still had a military draft going on. As crazy as things are now it was crazy 60 years ago when JFK got killed in broad daylight in front of everybody. But yes I would like going over the lyrics to this song and other songs by Black Sabbath.
ive seen a video about the evolution of the instrumentation for the modern rock band and it was sooo cool... gotta check around for that
Named after old horror movie named Black Sabbath
Lady I can feel the blues vibe from you ,I'm a old man but still Rock,to tell you the price of my black Sabbath ticket was$10:50 listen to more ,im Lem from Corpus Christi Texas ✌️✌️🙏❤️.
I heard a story from Geezer Butler about this song. He said the name NIB was a joke on the drummers beard, they were teasing him and said it looked like a pin nib. The song came out when all of these bands in the US were singing about love and peace, they thought it would be funny to write a song that was kind of anti what everyone else was doing so they made a love song about the devil falling in love. From what I understand it really upset a lot of folks back in the day.
You are correct with the NIB title origin.
1968 they were a blues band named earth changed name to Black Sabbath became founders Heavy Metal
Tasha lol. Great reaction. All the best 😊
Robert Johnson - Hell hound on my trail OR Me and the Devil blues.
She missed the first time he said his name is Lucifer!
They are not from London. They are from Birmingham England.
my babysitter was in outlaws
i remember this music
Iommi, Butler, Osborne, Ward. Four dudes from the back streets of Aston, an area of Birmingham, England!
Ozzy always got a bad rap people try to censor him ban him since the beginning with Sabbath. That’s because he was known as the prince of darkness, and he played up that stage persona. Of course he was a drug addict most of his life., but if you listen to the lyrics, Ozzy is all about peace, love harmony, antiwar, anti-hate anti race, you name it it’s the complete opposite of what people think he is. Look at the lyrics in every song, he puts a positive message in almost every song if not all songs
Geezer Bulter, the bassist, wrote all the lyrics
The song is about the devil falling in love and the feelings hell be experiencing for the first time.
I thought it was about the devil's seduction of someone.
Black Sabbath, like so many British bands from that time period, was heavily influenced by the blues, so it's not surprising that it reminds you of the blues. Once riff-meister Tony Iommi started using drop tuning and the tritone in his guitar playing, Sabbath's sound started becoming something all its own, super heavy and less outright bluesy and more along the lines of what later on was called metal.
Other song in my top 10 songs they no how to give it great live song
You need to check out "black sabbath after forever" to get a balanced perspective of the band.
Sabbath were from Birmingham , the midlands.
After Forever is a pro god song
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.
Black Sabbath was from Birmingham which was an industrial ghetto city of England very much unlike London
They're actually from Birmingham, but minor detail.
There are a few songs about putting one's soul against the Devil. Charlie Daniels - The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Robert Johnson/Cream - Crossroads...
She needs to listen to, A National Acrobat by Black Sabbath and do a breakdown on it.
Anyone that loves the blues is a friend.
the sab four best band ever walked the planet,good to see newbys turning on to sabbath.
Thank you for playing the original! The Primus and ozzy version is good, but nothing beats the original!! I find it interesting she mentions about it sounding like a blues track. A LOT of those British bands and musicians of the time period were heavily influenced by American blues and jazz
When people talk about Sabbath it’s all about Ozzy or Tony Iommi but for me the main man was the bassist Geezer Butler, there would be no Sabbath without him.
No Geezer no Sabbath.
BTW Sabbath are from Birmingham UK not London.
Maybe track 1 of the album Black Sabbath (by Black Sabbath) called "Black Sabbath" would be a good hook to help get a fix😉
Bringing out the oldies eh T?! It's always a good time for Sabbath.
Listen to lord of this world please.I like her lots.😊
Yeah, the song is sacrilicious!
just like the Supersuckers😜
It is crazy, you can actually find a lot of metal bands that will use a tambourine.
The very best Black Sabbath is The Wizard, everything else falls short of that song.
Ozzy came and stayed with me for a while after he got out of jail. He told us he was going to be a rock star and we all laughed. That went well for us, didn't it?
Black Sabbath are from Birmingham. "The Sun the Moon, the stars all bear my seal" is true, as Lucifer was the carrier or bringer of light. He was the king of light and religion made him the prince of darkness.
American Blues music hit the youth of England really hard in the late 50s and into the 60s. It was very big there at the time. Most of the future generation of British Invasion rockers were influenced by Blues and learned to play from Blues records. Future Cream guitarist Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend from The Who, The Animals, all very much influenced by American Blues. Pete Townsend has said that they "re-packaged American Blues, amplified it and then sold it back to America" (paraphrasing). Black Sabbath in particular were big Blues fans, they were originally called Earth and played Blues covers. They came out of Birmingham which is in the Midlands region of England. Coal mines, very industrial and polluted city at that time. In fact, Birmingham was at the center of the Industrial Revolution. Very much a working class city. Ozzy referred to it as a miserable place where his only hope was spending his life in a dingy factory. Guitarist Tony Iommi lost the tips of of fingers in an accident while working in one of those factories, that incident helped him discover the heavier sound which is associated with Black Sabbath and later heavy metal in general.
The more you know. I have spent and continue to spend quite a bit of time in England and the UK in general, it's a very fascinating place with lots of interesting history. From the Celts to the Romans to the Anglo-Saxon migration from (what is now) Germany and Netherlands (and from whom early English began to form as English is a West Germanic language) to the Viking-Norman conquest in 1066. It was and is a major world power and cultural influence for centuries. Everyone should visit.
Make me feel old.
" this is something my grandmother listened to". This was cutting edge new music when I was a kid. Never associated it with "grandma"
That's Ozzy with the tambourine. Playing it off his leg ! And other songs you will hear him play the harmonica as well as the piano.
There are stories of him picking up the guitar and playing little parts for Tony or Geezer to show them what he wanted it to sound like.
Charley Daniels, The devil went down to Georgia, an upbeat country/bluegrass song
And there not from London. And back then this was HEVY!!!!! There was NO sound like this.
Harmonica... Song- The Wizard. A favorite
Get your money gurl haha, the rolling stones got theor name from Muddywaters song and they wanted him to open at a show back in the 60s their manager didn't know who he was and they said we won't play unless he plays true story
Blues developed in the southern United States after the American Civil War (1861-65). It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population.
They were a blues band called Earth before they became the heavy metal gods known as BLACK SABBATH
This is one of my favorites.N.I.B. is my mother's initials. Lol.
The band Earth AKA Black Sabbath was a blues band. Just like Yard Birds AKA Led Zeppelin from the beggining.
Black Sabbath, before becoming established as a metal band, started out as some guys playing jazz and blues.
The song Warning on the same album is a straight up blues number. Go listen.
Great song and band! 😊
Apparently a lot of Satanists from San Francisco in the 70s used to think this song meant Nativity in Black, but I think Black Sabbath probably had their own meaning for it which was more lighthearted
React to Worm Shepherd - The Frozen Lake Pt 2 (The Ruined)
u guys rock
The song was The Devil Went Down To Georgia
aston love not london
When Black Sabbath came out, there was a movement to try and stop them from getting Radio play because they said its "Devil Music"! The name Black Sabbath loosely translated means The "Dark Rest"!
Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads hence the song Crossroads by Johnson covered by Cream and Lynyrd Skynyrd among others. Legend has it that all who cover that song experience bad luck like Creams Eric Clapton's son falling from his mothers skyscraper apartment or in Skynyrd's case the plane crash
You're talking about Robert Jonson and Crossroads (covered brilliantly by Eric Clapton and Cream). It's funny - i got into RJ as a result of listening to bands like Sabbath and Led Zep in the 70s to discover where their sound came from. I've said it many times before, this is what you get when music is not segregated - UK radio played everything - i was as familiar with Aretha Franklin/ Marvin Gaye as i was with the Stones and the Beatles - there are tamla motown influences when you listen to The Who - everything went into the melting pot. ❤😎 incidentally - Ozzy was from Birmingham not London.
This song was a warning not an endorsement of the Devil.
Black Sabbath was a blues band called Earth, before they became the heavy metal band Black Sabbath