I still love Black Sabbath

[Swede]

before Ozzie left,that is. Those were some killer ominous chords man.

[aquaman]

1. Sabbath, Ozzy era, is quite fine I must say..

no doubt about it.

[rppper]

4. ronnie james dio wrote some great songs, but.......

..sabbath was never the same. a couple of my favorite sabbath tunes are dio's, like "neon knights", "heaven and hell", "mob rules" and "children of the sea", and "live evil" is a kick ass concert album, but dio can never hold a candle to "fairies wear boots" or "the warning"...dio couldn't pull off a song like "space caravan" either. this is reminescent of comparing david lee roth to sammy hagar, imho......

[Robin Hood]

8. Though over played at the time.

Heaven and hell kicked holy ass my friends. I saw Dio on his Holy Diver tour and it was a pretty good show, White Snake opened for him and they kind of blew.

But yeah, Early Sabbath rocked hard, but so did the Born Again album with Ian Gillan on Vocals. You know, the singer from Deep Purple.

[no name no slogan]

12. minor props for Dio

In my first band when I was 14, we covered "Heaven and Hell", albeit poorly. Agreed, altho it's not Ozzy, it still kicks ass.

Dio doing "Planet Caravan"? Now that is WAY f#cked up.


And yes, Gillan was totally the wrong answer as frontman. However, there's still a couple of decent tunes on Born Again that are almost Ozz-worthy, like "Zero the Hero" or "Disturbing the Priest".

[no name no slogan]

2. Goddamn

is there any other Sabbath worth discussing :)?

I was a little too young to see the original (I was only 9 when Ozzy left), but I did see them on the "Born Again" tour in '82 or '83. That was the one with Ian Gillan of Deep Purple handling vox, and Bev Bevan of ELO doing the drums (Bill Ward was back in the mental hospital again, I think).

Even though it wasn't the "real" Sabbath, it completely blew my 13-year-old ass AWAY. A giant Stonehenge (yes, really, STONEHENGE!) set dominated the stage, hiding the Marshall stacks. Geezer looked like the Devil himself. Iommi ripped it up like only he can. They even played "Smoke on the Water" for Gillan. Of course, having nosebleed seats, my and my cohorts all left the show with mighty huge buzzes, too! :)

[Scimmio]

3. Hurricane Isabel and rocking out...

I had to work overnight during the hurricane.

I broke out 3-CD set, The Ozzy Years. Nothing like the wind howling outside and Symptom Of The Universe, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, and Into The Void blaring through the empty cubicles at 2AM. Rock-N-F'n-Roll, brah.

[rppper]

5. maaaannnnn...i forgot about into the void...one of the best, but...

damn there are a lot to choose from.....

[jus_the_facts]

7. ahem...the other day I put the last line of Into The Void in my sig line

......Master of Reality is one of my favorites but I own ALL they ever did....and LOVE 'em....each and every one!! :)

[Scimmio]

10. OzzFest, 1999

I had to move from our lovely Bayou State in search of a better job. First ended up in Atlanta with no good seafood anywhere. Wondered why I should be punished. Then OzzFest came through in 1999, with the 're-union' line up.

Mind you, I had been a fan since a kid in the 70s but was never old enough to have gone with my sister or cousins to see a concert at The Warehouse or up in Baton Rouge at Centroplex. So was my fate until Sharon, please-all-gods-bless-Sharon, got the boys together again. I had the happiest, evilest grin from the moment they took the stage until about a week later. I couldn't even think of my favorite songs, too many and they were playing too well to worry. Then, after a quick break, Tony steps forward and starts Into The Void. Goosebumps all over the place. Hell, I think half the folks around me were on the verge of tears.

I felt that, since I could die happily ever after, I'd have to go home and change my will so the marble would read: He Saw The Original Lineup Of Black Sabbath, July 1999. The least I should do is list it on my resumé, under Accomplishments.

[jus_the_facts]

11. Oooooooo.....how abso-f'n-lutely awesome......

.....I'm seethin' with envy....MAN that musta been so cool!

You from Louisiana too eh? Can't wait to get back down to Baton Rouge in November....gonna go back to Copeland's Bistro and eat me some more of that Eggplant Oyster Napoleon...*droolin'* :9

[Swede]

6. I saw Sabbath with Dio on vocals

in 1981 and it was a blast,but still no Ozzie.

[AntiCoup2K4]

9. Sabbath with Ozzy & Dio both rocked

Two entirely different bands, and they should have just dropped the name (word is that Warner Bros vetoed the idea - which is plausible, given the turnover rate of other WB artists like Deep Purple and Fleetwood Mac, with never a name change - not to mention Prince's legal difficulties with the label which prohibited him from using his own name to record for another label, hence the dumb symbol thing)

Anyway the first two versions of Sabbath were both good in their own rights. The Dio lineup wasn't like a "Van Hagar" by any means.

Hell, I even liked the Ian Gillan incarnation a little bit, but anything after that, when it was just Tony Iommi and a cast of bit players - total crap and an insult to the name. I was hoping that the reunion of the Dio configuration in the early 90's would last - Dehumanizer was a kickass album. But the Elf's ego prohibited him from sharing a stage with Ozzy, and Rob Halford was called in to bat in the winning run in Costa Mesa, and after that, it was back to the horrid Tony Iommi solo act - until the late 90's reunion tours, of course.

And I still regret that I never got to see either band live. Especially that Phoenix show on New Years Eve 1998 which financial difficulty prohibited me from attending :evilfrown: