The mighty, mighty Black Sabbath (Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward line-up) have announced a warm-up show ahead of their headlining gig at this year's "Download Festival."
It's at Aylesbury Civic Centre on June 6th. For fuck's sake act swiftly if you want tickets as the place has only an 850 capacity before guestlist etc. The Civic Centre was, of course, home to what was "Friar's Club" in the seventies which anybody who was/is anybody played in those halcyon days for UK rock'n'roll. The place is due to be bulldozed later this year so it's befitting that Sabbath will put in one final appearance.
Black Sabbath!! This is SO cool!
Attention Black Sabbath fans
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loved the early stuff really,1969-76?
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Chances are the tickets will end up on ebay. Its a pity they didn't do a secret gig that only REAL fans knew about, and kept it to themselves. Still, a nice touch from Ozzy and co going back to their roots
The West London of my youth is now on dvd
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
I've met the man on the street............and he's a cunt
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deep purple are hard to beat though,heavy but have melody in their output im not knocking B.S though its just as the years went on i stopped buying their records after heaven and hell.
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"i stopped buying their records after heaven and hell."
You and many others. Personally I feel that the band did a huge amount of great work in the eighties and nineties but for the vast majority of fans Black Sabbath is the Ozzy fronted version of the band so you are by no means alone!
I suppose that's why in 1995 I was going to Sabbath gigs at places like Cambridge Corn Exchange and Shepherd's Bush Empire with Tony Martin singing and in 1997, with Ozzy back in the band, I'm seeing them in the vast NEC.
I love the Ozzy era dearly but for me Iommi is Sabbath.
You and many others. Personally I feel that the band did a huge amount of great work in the eighties and nineties but for the vast majority of fans Black Sabbath is the Ozzy fronted version of the band so you are by no means alone!
I suppose that's why in 1995 I was going to Sabbath gigs at places like Cambridge Corn Exchange and Shepherd's Bush Empire with Tony Martin singing and in 1997, with Ozzy back in the band, I'm seeing them in the vast NEC.
I love the Ozzy era dearly but for me Iommi is Sabbath.
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love the writ off sabotage ,paranoid all time fave.vol4,sabbath bloody sabbath.
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Geezer's solo project "Plastic Planet" is one of the greatest albums of all time EVER! If you're a big fan of the Sabbath, get all of this.
I hate Kasabian.
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"Geezer's solo project "Plastic Planet" is one of the greatest albums of all time EVER! If you're a big fan of the Sabbath, get all of this."
That really should say "Geezer's solo album "Plastic Planet" from 1995 is one of the greatest albums of all time EVER! If you're a big fan of the Sabbath, get all of this"
How do you edit on these forums?
That really should say "Geezer's solo album "Plastic Planet" from 1995 is one of the greatest albums of all time EVER! If you're a big fan of the Sabbath, get all of this"
How do you edit on these forums?
I hate Kasabian.
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Will the Civic Centre need demolishing after the Sabbath have finished with it ?:)))
1. Connect up several dozen bass cannons
2. Connect them to Mr. Butler's amp
3. Play 'Sweet Leaf'
4. Run!
1. Connect up several dozen bass cannons
2. Connect them to Mr. Butler's amp
3. Play 'Sweet Leaf'
4. Run!
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"2. Connect them to Mr. Butler's amp"
Yes he sure does give it some! That reminds me, when Geezer put out his second solo album, "Black Science", he played some very low-key gigs with his solo band. One of them was in a pub in Camden, in the back room...I kid you not! There was a couple of hundred of us in there tops and it was the loudest gig I have ever experienced by a mile, it was BRUTALLY loud, VIOLENTLY loud.
Second to that was Bill Ward's drum sound at the legendary reunion gigs in December '97 at the NEC. I lucked out and got tickets within the first five rows for both nights and it was like being in the eye of a storm, every time Bill hit the bass drum it was a physical experience, it really was like being punched, punched HARD, in the chest. It was beyond awesome!
Whoever did the sound for those gigs certainly knew their stuff, while being savagely loud it was still crisp and the mix was bang on. I'm looking forward to another battering from Sabbath's sonic tsunami down at the civic. They're nice blokes off stage but on stage they are the musical equivalent of Al Quaeda.
"A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies."
Yes he sure does give it some! That reminds me, when Geezer put out his second solo album, "Black Science", he played some very low-key gigs with his solo band. One of them was in a pub in Camden, in the back room...I kid you not! There was a couple of hundred of us in there tops and it was the loudest gig I have ever experienced by a mile, it was BRUTALLY loud, VIOLENTLY loud.
Second to that was Bill Ward's drum sound at the legendary reunion gigs in December '97 at the NEC. I lucked out and got tickets within the first five rows for both nights and it was like being in the eye of a storm, every time Bill hit the bass drum it was a physical experience, it really was like being punched, punched HARD, in the chest. It was beyond awesome!
Whoever did the sound for those gigs certainly knew their stuff, while being savagely loud it was still crisp and the mix was bang on. I'm looking forward to another battering from Sabbath's sonic tsunami down at the civic. They're nice blokes off stage but on stage they are the musical equivalent of Al Quaeda.
"A symptom of the universe, a love that never dies."