Black Sabbath- "Killing Yourself To Live" Reaction // Amber and Charisse React

[@bazkeen]

An older concert so the audio wasn't up to todays standard, but still enjoyed it. I'll go an 8.6. Have some fond memories from Black Sabbath concerts 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@mikeg.4211]

Correct, Basil! The interplay between Iommi and Butler alone makes this a lock for nothing less than an 8.6 minimum.

[@aeapeclari170]

BLACK SABBATH - "Dirty Women" (Live Video)🤯🤯 live 1978 is amazing react please

[@AmberandCharisseReact]

We will add it to our list!

[@aeapeclari170]

@@AmberandCharisseReact ❤❤

[@mikeg.4211]

This was broadcast on national TV, and for the time, it was as good as possible for song and picture quality. Ozzy (John) Osbourne was never a great singer as far as being able to be on key and hit high notes live (as opposed to Dio), but he was much better at it in the studio. The greatest part about this is that it shows well the world class chemistry between Tony Iommi (the most creative and influential guitarist ever, who invented metal), who wrote all the music and Geezer (Terry) Butler, who was by far the greatest bass player ever, and who wrote the band's lyrics. Butler was originally a rhythm guitar player who converted to bass for the sake of the band. Nobody was playing anything remotely like this in the early 70's when this was created. The speed and heaviness of this did not exist anywhere else. For example, this is when the Bee Gees and disco , and soft rock like Air Supply, Jim Croce and even The Captain and Tenille were big, which makes it even more amazing. Incidentally, notice that Iommi typically stood in the middle of the stage a lot of the time, which was because he was the one people came to see, and he was considered the star, even though he wasn't the singer, unlike with every other band before or since. For my generation, the kids in the audience were our older brothers and sisters, haha! To quote Rob Zombie, in more recent times, "Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. Anything everyone else does is just basically ripping it off."

[@augustodutra3839]

I agree that Iommi invented metal in the sense that he was the first to do it consistently and a lot in a lot of ways. But heaviness was already there. For instance, in Beatles - Helter Skelter , the famous song with Ringo Starr yelling "I got blisters on my fingers!" at the end; and Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (1968). Both songs dispute the position of the first heavy song in history.

[@mikeg.4211]

@@augustodutra3839 , compare the title track “Black Sabbath” with anything before that, and it’s apparent why the consensus is that Iommi took it to a whole different bevel. See the (accurate) RobZombie quote I included in my comment. There were loud songs, distorted songs, and psychedelic songs, but not metal songs on the real sense of what he did.

[@augustodutra3839]

@@mikeg.4211 I have read the quote. I just don't agree with it. New and interesting riffs can always be invented. I am not trying to put Iommi down by any means as I am also a huge Sabbath fan and I recognize everything he has done. There is no doubt about his importance. However, at least for me and from a listener's point of view, and not as a professional musician, is too hard to establish boundaries to what we can call metal or not. For me, Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues is very metal and even Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild has some metal elements on it. Nowadays, it is even harder to classify a song as metal or not, since numerous metal subgenres have been created. Some of them don't sound anything like Black Sabbath.

[@bondjamesbond5874]

I noticed you didn’t say a word about the great Bill Ward ! Shame on you

[@mikeg.4211]

@@bondjamesbond5874 , only because of space constraints. Yes, Bill Ward is an all-time great pioneering drummer, and has always been very underappreciated. :)

[@jakubkotarba7512]

Listen to Modern Talking- Cheri cheri lady. This is beautiful song

[@AmberandCharisseReact]

We will add it to our list!