Black Sabbath - The Wizard (REACTION)

‪@AirplayBeats‬ reacts to Black Sabbath - The Wizard
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[@justinatest9456]

The producer: More cowbell? Bill: No, one is perfect. Bill was right. I love that one cowbell hit. The Wizard is a top Sabbath tune, instant classic and forever cool.

[@melvinwomack3717]

Indeed 😅

[@ronaldelliott4373]

Truth! Bought this album (still have it) when released and that one hit is still a feature of this song all these yrs later. 👈🤘😎

[@Kevlarel84]

Just one...lol

[@mora1948]

Theres two in the song lmao

[@ronaldelliott4373]

@@mora1948 you’re right. 👈😂

[@AliasMark69]

1970... I am 16 years old at the "Strawberry Festival" in O.C. Calif.. and saw this band live. After doing a show in San Diego, on the bus to L.A. they were told about the festival, so they stopped, seeing a stage Ozzy Volunteered to play a couple, they had their guitars and a drum kit was there on stage... So.. Unscheduled, unannounced, unexpected. Black Sabbath did.... "Iron Man"... "Paranoid"... "The Wizard"... "War Pigs"... to about a crowd of 5,000.... It was awesome. Right place at the right time.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Me too, except I was in San Diego for that show. Great time to be in Southern Cal. We had Led Zep, Rolling Stones, and in 73 we had early Lynyrd Skynyrd at San Diego State (free concert).

[@bpjr1899]

Garden Grove Strawbweey festival? If so, I used to live there.

[@AliasMark69]

So did I. Lived in 17 places in O.C. for 25 years before I escaped that shit hole and now live in the country-Up-State N.Y. @@bpjr1899

[@lukasmoller5065]

I’m unbelievably jealous ❤

[@LagmasterB]

Can’t even imagine

[@davidmastro5406]

Bill Ward is easily one of the most underrated drummers in the history of Rock music.

[@jhamler1]

People keep saying this. He's not underrated. Every rock drummer on the planet stans Bill Ward.

[@davidmastro5406]

@@jhamler1 "stans"?

[@jhamler1]

@@davidmastro5406Okay, so you're even older than I am. Bravo!

[@davidmiramontes9820]

Totally agree

[@Dan-yz4qz]

Yep, Bill Ward is right beside Jon Bonham Neil Pert

[@destinyreelly2974]

Own it!!! Wear it proudly. Black Sabbath is one of the greatest bands of all time. ❤❤❤

[@Kevin-py7hb]

One of my favorites for sure!!!!! Godfathers of METAL!!!!! Thank you Ozzy, Bill, Geezer and Tony for creating some kickass music I!!!!!

[@81loudnproud]

Ozzy blowing up some riffs on the harmonic is legendary

[@AliasMark69]

My Favorite from Black Sabbath. Ozzy on the Harmonica is evil ominous wicked and sinister.... Beautiful.

[@jeffrubin5847]

EVERY lead singer from that era played harmonica. Standard stuff. Ozzy, Mick, Plant, Roger Daltrey, Jim Morrison, dude from The Yardbirds...

[@danmayberry1185]

All fans of the Mississippi and Chicago blues masters.

[@JulioLeonFandinho]

"dude from The Yardbirds" was Keith Relf, a phenomenal harmonica player, a good singer, excellent stage presence and charisma... The Yardbirds are very underrated

[@pookiemartinez1745]

Ian Gillan, Mark Farner.

[@aspjake123]

@@pookiemartinez1745 YES!!!!!!!!!

[@nostalga44jo]

Steven Tyler

[@elizabethbartlett9401]

This is the album that made this 15 year old girl fall in love with them in 1974.

[@blackwolf6082]

14 yrs old for me, same feeling!

[@marksingo2177]

13 for me, incredible..

[@flogg8635]

Vocals of Ozzie was the main identity of Sabbath. It broke my heart when he was replaced with Dio. Just couldn’t listen anymore, just wasn’t the same.

[@ppaulisdeadd5879]

Dio is dope as hell you’re trippin

[@danmayberry1185]

I'm with you. Oz over Ronnie, Bon over Brian, Gillan over Coverdale, Roth over Haggar. Each replacement was phenomenal in their own right, but the organic chemistry is missing.

[@flogg8635]

@@ppaulisdeadd5879 , if you’re old enough and grew up with the birth of Sabbath, you would agree with me. Obviously you’re not old enough to understand.

[@Michael-Philip]

I love Ozzy and Dio, too bad Ozzy had to go.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

Then I'm sorry to say that you weren't really listening. It def wasn't the same but as long as riff-master Tony was there, it was still Sabbath. And remember, Ward was gone also. All 4 members have their own distinct sound and should be able to be picked out of a sound line-up easily. The Ozzman was most definitely a perfect fit and extremely important to the band, no doubt - love that man's entire career - but take a listen to the first ten seconds of War Pigs and you instantly "identify" them as Sabbath, without any vocals. I understand exactly what you mean and feel. I lost interest also after Heaven and Hell - which was brilliant. I can't even name one album or song, I don't think, after that album.

[@mattr27]

Ozzy doing work on the harmonica! Best band ever along with Zeppelin. Another great reaction

[@DaisyChain3339.]

1. Led Zeppelin 2. Black Sabbath 3. Everyone else.

[@MrDeadstu]

"Damn, are they my favorite band?" 6:25 "You love Black Sabbath, man" "are they my favorite?" Yes Che, mine too. ❤❤

[@melvinwomack3717]

Yeah that was funny 🤣

[@AliasMark69]

"The WIZARD" Misty morning, clouds in the sky Without warning, the wizard walks by Casting his shadow, weaving his spell Long grey cloak, tinkling bell Never talking Just keeps walking Cursing his magic Evil power disappears Demons worry when the wizard is near He turns tears into joy Everyone's happy when the wizard walks by Never talking Just keeps walking Spreading his magic Sun is shining, clouds have gone by All the people give a happy sigh He has passed by, giving his sign Left all the people feeling so fine Never talking Just keeps walking Spreading his magic

[@cweefy]

Thank you

[@marksingo2177]

Bill ward is a monster on the drums, all amazing musicians 🤘🤘🤘

[@gregwillert-po6nq]

If I'm not mistaken, I believe this album was recorded in about 8 hours and cost like 1200 bucks to produce. Incredible

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

Drumming is so good in this song (whole album really). A big step up from most of what we were getting in 1970.

[@jeraldkimball494]

Sabbath are the godfathers of metal rock. Ozzy playing that harmonica is badass.

[@btmorley833]

The blues was largely overlooked in that time period. It was a few musicians from a small island called Britain that discovered the blues and realised its potential. That’s when bands such as the Rolling Stones, led zeppelin, black sabbath, pink Floyd, the Who etc. started to emerge and brought the blues to global dominance in the 60s and 70s.

[@mr.snicker-doodles7081]

My Favorite band, after the Beatles that is! Beatles, Sabbath, YES...

[@billadkins5150]

And it just gets better.

[@michaeljensen6732]

Sabbath, Zeppelin and Deep Purple Mark II are my favorites from the early 70s. You should react to more Deep Purple, a couple suggestions are No, No, No or Demon's Eye.

[@reedwilson64GTO]

The birth of metal "spreading it's magic"

[@spencerlayel5479]

12 bars into that song I thought LA was going to wreck his neck❤ I love watching you guys Bop to the Sabbath

[@samuraijacques952]

I've always been fascinated with how the British groups really, really took to American blues and gave it back to us in the shape of heavy metal

[@gratuitousfootnote1183]

They're my favorite band of all time. Love your all's commentary.

[@jasonrichardson1208]

💯

[@AngelofSunday]

Black Sabbath throws a harmonica punch…. And makes it metal AF.

[@scottashe984]

Sabbath are the Holy Grail of hard rock/ heavy metal.

[@mrnobody9104]

the most dangerous driving song ever put together, instantly the car has a mind of it's own!

[@VintageWanderer]

Words really change the meaning on what you think is going on with this song. Cheers.

[@jeffalarson]

Couldn't agree more, Ozzy is and always will be the best. Really hope his upcoming surgery gives the man some much needed relief.

[@allenlocke1935]

One of mnay awesome songs from one of the best bands ever.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Tony Iommi always with those gut punch riffs. He's the driving force behind the band. He's stated that if he hadn't come in with ideas, the songs would have never gotten written. Best power riffs in the bizz.

[@mtlhed4192]

There’s a Chicano funk/rock band called Brownout that has two albums worth of Sabbath covers under the name “Brown Sabbath”. They do some absolutely filthy, funky, versions of classic Sabbath songs. I believe Prince hired them to play at his birthday party once, before he passed. Seriously worth checking out, especially if you dig percussion!

[@stillstanding8286]

“Iron Man” was on their second album, “Paranoid” which was released later in the same year (1970) as their first album.

[@inmyhouse11]

Another banger from this classic album

[@KennyCamaro2364]

Without warning, a Wizard walks by! Go Laa! Go Chee!

[@Kevlarel84]

I hope you listen to the MASTERS OF REALITY album soon. (lf you haven't already). It's full of musical gems. This album and that one were my most played Sabbath albums and tapes back in the day.

[@JoDdy420-]

When I was in high school in the 70s I heard a demo tape of Ozzy playing Blues on the harmonica. He is an exceptional harmonica player. And the one hit on the cowbell after the first verse makes the whole song

[@davidmiramontes9820]

The most underrated rock band along with grandfunk railroad

[@JefferyJaynes]

Hey guys, I've been listening to these guys since 1974. I can't get enough. Hey next up on the album is N.I.B, don't freak out, it's an unconventional love song, you guys will love it.

[@bleubaker]

Black Sabbath invented every metal riff ever!

[@BluegrassMark]

Wait till you hear the groove on Hand Of Doom. Good Lord ❤

[@thomastaylor9579]

16 years old and rocking out to this in my 68 V.W. Cali Style through the parking lot at lunch in high school...bad ass ...

[@jaquestraw1]

The next tracks after The Wizard should be played together as track 3 - Wasp/Behind the Wall of Sleep/Basically/N.I.B. and then track 4 - Wicked World and finally track 5 - A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning. Sometimes they have these broken up in listings.

[@CANDOKNOWHOW]

EXACTLY! It can’t be stressed enough when there’s a 2 or 3 part song, and it happens all the time one reaction channels cause the reaction crews won’t realize the difference and people often post them from recording broken up into separate tracks, though even on a CD the songs will still flow normally like the vinyl would.

[@ericsprinkle4739]

Black Sabbath started as a blues band for sure!

[@davidpitts5788]

I love the harmonica over this grimy groove

[@tjmasson1013]

The band that changed my musical direction in jr high. So ahead of their time. Riff kings

[@dreggymon]

Sabotage & Sabbath Bloody Sabbath will be the gems 👍

[@James-vx8ci]

Black Sabbath, Master of Reality and Paranoid , the 3 must have Sabbath albums.✌️

[@joescott8877]

Black Sabbath was so cool they made a song like this clocked in at, as La noted, 4:20, before "420" was even a thang! Ahead of their time in genres as well, since of course they were arguably THE founders OF "Heavy Metal."

[@58BURST]

All rock music, no matter the style, came from one source,,,, "the blues" FACT

[@jaimeanaya3385]

The drum breaks in this song are so hard!

[@FredPena-rd5cf]

Thank you! 🤘

[@MrRexdale71]

Sabbath and Zeppelin uesd to hang out together back in the day. In fact,I read that back in England in 1969,you could walk into a club and see them on the same bill.Blows your mind..

[@78Mustang]

Keep it rollin' guys! You ain't even touched Vol.4 or Sabbath Bloody Sabbath yet! Can't wait! Peace!

[@TomTom-ui9hg]

Can't wait until you listen to Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan. You never would have guessed it was them if I would not have told you. It's such a groove and chill song, so damn good. Peace!

[@joykeebler1916]

- and this song pulsates as a spread from that of quad-stereo-speakers

[@twobeer3316]

Every song in order, I'm all in.

[@johnherrera-o7g]

Godfathers of Metal! Glad you are liking them. Miss Ozzfest!

[@stevewyman6848]

I dig the wizard. It's so groovy and hard. And Bill Ward, OMG.

[@davidmastro5406]

I suspect you are both going to LOVE "Behind the Wall of Sleep"--Bill Ward lays down an especially killer groove on that one.

[@mattsabath]

Paranoid came out less than a year later. The first 4 albums in 2 years. The blueprint for heavy metal and the difference between S/T and Vol 4 is staggering. Everyone should listen to the first 4 Sabbath albums in a row at least once in their lives. Brilliant. Love the channel!

[@robertlavorna2968]

cant emphasize enough what this sounded like 53yrs. ago......again, i love your reactions....when this came out i had to only listen when my father was out. he couldnt take it!!! thank god for 8 tracks in the car.....

[@ChristopherGwinn]

Not long before this album was recorded they were a heavy Blues Rock band and called themselves The Polka Tulk Blues Band - they even had a sax player and a slide guitarist!

[@joeheffernan5268]

Geezer and Bill we're Jazz and Blues influenced. They play off each other so well. They keep the rhythm rocking

[@kikivon3501]

All the greatest drummers have deep jazz roots. Bill referred to himself as a percussionist. Bill Ward is the TRUTH!!!

[@joykeebler1916]

- people are now starting to awaken from their slumber

[@daveman_50]

Others have said it, but -- Bill Ward on the drums is just incredible. Also LOVE Geezer's groaning bass riff @1:04.

[@markbronx172]

They are my favorite

[@kennycamaro2361]

Go Laa, Go Chee! The Wizard is badass!

[@harrylime5715]

No song by any band puts a smile on my face faster then the wizard that opening harmonica is the best.

[@julioivancontrerassoltero9828]

I'm so happy of watching you discover the firsr Sabbath album

[@benhinds2971]

I anxiously wait for that one cowbell hit every time I hear this song. I would say it's my favorite part, but... the whole song...you know..

[@Greg-io1ip]

This is sometimes my favorite Sabbath song. I rotate. But another masterpiece of heavy blues rock. Ozzy on the harmonica guys

[@dancarter482]

_Planet Caravan_ is great to chase this banger .. .. . .

[@bobschenkel7921]

When i hear that harmonica I get chills up and down my spine, because I know what's coming. First time I heard this album I had the same reaction, it never stops.

[@cazkain]

His vocals on the 1st Album is different than the others!!!

[@jadalan1047]

I wish that Ozzie would somehow come across this reaction...he'd love it. Keep up the great work, gentlemen. Bringing me loads of entertainment and education here in St. Louis.

[@aftonair]

When I was in Jr. high school (late 80's), I wrote/carved "Ozzy Rules" on every desk I sat at. Yes, I spent a lot of time in detention, but that's beside the point.

[@Dr.Atomic]

I Agree..........................

[@ronaldelliott4373]

Che said it best. It’s easy to follow the logic of their riffs and hooks. Normally an album that was recorded in a few days, paid little to make, then shopped around to various labels only to be denied would never make it. At least one producer had the balls and a R&R soul, took a chance, pressed a few thousand copies and changed Rock forever. I still remember this first Sabbath release always having a very cool “underground” vibe even after millions sold. Cover art is perfect. 🤘

[@alanwhetstone3922]

My favorite Black Sabbath song

[@jgefroh6692]

Check out Captain Beyond One of the longest serving supergroups, Captain Beyond formed in 1971 and, despite a handful of periodic breakups in between, toured as recently as 2015. Blending prog-rock intricacy with blues-based psychedelia, the band featured original Deep Purple singer Rod Evans (who fronted the band during their more prog-focused incarnation). guitarist Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt and bassist Lee Dorman, both of Iron Butterfly, and Johnny Winter drummer Bobby Caldwell. The band released three records including a live album during their initial run from 1971-73, and the current touring lineup includes Caldwell as the only original member; Reinhardt and Dorman both died in 2012.

[@GusInWakefield]

Love this tune....

[@mikecaetano]

Cypress Hill sampled the harmonica riff from "The Wizard" for their hard banging track from 1993 "I Ain't Goin Out Like That". Check that one out some time too.

[@klasseact6663]

It's been suggested you do ALL the Sabbath records and I couldn't agree more, infact go through "Never say Die", take a pause to reflect on what you just heard and then know DIO came in to do 2 MONSTER albums with Sabbath. .Heaven and He'll and Mob Rules 🙏🙏

[@stevebarber8501]

The drumming is 🔥 as usual.

[@raulitopecina]

Just so you guys know, the UK version of the album had a song in place of Wicked world called Evil Woman, a freaking groove like no other Oh, and yeah, sabbath a BLUES BAND

[@bobdelp2023]

AHHHHH, MORNING GUYS! 😊NO WONDER I COULDN'T FIND THIS, CAUSE YOU HADN'T DONE IT YET!😮ENJOY THE WEEKEND!

[@AirplayBeats]

Good Morning my friend. Hope you have a great weekend!!

[@isotopia7681]

Love the cowbell at 3.47

[@seandouglas5429]

That is some funky drumming

[@bpjr1899]

OK...it took me a minute to recall this tract. It's been a long time since hearing it. Thanks for bringing it back to me!

[@benhinds2971]

I hear like beatnik- coffeehouse-fingersnapping-bebop-jazz in there. Its kinda the same groove as a Coltrane or Brubeck quartet song. The next song begins with a jazz riff. Read the story about Iommi's boss giving him a Django Reinhardt record(He only had 2-3 fingers on one hand). It saved Tony from quitting guitar.

[@emilymartinez6961]

I'm sure l told you that they're one of my top 3 favorite bands, along with Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, saw them all several times back in the 70's. Best times of my life❤

[@clasmaster1471]

Man it’s so good!

[@krisdoggett483]

Ozzy on harmonica! Want to hear a more trippy Black Sabbath? Check out "Planet Caravan" from the Paranoid album. They even do some softer songs like "Solitude" or "Changes".

[@markweymouth6368]

Black Sabbath G.O.A.T the reason why heavy metal exists pretty cool that they based their Vibe of there band from a horror movie who would have thought started a whole new Revolution of music have to encourage the younger generation to listen to older music and start bringing it back check out some stuff from sabotage & Sabbath Bloody Sabbath totally different sound and a lot of people don't really care for it as much personally it's one of my favorites

[@bookhouseboy280]

My favorite is Iommi's (SBS) but Vol. 4 and Sabotage are real close.

[@nostrilnick]

Bill Ward unhinged and Iommi's chainsaw thrown into a tree shredder tone. Can't beat it.

[@lesblatnyak5947]

With each song you guys listen to you'll see why I never bought any other heavy metal bands album just Black Sabbath

[@AliasMark69]

The first opening minutes of most songs from Black Sabbath is the stuff of LEGENDARY..... Something Evil Comes This Way... is the feeling.

[@glennhall9257]

If you guy’s actually like the first two you’ve heard, all I can say is; “it gets even better.”

[@danielb2993]

Great song! A band called Brownout does amazing Latin funk covers of Black Sabbath. Worth a listen.

[@TerenceShortman]

I was a teenager when this was released the album front cover got your attention then you opened the gatefold and inside was this poem. Still falls the rain, the veils of darkness shroud the blackened trees, which, contorted by some unseen violence, shed their tired leaves, and bend their boughs toward a gray earth of severed bird wings. Among the grasses, poppies bleed before a gesticulating death, and young rabbits, born dead in traps, stand motionless, as though guarding the silence that surrounds and threatens to engulf all those that would listen. Mute birds, tired of repeating yesterdays terrors, huddle together in the recesses of dark corners, heads turned from the dead, black swan that floats upturned in a small pool in the hollow. There emerges from this pool a faint, sensual mist, that traces its way upwards to caress the feet of the headless martyr's statue whose only achievement was to die too soon, and who couldn't wait to loose. The cataract of darkness forms fully, the long black night begins, yet still by the lake a young girl waits. Unseeing she believes herself unseen, she smiles faintly at the distant tolling bell, and the still falling rain. Then you put on the Album to hear the rain and thunder followed by the dark foreboding sound of the title track Black Sabbath the cover the poem the track the name Black Sabbath all fitted perfectly with the vibe. Sabbath being a religious day and the black inferring it was a religious day for the devil. They got the idea for the name from a cinema across the street from the band's rehearsal room showing the 1963 horror film Black Sabbath and made the decision to focus on writing material in an attempt to create the musical equivalent of horror films.