Black Sabbath - War Pigs LIVE 1970 *REACTION!!*

[@johnbaker1823]

This is the ultimate live performance. The birth of heavy metal. Bill Ward, no words would do his drum work justice!

[@Tbanyas1]

Automatically in the conversation for ultimate life performance

[@M83NL]

Can’t take anything away from Sabath yeah they popularised this style but helter skelter is obviously the original blueprint of this

[@FreeMTrider]

The real highlight of this performance is Bill Ward on the drums. Incredible playing that rivals anyone.

[@carlrogers3505]

He beats those drums like they owe him money.

[@Aquaholic851]

Bill Wards drum kit would cry and shake before every performance. Very underrated drummer.

[@jimmys9882]

Realize how fresh this song was for this performance. It was literally still in the formative stage before the album had been released (hence, different lyrics) so yeah, they were all completely into it because it was brand new to them as well as the audience. Wish I could go back to listen to some of these songs for the first time again

[@realscience948]

I was wondering why the lyrics were different!!

[@LJA46]

Exactly! So much talent that they could write two completely different versions had they chose to do so! Saw them in '78 after they perfected a lot of songs!

[@yetanotheraccount3361]

I still LOVE “People running like they’re sheep in fields. People blowing out their minds.” Such gut punching line. Kinda wish they kept it.

[@SylviusTheMad]

@@realscience948 Several reasons. First, yes, it was new. It was in fact very new, because the song originally had completely different lyrics (it was called Walpurgis, about the festival of witchcraft still celebrated in Germany as Walpurgisnacht), so Ozzy actually drifts into those lyrics for a bit. But thirdly, Ozzy was just terrible at remembering lyrics, which is why he started using a teleprompter on stage by 1978.

[@douglasmorrison777]

Can it get any better, Bill is just .. Just!! Words fail me on how good this performance is!

[@albertosamaniego2476]

Ladies and gentlemen... Bill fucking Ward best performance ever

[@FreeMTrider]

absolutely. He takes this song to higher levels.

[@middleearthltd]

Thank you for doing this review ❤️ As mentioned, I had the high honor to see Black Sabbath twice live in the early 70’s They were incredible

[@Eurynomea]

Bill Ward is a certifiable beast! And Geezer on that bass...Gawd, his fingers fly (that's what happens when you write your own music)!

[@bishopswoodcrafts]

he played bass like it was lead guitar.... both he and Tony Iommi said that Tony would do his riffs and Geezer would then mirror a "response" to this on bass.

[@Eurynomea]

@@bishopswoodcrafts yep, the old "call and answer", lol. You find the perfect example with Edgar Winter and Chuck Ruff in Frankenstein with Timbales and Ruff's kit.

[@crimsondeath7468]

this song was originally written as a dark song about witches at Walpurgis Night "night of 30 april to first of may" but do to the fact that the Vietnam war had become very real in the UK do to US troops staying in Britian for recreation etc. the guys in sabbath "and most young men in the UK" feared a draft coming so they changed the song into a anti war song turning the politicians and millitary leaders into the witches and satans servants. In this early live version Ozzy actually mixes booth versions lyrics as it was so freshly rewritten : D The song Hand of doom on the same album "paranoid" was directly inspired by them meeting young US vietnam veterans who had been totally destroyed by the war and addicted to Heroin to cope

[@simonpanter3627]

One of the greatest examples of live drumming ever!!!

[@daniellstn]

The birth of Metal! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@realscience948]

Raw & unfiltered….the sound of Tony’s Gibson SG/ Marshall amp is sick! Bill Ward’s jazzy /groovy /Funky killer drumming…so missing today in metal bands!

[@21Piloteer]

Tony is using Laney amps/cabinets. He switched to Marshall in the 80's, then back to Laney again.

[@backbeat44]

and to think they idolized the Beatles. That was Ozzie's band, he goes on relentlessly about how much they influenced his whole life.

[@megamaniac7402]

Bill Ward! The heaviest jazz drummer of all time.

[@jodythomas2724]

Bill Ward reminds me of animal, the puppet drummer on the muppet show

[@coachmikesfilmroom3111]

I always wondered if Animal was inspired by Bill

[@shspurs1342]

No wonder my favourite drummer of all time ever from any genre is Bill Ward.

[@SANPARR1]

This is genius from the inventors of Heavy Metal, it couldn't be more original.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

1970 Was A Splendid Year...What Little I Remember Of It...

[@scottstewart5784]

me too, i was 9 and kicking heroin.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

@@scottstewart5784 I Was 1 And Just Kicking...😀😀

[@faithcat7675]

Met Bill Ward once before a show. Shook his hand and he was your quintessential English gentleman. Strong handshake.

[@eastcoastaj5048]

Outstanding! This was during the period when they were still doing the version of the song known as Walpurgis.

[@johnnyb6067]

Bill Ward’s drums were never late paying him back ever again. I wish they’d shown Geezer for more than 5 seconds. He crushed it just as hard as the other three.

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Long Time No See~Our Lovely Sori... 🩵💙🩶🤍🔥🔥🔥& Vin...

[@lisahumphries3898]

I was a pre-teen in the 70s and just remember there was a lot of hair, frayed denim, and polyester suits.

[@tonyd6382]

You reviewed my Black Sabbath request of Die Young form a 2009 concert with Dio and commented on how Iommi's guitar was all weathered.... this is the same guitar in this 1970 video.

[@rayv0125]

How relevant the lyrics are for the times we are living in.

[@EarthWalker2023]

Pure 🔥

[@eastcoastaj5048]

Iommi has new music out now.

[@DannyLeeOGT]

Love it

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

With feels. Vietnam then happening; real bodies, real war machine, real guys in boxes

[@myronscott8611]

If you can't punish Drums like Bill Ward I don't want you lol

[@TheCornishCockney]

Wild Bill hammers the fuck out of those skins,and boy don’t we love it. Iommi….The Riffmeister General.

[@mojobag01]

Great that you played the crowd at the end.

[@Gustavo-ew7om]

I still want to see butler do his flute solo lol

[@warrendavis9262]

Bill Ward beat them drums like they stole something!

[@yeti8it396]

Vin with that Head wrao looks like he would make a good sailor/pirate on a movie set.

[@BlackCountryShaneywaney]

Straight up metal from steel town...the Black Country..aka Birmingham..England. aka Brum...meaning...Brummagem...which is alluding to cars and jewellery, the two things Brum is most famous for.. We are Black Country....all of us. You need to know these facts. You're Rock history knowledge is incomplete until you know this fantastic area and it's achievements. Lemmy Clapton Plant Bonham E.L.O. Judas priest Slade Traffic..Steve winwood Magnum This is where it began..

[@billtroxell7583]

Tony lost the tip on three fingers from an accident earlier on and he wears a finger tip extenison glove, when he plays and over come that, an plays as awesome as he does, just blows my mind. He over came that and that makes him top shelve for me, I know how hard it is do things with a disadvantage.

[@yetanotheraccount3361]

You should watch the 1973 interview. It’s interesting watching young Black Sabbath.

[@MegaIronleg]

ONE OF THREE, OF THE GREATEST LIVE ROCK PERFORMANCES… THE OTHER TWO BEING, INSIDE LOOKING OUT… BY GRAND FUNK, SOUL SACRIFICE, LONG VERSION AT WOODSTOCK… BY SANTANA. GREAT REACTIONS 👏 ROCK ON 👊🖖

[@pcraig1383]

The War Pigs are alive and well and worse than ever. Context: In 1969 Americans killed in Viet Nam averaged over 500 per month, young people and their supporters didn.t like that. During the Iraq War they stopped families and photographers from greeting caskets coming back to (iirc) Dover Del. Thanks for the reaction you guys.

[@nostrilnick]

Bill Ward is an absolute animal in this video.

[@shspurs1342]

Just more proof that Metal was invented in England.

[@aliceinchains7325]

Who denies that

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

PRECISELY...

[@robertdawson8522]

Damn dude.Bet you talk to the screen at the movie theater too

[@terrynunez7957]

Thus must be a different version because there's a line in the song, ozzy says ( Satan Laughing Spreads His Wings )

[@richardworton4597]

Bill Ward is a drumming God, Geezer is a poet and Tony is the riff master and Ozzy is well Ozzy 👌

[@kennygolden3454]

Check out Iron Butterfly , 1968 live version , In a god a da vi da

[@markvanderstelt8999]

Bill Ward Is Amazing

[@pauldavis2535]

Right

[@FreeMTrider]

It would be interesting to know the lyrics of this War Pigs rendition. I've heard it before, but never read them.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

Same As The Record...

[@FreeMTrider]

@@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970 Nope......I've known the studio version for decades. Only one verse is similar with a few of the same lines, but everything else is much different.

[@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970]

@@FreeMTrider Very Well...Perhaps He Sang It Differently In This Performance...

[@FreeMTrider]

@@ELPCOTILLION-SD1970 I'm pretty sure this is the version before it was recorded. From what I read, which is interesting, the record company didn't like the satanic version like this one named "Walpurgis" and Geezer rewrote it with the war based death and destruction lyrics. That guy had an endless skill for writing songs on the fly.

[@artnevarez7073]

Tony Iommi is the Godfather of metal 🤘

[@bonkousmcnaughty4604]

This performance must have been before they actually recorded the album because the words are completely different to the album version. The performance is incendiary though

[@tonyd6382]

in case you didnt realize...this is an early version of the lyrics...different than the studio version you reacted to a few years ago

[@SuperClarky666]

Different lyrics on this early version🤘🏻

[@freddymo3339]

BillWard - Drummer

[@moniqueleroux2198]

Bill Ward was out of the pocket...so many great fills!

[@DaneFalco]

Sung this in Karaoke

[@827dusty]

This is "Metal" before the term or genre even existed. I'm not a huge Sabbath fan, but they were certainly ahead of their time.

[@GooseOD]

Same year as Beatles, Let it Be.

[@pete3883]

Ozzie ain't standing around.

[@METALSCAVENGER78]

The lyrics are oarrly different here.This live took place 2 months befire rhe album release

[@victorstefanovsky6902]

Tony Iommi IS Black Sabbath. He writes 99% of the music.

[@blizztendo6467]

Keep sabbath content coming please :)

[@billtroxell7583]

Bill Ward beat those drums. like they owed him money, ha. Ozzy was so young in this video, they all were and they killed that song. Now this was the old lyrics they changed the lyrics soon after that, and they kept the changes until today, so you don't here the old lyrics very often these days.

[@pauldavis2535]

Tryn to get thru

[@patricktoward3655]

76

[@sumonjamal1653]

Black Sabbath (the original band) was a powerhouse and even Led Zeppelin could not match their intensity in the 70's... Black Sabbath's (unofficial) live album "Live at last" ... is one of the greatest live records and it was not overdubbed or altered in the studio, w/ some rare tracks like "Tomorrow's dream" ... "Cornucopia"... 🤘🤘🔥🔥 The album was re-released as a double live CD 'Past Lives'... w/ another live gig from 1975. Sabbath did release a live DVD filmed in 1978 titled "Never say die live" ... but the band members were messed up on drugs and alcohol and the performance was somewhat over-the-top. The Black Sabbath reunion tour was captured in the concert video 'The Last Supper' in 1999 w/ interviews of Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill.

[@wadegarrett2376]

2 new Marilyn Manson singles are out. Let's go Vin and Sori. Get on those!! :)

[@coachmikesfilmroom3111]

Toni Iomi is the greatest Riff guitarist ever. Bill Ward is the greatest drummer ever. Geezer Butler is the greatest bassist ever. Ozzy is the 2nd greatest front man ever...Freddy Mercury existed after all.

[@carlosserbero4592]

react to led zeppelin 1

[@donkfail1]

Those poor drums. At least they died for a good cause. RIP - 19??-1970

[@gordonhutchison9647]

Bills drum sticks are reversed, masterclass.