The Sabbath Stones: Born Again Deep Dive!

Join Pete Pardo & Chris Alo for an occasional discussion on all things Black Sabbath. Today, we talk in depth all things Born Again! #blacksabbath
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[@SuperStrik9]

Born Again RULES. My favorite Black Sabbath album. Wish Ian stayed in Black Sabbath longer and released more albums with the band.🤘

[@hoosierhandgunner6232]

Great episode guys, i love Born Again

[@Mattsdmf]

Great episode! Hopefully another one is coming soon!

[@tmc1054]

It just doesn't get better than Pete and Chris talking Sabbath.

[@alketkellici6766]

Chris Alo is the man. I cannot get enough of his input when it comes to Sabbath

[@BlindArthurBlake]

Same. Great guy too; used to chat with him on Facebook messenger before I did away with my page

[@chris10isleyen]

I had known about Sabbath all of my life and never really got into them, but Born Again changed all of that. Mind, I’ll never forget the first time I heard the opening to Disturbing The Priest with Ian’s maniacal laughter.. after this album, not only did I get into Sabbath, but deep purple as well. Born Again was a major keystone into me getting back into metal. Remains one of my favorites to this day.

[@treyrobinson1970]

Just watched this episode again for the third or fourth time, Lol. Pete, I’m with you 100%, Hotline is my favorite song on the album and possibly top 5 of the catalog.

[@jimmypage2843]

Hell yeah Pete and King Alo talking Sabbath. 🤘🏼 Goddamn we need those now found master tapes made into one of those box sets already.

[@davidnixon-jt5co]

Chris is the best i love listening to him talk !

[@progmonster4]

sabbath rules and this album is killer. One of my favourites . wish they had done more

[@brucybabyy7355]

me too i bought the dbl edition soooo good.

[@PanBoro]

Discussions like this makes you even love albums that you didn't like in the first place....Thanx guys.

[@davidnixon-jt5co]

This is like getting an education on sabbath after Ozzy. I love it thanks so much for all the information and enthusiasm guys .

[@garyjoyce2160]

Love. Sabbath. Love king ALO. Love Pete /. Loved this show. Thanks guys. Give us more soon 👍💯

[@gregoryg3256]

alright principal Gary !!!🌠

[@garyjoyce2160]

@@gregoryg3256 👍💯

[@clintbronson5]

Pete n Chris rules!! Saw this album in 83 rode my bike 25minutes to ask dad for 8.99 rode back to the record store RAINBOW RECORDS Cupertino Ca rode back home and played that tape cassette ALL week! Love BORN AGAIN ( news of Ronnie leaving was in Hit Parader magazine for me ) and for me this was Sabbath last masterpiece....

[@robnykulaik7337]

Yes thank you Chris and Pete. You guys rule!! Born Again is Black Sabbath's Blackest album!! I loved it from the word go! Trashed , disturbing the priest, and Born again my fav tracks, frack I love it all. The mix has never bothered me. The vibe and performance 's stand out with the superb songwriting!! 10 Outta 10 !!

[@manuelper]

The Sabbath Stones, only two episodes in, has shot to the top of my favorite SOT shows (tied with Monsters Den). Keep up the great work fellas, thank you.

[@RockDaydreamNation]

I'm obsessed with this album...love it

[@phaigemartin]

This material was so mind blowing live... great discussion!

[@titanfox4881]

Finally another Sabbath show - featuring Chris "The King" Alo! Great stuff, gents!

[@jasonleonard4000]

Pardo, Alo and Sabbath...it just doesn't get any better! I'm loving The Sabbath Stones, highly entertaining. Cheers, my friends!

[@putterokk5156]

Great show, more Sabbath 2 d people! Keep em coming!!!!! I saw Black Sabbath 23/8 1983 in Lund Sweden. 13 yers old and a great show but very loud. And i even saw Ozzy Osbourne the same year in December at the same venue.

[@enkiabzu5792]

Great videos as always! Would love to hear you guys do a deep dive on The "Never say die" album,I know you both aren't fans of it it but would love hear you both discuss the chaos that was going on in the background during the making of it!

[@NickPalladino94]

APD from Motorhead and Born Again from Sabbath were both released in 1983. Both albums were slammed by the critics and fans. Both line ups only lasted 1 album. Both bands had controversial lineups. In my opinion, Both albums are brilliant. I wish both bands could've given us more albums with these line ups!

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Great year, it could very well be the last truly greatest year for releases of many a classic band it's hard to top going from there...

[@grumqa]

Albums like that would make a good Friday at the Funhouse show for Pete and Martin, if they haven't done it already.

[@dbrjaxfl]

Great episode guys! Fun fact: Born Again was a favorite in the Black Flag van. Henry Rollins has brought it up a few times.

[@georgasmussen9318]

I have a unique Japanese "Castle" CD of Born Again (not the "Essential" remaster) which Chris might want to add to his collection (TECW 20186). The sound is "authentic" I guess, but it can be improved by reducing treble, adding some bass and "surround" if your system allows you to do so. Then it's quite a decent sounding 80s metal album.

[@chrisalo2989]

Hmmm, is that only on the Japanese editiion? I think I have a Castle edition of Born Again, will have to take a look.

[@tommyaddison6539]

Looking forward to the next Sabbath Stones episode

[@vinylsolution2522]

Please do these episodes more often.. two a month ?? I can listen to you guys talk Sabbath forever. Cheers !!

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

Same. Appreciate this show and would love more. I wrote a 40th anniversary reflection on it last year. So much about this record that makes it special. SAB RULES.

[@pablocruise9514]

Please do Heaven & Hell and Mob Rules

[@tuffs4it]

Hopefully if they do a new remix of the album they pull a Maiden a la "Total Eclipse" and add "The Fallen" rightfully to the running order of the album.

[@alciovillalobos]

"Guess what! I've got a fever! And the only prescription is more Sabbath!" Love this new series! Thanks, Pete and Chris! :)

[@matthewnunley1775]

Great album! Disturbing the Priest is my favorite off the album.

[@patriotpizzaman]

I'm holding out hope for a remix of this album! Hopefully you'll be breaking down the new Tony Martin boxset in May!

[@jimmypage2843]

I said it to people online at the time too, that as the King mentioned Tony never said what the box set will be.

[@danzemacabre8899]

Iommi stated he found the masters and it will happen but he's doing all the sabbath albums in order so it will be a while, still the original mix has a certain charm to it, I actually don't mind it ,it gives it an evil edge

[@williamlangan5902]

Thanks for reading my comment, Pete! 27:58 I will check out Born Again, probably when my wife’s not around! Oh yeah, the idea of Ian playing bongos on stage made me laugh! The only song I can picture them tolerating that is Planet Caravan.

[@moecullity9616]

I’ve loved many, many SoT episodes, and this particular one is one of my very favourites. Fascinating stuff. This is coming from a hardcore Purple fan who thought he knew all there was to know, but I learned a couple of things in this ep! Thanks and keep up the great work, guys. Saturday afternoons were made for checking out some SoT in my house. 🙂👍🤘🍻

[@RedBlueSam]

Thoroughly enjoyed this deep dive! Born Again is possibly a top 3 Sabbath album for me, but it's definitely in the top 5. Agreed, Disturbing the Priest is such an evil song and I love it so much.

[@arre_lovernotafighter3449]

I was at the stockholm show, born again tour, it was my first sabbath concert,I was 19 then and looking back Im so happy to have seen one of the shows with Gillan in the band. The show was awesome, and for me, the Born again album is top 3 in their catalog. Love the album, Tonys guitar is sharper than ever, his solos on this album are totally amazing, a fantastic sabbath album.

[@americathisweek.6077]

Saw sabbath at Reading. Amazing show. Love born again

[@thewal1ofsleep]

I'd love to see a similar type of show with you and Chris in the same format but dedicated Priest and/or Maiden. There are so many cool eras, tours, albums, lineups, etc to discuss.

[@tommyaddison6539]

Alo is the man! This is great!

[@meanjoe4299]

Born again rocks. Love this album. Every song cooks. Also love the cover art

[@BlindArthurBlake]

Born Again was the first Sabbath album that I got when it was brand new as a kid. Always enjoyed that album

[@peterdegen1194]

Possibility, Pissabollity... Amazing album. Thanks Chris & Pete!

[@darrylamaki2470]

Mahalo Pete and Chris always learn something new watching you guys.. Hopefully a Born Again box set soon…

[@richdrums6886]

This is my FAVORITE Sabbath studio record, and my first new studio album. I had gotten Live Evil and absolutely loved it and when they announced Black Sabbath and Quiet Riot together in New Haven - How could this 14 year old metal head say no???? I had no idea Dio was out, but I loved the show, and bought the Born Again album as soon as I could in the following days. I loved the record; the production never bothered me, even today. But it was about 10 years ago now that this record was born again to me.... like I totally rediscovered it with a new state of mind. I love all Sabbath but this one really does it for me.

[@patriotpizzaman]

I went out and got a bunch of bootlegs from this tour after your last episode and I'm here to tell you, you weren't kidding when you said Ian was wailing his head off on that tour!

[@peterock4210]

Like to know which boots and how quality is? Love to get some.

[@michaelhasse2568]

Desperately needs a remix, please

[@andrewsmith4620]

I'm one of those guys who initially hated this album but have grown to love it. All it took was listening to the unmixed version on KZbin... for whatever reason, that mix did the job for me and I now appreciate how good this album actually is. My favourite songs are pretty straightforward: 1. Disturbing the Priest 2. Zero the Hero 3. Trashed 4. Hot Line

[@garrydaniel5210]

I love this show! I feel that I'm sitting with rock buddies, chilling with a beer and having a good laugh!!!!! Cheers, Pete and Chris! Ps. the beer is Trooper.

[@lahloonatic]

Sabbath. Alo. Pardo. Just give me more!

[@Daniel-415-Ponce]

Back in the early 1980's circa 1983 when Rainbow was promoting and touring their BENT OUT OF SHAPE album, singer Joe Lynn Turner and bassist Roger Glover (who had also been a member of Deep Purple Mark 2.0) made an appearance together on the weekly nationally-syndicated call-in radio show called ROCKLINE. I was just a very young teen at the time, but I was already a huge Rainbow fan, and I was just starting also to explore the older 1970's Deep Purple catalog. So I called in to the show and was placed on hold for almost the entire 2 hours until near the very end when I was put on air and allowed to ask Roger Glover if there were any plans or possibility of a Deep Purple reunion occurring sometime in the foreseeable future. I had not yet heard any rumors - - my question had been motivated solely on the basis of wishful thinking on part. Whether or not his response was governed by the true extent of his personal knowledge at the time, Glover promptly dismissed the idea, saying there were no such plans in the works. Of course, it was probably only a year or less later when the official Deep Purple Mark 2.0 reunion, including a new album (PERFECT STRANGERS) and world concert tour, actually came to fruition, so I liked to imagine that my phone call that particular night had played at least a small part in the way events had ultimately unfolded. I do not recall Black Sabbath's BORN AGAIN album being a factor in my mind then when I asked the question, so it probably had not yet been released. In retrospect, I would gladly have accepted the Deep Purple reunion being postponed a few years if we could have gotten an additional one or two Black Sabbath albums with Ian Gillan on vocals. Incidentally, it was only recently that I learned the primary reason the Deep Purple reunion likely had occurred when it did is that guitarist Ritchie Blackmore had just been taken to the cleaners by a very costly divorce proceeding, so he was eager to avail himself of all the record company money that was being thrown at him and his Deep Purple bandmates. Also, regarding BORN AGAIN, I still have a magazine interview from the mid-1980's in which Tony Iommi claimed that it was AFTER he had submitted the master tapes to the record company that someone somehow subsequently intervened to sabotage the recording quality and/or mix. Iommi, if he is to be believed, was just as shocked as everyone else upon first hearing the version of the album that got released to the public.

[@wokebloke7019]

My buddies and I just loved Technical ecstasy , never say die, and born again. We wore those tapes out in high school Some of the most underrated sabbath out there.

[@asoucytube]

I love this album, can't get tired of it. My parents must've thought the devil was in my room when they heard "Disturbing the Priest" one day, when I brought it home from school. One funny story, where I live we had only one earthquake that did some damage and me and a friend felt it at the same time we were listening to Born Again. We freaked out! Thanks for this topic.

[@davidpousho4828]

I love this show so much! Just cool music discussion! No lame debates about which album is better.

[@wokebloke7019]

Great show! My friends and loved this album in high school and it still holds up today. Love Gillan w sabbath

[@thomaspallante9166]

Always loved that album! I still have the album.

[@merikblackmore]

Interesting video, while discussing particular eras/album cycles I'd find it interesting if you expanded on the tour info & discussing how the setlists changed over the tour e.g., Keep It Warm & Born Again were only played on the European tour; Heaven & Hell was added towards the end of the European tour & played on the US tour & that Neon Knights was added as the opener for the 1984 tour dates pushing Childen of the Grave up after Zero the Hero.

[@mr.snicker-doodles7081]

Glad to see you guys doing this record, I loved it from the second it came out! I saw this tour in Detroit, it was an amazing show! And, I was on ACID haha..bonus points!

[@VMClassic]

I liked this album when I bought it in the 80s. I learned to love the album by listening to the deluxe edition and the manor tapes. Born Again is great and has a lot of replay value. the riffs are killer and so heavy

[@charlesrambeau519]

I love shows devoted to one album.

[@cezarmaatubang8236]

I remember seeing this tour and there was a live broadcast that night. My friend recorded for me. It was from Worcester, MA. That full show has been out there forever and they should add that on a box set.

[@lazarebedukadze7244]

Born Again is the first Sabbath album I listened to start to finish, all of it thanks to you Pete! I loved it since day one.

[@Intruder-xw6ye]

Born again ..one of my favourite of all time. I’m 58. Saw the tour in Montreal. So good!! Remember, my buddy in high school had the concert T-shirt. His mother was very religious and she hated it. Lol memories I have the same theory about Gillan blowing out his voice on that tour. He was never the same again.

[@DavidBrown-vi2zn]

Thankyou both for encouraging me to give Born Again, a re-listen. I only really listened to Zero the Hero, on the Very best of Black Sabbath compilation but there are so many better songs on this album. I also enjoy the live at Reading Festival show and yes Ian Gillan's otherworldly screams are amazing as they possibly were fear inducing at the gig?! I have now ordered a copy of the deluxe CD and can't wait to share this album with my neighbours! Keep doing all the great stuff you do and thankyou. David.

[@carlosfernandezmartinez1451]

Great show, Pete and Chris. Thanks for talking about this amazing album. It's always been one of my favorites from the band. It's the first new Sabbath album I bought and I became a hughe fan immediately. They played in Madrid and San Sebastián on that tour in september 1983 but I couldn't go because I was only 12...😂 What an evil sounding album and what an amazing bunch of songs. For me the heaviest album ever. 🤘🔥♥️ Favorite songs 1 Disturbing the Priest 2 Thrashed 3 Zero the Hero

[@reinaldoalves9038]

Love the album and some boots. IAN RULES !

[@cbFIN]

Pete and Alo you are responsible for me taking a serious listen to Born Again. I had the Joe Elliott first impression experience myself (on streaming) but now owner of the Deluxe 2-CD. More Sabbath Stones please from you two.

[@inmyhouse11]

Loved this great album and tour. Just a shame that Gillan only lasted one album. Would have loved to hear what could have came next.

[@65mule]

Great show guys I left Sabbath by the time thus came out but went back and I actually love it now but my Sabbath history is a long great story! I will post on future shows but my entrance this band is my older brother had We Sold Our Souls For Rock and Roll their first greatest hits album and I fell in love with it! That was 1976 and I was 11 years old.

[@christianhaynes1954]

Great ! Two of my favorite hosts talking about great music !! 💪

[@steviec67]

This was great ! Could have listened all day . Saw the tour at Nassau Coliseum Long Island NY and it was amazing. Like you said Ian Gillan was letting out these screams that literally knocked me off my chair that I was standing on , ended up elbowing some poor girl in the face due to it 😳. I have the tour program love the album so dark and heavy the muddy mix adds to that 👹. Also agree that it definitely took its toll on Ian’s voice but dam it was killer . Thanx to both of you can’t wait till the next episode . Funny how right after they got another Purple guy in Glen Hugh’s 😮. Saw that show as well and a week later with his replacement Ray Gillan from a local Long Island band but that’s another story 🧨

[@mikeharradence6549]

What a fantastic episode guys, keep it up. I love Born Again; in fact, it was because of Pete and Chris' love for the album on here that I bought it despite having read all the poor reviews. It's a great album. The Reading Festival gig was only about a mile away from my house, pretty sure my parents would have heard it at the time (I wasn't born until the following year). Chris, I was surprised to hear that there is no footage of the Devil Baby used on the tour, didn't realise that! Keep up the great work!

[@rongabrieljr.8784]

Great show guys, love the album. I now have a permanent vision of Gillen playing bongos wearing a floral shirt😂

[@ericdinse5047]

Awesome ! Looking forward to more "Stones" !

[@Rmesick-hm6yq]

I saw this tour! Palace theater in Albany. Great stuff! Gillan was such a great match. As others have said, would love a box set. Great show guys.

[@timmothymonaghan5236]

saw this Tour in Toledo Ohio Love this Album !!!!!!!!!

[@NoineNoineNoine]

I was at the Brendan Byrne show too! I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to take a few hits of blue star acid, but I did!

[@ModernDayWarrior2112]

Great show Pete and Chris! Born Again is my favorite non Ozzy era Sabbath album.

[@JimBagby74]

Also my first Sabbath LP. The Trashed video blew my head off. Insane soloing. I’d never heard any Sabbath other than Iron Man and then this..... Childhood memories!

[@joshhefner8179]

Love this album it gets more love now.

[@kevinwheeler9009]

Great show guys! I'll tell ya, when this album came out, there was no way in hell that my mom would have allowed that tape to cross the threshold of the front door of our Oklahoma, Southern Baptist house with that cover. And I'll admit, it kinda freaked me out too. To this day, I don't think I've listened to more than a couple of cuts from the album, and I have every Sabbath album preceding it, but it all stopped there. And I love Gillan. Well I'm listening to it now. So far, so good. Very heavy, very dark. Pretty evil. I kinda like the "messyness" (not the right word, but I can't think of what exactly fits) of the production. Tony's tone sounds right to me; like it's crawling through the dirt, out of the grave. I hope they don't mess that up with the remix. I would like to hear more drums and a clearer bass though. I guess I need to add this to my collection. "Digital Bitch"- Yeah, I fucking hate Sharon Osbourne too.

[@SixSev75]

If the box set coming out this spring is the deluxe edition of this album, in addition to the remix and unreleased tracks, hope it also includes live shows in their entirety from the tour. This lineup was smokin' live.

[@trevdowson-z6o]

Thank you Chris and Pete, this is great.

[@zacharyseibert4526]

Fuckin love Sabbath! Album absolutely rules.

[@NorsePJ]

I received the remastered CD from 2004 today and love it. I already had the original LP but decided I wanted to get the CD version. It's great. In my own rankings, I gave it 5 stars (I give 6 for what I consider classic albums). It has my favourite Black Sabbath cover artwork. LOL! PS: I agree there is a marked difference in Ian Gillan's voice between "Born Again" and "Perfect Strangers" and onwards. Yes, he can still scream on certain notes, but on others he seems to have hardly any voice. I noticed he now does basically the one scream note.

[@joeallegra556]

It was one of those albums that didn't immediately grab me and kick my ass. But within month of listening I was hooked.

[@Marco_Cadabra]

Great episode, thanks Chris and Pete. Love Born Again, ever did since I first heard it. And I even always liked the cover! :)

[@MrMortadella1]

I attended the first concert they did for that tour in Toronto. Of course without the Stonehenge on stage that they couldn't get into the arena according to Geezer. I always remember watching Gillan and couldn’t see his face because he kept putting his head down and had his hair was covering most of his face which I found kind of odd. Then I saw an interview by Gillian specifically stating that he had the lyrics written down for a lot of the older songs because he hadn’t memorized them for the early shows of the tour. Now it all makes sense why he kept looking down lol

[@johann_casparbaumgartner6972]

I was at the Reading Festival (August 26-28th 1983) where Black Sabbath was headlining Saturday, so I believe that must have been the (very ?) first show of them including the Stonehenge stage set, which was later not happening. What is very interesting the album was NOT out at the time, it only was released three weeks later (12. September 1983!) So noone in the audience knew any of the 6 then unrelease new songs from that album! I even can remember the participation within the crowd was kinda quiet. Like said, parts of that concert are included in the Deluxe Edition from 2011. / Yes, that song "Digital bitch" is about Sharon, that is even in the (German) wikipedia. Probably was in Kerrang! back in the day, would have to look at the old magazines, which I still have, I heard that before and Chris reminded me. (You must remember: Sabbath's manager Don Arden at the time was quite hostile towards the band's then ex-vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, who had recently married his daughter Sharon and was fond of telling Osbourne that his children resembled the Born Again cover! :-) hahaha! PS: Also Ian Gillan DESTROYED the 20 copies he got right after the release of "Born Again" as he was DISGUSTED at the sound AND the cover!!!

[@kevinkaple3615]

Ahh born again…the most polarizing album ever made….absolutely love this one…

[@jerfacekilla]

Best Deep Sabbath album ever made.

[@sifuanthonytarasca1686]

I love the album. I still have my original first pressing vinyl from ‘83. I had the same experience as you did Pete, how down Ineas at Dio’s departure but overjoyed at Gillan joining because Deep Purple was my favourite band and Ian Gillan my favourite singer. And I find it awesome at how much Disturbing The Priest sounds like Ian Gillan’s song Scarabus.

[@Leo-ci9kc]

Loved this album upon release and still do! Saw this tour in New Haven and would love to have a full show on CD. Have the bonus CD and Deep Black but neither are a full show

[@topographic1973ify]

I have Tyr from which the title comes from., and I also have Born Again on vinyl both of which I think are very overlooked.

[@Rebraunful]

Thanks... A great show you made here. I LOVE IT. Black Sabbath Born Again, it one of my fav albums of all time. I´ll will buy the new box set, if and when it comes. But for me, the original version is dirty, dark, evil, what more do you want....

[@grumqa]

This deep dive format is really cool. Loved this show. Also love the record, have since it came out. I really like the tone on the riffs on it, and Gillan sounds fantastic.

[@kevinplair6760]

Great episode again fellas! Huge fan of this record and bought immediately after release date. Saw the tour in Atlanta at the Fox Theater from row 2!! They had Night Ranger for support which was kind of curious.

[@independenceltd.]

I bought that Black Sabbath "Deep Black: The Massachusetts Broadcast 1983" Alo recommended. Killer recording.

[@peterock4210]

Where can I order?

[@independenceltd.]

@@peterock4210 I got it on Amazon

[@chrisalo2989]

@@peterock4210 I found it on Amazon not long ago.

[@independenceltd.]

@@peterock4210 I got mine on amazon.

[@chrisalo2989]

@@peterock4210 Amazon

[@markandmandyd7445]

Born again is like getting a combo of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple. Fantastic album. Hopefully they re released this on vinyl soon. Same with headless cross. cuz the price is now are beyond outrageous. Great job, guys..

[@neilbower9052]

From the things i have read and heard from numerous sources about the 'super deluxe editions'. They HAVE been reissued in order, next one should be Born Again, which means.... If it's an earlier album and hasn't been given the SDE by now, it won't be.

[@scottiematthews5932]

Thank you both for an amazing show. This has inspired to give this album another shot. I always loved Ozzy, Dio and Martin but Gillian never clicked for me with Sabbath. Thanks again!

[@redfire2987]

Great review guys. Born Again is a very underated album ive always liked it. The sound is a little muffled but it never really bothered me, we definitely need a remastered version. I want that remix version that Chris showed with the red cover. On a side note i recently purchased the Live Evil Box Set based off your guys review of it, not that you had to really twist my arm lol. Its the only Sabbath album i had never owned, i had listened to it a few times through the years. That Box Set is definitely worth it for any fan. The remix sounds 100X better. I listened to the original mix twice before listening to the new remix & oh my what a major improvement. Thanks guys & this channel always needs more Chris Alo lol

[@gregoryg3256]

🌠alright good one guys..Pete da boss& king alo