Symptom Of The Universe

Album: Speak of the Devil 1982
Released: 27 November 1982
Recorded: 26-27 September 1982 by Record Plant Mobile
Venue: The Ritz, New York City
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Jet / Epic
Producer: Max Norman
Production:
Max Norman - producer, engineer, mixing at Record Plant Studios, New York
Chuck Weisner - live sound
Tim Young - mastering
Members:
Ozzy Osbourne - vocals
Brad Gillis - guitar
Rudy Sarzo - bass
Tommy Aldridge - drums
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℗ 1982 Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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[@classicrockmachine]

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[@bradL39]

Me too

[@doc25000]

This is 1 of the absolute best live albums ever!

[@garfinn4555]

"Somewhat live"...vocals are all studio recorded and added to the live tracks.

[@Living4JC]

100% correct

[@fredericopinto2943]

born in 1975 and this was my first sabbath experience and i never sought the original albums after this. is that blasphemy?

[@eduardom1107]

Totally agree. I think this, Made in Japan and The Song Remains the same are top 3 Best live albums ever.

[@jessebarr4681]

WAS RE-DONE IN THE STUDIO.

[@skipmichaels6184]

we played this album through a huge Peavey PA system for my outdoor graduation party in 83, I wouldn't trade growing up in the 80's for anything !

[@Leavetheherd]

No disrespect to Tony. This is the greatest live album ever recorded. Brad’s work, with his own added flair makes this next level.

[@CrazyCooter-ld6sz]

Let's not go crazy now. Best ever?

[@Leavetheherd]

@@CrazyCooter-ld6sz upon further review, you’re probably right. Still my favorite live album, given the lack of live Sabbath recordings. Bought it on vinyl when it came out, was a huge influence on my youth. Peak madman Ozzy, biting a bats head off, pissing on the Alamo, snorting lines of ants. “It’s rock and roll, man!”

[@jrzenizeni2506]

Man !!! I love this album. Ozzy, Brad Gillis, Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo and Don Airey. What a team 🔥🤘🏼

[@FroggyKrueger8969]

Neep nope nope dis like cover band to froggy ears🐸

[@CrazyCooter-ld6sz]

Greatest ever? Stop it.

[@shmuggy25]

Brad Gillis had to learn all the songs for this tour in four days

[@Classic_DM]

He's a bad ass

[@handleiguess1]

@@bobsethman7522ok bob sethman

[@netrioter]

Cocaine can cause this to happen

[@michaelfarinaccio6236]

@@bobsethman7522would’ve never sounded the same bud

[@garycastronova7939]

Steve Vai learned all of the Alcatraz tunes in one day 😂

[@ljkj63]

brad gillis madness!!!!

[@usuck1883]

Back when Ozzy was considered a national threat 🤘🏼👹🤘🏼

[@joelhammer3538]

I had this on casette. Im old😂

[@thedivineedgar3029]

got the vinyl. i’m older ; )

[@gsoltis29]

I hear you man 🤘I have this on vinyl also

[@richardkey4289]

I played my cassette to death , too. I sold a milk crate of old cassettes for $20 a few years back, once i realized I no longer owned a cassette player !

[@gsoltis29]

@@richardkey4289 this was one of my favorite albums as a kid in the early 80s I had to re buy the vinyl since asshole Sharon made it so hard to find online

[@wearealljustclowns]

Just found it on today at a thrift store $4 🤘

[@gonedeep43]

Great Version of this Song. Brad Gillis Killed it.

[@aplus1080]

More like Brad KILLIS

[@txtamaman]

Yes he did.... he had no time to get this together and just killed it

[@DethMachineX_]

Brad has such an aggressive sound

[@rayblan5610]

@@aplus1080 Qqqqqqq

[@ryanhooker5501]

Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley made Ozzy a legend.

[@Jason-ng2vf]

Facts

[@jamesdelaney3797]

And a millionare

[@Jason-ng2vf]

@@jamesdelaney3797 So true

[@brianbaca1380]

Brad's tone is so fucking HUGE on this song and entire album. Tommy's drumming is incredible

[@jasonhatcher9279]

HELL TO THE YEAH!

[@seric4546]

He was using Mesa Amplification before it was a Metal thing to do.

[@gsoltis29]

@@seric4546 I wish I had known he swapped out the single coil for a humbucker. I talked my parents into buying me a fender after hearing this in the early 80s and then realized I'd made a terrible mistake 😂

[@aarona.4937]

@Brian Baca you forgot to mention Rudy Sarzo's bass playing which is just as awesome too.

[@brianbaca1380]

@@aarona.4937 yes thank you. No disrespect to Rudes. You are correct, his bass playing on this album is fucking sick! The flavor he adds to the songs with his bass fills is legendary

[@dickdefilade1058]

Brad Gillis's Tone here rips space/time.

[@GaryAlloway-yn7mf]

1 of my all time favorite live albums!!

[@peterschwarz8835]

This is one the best Live Album ever !!! I Love this Album and Brad Gillis is Great!!!

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Brad king of the wammy bar

[@williamphillip9749]

King of the Floyd Rose

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Brad gillis brought the modern metal sound to these old SABBATH classic s

[@carlomichelmorales4789]

Best live set of BS covers . i love it to death. Killer lineup. Good memories

[@seric4546]

Love those songs but I never could get on with Iommi's tone or the production of those old albums. SOTD took those songs to the next level in my opinion.

[@craigster1573]

"Swim the magic ocean i've been crying all these years" Geezer was on some good Acid when he wrote these lyrics;-)

[@AtmaRising]

My first owned recording of Ozzy. 1982. I was 7. I heard Sabbath after I heard this. SOTU blew my little mind. Still my favorite after all this time.

[@emilyscandycakes4530]

the way they played this song...and the tone of Brad's guitar simply great....and it's never played on radio

[@tonydess3992]

I agree and I can't get it on spotify either

[@seric4546]

It caused a huge rift between Sabbath and Ozzy at the time. It was completely wiped from Ozzy's catalog for quite a while. I'm sure as soon as Sharon smells money they will bring it back though.

[@davidlewis6670]

It was in 1982.

[@williamphillip9749]

Brad Gillis can shred with the best of them!

[@gimphglmt]

this and Iron Maiden's Live after Death.... Over and over....

[@jamesdelaney3797]

Brad is a legend for this album alone

[@bardoface]

I bought the double lp as soon as it came out. Was completely blown away. Brad Gillis. Talk about a gift of the gods.

[@markb.8756]

If only Sabbath had played it this well when I saw them in '75 and '76.

[@rustynales4597]

This is an amazing album

[@matthewyost7930]

Got this album when I was 12 years old. I'm 52 now and I still have it.❤

[@dcd6611]

This album was recorded when Ozzy was under contract with Jet Records a subsidiary of CBS records that was owned by Sharon's father Don Arden.They cut a deal with Ozzy to record a full Sabbath album so he could get out of that contract and sign to Epic records.For a group to only have minimal amount of rehearsal time to learn the songs and record them over two nights at The Ritz in the fall of 1982.The majority of the performances were taken from the second night.They killed these songs and rocked hard and I feel it's an excellent album and a better representative of those classic Sabbath songs than Sabbath could have ever pulled off in my humble opinion.God bless Ozzy ...A true rock and roll surviver of epic proportions.🙌🤘

[@christianwilliamson9752]

Yes he survived an industry of rich schmucks trying to screw artists over

[@Kaesewicht]

Nothing beats the original.

[@pscotti4629]

I have been looking for video of these shows,.. Sharon needs to release it......

[@fredericopinto2943]

agree 100. The best sabbath tunes arent on a sabbath album. Life sucks but its true Maybe Ozzy';s greatest revenge LOL

[@random_an0n]

@@christianwilliamson9752 cause sharon and her dad protected him

[@user-ym9pt7gk7j]

my parents bought me this for Christmas 1983 on vinyl.

[@beckymartin12]

still have the original LP

[@Steve.Cutler]

I used to hate this album till I found out the whole band had a week to get ready for this without Ozzy. No way anyone could learn all these songs note for note with solos in a week. Amazing job. And they probably didn't make crap for money either.

[@paulocesargildelima7687]

O timble do baixo é nervoso 🤘🇧🇷

[@barbarianblood2316]

Wow. This is excellent.

[@spaceavenger54]

This whole album blows the Sabbath versions away, despite the fact that Ozzy had to redo his vocals in the studio.

[@fredericopinto2943]

i thought i was the only one. LOL

[@ericsteadman6687]

Brad Gillis is Brilliant,Amazing on this whole album

[@stephenbrady6788]

Love the gritty,industrial sound of this live track.

[@jmilber]

The guitar riff is catchy & Brad plays great, but Tommy's drumming is godly in this song

[@Biden_Cult_Morons]

Best live album Ozzy did while solo \m/

[@gabrielnunes7407]

Not just live, its the best album of whole Ozzy's solo career

[@spaceavenger54]

learn to spell please, it's guitar.

[@Biden_Cult_Morons]

@@spaceavenger54 .. It’s the internet. And most likely a typo. Lol at you grammar nazis.

[@linuswang6572]

But the vocals isn't live. Ozzy re-recorded it in the studio afterwards. Compare it to the soundboard bootleg and it's obvious.

[@Biden_Cult_Morons]

​@@linuswang6572..So. A lot of bands and their engineers alter live recordings of themselves to improve the sound quality. You want a cookie?

[@jamiewoodcock9765]

Love this better than the studio version something going on with this recording that gets me every time love it 👊👿👍

[@fredericopinto2943]

Is it only me, or do these classic Sabbath tunes (iron man, war pigs, Fairies wear boots, sweet leaf, paranoid, black sabbath) sound WAY BETTER on this live album than they ever did on the original Sabbath albums? I know those sabbath albums were like 10 years older than this 1980s release. but I had a friend who was a huge Sabbath fan who heard Speak of the Devil for the first time back in the early 1980s and his jaw was on the floor when he heard these old tunes played like this. Am i crazy? Is it blasphemy? To me if I could only hear one version of these Sabbath songs it wouldnt be off a Sabbath album, but this post Randy Rhoads death album Ozzt had to make to fulfill a record deal. Gillis? Amazing.

[@spiker702]

I’m with you.. no disrespect to Iommi Geezer Ward or even Rhodes- all of whom I adore but- somehow Brad Gillis and Rudy Sarzo were so on fire with this performance. idk it’s fucking magical. Absolute masterpiece

[@ampdrum1]

I always thought the same as you. This came out when I was a kid. Now I’m old and still feel the same. Cheers rockers!

[@JDSly1]

Definitely. This version of Symptom Of the Universe in particular is simply mind blowing. Even better than the original.

[@Jason-ng2vf]

Different kind of energy than the studio 🤘

[@matthewmutchman6360]

These are great versions, but nothing beats Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, and Bill

[@RicardoBaker]

A magic meetings of espectacular musicians! Full album with amazing performances of this four brilliant guys: Tommy Aldridge, Rudy Sarzo, Brad Gills e Ozzy. What a killer drums, bass, guitar, and voice! They put those songs up to a triple high level. Best guitar solos ever ! Anthological! Thank you for posting... I was after this for a long time.

[@HighBestkillerROBLOX]

It’s insane what Ozzy’s vocals sound like on the actual soundboard version compared to this when they re-recorded his vocals in the studio.

[@shawnpugh6052]

My favorite Sabbath song hands down Brad Gillis shreds this song on this album

[@NotMorganFreeman.]

I love this album. It's one of the best live albums I've ever heard. Not available on streaming, which is why physical media is so important. Thanks for the upload.

[@scottjohnsoltis7748]

This is a great album, but you should hear what his vocals really sounded like. This version here has the vocals doctored-up!!!

[@paulfigg4048]

Big time!! Lol. Just listened to the “bootleg” versions.

[@brianselph1200]

Had this on record back in the day

[@MatthewDean-nf4st]

I swear I am always humming this tune or randomly drumming it!

[@MB-oc1nw]

Man, this is a killer live record the bass player is almost as good as Geezer

[@MoonCoilMedia]

That's because it's Rudy Sarzo.

[@jasperjenkins7729]

Rudy is Good GEEZER is a GOD 🤘

[@michaelg9344]

We all love you

[@toddrandall68]

No offense to Iommi, but Gillis tore this a new one. This track kept me awake in college all nighters

[@charlescolemanjr1006]

miss u randy rhoads

[@jeffbacon5174]

Brad Gillis on guitar. Left Night Ranger to do this. Lasted month's. Izzy was so drunk and broken from loss of Rhodes.

[@ThomasJScharmann]

Man, I was looking for this album for years. Fantastic! Thank-you.

[@joeltwinx3805]

Speak of the Devil was awesome

[@davidcosta-cb9on]

Muito foda!

[@user-mc5nl5mn3c]

I was 15 when I saw Ozzy at USFestival83 and this gives me the chills when I here this album/ Total flashback I sware.

[@lanemeyer9350]

This album KICKED ASS back in the day. Brad Gillis!!!! 💎💎

[@NO1sFUEL]

Just picked up a NM 1st Pressing for $65! BEAST OF ALL TIME!!!

[@brunobennett3938]

I've been looking for this album for years 😂🎉

[@brandonkallhoff7879]

Same man it’s bad fr lol

[@KeithAllsup-xg2jf]

that savage raw Marshall tone

[@nickwilliams75]

I was mabe 6 yrs old and my stepfather got thos album for my birthday

[@dylangarsed7254]

How good was ozzys voice!!

[@paulpearson3744]

Wicked album even though its a gun to the head sabbath only record company thing . Would've been better with the over the mountain/ flying high again and the rest released on the original vinyl/cassette/CD version. Brad does his job well although I'm more of a Jake E Lee man myself. Wicked uploads anyway. Cheers. Rock n roll

[@timmadiagn7711]

I had the cassette too!!!

[@unclejackluminous1470]

In the U.K. this album is called Talk of the Devil

[@44007931]

Rudy Sarzo in this album!

[@manusierra1846]

Ozzy good day

[@davespencer7326]

Great sound quality on this whole album. Yes back when it came out it was an album lol

[@chrisw6164]

I need to buy this album one day, I always forget about it.

[@beckymartin12]

i have it, from back when it came out,,, still in its original sleeve,,, a real record, a true album... dig it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the second record i ever bought,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,loved it then, love it still

[@dongraham189]

This was recorded shortly after the death of Randy Rhoads. Brad Gillis replaced Randy on the tour. He had to learn a lot of Ozzy songs in a short period of time. He did good considering.

[@joelhammer3538]

Not Ozzy songs. Sabbath songs. He probably knew a few of them already😀

[@Jeff_____]

@@joelhammer3538 He played Ozzy songs on the tour. They only release the black sabbath songs on Speak of the Devil.

[@scottashe984]

He learned them on the plane ride over there.

[@ThedevilofDSM]

He did good period. No "considering".

[@patrickmurphy4297]

released right around the same time as the Sab's "Live Evil"...I played this one a helluva lot more than the Sab's album...

[@thomasyunick3726]

Yeah live evil had original sabbath songs which Ronnie did not want to do once in Sabbath . (Don Arden insisted) An old interview Ronnie stated he always loved those songs he covered them in ELF while opening for Deep Purple. He just wanted the fans to hear Ozzy sing them... and then you got speak ot the devil. The dio tunes on live evil were awesome the ozzy tunes were out of place for sure. Speak was the better live album because it had a fresh take on stale classics. If you omit the ozzy songs from live evil it is actually a keeper.

[@leoleproso9944]

Thank you for this. Amazing!

[@jamesmoore4074]

speak of the devil doesnt get half the credit it deserves

[@evertsanabriaescobar4973]

excellent concert of Rock

[@johndoe3328]

Every song on this album is a Black Sabbath song. The record label wanted a double live album. But they were not giving them a half-assed produced Randy Rhoads album. And the band Ozzy put together just fucking rocked. When I was a teenager, this album redefined heavy metal. Brad Gillis is one badass rock guitar player. Brad Gillis hass got a signature sound. When you hear it you know it's him.

[@giftedplanksify]

Only heard this from high-school. We'd party out and blast the fuck outta this album and never knowing what the words meant except Go animal 🎉🎉 yeah yeah

[@jasontennant8994]

Love the sound and arrangement on this version. The little flourishes on that descending riff really add some spice!

[@GilsonJuniour]

Brad matou a pau nesse show !!!

[@BERLIN--yt1yh]

Sim, mas a guitarra dele ficou muito baixa, o tiozin da mixagem deu vacilo

[@ryandeanlindgren9054]

Brad Gillis Rocks

[@CZECHMATE650]

My brother went to see Metallica and Ozzy, Ozzy opened up with symptom of the universe and his buddies are like "what the hell is this?"

[@kevinsiegel7766]

Had as one of my first cassette s

[@antoniosanchezvigil]

Bill Ward es the creator and Tomy Aldridge the recreator. That is PERFECTION.

[@eyejougan7564]

25/December/2020 From Malaysia 🤟

[@glennt69lol]

Sounds good tuned down a step

[@dinfulofsin8525]

its hard to find this album. spotify still doesn't offer it. this was my favorite Live black sabbath or Ozzy Album.

[@nuts45150]

Side A No. Title Original album Length 1. "Symptom of the Universe" Sabotage (1975) 5:41 2. "Snowblind" Vol. 4 (1972) 4:56 3. "Black Sabbath" Black Sabbath (1970) 6:04 Side B No. Title Original Album Length 4. "Fairies Wear Boots" Paranoid (1970) 6:33 5. "War Pigs" Paranoid 8:35 6. "The Wizard" Black Sabbath 4:43 Side C No. Title Original Album Length 1. "N.I.B." Black Sabbath 5:35 2. "Sweet Leaf" Master of Reality (1971) 5:55 3. "Never Say Die" Never Say Die! (1978) 4:18 Side D No. Title Original Album Length 4. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) 5:34 5. "Iron Man"/"Children of the Grave" Paranoid / Master of Reality 9:12 6. "Paranoid"

[@famous.monsters]

hard to find now. great inner poster. *****

[@user-tk9mf7oo1w]

i have seen this line up tour! ozzy blad tommy!

[@ulijonroth-d5q]

Esse é um dos 2 maiores álbuns duplo ao vivo do rock, junto com o The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin)

[@thomaskostoroski9985]

I can’t believe this is Brad Gillis, why wasn’t Night Ranger like this ??🤣

[@marcksa2581]

I have true relegion jacket collab with monomize since 2005

[@raincrow9673]

Gillis did an amazing job considering he had to perform in the place where Randy once stood. Great album, plus... I always wondered... is that cranberry sauce Ozzy is spitting out? I never liked that stuff either. ✌❤🤘

[@xerxes2044]

raspberries i saw he once said

[@norseforce69]

Human flesh of course

[@paulpearson3744]

🤘🤘🤘

[@anthonyfarkas9286]

OH!

[@smedleybutler8787]

Drummer and bass player were dialed in

[@DanielGreen-gi3ts]

I just saw an interview with Max Norman and he said that Ozzy complained about Rudy Sarzo‘s playing because of how bad it was. Max said they turned the track down like Metallica did. It seems to me for what I can hear Rudy sounded good. But I will believe the pros when they say it. Ironically Ozzy had to go in the studio and re-record all the vocals. Not one to speak. Unless it’s his band. Lol

[@supervidere7]

One of the many records ill never forget for so many reasons, not least, hocking my entire collection at 21. I haven't heard it since, that was 1992. Funny, for some reason i thought Tommy Bolin puled stings on this release, not sure why.

[@Forgiven156]

This was a kikin ass live album set

[@rockinron3215]

I had the double album at 17

[@ulijonroth-d5q]

Por incrível que pareça, as melhores versões dos clássicos do Black Sabbath estão nesse disco e são tocadas pelo Brad Gillis, e não pelo criador dos riffs: Tony Iommi

[@anthonyfarkas9286]

Mother moon she's calling me back to her silver womb...

[@LovelyCricketSport-pd9ht]

Ozzy is old 🗝️ so am i😅