Vocal Coach REACTS - BLACK SABBATH "War Pigs" (LIVE IN PARIS 1970)

View the original here: • BLACK SABBATH - "War P...
🔴 DONATIONS & REQUESTS:
- PAYPAL: paypal.me/RealKenLavigne?coun...
🔴 For your own Singing evaluation & analysis, and coaching session with Ken Lavigne please go to:
www.kenlavignevocalcoach.com/
This Video has been created in the hope that you may learn how to harness your own performance abilities and be able to make smart, informed choices on stage that enhance your performance.
🔴 Music site:
www.kenlavigne.com/
🔴Socials:
/ kenlavigne
/ kennylavigne
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#BlackSabbath #WarPigs #Live

[@jasonross7596]

The drumming in this version is my favourite. Bill Ward just goes to town

[@KelvinKamsg]

same here

[@gregdiffenthal2384]

I'm glad there's no law against assaulting a drum kit !

[@wtglb]

For a Jazz drummer, Ward hit those drums like they owed him money😅

[@syx3s]

i just read that tony iommi said that ward for first five years or so being in sabbath used broken drum sticks which was why he used them backwards. he learned to play with broken sticks so he kept doing it stubbornly for a while even after he could afford new ones.

[@wtglb]

@@syx3s That's awesome, I didn't know that!

[@Darkstarkaizer]

Ward played awesome Even while being high as a kite

[@curtjohansen5742]

That was such a powerful performance by all of them. They are monster players but Bill Ward was beating those drums like they killed his dog. They are the Godfathers of Metal, The Architects of heavy. No band will ever come along that will create a new genre of music like they did.

[@slickjames2541]

The two microphones was how they did live recordings back then. One went to the recording console and the other was for the front of house P.A.

[@dethtongue945]

Everyone brought their A game to this song, but honestly those drums are just sick.

[@johnmccormack139]

There's no debate to be had. Sabbath is the first and greatest metal band of all time.

[@johnv6477]

They wrote the blueprint

[@tablatom]

No debate. The first for sure.

[@ingovonderluhe2174]

STILL one of the Greatest ANTI WAR Songs ever written in Music History!!!!....and DAMN more actual than EVER !!!

[@gl15col]

Whatever you paid to see Black Sabbath, you got $1million dollars of entertainment. Why they still are famous and adored all these years later; because they were overflowing with talent and gave their heart and soul to their music. I can listen to this band every day, and not be tired of it.

[@g54b95]

My god! Everytime I watch this, I'm just blown away by Bill Ward.

[@Jen5210]

it's amazing that this is just 4 guys...and they would blow your mind, no light show.. no dancers and prerecorded crap. just raw power. I an blessed I could witness this live. 👍

[@trfatman]

Thanks, Ken for a great month of metal! The bassist Geezer Butler originally wrote this song to be the title track for the album, which they intended to be named "Walpurgis", a Christianized pagan holiday (you can research the history). Geezer commented that "Walpurgis is like a Satanic Christmas. I believe there is nothing more Satanic than war." The original lyrics were much darker. Their label felt that the album name was too dark and occultic, even for Black Sabbath, if you can imagine that. So the album was renamed "Paranoid" and Geezer rewrote the lyrics of the song and titled it "War Pigs". In this performance Ozzy sang some of the lyrics from the original "Walpurgis" either by accident or intent.

[@ingovonderluhe2174]

Imagine to hear THIS in 1970 together with Purple for the FIRST Time.....to be there at the BIRTH of Metal in General.....damn,we need Time Traveling !!!!

[@nightwishlover8913]

I remember it well...surprisingly lol.

[@ingovonderluhe2174]

BILL WARD,one of the GREATEST Metal Drummers ever !!!!!!!

[@curtshelp6170]

Drummer going ham! It's rare that anyone points out that Tony Toni lost a few fingertips in an industrial accident before they got together.

[@arnonyhm4055]

Tony Iommi, the god of cool riffs, Bill Ward, filling a lot of parts with his drum improvisations, Geezer Butler, not just weaving of a bass carpet but also writing the lyrics, and yes, also Ozzy Osbourne with his iconic voice ... the foundation of heavy metal made out of rock, blues and jazz elements.

[@samm5111]

damn, this kick's the studio version's ass.

[@kimzwolinski9919]

It is amazing that even now you can easily understand what Ozzy is singing but almost nothing when he is talking 😂 Fantastic performance. I have watched this many times and not once did I notice he was using 2 microphones 🤯😂

[@A5p3r07h]

2:17 Yeah. I laughed there, too. Props to you for having the decency to at least pretend like that LUSCIOUS HAIRFLIP wasn't arousing as f*ck. Good man.

[@mojobag01]

Two mics , one for the pa one for the recording. They were so passionate and so committed and it comes through in every note.

[@nikosalmpanis-ty3jt]

Black Sabbath 1968-eternity🤘

[@soradicalreticsandmonitors2390]

MISTREATED!!!!! Was epic thank you

[@victorstefanovsky6902]

The real genius of Sabbath is guitarist Tony Iommi who is writing the riffs. He wrote great music for all the different lineups of the band. And he still has great riffs 50 years later….

[@jordanrhodes929]

They’re all genius in their own way. Geezer with the lyrics, ozzy’s iconic melodies, bill ward with many vibes, and Iommi is the ultimate riff master

[@Luana6350]

Yeah, nice choice❣And the drummer kind of reminds me of "animal" by the Muppets 😁 he is doing a great job 👍

[@DaisyChain3339.]

This is who the drummer was based on.

[@dconley1964]

2 microphones. 1 for show and 1 for recording.

[@edwardmunoz7853]

Nothing but raw talent 💯🔥

[@Rob_Infinity3]

Bill was beating those drums like they owed him money! 😂

[@Kaizelot]

Oh Lord Yeah!!!!

[@troyshilanski380]

The kinks 81 were awesome. This woulda blew my mind cuz of all the smoke.

[@bayareathrasher666]

"This is why we have the dark, this is why we have the heavy, this is why we have the brutal."

[@surpriseitsus9622]

Most focus on Ward, then maybe Ozzie or Tony, but my super hero is Geezer Butler, going ham on his bass. Lynn in Arizona 🌵

[@LisaKurgas-ll8dc]

We Love You Ozzy!!

[@wolverine669]

the two mic taped together thing is to eliminate feedback, as monitor systems were in their infancy (if they were used at all), and most times there was either the PA on its own, or very large sidewash systems. if you look at old footage of the stones, mick can be seen using this technique

[@angelo9725]

Back in the 70s the double microphone was a used in live performances for noise cancellation… could be for recording if the engineers didn’t trust a mic spitter.

[@helenl4060]

I´ve loved watching your month of Metal!

[@AdriMB6]

I think that one mic was used for the audience and the other one was recording the performance

[@earnestbass4092]

that's it exactly. you see that in many recordings from that period

[@cydrych]

I hadn’t thought about that. I’ve seen it done at bars where they have separate PAs for the crowd and the monitors so they needed two mics.

[@alienlifeform7490]

I think Ozzy's been messing with everyone's mind all these years, as far as I see it. It makes perfect sense that, when he sings, he's always fully articulate. Conversations or talk just bore him and you can hear in how lazy he is with his speech. Maybe he's got issues with other types of stimulation which lessen his ability to function "normally", but when he's in the music, he's himself, and what a joy it's been to have Ozzy and this band as a part of our life experience. All the world's a stage and we are merely players. Some play amazingly well. Thanks Ken.

[@deniblackmore2179]

Saw Sabbath in the early 70's, when I was around 15/16 yo - they were awesome! Back then venues and bands didn't have the techno wizardry available today so all kinds of tricks were employed to get the effects they wanted, cut feedback etc. so that's probably why the 2 mics were used. Funny that Ozzy was never very clear when talking but came to life and made himself VERY clear when singing!

[@markroberts8864]

Black Sabbath, metal was born. Ozzy, head banging became a thing!

[@5skov]

Ozzy is just making it up as it comes along, this is gold

[@curtjohansen5742]

Would you say Ken that you've gained an appreciation for the musical prowess of metal musicians?

[@KenLavigne]

I would absolutely say that and more.

[@princeofpcos9804]

This might be the goat metal song

[@hooray4pie145]

I have a VHS recording of this performance but its so old the colours are messed up. Its so weird to see it normal 😂

[@Liveeruptsuj]

The two microphones wasn't about effects. Back then PAs sucked, and feedback was even more of an issue than it is these days, plus EQing stuff was both often really limited and very tough to get right and not have everything muddy. The two mics offer a way to, one, get an extra channel to the PA to get more volume, two, to have two separate tracks to eq differently (lots of options and routes there), and three, you could have the mic good for bass and a mic good for treble and have more control to avoid either end of hte feedback spectrum. There's probably other reasons I don't know about, but this was a very common choice for big gigs in those days, you can see it in many live performance recordings like this one of lots of the biggest bands.

[@dathorndike4908]

Can't take my eyes off the drummer Bil Ward here

[@troyshilanski380]

Going on my save to watch later list .

[@noenunez8705]

What a live performance! You have reacted to Zeppelin and Sabbath maybe is time to react to Deep Purple's live version of Child in time from 1970, Zeppelin were easy to listen to band, Sabbath were the anvil and hammer forged metal juggernaut, Deep Purple were the Rolls-Royce of hard rock !

[@davidbudy6256]

Yes backwards !!

[@JerseyBA62]

alot people think ozzy forgot the lyrics.first version(i have on the basement tapes) had the different lyrics.

[@norair1010]

Great month of music. I've been watching you since the beginning and this the best month ever. What a finish to the month. One of 3 or 4 perfect songs in rock imho.And good catch on Bill Ward. The guy is a beast. He just doesn't drum he actually seems like he is making music. Keep up the good work.

[@user-nd3qx1mt7r]

Ozzy having fun

[@pivovinorakija]

Finally. I've been waiting for this for a long time

[@richardscales9560]

Bill Ward must have been the inspiration for Animal in the Muppets

[@jalkabre5904]

Raw power right there.

[@troyshilanski380]

So relevant

[@troyshilanski380]

Watchin it off my play later bro.

[@tbone2071]

Awesome alternate version of this song!

[@onelooperhudson967]

Ward is holding the sticks upside down. Striking with the heavy end.

[@TaichiMantis]

You need to listen to Brass Agains version of War Pigs 😘🤯

[@blakephelps7619]

One microphone was used so the audience could hear the vocals. The second microphone was used to record the vocals. It went straight to the mixing board and a recorder.

[@billherman7294]

The vid version is worth watching

[@jaskau2462]

🤩👍💥💯🎶 Mr. Tony Iommi knuckles those six strings without two finger tips like there's no tomorrow! 🤘😎 🇫🇮 💙

[@angelatarantino1509]

😊impressionnant ce batteur c'est certain les peau doivent être changé à la fin du concert 😊 le sol de guitare 🎸 🎸 wooo génial c'est pas ma musique 🎶 🎶 favori mais bravo 👏👏👏 🇨🇵

[@nickd8941]

When you say Ozzy mumbles that's just a Birmingham accent!

[@DaisyChain3339.]

2 microphones was because 1 was for recording.

[@snakeinthegrass7443]

One of his mics is a google translator. 😎

[@mikepetrucha2774]

I was wondering if you would notice Bill holding the sticks.

[@cydrych]

A lot of times back in the day the house and monitor systems were separate so they needed two microphones.

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

Arguably, you can say this is where it all began for Metal. I’d say this song and a few before it’s time and around its time, song like Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” and Iron Butterflies “In A Gadda Da Vida” along with this song and others brought Metal to life.🤘🏼

[@scotttrainer9704]

Some might argue Metal started with the Beatles song Helter Skelter. I wouldn't be one of those people though. I would say Black Sabbath

[@dalestoner2928]

Hard for me to know this was 53 years ago. I was 14 when they played this.

[@secularnevrosis]

2 microphones...one for the PA the other for recording. Flipping the sticks is a time honoured way of making the drums fatter. And observe the two prostetic fingertips on Tony (lost at the last day of his day job!)... One major factor in the development of their sound, tuning down made it easier to play.

[@billspivey6919]

I just started. The video. Ive seen this performance before. Ward beats the skins of the drums ! Also... wonder where head banging comes from

[@jameslaumand3686]

Prince

[@felixgilliam6089]

2 microphones was for recording live purposes

[@runkkariruune]

Up The Irons, Ken! Keep coming back to the axe!!! Thx 4 the reactions!

[@stevenlaurin6059]

Best anti war song ever made, hand down, drop the mic, exit stage left already .

[@MrBielok]

Those two microphones are because it's being recorded. So one is for recording and the other one for the PA. At that time recording from a PA was not really possible. The Grateful Dead used two microphones for noise cancelling. Sabbath did not use this technique as shown by photos from live shows. These never show two mikes.

[@bigdaddyrat7854]

What you don't see on this song is that during intermission 2 roadies came out to nail Bills drum set to the stage.

[@superfbomb9054]

I would love to hear a professional vocalists opinion on Mushroomhead... They use many singers... Up to 4 at a time in one song... Usually at least 2.. check out We Are The Truth or Solitaire Unraveling or Sun Doesn't Rise

[@troyshilanski380]

Man im glad you aint breaking it down bit by bit. Great video of an off version i dont ever hear.

[@jeremycasavola855]

the two mic’s are hum/noise reduction i believe.the older p.a.’s weren’t very good in big venues with loud bands.

[@geariagaldgkja]

I was under the impression that one was for recording and the other was for the live set. No idea, but that had always been my understanding for that setup as seen by many bands live videos around that time.

[@Bill_Yarkakar_XVIII]

@@geariagaldgkja I've seen the same thing on many early 70's live recordings, and I'm 99% sure it was exactly as you say - one mic for the recording deck, and one for the PA.

[@seanstark5948]

Bill Ward for the win. He’s so sick

[@troyshilanski380]

And im a veteran of the early 90s. Fool me once....

[@scottwilliamscreek2427]

Bill ward beating those drums like they owe him money 😂

[@troyshilanski380]

Punk then metallica came around. Liked them also.

[@christianwilliamson9752]

Mein Herz brennt. Piano version

[@jasonross7596]

So sad it's end of the month of metal. It's been awesome. But such a great song to finish on. If you do a month of covers, please include Kasey Chambers doing Eminem's Lose Yourself. It will seriously blow your socks off! Guaranteed. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWiTqZihaN1nqNE

[@troyshilanski380]

Please check out CRASS song Bloody Revolution.

[@747er]

What about Iron Butterfly and In-a-gadda-da-vida?

[@claudballs5679]

3 weeks before Black Sabbath went on tour, Tony had an accident at the steel mill he worked at cutting off the tips of two of his fingers on his fret hand. So he fashioned fingertips out of an old leather jacket, this is one of the best videos to notice those fake fingertips. This gives his guitar playing a unique sound.

[@TolkienGeek.]

I hope those drums were 18 years old.

[@superfbomb9054]

Bill is using short sticks... He was to poor to buy new ones so he got used to playing with broken ones he collected from other drummers . . And of course Tony has no fingertips and has to file down the frets and use banjo strings in order to be able to play the guitar... These guys just really really wanted to play to overcome the obstacles in front of them

[@PK--ITA]

thx Ken, u are my man. Of course, this is "beginning".. 🤘🤘🤘 Master level live performance. Do you know why this? Ozzy squeaky voice, Bill 4 drums max. Tommy (sorry Tommy) without 2 fingers, bass player - monster of bass. But all together - great enthusiasm, passion, willingness. Such a small difference between them and many bands today. Exactly the opposite. 27 drums, 7 string-bass, 12-string guitar, and? Nothing, wall of tones. F***-all 🤣🤣 Let me just add that for me personally, Bill Ward was the model for creating the character "The Animal" from "The Muppet Show" which I always watched... LOL

[@Storm_elf]

You should check out a Staind song like "Epiphany" or a Godsmack song like "Voodoo". Both singers have great vocals, in my opinion anyway.

[@jay-remedy-plz]

Superb! And at about 11:35 ‘where to go from here?’ Maybe an underrated single from one of the worlds best, Queen with The Prophets Song or White Man or Sheer Heart Attack! Thank youuuuu

[@geckotoe]

I would love to hear your thoughts on this beatbox groups amazing song If Only *Hiss, Alexinho, Colaps, River' - If only*

[@Goomberdups]

give those drums a cigarette

[@ghoullyman]

I’ve heard and take this this with grain of Salt that ozzy sound is basically layers of his voice on top of each other to give it like a “ God” sound . Probably explains the the double mic one side left one side right. I use that technique 24/7 when recording .

[@elricmoorcock]

I have never really liked this video, because it was too early. Ozzy was bad at remembering lyrics. This song was so new he couldn't get them right.

[@wtglb]

I can’t picture Ozzy being savvy enough to improvise lyrics, are these ones that were not included in the studio version? Granted, he messed up royally, but to someone not familiar with the song, it sounded alright.

[@vacavapes5500]

This is a hybrid of the original version of the song, Walpurgis, and what was released after the forced re-write. I always wondered the story about this. Was ozzy messing. Was this some intermediate version or the song. Maybe just combining the two for the live performance. Is there something out there saying he was just forgetting the lyrics?

[@karenlazenby6440]

Now type in 'Black Sabbath' War Pigs, THE DIO YEARS. SOOOO MUCH BETTER!!! EVERY Ozzy era Sabbath song is enhanced when sang by Ronnie.

[@natteravn7336]

Strongly disagree with this, I cant think of a single Ozzy song that is sung better by Dio. Simply because they were wrote for and by Ozzy, you dont get the same feel from Dio. And this is coming from a HUGE Dio fan.

[@jalkabre5904]

Ronnie's my favorite and love the BS Era with Ronnie, but I have to go with Ozzy with his songs. In my mind there was two important eras of BS, the Ozzy era that was so raw and powerful and the Dio era where it moved the band into a refined and better sounding group. The two exists and should be appreciated for what they were at the time. Personally I like the Dio era better than the Ozzy era, but only by a small fraction since both are outstanding.

[@truther4life]

D I S A G R E E.......S T R O N G L Y

[@earnestbass4092]

apples and oranges. you may percieve it as better. I think there is no comparison, though. Early Sabbath is inseperably connected to Ozzys straight "yelling" vocals. Dio has a way more sophisticated singing style. Both are amazing and need not be compared

[@DefinitelyNotBender]

Comparing Ozzy and Ronnie is blasphemous.