![]() With many stellar cuts to his name, one of the most coveted is ‘Into the Void’ from 1971’s Master of Reality. Without Iommi’s work, you could say goodbye to the likes of Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Sleep and even Metallica, giving you a heavy dose of just how critical he’s been to the proliferation of rock music. It was via his fingers that the heavier side of modern metal guitar-playing came to fruition, a testament to just how iconic his sound is. ![]() His detuned, sludgy riffs allowed the band to tap into the dark side, with him quickly becoming hailed as the ‘Riffmaster’. Their only constant member, Iommi, was there through it all, and his powerful riffs made the group stand out. On the 4th Of July.One thing is also sure about Black Sabbath: Tony Iommi was the power that underpinned all of their greatness. Soundgarden made the show really special by playing Superunkown all the way through. A couple of years previous this whole show would have seemed impossible with Tony’s diagnosis as bleak as it was.įaith No More were magnificent. Some guy in the crowd near us yelled out at one point ‘You don’t owe us anything Lem’ and that seemed to fit the mood. He had a guest vocalist help him through some of the set and he mixed a couple of lyrics up with other songs… But we got to see Motörhead. We all knew Lemmy had been really ill so it was no surprise he was a little out of puff. And well, Motörhead were not quite at their best. I saw the day through his eyes.Įach band were fantastic, except we only saw the very end of Soulfly as the queues were huge to get in. What would they play? Who liked the new stuff? Would Bill make an appearance? Even for one song? It felt like the trip to Wembley at the start of the 90’s to see Ozzy all over again. Two excited cheeky fellas on a train to Mayfair to see some serious heavy metal. I’d seen Sabbath the summer before at Download. I swore down he would not get into any trouble with his sensible uncle looking after him. What I wondered for the first time ever was ‘Did Jim want to come along?’ I didn’t want Jim’s first gig to be some dreadful half arsed affair so I tapped up a mate for golden circle bands for the two of us (something I rarely do as I believe in paying for my music) and went to help convince my very protective sister in law that this was a good idea. Then this amazing gig was announced for the tour around 13. By the time we’d had him coming to help out every Saturday for two years he had his own guitar, a decent line in band T-Shirts and a record player at home. He found Pearl Jam on his own and Nirvana so I thought I should set him up with some Soundgarden and Faith No More. Guns N’ Roses? OK check out Aerosmith and Motörhead and The Stones and and and and. ![]() Of course if he liked Green Day, it figures I should introduce him to The Clash. He liked Green Day and My Chemical Romance and Guns N’ Roses before I got to influence him. When he used to come and help out at the farm he’d ask to borrow CD’s. My teenage nephew Jim was getting into guitar music at the time. Hyde Park 4th July 2014 was the date I got to be the best uncle in the world. Yesterday’s weirdo’s are tomorrow’s leaders. In 2020 you can wear a Sabbath T-shirt to a board meeting (I know you can, I’ve tried it). It’s true to say that back then the long hairs lounging around listening to Sweet Leaf and Snowblind were seen as ner’do wells who would not amount to anything. ![]() We also know they were the inventors of much of our popular culture today. That’s the thing about rock bands now they have been around this long. Zeitgeist really is a curve ball of quality from a band over 40 years from their debut record. It’s all acoustic lament and ‘astral engines in reverse, falling through the universe’. ![]() The better than anyone could have expected 10 track affair entitled 13, the one track from it to have made this list already reads kind of like a campfire retelling of Into The Void. When Sabbath made their ‘Ozzy’s Back’ album with Rick Rubin in 2012. What they were both trying to tell us 50 years ago was ‘Stop fucking everything up! We can’t just clear off to another planet when we’ve ruined this one’. Into The Void let a generation of metal bands go slow, then fast for a bit, then s.l.o.w again. Just like the magnificently influential Silent Running went on to inform Star Wars that little buckety biped robots were a hit in space movies. Like much 70’s science fiction this track is a warning about pollution, messing up the planet and destroying the one home we have in the name of something we didn’t all sign up for. Look only a tiny bit closer and the allegory is pretty clear. That logo has earned it’s keep these last few years. ![]()
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