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I'm a public school teacher in the US, over the past few years it hasn't been unusual for me to be clocking 70 hours or so a week to discharge all my duties. This is one of the songs I listened to the most, just to help me cope with the workload. Thanks Sabbath!
Retired teacher after 30 years in the trenches--no admin gigs for me. I took SO MUCH comfort from this song in my last years as well. "Spiral Architect" as well "Sourcers of Madness selling me their time" reflected all the new crap we'd have to do every year that would last 2-3 years at most... HANG IN THERE, COLLEAGUE.
Most of my favorite live versions of Sabbath songs are from California Jam. I actually like the Children Of The Grave from it more than the studio version.
Sabbath managed the delicate trick of expanding their primal sound with more sophisticated arrangements and instrumentation without losing their essence. As such, “Killing Yourself to Live" and other "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" standouts offered not only brawn, but beauty too. - Edited from Ultimate Classic Rock
Tony Iommi did many and all overdub layers on the guitar . ..Check out California Jam 1974 Black Sabbath and the whole concert, Deep Purple was in that as well and others ..
Yeah, when they played live they had to strip things down - they didn't tour with any extra guitarists, only Tony. The guitar overdubs got more complex after the first few albums - which made it harder for Tony to replicate things live, though he made up for it with sheer volume of his amps, haha. They toured with a keyboardist in 75-76.
"Little Boy Blue's a big girl now." Every time I hear this song, that line stays with me all day. Not sure of its relevance but the song probably came from the strain of so many albums in so short a time and all the touring, and drugs....
There is only one guitarist in Sabbath, Tony Iommi was notorious for doing multiple overdubs especially in the 70's. Tony played variations of these songs live, that captured the essence of the song, there was no other guitar players live. You should check out a few 70's live tracks from this era. You won't be disappointed in Tony Iommi!
Tony Iommi also played the synthesizer, but they did use extra keyboardist in concert like Don Airy and Gerald Woodruffe in concert. All guitars were Tony Iommi....
My favorite song by my favorite hard/heavy rock band. The lyrics, keys sprinkled in, Tony on fire, the time changes, Geezer and Bill killing it. Come on…
if you're curious check out this track LIVe at California Jam and on Don Kirshner's rock concert. It's Iommi without the overdub tracking but still AWESOME! Geezer, and Ward crushing it too.
Thanks for this reaction - so appropriate, too! I first saw Sabbath in September 1977 in San Diego at the Sports Arena on their Sabbath Bloody Sabbath tour. Killer song - one of their best!
a peak Sabbath song. Always fun to see you hearing it the 1st time. Geezer was lyrically killing it on this album, you guys should read the lyrics on your 2nd go round on any of the songs. Really everything was clicking on this, the writing, music, musicianship, the singing ... it was one of their best albums. And Tony always brought it live, one guitar, even on these songs from this album. He just picked the most important part to play throughout the song. There are live versions floating around youtube, I think they did some of these songs at California Jam.
The thing that is so great about this album is that they really got their shit together and focused on writing amazing music. Everybody in the band is serious man!!! People who put down this album just aren't getting it!!!!??
This whole album takes me back to High School and the parties we used to play this at, not to mention hearing this at their concerts and l went to a lot of their concerts ✌️😝🎶
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This is one of my favorites that doesn't get played enough, also Lord of this World! There is an official video on RU-vid showing them play this song live and It's black and white and they are all real young. Just them four! No extras
There is an awesome live version of this here on YT from the "California Jam'74" festival.It's a good look at Iommi's genius for doing even the most layered guitar parts live.
Geoff Nicholls played some second guitar live with Sabbath but only on the Post Dio line ups and on the reunion tours, he was mainly employed as a keyboard player before that it was all Iommi, studio and live before that
Tony Iommi was big on recording multiple tracks and solos over solos. If you play two completely different solos in the same key it works. Live you just pick the highlights and make it work.
As far as the "extra" guitars they just rehearse the live version to play differently. The sound & excitement of Sabbath Live means you don't miss anything. Best concert I ever saw- Sabbath & Blue Oyster Cult, 70s I guess. The Black and Blue Tour! Goddam music was fun back then!
When played live, the guitarist has pedals that will record riff, rhythm, power chords etc. Si it sounds like several at once. Still takes extraordinary skill to do all this. Echoplex.
I don't know your names forgive me, guy on left rants about number of guitars being played, guy on right with big smile replies with one word... YES. Made my day.
Live back in the day it was far more raw and grittier. Later Iommi had a guy off stage on keyboards and guitar fills to fill in the gaps where possible. Also, before this album got going they all had writers block. They decided to record in a supposed haunted castle, writers block melted away. It gets better on Sabotage.
In the 70s, Sabbath would perform the songs live without backing tracks or backstage musicians and adjust the songs accordingly. After 1980, they incorporated a back stage keyboard player (Geoff Nichols) who could play rhythm guitar parts while Tony was soloing. If you want to hear how they performed this live...pull up the video of Cal Jam 1974 concert.
They have a keyboard player in the background that fills in on alot of the rhythmic parts when Iommi solos. Geoff Nicholls was with them for years. They definitely multi track parts for a fuller sound on albums.
I told you guys would dig this album!!! Everybody would give me crap saying you guys wouldn't like it! The music is too good not to love thanks guys!!!!!!
Yes, they've used backup guitarists and keyboard players for their live shows, it's common with 4 piece bands. It's no big deal as long as they don't pull what Motley Crue and KISS pulled onstage.
They did this live often. Iommi could do great intelligent solos with Butler holding the riff together while Iommi was soloing. There is an excellent example of this on YT, if you check out Don Kirshner's Rock Concert TV show from 1975, you'll see they opened with this song. On albums, it's not more than one person. It is Iommi overdubbing multiple solos of himself.
What a way to start a Monday off with some Sabbath and Skynyrd. Thank you La/Che great reaction. They do this song live saw them in 74 Cal Jam keep on doing what you are doing…
In the studio the guitars are over dubbed, in the live setting around this time the solo's take priority. There are live recording of this song from this era.
Guy's, another great reaction, but it's Sabbath I didn't expect anything else. I've just quickly looked at the set list for the last tour back in 2019 they didn't play this track live. I should have known as I saw them on this tour but couldn't be sure. Keep the Sabbath coming dudes.
Sabbath does use overdubs in the studio but live, Tony is a master of playing the riffs and switching to lead, while usually Geezer Butler keeps the groove going on the bass. They just simplify the sound a little bit so the live versions do sound a bit different than the album versions on a song like this. There is also a live version with different lyrics performed before the song was finalized.
When Tony Iommi plays live he usually will stick to the primary lead sound on the solos. And it is So loud live that it just sounds great. But yes, he has to do different takes of solos and mix them together to get those sounds on the album, which is brilliant in it's own right, because he could have just been satisfied with one solo and it would have still sound great. But for him to take the time to think about and create all that just to make the album sound better to him is brilliant!!!!
this is one of those songs that can't be reproduced live in its studio form. tony does multiple parts in the studio, but he has to leave some parts out, or otherwise modify the arrangement to make it work live. zeppelin did the same thing with some of their songs.
Check out the Live at Last album. It’s played live on there. Kinda of a bootleg official release. Not a great live recording. Released 35 years after by there old label. They have no control over non of these records. All Tony on all the over dubs.
Great song, the next song may even be better. The next album (Sabotage) may even be better, if not at least just as good. La and Che should create a poll for a live Sabbath reaction. I would nominate the song Dirty Women, from The Last Supper DVD. It's so much better live...
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VDm8ZGd2bEQ.html This is how they sounded Live.. at least for this performance. Stripped down a bit but equally awesome!
Iommi and Page usually just stick to the meat of the solo and improvise as they go. Luckily, both of those rhythm sections are so dominant they can riff right over it with no one noticing or caring .
Always cracks me up yeah man only one guitar player and yes, he overdubs at many guitars as he wants with different things when it comes to live. It’s still only my guitar player obviously can’t play all those parts so what you do is the most memorable or important parts during the live performance. And the part you referring to is the solo when you’re playing live when it comes to the solo, you have provide it anyways, and just hit the key points from the record
They don't use extras. Tony does 2 takes for the solo's and does each one a little different. Live....you can't even tell that he's only playing one of the solo's.Still sounds great.
Tony overdubbed many guitar tracks to get that sound, live it was a bit more hollow but still good. Loving the Sabbath reviews, guys, but wish you’d get back to some of the Older RUSH, you guys are missing out on some fantastic stuff!
