One of the reasons I love Black Sabbath so much is because even their unfinished/unreleased “demos” are better than stuff from other bands that’s polished and officially released for airplay.
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We can dispense with whether or not Jeff Fenholt was really in Black Sabbath, whether or not he's an asshole, and all that. Can we simply agree he's pretty fucking good on these demo tracks?
Blues Minot scales with some chromatic walkdowns...simple as can be. This riff sounds like it was a Blackmore rip off ...would have been right at home on perfect strangers.
OK, I just have to come out and say this. This song has been my guilty pleasure for the past two weeks. I love how Jeff Fenholt sang this because it doesn't sound like a Black Sabbath singer, it sounds like something else that is so wrong but so delicious at the same time. It's like listening to outtakes of amazing guitar solos that didn't make the final cut but that still resonate deep within your heart. Let it be known that this and the other 2 Fenholt audition tracks have been added to a RU-vid playlist I made ESPECIALLY for this audition. They're so good, even the "demos" are amazing! I love you, Black Sabbath.
Ohhhh-oh Pages of past, Let my spirit flow, From the ancient land, From the coming of the dawn, Visions of the door Star of india Hmmm I can feel the start, The scorchin' of the sun, Faces cold and gray, And my life has just begun, oh Visions of the door Star of india Yea Oh-ho In the rivers of the day Flow like riders on the dawn...drowning One who turns from prayers My life has just begun Star of india Oh yea Star of india Shape Ahhh Feeling my love Take my love take Iommi?:(shut me off) Call me from the pain I can shade my eyes some. Let my star turn to lead Visions of the door Star of india Oh no Star of india Oh yeah I saw a blindin' light It lead me through the night I found the stairway to the star Could this be god i see The place i really hold to me I found the stairway to the star Star of india Star of india
Ozzy was good for the original sabbath stuff, but they were getting bored, and in constant disagreement with each other, they're had to be a split. The first solo Ozzy shit actually worked though. Guys like Fenholt and Ian Gillan are real singers though, they both played the part of Jesus in JCS.
"Iommi went on to say that he thought Fenholt had a good voice, but it didn't work, due to Fenholt having difficulty improvising any coherent lyrics during jam sessions." That sounds about right.
Possibly, maybe, but this a demo! Listen to Joshua's Surrender Rockin' The World! Have any issues with these lyrics and production? Seven years ago and you're out of it! I Won't have to see you in heaven! See you in the LIGHT Jeff Fenholt!
That's an utterly childish motivation. How could somebody ever be supposed to be improvising lyrics? It sounds like he claimed that a vocalist, to be called that, should fire off random lyrics with no sort of logic. Lyrics must be studied, analysed and eventually written before someone sings them, in order for that bunch of words not to remain what I just said they are. It's called basic syntax, you will study it in elementary school.
I saw Jeff Fenholt preach in our church decades ago he said he sang for Black Sabbath... This is the first time that I heard him sing for them. I believed him then...but had my doubts until now.
i read his book of his testimony from darkness to light. what an amazing testimony. all praise to Yaweh God the father. heaven an earth may pass away but Jesus words will remain forever. i like this song. it could swimg eitherway .
A Sabbath album with Fenholt would have been cool- though probably much the same as we got anyway with big voices like Dio, Gillan, Hughes and Tony Martin..
Ohhhh-oh Pages of past, let my spirit flow, from the ancient land, from the coming of the dawn, visions of the door Star of India Hmmm I can feel the start, the scorchin' of the sun, faces cold and gray, and my life has just begun, oh Visions of the door Star of India yea oh-ho In the rivers of the day Flow like riders on the dawn...drowning One who turns from prayers my life has just begun Star of India Oh yea Star of India shape ahhh feeling my love Take my love take Iommi?:(shut me off) Call me from the pain I can shade my eyes some. Let my star turn to lead Visions of the door Star of India Oh no Star of India oh yeah I saw a blindin' light It lead me through the night I found the stairway to the star Could this be god I see The place I really hold to me I found the stairway to the star Star of India Star of India
Jeff Fenholt (Original Star of "Jesus Christ Superstar") had an awesome voice. I refer everyone to his Testimony on RU-vid. He addresses his time with Black Sabbath and his reasoning for not staying with them at the end of it.
From Google, not sure if these are 100% accurate lyrics Pages of past, Let my spirit flow, From the ancient land, From the coming of the dawn, Visions of the door Star of india Hmmm I can feel the start, The scorchin' of the sun, Faces cold and gray, And my life has just begun, oh Visions of the door Star of India Yea Oh-ho In the rivers of the day Flow like riders on the dawn...drowning One who turns from prayers My life has just begun Star of India Oh yea Star of India Shape Ahhh Feeling my love Take my love take Iommi?:(shut me off) Call me from the pain I can shade my eyes some. Let my star turn to lead Visions of the door Star of India Oh no Star of India Oh yeah I saw a blindin' light It lead me through the night I found the stairway to the star Could this be god i see The place i really hold to me I found the stairway to the star Star of India Star of India
@husq48 Yes he did I used to watch him, He also played His role in Jesus Christ superstar, But I think he is a great singer with an awesome life story. He once asked us to pray for Iommi, which I and others did.
wow! i've heard everything Sabbath there is, or so I thought. guy sings really well. little lackluster in the writing department but it's a demo after all.
TheTaskmaster 3 years later and I thought I'd heard pretty much everything too. Clearly not! Think I like this more than the album track, and I like the album track a lot 😬
Jeff's voice was given to the glory of God....but his vocal ability is in top 1% comparable to ANY OF THE GREATEST ROCK VOCALISTS OF ALL TIME!!!! IN FACT, SUPERIOR!!!!
Definite evidence and proof Jeff Fenholt worked with Black Sabbath on the Seventh Star album. "Fenholt says several of his melodies were used in songs that appeared on Seventh Star (and subsequently did not receive credit for them)." Sounds about right! Use other musicians to write an album, then fire them, but keep some of their ideas. 7Th Star just happens to be one of my very favorite Sabbath albums.
C'mon y'all! Fenholt's not a prick and he's not acting like he was "never with Sabbath because of his current position". I've met Jeff and he's a great guy. Now unless you consider session recordings to mean that some artist was "with" the band, then Jeff was never "with" Sabbath. However, Jeff ALWAYS says how much he respects Iommi and how he truly enjoyed his time working with him and what a great artist Iommi is. So please quit hatin', y'all ok? What good does it ever do to hate? Hate Satan!
jeff fenholt was a dynamic singer and the first guitarist of blacksabath he said no...he would not sell soul it was inthe contract ...i read it otherwise its hard to believe...jeff because of his tallent has made a normal living and is still a musician..and does some christian music also...he is everybit as good as toni iomi
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Very impressive! I honestly think Iommi settled for second best with Glenn Hughes. Fenholt has a greater vocal range and his vocals on this track are on a par with the late Ronnie James Dio IMO.
Jeff was already a televagelist when he auditioned for Iommi. I guess he thought he needed "Sinner Street Cred", which he didn't need since he was having an affair with a 95 year old sugar moma who gave him a million dollar painting. I think it was a Salvidor Dali. But the real money isn't in music, its in tele-Jesus. Fenholt claimed once that he was THE singer for Black Sabbath, not A singer for BS. Mendacity seems to be a Protestant trait, as well TV Crimes.
Later ill be "...hear the call of the Seventh star..". Great song in whatever demo or final release, and what good voice of Fenholt. I think that the Hughes "Seventh Star" its better only beacuse its he who sing and the precious intro.
Not really. Fenholt was never in Sabbath. Remember that Seventh Star was initially an Iommi solo project. Fenholt's contributions can be debated with regards to that solo endeavor, but not whether or not he was in Sabbath...because he wasn't. Besides...Seigler already knew about these tracks; I'm not posting anything an extreme diehard Sabbath fan wouldn't already know about...it's just that some have never heard them.
Considero una versión mejor que la definitiva de Seveth Star. La voz de Fenholt se aproxima mucho a la de Glenn Hughes , se destaca mucho más y como interactua con el solo
This isn't too bad. He has decent pipes. That being said, I think Tony made the right move ditching Jeff bringing in an experienced professional like Glenn Hughes, even with Glenn's baggage. The official album with Glenn sounds great, and his voice completes it. Too bad he was out of Shape from binging on Mars Bars and blow, then got punched in the face for being a dick at beginning of the tour.
lol that is great! it is true...i really cant understand what this guy is saying. you can tell it is english but you cant understand the words he is saying.
This album was supposed to be a solo album for Iommi it only became a Sabbath album after Glenn Hughes came on board wrote coherent lyrics and reworked all of the vocal melodies so Fenholt not only wasn't in Sabbath he doesn't have the right to say his contributions went uncredited. He has no contributions on the final result and he's your typical hypocritical evangelist looking to capitalize on anything he can. Still not a bad singer though
