BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video) 

They probably did. I assume cracks actually formed in the earth beneath their feet.

I'd like to imagine some kid sitting in his bedroom in 1970, and this suddenly came over the radio…..everyone within ear shot hugged their cross necklaces tight: they probably thought the radio was possessed by a demon from hell.

Well kind of, there was plenty of heavy stuff beforehand. Example: Helter Skelter from the Beatles is pretty damn heavy. This didn't come out of nowhere, Metal or Hard Rock has a long history

@@DarthLore00 Helter Skelter? Please, lol. You're comparing apples to gold dipped oranges. Try again.

@@JarOfMoMack Why isn't it a fair comparison? Its by today's standards heavy, its a heavy song especially for 1968, I'm not saying its Metal but it was really innovative for the time. If you're asking for another comparison, well to me the first artist who paved the way for Metal was Hendrix, his use of tritones, guitar feedback and heavy riffs are the birth of metal music. Voodoo Child or Purple Haze are pretty good examples. I know its debatable, but that''s just my take. Don't know why what I said was laughable tho? Black Sabbath definitely were pioneers in aspects such as the overall gloomy atmosphere but they weren't the huge cultural shock they're made out to be by some people, I would say Hendrix was far more alien to audiences then Black Sabbath ever were. By then people had experienced some pretty heavy stuff. Btw this isn't an attack on Black Sabbath I absolutely love them and their music, without Hendrix the evolution to Metal would've taken longer is all I'm saying.

LoL no doubt absolutely savage

Dead 😅😅

I laughed so hard at this comment 😂😂❤️

Not anymore kid. Not anymore 🤣

beating them like they owe him money

lmao

amazing even when isolated

Lmao! Yes, indeed, Ward fuken rocked!!!!

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He was having an acid trip and thought the drums were the heads of fire breathing dragons, his only solution was to beat them to death.

Every single kind of metal on the planet Earth felt that as if the entire world shook.

He was wrecking it on drums. Amazing.

Absolutely! This song is still relevant today. I wonder how many young people heard this in the 70's and asked for a drum set for Christmas. I'll never forget the first time hearing Black Sabbath for the first time in the 70's.

Drumming hard to conjure images of bombs and combat. Awesome.

Lol

They died for the cause

😄

Imagine if you owed Bill money and he threatened to hit you like his drums if you didn't pay up.

Was gonna like this comment but don’t wanna mess it up

They were cremated and buried after the show...

Back to the future*

I’m from Taiwan and my father actually told me this lol

I've never been a super huge Sabbath fan....I guess I'm just a bit too young to have gotten bit by that bug. In fact, I'd never even seen a video of them live before. But jesus fucking christ! The power and soul and intensity here is mesmerizing. No wonder parents were scared shitless when they heard their kids listen to this! I can imagine how horrifying this must have been to uptight conservative people back in the day. Just beautiful....

Quite sadly they/we don’t love it enough my man

@@avedic yeah dude I’m 24 and never been into this shit but this shit is awesome lol

Haha yeah. There was like one nice shot where his fingers were just flyin though...

It's a fucking shame, I would absolutely love a dedicated bassist cam, especially for led zeppelin concerts. Oh well

Right. No Butler, no Entwistle, no Jones,....

Ehm no.. SID VCIOUS

Tony Palmer seems to really like them

bill is the most under-appreciated member.

@@lancashirebomber9744he truly is brother, long live Bill

Bill's free flowing sense of timing that just brings the chaos of the metal together in such an artful way just sells this band as one of the greatest of all time. Neil and Ginger are great but Bill just is something else.

ahahaha literally, crushed the drums :P

I totally agree!!

6) every squeaker moms

@@oomphlagwumpla650 1) pantera domitation breakdown

@@holeesheeetgonzalez or breakdown of Dead Embryonic Cells by Sepultura 😂

"Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath from the self-titled album, "Black Sabbath".

69) Nice

Sabedoria😉😎

Dan Rockefeller Good.

I bet they broke after the next concert

His symbols are just really loose

😬😂😂

That so fucking raw!

22 22 22 21 I fixed it for you sir

I'm 23 and I put bananas' tags on my head.

actually ozzy was 22 not 21 and same for some of the others

The band should have been call We Killed The 60’s

True 👍

Nor the sticks

this rare live version was half step down tuned. its the natural tuning and hence why it sounded so great. The elitists don't want us to know and force us to heer the standard 44o hz crap on the albums..

They created metal. Gods on earth. Best musical genre by a far

​​@@flowrepins6663 Zeppelin was doing metal atst. Whole Lotta Love is def metal. So is Immigrant song. But yes I'm also ok w/Sabbath being called the pioneers. I LOVE THEM. And Paranoid is my favorite album by them.

Bill Ward was good friends with John Bonham.

He's a fucking mean ass drummer. Lmao!

ZCAB he's beating the shit out of them

they give pleasure so it's necessary smash them hard!!! YEAHHHHHHHH

I guess he cought that dirty drum kit with his chick

🤘🏻🤘🏻

A jazz trained beast doing heavy loud music is always an awesome experience. I love Bill Ward as much as I love Brian Chase from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Brian went to Juliard to become a jazz drummer and ended up givn'r on one of the best hard rock albums of all time, Fever to Tell. That jazz drumming feel with heavier music just does it for me

Yeah Micheal, what a hero.

@@RabidChasebot That’s exactly like Jimmy Chamberlin later on down the road for Smashing Pumpkins. He was a Jazz trained drummer as well. He is one of the best that has ever lived.

@@Gr13fKvlt I know right? He's one of my favourite drummers of all time right next to Bill Ward and the Juilliard -trained drummer Brian Chase for the Yeah Yeah Yeah's is super underrated as well.

Facts!💪

10000% agree

🤘🤘🤘

...And America hasn't won a war since 1945. NOT ONE.

0% autotune 100% talent 250% heavy metal 1000% drugs *

There's video of the Boys setting up for this show and Bill Ward was nailing his drums to the platform. Lol Otherwise this drum set would've never held up past the intro.

hello !! ....Bill Ward....I think he was on >Speed< that night....72y-old-Hippie-and-Yogi from Austria ☮~el~🕉~mar~✝

He went through many drums, and sticks😂

wtf you talking about?? why its not even a christian country

@@renzoyo7037 in jappanese pornagraphy, the genitals are pixelated or blurred out

Sandip Biswas haha...good one 😆

Ren S Y I usually say the opposite of this: you should watch more porn

You are a fucking legend for this comment!

Drugs fried his brain

@@mmmmm_monke55 Seems like frying is good for singing...

@@Janiski hes a good ass singer man apparently when he fried his brain it helped

He always talked like that, too. It’s not the drugs, it’s Birmingham!

Talks fine to me bro.

No shit. He's a machine

0:01 auhteade wopigs enebapae

Everything is great except the words. Bunch of traitors and cowards.

@@tarstarkusz Says the warmongering DB.

@@chrissygerwitz520 Cowards.

They rang way truer back then when the song came out the Vietnam drafts were going on in the US, the war in Korea was still burning hot and the Bush war was heating up along with many other conflicts

War is as old as mankind..

you're damn right bro

Lmao

+James Clarke yoooo lmao keep the jokes coming like Bill ward kept those drums cumming

+James Clarke it's incredible that at one point that was even a set of drums rip

Can you say carpal tunnel syndrome?

bill wards a beast

it still lives up with the best of them. I listen to it all 70's, 80's, 90's

@@stevearchdekin3474uhh… this was pretty damn revolutionary in 1970

@@stevearchdekin3474 bro respectfully... this fucking shits all over the rest. it's miles and miles heavier than anything anyone was playing under the "rock" category at the time. for something that even began to match the levels of metal Sabbath was coming out with in 1970 they needed 5 to 10 more years to catch up. Fucking Greatful Dead lmao

@@stevearchdekin3474 I love those bands, and I'm not saying this is any better. I actually prefer most of those you listed over Sabath, but this is not the same as those... this is crossing into a brand new genre, it's an evolution that doesn't fit in with the others you mentioned.

It was Bitchen❤

They didn’t call it metal they called it hard rock.. the audience called it metal.. in my opinion this is hard classic rock not no fkn metal..

@@joseluislowe1463 I think he has a point this has a metal vibe to it.

@@joseluislowe1463 bitch, everyone knows Black Sabbath are the godfathers of metal. Stop with your nonsense.

@@dankweedo this is pure hard rock as it gets. this is 1970 black sabbath, played in the same age as Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, the who, rollings stones etc. Maybe later it progressed into a more metal vibe but not here, agree 100% with op's post.

@@joseluislowe1463 What’s metal then?

Honestly no

honestly shut up?​@@adrenalinepsalm6386

​@@adrenalinepsalm6386STOP THE WAR MONGERING OF THIS COUNTRY!!!!!

@@adrenalinepsalm6386the war pigs can’t let that happen

I AM THE WAR PIG​@@Ohms_vs_Draaggs

Truth... They understood the souns Sabbath was trying t😅 convey...unsung hero...great comment

Isn't it great?? I often listen to this because I find it's heavier than the recorded version. Just an incredible wall of sound.

foath

Especially this coming out in the 70’s still mind blowing

Underrated contributors to Rock and Roll!!!

10/10

Not to mention the bass

BATMAN never underestimate Geezer

Ward shows no mercy, those drums screamed for it

I think more like they were fucked.

That's crazyyyyy, cool!

@Case_333 _ but he didn't play dyers eve in 80'

I wouldn't doubt it, the force and energy he played with. Wow!!!

@Case_333 _ back when Lars was good. Sad times.

Q - Back in 1975, you had an oxygen tank by your drums. What was that all about? A - Over the years, I had some medical tests run on me and the energy I used up in a performance. It worked out that I ran the equivalent of 15-20 miles per night. Also, the lights that I was under were nearly 115-120 degrees. When you have to do that every night, I found that one of the things that helped me was to take a couple blasts of oxygen. That helped me to keep my lungs clear and do the job.

Mitch Mitchell, too. You had to be top notch to be in a successful band

And Geezer, greatest bassist ever imo.

Wait, he was using reversed sticks?? That's fucking metal!!

that boy was slapping them drums like they owed him money

Sometimes when other bands cover a song they can clean it up a bit. Watch some of the covers of this song and that is not the case. These guys were at the height of their super powers in this video.

@@eilish3210 4:24

@@stevecraig6350 I heard or read that most bands won't even attempt to cover this song and the few that have and done a decent job used 2 drum sets to handle drums segment. Unreal!

That was Bill Ward. Same thing really

1:55

@@tonytiger2373 I know he did it b4 but at 3:11 it's just dead on time and a little bit better than that first one. IN my opinion.

You're that guy who can sing like Robert Plant

@Pythonn :)

Lol or geezer butlers right hand

Or ozzy’s drugs

@@alexandermorris2421 🤣🤣🤣

“What did I do in my past life, to be beaten with wooden sticks day after day by this coked out hippie?!”

What an honor

Polokus . dude it's war pigs; he's at war with the skins...

Polokus how do I not know, how big of a badass Bill was? I feel like the world has held him from for a reason...I find joy in his violence

Bill's drum kit pressed charges on him for Assault after the show.

It's okay, John Bonham killed that drum set way before Bill could do anything to it. Those drums were already numb to the pain.

Polokus that’s how u raise devil

Yes bro

In 1970 bro smh fucking ahead of time

That opening chord hits you like Gravedigger rolling over a stack of junk Le Sabres.

Fuck yeah bro.

Веини I know it's insane

and such a compact kit...

I think easily as good as Bonzo IMO.

@Valentino Puig 100 fucking % man! 🤙

Masterclass of drums 🔥

@Valentino Puig idk about groovier. Bonzo did some of the best shuffles of all time.

So true.

Great comment, fu prince!

Heaviest shit to Roll through Paris since 40'

When i watch videos like this I sit back and ask: What creates such talent? Why them? Is it fate? Gravity? They’ve practiced their whole lives ata peak level. So have other artists-artists that failed and are inferior. What creates the skill gap?

@@3headedsnake388 "practiced their whole lives" but they were like 20 years old....The right people at the right time at the right place...add determination and practice and more repetition, perhaps a bit of innate skill built in perhaps not. Boom Magic can happen, to some, if they are lucky AND skilled AND determined.

Naxed GT Ay but that's the best part tho right that he's hitting the drums hard?

A normal drumer hits the drums like they want to fuck them. Bill hits the drums like they fucked his girlfriend

If my drums insulted my mother, I'd probably be laughing my ass off!

hitting those drums like Bill beat Hillary for losing the election.....oh Lord now !!!

hahahahahahahah yeahh

+Helium Road totally

Fuck yes

+Helium Road Look at that very basic kit he is playing yet listen to the sounds he is generating. Amazing.

+Filton Kingswood Bill Ward has been my favorite for over 40yrs, he is as you said amazing.

+Richard Moore Maybe because I'm drunk, but as I'm listening to this again, I'm glad he has a simple kit which brings forth excellent sounds and if he had a more elaborate kit it would be to much for our minds to handle.

Same. Just a monster

Likewise. He puts EVERYTHING into this performance. Raw, natural talent. And such a genuine, quietly spoken man.

Him, Keith Moon and John Bonham are three easy contenders as the best drummers of all time.

Bonham,ward and moon were all influenced by Gene Krupa!

@@VX_XIBonham was better than Ward in my opinion; but, man did they ever create the best music rock music we’ve ever had….

True. Bill + Geezer = Great rhythm section

I'd seen drum covers of this song, no one comes close to this.

Bill Ward is the opposite of underrated. He is literally revered by fans and musicians.

John Bonham was legendary too

not in my book ! :D

It's nervous slow heartbeat can be Heard on The Iron Man song at the begining.

Well said I totally agree!

Shut yo ass

Scoundrel 666 SFB that drum set needed a cigarette after this

You know John Bonham actually played bills sets so hard he would break the kit. Ironic since bill isn’t a soft drummer either.

And the people had not heard such dark, powerful sounds before ....

Awesome arrangement

Yeah! Paris was always Paris *

Bill ward really played his ass off.

Generals Gathered In There Masses. just like witches at black masses

Check out Zeps dazed and confused live footage here there's a really dope one on YT

@@abracaroguearcane1484 where did I say it was close? I just said that was also awesome. Dick

Ones a dick and ones a pussy...you two should get together....

@@100Aces hahah fr

one word...cocaine

TheSpock23 right. Fuck this virus and cancelling all my shows

and only leave with beer soaked jeans and a bloody nose if you were lucky!!!!!!!!!!!! hhahahahah

The good old days when attending a concert meant seeing people making music for you right there on the spot...

These days will rise again friends!

Nothing like the good old days! We can enjoy now with out the drugs though. :)

Never has to trim his nails, wish I woulda thought of that

@@stressfacture I got a small part of my pinky severed and unfortunately I still have to trim what remains of the nail. Nail roots run pretty deep! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(anatomy)#/media/File:Human_nail_anatomy.jpg But yeah it seems Tony had his finger clean cut.

Lol and I complain about my short chubby fingers.

He loosened the strings an octave or two, so he could play, which gave him his distinctive sound.

@@neilvandepol2903 Not an octave or 2 (basses are tuned 1 octave below the guitar), but he'd often tune well below E standard.

Early in the song there was a quick, close shot of Geezer from the side. I suspect the guy filming from that side had a camera malfunction right after that. So they did the best they could in the editing room.

The accountant!

He also wrote just about all the lyrics in sabbath if I’m not mistaken

Zach Collins yes he did

Probably cause you can't really hear the bass players

you meant, video tape is the best creation

@@maumiranda2328 very true! RU-vid provides the platform, but it is truly the video tech of the 20th century that made it possible...

Old home videos of Van Halen playing in peoples backyards. Time machine is correct.

@JRSinCT - RU-vid use to be the greatest thing just a little while ago until they started demonetizing pretty much all the good gun channels, cut their money flow while still making money off the same gun channels themselves and went all extreme left wing socialist 2nd amendment hating bunch of Hillary loving snowflakes...... but other than that, yeah RU-vid is pretty awesome :)

@@reachblowsdick7222 please stop drinking paint

Bonham got all the press but Bill was the man..

@@mikepatrick5909 amen

@@mikepatrick5909 Well one reason why Bonham is great is because he's Bonham. But what doesn't get stated enough is that Zeppelin had very talented producers, who had many innovative ways to capture the drum sounds among other creative things. Black Sabbath were poor af when they started out. Check out the time and budget in which the 1st 2 albums of Sabbath were made. You'll be surprised

He is pimp slapping them bitches

acid is one hell of a drug

What's to say? Everyone knows Ozzy is a legend.

@@lockandreload I didn't. I thought he was just another joke reality tv star that my cousin loves to watch. Him and his family are laughed at all the time in my family for that show. I only just recently found out he was one of the heavy metal kings of our time. Blows my mind to see him in this vid and know how pathetic he'll become.

Yep .. he was young and hungry during this time, 22 and those vocal chords were still new. Lol

@@Lamporre HELLO, STILL STRONG @73 YRS. YOUNG❣

Also, no one here is talking about how Ozzy improvised new lyrics for War Pigs in this performance. Can't quite make out everything he sang, but most of the lyrics are totally different from the studio version.

That right there is one of the most insightful quotes I've ever heard about Sabbath's dynamic. It makes perfect sense, and it's a beautiful thing. Thank fuck they existed.

And that they did

And Peart. Don't forget Peart

I used to party with Bill

Totally agree

I'd also throw Mikkey Dee and "Philthy Animal" Taylor from Motorhead in that ring too.

Ian Paice from Deep Purple also deserves some recognition

Don't forget what was happening at the time as well. The Vietnam War.

And World War1 for their gramps.

Fortunately, the judge was a Sabbath fan, and threw the case out of court. However, Ozzie was fined a hundred dollars for 'contempt'. Called the d.a., a 'wanker'.

Lol...no doubt...I think he's the most underrated drummer in rock history...just my opinion

@@frankzito1660 without a doubt... for his era his drumming was fucking fantastic... best mates with Bonham aswell

Damn 666 likes. Nice

Nope. The drums were dead. They couldn't press any charges.

And never will!

Might get banned In Some communist war pig country but the truth cannot be escaped. This band is good. Oh war is bad screw price on freedom.

Nor the lyrics.

lol yes

On the sabbath day

+wipout1 Created by Link Wray, perfected by Iommi.

Pete Townshend send you hugs

+wipout1 And on the eighth, Heavy Metal was born.

😢

🅱️ *ASS* is always forgotten 😞but God damn the drums are phenomenal in this

Paul McCartney and Jack Bruce were the only bass players that cameramen accepted back then.

@@tomwalker8332 fuknArite

Dude was pounding the living shit out of that bass!!!

He’s smashing that lil kit

exactly!!!!!!!!!

"Most people" haven't been on that much acid

I see and I have known a few. You have to be a ambidextrous person for sure. Probably even think with both sides at once .so why doesn't the drummer get famous?ginger Baker?densmore and many more.

@@jimdub8361 An Instrument does not make Music and that little Kit has turned into a huge Kit thanks to those who Play it, remember, it is not the dress that makes the monk.

Cocaine is the shit

@@nicklopez6295 ahahaha

Yes and in the opinion of the woman he looked fucking hot 😍

I thought that came later, when they were doing the Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album and they had rented a place in Bel Air or someplace nearby.

Bill Ward was master at the drums. Underrated

This is before he's got a double bass He's doing all that on one bass drum

@@jackiethedetestator7342 even more fitting cause trump's a sabbath fan

One of my favorite youtube comments right here.

Matters not. For SABBATH/Ozzy are NOT Trump fans. 💅 Also...Gross. @مدمرة المهبل

Sabbath saved my life

Probably the best comment I've ever heard!!!!!

The bass was directly influenced by Vangelis and Afrodites Child

Iommi created metal

these bands were nothing but protesters that appealed to the masses.

The unholy trinity of British Hard rock and Heavy metal!

Ehem pink floyd

Man, I really don't want to imagine what modern Death Metal drummers do then. Or did drum techniques really improve that much? I mean, while guys like Jamie Saint Merat do use a lot more "refined" technique, others like Adam Jarvis really beat up their kits hard.

Anant Raman But what made Bill Ward work so hard when he was playing? Was he just wailing on his kit to get that explosive sound? Were the drums back then not as good at projecting?

Don't forget the drugs, álcool and sex!!!! Lots of it

And a couple qualudes, gallon of booze, 1/4 oz. Of pot, 2 hits of acid, gram of coke and whatever else some groupie happened to have at the time.. Lol

Cocaine usually work's

I watch it so many times in a week. That drumming. ❤

Honestly, every single one of these guys was a master of their craft. All incredible musicians.

HellHoundzz he shined on this album for sure

Or as Henry Rollins put it "The greatest rhythm section in history!

It's close with many others... Rush and Zeppelin's rhythm sections were superior, but yes- Black Sabbath gives them a run for their money any day.

@@skullkrusher4418 ozzy to? Jajaja

Joey Fontenot Yep I agree. Most of my radio stations were not playing this until much later. Hard to believe this was in 1970. Song will kick ass for future generations too

Yes i can

fuck off you condescending prick.

Peoples heads were prolly exploding all over the country

Joey, that's the best comment I've ever read, anywhere.

It will ring true forever

This Is Putin’s War. But America and NATO Aren’t Innocent Bystanders. When a major conflict like Ukraine breaks out, journalists always ask themselves: “Where should I station myself?” Kyiv? Moscow? Munich? Washington? In this case, my answer is none of these. The only place to be for understanding this war is inside Russian President Vladimir Putin’s head. Putin is the most powerful, unchecked Russian leader since Stalin, and the timing of this war is a product of his ambitions, strategies and grievances. But, with all of that said, America is not entirely innocent of fueling his fires. How so? Putin views Ukraine’s ambition to leave his sphere of influence as both a strategic loss and a personal and national humiliation. In his speech on Monday, Putin literally said Ukraine has no claim to independence, but is instead an integral part of Russia - its people are “connected with us by blood, family ties.” Which is why Putin’s onslaught against Ukraine’s freely elected government feels like the geopolitical equivalent of an honor killing.

@@apathy5899 Give it a rest.

@@apathy5899 yeah this is not on who is right more like it's unfair than even to this day we have to witness people dying over the ambition and ego of some dudes that gathered enough power to think themselves as owners of our souls.

@@jlei3967 Putin is basically saying to Ukrainians (more of whom want to join the European Union than NATO): “You fell in love with the wrong guy. You will not run off with either NATO or the E.U. And if I have to club your government to death and drag you back home, I will.” This is ugly, visceral stuff. Nevertheless, there is a back story here that is relevant. Putin’s attachment to Ukraine is not just mystical nationalism. In my view, there are two huge logs fueling this fire. The first log was the ill-considered decision by the U.S. in the 1990s to expand NATO after - indeed, despite - the collapse of the Soviet Union. And the second and far bigger log is how Putin cynically exploited NATO’s expansion closer to Russia’s borders to rally Russians to his side to cover for his huge failure of leadership. Putin has utterly failed to build Russia into an economic model that would actually attract its neighbors, not repel them, and inspire its most talented people to want to stay, not get in line for visas to the West. We need to look at both of these logs. Most Americans paid scant attention to the expansion of NATO in the late 1990s and early 2000s to countries in Eastern and Central Europe like Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all of which had been part of the former Soviet Union or its sphere of influence. It was no mystery why these nations would want to be part of an alliance that obligated the U.S. to come to their defense in the event of an attack by Russia, the rump successor to the Soviet Union

The No. 4 song of 1970 was “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head.” The world was definitely not ready!

You're forgetting this was already a year after Woodstock. We were more than ready.

Haha so true

It's funny- Ozzy was big in the 80s when I was a teen, I never liked him, was more into the hair bands but now I'm 50 and am loving Black Sabbath, guess its never too late. This performance is outrageously good, sounds better than the recorded version.

THIS

If you get a chance, check out Ten Years After and Grand Funk Railroad.

@@ultravenia GFR is so goooood

Probably be around around here and we

I saw them live in 1972. I remember the concert just like it was yesterday! Wink, wink. 😉

@@GoBlue1956 most of the time i dont remember much of yesterday xD congrats if you do :P

I attended almost a dozen of their concerts across the country in the very early 70's, they happened to be in the towns where i was visiting friends. It was like they were following me... Paranoia 🤣

Are you still into metal? I'm about 20 years behind you but hope I'll still be listening to metal (new and old) when I'm 73!

Marc Arndt 😂😂 true

Me 2 man I was born in 200q people our age don't listen to masterpieces like this it's a shame

Lyrics is highly relevant to the times we live in today. Our politicians (war pigs) pushing us closer to war every day.

I was born in 2000 and I’m one of the only people my age who listen to rock between my friends… it’s really a sad thing…

Amen to that

Yup. Ahead of time .

***** they are playing a Heavy Music in the 70's. . . while most people play Hippie songs. And Bee Gees. and Beatles. . . or even presley. Thats why i think they are ahead of time.

+Ohanzee It doesn't sound like music from 1970. If you listen to their first album from 1970 it isn't even that 'heavy' at all. Songs like The Warning, Evil Woman, Behind the wall of sleep etc. are not what anybody would call Heavy metal. It was very different and well ahead of its time.

correct,,, genius is summary enough!

fax even when i was like 7 and didnt understand music nor drums and i knew this guy was good

👍 GREAT !!!👀❤️

Lo tengo en el top 25

Yes. Absolutely yes.

lars Urluch must take lesson

*Greatest song of all time

We um...invented a new genre of music. Hope you like it. 😎

@@michaelsoltesz3779 genre(s)

thankyou very much

Unfortunately it was t flawless but very good nonetheless

Yes! They are just amazing. My favourite rhythm section, damn it! :D

and you are one of the most underated commenters of all time, :D

The best in my opinion. They're not the best musicians for a music critic/ snob, but they are good at what they do together, and hence my favourite Drummer and Bassist.

I think they may be THE most underrated of all time. Bill Ward was a BEAST

Bill ward just thrashed, I love him and Jimmy Chamberlain of smashing pumpkins. Pure energy driving the songs along

Actually, the original lyrics were "Witches gathered at black masses // Bodies burning in red ashes." Look up "Walpurgis" and its lyrics. "War Pigs" is actually a pun on their original song title "Walpurgis". "Black Sabbath" is another name for "Walpurgis", the Christmas of Satanists. The original lyrics to this song were about pagans and priests fighting, and the satanist pagans winning and throwing the priests into the bonfires that the priests created to burn the witches. They sanitized it and made it a modern song about Vietnam war protests, and deleted the origin of heavy metal as a sound, and as something associated with satanism, and the origin of the name of their band itself, as "Black Sabbath" was "Walpurgis".

​@@MattsAwesomeStuff damn

​@@MattsAwesomeStuff dude that's bs

“Day of judgement, God is calling On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging mercy for their sins Satan laughing, spreads his wings Oh lord, yeah!” One of the coldest bars of all time 🥶

@@michaelsuder486 spend 5 seconds to do the research not hard dude.

They were banned from many radio stations in Texas, as "Satanic," (since they were anti-war and anti-imperialist, and the Southern Baptists' "God" loved Him some war)

Two words. Deep. Purple.

Black Sabbath has the heavy, Deep Purple has the speed. Deep purple’s song were 2x faster.

i am from India in 2018 still my friends pants get wet an they wont allow to me play metal... hate them they too scare too listen thissssss.... god save them

Doedsjarl - I'm 59, so I know. We thought they were puffs. DADDLEADDLEADDLEADDDLE oooooh child in tiiiime. Balls. Sabbath were for the hard cases.

Lucky us 🙏

Too bad it’s 480p and looks orange for some reason

I had this before the net on a vhs tape it was a big deal mid 90s too👍

@@bluepeng8895 4K restoration maybe someday

@@bluepeng8895 who cares it's kick-ass either way

I noticed the high hat shit too. Constant movement of Ward's limbs. I can't do that shit.

Fr thats my favorite part

@@Rob-tx4in Your keyboard is obviously broken and malfunctioning and you need to get a new one. At the end of your comment where you meant to type John Bonham, it went haywire and left the words Keith and Moon by accident. You better get that fixed.

I love the half beat hits so much. Hes probably why I hit them as often as I do lol.

@@BradleyVolk3 considering you don't know many words I'm not surprised you can't.

arfer This is heavy metal

Clem Burke's drumming in "Dreaming" would be my personal favorite but thats more pop than rock I guess.

what about Nick Mason? He destroyed that shit altogether

"that shit" refers to the drums. not to that amazing performance of Bill of course

Beat the hell out of me😁

Definitely. The way they captured ozzy when he steps back, with the lighting was incredible. The videography and editing alone was pure art. Paris knew how to film. They didn't capture Geezer enough on this song in particular, but they did capture him throughout the rest of the set.

2:38 and 2:56 is freaking magical.

Yes I was surprised by how many camera angles there were:)

Hell yeah I was thinking the same thing!

I agree and the video/film resolution quality is pretty decent.

What I can’t understand is that they had a big enough following for a concert like this and a film production to capture it. All before Paranoid released

They played in Germany like the Beatles did.

@@croberts55 their debut gets overlooked for some reason. That initial album sent shockwaves through the (at the time) “underground” rock n roll fan base.

@@Spongeboobie Just imagine, going to the vinyl shop and picking up this strange album with some strange woman in front of a house. Putting it on the record player, only hearing stuff like the rolling stones, the beatles, and maybe zeppelin before. And the first sound that comes out of the speakers is thunder, and a church bell, and then those demonic chords. It must have felt absolutely mental.

I love the bangs on some of these fellas..

Turns out, it's the greatest performance caught on film lol

Drugs never gave him the stuffer that’s Birmingham in him.

They had no idea...

Yes, Ozzy we like it a lot. More please!

he wasn't sure people would like it lol

Exquisite comment my man, made my day

XD

🤘

😄😄

Not really inventing, but pioneering none the less.

Damn right about that!

Ozzie's vocals are the greatest of all time. Bill Ward's drumming has never been equaled.

Iommi is the heaviness and the riffs - do not forget about the father of metal

Ajax snare and playing with sticks upside-down

Yeah even the cameraman loves him. Who wouldn't?

Richard Glenn Any source?

the fuck

same here :D

if so, maybe Bill learned early himself?

Alexandre Andrade me too haha

Yeah I was a wee child when Sabbath was touring with this lineup. Until I had seen this vid recently I had no idea Bill Ward could be so insane.

The way that he pounds that kit is incredible. Such a magnificent drummer.

Yeah I come here all the time just hearing the tone and sound and way of how hard he kicks his bass and hits his whole kit really pumps me up

LegacyFilms lol me too!

LegacyFilms ...dudes, I can't play a note to save my life. Doesn't matter one bit, my ears and eyes tell me Mr.Bill Ward is a BEAST! He steals the show. Please God...let me be able to thump on the skins like Ward for one hour. I could die a happy man

Yeah! And while maybe bonham was technically a better player I actually favor ward

If thats true, i fucking love it! I mean, you cant drum better than this, maybe Grohl on Anuerysm or whoever on Mexicola.

Wow! 😊

Actually, he was best man at Iommi's wedding. He did, however, break Bill's kit playing too hard one time :p

I would have thought Ozzy would have been his best man. They were best friends back then iirc.

iambruman If drummers got arrested for “assault to drums”, Ward, Pert and Bonham all would be serving life sentences