Brian May and Tony Iommi play Black Sabbath's Paranoid 

I find it especially funny how Brian kept his hair long while Freddie cut it down short, Roger cut it kind of short, and how John cut it short and then let it puff out like a cotton ball lol.

It truly is impressive, maybe their greatest achievement.

Let’s talk about how conditioned their fretboards are 😂

@@stalwartzero7001 yeah I wonder what hair conditioner they've been using

And Brian's is so good his wife copied it

It's really sweet to see

And that’s the power of music.

Doing something you enjoy together with your friends wind down your age, especially jamming.

It's not about age. It's about the ability and the love of music

Because we never really grow up. Our bodies fail us

This is a great way to put it. I remember for a long time thinking that Eddie Van Halen was impressive but cliche, and I only realized when he died that the reason his sound seemed cliche to me is that the next 10 years of electric guitar was defined by people trying, and failing, to sound like him, and I just wasn't alive to have known that he really came first. Tony is much the same, a whole genre of guitarists trying to come up with riffs this straightforward and great for decades to come.

None of his riffs sound cliche to me. When I listen to songs like Eletric Funeral and how heavy it is, I’ve looked over at my wife and said “Isn’t it amazing how heavy this is for something written in the late 60s, early 70s? It sounds so heavy and modern.” No one has come close to sounding like a Iommi riff imo. Not even the slow sludge of New Orleans

He is the greatest guitar player of all time !!

He’s the archetype, like how Al Capone sounds like a cartoon mobster but instead its metal

Always consider it a little unfair that only 3 bands get named in pioneering heavy metal, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. I think Budgie also deserve a mention.

I'd pay 2. 1 for each of them

3 tickets!

well you just watched it for free, will you be donating? ;)

@@christopher.knight nope

To my mind, the greatest author and performer of solos.

Don't short sell like that! LOL 🤘

Incredible the May’s performance!

I love how it’s so iconically Paranoid, but as soon as May comes in I can only hear Brighton Rock.

Best fuckin jam I've witnessed. 2 absolute behemoths😊

It's kind of weird that it's always the throw-away track that ends up as the most iconic.

Paranoid is a legitimate and literal "filler". Over time, "filler" became a derogatory term for a song people didn't like, implying "oh, I don't like this song, they must have wrote it to fill out the album". Only songs written to fill an album are fillers. Paranoid is one and so another legendary heavy metal smash hit, You've Got Another Thing Coming by Judas Priest.

Tommy??

@@CB-xr1eg Tony + Iommi = Tommy

@@LPChipi Only in your world matey.

yeah well i read some astronomy and play a bit of guitar too, mmkay?!

@@emelle1283 yeah? how's your doctorate coming along?

Doctor Sir Brian? Sir Doctor Brian? Sir Brian PHD?

@@Templar462 That's what she said. HAAAAAAAAAAH!

​@@flavorlessdenial8271Sir will always come first in a title, it's usually in order of importance for example the great Sir Prof. Martyn Poliakoff

I wonder if that was improvised on the spot or if he had something on his mind already, maybe even practiced before.

Yes! And his tone was STELLAR here. Need a full version asap

@@Puschit1definitly improvised.

Simply brilliant❤

It sounded amazing. The genius of being able to join in and have it sound even better is incredible. I don't know if this is something practiced, I suspect more likely that Brian has played that riff before, likely even played around with it looking for something that could be his.

He never struck me as a guy who would quit rock n roll :)

They made them different back then

Oh the inimitable sound of that Red Special! That was great!

Prosthetics?​@@-NemoMeImpuneLacessit

The dark Black Sabbath sound was born because Tommy had to downtune his guitar due to the accident. However, at that times, they didn't labeled themselves as an "heavy metal" band, they defined their sound as an heavy dark blues. The "heavy metal" term was created in the 1982 by a Kerrang journalist

Paranoid Bohemians

They’d call the tour The March of the Black Queen

Queen's Sabbath?

@@timportsmouth5406 I was going to use the same reference lol😅

HELL YESSS!!!

Tony and Rick Wakeman also

Brian did the solo on the Black Sabbath song when death calls and played on Tony Iommi’s song goodbye lament.

Saw Tony Iommi at a Q&A a couple of years ago. Someone asked if there was record to be made and he said that they've been talking about it for about ten years😂

Please do it. Emerson and Wakeman talked about a record for years and never got to it, and now...

At the end of this episode, they're chatting about Brian asks Tony how many unused riffs he has. Tony replies "hundreds" and Brian says "we should make an album together using those riffs".

Maybe 30 years ago, but today they are past it, they should put down the guitar's, take their dhiareea medication and go to bed

Ditto

Absolutely true.

That was extremely arrogant of Brian to do. My God!!! Have some respect for your fellow musician.

I'd pay good money to watch them tear it up.

Yeah can you imagine those in the same band

Wouldn't go that far brotha

🤨

They clearly are iconic

@@user-bs3mq1sr6d are you kidding ... I mean May's sound is instantly recognisable and he was recently voted No1 in Guitar World ... The guy is a lengend

@@user-bs3mq1sr6d Paranoid (the album) is by many considered one of the seeds for the heavy genre in its entirety. Brian May has been cited as a major inspiration by a shit-ton guitarists including Slash and Angus Young.

Yeah, especially with When Death Calls, I wonder why they rarely acknowledge it.

Headless Cross is honestly a great album. Needs some more love.

​@@fullmetalguy8357becuase hes a highly accomplished musician and accidemic who was probably just playing on friends albums and didnt care.

When Death Calls is fucking awesome.

Thank you , I did not know this !

I was actually thinking the opposite. Theres too much difference in distortion. Brians is slightly to clean in my opinion.

That can be fixed easily. I disagree however. @@user-rj9pc9px8n

@@user-rj9pc9px8n Both had similar signal chains when starting out-higher-winding single coil PUPs (Burns Tri-Sonic for Brian, P-90s for Tony), treble booster to hit the front end of the amp hard and tighten low end (Dallas Rangemaster), with the main difference being the amps used. The Vox AC30 Brian's famous for (the non-Top Boost version) is somewhat brighter than the Laney amps Tony used when starting out. As a stereo spread, it's killer for multitracking riffs and rhythm parts.

@@user-rj9pc9px8n you have to keep in mind their pickups are very different and are gonna effect the gain the most, but in this case it blends really well

As soon as May joins in, though, it sounds like Queen. No surprise really I suppose!

Both based their sound off the Dallas Rangemaster treble booster. I'm guessing it is a Rory Gallagher thing.

​@@mojobag01 and the fact that his guitar was homemade and he plays with a coin instead of a pick

It sure is! So is Riff Master’s sound. Unmistakable.

Yep very unique 😊

@@mojobag01I recall in an interview that Brian May was a Rory Gallagher fan and asked how he got his sound. Maybe it was the rig rundown he did.

yeah but what about little miss walk and talk @2:23 ... WTF was that

@@sodapopjenkins they have to include a female for reasons, im surprised Alison Hammond wasn't in the Room, claiming to be a huge fan of Sabbath

@@sodapopjenkins I think this is a snippet from some longer video yet to be released? would be my quess

Couldn’t agree more. Such modesty it was hilarious!

I heard Brighton Rock!

YES!!!! That is EXACTLY the thought that ran through my head!!! It was so very CLEARLY Brian May playing that -- even if I had just been listening and not watching, it would've been so easy to tell.

​@@LMacNeillI could recognize that tone anywhere

@@kevhead1525Yes! And I also heard Now I’m Here, Live At Wembley ‘86, second night, but it’s definitely more Brighton Rock.

@@LMacNeill Yes, May has such a signature, smooth sound. In my humble estimation, Brian is the all-around greatest guitarist of all time. Tony Iommi or James Hetfield perhaps deserve to be known as the greatest riff-makers of all time. But Brian is amazing. He too came up with some killer, immortal riffs, and as far as I'm concerned, the smoothest, most delicious lead work I've ever heard. The best thing about May's solos, I feel, is that he was never, that I've ever heard, at any point trying to show off, noodling or as I have called it at times, "musical masturbation". His solos always seems to fit the song, it wasn't just him taking time out to show how good he was, like most guitar solos (especially in metal) are. His solos were always an extension of the song, and felt like they were helping tell the song's story.

Getting riled up means getting mad. Choose a word that makes sense.

@@CB-xr1eg I'm fully aware of what 'getting riled up' means. I chose to use it because the feeling I felt was very energetic and aggressively taking over when I didn't expect it. Saying "something 'stirred' inside me..." is too passive to describe what I felt. Perhaps I could've described it this way: "May's impromptu solo instantly conjured a violent chaos of euphoria inside my guts, that quickly spread over my body, leaving only a lingering sensation of wild excitement." But I feel that is needlessly poetic for a RU-vid comment and thought what I said would get my point across in a much more economical manner.

@@karililjendal So you're aware that riled up means to get angry, but you chose to ignore that and use it to describe different feelings? No wonder the English language is going down the pan with so many people on social media misusing words or misspelling them.🙄

@@CB-xr1eg I'm sorry to offend you with my use if the English langage! I didn't think my comment would attract a grammar Nazi here. In all seriousness this might be because English is not my first language. Although I'm fully fluent and would not admit freely to posessing many weaknesses when it comes to the English language, sometimes I misassociate certain words, likely because I don't have innate connection with them. Then again, the word 'riled' also means to make water turbulent or muddy. I'd argue that it fits this context quite well, since I was describing my insides being off balance. In any case, you can see that my command of English is just fine, as I have in fact shown more expert usage of the language than the person correcting me. Which shows what a useless comment I'm spending my time writing.

@@karililjendal So, first you use the excuse that English is not your first language, then you say that your command of English is just fine. You do seem confused. But, your misuse of the word "riled" is proof that your command of English is definitely *not* fine, far from it. So you think your use of English is more expert than mine? I have never claimed to be an expert, but perhaps you could show me proof of that?

I was thinking the exact same thing while watching this! Simply incredible!

Thats a cool story. I always wondered what people thought when they first heard black sabbath, into the void or the wizard back then. Probably shit themselves. Like watching the exorcist when it first came out!

Imagine talking rubbish, they made completely different music, it's like comparing cliff Richard to machine head

Dude that's exactly what crossovers are all about xD

It's got a touch of Brighton Rock to it for sure.

Most religions start with sacrilege...

Очень плохо и грязно сыграно. Как новички

BRIAN*

@@CB-xr1eg oops!

@@SERVEewerIDOLonEWERknees the Special Red is Heaven 😉😄

@@SERVEewerIDOLonEWERknees oh! I get your point... You get mad if somebody uses religion expressions even if those are figures of speech 🥰🥰🥰 I don't know if Heaven exists, but bitter people do exist for sure. And being sour for the use of certain words has to be like living in your own hell... Sorry for using a word that represents something that doesn't exist... again. Have a lovely day, if love exists. Bye.

Thank Rory Gallagher for Brian's tone. May even says so himself.

I’m pretty sure Brian contributed a solo to either the Headless Cross or Cross Purposes albums during Sabbath’s Tony Martin era! That’s how I first heard of their friendship!

That friendship is why Tony was on stage for basically the whole show at Freddy Mercury's memorial concert. Other big names cycled in play for a song or two, but Tony Iommi stayed out there, playing along with Brian.

Make sure you check out Rock Aid Armenia, and also Freddie tribute concert then! You see them playing together which is awesome

Watch The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, their version of I Want It All with Roger Daltrey is Amazing

​@@ramram-td1jl oh snap just saw this, said the same thing

These guys are not legends, they’re gods! ;) But yes, Brian and Tommy have been talking about their common jamming work for us, but alas, we haven’t been blessed by their work just yet.

Brian did the solo for When Death Calls on the Headless Cross album. That’s probably the closest we have.

They have played together on songs. Mostly for Sabbath and Tonys solo work.

​@@ApophisTw0Thousand6309 They also worked together on one of Tonys solo albums. It was on the 2000 album "Iommi". Best IMO on album is the Phil Anselmo and Tony track called "Time is mine".

Smile?

@@pablomalaga4676 Before there was Queen, there was Smile (Brian May, Roger Taylor and Tim Staffell )

That's a myth. Its actually a custom made copy. Brian has probably no less than 12 of these guitars. May still has the guitar his father made however. There are lots of interviews where Brian explains.

@@thefrogking481 Brian *does* still use the original, handmade-homemade Red Special - the others are backups and for alternate tunings. And *sometimes* he uses one of the copies through whole concerts if “Lady Red” (aka The Old Lady or The Fireplace) herself needs more maintenance attention than can be done on the spot. Brian also *sells* Red Special copies from his own guitar company BMG (Brian May Guitars)

how much was it back then?

Like I remember! Three bucks? Dont

Think more than thT

I discovered Paranoid through my best friend's older brother, who picked it up the year it came out. I was twelve, and that album got A LOT of play in their basement. I remember he also had In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Those were the days...

I discovered Paranoid through my best friend's older brother, who picked it up the year it came out. I was twelve, and that album got A LOT of play in their basement. I remember he also had In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Those were the days...

It's funny. I was obsessed with classic rock when I was about that age. Now I've just turned 30 and my tastes have moved to a lot of different places. Zeppelin I never listen to anymore, and once in a while I'll put on some Hendrix. But Sabbath is always in rotation no matter what.

​@luke5100IVF man. Look into it 👍🏻 worked for us

As I walk down the highway all I do is sing this song

Absolutely disagree, we’re in the golden age of guitar music. You just won’t find it on the radio.

Your profile pic almost got me ngl

That's not an SG at all. It's a John Birch

Its actually a 1:1 replica of the original monkey sg made by SG lou an American luthier first used on the 13 album

I love it when he casually pushes his glasses back further up on his nose bridge as his rock star move instead of anything flash.

Lou Reed was that for me. Unexpectedly, shockingly scintillating.

@@ontheruntonowherehe wrote simpler stuff on purpose probably so it’d be easier to play no matter how drunk or high he is

i must ask...how was it? to hear a song like Paranoid on those times, how people reacted?

@@saykdos well from what I remember it was definitely a lot different than what most radio stations were playing at the time. We were definitely entering a new era for rock music back in the early 70s. So many famous bands got their start back then it was a wonderful time hearing them when they were current and not 45-50 years later as classic.

@@Tom-ok2rh damn that must have been awesome...thank you for your answer! 🤘

I love all Queen, but those first 3 albums had riffs that would've been right at home on a Sabbath album.

I was at that Sabbath show too but I was 15.😜

I dont think Richie Blackmore joining in would be sacrilege... Just saying. Gods could you imagine it....

@@sugarnads funny snippet from Blackmore about Brian May “great guitar player and just one of the nicest men in the business… he’s a bit too tall … but he can’t help that “ Look up “Ritchie Blackmore about Queen and Brian May“ for the full thing.

Nah, Guitar heaven was a Santana album, not Brian's

Brian*

I was thinking exactly the same thing. And was fascinated to see how well Brian's "Queen" style of solo overlaid the original riff

Go listen to the Starfleet Project. Its basically just Brian May and EVH having a jam battle.