War Pigs is an amazing song performed by the perfect group of people that makes it instantly recognizable. It's not about how fast you can play, or how many drum fills you can do, it's about song writing and playing the right parts for the song with the exact tone it needs. That's true talent.
Joel Brown well said. You can find 1000+ guitarists in any city that can shred like there's no tomorrow, but there's only one band that could've written War Pigs. That's where the real talent lies- the composition and tone sculpting.
@@bluepeng8895 nah. I'm a huge beatlemaniac and rock fan, and I can say, no. He did make The sounds more metal-ish but The concept of literal fear in the song comes from this man.
Tony is an engineer of metal. A Brummie ironman if you like. When he lost his fingertips, he changed everything about the strings, guitar and way of playing. He belongs to the top of my list.
“If I didn’t come in with ideas, we’d never have written any songs.” Iommi “He just kept coming in with ideas. Every time I’d think, he’s got to be out by now. He just kept them coming.” Ozzy
Well, the band agrees that most of their songs were like written the moment they've got into the studio. It's what they call a fifth member - demonic being or whatever. They say it in an interview.
@@korpmannen8234 It must be a footage from some sort of an interview. But this documentary is quite long. I think I found it somewhere in the middle of it and it's scarsely put on YT due to copyrights. It's usually in parts. Check the second part.
I saw Sabbath live twice in the seventies. The second time they opened with War Pigs. The opening chord Tony played will stay with me forever at full volume I was in Metal heaven!!
6... to be fair. Everything went to shit from "Technical Ecstasy" onwards. I made the HUGE mistake of buying "Born Again" when it came out in '83_____ utter fucking rubbish!
@@existentiald562 what the fuck dude. You're either an imbecile with no hope to be the opposite or an actual trash human being. Either way, he was just saying that he hopes to see iommi flourish for years to come.
Fredrik Svärd Not even nearly that bad. At least it's got mids, and there are some cool harmonics off some of his chords when he digs in. Still way below par for the Great Lord Iommi tho
It’s cool that a lot of iconic solos were improvised and just the one take of many, but it’s in the audience’s ears that it becomes the only solo we could ever imagine for that song.
William Gregory Black Sabbath has been played out by ourselves and the radio. But, I’ll always remember listening to the Black Sabbath album in my bed at night, being like ‘fuuuuuuuuuuuck yeeeeeeeeeees’
He had to tune his guitar down because it was painful for him to play. I think that he might sound different. Different tunning would sound different and he will develop different ideas. He was and is extremely talented so Sabbath would still be a thing
The most underrated guitarist because no one ever talks about. Just Black Sabbath as a whole. True all of them deserve credit but ever guitarist in hard rock and metal owe tony because Tony wrote almost every riff
lobsterbark I’m there with you, As Iommi is a great guitarist, that’s not all that impressive to do vibrato on the low E string. All that comes natural from just continuous playing
I am really impressed by the fact, that heavy metal was invented almost ''by accident''. As a blues/rock guitarist I can't imagine having the tips of my ring and middle fingers chopped off and still being able to play like that. But Tony found a way somehow... What a legend. Which proves, that you could do anything if you have a strong enough will.
For a man that created a whole genre almost by himself, he is the coolest, most humble guy in the world, past present and future! Long live the true metal god!
i really love how he doesn't play the riff absolutely perfect, the way he plays gives the song all the vibe and feel and human sense and passion that needs. i cpuld say that it's unperfectly beatiful
Agreed...His style of playing encouraged me to play as I feel and not focus on precision. It has its place no doubt but in the context of Sabbath it fits...warts and all.
Growing up in Birmingham I was lucky to have met both Tony and Geezer, on seperate occasions, while out watching bar bands in the late 70s/early 80s. Hopefully you will meet him one day. :) Don't give up hope.
There’s a subtle jankyness to his groove that makes him stand out with his rhythm playing . His style mixed with geezer and wards lockdown on the pocket made for some historic hard rockin that has influenced millions. That’s nothing short of brilliant.
Tony missing finger tips is not as fast as Eddie Van Halen or Rhandy Rhoads, but he actually has much better riffs than all metal and rock bands ever!! 🎸
@IAmTheLiquor Lahey I'm not hating on Tommy, stated that is was just my opinion. People like yourself want to be right and decide for other people. Still the fact remains, Ed can play circles around Tommy - that's neither good or bad.
@IAmTheLiquor Lahey Tony, my bad. I never implied any disrespect to Tony or you. You made it "nasty", so that's that. Sure, shredding can quickly become non-musical (e.g. Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Batio, etc.). However, in my humble opinion Eddie perfectly balances shred and melody on a number of occasions. As a band they have made a lot of poor songs, but Eddie is a brilliant instrumentalist with tremendous feel in my book. I never said it was a competitive sport, I merely stated the irrefutable fact that Eddie is technically superior to Tony. Once again, that's neither bad or good. It just is. It all depends on which parameters you set up. If you're measuring the skill level et takes to play Ed's most difficult parts to Tony's then Ed is the professor and Tony is the kindergardener. That's also neither bad or good, it's just a fact. I'll leave you Tony fanboys to it in your Sabbath echo chamber.
@@aavila1206 Oh I don't know about that. I mean, even if it's true, it's not really the point anyway. Personally I dig the pentatonic stuff, like the KEA leads
I needed this. Almost every RU-vidr who gives lessons doesn't do the riffs like this. Great shots of his fretting hand on the neck/strings. Thanks Tony!
God I love Toni, even without finger tips, he's still the greatest heavy metal player of all time. He literally created metal, with out 2 finger tips. That's like Neal Armstrong walking on the moon with one leg. The greatness of this man blows my mind.
Tony can play complicated, and he can play simple stuff. He can do it all. But, I think he will tell you that it's not always the complicated music that is the best. The most important thing is the creativity. This song has so much creativity. It is forever cool. Love it. Thank you Tony for what you gave us!
G,day Tony, thanks for Black Sabbath. Like so many people you made my life complete with your music from the start. Between yourselfs and Pink Floyd, we were so so lucky to be around in your era. It's great to see you on you tube, seen Geezer before talking as well. All the very best Tony and thanks so much again Peter.
Over the past few months I've been trancribing every song from Paranoid, as a way to improve as a guitar player. Only Rat Salad and War Pigs remain, and I should be done with them over the next few weeks. Two things caught my attention: First, it's incredible how rhythm-driven Black Sabbath used to be. There's not a lot of notes per second, but still there is so much energy and richness to their music. These guys really worked as a band, and not as a pile of musical egoes. Second, I was amazed to realize that transcribing Sabbath songs actually made me learn a whole lot more about Blues than about Heavy Metal itself. Of course you can hear the foundations of heavy metal in their music, but it's also got lots of elements from early American music, which have been unfortunately lost by most heavy metal bands these days. Wondering which album I'm gonna transcribe next... There's just so much stuff to be learned out there.
SirAlexOfTheGuitar true! Planet caravan is realy jazzy and shows how lyrical he is! I play jazz and blues mostly but tony iommy’s riffs and solos were my beginning on the guitar as a teen.i consider him a blues guitarist although he is the pioneer of metal.
Such a humble guy, I loved all his work ...one of his key strengths was his ear for pulling memorable melodic solos and rhythm parts from the ether while composing
The one event that changed my life and the music I was listening to. While walking down a country road to get to my friends house I found an eight track of Black Sabbath. No more listening to K-tel records for me.
Amazing.. with the two fingertips chopped, so much willpower to play the instrument. And being rewarded for perseverance by becoming the best ever rock guitarists, composer, producer. Kudos to Tonyi!!!! I love the less technical guys, like Tony or Pete Townshend, they don't lose the sight of music behind the speed
Tommy's so great to listen to, as both a speaker and a player. I could listen to him speak about Sabbath forever, and I could hear him play it forever.
This is really cool to see Tony Iomi demonstrate the guitar riffs for one of my all time favorite Sabbath tunes "War Pigs"! The album Paranoid was the first Vinyl LP of hard rock I had heard. Awesome!
losing fingertips was actually a blessing.... probably made him adapt the steady style that make the riffs sound so good.. love it after 40+ years of listening
@@pandaman1968 lost them even before the debut album. The prosthetic fingertips is why he started downtuning the guitar, so the accident had an impact on music as a whole
@@pandaman1968 yeah, light gauge strings and downtuning to make up for the lack of sensitivity. Might be an urban legend, but that's what I've always heard
