I have the same CD player as you @Erik B. Mine's about due for the boneyard, but after 25 years that's good value for money. I'm going to need a new CD player and tuner pretty soon. BTW I just picked up the Pearl Jam Las Vegas 2000 Ape/Man show for $9. I'll be re-exploring the Euro leg most of the weekend.
nice, man!! Where'd you get that for 9 bucks ? Fleabay or discogs ? 2000 binaural tour was amazing. I bought this cd player for like 10/15 bucks a few years ago at my local pawnshop. It doesn't always work properly but i would say for $5 a year, not a bad deal at all.
Couldn't agree more. The songs are great, the production is perfect for a record such as this, and all the right people help this along to make it a mid 70's masterstroke. A simmering brute of a rock and roll record. Mohammed's Radio and the French Inhaler kill me every time, but it's all good. I have a 24bit needle drop transferred to dvd and it is of my best-sounding of those.
I was lucky enough to get this before it was pulled (criminally, i might add). This is one of the best retrospectives out there (a few), I think, because of the way the it was put together. Lots of deep tracks : alternates, demos, and live cuts mainly, and it all only enhances Gregg's legacy... an unusual package indeed, and just the kind I wish there were more off. Listening to disc one, can't locate the other for the moment, uh oh.
The Sabs are #5 on the noob wave of british heavy metal-list. Always. And yes, I got my beatle boots on. Ofc.
I always felt like it was a very fortunate affair for me to see these guys. And what a line up? Stanley Clark, a few of the Meters and Bobby Keys. Are you kidding me? Very entertaining show at the old Omni in hot'lanta. Watching the 6' 8" bass player was worth the price of admission, and of course two of my favorites, half a Glimmer Twin and Ronnie both wearing some crazy huge furry barbarian boots. lol
Thanks. It makes my life quite meaningless, even when reading this: (Sorry, this ain't the comic strips thread).
Of course, my feathered friend. Both that and the similary maligned Never Say Die is ready to roll. I think they are both great, BTW.
EBay. There are quite a few there from the Euro leg for reasonable prices, and most of the 1st NA leg as well. For some reason there aren't many from the 2nd leg available. The Vegas show is supposedly one the best from the whole year.
Yes, they are, indeed. Technical Ecstasy has some of the worst lyrics Sabbath ever put to tape, but I can ignore that.
Some of those are just rancid. "Dirty Women" being the worst culprit. "Back Street Kid" isn't as bad, but it is really stoopid (which is usually a good thing in metal, but not good enough for Sab). But I love the songs and (also the synths they are using on these albums). Lyrics on Never Say Die is better by many a mile.
Started making a burrito and got inspired, or maybe it was the other way around. Anyways, both are pretty good if I may say so myself. The Stone's Wild Horses gets a good cover here; would have been cool had Keith Richards guested on this cut.
And yeah, @Rne , the lyrics to "Rock'n'Roll Doctor" are truly atrocious as well. But man, that intro riff
"She's Gone" has some of the most terrible "baby, you broke my heart" set of lyrics ever. "Changes" was really simple, but it worked anyway.
Never actually picked up the words on that one. I guess that was the right way to go. And now for the final. First Sabbath album I ever heard as a whole album. A childhood friend's father had it on tape and we were mesmerized by the darkness in it. "Johnny Blade" is a bit better that "Back Street Kid" in the lyrical department, that's for sure.
Speaking of Sabbath -- Born Again was in my car for a few days this past week ---- never thought it was horrendous, but not great -- sounds so un-Sabbath like --- almost hair-metalish.
It has a few great moments ("Zero the Hero" and the title track to name but two) but Gillan sounds really out of place and the lesser songs are really bad.
