Sunday
Aug262012
Black Sabbath, Live at Lollapalooza, Entire Concert Online
Sunday, August 26, 2012 at 12:01AM
If you're like most people, you didn't get to see Black Sabbath at Lollapalooza earlier this month. Lucky for us, the entire Black Sabbath performance is now available online! Note: this isn't pro-shot footage, but it's still darned good. Check it out!
Reader Comments (9)
With the passing of so many great artists as of late, the least fans of metal can do is keep it short and sweet: best wishes for a speedy recovery Iommi. Just about anything else seems shallow by comparison.
Thanks for sharing this with us Allyson.
It's a shame, though, that the band didn't realize the historical importance of having Ward there and should have pulled out all the stops to make that happen, ESPECIALLY considering Iommi's condition.
Note: Metalboy's favorite Sabbath album? "Technical Esctasy", of course!
As for my personaal fave,it'd probably be Master Of Reality.
Gary, I almost picked up "Ironman", Tony Iommi's book, at the Indy record store right near me. It was either that or "Commando", the story of Johnny Ramone of The Ramones. I walked out with neither but now I think I'll go back and get both this week (next paycheck, hahaha!!!). It's precisely your bit of trivia and all that Iommi went through that's sending me back there -- I mean, just think about it -- Talk about "Metal On Metal" -- his Thimble on Guitar Strings for the first time! -- it just doesn't get any more METAL than that!
p.s. Believe it or not, I've got all the Sabbath stuff in triplicate -- Original Vinyl, Original CDs and the entire catalogue of what was released on Japanese Press "Mini Album" CDs! After going through a phase of studying their stuff up and down in the late 90's, "Technical Ecstacy" emerged as my personal fave and I'm kickin' myself, I didn't have the situational awareness at the time to go see 'em on that tour! Probably one of the heights of my life was flyin' down a country road at 4:30 a.m. in my triple silver '85 Cadillac Fleetwood (RIP) in 2005 listening to "Rock And Roll Doctor" at full volume on cassette in the Hamptons with 3 Local Rocker chicks who were totally into it! Of course, that may be another reason reinforcing why it's my fave, too!
With Dio gone, Ozzy fading (who can blame him?), and not a lot of fans clamoring for the return of Tony Martin, Gillan would be a great fit . . . with a healthy and revitalized Iommi, a sober and focused Ward, and an always solid Geezer.
Heck, I would even put this . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spftdxgVQds
. . . next to the music on the last H&H record. And it features Lord as well. So a nice reminder of how great some of these icon were and are still.