BLACK SABBATH
The
Complete History of Black Sabbath. 2016.
By Carlos
Zaldívar
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| The Book |
An excellent book by Joel McIver that takes us on a walk through the beginnings of Heavy Metal, where even the term was not well coined. When four poorly behaved young people converge in Birmingham and decide to form a band under the name of Earth, who would later evolve into BLACK SABBATH.
A
broad text about the origins of the best band on the planet and the molding of
what we know today as HEAVY METAL and more precisely: DOOM METAL.
Starting
in 1968 as a band of Blues and little by little, they evolved to Rock and later
turned their sound into something more dense, deep, powerful, dark, mythical
and today, in 2019 already considered as the Fathers of METAL.
Iommi,
Iron Man, considered the best METAL guitarists with that pair of magic fingers
and manufactured by the devil himself to reach those hidden notes; Osbourne as
the multifaceted possessed on stage, and “bat – eater”; Ward, in tireless
companions of Ozzy and enormous beast behind the drumsticks; and finally to
Butler, the bassist "from another planet"; and this is how these four
super human guys form the enormous legend of this wonderful musical universe,
the band under the name of BLACK SABBATH.
A
book full of anecdotes, experiences, bad behavior, drugs, alcohol, fights,
demands, prisons and even reconciliations and rehabilitations. Facts that I
mostly know (obviously, being a Sabbath fan) and others that I had not the
remotest idea that they had happened.
McIver
walks our imagination through a very pleasant paper conversation, with real
actors that today and forever are our super heroes.
I
emphasize the role of Sharon, as the great woman and true Iron Lady, after the
band and its success and obvious, also with the negotiations for meetings and
mediations of those who have paraded through the lineup of the band.
Robb
Flynn (Machine Head) recounts in the introduction the tremendous incursion to
hear the first track of Sabbath: Iron Man; and then, never stop listening to
it.
And
so, great moments of concerts and the personal life of each one of them, always
feeding the music industry with excellent material and first class music.
Very
recommendable.
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| The story of four humble kids. |
By
the way, this book is dedicated to the late IAN “LEMMY” KILMISTER.
Black Sabbath will last forever... until Iommi's dead.
