Black Sabbath
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Black Sabbath
I've been listening to the first two Black Sabbath albums recently. I remain amazed by how awesome they still sound to me.
How about an article discussing the techniques/engineering on THOSE records?
William Price
How about an article discussing the techniques/engineering on THOSE records?
William Price
Re: Black Sabbath
I don't know much about the specific techniques, but I have read in multiple interviews that the first record and Paranoid were each recorded in about a day.absent wrote:I've been listening to the first two Black Sabbath albums recently. I remain amazed by how awesome they still sound to me.
How about an article discussing the techniques/engineering on THOSE records?
William Price
Sabbath was a 7-night-a-week pub blues band before the record deal, so they had the chops to get those performances down more or less live, aside from the obvious overdubs like double solos and whatnot.
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I thought I'd just stop by to say that early sabbath rules.
All of the early stuff aside from volume 4 sounds awesome to me.
It makes me said to think that I might go my whole life never working something so influential, awesome sounding and badass.
...and I'm not much of a metal fan or classic rock fan at all.
All of the early stuff aside from volume 4 sounds awesome to me.
It makes me said to think that I might go my whole life never working something so influential, awesome sounding and badass.
...and I'm not much of a metal fan or classic rock fan at all.
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Well, I don't like that much other metal, but still I listen to sabs stuff.fossiltooth wrote:...and I'm not much of a metal fan or classic rock fan at all.
I really like Never Say Die, for the disgusting phasey guitar sounds and lunatic arrangements... though this album is apparently pretty un-cool to the hardcore fans.
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I'd be interested in reading that article. Me, and my Sabbath cover band (no joke!).
Sometimes it seemed like Iommi would put his stack in a giant hall, and crank the crap out of it. I'm guessing it's something else, but wouldn't it be nice? I still maintain the dream...
Looking up Black Sabbath in the Wikipedia, Rodger Bain was the producer of the first three records. Apparently he let them record live, and then do the overdubs. The most I could find (without spending another hour on this damn machine) on him was this:
http://www.answers.com/topic/rodger-bai ... ertainment
and this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Bain
FWIW, he did the first Judas Priest record as well.
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Sometimes it seemed like Iommi would put his stack in a giant hall, and crank the crap out of it. I'm guessing it's something else, but wouldn't it be nice? I still maintain the dream...
Looking up Black Sabbath in the Wikipedia, Rodger Bain was the producer of the first three records. Apparently he let them record live, and then do the overdubs. The most I could find (without spending another hour on this damn machine) on him was this:
http://www.answers.com/topic/rodger-bai ... ertainment
and this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodger_Bain
FWIW, he did the first Judas Priest record as well.
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Uhm....
Found another link, on closer inspection of the Paranoid Wiki article. And then I'll stop, because I could go all day on this. It's an article that has some interesting stuff about them recording Paranoid, which was eventually done at Island Studios - a church converted into a recording studio. Hopefully this isn't total sacrilege linking to another recording mag. But whatever, we take from where we can. Enjoy.
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_classic_tracks_black/
dAve
Found another link, on closer inspection of the Paranoid Wiki article. And then I'll stop, because I could go all day on this. It's an article that has some interesting stuff about them recording Paranoid, which was eventually done at Island Studios - a church converted into a recording studio. Hopefully this isn't total sacrilege linking to another recording mag. But whatever, we take from where we can. Enjoy.
http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_classic_tracks_black/
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg
I think the reason Paranoid was so great is that it's nice and stripped down. Just awesome arrangements, great playing, great, great guitar sounds, man that looks like such a blast for those guys.
The solo at 6:16 in that video is just one of my favorite rock n roll moments.
I think the reason Paranoid was so great is that it's nice and stripped down. Just awesome arrangements, great playing, great, great guitar sounds, man that looks like such a blast for those guys.
The solo at 6:16 in that video is just one of my favorite rock n roll moments.
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Great link.A-Barr wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtqy4DTHGqg
I think the reason Paranoid was so great is that it's nice and stripped down. Just awesome arrangements, great playing, great, great guitar sounds, man that looks like such a blast for those guys.
The solo at 6:16 in that video is just one of my favorite rock n roll moments.
They're so good it's depressing.
I can't believe those motherf*ckers are all 22 years old when this was filmed, and can play that f*ing good. I just want to walk around my apartment beating my head against things and dropping f* bombs all over the place.
We should all be ashamed of ourselves.
F*ing musicians and sh*t. Do they still make those anymore?
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I guess Rock and Fucking Roll meant something back then.
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