![]() The only reason he didn’t record all of the first one was because he was “too gobsmacked” – he also later pointed out that, unusually, (by his standards!) there was no “raw” language or “Are you all high?” from Ozzy that night as it was a mostly teenage audience in a youth club that did not sell alcohol. Sabbath played 2 sets that night and the first two songs here come from the first. This long-lost show was recorded on a Grundig reel-to-reel machine (at 3 & 3/4 ips) by audience member Alex Wilson who, inspired and amazed by this show, later formed a band called Iron Claw. But yet, the yanks captured the British Sabbath vibe/sound/feel in a much more verbatim style then certain “bands” who just try way way too hard. That’s why the best thing to come out of Manchester at that time was the road back to Liverpool. They could never musically assimilate the vibe of people who originally lived only 40 miles away in the next major city. 1989 saw the birth of “Doom Metal”….a worthy multitude of bands who were to Sabbath what those Manchester morons (whose name I REFUSE to repeat here) couldn’t even dream of being to The Beatles. In very much the same way that the Velvet Underground might have been tragically forgotten had Bowie had not name-checked them in interviews regularly in the early 70’s, this recording of a up-and-coming unknown obscure struggling Birmingham band called ‘Earth’ playing in Dumfries, Scotland in November 1969….(A fair long journey from Brum!!)…would have vanished into the void….and they would have become yet another forgotten unwanted late-60’s pale-faced UK white-boy blues band destined to play pubs and working mens club type venues until they split thru “bad management” and “musical differences”……had this particular band not transformed into something much much more original, ground-breaking, and influential to a total MULTITUDE of future not-yet-born Rockers and Metallers….that (without trying to) spawned a whole new genre of music that we call HEAVY METAL….and 20 years later, spawned a new genre of music within that particular genre of music. Imagine a paralleI 1968 where you had Pink Floyd’s “Scream thy last scream”, The Beatles “What’s the new Mary Jane” and The Factory’s “Path through the forest” in the Top Ten singles that week, rather than Engleberk Humpaduck….it’s a lovely thought. 40 to 50 year old songs on bootleg because they were never officially released – because the artists felt they weren’t good enough – that still have more originality than today’s official releases. It would seem that yesterday’s worst is still better than today’s best…….very true in so many cases. Re-arrange the letters of that last word you just saw in capital letters….and hopefully you see my point. That said, why are we harking back so much to an era long gone, bands we’ll never see and musicians who we’ll never get to meet or speak to? (unless you’re a dab hand with a ouija board….) Clearly something has also long gone that’s making 40-something year old unreleased rejected barrel-scrapings be of more genuine interest than today’s officially released popular present-day HITS. on modern-day hi-fi systems while totally sober in 2017 HAS to be better than the 1967 equivalent – listening to much-loved and revered CLASSIC songs…….that would not be considered or deemed so for another decade at least….on a primitive tinny-sounding dansette with a speaker the size of a present-day mobile phone, only nowhere as loud or clear…… even if/when “smoking and tripping is all that you do…” Well, that’s what my rock’n’roll doctor told me anyhows. Well….what a wonderful time to be alive! As they say, if you can actually remember the late 60’s and early 70’s…then, you weren’t really there… (man.) So….are we really able to enjoy and appreciate rock musics ‘golden era’ more so or easier so now? Probably….listening to a remastered C.D. ![]() ![]() Drums Solo), The Warning, Wicked World, Behind The Wall Of Sleep, Early Morning School, N.I.B., Blue Blooded Man (61:38) Black Sabbath, Let Me Love You Baby, Song For Jim (incl. Rugmans Youth Club, Dumfries, Scotland – November 16, 1969 ![]()
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