Holy Ghost

So is this:

That's hysterical! My mom had that 45, and I was playing it and singing the same thing. It was her single, so she couldn't make me return it, ha!

Thank you for this review 👍 I really like the Warner Bros. material (that band he had then, wow). Glad to hear he's mixing it up instead of hyper-focusing on BN. No intermission, eh? Not a chance to have a drink in the rotunda? 🧐

Guess I'm glad I didn't have to work with him, but what did Chet do that was so bad to mess up your friend from ever talking about it, like forever?

🤯 Wha??? and they didn't play together?!? What a treat that would've been!!!

We Sold Our Soul...was released during the dull period following A blah record, but Warner Bro's wanted their investment back. Basically a repackaging of the first three records, leaving off key tracks, like "Into the Void" on Master of Reality. Still charted and did well, and afforded them another okay record. By 1977, Ozzy and Bill became reliabilities. These dudes were horning and drinking so hard, they wind up in hotels for days that they didn't even book.

Indeed! The contrast, the switch, it was makes Sabotage stand out!

Glad to have this! Cover's cool, has this feel:

Woah.

You took notice, to quote Bernard Stollman, "you never heard such sounds in your life" Nothing proceeds this, but then: Even my mom had a 45 single of Paranoid she bought back in 1970!

Correction, think Clark Griswald said he doesn't care who is whistling "Dixie" out their asshole, not "Yankee Doodle Dandee"🤔

If Dave Holland comes to town, I'm going. Period.

WOW!!!

Yep. Warner Bro's jacked Black Sabbath, and they were 200k in debt by the time they recorded Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, so Black Sabbath named Sabotage to revenge WB after they jacked them. IMO right behind Master of Reality, Sabotage is my favorite record by them. The band kinda had a f*&k it attitude and put out their best record. Interesting how the quality dropped after that, their first real clinker, right after Sabotage in 1976: Never Say Die was a little better, but nothing like the first six records

Back to Ozzy, I am going to talk about Randy Rhodes. I believe that Ozzy got a windfall with Randy, that dude is/was one of the best things to happen to Ozzy, when he started his solo career. I don't know how anybody can argue that Randy Rhodes wasn't a guitar genius. When he died, ironically, not a rock 'n 'roll death, a plane crash, Ozzy was devastated, and he could never really recoup after he died. I credit Randy as much as Ozzy for Blizzard and Diary of a Madman's success (not the genuis lyrics Geezer penned for Black Sabbath) but the musicianship, wow! and Ozzy was on his game, and that has to be credited to Randy Rhodes. Randy gave him a new life, a breath of fresh air; that's when Ozzy became Ozzy.

Okay, agree to disagree. Kinda glad Randy Rhodes hasn't creeped into the conversation yet 😁

Tony Iommi unplugged:

Can't agree more when it comes to translations. Martin Heidegger's Being and Time is a pinnacle example. This translation, which Heidegger did not assist the translaters is notoriously misunderstood because Heidegger wrote in this extinct German dialaect, which comfounded a translation for nearly 30 years, when this translation was finished in 1960: Finally in the 1970's shortly before his death in 1976, Heidegger assisted Joan Stambaugh to retranslate Being and Time in what I believe is the definitive edition.

...is a juggernaut. Like Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, I had to live with this book for years (under the direction of Tom Rockmore no less!) to truly understand what is being said. Like Kant, Peirce, Aristotle, Heidegger, Husserl, I had to live with Hegel, to understand Hegel.

Yes, he speaks about Django in this interview.

👍 Processing Ozzy/Black Sabbath Earlier: Now: Sorry, should've been allocated to the rock file.

It's not overt, and clearly neither Joe Pass nor Jim Hall were metal heads, but if you listen to the instrumentals on the first three records, and Bill Ward is a terrific percussionist on these tracks, you hear hints; however, the interlude between Hole in the Sky and Symptom of the Universe tracks one and two on Sabotage is a terrific example:

So happy to have it. So different and unique. Terrific record.

Side story relating to the Alamo, is when I went there with my ex-wife and kids back in the late 90's, my younger daughter dropped her doll in the mote at the Alamo (and those carp are huge!) needless, I risked losing my arm to get it. Back at the hotel, when we checked out, she leaves the same doll in the hotel room, that I almost lost an arm over. So, we call the hotel and have it shipped back home, only for her to leave it at a restuarant back home. That doll has a story to tell!

FWIW, Tony Iommi's got chops. He talks in an interview (can't remember where or when, 1990's maybe?) that he really liked Pacific Jazz Records and cites Jim Hall and Joe Pass as influences. Influenced by Bach as well. I'll just skip over the usual Beatles talk, Ozzy had made clear the Beatles changed everything talk. 😊 Yeah, what he did there was totally disrespectful, and I think he was cited (not arrested) by the park police, but this was a period when Ozzy was totally blasted nearly every day and night (recall he snorted ants with Nikki Sixx, when on tour with Motley Crue, back in the mid-eighties).