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Black Sabbath: Satanists, Severed Limbs, Dismembered Fingers, Mountains of Cocaine and the Invention of Heavy Metal · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about
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  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath are insane. Their guitarist, Tony Iomi, lost his
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  Speaker 1: fingers and still became one of the most influential guitar
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  Speaker 1: players in music history. They quite literally invented a genre
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  Speaker 1: of music, heavy metal, and rose to the top of
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  Speaker 1: the pop charts without any help from the critics, who
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  Speaker 1: hated the band, but kids loved them, so too did
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  Speaker 1: the Satanists. Despite composing songs that warned against the evils
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  Speaker 1: of the occult the band attracted legions of devil worshipers
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  Speaker 1: occultists in nineteen seventies, freak flag flying practitioners of the
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  Speaker 1: dark arts. They had giant amounts of cocaine shipped into
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  Speaker 1: the studio in empty speaker cabinets. Groupies lined up down
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  Speaker 1: the block lit themselves and others on fire literally, and
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  Speaker 1: throughout the seventies, Black Sabbath made great music. Unlike that
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  Speaker 1: music I played for you at the top of the show.
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  Speaker 1: That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from
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  Speaker 1: my melotron called oil Can Swank MK one. I played
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  Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the rights to
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  Speaker 1: Mamma told me not to come by three Dog Night,
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  Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of
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  Speaker 1: party foul out Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that
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  Speaker 1: was the number one song in America on July sixteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, and that was the day Black Sabbath was
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  Speaker 1: to touch down in San Francisco for the start of
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  Speaker 1: their first US tour. It inspired a literal parade of
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  Speaker 1: Satanist to take to the streets in their honor, kicking
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  Speaker 1: off one of the strangest, heaviest, most evil tales in
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  Speaker 1: rock and roll, the wicked story of Black Sabbath. On
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  Speaker 1: this a special Halloween episode, Satanist, severed limbs, dismembered fingers,
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  Speaker 1: mountains of cocaine, and the invention of heavy metal with
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  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath. I'm Jake Brennan and this he's disgraceland. Black
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath guitarist Tony Iomi wasn't scared. He'd seen worse, but
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  Speaker 1: his bandmates they were a different story. Drummer Bill Ward
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  Speaker 1: was chasing his fear down the bottom of a bottle
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  Speaker 1: off drunk somewhere close but no doubt sauced singer Ozzie
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  Speaker 1: Osbourne was with him, doing the same bassist Geezer Butler
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  Speaker 1: was near Tony, sitting on a US US Army issued cot,
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  Speaker 1: listening intently as the Vietnam vett detailed his recent horrors.
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  Speaker 1: Young women, girls really, some as young as ten years old, raped,
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  Speaker 1: stray dogs used for target practice, grown men lighting themselves
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  Speaker 1: on fire, and protests of the South Vietnamese government. And
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  Speaker 1: a baby used as a bomb. There was no account
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  Speaker 1: of how the baby actually died. Its mother hollowed it up,
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  Speaker 1: got rid of its internal organs, and somehow managed a
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  Speaker 1: way to insert a bomb into the baby's dead body.
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  Speaker 1: When US soldiers showed up in her village, she ran
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  Speaker 1: out of her hut, screaming straight toward the platoon's lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: with her baby in her arms. They looked so helpless,
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  Speaker 1: the Vietnamese mom and her newborn, so needy. The lieutenant
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  Speaker 1: dropped his sixteen and opened his arms. He was as
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  Speaker 1: shocked as the rest of his men. When the mom
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  Speaker 1: turned tail and sprinted back toward her hut after handing
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  Speaker 1: him her child. It took exactly one second for him
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  Speaker 1: to realize something was fair very wrong, and by then
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  Speaker 1: it was too late. He looked down at the baby
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  Speaker 1: in his arms. The baby that was clearly dead, and
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  Speaker 1: then he was blown to bits. The story shocked Tony
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  Speaker 1: and Geezer. Tony knew Geezer was mentally notating it all,
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  Speaker 1: storing it up for lyrics he would one day write.
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  Speaker 1: Geezer needed fodder beyond the horror and sci fi films
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  Speaker 1: he devoured for inspiration. The real life horror detailed from
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  Speaker 1: the US soldiers at the American Army base they were
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  Speaker 1: at in Germany, a stopover of sorts, a place to
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  Speaker 1: give the vets a minute to collect themselves mentally, to
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  Speaker 1: cool out before returning to civilian life, was a gold
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  Speaker 1: mine of inspiration. Tony Iomi looked around the base. He
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  Speaker 1: and his Sabbath bandmates were here to play a game,
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  Speaker 1: to entertain, but it felt like they were the ones
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  Speaker 1: being entertained. Maybe entertained was the wrong word. Whatever it was,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like they were getting more out of the
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  Speaker 1: bargain than the soldiers. It was a lesson the fucking guys.
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  Speaker 1: Their lives were permanently altered for what so American war
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  Speaker 1: profiteer stock could go up a couple percentages of a point,
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  Speaker 1: and these kids were fucking hopeless when they went into
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  Speaker 1: the war. And were hopelessly fucked now that they were
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  Speaker 1: out of it. Working class, all of them. They reminded
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  Speaker 1: Tony of himself and his mates from back in Birmingham,
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  Speaker 1: north of London, the Midlands, a tough city industrial Most
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  Speaker 1: of the men in this room could cut it in
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  Speaker 1: Birmingham after Vietnam anyway, no problem, though Tony himself wasn't
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  Speaker 1: so sure he could handle Birmingham anymore. Its bleakness was suffocating,
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  Speaker 1: once the hub of the industrial Revolution, then bombed to
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  Speaker 1: oblivion by the Germans during World War two s Blitz.
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  Speaker 1: Post war Birmingham was a churning, smoking heap, rebuilding itself
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  Speaker 1: into a working class hub, one gray, drab factory block
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  Speaker 1: at a time. But no amount of time would be
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  Speaker 1: fast enough for restless teenagers like Tony Iomi, doomed to
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  Speaker 1: live their adolescence under a black cloud. But Tony overcame
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  Speaker 1: more than the constant churn of Birmingham's gloom. He overcame
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  Speaker 1: tremendous adversity at the age of seventeen. If he was
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  Speaker 1: careful and lucky, the sheet metal factory gig he held
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  Speaker 1: down as a welder would only be a part time thing.
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  Speaker 1: Playing guitar at that time in nineteen sixty six, before
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  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath and his top forty band Mythology would hopefully
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  Speaker 1: open up roads that led out of Birmingham, and they
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  Speaker 1: were headed out the next day on tour. But first
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  Speaker 1: Tony needed to get through his shift at the factory.
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  Speaker 1: Tony was working on the line welding patiently waiting for
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  Speaker 1: his coworker to send down the next sheet of metal
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  Speaker 1: from the giant, industrial sized press. His coworker was fucked
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  Speaker 1: off elsewhere, and Tony was impatient get the shift done,
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  Speaker 1: get the fuck out of Dodge with his band. Fuck
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  Speaker 1: the coworker. Tony started working the press and the welding.
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  Speaker 1: He reached down the line, pulled the press with one hand,
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  Speaker 1: pulled the metal out of the mouth of the machine
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  Speaker 1: with his other. Weld repeat efficient with his technique, and
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  Speaker 1: if he wasn't careful and management got wind of what
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  Speaker 1: he was doing, they'd likely fire his coworker in double
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  Speaker 1: Tony's workload without any extra pay. No doubt, Tony needed
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  Speaker 1: to finish and get out of there. He continued his
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  Speaker 1: two man process on the assembly line. It became automatic trance,
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  Speaker 1: like an industrial zen. One hand on the press, another
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  Speaker 1: hand pulling the metal out well. Repeat one hand on
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  Speaker 1: the press, another hand pulling the metal out weld. Repeat
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  Speaker 1: one hand on the press, another hand pulling the metal
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  Speaker 1: out well. Repeat, one hand on the press, another hand.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly the press had gripped Tony's other hand. The pain
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  Speaker 1: was sharp and blinding. Instinctively, Tony pulled his hand out
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  Speaker 1: of the machine. The machine at his right index and
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  Speaker 1: ring fingers firmly in its teeth. But when Tony pulled
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  Speaker 1: his hand out, the machine peeled the skin on his
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  Speaker 1: two fingers completely off. All that remained were the exposed
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  Speaker 1: bones of his fingertips. The pain blinded him but for
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  Speaker 1: catching a glimpse of his mangled hand as a guitar player,
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  Speaker 1: his fretting hand. He gathered his destroyed and dismembered fingertips,
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  Speaker 1: threw them in a bag of ice, and headed to
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  Speaker 1: the hospital. But there was nothing the doctors could do
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  Speaker 1: with them. Tony Iomi was sunk. Finished before he even
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  Speaker 1: got started. He was suicidal. A life of drudgery lay
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  Speaker 1: on the horizon. Fingerless guitar players weren't a thing, except
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  Speaker 1: they were. In an effort to get Tony out of
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  Speaker 1: his funk. A friend hipped him to guitarist Django reinher,
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  Speaker 1: a blazing jazz man who played with only two fingers
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  Speaker 1: on his fret hand due to an accident he sustained
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  Speaker 1: in a fire. The accident also left him without the
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  Speaker 1: use of his right leg. Django didn't let it hold
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  Speaker 1: him back, and Tony Iomi was inspired he wouldn't let
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  Speaker 1: it hold him back either. Django used the only two
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  Speaker 1: fingers he had left for his solo work. He used
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  Speaker 1: his dead fingers for the chords. Tony Iomi got to work.
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  Speaker 1: He fashioned homemade finger caps out of plastic liquid dishwashing bottles.
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  Speaker 1: He melted the bottles down, using a soldering iron and
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  Speaker 1: his welding skills to cram the molten material into the
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  Speaker 1: ends of his fingertips. He then used glue leather to
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  Speaker 1: further attach his new fingertips. Like Jango Reinhert, Tony's physical
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  Speaker 1: limitations now informed his playing. Tony could only use the
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  Speaker 1: lightest guitar strings due to the pain that would shoot
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  Speaker 1: up his hand and arm every time his fingers touched
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  Speaker 1: a string. Tony also had to tune his guitar down
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  Speaker 1: way down, so the strings were looser and easier to manage,
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  Speaker 1: and the result was a low, gloomy, new type of
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  Speaker 1: heaviness from his guitar that hadn't quite been heard before.
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  Speaker 1: Most other Midlands bands on the scene that Tony was
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  Speaker 1: then playing and intended to work the traditional blue eyed
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  Speaker 1: soul and R and B side of the street, bands
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  Speaker 1: like the Crawling Kingsnakes featuring John Bonham who would later
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  Speaker 1: go on to drum and led Zeppelin, the Spencer Davis
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  Speaker 1: Group helmed by a young Steve Winwood who himself would
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  Speaker 1: go on to found the band Traffic and later launch
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  Speaker 1: a mega hit solo career, and Sounds of Blue featuring
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  Speaker 1: a young keyboardist named Christine Perfect who would later join
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  Speaker 1: another blues band named Fleewood Mack and take the last
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  Speaker 1: name of the band's basis when she married him to
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  Speaker 1: become Christine McPhee. Those Midlands bands, with their blues and
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  Speaker 1: their tad tendencies, would never welcome Tony Iomi in his
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  Speaker 1: new heaviness onto their side of the street. There was
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  Speaker 1: something darker in Tony's playing now, something totally unrelated to
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  Speaker 1: R and B pub blue standards, something more akin to
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  Speaker 1: the darkness of bluesman Robert Johnson something much heavier than
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  Speaker 1: anything anyone had ever heard before, something now anchored in evil.
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  Speaker 1: The first hand horror stories of Vietnam made it into
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  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath's lyrics, as Tony Iomi knew they would. The
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  Speaker 1: song was an eight minute explosion entitled Warpigs. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: released until much later, though, in nineteen seventy on Sabbath's
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  Speaker 1: second album, Paranoid, but the band wrote it earlier, back
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  Speaker 1: around the time they were putting together their first album.
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  Speaker 1: But before Tony Iomi could work himself through the explosiveness
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  Speaker 1: of Warpigs, he had the devil to contend with villagers,
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  Speaker 1: scores of them, rampaging through their cobblestone streets, violently laying
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  Speaker 1: waste to anything in their path, smashing street lamps with rocks,
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  Speaker 1: setting fire to bales of hay with their torches, and
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  Speaker 1: stampeding over their shock and protesting fellow countrymen, those who
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  Speaker 1: weren't at the performance and who had no idea what
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  Speaker 1: was happening. It was the music that set them off,
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  Speaker 1: stirred in them something dormant, their anger, their hatred, their
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  Speaker 1: will to do whatever it was they felt compelled to do,
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  Speaker 1: and at that moment that feeling led to destruction. The
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  Speaker 1: crowd at the concert hall stormed out after the final movement,
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  Speaker 1: roused into trance like communal action by the performance of
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  Speaker 1: Camille Saint Sons dance Macab based on the Henry Casalis
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  Speaker 1: poem describing a visit from the devil to a graveyard
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  Speaker 1: at midnight on Halloween to summon the dead from their
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  Speaker 1: graves and join him in a dance. The piece is
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  Speaker 1: Macab's subject matter. To not stir the crowd into violence,
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  Speaker 1: it was the sound of the piece, more specifically its composition,
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  Speaker 1: the scoratura, a D tuning of the e and the
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  Speaker 1: violins to E flat, a move that created a tritone,
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  Speaker 1: the most unsettling sound in all of music, a sound
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  Speaker 1: outlawed by the Church in the Middle Ages for this
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  Speaker 1: exact reason, because it inspired violence. Evil. The most unholy
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  Speaker 1: of sounds, was attained by flattening the fifth note in
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  Speaker 1: the chord progression. Typically, the fifth note is deployed for tension.
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  Speaker 1: Flattening the fifth increased the tension and added an element
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  Speaker 1: of gloom of unease, and when people heard it for
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  Speaker 1: the first time, they could not pross it. It was
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  Speaker 1: so foreign to anything they'd heard prior in popular music
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  Speaker 1: that it drove them to violence. After one too many
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  Speaker 1: performances featuring the try tone resulted in violence, the try tone,
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  Speaker 1: in addition to being outlawed, became known as the avalos
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  Speaker 1: in musica, the devil in music, or the Devil's interval.
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  Speaker 1: Back in nineteen sixty eight, Tony Iomi didn't know any
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  Speaker 1: of this. All he knew was his band was in
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  Speaker 1: need of songs if they were going to make a
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  Speaker 1: record and make it out of Birmingham. His lyricist Slash
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  Speaker 1: Bassis Geezer Butler, sat on his sofa, very stoned. From
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  Speaker 1: the stereo, the classical orchestral suite Planets by Gustav Hols blared.
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  Speaker 1: The first movement's title, Mars the Bringer of War, caught
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  Speaker 1: Geezer's attention. The heaviness of it reminded him of the
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  Speaker 1: heaviness of Vietnam, and Geezer sat listening, cradling his bass,
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  Speaker 1: and casually played along to the piece. Tony picked up
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  Speaker 1: on Geezer's playing, and rather than anchor the melody with
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  Speaker 1: root notes like most bass players would, Geezer shadowed the
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  Speaker 1: melody with his playing and filled notes into the spaces
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  Speaker 1: there was more jazz than blues and far from standard rock.
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  Speaker 1: Tony picked up his guitar and began playing along as well,
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  Speaker 1: But when the movement ended, Tony kept playing, but he
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  Speaker 1: dropped the key down from a flat to G to
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  Speaker 1: make it sound darker. It was heavier than anything the
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  Speaker 1: two had messed with before with their bandmates Ozzie and Bill.
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  Speaker 1: Up to this point they were just another blues band
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  Speaker 1: from the Midlands. They played under the name Polka Tuck
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  Speaker 1: Blues Band and then under the name Earth. Both names
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  Speaker 1: were indistinguishable from the blue eyed hippie drivel of the
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  Speaker 1: day and suited the nowhere rock pub music that they
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  Speaker 1: were making. Total blah. But this new riff was something
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  Speaker 1: else and had promise. That night, Geezer sat alone in
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  Speaker 1: his bedroom with the riff echoing in his head. He
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  Speaker 1: read as Alistair Crowley. Geezer, like most of London's hip underground,
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  Speaker 1: was obsessed with the early twentieth century occultist. Gezer was
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  Speaker 1: also obsessed with religion, the pageantry of it all. As
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  Speaker 1: a kid, he wanted to be a priest. His bedroom
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  Speaker 1: walls were covered with crucifixes and iconic imagery in stark
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  Speaker 1: contrast with the esoteric individualist ideas from Crowley's hermetic Order
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  Speaker 1: of the Golden Dawn. He was filling his head with
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, magic with a k dark magic, power,
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  Speaker 1: sexual power, ritualistic sex, self gratification at any expense. All
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  Speaker 1: that was the forbidden fruit that flew in the face
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  Speaker 1: of Gezer's Catholic upbringing. It fascinated him. The darkness, the evil.
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  Speaker 1: Gezer took it a step further and mixed among the
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  Speaker 1: religious imagery on his walls, Satanic images, inverted crosses, drawings
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  Speaker 1: of Satan himself in a picture of Crowley. He even
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  Speaker 1: painted his walls black. His bedroom was a diorama of
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  Speaker 1: good and evil in it. He faded off into sleep,
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  Speaker 1: Crowley's magic and theory and practice resting on his chest.
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  Speaker 1: He awoke in a fit, eyes wide blackness all around
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  Speaker 1: that rift from earlier, with tony ringing in his head,
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  Speaker 1: and then the sound of Gustav Holds planets in a
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  Speaker 1: distant chorus in eerie whispered incantation. Gezer's spine straightened, the
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  Speaker 1: hairs on his arm ros up. A breeze bristled over
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  Speaker 1: his chilled skin, and when Gezer noticed his windows and
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  Speaker 1: doors were shut, making any breeze impossible. His heart quickened,
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  Speaker 1: his eyes began to adjust, the darkness started to fade.
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  Speaker 1: He could make out the images on the wall, Pagan
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  Speaker 1: priests wearing goat's head, sacrificing virgins, ancient gods of the
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  Speaker 1: underworld devouring their children, and the picture of Aleister Crowley
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  Speaker 1: staring down at him with his stony face and deep,
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  Speaker 1: bottomless black eyes. Gezer broke from Crowley's stare and looked
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  Speaker 1: to the side of his bed. There, a figure in
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  Speaker 1: black Geeser's heart forced itself up into his throat. He
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  Speaker 1: leapt from the bed, flipped on his leg, and the
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  Speaker 1: figure was gone. Geezer immediately began tearing down all the
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  Speaker 1: satanic imagery on his walls. When he was done, he
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  Speaker 1: put pen to paper, and a stream of consciousness depicted
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  Speaker 1: what he saw and what he felt. The next day
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  Speaker 1: he brought his words to Tony and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: his bandmates. Ozzie helped shape them into a melody, and
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  Speaker 1: the words were a warning against the very real power
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  Speaker 1: of Satan, a warning against the occult, a call to
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  Speaker 1: arms against evil. Tony called upon the rift they'd written
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  Speaker 1: the day before. The low g did the G octave
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  Speaker 1: to the flatted fifth, the D flat, the try tone,
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  Speaker 1: the Devil's interval. They called the song Black Sabbath. Heezer
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  Speaker 1: nicked the title from the Boris Karloff horror movie, and
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  Speaker 1: they liked the song title so much they decided to
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  Speaker 1: give their band the same name. In this new approach,
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  Speaker 1: this darkness, diabolos and musica, the devil's music, even if
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  Speaker 1: it was a warning against evil and not a celebration
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  Speaker 1: of evil, the horror of it all, of the dream
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  Speaker 1: of the rift, of the try tone of the imagery,
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  Speaker 1: and the lyrics of the sound of Tony's playing, the
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  Speaker 1: heaviness of it all was completely unique. It perfectly suited them.
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  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath was born. From the day they unlocked that heavy,
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  Speaker 1: diabolical power. They began their climb through the seven circles
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  Speaker 1: of British podunk held international rock star success. Within months
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  Speaker 1: of the name change and the discovery of their new sound,
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  Speaker 1: they had signed with UK's Phillips Records. Their self titled
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  Speaker 1: first release in nineteen seventy disgusted and appalled the critics,
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  Speaker 1: but it tapped into something elemental in the record buying public.
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  Speaker 1: Kids went wild over Black Sabbath's newfound heaviness an evil image,
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  Speaker 1: and with no help from the critics, Sabbath's debut album
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  Speaker 1: went to number eight on the UK charts. Warner Brothers
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  Speaker 1: released the album in North America, but when the PR
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  Speaker 1: Department pointed out that launching a Black Sabbath tour at
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  Speaker 1: the same time as the trial of Charles Manson and
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  Speaker 1: his so called family was just getting started, a trial
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  Speaker 1: to determine if Manson was guilty of masterminding the horrific
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  Speaker 1: tape Babyanca murders murders where the word war was carved
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  Speaker 1: into a victim's chest and pig was painted in blood
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  Speaker 1: on a victim's wall. Words that Sabbath seemed to crib
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  Speaker 1: straight from Charlie and his girls, words far more violent
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  Speaker 1: and esoteric than anything in the beatles Helter Skelter. When
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  Speaker 1: the timing of both Black Sabbath's tour and Charles Manson's
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  Speaker 1: trial was discovered to coincide due to fear of bad press,
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers abruptly canceled Sabbath's US tour, But Anton LeVay
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  Speaker 1: didn't get the message. LaVey cut an intimidating figure Bulky
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  Speaker 1: and bald with a devil's goatee, posing with snakes, and
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  Speaker 1: walking a pet leopard around the streets of San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: and in all respects taking up Alister Crowley's mantle of
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  Speaker 1: the occult. In the New century, LaVey had written the
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  Speaker 1: Satanic Bible and was the high Priest and founder of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the Church of Satan. From this position, he presided over
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Satanic marriages, baptisms, and funerals, and in coordination with Warner
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Brothers Records, planned a Black Sabbath Parade to kick off
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath US tour in San Francisco, where Black Sabbath
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: were supposed to make their US debut at the Fame
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  Speaker 1: Fillmore West. The Satanic parade went ahead as planned without
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  Speaker 1: the band. American practitioners in the Dark Arts had found
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  Speaker 1: their new heroes in Black Sabbath. To them, the band's
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: music was evil and carnate. They were a band that
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: championed their cause evil. LaVey and the Satanists had taken
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Crowley's model of do what thou wilt to the extreme,
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  Speaker 1: and just like everything else in American culture at the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: end of the sixties, they were violently clinging for whatever
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: would bring them personal satisfaction. They were the me decades,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: slouching towards Bethlehem, waiting to be born, with or without
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Tony Iomi and his bandmates, Anton Lavy and his Satanists,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: and whatever other freaky San franciscould riff raff LaVey could muster,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: all came out to parade through the streets in honor
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of Satan and in the name of Black Sabbath. The
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: parade kicked off on Fulsom Street. Anton Lavay was at
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the head as master of ceremonies, dressed topped to toe
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  Speaker 1: in a black row. The Black Pope, as he proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: himself to be, a big upside down cross hung from
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  Speaker 1: his neck. He even had a scepter he towered over
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: his assembled freaks, fellow Satanists, elaborately dressed drag queens, a
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: group of juggling little people, fancy boys and hotpans sacheting
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  Speaker 1: alongside the paraders. A Mexican mariachi band marching in step
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: with the large scale floats assembled for the occasion. A
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: group of black panthers made the scene clearly confused by
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the parade's name. A flatbed truck with a he hostile
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: camp bluegrass band brought up the rear, picking out Black
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Sabbath songs on banjos, fiddles, and acoustic guitars. A local
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: TV crew made the scene, and the extremely weird event
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: made the wires. Tony Iomi read about it in his
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: morning paper and nearly dropped his cup of tea and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: shock Satanists. What he thought hath Black Sabbath rot a
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: group of Satanists and freaks marching in the name of
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: his band was shocking, yes, but not nearly as shocking
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: as the murder he would learn about in the coming months,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: a murder inspired by a familiar figure in Black. We'll
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: be right back after this word word word. American newspapers
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: were a trip nineteen seventy one, a new decade, a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: dark dawn. The story screamed off the page. In Los Angeles,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the Manson trial was high drama. Headlines informed Tony that
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: recently Manson family members tried robbing an army surplus store
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  Speaker 1: to free Charlie. In San Francisco, two members of the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: raided a police station and fired off around into the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: god of a police sergeant. He died in New York.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: The press was obsessed with an Italian gangster named Joey Gallo.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: So much for that other New York Joe Joe DiMaggio,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And by the seventies America was turning its lonely eyes
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to the dark side. Tony looked around the hotel lobby
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: he was sitting in and saw it all. The rock
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: scene was just an exaggerated microcosm of the American zeitgeist.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: It seemed that in America it wasn't enough just to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: get on with life. You needed a stick, some sort
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: of thing that you identified with and that identified you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: as being unique among your neighbors, friends, co workers, groupies, etc.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Because everyone's just so fucking special, aren't they. There were
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the leftover hippies, the speed freaks, the groupies, the Nihilis,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: You're Travis Bickle prototypes, political anarchists, Yippie Zippies, black panthers,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: white panthers, Vietnam vets, heroin addicts, Hell's Angels, soul brothers,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: soul sisters, harry Christians, witches, and of course a growing
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: number of Satanists. They were all there milling about the lobby,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and most of the major American cities. The Black Sabbath visited,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: looking to score, looking for the party, looking for that
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: eternal buzz, looking to meet a rock star, fuck a
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: rock star, possess a rock star. Tony sat quietly in
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  Speaker 1: the corner. Dark glasses on his features, even the silhouette
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of his high cheekbones were mostly hidden. His hat perched low,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: head to toe in black, He was remarkably inconspicuous amongst
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the hubbub happening around him. It was check in time crew,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and members of his band and other bands on the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: bill that evening, The Jay Guiles Band and Humble Pie
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: were filing in. Musicians were swarmed for autographs. Desk clerks
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and bell boys were overmatched. Tony crossed his legs and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: buried his head back into his daily paper, and what
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: he read gripped him with fear. She was only sixteen
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: years old from New Jersey. She was a good Catholic girl,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: didn't mess with the drugs or even with the boys.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: By all accounts, she was a beauty. She'd gone missing
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: three months. Her family sweated it out, hoping for the best,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: fearing the worst, and then one morning it happened. Her
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: father went out to retrieve the morning paper, as was
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: his pre work routine. Often he was aided in this
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: task by the family dog, but not this morning. The dog,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: he'd presumed was off somewhere else. He opened his front
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: door and looked to the bottom of the cement stew. Wow,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: there was the dog, sitting obediently, looking up at him
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: with those big, innocent doe eyes. But between his teeth,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: where he usually hold his master's newspaper, something else, something
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: similar in size, but something different, something ragged, something bloody, bruised, broken,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: something his master couldn't bear to comprehend, something beyond explanation.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: The arm of his master's missing daughter. Tony's eyes frantically
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: scanned the rest of the text below the headline girl
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: sacrificed in witch Right. Turns out, they found the rest
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of the girl in an area off walked on reservoir
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: known as the Devil's Teeth quote unquote. Occult symbols were
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: found around the girl's body. Locals suspected a known coven
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: of witches. Yes, witches. In nineteen seventy one were blamed
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: for a crime scene that had all the markings of
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a satanic sacrifice. The victim's body was outlined by sticks
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: within the shape of a coffin. There were inverted crosses
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: made of forest wood placed about her body, and her
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: body was elevated on a mound of dirt a makeshift altar.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Tony looked up from his paper Shocked, he glanced across
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the lobby. Everyone seemed to be moving fast this way
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and that, looking for action. Most were wearing some preapproved
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: subculture fashioned bell bottoms, fringes, leather headbands, beads, and the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Harry Krishnas danced about with shaved heads in colorful roams.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: The groupie shifted awkwardly in revealing outfits. A pimp eyed
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: the groupies with thoughts of recruitment. His technicolor suit, hat
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: and cane made it clear who and what he was.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: White panthers and red berets handed out pamphlets. Blue denim
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: clad roadies muscled their way through to the elevators. They
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: were hard to distinguish from the Hell's Angels, who were
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: there to do whatever the hell they wanted. And far
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: away in the opposite corner of the lobby, to the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: right of the entry, almost as inconspicuous as Tony, three
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: figures clad like him head to toe in black, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: in black robes, each wearing the same necklace, a modest
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: silver chain with an inverted cross Satanists nervously. Tony looked
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: down at his paper once again, under the headline girls
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Sacrificed in witch Right. He stared at the image of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the victim, smudged black inche obscured her face. All that
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: was prevalent was the cut of her high cheekbones, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: next to her image a composite sketch of who investigators
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: believe to be the suspect, an androgynist, looking lighteen or
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: young twenty something, long hair like the victims, big eyes.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Other than that, fairly unremarkable. Tony looked up once again
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and across the lobby, and the Satanists were gone, A
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: twin bump of fear and relief speedball through the young
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: guitarist veins. On stage that night, the Witches were in
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the audience, right up their front and center in the
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: third row, just staring at him, not moving, not enjoying
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the show in any way, just staring there, playing his
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: day in one moment and in the next when Tony
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: looked up and out into the audience, gone. Later on
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: tour and other cities, more Satanists made their presence known
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: as well as their love of Black Sabbath. They fought
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: their way backstage to gawk at the band. Tony, along
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: with Geezer and Bill, saw them outside of their tour
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: boss at the airport, and soon anyone clad in black
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: was a potential Satanist to the band throughout nineteen seventy one.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy two, as Black Sabbath climbed the charts
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: in both the UK and the States, the lore of
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the band and their dark imagery compelled the freaks to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: flood out of the woodwork into the band shows again.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Most mysterious were the Crowley adherents LaVey's Satanists. The band
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: received fan mail written in blood. One fan in La
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: cornered Ozzy backstage and told him he had a plan
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: for him to go to Mexico to buy a corpse,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to smuggle it back into the States and on stage
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: so that Ozzie could bring it out during a set
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and stab it. During the show at the Hollywood Bowl,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Tony walked off stage after his set. He happened to
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: look behind him for whatever reason, and there was a man,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a big man, and all black coming at him fast
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: with a dagger raised above his head. Security immediately saw
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: what was about to happen and pounced on the dude.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Tony was safely whist backstage. At a gig in Memphis,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Black Sabbath arrived to find their dressing room door dripping
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: with blood in the form of a giant cross, and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the door was also nailed shut. At another gig in
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the Midwest, the band arrived back at their hotel, took
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the elevator to their floor of sweets, and found as
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: many as Tony Satanists, all clad in black, sitting in
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the dark of the hallway, illuminated only by the black
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: candles they'd set up around them on the floor as
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: they chanted softly freaky. All the while, Tony tracked the
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: case of the slain Catholic girl from New Jersey. In
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: whatever city he was in, Tony scoured national newspapers for
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: items on the case. His curiosity compelled him. Who could
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: do this and why and how? Wow? Tony feared the worst.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Was it a Black Sabbath fan and just who was
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: this girl? There were no pictures of her in any
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: of the recent articles he'd seen, and in the first
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: article he'd read, her image was smudged, obscured. There was
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: still little info on the suspect. Supposedly, they still didn't
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: know if the killer was male or female, just that
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: he or she was in their early twenties, had long hair,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and was suspected to be some sort of witch and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a cultist. They're simply a Satanist. Of course, there are
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: distinctions among all of those things, but the press didn't
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: care to make mention of that. Tony Iomi didn't care either.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: This wasn't what he signed up for, which is ritualistic murder,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: giant bloody crosses, smuggled corpses America coming undone before him,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: he was a rock guitarist, a man of the trades,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: not of the dark arts. His band Black Sabbath had
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: invented a new form of rock and roll. Out of
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: thin air, the try tone and Birmingham's steel. They created
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: heavy metal, a pummeling mix of detuned riffs, jazz, shadowed bass,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: industrial rhythms and that mcmelody kids went mad for it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Critics hated it, and the Satanists found their battlecry and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the heavy gloom that Sabbath had awakened the thought of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it was too much Tony needed an escape. Grass helped before,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: but the Sweet Leaf no longer provided the relief that
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he needed. Tony, like the rest of his band, retreated
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: into heavy cocaine use. Black Sabbath did so much cocaine
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that a full time dealer accompanied them on tour, and
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: while recording their album Volume four in Los Angeles, Columbia's
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: finest cocaine was shipped to the bel Air home the
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: band was renting, and crates the size of studio cabinet speakers.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Coke was everywhere around Black Sabbath in the nineteen seventies,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: just as it had been around Geezer Butler's one time obsession,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Aleister Crowley almost a century earlier. Crowley could handle his coke,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: so too could Tony Iomi. His bandmates unfortunately could not. Increasingly,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: like the Satanists who now followed them on tour, the
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: behavior of Black Sabbaths other members grew more intense. Bill
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Ward would pass out so drunk and so stone so
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: often that his bandmates regularly set his beard on fire
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to wake him up. Geezer Butler once flushed ten grand
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: worth of coke down their rented bell Air home's toilet
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in a delirious rush, not realizing the cops at the
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: door were only responding to Ozzy drunkenly sitting on the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: house alarm and setting it off. When the cops split,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Geezer and Ozzy frantically tried to plunge the blow back
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: out of the toilet. As for Ozzy Osbourne himself, even
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: in his early days, he refused to be outdone by
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: his bandmates or any other rock star. At Seattle's famous
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Edgewater in where the infamous led Zeppelin shark incident allegedly
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: took place, Ozzie rented his own room, in his own
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: fishing rod and caught his own shark from the ocean
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: outside his window, just as John Bonham supposedly had. But
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: then Ozzie took it one step further. He gutted the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: fish in the hotel bathroom. It used its bloody innards
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to repaint the hotel room's floors and walls. This was standard, fair,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: everyday behavior for Tony Iomi's bandmates, especially for Ozzie. Ozzy
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Osbourne's behavior was now a constant issue as far as
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: his band leader Tony Iomi was concerned. Tony was fighting
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: for his creative life, trying to save Black Sabbath from
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the Satanists and the critics who were savaging the band
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on a regular basis, none other than the hippist of
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: hip rock critics, Lester Bangs set of the band in
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Rolling Stone's only Black Sabbath album review. To that point, quote,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: despite the murky song titles and some named lyrics that
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: sound like Vanilla Fudge playing doggerel tribute to Alistair Crowley,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: or anything much, just like cream but worse. But when
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it came to the kids who actually bought records, Lester's
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: review didn't matter, nor did the mountain of other bad press.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: By nineteen seventy three, Black Sabbath was as popular as
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: any band in America with the exception of led Zeppelin.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Tony knew that their latest albums, Mass of Reality in
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Volume four, had a lot to do with it. Maybe
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Tony was lying to himself, but he credited the depth
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: of songs like After Forever and Super Not for the
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: band's success. Creatively, they were massive steps forward from the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: earlier meat and potatoes riffage of songs like iron Man
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: and Electric Funeral, and the lyrics Geezer kicked up for
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: After Forever were particularly poignant. From Tony's perspective, After Forever
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: was a warning, a warning to stay the fuck away
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: from satan just like their song Black Sabbath from their
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: first album had warned of a figure in black. After
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Forever warned of the consequences of the dark arts and
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: try to put distance between Black Sabbath and the Satanists.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: But it didn't matter. The incendiary lyrics of After Forever
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: and the steamrolling, heavy hookiness of their latest album's others
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: standout tracks Sweet Leaf, Children of the Grave, Into the Void,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Snow Blind, and Changes all rang out like a demonic
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: siren call to low run American occultists in need of validation.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: The Satanists, it seemed, were not warned off by After Forever.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: They did not get the message, and there was another
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: person who apparently didn't get the message either, Tony Iomi's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: singer Ozzy Osbourne. By the end of nineteen seventy eight,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: somehow someone thought it was a good idea for Black
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Sabbath to go back to Los Angeles. Some sort of
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: change was needed, and this was it. Their nineteen seventy
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: six record Technical Ecstasy, was a disaster, a creative overreach
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: by Tony, a neglectful mess by Geezer Bill and Ozzy,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and the album even bored the Satanists, who had all
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: but abandoned the band by now in favor of other
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: heavy acts who followed in Sabbath gargantuan footsteps for a
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: time afterward, Ozzie had even left the band and was
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: replaced by Dave Walker from the band Savoy Brown. But
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: now for their nineteen seventy eight album, another commercial whiff
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: called Never Say Die, Ozzie had come back, but Ozzie's
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: behavior was too much, even by black Sabbath standards. Back
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: during their first stint in Los Angeles, Ozzie's behavior could
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: be tolerated, but it was different. Now. Tony had to
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: create music that would compete with the likes of Led Zeppelin,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: The Who, and now upstart bands that were wildly energetic
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: like ac DC and wildly talented like Van Halen by
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: rock star standards, Zeppelin's frontman Robert Plant was practically an intellectual,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and The Who's singer Roger Daltrey commanded respect. Singer Bond
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Scott from ac DC was plugged into a different circuit
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: board altogether, and Van Halen's frontman, David Lee Roth, was
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: nothing short of a dynamo with his acrobatic stage presence
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: in washboard abs. Ozzy Osbourne was a buffoon with those
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: doe eyes, those silly bangs that cropped his long hair,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and that perpetual look of stupidity on his mug that
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: always seemed to say, I didn't mean to do it,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I swear. Ozzie passed out and pissed himself regularly. Ozzie
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: got drunk and into a fistfight with Geezer. Ozzie got
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: high on coke and crashed his motorcycle. Ozzie got pissed
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and tried shitting on a motorist in the middle of
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the street out of road rage. By Tony Iomi's estimation,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Ozzy Osbourne's buffoonery was so intense that he wondered if
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Ozzie was trying to sabotage the band. Either way, it
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: didn't matter. Ozzie had to go, and so Tony Iomi
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: unceremoniously kicked his front man out of his band. The
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: maid was summoned to pack his bags. Someone called the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: car service for him. Ozzie was given ninety six grand
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: severance in a low rent apartment in Hollywood to stay
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: into nurse's wounds with copious amounts of cocaine, alcohol, groupies,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: and Domino's pizza. He was out gone. Tony sunk himself
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: further into his work trying to put together songs for
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: a new Sabbath album with a new singer without Ozzie,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: and he also sunk further into his use of cocaine.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: In Hollywood, Tony Iomi connected with the dentist of the
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  Speaker 1: recently deceased Elvis Presley, and by all accounts, his legal
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  Speaker 1: drug dealer, doctor Max Shapiro, who now kept Tony supplied
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  Speaker 1: with regular scripts of pharmaceutical cocaine. But Ozzy Osbourne, as
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  Speaker 1: far as Tony Iomi was concerned, was a ghost, just
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  Speaker 1: like those long gone figures in black, the ones in
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  Speaker 1: the hotel lobby, in the crowd at the foot of
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  Speaker 1: Geezer's bed in the middle of the night. There thank gone,
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  Speaker 1: Tony had no regrets. A new singer, shortened stature but
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  Speaker 1: big voice and determination. Ronnie James, Dio of the band Rainbow,
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  Speaker 1: was brought into Sabbath's ranks to lead the charge for
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  Speaker 1: the kids against the critics and further away from the Satanists,
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  Speaker 1: and Ronnie James Dio would do exactly that with the
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  Speaker 1: first Black Sabbath album released without Ozzy Osbourne and with
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  Speaker 1: Deo at the Helm Co writing material over the newly
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  Speaker 1: inspired Tony Iomi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. The album
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  Speaker 1: Heaven and Hell was nothing short of a heavy mental masterpiece,
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  Speaker 1: more powerful than anything Sabbath had done in years, and
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  Speaker 1: as commercially successful as anything the band had done since
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  Speaker 1: the earlier part of the decade. Black Sabbath was back because,
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  Speaker 1: like the Devil himself, Ozzy Osbourne was cast out. Years later,
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  Speaker 1: Tony took his tea out by the pool on one
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  Speaker 1: of those indistinguishable Hollywood afternoons, perfect temperature loads of sun.
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  Speaker 1: He strained his eyes to read his paper there in
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  Speaker 1: the National section, a follow up on the near cold
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  Speaker 1: case involving the Catholic girls sacrificed in the ritualistic occult
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  Speaker 1: murder in the Devil's Teeth area of New Jersey. There
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  Speaker 1: was still no arrest, but there was a better composite
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  Speaker 1: sketch of the suspect, better than the one Tony had
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  Speaker 1: seen in the paper a few years earlier. The suspect
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  Speaker 1: was now believed to definitely be a man by the sketch,
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  Speaker 1: though who was still a bit hard to tell. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't look like much of a killer. He had long
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  Speaker 1: hair with bangs, like a girl, and for a supposed Satanists,
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  Speaker 1: innocent looking round eyes and that look on his face
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  Speaker 1: it was somehow familiar to Tony. It seemed to say,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do it. I swear such a disgrace.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in this.
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  Speaker 2: It's a special Halloween episode of Disgraceland.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thanks for checking out this episode of Disgraceland.
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  Speaker 1: This being a Halloween episode, we indulged in more poetic
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  Speaker 1: license than normal. So no, Ozzy Osborne wasn't a Satanist,
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  Speaker 1: and no he wasn't responsible for the murder at Devil's Teeth,
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  Speaker 1: but that true crime is indeed true, even the bit
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  Speaker 1: about the dog and the vicar. Google Devil's Teeth Murder
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about it. Freaky stuff. Also, before you
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  Speaker 1: fire off your hate mail, I love Ozzy Osbourne. I
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  Speaker 1: love Sabbath era Ozzy Osbourne, I love Solo era Ozzy Osbourne.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much all of it, even the recent stuff, we
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  Speaker 1: released an entire episode on Ozzy that covers the high
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  Speaker 1: jinks of his solo years as well as his brief
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  Speaker 1: stint in jail and dives deeper into the Snowblind bel
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  Speaker 1: Air era of Black Sabbath as well. So check that
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  Speaker 1: Ozzy episode out in the Disgraceland archive and Happy Halloween,
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