Defenders Of The Faith, le forum Metal

Brother of Steel a écrit :J'espère ne pas faire de doublon, mais j'ai cherché et n'ai trouvé nulle part un tel sondage. A vos souris donc.

Almost 30 years ago Czech singer Marie Rottrova (whom you never heard of but she is still famous here) recorded a cover version of Black Sabbath - She´s gone. And because the original record (as most of the others form the western world) wasn´t available at that time here, she was very successful. The song itself is beatiful here but the perfomance by Ozzy is weak in my opinion.

Much later I had had a chance to hear the original and must say the Czech cover sounds better (maybe because of the lyrics). It may sound weird to you, but.....

I am sending the Czech song (TV appearance from 2005 or what) just to add to your collection. The singer is now in her sixties and this one belongs to one of her greatest hits:



Lately the song was performed in the Czech version of the TV contest ...IDOL by some pretty girl, see here:

Guitar World: Paranoid, Black Sabbath's 1970 breakthrough second album, is considered by many to be the band's finest hour.

Tony Iommi: "I think the reason that record turned out so well was that we had a long time to work out all the material. We were playing seven 45-minute sets each day in a dusty old club in Switzerland, in front of anywhere from three to two dozen people. Rehearsing like that for six weeks really tightened us up. It also enabled us to experiment more because we really only had enough songs for one set each day-certainly not seven. It gave us a chance to make stuff up and rearrange existing songs."

GW: What was the recording process like for that album?

Iommi: "We recorded it over the course of a few days in a tiny eight-track studio at Regent Sound in England. It was like recording in a garage. We stuck a mic in front of my cabinet, and I played the original track with the band, did an overdub and that was it. To us it was like going to a gig. We thought that a couple of days was plenty of time to record and mix and album."

GW: What prompted you to use Laney amplification on that album?

Iommi: "The reason was quite simple. Laney was from Birmingham, and so were we. They were a new company that started out at about the same time that we did, in 1968. They were very helpful to us, and we worked together. They gave us all the amplification we needed."

GW: You played a Fender Stratocaster on the first Sabbath album, but switched to a Gibson SG on Paranoid.

Iommi: "That was because my Strat broke while we were still recording the first album. The pickup broke, and in those days you couldn’t get any replacement pickups. My SG was my second guitar. It was always sitting around, and I never really played it. All of a sudden I had to get used to it. I used it ever since and have never looked back."

GW: Can you show us how you play the opening riff to “Paranoid”?

Iommi: "Sure. I’ve seen many guitarists play this riff in the seventh position, but that’s not where I do it. I play it in the 12th position – like this. [Figure 1] I play the riff here because this E5 chord voicing sounds distinctly darker than the same two notes played in the seventh position."

BLACK SABBATH/HEAVEN AND HELL guitarist Tony Iommi recently spoke to Guitar World magazine about his 40 years in music, and one of the subjects broached by writer Chris Gill was the fact that a handful of BLACK SABBATH songs recorded in the band's early days when they were still known as EARTH — including "The Rebel", "When I Came Down" and "Song For Jim" — have yet to be released to this day.

According to Iommi, "We didn’t write those songs. They were written by a chap named Norman Haines. At the time we were managed by Jim Simpson, who was a local Birmingham guy. He insisted that we record these songs that his friend Norman had written. We just wanted to play, so we recorded them. We wanted to write our own songs and make our own record, but this was just an initial effort. We had never been in a recording studio in our lives before that. It was a very basic studio. Even back then we never really wanted those recordings to see the light of day. Those songs sound nothing remotely like BLACK SABBATH."

On April 6th, Universal Music UK are issuing BLACK SABBATH's Paranoid as a three-CD Deluxe Expanded Edition. Paranoid is the first release in a set of Black Sabbath deluxe expanded editions. Each remastered album includes an additional disc of previously unheard outtakes, demos and instrumental tracks taken from the original studio sessions.

Paranoid is expanded to a triple-disc containing the extremely rare 1974 Quadraphonic mix of the album. The album also includes deluxe digipak gatefold packaging with expanded booklets containing rare and previously unseen photographs, comprehensive sleeve-notes telling the story behind each album and include images of rare single covers and memorabilia from the period.

Paranoid is the second album by the British heavy metal band Black Sabbath. It was released in the United Kingdom during September 1970, and contains some of their most famous work, including the songs 'Iron Man', 'War Pigs' and the title track. The album is regarded as a classic of the heavy metal genre and one of the most influental heavy metal albums. It has been certified 4x Platinum, having sold over four million copies in the US alone, making it Black Sabbath's best-selling album.

The 'Paranoid' single, released before the album, reached number four in the UK. Pushed by its success, the album hit number one in the UK, and is the only Black Sabbath album to have done so. The US release was held until January 1971, as the Black Sabbath album was still on the charts at the time of Paranoid's UK release. The album broke into the top ten in the US in March 1971, and would go on to sell four million copies in the US alone, with virtually no radio airplay.

Tracklisting for the rerelease is as follows:

Disc 1 (Original Album):
1. 'War Pigs'
2. 'Paranoid'
3. 'Planet Caravan'
4. 'Iron Man'
5. 'Electric Funeral'
6. 'Hand Of Doom'
7. 'Rat Salad'
8. 'Fairies Wear Boots'

Disc 2 (1974 Quadrophonic Mix):
1. 'War Pigs'
2. 'Paranoid'
3. 'Planet Caravan'
4. 'Iron Man'
5. 'Electric Funeral'
6. 'Hand Of Doom'
7. 'Rat Salad'
8. 'Fairies Wear Boots'

Disc 3 (Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks):
(Tracks 1-8 recorded at Regent Sound Studios, June 16th and 17th, 1970)
1. 'War Pigs' (instrumental)
2. 'Paranoid' (alternative lyrical version)
3. 'Planet Caravan' (alternative lyrical version)
4. 'Iron Man' (instrumental)
5. 'Electric Funeral' (instrumental)
6. 'Hand Of Doom' (instrumental)
7. 'Rat Salad' (instrumental)
8. 'Fairies Wear Boots' (instrumental)

Inspired by the rhythms of the Midland’s furnaces, drummer Bill Ward went on to conquer the world with BLACK SABBATH. He tells Ian Harvey about the band’s early days and the song that would change all their lives.

Do you recognise this song from these lyrics? “I love you but you don’t want to know me but I think you’re great and I want to see.”

Or how about these: “You and me are through I know but you’re on my mind all day long.”

How different rock history might have been had Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler not refined the lyrics of their last minute ‘album filler’ to begin: “Finished with my woman ‘cause she couldn’t help me with my mind, People think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time.”

That song, based on Tony Iommi’s iconic guitar riff, became 'Paranoid', one of the greatest heavy metal anthems of all time, and along with the album of the same name helped propel Black Sabbath to rock superstardom.

Now, 39 years after its 1970 release, the album Paranoid is being rereleased as a 3CD deluxe edition, featuring the original album, a quadraphonic mix and a disc full of instrumental and alternate versions.

Sabbath drummer Bill Ward recalls: “There was some spare tape left, so we said let’s see if we can get another song and we all went down the pub which is the best place to work - well, it was then - and when we got back Tony had got a really, really good riff.

“Tony and Geezer and myself just sat in and just started playing and it didn’t take long at all to have the song with all its parts pretty much done. I think within the afternoon it was taken care of.

“Ozzy had his jamming lyrics, almost rough stuff, as we jammed down the first things.

“It probably pretty much in the ballpark, his melody’s there. We did that with quite a lot of our songs and we would change that around until we reached the final album version.”

According to Drowned In Sound, legendary heavy metal band BLACK SABBATH will have five more albums from its back catalogue reissued on September 21 through Universal Music in the U.K., with all five being made into deluxe editions with extras and incentives to purchase, such as new photos and liner notes (but no bonus tracks).

The albums to get the reissue treatment are as follows:

* "Vol 4" (1972)
* "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (1973)
* "Sabotage" (1975)
* "Technical Ecstasy" (1976)
* "Never Say Die!" (1978)

The deluxe expanded editions of BLACK SABBATH's 1970 self-titled debut and 1971 third album "Master Of Reality" — both with alternate studio versions, demos and instrumentals of classic songs and in the case of the latter, previously released track "Weevil Woman" — were made available in June via Sanctuary/Universal Music.