A tribute to heavy metal and hard rock fans
Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1979. The original line-up of Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward finally reunited in 1997.
Date recorded: 4-5 December 1997 (that’s why the change in Ozzy’s shirt?)
Venue: Birmingham NEC
Note: Off Reunion, a 2 CD live album. This was the first Black Sabbath official live album featuring Ozzy.
Ozzy Osbourne performs as a solo artist but has original Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler. Completing the lineup: new guitarist Zakk Wylde, Randy Castillo, John Sinclair.
Venue: Moscow’s largest stadium, Lenin Stadium.
Turnout: > 100,000.
About the festival: The event was the first rock concert to be held at the stadium. Other groups performing included Scorpions, Motley Crue and Bon Jovi. It was a one-time gathering of high-profile hard rock acts who put on a concert for the people in Moscow to promote world peace and establish international cooperation in fighting the drug war in Russia. The fact that many of the performers were themselves drug users is another story.
“The concert exposed the Soviet Union to western culture, rock music, and united what was considered a very divisive world previously. The concert was also a pinnacle moment in glam metal and the peak in hard rock music’s popularity.”
Paranoid appeared on their second, and breakthrough album of the same name. Supposedly written in 15 minutes based on a guitar solo by Tony Iommi. It is one of Black Sabbath’s most well known songs. Paranoid was ranked No.1 in a Martin Popoff book “The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time”. He requested metal fans, musicians, and journalists to tell him their favourite heavy metal songs: received 18,000 individual votes.
This is apparently the original music video (confirmation needed):
Sometimes there’s nothing better to do than to simply pick up your acoustic guitar and jam along with the classic.
About 35,000 people in the crowd, full capacity of the place, were at the event. Had a larger venue been available, organizers expected a 150,000 turnout.
Ian Gillan on lead vocals.
One of rock’s greatest ever songs, off their legendary LP “Machine Head” (1971). There’s a long, classical-style guitar and organ solo. It’s probably the world’s first speed metal song.
The was Deep Purple’s first song in a concert performance for many years, while nowadays it appears as an encore.
Original lineup. Now how many times can you hear Ian Gillan say about Highway Star: “this is off our new album”?
This video was taken from the European tour which happened a few months before the Japanese tour. Filmed in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 1972. Ian wanted to quit the band in August just before the Japan tour started, but was persuaded to stay for that tour and the US tour the next year.
Child In Time is off Deep Purple In Rock.
If you have information on this concert footage i.e. date, title of DVD etc pls inform me. Thanks.
This was the last song on Whitesnake’s 1997 live unplugged album entitled “Starkers in Tokyo”. The whole album features David Coverdale on vocals and Adrian Vandenberg on acoustic guitar. The performance was recorded at the EMI studios in Japan for a small audience of fans.
Soldier of Fortune is perhaps the best known song off Deep Purple’s 9th studio album, Stormbringer, released Dec 1974. The album marked a major shift in musical direction, where soul and funk elements became prominent. This displeased some fans and Blackmore himself, who left soon after the album release.
Written by David Coverdale and Ritchie Blackmore.
Lineup:
* Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
* David Coverdale – lead vocals
* Glenn Hughes – bass, vocals
* Jon Lord – organ, keyboards
* Ian Paice – drums
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