Registrazione di uno storico concerto dei Sabbath del 20 dicembre 1970 all'Olympia di Parigi.
Ascoltando questo bootleg ci si rende perfettamente conto del delirio sonoro proposto dai Sabbath in quegli anni, di quanto fossero "altri" rispetto a tutta la musica di quel periodo.
La voce delirante di Ozzy e la chitarra malsana e cupa di Iommi riescono a creare un'atmosfera veramente allucinante, lontana anni luce da tutto quello che veniva proposto in quegli anni. Ogni volta che sento i Sabbath del primo periodo (fino al '75) non riesco a capire come facessero a tirar fuori quelle sonorità e quei giri così semplici ma allo stesso tempo così carichi di fascino. Non oso immaginare cosa dovesse essere vederli dal vivo...
I momenti da ricordare del concerto sono tanti, non c'è traccia che non trasmetta una sensazione di disagio e di profonda emozione. Sopra tutti i pezzi "Black Sabbath", delirio più unico che raro con la voce straziante di Ozzy che fa da perfetto contraltare ai bicordi stonati di Iommi.
Ascoltando bootlegs come questo ci si rende conto di quanto seminale sia stata l'influenza dei Sabbath in tutta la musica successiva, influenza che continua pesantemente ancora oggi. La più grand band del mondo, anche se non so se tutti se ne siano resi conto.
Elenco tracce e testi
01 Paranoid (00:00)
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
All day long I think of things
But nothing seems to satisfy
Think I'll lose my mind
If I don't find something to pacify
Can you help me
Occupy my brain?
Oh yeah
I need someone to show me
The things in life that I can't find
I can't see the things that make true happiness
I must be blind
Make a joke and I will sigh
And you will laugh and I will cry
Happiness I cannot feel
And love to me is so unreal
And so as you hear these words
Telling you now of my state
I tell you to enjoy life
I wish I could but it's too late
04 N.I.B. (00:00)
Some people say my love cannot be true
Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you
I will give you those things you thought unreal
The sun, the moon, the stars all bear my seal
Oh yeah!
Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time
Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
Oh yeah!
Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you will see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand
Oh yeah!
Follow me now and you will not regret
Leaving the life you led before we met
You are the first to have this love of mine
Forever with me 'till the end of time
Your love for me has just got to be real
Before you know the way I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
I'm going to feel
Oh yeah!
Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you will see who I am
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand
05 Behind The Wall Of Sleep (00:00)
Precious cups within the flower
Deadly petals with strange power
Faces shine a deadly smile
Back up on you at your trial
Chill and numbs from head to toe
Icy sun with frosty glow
Why'd you go reaching your sorrow?
Why'd you go read no tomorrow?
Feel your spirit rise with the priest
Feel your body falling to its knees
Take your wall of remorse
Take your body to a corpse
Take your body to a corpse
Take your body to a corpse
If you want all remorse
Take your body to a corpse
Now from darkness, there springs light
Wall of Sleep is cool and bright
Wall of Sleep is lying broken
Sun shines in, you are awoken
06 War Pigs (00:00)
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death's construction
In the fields the bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
poisoning their brainwashed minds
Oh Lord yeah!
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight
They leave their role to the poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making war just for fun
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait 'till their judgment day comes
Now in darkness world stops turning
Ashes where their bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has struck the hour
Day of judgment God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling
Begging mercy for their sins
Satan laughing spreads his wings
Oh Lord yeah!
07 Fairies Wear Boots (00:00)
Goin' home late last night
Suddenly I got a fright
Yeah I looked through a window
and surprise, what I saw
A fairy with boots tried dancin' with a dwarf
All right now!
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw her, I saw, and I tell you no lies
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw her, I saw her with my own two eyes
All right now!
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah I saw her, I saw her, I tell you no lies
Yeah fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw her, I saw her with my own two eyes
All right now!
So I went to the doc' to see what he could give me
He said son, son, you've gone too far
'Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do
Yeah!
08 Black Sabbath (00:00)
What is this that stands before me
Figure in black which points at me
Turn 'round quick and start to run
Find out I'm the chosen one
Oh, no
Big black shape with eyes of fire
Telling people their desire
Satan sitting there, he's smiling
Watches those flame get higher and higher
Oh, God--please help me
Oh, no--no
Child cries out for its mother
Mother screaming in the fire
Satan points at me again
Opens the door to push me in
Oh, no
Oh, God
Is it the end my friend
Satan's coming 'round the bend
People running 'cause they're scared
You people better go and beware
No, no
Please, God--no
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