TRUTH BE TOLD
Sábado sabbathico. História mais ou menos conhecida de “Live At Last“, simultaneamente disco ao vivo oficial e bootleg:
BLACK SABBATH – “Live At Last” which was originally going to be titled “Fire On The Mountain” was initially intended for a May 1973 release, but was shelved by the bands record label at the time. NOTE: Info was taken from an article in a 1973 issue of a Circus Music Magazine.
Recorded on March 11th, 1973, at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall, the gig (as well as London’s Rainbow Theater show, five days later) was documented for a proposed first official live album release with the title: “Fire On The Mountain” to coincide with a U.S. summer tour of the same name.
When Warner Brothers heard the raw live tapes, they immediately rejected it (thinking the performance wasn’t strong enough). Therefore after canceling the tour, Warner Bros. instructed the band to go to L.A. to record a new full length studio album, instead.
It was at this time that Iommi was suffering from what is known as “writer’s block” and so they eventually returned to the U.K. after a month or so, with nothing to show to the label.
Upon returning, Iommi eventually started getting some good song ideas again, and thus the band started recording “Sabbath, bloody Sabbath” in September 1973.
The live album remained unreleased until their former manager Patrick Meehan (rip off artist) released it (against the band’s will) as “Live At Last” in 1980.
It has since been re-released twice now, first as part of the now long out of print double “Past Lives” CD in the early 2000’s, and secondly finally as a properly remastered and issued (in the correct track order) as CD 4 of the super deluxe “Vol 4″ CD set from 2021.
Fonte: página facebúquica The Metal Realm, q tirou da Circus Magazine, citada. Página sobre “Live At Last” no Metal Archieves tb contém a história, contada mais sucintamente https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Black_Sabbath/Live_at_Last/505