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TRUTH BE TOLD

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Li outro dia no Facebook, nalguma página metaleira (The Metal Realm ou Peregrinos da Sabbacracia), q a letra de “A National Acrobat”, do “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”, é “sobre esperma”.

Como é?

Pego a autobio do Geezer Butler e ele confirma:

“Clearwell Castle got everyone’s creative juices flowing, and I even plucked up the courage to play Tony one of my guitar riffs, which he liked. After a few Tony tweaks, it became ‘A National Acrobat’, which is one of my favoutite Sabbath songs (and not because I wrote it!). Ozzy‘s on record as saying ‘A National Acrobat’ is about wanking, and he’s on the right track. I was thinking about the billions of sperm that don’t result in someone being born, and that song os specifically about a sperm that thinks it’s going to become a person but never does, and who (or what) decides which sperm make it or don’t.

I was reading a lot of science fiction and horror around the time, as well as watching some schocking films, like The Exorcist and A Clockwork Orange. Those influences, combined with the doomy atmosphere of the castle and the weed I was smoking, made for some deep lyrics, some of the best I wrote”.

Fonte: “Into the Void – From the Birth to Black Sabbath And Beyond”, p. 126.

TRUTH BE TOLD

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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

DOCUMENTO

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A melhor meia hora (e cinquenta e seis segundos) q todos poderão ter no dia, na semana, neste mês. O q consigo dizer, por ora, disso:

  • Tony e Brian estão nos devendo um álbum há tempos. O q me remete a uma conversa off-blog uma vez com o märZ, onde ficamos nos perguntando quem seriam baixista e baterista nisso

O amigo falava em Geezer Butler no baixo, enquanto eu só me lembro de lamentar q Cozy Powell tivesse falecido. Fico pensando em quem seria um produtor à altura…

  • pau no cu dos guitarristas de YouTube

EU ROUBARIA ESSE ÁLBUM

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Não sei se entendi bem: colaboração entre Tony Iommi, Serj Tankian e o CEO da Gibson, Cesar Gueikian (baterista?) (certamente armênio). Com intenção de vender guitarra, estrear canal de tv youtúbico (contradição?) e arrecadar fundos pra refugiados armênios.

Algo pra q Iommi é louvavelmente (existe esse advérbio?) recorrente.

O q acho q entendi, concordando com comentário no YouTube: não foram gravados, ou mixados (som e voz) por mesma pessoa, em mesmo estúdio. O videoclipe, enquanto videoclipe, é bem tosco. É o mundo das collabs. Mas não achei ruim.

O q eu gostaria q acontecesse: Iommi dando a Tankian um armário de fitas cassetes e dezenas de pendrives com riffs não utilizados. Dizendo: “ouve aí e escolhe uns 13. Bora fazer um disco?”

O q eu acho? Daria pra vários discos e ficariam do caralho.

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