Tony Iommi at his best
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Topic: Tony Iommi at his best
Posted By: WaywardSon
Subject: Tony Iommi at his best
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:19
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Which is your favourite Iommi solo?
For me itīs his incredible solo on "Lonely is the word" off the "Heaven and Hell" album.
Can that possibly be beaten?
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:22
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Keep It Warm, although the song and the whole album it comes from are rather average.
-- Ivan ------------- sig |
Posted By: Orion-GER
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:25
"Heaven And Hell" is a masterpiece! |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 10:28
Your words, not mine....  That's what I meant in the rather convoluted original post of the thread I opened yesterday. Perhaps not technical in a strict sense (or even in any sense), but oozing emotion and menace... That album is one of my all-time favourites in the whole world of rock music (do I gain extra points for that?  ).As to "Keep it Warm", you might forgive me if I've gone a bit off that album ("Born Again"). You see, I was there at Reading in 1983 when the Gillan-led Sabbath played "Smoke on the Water" to an utterly flabbergasted audience....  |
RycheMan wrote:Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 12:28
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Gillan actually stated later on that he thought Born Again was one of the worst albums he has ever done! But the guitar solo on Keep it warm is good though. Regarding GR asking if she gets extra points, definitely not! (After leaving me to be mauled by DT fan boys and going offline to watch a Maiden DVD, Just how low can one stoop? |
(BTW I wrote 2 Deep Purple reviews while you were watching your DVD) ProgArchives needs serious people like me!
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 12:34
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I haven't seen them yet... must go and check them out! Back IT, at first I quite liked "Born Again", but then, after that dreadful performance, my love affair with it began to sour. BTW, on the occasion of that particular Reading festival, Sabbath headlined on Saturday evening, while the headliners of the Sunday were the mighty Thin Lizzy - featuring John Sykes on guitar - and they gave one of the most memorable performances of their career. The comparison was really detrimental for the poor Sabs. |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 12:49
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I liek a lot of Iommi solos, some that come to mind are, of course, "Heaven and Hell" and "Black Sabbath" (that whole song has fantastic guitar work), but also Iron Man, "Zero The Hero"'s ending solo, and others. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 13:09
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Born Again has only really good song on it, the rest varies from okay to very disappointing.
-- Ivan ------------- sig |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 13:12
The two albums he recorded with Glenn Hughes (and please, keep Sean out of here, please, or I'll never hear the end of it... ) contain lots of great solos from Tony, besides Glenn's absolutely out of this world vocals. Check in particular "Fused"'s closing track, "I Go Insane".
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 14:26
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I went off 'Born Again' too- I liked it at first but after a while, it hit me how cheesy and bad the album mostly was. That applies to the second side of the album- 'Keep It Warm' is dreadful, 'Hot Line' is vocally excruciating, 'Digital Bitch' is plain embarassing and the title track is the dullest thing the band recorded until then. However, 'Disturbing The Priest' is one of the best post-Ozzy songs the band did, imo.
'N.I.B.' has probably my favourite Iommi solo, btw.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 14:29
 to "Disturbing the Priest", and I also agree 100% with the rest of your analysis. They should've stuck with RJ Dio.
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 14:33
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Yeah, 'Disturbing The Priest' is the only really good track. Gotta love Gillan's vocals on that one, as well as the whole atmosphere.
-- Ivan ------------- sig |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 14:39
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I really can't bring myself to listen to any post-Ozzy Sabbath, so I choose Symptom of the Universe. ------------- http://www.myspace.com/altaic" rel="nofollow - http://www.myspace.com/altaic ALTAIC "Oceans Down You'll Lie" coming soon |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 16:08
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Lonely is the Word and Symptom of the Universe are my two favorite solos from Iommi.
I thought Born Again was just about the most awful 2nd rate garage band garbage I'd ever heard, never even made it all the way through that album. ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 17:51
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the two "War Pigs" solos are awesome, though I can't say I've heard much Sabbath.
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Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 18:02
| Turn up the |Night from 'Mob Rules' simple but electrifying. |
Posted By: Minkia
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 19:12
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The solo on Lonely is the World is an excellent one even though the song, towards the end, echoes Hairway to Steven by Zeppelin too much for my liking.
I don't know why some of you have slated Born Again by Black Sabbath. I mean, the album is not one bit as abysmal as, say, St Anger by Metallicarse. However, in my opinion, Iommi's best solo is on Falling off the Edge of the World from Mob Rules. ------------- RELIGION IS HATE, RELIGION IS FEAR, RELIGION IS WAR,RELIGION IS RAPE, RELIGION'S OBSCENE,RELIGION'S A WHORE |