[Heeplist] BS 13 (nhc)

[Bob Winward]

I am sure glad you are no longer a lurker!!  Great points!!


On 8/4/13 9:29 PM, "Rys Miller" <rys_miller at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Those are all really good points, and I'm sure that exposure lured in the
> 
fringe people who bought the album more out of curiosity or because it's
> 
"cool" or "trendy" to like anything related to Ozzy nowadays.  It's sad that
> 
the name Black Sabbath is more like  a tradeable commodity - they even sell
> 
Sabs t-shirts in Best buy now!  Of course, I'm sure anyone with a passing
> 
interest in heavy rock would be likely to buy the album based solely on all
> 
the hype that surrounded it! And the whole thing about leaving Bill out just
> 
added fuel to the fire and piqued people's curiosity even more!

And yes as
> Igor said whenever a band of Sabs calibre does anything it is an 
EVENT and
> people want to be there to be part of history, for better or for 
worse.  Even
> tonight a large chunk of my friends are in NJ at the Sabs show 
even though I
> can only imagine Ozzy blundering his way through it.

And yes Ozzy was always
> known as a great front man vs being a great singer 
(although there are people
> who adore his singing style but to each his own). 
I do believe that the early
> Sabbath stuff wouldn't have been as powerful or 
noteworthy (maybe? not a good
> word??) with a more "pedestrian" type of 
vocalist.  that being said, Dio's
> style was perfect for the albums he was 
on, but that was the natural
> progression of the band, just as Heep naturally 
progressed with their
> vocalists (for better or for worse, but that¹s 
something I'm not
> knowledgeable enough to even speculate about.)

Rys x
> 


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