In very much the same way that the Velvet Underground might have been tragically forgotten had Bowie had not name-checked them in interviews regularly in the early 70’s, this recording of a up-and-coming unknown obscure struggling Birmingham band called ‘Earth’ playing in Dumfries, Scotland in November 1969….(A fair long journey from Brum!!)…would have vanished into the void….and they would have become yet another forgotten unwanted late-60’s pale-faced UK white-boy blues band destined to play pubs and working mens club type venues until they split thru “bad management” and “musical differences”……had this particular band not transformed into something much much more original, ground-breaking, and influential to a total MULTITUDE of future not-yet-born Rockers and Metallers….that (without trying to) spawned a whole new genre of music that we call HEAVY METAL….and 20 years later, spawned a new genre of music within that particular genre of music. Imagine a paralleI 1968 where you had Pink Floyd’s “Scream thy last scream”, The Beatles “What’s the new Mary Jane” and The Factory’s “Path through the forest” in the Top Ten singles that week, rather than Engleberk Humpaduck….it’s a lovely thought. 40 to 50 year old songs on bootleg because they were never officially released – because the artists felt they weren’t good enough – that still have more originality than today’s official releases. It would seem that yesterday’s worst is still better than today’s best…….very true in so many cases. Re-arrange the letters of that last word you just saw in capital letters….and hopefully you see my point. That said, why are we harking back so much to an era long gone, bands we’ll never see and musicians who we’ll never get to meet or speak to? (unless you’re a dab hand with a ouija board….) Clearly something has also long gone that’s making 40-something year old unreleased rejected barrel-scrapings be of more genuine interest than today’s officially released popular present-day HITS. on modern-day hi-fi systems while totally sober in 2017 HAS to be better than the 1967 equivalent – listening to much-loved and revered CLASSIC songs…….that would not be considered or deemed so for another decade at least….on a primitive tinny-sounding dansette with a speaker the size of a present-day mobile phone, only nowhere as loud or clear…… even if/when “smoking and tripping is all that you do…” Well, that’s what my rock’n’roll doctor told me anyhows. Well….what a wonderful time to be alive! As they say, if you can actually remember the late 60’s and early 70’s…then, you weren’t really there… (man.) So….are we really able to enjoy and appreciate rock musics ‘golden era’ more so or easier so now? Probably….listening to a remastered C.D. Drums Solo), The Warning, Wicked World, Behind The Wall Of Sleep, Early Morning School, N.I.B., Blue Blooded Man (61:38) Black Sabbath, Let Me Love You Baby, Song For Jim (incl. That’s how we ended up doing songs like ‘Changes,’ which didn’t sound like anything we’d ever done before.Rugmans Youth Club, Dumfries, Scotland – November 16, 1969 If other people happened to like what we were doing, that was just a bonus. “We wanted to impress ourselves before we impressed anyone else. In his 2010 autobiography I Am Ozzy, Osbourne explained how a guy who later became known for biting the heads off of flying animals came up with a heartfelt song like this one. Appropriately credited to all four Black Sabbath members – vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward – the song dealt with emotional changes, not the hormonal ones that Big Mouth centers around. It’s likely that most younger viewers, while they may think the melody sounds familiar, don’t realize that this song was originally a slow, piano-based piece about the pain of marital breakup. For several years, the chorus from “Changes,” performed by the late soul artist Charles Bradley, has been the intro music to the Netflix animated comedy Big Mouth, about a group of tweens dealing with puberty.
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