Black Sabbath

小简介      诞生于1969年伯明翰的乐队是由贝司手GEEZER BUTLER，吉他手TONY IOMMI，鼓手BILL WARD，歌手Ozzy Osbourne组成。1969年乐队把原名“Earth”改成了“BLACK SABBATH”他们以使用纯正音色，极度简化的音乐和魔术般的联想著称。1970年推出了第一张同名专辑《BLACK SABBATH》。他们的第二张专辑《PARANOID》中的同名专辑也取得了一次瞬间的轰动。乐队的演出结合了核战争与死亡的主题，还显示了毒品，青年反叛的厄运和毁灭与队的感染力是建立在于青年观众一对一的确定的基础上。但几乎没有电台乐于给他们播放唱片，其中最著名的就是《MASTERS OF REALITY》和《SABBATH BLOODY SABBATH》他们的巡演也几乎场场爆满。在八十年代BLACK SABBATH的人员一直在处于不断的变化中，只有IOMMO一人一直留在乐队中。到了九十年代BLACK SABBATH已渐渐的被人遗忘，但他们早期的唱片仍能给新一代的乐队和听众带来灵感。 大事记 1969年——1979年初： Ozzy Osbourne为SABBATH的主唱，不过从其网站了解到实际上1977年10月到78年1月这一段时期OZZY因为个人问题离开了乐队，这一段时间内Never Say Die专集的准备暂由前FLEETWOOD MAC乐队的成员Dave Walker代替，可惜的是Dave在时仅参加过1978年1月BBC Midlands的“Look Here!”节目，并没有留下太多痕迹。78年OZZY返回乐队录制这张Never Say Die但很可惜由于太多私人的原因，这张专集中已经少有OZZY的声音，大多数都是由鼓手Bill Ward演唱。这张专集拖延了很长时间才完成，79年初在Dio来之前的一些日子里，OZZY终被“解雇”了。 1979年3月——1982年10月： Ronnie James Dio为SABBATH的主唱，乐队的风格多少因为主唱的原因发生了改变，Dio的风格与OZZY不同，但从某种角度上演绎了另外一支优秀的SABBATH乐队，依旧有众多的乐迷支持这SABBATH。在此期间乐队是非也是连绵不断，从一开始OZZY的离开，到贝司手的往返，前QUARTZ乐队的Geoff Nicholls从贝司到键盘的更换，鼓手Bill暂时离去，还有其中一些说不清的问题。但是乐队在这期间还是有新作品发行，Dio在期间曾发行过"Heaven and Hell","Mob Rules","Live Evil"都仍旧属于经典的专集。 1982年——1997年3月： 在这漫长的十五年里SABBATH乐队的成员聚聚散散，重金属乐队的猛烈增长，各种金属流派的出现，使大多数的重金属乐迷渐渐将注意力转移到新的乐队，新的音乐风格中去，但无论任何人提起SABBATH的时候都会以其前几张专集赞叹崇拜不已，已经很少有人会关心SABBATH的后来，在这些年中他们的变化与成长。 在这漫长的十年里乐队不仅仅是风格的变化，最重要的是川流不息的成员更换，MOLD一直以为SABBATH乐队只有三位主唱，就是OZZY、Bio和Martin但直到浏览了他们的网站之后，才发现DEEP PURPLE的Ian Gillan曾在Born Again中担任主唱，这张专集从血腥奸邪恐怖的婴儿封面到作品的阴邪气质都证明了其可听性。84年的春天Ian Gillan离开了SABBATH返回自己的世界重组DEEP PURPLE，SABBATH随即又招来了其他人，从84年到87年的3月左右，乐队简直可以说是乱七八糟，乐手因为各种原因离开，乐队进入冷冻时期，即使是老IOMMI的召唤也看似无济于事，即使在这期间发行过几张专集，MOLD也没有听过，真有被人将要淡忘的迹象。87年的3月在仍旧没有贝司手的情况下，Tony Martin成为乐队的新主唱，基本上到OZZY的重返期间，均由Martin担任这个位置，这期间乐队的风格几乎曾游走型，你几乎无法再寻找出色的专集出来，乐队成员如果没有达成默契，即使是IOMMI也无能为力。 97年3月——： OZZY又一次回到乐队中，乐队又恢复了往昔的阵容，98年发行了一张象征重组的专集"Reunion"中又一次品味了SABBATH的经典之作。时至今日，SABBATH是否仍旧存在已经显得不是那么重要了，他们留给众人的已经被铭记于心，而他们的历程不管是光彩夺目还是暗淡无光都会因为他们持久的毅力而令每一个人敬佩不已。 在SABBATH这支乐队里，最令MOLD欣赏的人莫过于Tony Iommi，热爱这种音乐的真实体现，就是用你的心去倾听，用你的一生去投入，Iommi从未停止过脚步，这种音乐就是他的生命，也始终属于他。 最后MOLD将SABBATH网站一个关于乐队乐手更换的数目列于此你便知晓这三十年的变化是如何纷乱与频繁的了。 领衔吉他：Tony Iommi，他是乐队的核心，从未更换过，即使是69年的短暂出行也根本微不足道。 Black Sabbath has been so influential in the development of heavy metal rock music as to be a defining force in the style. The group took the blues-rock sound of late '60s acts like Cream, Blue Cheer, and Vanilla Fudge to its logical conclusion, slowing the tempo, accentuating the bass, and emphasizing screaming guitar solos and howled vocals full of lyrics expressing mental anguish and macabre fantasies. If their predecessors clearly came out of an electrified blues tradition, Black Sabbath took that tradition in a new direction, and in so doing helped give birth to a musical style that continued to attract millions of fans decades later. The group was formed by four teenage friends from Aston, near Birmingham, England: Anthony "Tony" Iommi (b. Feb 19, 1948), guitar; William "Bill" Ward (b. May 5, 1948), drums; John "Ozzy" Osbourne (b. Dec 3, 1948), vocals; and Terence "Geezer" Butler (b. Jul 17, 1949), bass. They originally called their jazz-blues band Polka Tulk, later renaming themselves Earth, and they played extensively in Europe. In early 1969, they decided to change their name again when they found that they were being mistaken for another group called Earth. Butler had written a song that took its title from a novel by occult writer Dennis Wheatley, Black Sabbath, and the group adopted it as their name as well. As they attracted attention for their live performances, record labels showed interest, and they were signed to Phillips Records in 1969. In January 1970, the Phillips subsidiary Fontana released their debut single, "Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me)," a cover of a song that had just become a U.S. hit for Crow; it did not chart. The following month, a different Phillips subsidiary, Vertigo, released Black Sabbath's self-titled debut album, which reached the U.K. Top Ten. Though it was a less immediate success in the U.S. — where the band's recordings were licensed to Warner Bros. Records and appeared in May 1970 — the LP broke into the American charts in August, reaching the Top 40, remaining in the charts over a year, and selling a million copies. Appearing at the start of the '70s, Black Sabbath embodied the Balkanization of popular music that followed the relatively homogenous second half of the 1960s. As exemplified by its most popular act, the Beatles, the 1960s suggested that many different aspects of popular music could be integrated into an eclectic style with a broad appeal. The Beatles were as likely to perform an acoustic ballad as a hard rocker or R&B-influenced tune. At the start of the 1970s, however, those styles began to become more discrete for new artists, with soft rockers like James Taylor and the Carpenters emerging to play only ballad material, and hard rockers like Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk Railroad taking a radically different course, while R&B music turned increasingly mi