The ‘Back to the Beginning’ Black Sabbath concert was awesome last night for many reasons. First of all, it was a 20th anniversary gift from my Rockin’ wife, so that was most radical! \m/ \m/. What kinda badass wife does this for her husband? Next, I thought the concert itself was well-produced for a 11 hour festival with like 15 bands and super groups, this couldn’t have been easy to…
There is a song by the band Black Sabbath that I’ve always enjoyed because it had a cool jam, but I never really paid attention to the lyrics; honestly, until recently. This song is called “Hand of Doom” from the Black Sabbath Paranoid album. I write this note, in particular on this Memorial Day, for two reasons. First, heavy metal bands, for the most part are terribly misunderstood. For example,…
Note: All credit for this article is attributed to Jim Harrington jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com ********* Review: Black Sabbath delivers powerful farewell Ozzy Osbourne stalked the stage with manic delight. Tony Iommi burned through one face-melting guitar lead after another. And Geezer Butler’s basslines were as heavy as heavy can be. It was a thing of thundering beauty, made all that more poignant by the knowledge that there won’t be many more opportunities to…
Rush recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of their debut album, ‘Rush’, as well as their first tour to promote the album. In honor of such a great memory for this fantastic band I offer my review of Rush: Prelude to Rush album The self-entitled album, Rush, released on March 1, 1974 is still my personal favorite Rush…
For the great combination of ironic lyrics and incredible sound, the song ‘Wake Up Dead’ by Megadeth deserves highest possible KevinNeal Steeler Star rating of ten-out-of-ten stars!