“I sat there during the lunch break and came up with the main riff for ‘Paranoid,’ Iommi said. So after tracking the other seven songs, Black Sabbath wrote the title track on the spot. One of the biggest suggestions was to write another song for the album that would serve as a single. He came up with a few suggestions here and there and we’d do it.” A lot of producers tried that, but dismally failed. It sounds easy, but it’s actually a really hard thing to do - to record a band live in the studio and get the whole feeling across. We just went in, set up and played live in the studio and they recorded us. “We didn’t know anything about studios or production or engineering. “We literally went in and played as if it was a live gig,” Butler said. It was quite the opposite.”Ĭompared to the single day Black Sabbath had to record their first album, six days seemed like a luxury.įortunately, they had played some of the songs on the road, so when the stepped into the studio they acted on instinct. We didn’t feel like rock stars or anything. That brought us closer together and made us more determined to be successful. And our friends used to laugh at the idea that we’d ever be successful at what we were doing. “Our families had no nope in us whatsoever of ever making anything of ourselves,” Butler said. and they’re main goal was to prove to their families that they weren’t wasting their time making music.” They didn’t realize a loyal fan base was building in the U.S. Sabbath started working on Paranoid so soon after returning from the road, all they had seen was negative reviews of their first album from the world’s rock press. We still hadn’t realized we had made it, you see?” “It felt like the four of us against the world. “We finished the first album, toured Europe for six weeks and then went right back in the studio,” bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler told me in 2010.
It took just six days because, well, that’s all they were given. And they tracked the entire album at Regent Sound Studios and Island Studios in London between June 16 and 21. The landmark release, which includes the metal staples “Paranoid,” “War Pigs” and “Iron Man,” was recorded live in the studio with producer Rodger Bain. Take, their second album, Paranoid, which was released on September 18, 1970.
Yes, vocalist Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward were reinventing the mythology of rock ‘n’ roll as they stormed from one town to another, but they had their act together enough to write some legendary music. But what they often fail to absorb is that all six albums were released within a five year timeframe. When fans and critics look back at the early career of Black Sabbath they recognize that the band released six groundbreaking albums in a row before being consumed by their appetites for drugs and alcohol.
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