What music are you listening to currently?

[Derek]

One of the great could have, should have, made it bigger bands. Live from the Paradiso, Amsterdam 1979. The audience don't sound too up for it, but the band give it a

John Perry who plays that great opening riff on "Another Girl another Planet" often tours Ireland with Martin Stephenson (of The Daintees) and they are well worth catching live.

Perry could really play back then, I imagine he got better over the years.

[Ivor]

Perry could really play back then, I imagine he got better over the years.

You Tube evidence shows he's better than ever..

[cybot]

Nice one Dermot, that must have been close enough to the end for Sabbath.
Probably has Tommy Clufetos on drums, he'd been with Ozzy's band.
Mind you after reading the book I realised, I really didn't know who was in the band at any given time since Ozzy left in '79.
A mad amount of line up changes.

Thanks Derek. A crazy amount of lineup changes indeed. That live in the studio video is from 2017. The one I wanted from around the same time has mysteriously disappeared. It’s only amazing. ‘Behind the Wall of Sleep’. The atmosphere is the studio is palpable. Endtimes. I still remember the very first time I heard it in my local record shop. For once the crabby owner wasn’t there and myself and my mate plucked up the courage to ask his assistant to play it. Wow! There wasn’t a soul in the shop and it was late evening. I still remember gazing down the long corridor beyond the counter. Spooky. Sad to say my mate passed on only a month ago. Sigh…..

Sorry to hear about your pal, Dermot. It's always tough losing an old friend. I may have posted my Sabbath story before, but my best friend in school back in the early seventies had an older brother who had the first proper stereo I heard. He was very possessive about it and wouldn't let our greasy little mits near it. When he went out he used to pop the fuse out of the bank of the amp and we eventually twigged this and bought a fuse. The first track we played was Wheels of Confusion from Black Sabbath Vol.4 and that just blew me away and opened new doors for me. I remember getting a few slaps from the older brother when he came home unexpectedly, but it was well worth it to hear Vol. 4, Led 2, In the Court of the Crimson King, etc.

Ah thanks for that Johnny! Brilliant story on the fuse. So funny. Music was our life back then and pretty scarce too. Sometimes I dream about being back home in our kitchen listening to War Pigs on my big brother’s HMV reel to reel machine from just the one inbuilt speaker. Bliss.

As for Perry absolutely brilliant guitarist. Thankfully I those classic albums including the John Peel Sessions. From memory I’m sure he spoke about a track on those sessions where, to get the feedback effect he wanted, he threw his plugged-in guitar down a flight of stairs!

[cybot]

…..and speaking about BBC Sessions how about this 😊 in colour. Words just fail me…..

[markof]

[cybot]

Love it! Keep them coming Mark!

[cybot]

In Memory of Dickey Betts…..

[tweber]

In Memory of Dickey Betts…..

Saw that news earlier Dermot. RIP

[tweber]

This is a lovely listen - local (to me anyway) artist, really talented guy

[cybot]

This is a lovely listen - local (to me anyway) artist, really talented guy

Wow! Thanks for that Shane….