That's absolutely awesome 👍🤘

very cool

I like Tony cause his Italian it's cool peace ✌️ Joe

@@jojoe469 Yeah his early 70's tone's like a hot, spicy spaghetti sauce with spicy Italian sausage, damn that sounds delicious, I'm gettin' hungry right now

Truly a class act. I used to work at a motel where tons of rockers stayed. The douchebags were almost always the one hit wonders, never the legends.

I was at the show as well and still have the concert stub. 😁

They sure do not. How was VH received by the crowd? Were you like I gotta get that record...

🤤🤤🤤🤤

Nice! What a show that would have been. Music just ain’t like this anymore.

I believe Window Pane acid was popular at the time. I missed that show unfortunately but some of my friends made it. Great time to be a teenager.

Amen

If you go listen to Cream's first record Circa 1966 you will see where Tony got his influence - I know this pisses off the Black Sabbath faithful but the proof is literally on record - the only difference is the term "Heavy Metal" had not been invented - Clapton is a musical chamilion and he ever embraced the " metal" label incidentally this will probably upset Dark Siders out there but the very first artist to use a distorted guitar effect ? You didn't guess it - Marty Robbins - yes indeedy - Black Sabbath ( Heaven & Hell was my favorite) May be the Godfathers of Metal but make no mistake - Eric Clapton was the first hard rock guitar player - and yes kinks fan he was before y'all too - just sayin

@@davidrice3337 the post simply stated that his *influence* cannot be underestimated. Nowhere does he claim he invented or came first to anything. Iommi’s guitar playing and riffs are the singular influence to an entire genre of metal. 99 out of 100 metal bands will mention Sabbath as one of their main influences. While you’re correct that Clapton influenced countless guitarists, both his contemporaries and those that came later, both in tone and style, your comment and the point you make is irrelevant. Edit to add: Just sayin’

@@davidrice3337 you didn't guess it either. It's very well documented it was Link Wray and his song "Rumble" that had the first purposely distorted guitar. Good try though...

@@davidrice3337 😂 this is laughable. Clapton is as hard rock as Aretha franklin

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Saw the heads up yesterday. Looked this morning while getting ready for work. Had to wait to view this but it had 575 views before the first half hour was up. This is pretty awesome.

It just seemed like 30 minutes because there were no Telecasters...

Why do you always call him hypes?

Old nickname from when we both talked too fast. I call Rick Hypes as well,

Me, too

Same here. I first heard Supernaut right after they came out with Vol. 4 in '72 at age 8. Probably the most mind-blowing experience I've had to this day...

I am the proud owner of a Jay Dee Tony Iommi Custom SG finished in cherry. It took 3 years to receive it, finally in April 2022. it is my most treasured guitar and it sounds amazing. The sheer quality of the instrument is outstanding.

Don't forget he used Laney Amps, also made in Brum. Never realised JD was in Digbeth... I used to work just over the bridge from The Forge.

@@somebodyelseuk Celestion Greenbacks for first several albums and for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage (I reckon) Goodman speakers, the Goodman Audio M 12P I think? Not sure of wattage or imped but yeah. Luckily, Iommic Studies are alive and well. Something about the sound... Don't forget to go and find your own sound(s)! Peace.

@@PaulieMcCoy It's not a sound I'm going after. Not even a Sabbath fan, but though I'm from up North, I moved to Brum just over 20 years back. I take an interest in the local music history, one of my mates is a nephew of one of the 'Brummie Music Mafia', and on top of that, my first amp back in the '80s was a Laney and I've been using Laney cabs since the '90s on my current rig. My combo had a 10" Fane speaker in it (IIRC) and the cabs had HH speakers in when I bought them (though they have V30s now). Like I say, not a Sabbath fan, but I'd love to meet Tony, as he was a favourite guitarist of one of my favourite guitarists, who I happened to be friends with and is no longer around.

Yes, he had several Strats, one was a burst of some kind he painted white but it was not the the Jethro Tull guitar- when he left Tull so did the nice gear. Tony worked for Jensen Motors who manufactured the Jensen CV8, Interceptor I-III and later the Jensen-Healey and Jensen GT- Tony lost two sets of finger tips there. John was making guitars for Birch, it was one of the reasons Iommi went direct to the Diggins family. John and his family have been making him guitars since around 1974. The "Old Boy" was supposedly 75-78 but I have some color photors I bought from Japan and different locations Sabbath toured and you can see the JayDee headstock in late 75 and that original dark mahoghany finish. Birch was not a wood worker and he built pickups more than guitars, and that is reflected in his licensing the name. Tony toured with BC Rich Ironbird as well, and then Gibson was trying to make "metal" guitars for a brief period(SG-400 with Kahler trem ?) and they had a "thing" you could call a guitar that looked vaguely like an Ironbird- vaguely. He toured with it. He also toured with some Gibson's along the way. During the limited tour for Tyr he had a Gibson SG that was probably tobacco burst but under the lights it seemed to reflect odd, it had DiMarzio Super Distortions and he was using Laney amplification again. It was a post AOR boosted line of amps and into that period of their polished stainless panel amps- like what would be the GH, VH, etc.

One last comment: on the first record he maintains that he only used the Strat on one song. When the remaster of "Black Sabbath"- Wicked World and Evil Woman appear to have layers of strat takes or are entirely strat takes. Then he goes into the 65 Melody Maker he had that was originally 1 P90 and is now 2 P90's- it was right handed strung left, he traded it in a multilevel car parking deck for Monkey(the sticker was already there). Both Birch and John Diggins wound him P90's. By 1972, looking through photos he is using at least one "Birch" SG and he's got Birch pickups in others. By the time of 13- Monkey and Old Boy were not toured, those were replica's Andrew and John Jr. Diggins built. If anyone wonders how you can tell, the Monkey sticker's size changes. Also sometimes the way the Monkey is facing changes and the picture is no flipped because you can see the controls are in the proper location but the Monkey is not applied facing the same direction. One of the Ironbirds he had is now a neckthrough SG and he played it in the very limited dates for Forbidden. The "R" on the headstock is still visible when he did contract fulfillment promotion for "Forbidden"(which IRS Music "encouraged" (cough:forced) a pairing between Ernie C of Body Count producting and there were three tracks recorded with Ice-T on vocals with Tony Martin, though on the main record Ice T is only featured in a very uncomfortable track). Tony played a couple of shows for Forbidden before the IRS contract was fufilled. Those are the last shows with Tony Martin, and as a fan of the Tony Martin Sabbath, I enjoyed his and Iommi's work on the live shows for Forbidden. One of the photographs I have in my collection is from Forbidden era and Tony plays a neck through SG and it has the back and neckthrough of the Ironbird and for some time it has the headstock with an R on it. He played it during the Heaven and Hell dates because some of the Dio Sabbath songs require trem work- and despite his arthritis- Iommi was walking the fretboard and diving on that Floyd like it was 1980. Sabbath never toured with an Orange backline- though Tony has owned both Matamps and Oranges though he has said he does not like the Vox tone stack, though he hasn't said anything negative about the Baxendall tone stack used on the amps with the "Voice" and "Boost" dial in. From formation until Laney offered them the Supergroup(circa late '68 to early '69) he used "amps". 70's he uses the Supergroup and an ever aging Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster and an Echoplex delay. He's seen with Beat Club's backline of Orange amps(and dummy cabs and dummy heads). During the era after Vol4 he begins experimenting more and remained a supporter of Birmingham and Bromie music gear producers- though I have never seen an actual live gig where he plays the Laney Klipp. By 1978 he was with Marshall and has blamed a Marshall installer for trashing the original Dallas Rangemaster. If anyone has owned an original Echoplex Delay or a Rangemaster or even the New York Big Muff Pi- you'll know something very valuable- they sound great WHEN and IF they work. I do not believe the Rangemaster was intentionally or even unknowningly trashed. The unfortunate reality is that even if it was a studio piece- Sabbath lived communally in England and in LA(had houses both places, the LA house was during their tax exile years). Anyone who knows playing a pedal repeatedly that has been mass produced- it eventually needs tweaks and repairs and there are only so many tweaks and repairs one may do before you probably have a drawer someplace that can be called "pedal graveyard". Sabbath, no matter the lineup, was popular in Japan. Tony has a number of a certain Japanese maker's SG series and they're quite wonderful. Sabbath and the Iommi albums- 85's Seventh Star, 8th Star(aka DEP Sessions) from 1996 and 2000's Iommi remain my favorite music. I cannot begin to explain how much joy I get from it. My two favorite bands are Motorhead(RIP Lemmy & Wurzel) and Sabbath: Iommi was a brilliant guitarist who played in techniques not unlike a bassist, Lemmy was a bassist who played like a guitarist.

Yeah he got that Fender Stratocaster from Leslie West who gave it to Tony

@@mikekeeler6362 I'm getting old- you're right. Because it is in late 60's MOUNTAIN footage with Leslie. Thank you.

@@v.e.7159 I know that one Gibson daddy used John Birch replace two pickups and the strings on it still Tony could play it so basically it was a Gibson in body but it's been altered by John Birch he customized it so Tony could play it

Got my first in 2020. Gib standard and currently can't put it down again lol..Angus Ebony of course 🤘

@@ericwarrington6650ive had a 2002 gothic SG since then, but recently I got a 1989 3knob special, and a 2005 ebony standard. Love the shape. Love sabbath and acdc

I own a red & black ‘61 reissue, an Iommi red monkey USA, a black SG3, and Inverness green Captain Kirk SG

@@tommorris5069 right on brother 🤘😁🎸🎶

Was the guitar shop near Music Midtown the one Curbow worked at before he moved to Morganton GA where his extended family settled ? Or was that the 5 Points ?

@@v.e.7159 Don’t know, sorry.

​@@v.e.7159Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes were in Atlanta Cheshire Studio 1986 for the 7th star 🌟 album 👌

Yeah that's because he left it in a car in South America and it took all the finish off of it

Same here on influencing me with the Gibson SG, my favorite electric guitar and mostly what I play and own several...

Thanks David

this is bought up a lot, especially with Orange owners. If The Beat Club is the performance I'm thinking of ("Paranoid" with the revolving black and white psychedelic backdrop), I believe the Orange amps were actually the club's backline amps - everyone had to use them. Geezer was using an Orange too.

@@dylanadams1455 that's the one. Seems maybe "Iron Man" as well? I'll have to go back and look. Thanks! That makes sense. I noticed Orange Amps behind Alice Cooper's performance of "I'm Eighteen" as well, so makes even more sense. I knew someone out there would know!

ahhh Bill Kirchen quote! well done and many thanks!!!

Thanks!

Ya he never mentioned what replaced monkey

@@bls8959 Monkey was replaced by a John Birch as Birch had entered into building guitars. It is the one that looks like it has a Guild or DeArmond head stock except a bit pointy and the truss rod cover looks like a Birch leaf. In turn this is what led Diggins to build Old Boy which in turn is an odd guitar- he had a boost device when he first had it built(discarded) and he had the infamous rail style minibucker. That rail mini-bucker was not being used depending on which time period you want to look to. It was hooked up during the Ian G. period and the Glenn Hughes year.