Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Black Sabbath - Superpop, Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, 08-30-1970 (SBD)

Black Sabbath
Superpop
Montreux Casino
Montreux, Switzerland
August 31, 1970
Soundboard Recording
MP3 320kps
Cover Art Included
Rosebud's Pick

01 Intro
02 Paranoid
03 N.I.B.
04 Behind The Wall Of Sleep
04 Iron Man
05 War Pigs
06 Fairies Wear Boots
07 Hand Of Doom

Ozzy Osbourne vocals
Tony Iommi guitar
Geezer Butler bass
Bill Ward drums

When this recording surfaced it caused quite a stir in trading circles. Labeled as unknown when it showed up on UTube, fans quickly got to work figuring out where it had come from. After much detective work and discussion it was decided that the show was from Sabbath's appearance at Montreux Casino. The only source for this show, even the Silver CDs you can buy, is the lossy UTube channel. The audio was captured by a fan who converted it to flac and distributed it on the net. The flac as I said is lossy based so I am only posting this in MP3. There is a PDF file included that was distributed with the recording which gives the back story I just told you but in greater detail; than I got into.

This is a great raw soundboard recording early in a young Sabbath's career. The Paranoid LP was new so the title track hadn't yet become the show stopper, instead it was the opening number. Ozzy still uses the "Walpugenacht" lyrics to "War Pigs" and mixes up the early and propper lyrics to "Hand of Doom". But hey it's not Ozzy unless he mixes up some of the lyrics.

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