Monday, February 17, 2014

Black Sabbath - Parisian Bitch ~ Espace Ballard, Paris, France 09-30-1983 (FM)

Black Sabbath
Parisian Bitch - (Bondage Music - BON 123)
Espace Ballard
Paris, France
September 30, 1983
(cover wrongly says 29th September)
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage - Original bootleg silver disc > WAV (EAC in secure mode) > Flac (TLH @ level 8) > Dime

01 - Children Of The Grave
02 - Hot Line
03 - War Pigs
04 - Supernaut/Drum solo
05 - Rock 'n' RollDoctor
06 - Disturbing The Priest
07 - Guitar solo
08 - Digital Bitch
09 - Smoke On The Water
10 - Paranoid

Ian Gillan - Vocals
Tony Iommi - Guitar
Geezer Butler - Bass
Bev Bevan - Drums
Geoff Nicholls - Keyboards

Decent soundboard recording from the Born Again Tour, though not quite as pristine sounding as Worchester or Reading Festival boots. The Reading Festival show has been released as a bonus disc to the anniversary re-release of  Born Again.

Musicians are always getting drunk together and saying .."We should do a project together".. this short lived line up (one LP, one tour) of Black Sabbath was the result of one such night. Not meant to be Black Sabbath but a soupergroup with an identity of it's own. Gillan had disbanded his solo group under the pretense of losing his voice, but actually to re-form Deep Purple. The legal battles that needed to be fought with ex-Purple vocalist Rod Evans put the Purple reunion on hold (see story below), so Gillan had time for the Iommi/Butler/Gillan project. Many things factored into Gillan's decision to end the collaboration after the world tour. An eleventh hour decision by the record company to call the project Black Sabbath, the final (terrible) mix of the album, the horrible Devil Baby cover art, and a practical joke perpetrated by Iommi and Butler at the Reading Festival. They thought it a funny idea to set Ian's tent on fire, Ian was still inside at the time. The call came from Deep Purple's lawyers and Ian bolted.


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