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How Black Was Our Sabbath: An Unauthorized View from the Crew |
Author: David Tangye
Published: 2005-03-01 |
List price: $19.95
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 Light-hearted anecdotes from a roadie
This book is a very lightweight look at the great band Black Sabbath - it doesn't have a lot of detail but it certainly has some charm. Fans of the band will enjoy the recollections of the authors that were there to witness these behind-the-scene stories. Anyone looking for an in-depth biography should look elsewhere.
 Cool Black Sabbath Book.
Hi there folks, I am new to Amazon so please bear with me. I would just like to say that I read this book and was so impressed with it, that I wanted to let other folks know about it.
I have been a fan of the original Black Sabbath for many years, and first saw them live in Kansas City (Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall) way back in the seventies.
They were fantastic, and brought the house down.
But time moves on, and I still play all the old favorites to death; Hole in the Sky, N.I.B., Black Sabbath etc, etc.
This book brought loads of memories flooding back to me from my 'heady' Collage days, I just could not put this book down and read it in one sitting, you just seem to feel the vibe of the day from the Authors writtings.
Great book, great story & photos, very well written.
Bern.
 Sabbath sucky Sabbath
This book is definitley not a must read. It talks mostly about the roadies and not the members of Black Sabbath. I would definitley pass on this one.
It's The Real Thing.
There seems to be quite a few publications around now relating to Black Sabbath in all their varying line-ups. I must admit I have not had chance to read them all. The main ones I have read are Gary Sharpe Young's 'Never Say Die' a fantastic account mainly of Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne had made his exit, also Martin Popoffs great 'Doom Let Loose' which is penned in Popoff's own inimitable style.
But as for "How Black Was Our Sabbath; An unauthorised view from the crew", this is clearly in a different dimension altogether from all the rest, and covers the one and only original band line-up.
Here we have a couple of old school roadies, obviously not too burned out as the excesses of the 1970's that have claimed many before them.
I found the book a real eye-opener and a real page turner, in style, content, and delivery.
The book somehow transports you back to the 1960's thru to 1970's and in the reading, you get to feel and taste the sense of adventure that the band as a whole were experiencing at the time.
From their early humble beginnings, through to their sell out stadium tours. The anecdotal evidence of just what it was like in the golden age of 'ROCK'; when the now superstar icons of today were just a wild bunch of young lads, with a burning ambition to succeed and play their way out of the mundane, and the shackles of poverty.
I most certainly recommend this book, as not only a history book to Black Sabbath, but also a history book on the development of the whole genre of 'Rock Music' as we have come to know it today.
Entertainment for Sabbath fans only
This is an entertaining book,but I would mainly recommend it for Black Sabbath fans only.As it states on the cover it is unauthorized.Although there are some good early photos of the band the text is made up of personal reminiscences and therefore is not very objective.All in all,it's a good book,but just don't purchase it for the teenage Ozzy fanatic.I happen to be a major Black Sabbath fanatic in my late thirties and the reason I got this was because I want all the information that I can get on the group.I love Black Sabbath in all its incarnations and am offended by those who say that the "Ozzy years" were the best.I'm really looking forward to seeing the Ronnie James Dio line-up on the road next year.'Nuff said.
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