Black Sabbath: Born Again

[Doug Pearson]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:51:13 EDT, RMayo19761 at AOL.COM wrote:
>(and====Bev Bevan? was no one else available?)

Hmmmm ... I was about to launch an impassioned defense of mr. Bevan (I
absolutely love his 1960s work with The Move), but after listening to the
version of "Children Of The Grave" (a song by which any drummer's ability
to play tom fills can be judged, since he/she needs to play them all the
way through the song) on the website Nick mentioned, I have to agree that
he was absolutely wrong for Black Sabbath.  Still, you gotta credit a guy
who can sing one of a five-part harmony while pouding out a beat (Mick
Tucker being about the only other one I can think of, and his band was
only a four-piece).

Incidentally, there's a book out on post-Ozzy Sabbath that's a pretty
interesting read (I got to thumb through a bunch of it last week while
killing time at the Virgin store in SF), despite name-dropping tons of 80s
hair bands that I never heard of (and never wanted to).  But looks to me
like a must-have for hardcore Iommi fans.

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com