{"id":10124,"date":"2011-11-09T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T02:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10124"},"modified":"2011-11-09T22:24:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T03:24:03","slug":"hey-old-man-tell-us-what-the-world-thought-of-black-sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hey-old-man-tell-us-what-the-world-thought-of-black-sabbath\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Old Man! Tell Us What the World Thought of&#8230;Black Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSEwgfB_0gM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Somebody shared this video with me today, and I enjoyed it well enough. The tunes ride along on some serious riffage, Ozzy is entertaining in a frantic, brain-addled kind of way, and &#8212; I noticed this for the first time today &#8212; the lyrics are actually kind of clever.<\/p>\n<p>Then I started thinking about all that must have seemed completely bizarro about this to mainstream rock audiences in 1970-1971: the stripped-down, sludgy, riff-centric sound, the unbeautiful Ozzy, and &#8212; I noticed this, too, for the first time today &#8212; the apeshit pounding on the drums, bashing away on open hi-hats and crash cymbals from start to finish, etc. That ain&#8217;t no &#8220;Across the Universe,&#8221; bub. It&#8217;s not even &#8220;Communication Breakdown!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I stopped myself and wondered: hey, Hrrundi, you silver-tongued, sly, handsome devil &#8212; are you mythologizing the things about Black Sabbath that had the staying power to still be cool in the 21st century? Maybe these guys were totally ho-hum back in the day. You&#8217;re old &#8212; but you&#8217;re not old enough to remember how these guys were perceived by the rock music buying public when this stuff came out.<\/p>\n<p>I answered: Hrrundi, you sexy motherfucker, you&#8217;re right. You don&#8217;t know shit! Which is why I&#8217;m asking BigSteve and any other ancient RTH denizens &#8212; those who didn&#8217;t take so many damn drugs that they can&#8217;t remember whether their pee went up or down in the &#8217;60s and &#8217;70s &#8212; to tell us their recollections. Think back &#8212; back through the fog of dope smoke, the sight of topless chicks wigging out in the third row and the stench of sweat-soaked buckskin &#8212; and tell us, if you will, what the world of 1970-1971 thought of&#8230;Black Sabbath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody shared this video with me today, and I enjoyed it well enough. The tunes ride along on some serious riffage, Ozzy is entertaining in a frantic, brain-addled kind of way, and &#8212; I noticed this for the first time today &#8212; the lyrics are actually kind of clever. Then I started thinking about all <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hey-old-man-tell-us-what-the-world-thought-of-black-sabbath\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[531],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}