As much attention as Tony's guitar gets in this, for me the real heart of this song is Geezer's whimsical bass line.

@electrofryed7239

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. If it wasn't for Geezers hard groove style, Black Sabbath would've been just another 70's guitar group. They certainly wouldn't have been the founders of heavy metal they're credited for today.

@randywissler9923

4 жыл бұрын

@@electrofryed7239 let's not leave Bill Ward out of the mix either!!!

@masediggity

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. So many Sabbath songs are like that for me. Geezer really just really gets me.

@coachmikesfilmroom3111

4 жыл бұрын

I always call Sabbath a perfect band. Best riff guitarist ever, best Bass player ever, best drummer ever and one of the greatest front men ever, maybe 2nd best, but since Freddy Mercury existed I can't say no. 1.

@camronbay1

4 жыл бұрын

CoachMikesFilmRoom Sabbath has hard driven blues based power freddie mercury no where on the same level as Ozzie.

Who would ever predict a freak accident at a sheet metal factory would change the face of music and guitar playing for ever.

@shoesagogo1

4 жыл бұрын

See the wprd metal im that sentence🤘

@camieabz

3 жыл бұрын

Woah. The butterfly effect on that... Next time I do a spot of smoking and listening to this, I'll try to think it through. :D

My god Bill Ward. The drumming on this track is out of this world.

@Ephel81

4 жыл бұрын

I love Bill Ward. Softness and rage at the same time, a bunch of jazz elements, incredible energy and creativity.

@LJA46

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! I saw Sabbath in '78 and he was thunder! Four guys that are so different in styles but mesh so well!

@aldworth33

4 жыл бұрын

He was always on his game. Never let up

@ozeraltun7706

3 жыл бұрын

Instead of album, live versions are so much better.

@OneofMyTurns

3 жыл бұрын

The Wizard is bad ass also!!!

" 'cuz smokin' and trippin' is all that you do..." YEEEEEEEAAAAAHHHH Those lines hit me and my friends hard...as we were smokin' and trippin'...finishing the Paranoid album on repeat for the 3rd time or so...

Vin gets it......1970..... creating this music when no one else was doing it and having no idea it would change the world of rock n roll forever.

“Fairies Wear Boots” was loosely based on a real, incredibly violent fight the band got into with a group of skinheads after a gig in the north of England (the slur “fairy” was meant to emasculate their attackers, who wore boots)

@Anthony-nk4ky

4 жыл бұрын

Which is weird, like the song has two meanings because the last verse implies that they were just super fucking high and hallucinated fairies haha.

@protarget1

4 жыл бұрын

Also you forgot to mention skinheads favourite signature footwear. Doc Martins high laced Boots ;-)

@jonathanmartin4125

4 жыл бұрын

Raymond Byrd it was actually in the West Country

@fscorpion678

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it was about when they got super high and saw a dwarf

@Ernesto-ot5xx

4 жыл бұрын

It's both. Geezer was trippin and seeing faries wearing boots. He kept telling the other guys. The fight had happened a day or 2 prior (prob led to the hallucination)

Great choice! Great song! I grew up with this in the 70's. They were quite unique, but never mainstream back then. You NEVER heard them on the radio yet they still sold out stadiums. I apparently wasn't the only non conformist type back then!

One of my favorite songs of so many Black Sabbath songs, I was 17 in 1970 and they did not play their music on the radio in the area I am from ( the Midwest) the next year I went to vocational school and one of the guys talked me into buying their first album and the world changed for me. 49 years later and they are still the greatest.

Now you understand why Black Sabbath is so venerated in metal circles. They literally started it all.

@TripleTraple

4 жыл бұрын

For me, it is Iron Butterfly's Inagaddadavida

You know a listener loves your music when they begin shouting frantic "NO!'s" as your song's outro fades towards silence! Props to you guys for giving props to THESE guys! Historic, indeed!

The founders of the metal genre. Others started introducing pieces of the future genre but Black Sabbath was the first to put it all together and they were metal.

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

Deep Purple in Rock was too. Even more bombastic . But this is more speed metal way they spawned than Sabbath .

@hmpz36911

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nissardpertugiu Yeah I was gonna say, Purple released Black Night in 1969. When I first heard it, I thought it was some NWOBHM band. A decade ahead of the game. Purple were more of a hard rock band with some metal songs though, whereas Sabbath were actually a metal band, indisputably.

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmpz36911 i was thinking of Speed King , Bloodsuckers , Livin wreck , Into that fire , Hard lovin man.. That was brutal

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmpz36911 speed king is even more violent than sabbath

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmpz36911 kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4Zn0MeQdqSZnso.html

The most complete band of all time! Bill killed it on drums, geezer and Toni played perfectly off each other and Ozzy brought it home. Legends

You need to do INTO THE VOID

@hannsrhinesdale9769

4 жыл бұрын

If you want historical important give this song from 1971 a chance. Into the void is like Sabbath invented a time machine and stole some riffs from the 90s. Seriously.

@MrEddison84

4 жыл бұрын

True! The mother of palm muted heavy riffs!

@NDE239

4 жыл бұрын

Black Sabbath / Under the Sun

@nickdrage5774

4 жыл бұрын

@@NDE239 yes! That's my other favorite Sabbath song.

@NDE239

4 жыл бұрын

@@nickdrage5774 under the sun is my favorite black Sabbath song

The Godfathers of Metal This is the Roots The innovators of Everything Metal...SABBATH BABY✊🤟✊🤟✊🤟🧨🧨

This song has one of the best intros i've ever listen

Bill Ward.. ❤ best.drummer.ever.. 👌

A half century old now and this still sounds so good. Musical comfort food.

All Hail the mighty Sabbath!

Black Sabbath - Warning!!

Growing up, I was never a fan of The Beatles but I always appreciated them for influencing Ozzy into becoming a musician (you can tell his love for them with him wearing John Lennon-esque rounded sunglasses).

Has always been my favorite Sabbath tune.

The level of musicianship is astronomical.

Vin the last part inspired Metallica's For Whom the Bell Tolls, check it out. It's the same riff

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

If that was the only part that metallica borrowed ( War pigs , National Acrobat ...)

@victorrocha2488

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nissardpertugiu What are the songs that they use these riffs? (I know One has the National Acrobat riff)

@tmex9588

4 жыл бұрын

Dude, any and every metal band after Sabbath borrowed from Sabbath. That’s nothing new.

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

@@tmex9588 i mean more than borrowed . Well , not really , there s an influence even Priest , Budgie and Trapeze had thoses Dark muddy heavy miserable riffs , without beign influenced by Sabbath , even with a more cutting modern approach , But in Mercyful fate , there re not blatant ripp off of Sabbath note for note . Its morphed , more intelligent , even to me there re more Uriah heep and even Sweet heavy stuff in rythm section on steroids and so on than sabbath direct inspiration in them . There re influences of Sabbath , as well than Budgie , trapeze or Priest musically . But its morphed into something else . Deep Purple too . There re no Rip off of Black sabbath in Satan jokers for example , as note for nore riff . They were influenced , but they morphed , and they were influenced by Purple, Priest , Magma and mahavishnu orchestra . They re kind of originator of what we called Heavy fusion metal 15 years later . I mean in metallica , its Too obvious . Its not like they took little bits . They took big things in the songs , that catch the hear . Mercyful fate , Satan Jokers , and ..watchtower , even Celtic frost . They had sabbath influence , but they took the approach , the vibe of it on certains things . Early megadeth too , but not only that . Metallica took the exact patterns .

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

@@victorrocha2488 not one , Fade to black in the middle when it went heavy . After its a ripp off of Saxon eagle has landed . Master of puppets obviously is War pigs . Memory remains is Sabbath bloody sabbath ... Like i said in a comment , beign influenced by Sabbath is normal as metal band that came next , but its not like they took the vibe or they took little bits of the songs . And morphed it In that sense , they re not very smart They took the BIG melodic and Riffs that catch the hear mostly note for note ...

Iommi took ALL the riffs! Every thing after is just Sabbath worship.

@shspurs1342

4 жыл бұрын

Hand Of Doom it could be classed as plagiarising Black Sabbath. Because some actually have.

Yes Toni Iommi is the master. The whole band is the nexus of music. So so much of what we hear today started with these guys.

The funny part is in 1970 they weren’t that appreciated.

@Aethyrs

4 жыл бұрын

and the drums are the the shit, but sadly non talk about that....

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

@@Aethyrs me yes . But i am fuckin drummer

@Nissardpertugiu

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody that is innovative is first fully acceptable and appreciable .

@Aethyrs

4 жыл бұрын

@@Nissardpertugiu yes true but bonham is and Bill should be too...fer the fuck sake:)

@LuisDHern

4 жыл бұрын

They were very appreciated, just not respected by music critics and journalists.

Geezer Butler once said that the song was inspired by them getting attacked by skinheads when they were first starting out. The skinheads of the day also factor heavily into The Wall by Pink Floyd.

Excellent description of Tony Iommi's influence; 'one guy single handedly creating thousands of bands'. 👏

I really feel sorry for you guys that have lived your whole lives without Sabbath. So sad!! I cannot imagine it. Sabbath are gods! Rock on and keep up the great work

Y’all need to listen to the Wizard by theses guys

@paulriddle7818

4 жыл бұрын

They reviewed it already

Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin... 1969... vocally and musically it is a song off their first album that will blow you away!!

@MorbidAngel31775

4 жыл бұрын

Masterpiece.

Children Of The Grave and The Wizard are great picks. But then again, there are soooo many great sonds by this band.

Please react to hand of Doom by Black Sabbath.

@michaeldrennan9932

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree with you!! Been requesting HAND OF DOOM Yet have yet to see a reaction to it!!

@victorrocha2488

4 жыл бұрын

The bass on this song is fantastic

@basseon

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Loris71734

4 жыл бұрын

This song is fucking awesome, one of my favorite from Sabbath.

@jenniemoore44

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fucking YESS.

Sabbath is legendary and no band can replicate their brilliance

Sabbath is the be all and end all of metal.

Skin Heads in England wore jack boots at the time.

One of my favorite hard rock bands of all times

@zemaneiro292

4 жыл бұрын

Lol what you mean by hard rock??

@efogg3

4 жыл бұрын

@@zemaneiro292 lol right

I saw Black Sabbath in 1970 and have been a follower ever since!

I absolutely love Black Sabbath!!💞💞💞 Probably gonna play them as I drink tonight, and make a new youtube video!

This song was my anthem in my 20s, back when my motto was a day without a buzz is a day that never was. My all time favorite line in a Sabbath song, the doctor said "Son son you've gone too far, cause smoking and tripping is call that you do..." And Ozzy's response was mine, "Yeahhhhhh." Love Tony's lead on this one but for me his best lead is on Snowblind, the ending solo, just so mean, I love it.

“One guy single handedly creating thousands of bands!” Nuff said!

It's cool that you accept the genius of Tony Iommi and Black Sabbath - and that they are the best. You grew up with other bands that you consider to be great but now here you are with the best.

Damn is there any other band who have so many cool songs like Sabbath had.

React to "Symptom Of The Universe" by Black Sabbath. The intro riff of this song is considered the precursors of Thrash Metal

Metallica Inducted Black Sabbath into the Rock & Roll hall of fame and said none of us would be here if it wasn't for Sabbath. You should watch it🤘

Unquestionably metal's G.O.A.T.

Only Sabbath can have a song named 'Faries Wear Boots' and make it work.

Tony Iommi is the greatest guitarist of all time, don't care who disagrees with me.

Very fitting and positive review nice to see you guys giving so much respect to Toni!

Metal is my shit! Grew up with Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, etc. Every time I listen to Sabbath though, .......

The time has come: BLACK SABBATH: GOD IS DEAD?

Black Sabbath and Deep Purple are the two innovative bands who were pioneers of heavy metal. You listened to Child In Time from Deep Purple. It is also from 1970. The whole Deep Purple In Rock album is for me the first heavy metal album. Listen to Hard Lovin’ Man and Flight of the Bat. Early speed metal. These are the two guitarists with the biggest contribution of modern metal. Tony Iommi and Ritchie Blackmore. Lars Ulrich started playing drums because he was at a Deep Purple show in Copenhagen in 1972. He was 9. Bruce Dickinson’s idol as a singer is Ian Gillan from Deep Purple. But Sabbath embraced the name metal amd Purple said that when they started their as no such thing as metal. Mistake, their contribution to metal is so underrated. Iommi has a full use of his hands. He got an accident when he was working in a factory and a machine cut the skin of his fingertips. To be able to play he did some sobers for his fingertips out of clay by himself. A great guitarist is an innovator and songwriter, not a great technician.

Love your respect & veneration of black Sabbath. They are beyond inspirational to so much music

I was fortunate enough to see Black Sabbath in Oakland, Ca. with Ozzy. Van Halen opened with that new first album.

Yall should check out Creedence Clearwater Revival ... unlike Sabbath, they never quite got their due, but damn if they didnt get a LOT of airplay (and still do!). Four of their albums (from 1969-70) are truly legendary, and the other three are still pretty damn good! I highly recommend the Cosmo’s Factory album, from 1970, which is one of those perfect albums that doesnt have a single weak track, and frankly, you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a greatest hits album! Best tracks are Ramble Tamble, Run Through The Jungle, Who’ll Stop The Rain, Long As I Can See The Light, their cover of Before You Accuse Me and their truly EPIC version of Heard It Through The Grapevine!

@hmpz36911

4 жыл бұрын

Whaaaa... They had like 14 hits and are still featured in movie soundtracks (Kong Skull Island)

@buzzbomb67

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmpz36911 Very true, they were considered a hits band, and that, in part, is why many people dont take them into consideration as an incredibly influential band...

Black Sabbath - Meglomania

VIN CAN'T BELIEVE THIS GODDDAAMMMNNNNN THINGS ARE 50 YEARS OLD, I CAN TELLLLL!!! LOL :) ENJOY IT VIN ENJOY IT!

All that wonderful noise is being made by three musicians and a localist. Love it!

I read an interview from Sabbath about this song, ferries wear boots was about Skin Heads who picked on them after a show

The Sabbath still spreads. It's spreadinggggg....ah...... ok that was fun

Check out ,"Children of the Grave","Snowblind"and "The Wizard"🤟

@paulriddle7818

4 жыл бұрын

They've done most of those already.

@darkhelmetndefiance3836

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulriddle7818 Dont know I missed them,Not getting the Notifications I guess ..Thanks I see them now.

The topic of the song was Skin heads

I have been listening to this song for 50 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well said vin and sori 👍👍

In the last day of his job, Toni lost the top of two fingers. For us mortals that would be the end of our guitar playing career. For Toni, he crafted some false finger tips, used lighter strings, down tuned and invented a completely new heavy sound. In some ways you could say his accident was kind of a blessing and it made Toni invent this sound which we all love. Can you imagine the drive he must have. It is a lesson for us all. In every set back, it is how you respond to it that is important. Even the set backs can be seen as opportunities.

Saw this on Oct 26 1970 - London's Festival Hall. Happy memories. Yes - 1970s indeed....

Black Sabbath Rules. A good one for you to check out is "Everyday Under The Sun Comes and Goes"

Black Sabbath were way ahead of their time and influenced probably every metal band out there.

Vin yea your right all 4 of the band were experiencing mind controling substances when this was made. But what music they made even under the influence. I first heard this track in 1971 and i'm still a Sabbath head 40 years later.

Geezer with the hip swinging bass line is the bomb!

The reason Iommi's finger issues are important to his sound is that due to losing his fingertips on his fret hand and using false fingertips, is that he had no choice to loosen his strings and play an octave lower in general, therefore creating a much different sound which is now commonly achieved through whatever gear and effects players choose.

Amazing tune! One of my favorite Sabbath songs. Masterpiece 🤘🏼

Black sabbath was my 1st, at 5 years old, and still my all time favorite band!

To understand the song you need to understand 1970s Birmingham. There were several youth gangs, one of them were the skinheads, sometimes called fairies by the others, they were identified by their shaved bald heads and the heavy industrial boots they wore, hence the song title Fairies Wear Boots.

Thank you so much, this is one of my top 5 favs from Sabbath. My favorite band. If you havent already, may I suggest, Children of the Grave, Hand of Doom, and Lord of This World. All gloomy and doomy tunes but deal with drug addiction, war and peace and the battles of good and evil for our souls. Love watching you two over the past year.

Ozzy era Sabbath has so much more to give, don't stop now

Sabbath started it all and Ozzie still kicking ass

9:14 Toni Iommi lost two of his fingertips in the late 60's made plastic figertips and strapped leather strips on them from an ol jacket he had ( in a nutshell) put banjo strings on his guitar, and tuned it down to C at third album Master of Reality...

Best band ever!

Those guys are the grandfather of rock n roll yeaaaaaah

after chopping the tops of 2 fingers off, Tony fashioned tips out of various materials to allow him to continue playing respect :)

This band, like many of the time, inspired the bands to come.

On the 13th of February it will be 50 years since the release of their first album. You might want to try Warning.

Drummer Bill Ward said " We're actually more of a swing band "

@henrymullins4592

3 жыл бұрын

You can hear the jazz influence

Sabbath is the OG.... period.

6:53 and 7:08 -7:20 my exact reactions when I first heard it... My favorite part from my favorite Sabbath tune 🔥

I get on Vin quite a lot, but credit where credit is due... Good one Vin, bravo!

I was lucky enough to see them live a few years ago in Australia. it was still awesome .

Check out the band, Brown Sabbaths' rendition of this song. Lots of cuban jazz fuzzed. Great cover

This is an acid trip...Geezer wrote about Skinheads who they saw wearing funny boots 👢 😂

I've seen gnomes while tripping on 8gs of shrooms

@sgtraytango

4 жыл бұрын

Fun thing is, this is about skinheads wearing Doc Martens boots because Ozzy saw a group of them attacking a friend of his for having long hair.

@aaronstephen6952

4 жыл бұрын

@@sgtraytango yes I'm well aware.

@kaleocambra1643

4 жыл бұрын

It only took two hits of some random rc for me to see MYSELF as an elf/gnome in the mirror one night, among a myriad of parallel versions of me.

@0okamino

4 жыл бұрын

But what about boots, man?! Were there any boots?! Tell me no lies!

@aaronstephen6952

4 жыл бұрын

@@0okamino I dont know if they were boots or shoes, but definitely footwear, and they didnt pick their feet off the ground, the shimmied and shuffled.

Somebody that really gives Sabbath some props!

I do believe that the Skinheads are Boot wearing Fairies being referenced. More specifically the Dr. Martin's Boots was part of their style uniform. I do believe that a few people have commented on the Skinhead of the UK and the version that emerged later in the US cannot be compared to be the same thing, actually far from it. The Original UK Skinhead group spawned from the poor working class neighborhoods in London which had been integrated with a large amount of people that migrated to London West Indies (primarily Jamaica) to rebuild London after WW2. By the time the 60’s came around the music that was coming from Jamaica began to change to a up-tempo accented bolder style which was SKA music that also had a rebellious streak against the system more lyrically rebellious element which began to attract the poor white working class kids that have been integrated with the 1st generation of Jamaican immigrants. They began to adopt SKA music and the close cut haircuts of the Jamaican youth as their own . And that became the birth of Skinheads. I did not believe it until Isaw these two documentaries at the links below. And this is the exact time period that Black Sabbath were making their debut. There a two real good BBC Documentaries that present the whole skinheads and reggae/ska music story. Skinhead - BBC Documentary kzread.info/dash/bejne/pJl7usNspsrLdpc.html Reggae Britania- BBC Documentary (And Possible the best documentary on the influence that SKA/Reggae had on entire British Music scene and surprisingly enough on Punk music) kzread.info/dash/bejne/pHeB1LGbk5PFcaQ.html .............................................................

and latin bands like caifanes-avientame , heroes del silencio- parasiempre and soda stereo - signos...and a lot more ✌️

Tony lost the tips of his fingers and he plays on the nubs

@TheCooke2001

4 жыл бұрын

He actually created an artificial fingertip so he could keep playing.

@CatharticusX

4 жыл бұрын

He melts plastic to make prosthetic fingertips, and keeps them in an Altoids tin. Dude loses his fingertips and invents heavy metal.

To me, this the greatest Sabbath song, along with Into the Void

the greatest metal band ever

Geezer Butler was the primary song writer.

Are those eyes real? Oh my goodness! Vin you lucky lucky man!

Grand Funk Railroad Inside Looking Out 1969 live 🤘🤘