Some comments and a couple of questions:
Over the weekend I was watching a VH-1 special, guess froma couple years ago, and it was on the early history of heavy metal. They were focussing on British bands, especially Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. They talked a bit how both bands seemed to go in experimental directions and away from their core sounds, and of course mentioned "Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath". And I was surprised how much they talked about Rick Wakeman's involvement, even showing photos of him working with them. And they played a bit too, with some cool synth work from Wakeman, with Geezer Butler saying some kind things about Rick's involvement. I've known of this for a long time, but honestly have never heard his keyboard contributions. I'm only familiar with the title track, which I really love, but don't hear any keys on it. I used to have a vinyl copy of "We Sold Our Souls" comp. How much music does Rick play here, and which songs? I never got around to buying this album, as I've always been put off by the cover art. Yeah, I know what the back cover looks like too, and I know they were not stanists. Still don't like the cover. I also noticed its not easy to get Sabbath mp3's for the Ozzy era. Is this due to a legal fight? Any idea when this era will be more readily available? It bummed me out, because I was all set to buy a bunch of MP3's, music glaringly absent from my collection. Plus I'd love to hear what Wakeman did with them, even if just a couple tunes.
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