1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath are insane. Their guitarist, Tony Iomi, lost his 3 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 1: fingers and still became one of the most influential guitar 4 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 1: players in music history. They quite literally invented a genre 5 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: of music, heavy metal, and rose to the top of 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: the pop charts without any help from the critics, who 7 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,640 Speaker 1: hated the band, but kids loved them, so too did 8 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,960 Speaker 1: the Satanists. Despite composing songs that warned against the evils 9 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: of the occult the band attracted legions of devil worshipers 10 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 1: occultists in nineteen seventies, freak flag flying practitioners of the 11 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 1: dark arts. They had giant amounts of cocaine shipped into 12 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 1: the studio in empty speaker cabinets. Groupies lined up down 13 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: the block lit themselves and others on fire literally, and 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,480 Speaker 1: throughout the seventies, Black Sabbath made great music. Unlike that 15 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 1: music I played for you at the top of the show. 16 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 1: That wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from 17 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: my melotron called oil Can Swank MK one. I played 18 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: you that loop because I can't afford the rights to 19 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 1: Mamma told me not to come by three Dog Night, 20 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,760 Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of 21 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: party foul out Cheese? Could I afford it? Because that 22 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,039 Speaker 1: was the number one song in America on July sixteenth, 23 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy, and that was the day Black Sabbath was 24 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,160 Speaker 1: to touch down in San Francisco for the start of 25 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 1: their first US tour. It inspired a literal parade of 26 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: Satanist to take to the streets in their honor, kicking 27 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: off one of the strangest, heaviest, most evil tales in 28 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: rock and roll, the wicked story of Black Sabbath. On 29 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:06,560 Speaker 1: this a special Halloween episode, Satanist, severed limbs, dismembered fingers, 30 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: mountains of cocaine, and the invention of heavy metal with 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath. I'm Jake Brennan and this he's disgraceland. Black 32 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 1: Sabbath guitarist Tony Iomi wasn't scared. He'd seen worse, but 33 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 1: his bandmates they were a different story. Drummer Bill Ward 34 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: was chasing his fear down the bottom of a bottle 35 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: off drunk somewhere close but no doubt sauced singer Ozzie 36 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 1: Osbourne was with him, doing the same bassist Geezer Butler 37 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: was near Tony, sitting on a US US Army issued cot, 38 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,840 Speaker 1: listening intently as the Vietnam vett detailed his recent horrors. 39 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: Young women, girls really, some as young as ten years old, raped, 40 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 1: stray dogs used for target practice, grown men lighting themselves 41 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: on fire, and protests of the South Vietnamese government. And 42 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: a baby used as a bomb. There was no account 43 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: of how the baby actually died. Its mother hollowed it up, 44 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,160 Speaker 1: got rid of its internal organs, and somehow managed a 45 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: way to insert a bomb into the baby's dead body. 46 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: When US soldiers showed up in her village, she ran 47 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: out of her hut, screaming straight toward the platoon's lieutenant 48 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 1: with her baby in her arms. They looked so helpless, 49 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: the Vietnamese mom and her newborn, so needy. The lieutenant 50 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 1: dropped his sixteen and opened his arms. He was as 51 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 1: shocked as the rest of his men. When the mom 52 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: turned tail and sprinted back toward her hut after handing 53 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: him her child. It took exactly one second for him 54 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 1: to realize something was fair very wrong, and by then 55 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: it was too late. He looked down at the baby 56 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 1: in his arms. The baby that was clearly dead, and 57 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: then he was blown to bits. The story shocked Tony 58 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: and Geezer. Tony knew Geezer was mentally notating it all, 59 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: storing it up for lyrics he would one day write. 60 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:24,360 Speaker 1: Geezer needed fodder beyond the horror and sci fi films 61 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: he devoured for inspiration. The real life horror detailed from 62 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 1: the US soldiers at the American Army base they were 63 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: at in Germany, a stopover of sorts, a place to 64 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:36,359 Speaker 1: give the vets a minute to collect themselves mentally, to 65 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,680 Speaker 1: cool out before returning to civilian life, was a gold 66 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:45,080 Speaker 1: mine of inspiration. Tony Iomi looked around the base. He 67 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: and his Sabbath bandmates were here to play a game, 68 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: to entertain, but it felt like they were the ones 69 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: being entertained. Maybe entertained was the wrong word. Whatever it was, 70 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: it felt like they were getting more out of the 71 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 1: bargain than the soldiers. It was a lesson the fucking guys. 72 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: Their lives were permanently altered for what so American war 73 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: profiteer stock could go up a couple percentages of a point, 74 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: and these kids were fucking hopeless when they went into 75 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:13,120 Speaker 1: the war. And were hopelessly fucked now that they were 76 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,680 Speaker 1: out of it. Working class, all of them. They reminded 77 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 1: Tony of himself and his mates from back in Birmingham, 78 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: north of London, the Midlands, a tough city industrial Most 79 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 1: of the men in this room could cut it in 80 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,480 Speaker 1: Birmingham after Vietnam anyway, no problem, though Tony himself wasn't 81 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: so sure he could handle Birmingham anymore. Its bleakness was suffocating, 82 00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: once the hub of the industrial Revolution, then bombed to 83 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 1: oblivion by the Germans during World War two s Blitz. 84 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,679 Speaker 1: Post war Birmingham was a churning, smoking heap, rebuilding itself 85 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: into a working class hub, one gray, drab factory block 86 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: at a time. But no amount of time would be 87 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: fast enough for restless teenagers like Tony Iomi, doomed to 88 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 1: live their adolescence under a black cloud. But Tony overcame 89 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: more than the constant churn of Birmingham's gloom. He overcame 90 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: tremendous adversity at the age of seventeen. If he was 91 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,720 Speaker 1: careful and lucky, the sheet metal factory gig he held 92 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: down as a welder would only be a part time thing. 93 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: Playing guitar at that time in nineteen sixty six, before 94 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath and his top forty band Mythology would hopefully 95 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: open up roads that led out of Birmingham, and they 96 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,040 Speaker 1: were headed out the next day on tour. But first 97 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: Tony needed to get through his shift at the factory. 98 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:35,760 Speaker 1: Tony was working on the line welding patiently waiting for 99 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:38,239 Speaker 1: his coworker to send down the next sheet of metal 100 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 1: from the giant, industrial sized press. His coworker was fucked 101 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,440 Speaker 1: off elsewhere, and Tony was impatient get the shift done, 102 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: get the fuck out of Dodge with his band. Fuck 103 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 1: the coworker. Tony started working the press and the welding. 104 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 1: He reached down the line, pulled the press with one hand, 105 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,320 Speaker 1: pulled the metal out of the mouth of the machine 106 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: with his other. Weld repeat efficient with his technique, and 107 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: if he wasn't careful and management got wind of what 108 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: he was doing, they'd likely fire his coworker in double 109 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: Tony's workload without any extra pay. No doubt, Tony needed 110 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 1: to finish and get out of there. He continued his 111 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: two man process on the assembly line. It became automatic trance, 112 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:22,239 Speaker 1: like an industrial zen. One hand on the press, another 113 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: hand pulling the metal out well. Repeat one hand on 114 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: the press, another hand pulling the metal out weld. Repeat 115 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: one hand on the press, another hand pulling the metal 116 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: out well. Repeat, one hand on the press, another hand. 117 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: Suddenly the press had gripped Tony's other hand. The pain 118 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: was sharp and blinding. Instinctively, Tony pulled his hand out 119 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: of the machine. The machine at his right index and 120 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: ring fingers firmly in its teeth. But when Tony pulled 121 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,120 Speaker 1: his hand out, the machine peeled the skin on his 122 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: two fingers completely off. All that remained were the exposed 123 00:07:54,520 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: bones of his fingertips. The pain blinded him but for 124 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: catching a glimpse of his mangled hand as a guitar player, 125 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: his fretting hand. He gathered his destroyed and dismembered fingertips, 126 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: threw them in a bag of ice, and headed to 127 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: the hospital. But there was nothing the doctors could do 128 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: with them. Tony Iomi was sunk. Finished before he even 129 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: got started. He was suicidal. A life of drudgery lay 130 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: on the horizon. Fingerless guitar players weren't a thing, except 131 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: they were. In an effort to get Tony out of 132 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: his funk. A friend hipped him to guitarist Django reinher, 133 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: a blazing jazz man who played with only two fingers 134 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: on his fret hand due to an accident he sustained 135 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: in a fire. The accident also left him without the 136 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:44,320 Speaker 1: use of his right leg. Django didn't let it hold 137 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: him back, and Tony Iomi was inspired he wouldn't let 138 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: it hold him back either. Django used the only two 139 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: fingers he had left for his solo work. He used 140 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: his dead fingers for the chords. Tony Iomi got to work. 141 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: He fashioned homemade finger caps out of plastic liquid dishwashing bottles. 142 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,839 Speaker 1: He melted the bottles down, using a soldering iron and 143 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,680 Speaker 1: his welding skills to cram the molten material into the 144 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: ends of his fingertips. He then used glue leather to 145 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: further attach his new fingertips. Like Jango Reinhert, Tony's physical 146 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: limitations now informed his playing. Tony could only use the 147 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: lightest guitar strings due to the pain that would shoot 148 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: up his hand and arm every time his fingers touched 149 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: a string. Tony also had to tune his guitar down 150 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: way down, so the strings were looser and easier to manage, 151 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: and the result was a low, gloomy, new type of 152 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,640 Speaker 1: heaviness from his guitar that hadn't quite been heard before. 153 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 1: Most other Midlands bands on the scene that Tony was 154 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,839 Speaker 1: then playing and intended to work the traditional blue eyed 155 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: soul and R and B side of the street, bands 156 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: like the Crawling Kingsnakes featuring John Bonham who would later 157 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: go on to drum and led Zeppelin, the Spencer Davis 158 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 1: Group helmed by a young Steve Winwood who himself would 159 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,439 Speaker 1: go on to found the band Traffic and later launch 160 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:02,160 Speaker 1: a mega hit solo career, and Sounds of Blue featuring 161 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: a young keyboardist named Christine Perfect who would later join 162 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: another blues band named Fleewood Mack and take the last 163 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:10,959 Speaker 1: name of the band's basis when she married him to 164 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: become Christine McPhee. Those Midlands bands, with their blues and 165 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,400 Speaker 1: their tad tendencies, would never welcome Tony Iomi in his 166 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: new heaviness onto their side of the street. There was 167 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,440 Speaker 1: something darker in Tony's playing now, something totally unrelated to 168 00:10:25,559 --> 00:10:28,680 Speaker 1: R and B pub blue standards, something more akin to 169 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 1: the darkness of bluesman Robert Johnson something much heavier than 170 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: anything anyone had ever heard before, something now anchored in evil. 171 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,200 Speaker 1: The first hand horror stories of Vietnam made it into 172 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath's lyrics, as Tony Iomi knew they would. The 173 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: song was an eight minute explosion entitled Warpigs. It wasn't 174 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: released until much later, though, in nineteen seventy on Sabbath's 175 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: second album, Paranoid, but the band wrote it earlier, back 176 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 1: around the time they were putting together their first album. 177 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 1: But before Tony Iomi could work himself through the explosiveness 178 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: of Warpigs, he had the devil to contend with villagers, 179 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: scores of them, rampaging through their cobblestone streets, violently laying 180 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: waste to anything in their path, smashing street lamps with rocks, 181 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: setting fire to bales of hay with their torches, and 182 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: stampeding over their shock and protesting fellow countrymen, those who 183 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: weren't at the performance and who had no idea what 184 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,160 Speaker 1: was happening. It was the music that set them off, 185 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 1: stirred in them something dormant, their anger, their hatred, their 186 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:57,600 Speaker 1: will to do whatever it was they felt compelled to do, 187 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: and at that moment that feeling led to destruction. The 188 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: crowd at the concert hall stormed out after the final movement, 189 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 1: roused into trance like communal action by the performance of 190 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: Camille Saint Sons dance Macab based on the Henry Casalis 191 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: poem describing a visit from the devil to a graveyard 192 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,360 Speaker 1: at midnight on Halloween to summon the dead from their 193 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:20,839 Speaker 1: graves and join him in a dance. The piece is 194 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: Macab's subject matter. To not stir the crowd into violence, 195 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: it was the sound of the piece, more specifically its composition, 196 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 1: the scoratura, a D tuning of the e and the 197 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: violins to E flat, a move that created a tritone, 198 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: the most unsettling sound in all of music, a sound 199 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,240 Speaker 1: outlawed by the Church in the Middle Ages for this 200 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 1: exact reason, because it inspired violence. Evil. The most unholy 201 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: of sounds, was attained by flattening the fifth note in 202 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: the chord progression. Typically, the fifth note is deployed for tension. 203 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: Flattening the fifth increased the tension and added an element 204 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 1: of gloom of unease, and when people heard it for 205 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:00,960 Speaker 1: the first time, they could not pross it. It was 206 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 1: so foreign to anything they'd heard prior in popular music 207 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: that it drove them to violence. After one too many 208 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 1: performances featuring the try tone resulted in violence, the try tone, 209 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: in addition to being outlawed, became known as the avalos 210 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: in musica, the devil in music, or the Devil's interval. 211 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,360 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen sixty eight, Tony Iomi didn't know any 212 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: of this. All he knew was his band was in 213 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: need of songs if they were going to make a 214 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 1: record and make it out of Birmingham. His lyricist Slash 215 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: Bassis Geezer Butler, sat on his sofa, very stoned. From 216 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,680 Speaker 1: the stereo, the classical orchestral suite Planets by Gustav Hols blared. 217 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,720 Speaker 1: The first movement's title, Mars the Bringer of War, caught 218 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:49,800 Speaker 1: Geezer's attention. The heaviness of it reminded him of the 219 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: heaviness of Vietnam, and Geezer sat listening, cradling his bass, 220 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: and casually played along to the piece. Tony picked up 221 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 1: on Geezer's playing, and rather than anchor the melody with 222 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 1: root notes like most bass players would, Geezer shadowed the 223 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: melody with his playing and filled notes into the spaces 224 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,280 Speaker 1: there was more jazz than blues and far from standard rock. 225 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: Tony picked up his guitar and began playing along as well, 226 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: But when the movement ended, Tony kept playing, but he 227 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,160 Speaker 1: dropped the key down from a flat to G to 228 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: make it sound darker. It was heavier than anything the 229 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: two had messed with before with their bandmates Ozzie and Bill. 230 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: Up to this point they were just another blues band 231 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: from the Midlands. They played under the name Polka Tuck 232 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: Blues Band and then under the name Earth. Both names 233 00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:37,440 Speaker 1: were indistinguishable from the blue eyed hippie drivel of the 234 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: day and suited the nowhere rock pub music that they 235 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: were making. Total blah. But this new riff was something 236 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: else and had promise. That night, Geezer sat alone in 237 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,360 Speaker 1: his bedroom with the riff echoing in his head. He 238 00:14:56,400 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: read as Alistair Crowley. Geezer, like most of London's hip underground, 239 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,880 Speaker 1: was obsessed with the early twentieth century occultist. Gezer was 240 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 1: also obsessed with religion, the pageantry of it all. As 241 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: a kid, he wanted to be a priest. His bedroom 242 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,280 Speaker 1: walls were covered with crucifixes and iconic imagery in stark 243 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: contrast with the esoteric individualist ideas from Crowley's hermetic Order 244 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: of the Golden Dawn. He was filling his head with 245 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: at the moment, magic with a k dark magic, power, 246 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 1: sexual power, ritualistic sex, self gratification at any expense. All 247 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: that was the forbidden fruit that flew in the face 248 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: of Gezer's Catholic upbringing. It fascinated him. The darkness, the evil. 249 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: Gezer took it a step further and mixed among the 250 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: religious imagery on his walls, Satanic images, inverted crosses, drawings 251 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,880 Speaker 1: of Satan himself in a picture of Crowley. He even 252 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: painted his walls black. His bedroom was a diorama of 253 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: good and evil in it. He faded off into sleep, 254 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: Crowley's magic and theory and practice resting on his chest. 255 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: He awoke in a fit, eyes wide blackness all around 256 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 1: that rift from earlier, with tony ringing in his head, 257 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: and then the sound of Gustav Holds planets in a 258 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:12,920 Speaker 1: distant chorus in eerie whispered incantation. Gezer's spine straightened, the 259 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: hairs on his arm ros up. A breeze bristled over 260 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: his chilled skin, and when Gezer noticed his windows and 261 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: doors were shut, making any breeze impossible. His heart quickened, 262 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: his eyes began to adjust, the darkness started to fade. 263 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 1: He could make out the images on the wall, Pagan 264 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,080 Speaker 1: priests wearing goat's head, sacrificing virgins, ancient gods of the 265 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: underworld devouring their children, and the picture of Aleister Crowley 266 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: staring down at him with his stony face and deep, 267 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: bottomless black eyes. Gezer broke from Crowley's stare and looked 268 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 1: to the side of his bed. There, a figure in 269 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: black Geeser's heart forced itself up into his throat. He 270 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: leapt from the bed, flipped on his leg, and the 271 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: figure was gone. Geezer immediately began tearing down all the 272 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:58,960 Speaker 1: satanic imagery on his walls. When he was done, he 273 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 1: put pen to paper, and a stream of consciousness depicted 274 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:05,880 Speaker 1: what he saw and what he felt. The next day 275 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:07,760 Speaker 1: he brought his words to Tony and the rest of 276 00:17:07,800 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: his bandmates. Ozzie helped shape them into a melody, and 277 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: the words were a warning against the very real power 278 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: of Satan, a warning against the occult, a call to 279 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,200 Speaker 1: arms against evil. Tony called upon the rift they'd written 280 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:22,800 Speaker 1: the day before. The low g did the G octave 281 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: to the flatted fifth, the D flat, the try tone, 282 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: the Devil's interval. They called the song Black Sabbath. Heezer 283 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: nicked the title from the Boris Karloff horror movie, and 284 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 1: they liked the song title so much they decided to 285 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: give their band the same name. In this new approach, 286 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,800 Speaker 1: this darkness, diabolos and musica, the devil's music, even if 287 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,080 Speaker 1: it was a warning against evil and not a celebration 288 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:47,840 Speaker 1: of evil, the horror of it all, of the dream 289 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: of the rift, of the try tone of the imagery, 290 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: and the lyrics of the sound of Tony's playing, the 291 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 1: heaviness of it all was completely unique. It perfectly suited them. 292 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath was born. From the day they unlocked that heavy, 293 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,400 Speaker 1: diabolical power. They began their climb through the seven circles 294 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: of British podunk held international rock star success. Within months 295 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 1: of the name change and the discovery of their new sound, 296 00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 1: they had signed with UK's Phillips Records. Their self titled 297 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: first release in nineteen seventy disgusted and appalled the critics, 298 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 1: but it tapped into something elemental in the record buying public. 299 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: Kids went wild over Black Sabbath's newfound heaviness an evil image, 300 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 1: and with no help from the critics, Sabbath's debut album 301 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:41,399 Speaker 1: went to number eight on the UK charts. Warner Brothers 302 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 1: released the album in North America, but when the PR 303 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: Department pointed out that launching a Black Sabbath tour at 304 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: the same time as the trial of Charles Manson and 305 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,919 Speaker 1: his so called family was just getting started, a trial 306 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: to determine if Manson was guilty of masterminding the horrific 307 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: tape Babyanca murders murders where the word war was carved 308 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,479 Speaker 1: into a victim's chest and pig was painted in blood 309 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,560 Speaker 1: on a victim's wall. Words that Sabbath seemed to crib 310 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:09,840 Speaker 1: straight from Charlie and his girls, words far more violent 311 00:19:09,880 --> 00:19:13,400 Speaker 1: and esoteric than anything in the beatles Helter Skelter. When 312 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 1: the timing of both Black Sabbath's tour and Charles Manson's 313 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 1: trial was discovered to coincide due to fear of bad press, 314 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:25,679 Speaker 1: Warner Brothers abruptly canceled Sabbath's US tour, But Anton LeVay 315 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:30,160 Speaker 1: didn't get the message. LaVey cut an intimidating figure Bulky 316 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: and bald with a devil's goatee, posing with snakes, and 317 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: walking a pet leopard around the streets of San Francisco, 318 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:39,840 Speaker 1: and in all respects taking up Alister Crowley's mantle of 319 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: the occult. In the New century, LaVey had written the 320 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,919 Speaker 1: Satanic Bible and was the high Priest and founder of 321 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: the Church of Satan. From this position, he presided over 322 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: Satanic marriages, baptisms, and funerals, and in coordination with Warner 323 00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: Brothers Records, planned a Black Sabbath Parade to kick off 324 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:02,120 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath US tour in San Francisco, where Black Sabbath 325 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:04,480 Speaker 1: were supposed to make their US debut at the Fame 326 00:20:04,560 --> 00:20:08,480 Speaker 1: Fillmore West. The Satanic parade went ahead as planned without 327 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,040 Speaker 1: the band. American practitioners in the Dark Arts had found 328 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: their new heroes in Black Sabbath. To them, the band's 329 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 1: music was evil and carnate. They were a band that 330 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:21,880 Speaker 1: championed their cause evil. LaVey and the Satanists had taken 331 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: Crowley's model of do what thou wilt to the extreme, 332 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: and just like everything else in American culture at the 333 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: end of the sixties, they were violently clinging for whatever 334 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:33,560 Speaker 1: would bring them personal satisfaction. They were the me decades, 335 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: slouching towards Bethlehem, waiting to be born, with or without 336 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 1: Tony Iomi and his bandmates, Anton Lavy and his Satanists, 337 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: and whatever other freaky San franciscould riff raff LaVey could muster, 338 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: all came out to parade through the streets in honor 339 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,439 Speaker 1: of Satan and in the name of Black Sabbath. The 340 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 1: parade kicked off on Fulsom Street. Anton Lavay was at 341 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 1: the head as master of ceremonies, dressed topped to toe 342 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:02,240 Speaker 1: in a black row. The Black Pope, as he proclaimed 343 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,600 Speaker 1: himself to be, a big upside down cross hung from 344 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 1: his neck. He even had a scepter he towered over 345 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: his assembled freaks, fellow Satanists, elaborately dressed drag queens, a 346 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 1: group of juggling little people, fancy boys and hotpans sacheting 347 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: alongside the paraders. A Mexican mariachi band marching in step 348 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: with the large scale floats assembled for the occasion. A 349 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,439 Speaker 1: group of black panthers made the scene clearly confused by 350 00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,440 Speaker 1: the parade's name. A flatbed truck with a he hostile 351 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: camp bluegrass band brought up the rear, picking out Black 352 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 1: Sabbath songs on banjos, fiddles, and acoustic guitars. A local 353 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 1: TV crew made the scene, and the extremely weird event 354 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:44,919 Speaker 1: made the wires. Tony Iomi read about it in his 355 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: morning paper and nearly dropped his cup of tea and 356 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: shock Satanists. What he thought hath Black Sabbath rot a 357 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 1: group of Satanists and freaks marching in the name of 358 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,600 Speaker 1: his band was shocking, yes, but not nearly as shocking 359 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: as the murder he would learn about in the coming months, 360 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: a murder inspired by a familiar figure in Black. We'll 361 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:16,880 Speaker 1: be right back after this word word word. American newspapers 362 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: were a trip nineteen seventy one, a new decade, a 363 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: dark dawn. The story screamed off the page. In Los Angeles, 364 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: the Manson trial was high drama. Headlines informed Tony that 365 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,760 Speaker 1: recently Manson family members tried robbing an army surplus store 366 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,399 Speaker 1: to free Charlie. In San Francisco, two members of the 367 00:22:36,400 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: Black Liberation Army, a violent offshoot of the Black Panthers, 368 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: raided a police station and fired off around into the 369 00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: god of a police sergeant. He died in New York. 370 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,159 Speaker 1: The press was obsessed with an Italian gangster named Joey Gallo. 371 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: So much for that other New York Joe Joe DiMaggio, 372 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,040 Speaker 1: And by the seventies America was turning its lonely eyes 373 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 1: to the dark side. Tony looked around the hotel lobby 374 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 1: he was sitting in and saw it all. The rock 375 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: scene was just an exaggerated microcosm of the American zeitgeist. 376 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 1: It seemed that in America it wasn't enough just to 377 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: get on with life. You needed a stick, some sort 378 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,320 Speaker 1: of thing that you identified with and that identified you 379 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: as being unique among your neighbors, friends, co workers, groupies, etc. 380 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: Because everyone's just so fucking special, aren't they. There were 381 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,920 Speaker 1: the leftover hippies, the speed freaks, the groupies, the Nihilis, 382 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,120 Speaker 1: You're Travis Bickle prototypes, political anarchists, Yippie Zippies, black panthers, 383 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: white panthers, Vietnam vets, heroin addicts, Hell's Angels, soul brothers, 384 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,560 Speaker 1: soul sisters, harry Christians, witches, and of course a growing 385 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 1: number of Satanists. They were all there milling about the lobby, 386 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: and most of the major American cities. The Black Sabbath visited, 387 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: looking to score, looking for the party, looking for that 388 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 1: eternal buzz, looking to meet a rock star, fuck a 389 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: rock star, possess a rock star. Tony sat quietly in 390 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:01,679 Speaker 1: the corner. Dark glasses on his features, even the silhouette 391 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: of his high cheekbones were mostly hidden. His hat perched low, 392 00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:09,479 Speaker 1: head to toe in black, He was remarkably inconspicuous amongst 393 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: the hubbub happening around him. It was check in time crew, 394 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: and members of his band and other bands on the 395 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,320 Speaker 1: bill that evening, The Jay Guiles Band and Humble Pie 396 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:22,680 Speaker 1: were filing in. Musicians were swarmed for autographs. Desk clerks 397 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: and bell boys were overmatched. Tony crossed his legs and 398 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,760 Speaker 1: buried his head back into his daily paper, and what 399 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: he read gripped him with fear. She was only sixteen 400 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,320 Speaker 1: years old from New Jersey. She was a good Catholic girl, 401 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: didn't mess with the drugs or even with the boys. 402 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: By all accounts, she was a beauty. She'd gone missing 403 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 1: three months. Her family sweated it out, hoping for the best, 404 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:53,960 Speaker 1: fearing the worst, and then one morning it happened. Her 405 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,439 Speaker 1: father went out to retrieve the morning paper, as was 406 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 1: his pre work routine. Often he was aided in this 407 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:03,240 Speaker 1: task by the family dog, but not this morning. The dog, 408 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,520 Speaker 1: he'd presumed was off somewhere else. He opened his front 409 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: door and looked to the bottom of the cement stew. Wow, 410 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 1: there was the dog, sitting obediently, looking up at him 411 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:17,199 Speaker 1: with those big, innocent doe eyes. But between his teeth, 412 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 1: where he usually hold his master's newspaper, something else, something 413 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: similar in size, but something different, something ragged, something bloody, bruised, broken, 414 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: something his master couldn't bear to comprehend, something beyond explanation. 415 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:37,520 Speaker 1: The arm of his master's missing daughter. Tony's eyes frantically 416 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,200 Speaker 1: scanned the rest of the text below the headline girl 417 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:43,680 Speaker 1: sacrificed in witch Right. Turns out, they found the rest 418 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 1: of the girl in an area off walked on reservoir 419 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 1: known as the Devil's Teeth quote unquote. Occult symbols were 420 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,359 Speaker 1: found around the girl's body. Locals suspected a known coven 421 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: of witches. Yes, witches. In nineteen seventy one were blamed 422 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: for a crime scene that had all the markings of 423 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,919 Speaker 1: a satanic sacrifice. The victim's body was outlined by sticks 424 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 1: within the shape of a coffin. There were inverted crosses 425 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 1: made of forest wood placed about her body, and her 426 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,399 Speaker 1: body was elevated on a mound of dirt a makeshift altar. 427 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: Tony looked up from his paper Shocked, he glanced across 428 00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: the lobby. Everyone seemed to be moving fast this way 429 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 1: and that, looking for action. Most were wearing some preapproved 430 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,760 Speaker 1: subculture fashioned bell bottoms, fringes, leather headbands, beads, and the 431 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: Harry Krishnas danced about with shaved heads in colorful roams. 432 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: The groupie shifted awkwardly in revealing outfits. A pimp eyed 433 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,480 Speaker 1: the groupies with thoughts of recruitment. His technicolor suit, hat 434 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: and cane made it clear who and what he was. 435 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: White panthers and red berets handed out pamphlets. Blue denim 436 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,520 Speaker 1: clad roadies muscled their way through to the elevators. They 437 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: were hard to distinguish from the Hell's Angels, who were 438 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,680 Speaker 1: there to do whatever the hell they wanted. And far 439 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 1: away in the opposite corner of the lobby, to the 440 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: right of the entry, almost as inconspicuous as Tony, three 441 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,560 Speaker 1: figures clad like him head to toe in black, but 442 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,639 Speaker 1: in black robes, each wearing the same necklace, a modest 443 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: silver chain with an inverted cross Satanists nervously. Tony looked 444 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 1: down at his paper once again, under the headline girls 445 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: Sacrificed in witch Right. He stared at the image of 446 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: the victim, smudged black inche obscured her face. All that 447 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,720 Speaker 1: was prevalent was the cut of her high cheekbones, and 448 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: next to her image a composite sketch of who investigators 449 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: believe to be the suspect, an androgynist, looking lighteen or 450 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: young twenty something, long hair like the victims, big eyes. 451 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: Other than that, fairly unremarkable. Tony looked up once again 452 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: and across the lobby, and the Satanists were gone, A 453 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: twin bump of fear and relief speedball through the young 454 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:57,919 Speaker 1: guitarist veins. On stage that night, the Witches were in 455 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,280 Speaker 1: the audience, right up their front and center in the 456 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,840 Speaker 1: third row, just staring at him, not moving, not enjoying 457 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 1: the show in any way, just staring there, playing his 458 00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: day in one moment and in the next when Tony 459 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:15,479 Speaker 1: looked up and out into the audience, gone. Later on 460 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,680 Speaker 1: tour and other cities, more Satanists made their presence known 461 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 1: as well as their love of Black Sabbath. They fought 462 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 1: their way backstage to gawk at the band. Tony, along 463 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,920 Speaker 1: with Geezer and Bill, saw them outside of their tour 464 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 1: boss at the airport, and soon anyone clad in black 465 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,480 Speaker 1: was a potential Satanist to the band throughout nineteen seventy one. 466 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy two, as Black Sabbath climbed the charts 467 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: in both the UK and the States, the lore of 468 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,720 Speaker 1: the band and their dark imagery compelled the freaks to 469 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,560 Speaker 1: flood out of the woodwork into the band shows again. 470 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: Most mysterious were the Crowley adherents LaVey's Satanists. The band 471 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: received fan mail written in blood. One fan in La 472 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,600 Speaker 1: cornered Ozzy backstage and told him he had a plan 473 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: for him to go to Mexico to buy a corpse, 474 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 1: to smuggle it back into the States and on stage 475 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 1: so that Ozzie could bring it out during a set 476 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: and stab it. During the show at the Hollywood Bowl, 477 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: Tony walked off stage after his set. He happened to 478 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: look behind him for whatever reason, and there was a man, 479 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 1: a big man, and all black coming at him fast 480 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 1: with a dagger raised above his head. Security immediately saw 481 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: what was about to happen and pounced on the dude. 482 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 1: Tony was safely whist backstage. At a gig in Memphis, 483 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,959 Speaker 1: Black Sabbath arrived to find their dressing room door dripping 484 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,560 Speaker 1: with blood in the form of a giant cross, and 485 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 1: the door was also nailed shut. At another gig in 486 00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 1: the Midwest, the band arrived back at their hotel, took 487 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: the elevator to their floor of sweets, and found as 488 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: many as Tony Satanists, all clad in black, sitting in 489 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,080 Speaker 1: the dark of the hallway, illuminated only by the black 490 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: candles they'd set up around them on the floor as 491 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 1: they chanted softly freaky. All the while, Tony tracked the 492 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: case of the slain Catholic girl from New Jersey. In 493 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,680 Speaker 1: whatever city he was in, Tony scoured national newspapers for 494 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: items on the case. His curiosity compelled him. Who could 495 00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,719 Speaker 1: do this and why and how? Wow? Tony feared the worst. 496 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,560 Speaker 1: Was it a Black Sabbath fan and just who was 497 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,840 Speaker 1: this girl? There were no pictures of her in any 498 00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: of the recent articles he'd seen, and in the first 499 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: article he'd read, her image was smudged, obscured. There was 500 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,800 Speaker 1: still little info on the suspect. Supposedly, they still didn't 501 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 1: know if the killer was male or female, just that 502 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 1: he or she was in their early twenties, had long hair, 503 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: and was suspected to be some sort of witch and 504 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 1: a cultist. They're simply a Satanist. Of course, there are 505 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: distinctions among all of those things, but the press didn't 506 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,280 Speaker 1: care to make mention of that. Tony Iomi didn't care either. 507 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 1: This wasn't what he signed up for, which is ritualistic murder, 508 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: giant bloody crosses, smuggled corpses America coming undone before him, 509 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: he was a rock guitarist, a man of the trades, 510 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,400 Speaker 1: not of the dark arts. His band Black Sabbath had 511 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 1: invented a new form of rock and roll. Out of 512 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,520 Speaker 1: thin air, the try tone and Birmingham's steel. They created 513 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: heavy metal, a pummeling mix of detuned riffs, jazz, shadowed bass, 514 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: industrial rhythms and that mcmelody kids went mad for it. 515 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,280 Speaker 1: Critics hated it, and the Satanists found their battlecry and 516 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,440 Speaker 1: the heavy gloom that Sabbath had awakened the thought of 517 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,880 Speaker 1: it was too much Tony needed an escape. Grass helped before, 518 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,640 Speaker 1: but the Sweet Leaf no longer provided the relief that 519 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 1: he needed. Tony, like the rest of his band, retreated 520 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:25,600 Speaker 1: into heavy cocaine use. Black Sabbath did so much cocaine 521 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 1: that a full time dealer accompanied them on tour, and 522 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: while recording their album Volume four in Los Angeles, Columbia's 523 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: finest cocaine was shipped to the bel Air home the 524 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 1: band was renting, and crates the size of studio cabinet speakers. 525 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 1: Coke was everywhere around Black Sabbath in the nineteen seventies, 526 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: just as it had been around Geezer Butler's one time obsession, 527 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: Aleister Crowley almost a century earlier. Crowley could handle his coke, 528 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:57,040 Speaker 1: so too could Tony Iomi. His bandmates unfortunately could not. Increasingly, 529 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 1: like the Satanists who now followed them on tour, the 530 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: behavior of Black Sabbaths other members grew more intense. Bill 531 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 1: Ward would pass out so drunk and so stone so 532 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: often that his bandmates regularly set his beard on fire 533 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: to wake him up. Geezer Butler once flushed ten grand 534 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: worth of coke down their rented bell Air home's toilet 535 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,160 Speaker 1: in a delirious rush, not realizing the cops at the 536 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 1: door were only responding to Ozzy drunkenly sitting on the 537 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,240 Speaker 1: house alarm and setting it off. When the cops split, 538 00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: Geezer and Ozzy frantically tried to plunge the blow back 539 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: out of the toilet. As for Ozzy Osbourne himself, even 540 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 1: in his early days, he refused to be outdone by 541 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: his bandmates or any other rock star. At Seattle's famous 542 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: Edgewater in where the infamous led Zeppelin shark incident allegedly 543 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: took place, Ozzie rented his own room, in his own 544 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: fishing rod and caught his own shark from the ocean 545 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 1: outside his window, just as John Bonham supposedly had. But 546 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: then Ozzie took it one step further. He gutted the 547 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: fish in the hotel bathroom. It used its bloody innards 548 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: to repaint the hotel room's floors and walls. This was standard, fair, 549 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 1: everyday behavior for Tony Iomi's bandmates, especially for Ozzie. Ozzy 550 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,320 Speaker 1: Osbourne's behavior was now a constant issue as far as 551 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:14,160 Speaker 1: his band leader Tony Iomi was concerned. Tony was fighting 552 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,160 Speaker 1: for his creative life, trying to save Black Sabbath from 553 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: the Satanists and the critics who were savaging the band 554 00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 1: on a regular basis, none other than the hippist of 555 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: hip rock critics, Lester Bangs set of the band in 556 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,400 Speaker 1: Rolling Stone's only Black Sabbath album review. To that point, quote, 557 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: despite the murky song titles and some named lyrics that 558 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 1: sound like Vanilla Fudge playing doggerel tribute to Alistair Crowley, 559 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: the album has nothing to do with spiritualism, the occult, 560 00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:44,200 Speaker 1: or anything much, just like cream but worse. But when 561 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,120 Speaker 1: it came to the kids who actually bought records, Lester's 562 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: review didn't matter, nor did the mountain of other bad press. 563 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: By nineteen seventy three, Black Sabbath was as popular as 564 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 1: any band in America with the exception of led Zeppelin. 565 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,880 Speaker 1: Tony knew that their latest albums, Mass of Reality in 566 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: Volume four, had a lot to do with it. Maybe 567 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,320 Speaker 1: Tony was lying to himself, but he credited the depth 568 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: of songs like After Forever and Super Not for the 569 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 1: band's success. Creatively, they were massive steps forward from the 570 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:16,439 Speaker 1: earlier meat and potatoes riffage of songs like iron Man 571 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,759 Speaker 1: and Electric Funeral, and the lyrics Geezer kicked up for 572 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: After Forever were particularly poignant. From Tony's perspective, After Forever 573 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 1: was a warning, a warning to stay the fuck away 574 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: from satan just like their song Black Sabbath from their 575 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 1: first album had warned of a figure in black. After 576 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: Forever warned of the consequences of the dark arts and 577 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: try to put distance between Black Sabbath and the Satanists. 578 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,000 Speaker 1: But it didn't matter. The incendiary lyrics of After Forever 579 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: and the steamrolling, heavy hookiness of their latest album's others 580 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: standout tracks Sweet Leaf, Children of the Grave, Into the Void, 581 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: Snow Blind, and Changes all rang out like a demonic 582 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,640 Speaker 1: siren call to low run American occultists in need of validation. 583 00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,400 Speaker 1: The Satanists, it seemed, were not warned off by After Forever. 584 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: They did not get the message, and there was another 585 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 1: person who apparently didn't get the message either, Tony Iomi's 586 00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:30,399 Speaker 1: singer Ozzy Osbourne. By the end of nineteen seventy eight, 587 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: somehow someone thought it was a good idea for Black 588 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,680 Speaker 1: Sabbath to go back to Los Angeles. Some sort of 589 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:40,280 Speaker 1: change was needed, and this was it. Their nineteen seventy 590 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: six record Technical Ecstasy, was a disaster, a creative overreach 591 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,800 Speaker 1: by Tony, a neglectful mess by Geezer Bill and Ozzy, 592 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: and the album even bored the Satanists, who had all 593 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,839 Speaker 1: but abandoned the band by now in favor of other 594 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,719 Speaker 1: heavy acts who followed in Sabbath gargantuan footsteps for a 595 00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 1: time afterward, Ozzie had even left the band and was 596 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: replaced by Dave Walker from the band Savoy Brown. But 597 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,240 Speaker 1: now for their nineteen seventy eight album, another commercial whiff 598 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 1: called Never Say Die, Ozzie had come back, but Ozzie's 599 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 1: behavior was too much, even by black Sabbath standards. Back 600 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 1: during their first stint in Los Angeles, Ozzie's behavior could 601 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: be tolerated, but it was different. Now. Tony had to 602 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: create music that would compete with the likes of Led Zeppelin, 603 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 1: The Who, and now upstart bands that were wildly energetic 604 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:31,920 Speaker 1: like ac DC and wildly talented like Van Halen by 605 00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:36,680 Speaker 1: rock star standards, Zeppelin's frontman Robert Plant was practically an intellectual, 606 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,560 Speaker 1: and The Who's singer Roger Daltrey commanded respect. Singer Bond 607 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 1: Scott from ac DC was plugged into a different circuit 608 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 1: board altogether, and Van Halen's frontman, David Lee Roth, was 609 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: nothing short of a dynamo with his acrobatic stage presence 610 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: in washboard abs. Ozzy Osbourne was a buffoon with those 611 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,200 Speaker 1: doe eyes, those silly bangs that cropped his long hair, 612 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 1: and that perpetual look of stupidity on his mug that 613 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,560 Speaker 1: always seemed to say, I didn't mean to do it, 614 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:09,160 Speaker 1: I swear. Ozzie passed out and pissed himself regularly. Ozzie 615 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,920 Speaker 1: got drunk and into a fistfight with Geezer. Ozzie got 616 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,880 Speaker 1: high on coke and crashed his motorcycle. Ozzie got pissed 617 00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,840 Speaker 1: and tried shitting on a motorist in the middle of 618 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:21,160 Speaker 1: the street out of road rage. By Tony Iomi's estimation, 619 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: Ozzy Osbourne's buffoonery was so intense that he wondered if 620 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,640 Speaker 1: Ozzie was trying to sabotage the band. Either way, it 621 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: didn't matter. Ozzie had to go, and so Tony Iomi 622 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,759 Speaker 1: unceremoniously kicked his front man out of his band. The 623 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,640 Speaker 1: maid was summoned to pack his bags. Someone called the 624 00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: car service for him. Ozzie was given ninety six grand 625 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: severance in a low rent apartment in Hollywood to stay 626 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,000 Speaker 1: into nurse's wounds with copious amounts of cocaine, alcohol, groupies, 627 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:53,960 Speaker 1: and Domino's pizza. He was out gone. Tony sunk himself 628 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,560 Speaker 1: further into his work trying to put together songs for 629 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,560 Speaker 1: a new Sabbath album with a new singer without Ozzie, 630 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,799 Speaker 1: and he also sunk further into his use of cocaine. 631 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: In Hollywood, Tony Iomi connected with the dentist of the 632 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,640 Speaker 1: recently deceased Elvis Presley, and by all accounts, his legal 633 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: drug dealer, doctor Max Shapiro, who now kept Tony supplied 634 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:18,359 Speaker 1: with regular scripts of pharmaceutical cocaine. But Ozzy Osbourne, as 635 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 1: far as Tony Iomi was concerned, was a ghost, just 636 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,799 Speaker 1: like those long gone figures in black, the ones in 637 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,120 Speaker 1: the hotel lobby, in the crowd at the foot of 638 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 1: Geezer's bed in the middle of the night. There thank gone, 639 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:35,480 Speaker 1: Tony had no regrets. A new singer, shortened stature but 640 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,720 Speaker 1: big voice and determination. Ronnie James, Dio of the band Rainbow, 641 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: was brought into Sabbath's ranks to lead the charge for 642 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,200 Speaker 1: the kids against the critics and further away from the Satanists, 643 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,480 Speaker 1: and Ronnie James Dio would do exactly that with the 644 00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 1: first Black Sabbath album released without Ozzy Osbourne and with 645 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 1: Deo at the Helm Co writing material over the newly 646 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,360 Speaker 1: inspired Tony Iomi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward. The album 647 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,759 Speaker 1: Heaven and Hell was nothing short of a heavy mental masterpiece, 648 00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: more powerful than anything Sabbath had done in years, and 649 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: as commercially successful as anything the band had done since 650 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: the earlier part of the decade. Black Sabbath was back because, 651 00:39:13,920 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 1: like the Devil himself, Ozzy Osbourne was cast out. Years later, 652 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 1: Tony took his tea out by the pool on one 653 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:27,880 Speaker 1: of those indistinguishable Hollywood afternoons, perfect temperature loads of sun. 654 00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,560 Speaker 1: He strained his eyes to read his paper there in 655 00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,640 Speaker 1: the National section, a follow up on the near cold 656 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,520 Speaker 1: case involving the Catholic girls sacrificed in the ritualistic occult 657 00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 1: murder in the Devil's Teeth area of New Jersey. There 658 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: was still no arrest, but there was a better composite 659 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,160 Speaker 1: sketch of the suspect, better than the one Tony had 660 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,560 Speaker 1: seen in the paper a few years earlier. The suspect 661 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,920 Speaker 1: was now believed to definitely be a man by the sketch, 662 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,520 Speaker 1: though who was still a bit hard to tell. He 663 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:59,200 Speaker 1: didn't look like much of a killer. He had long 664 00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: hair with bangs, like a girl, and for a supposed Satanists, 665 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,800 Speaker 1: innocent looking round eyes and that look on his face 666 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,440 Speaker 1: it was somehow familiar to Tony. It seemed to say, 667 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:19,520 Speaker 1: I didn't mean to do it. I swear such a disgrace. 668 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,200 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in this. 669 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:38,040 Speaker 2: It's a special Halloween episode of Disgraceland. 670 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:46,640 Speaker 1: All right, thanks for checking out this episode of Disgraceland. 671 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,720 Speaker 1: This being a Halloween episode, we indulged in more poetic 672 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 1: license than normal. So no, Ozzy Osborne wasn't a Satanist, 673 00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,800 Speaker 1: and no he wasn't responsible for the murder at Devil's Teeth, 674 00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 1: but that true crime is indeed true, even the bit 675 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,280 Speaker 1: about the dog and the vicar. Google Devil's Teeth Murder 676 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,360 Speaker 1: to learn more about it. Freaky stuff. Also, before you 677 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: fire off your hate mail, I love Ozzy Osbourne. I 678 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: love Sabbath era Ozzy Osbourne, I love Solo era Ozzy Osbourne. 679 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 1: Pretty much all of it, even the recent stuff, we 680 00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 1: released an entire episode on Ozzy that covers the high 681 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,320 Speaker 1: jinks of his solo years as well as his brief 682 00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,040 Speaker 1: stint in jail and dives deeper into the Snowblind bel 683 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,480 Speaker 1: Air era of Black Sabbath as well. So check that 684 00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 1: Ozzy episode out in the Disgraceland archive and Happy Halloween, 685 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,200 Speaker 1: Sick Bastards. 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