Reviews of the new Black Sabbath DVD thing

[Spiff]

Dudes and dudettes

Now, www.michaeldvd.com.au is a very thorough Australian DVD review website, but unfortunately there's one particular bloke who doesn't seem to know a thing about metal, but isn't afraid to show it. He's the bloke who has reviewed the new Black Sabbath DVDs - have a look at some of the gems he comes up with here:

The primary focus of The Black Sabbath Story, Volume 2 is all of the jokers who have pitifully tried to fill Ozzy Osbourne's shoes since 1978. To put it quite simply, it is like trying to put an accountant into my position as a writer of reviews - it just doesn't work. In particular, the 1980/1992 lineup that seems to get the most focus, with Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass, Vinny Appice on drums, and Ronnie James Dio on vocals, is in my opinion one of the most terrible the band has ever seen. Granted, every member of the band save Tony Iommi has seen terrible replacements at one point or another - Tony Martin cannot carry a tune in a bucket, Bob Daisley only joined the band after being fired by Ozzy, and there have been more drummers than Bill Ward has had heart problems (at least according to the information I've read).

And:

In case you have any doubts as to which is the superior line-up, by the way, check out the appearances of Ronnie James Dio at such points as 0:45. If the word "poseur" was in the dictionary, this man's picture would be right beside it.

But then he dares to refer to the Voice of Rock, Glenn Hughes, as merely 'a vocalist' in the following paragraph:

Repetitious guitar riffing and a vocalist repeating that he's "no stranger to love" or something about ten million freaking times is an affront to everything that Sabbath was about when they crowded into the studio to record their first album on a budget that would equal lunch money in today's studios.

People get me so angry sometimes!!

 

[spawn]

Someone needs to beat this idiot over the head with a copy of Heaven And Hell. Repeatedly. And for a very long time.

Dio rules

 

[Joe Salami]

It's always great to see someone come out and bag something so outstandingly - when he hasn't got the faintest idea of what he's talking about.

Yet another person to jump on the bandwagon that Black Sabbath ended in 1978. Bollocks to that!

Spawny - don't beat him with Heaven And Hell - what a poor use of such a great album that would be!
Perhaps we could shove his review up his backside and see how far it will go....

 

[spawn]

Black Sabbath STARTED in 1978 I say

We got the best of both worlds, a rocking Sabbath with a great vocalist and some most awesome Ozzy solo stuff

 

[Joe Salami]

Yes.