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Glenn’s Chosen Years in UK
Glenn Hughes’ management has announced another leg of his Chosen Years tour — 8 dates in the UK in October 2025. Various presales seem to be already in progress, with general availability slated for March 7th. The powers that be want to steer your money towards the Ticketmaster, however we’ve also included some links to the alternative sources if you’d rather not deal with the cartel.
From the horse’s mouth:
So happy to announce I shall be with you in October for a series of shows. I will be performing songs from my new album coming this August and a selection of my solo catalog songs, in addition to collaborations with other artists, spanning my entire career. It’s always good to return home, to spend some time with you, and see your smiling faces.
Full details in our calendar.
Thanks to CTC and Daniel Bengtsson for the heads-up.
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Who was in his band for the Orchestra dates he did recently? I believe Ash and Soren are slated for this tour, hope Ash will play a shorter drum solo. No Glenn, he is not the best F***in drummer you’ve ever worked with!
March 4th, 2025 at 20:22If you mean the Rock Meets Classic traveling music revue Big Ian has regularly populated in the past, Coronarias, then Glenn won’t have backing musicians (nor will he likely play bass himself), that will all be done by the Mat Sinner Band, my countryman Mat being the musical director of the whole thing.
And I agree that Glenn has had drummers in his bands I’ve liked better (I’m not saying that they were technically better or worse), Pontus Engborg among them, especially in the trio line-up with Doug Aldrich which was excellent and really gave the old Trapeze numbers new life.
March 5th, 2025 at 13:49Aha! Thanks again for sharing the encyclopaedic knowledge Uwe, that explains why the on the poor sound quality audience vid on You Tube, it didn’t look like any of Glenn’s regular collaborators (and he wasn’t playing bass).
March 6th, 2025 at 11:07For my money, Glenn could do much worse than try to recruit the original drummer (Paula?) from Strange Kind of Women, wherever she might be now!
The way Rock Meets Classic works, they have a young orchestra from some country they can reasonably afford and invite circa half a dozen stars and almost-stars from past and present bands in the baby boomer fan age bracket. Then there is a house band, led by Mat Sinner, consisting of heavy metal musicians that know how to play (think Trans Siberian Orchestra). They do a handful of tunes from each artist (or often just the band he has played in, i.e. he or she might not be the original singer) and then an encore with pretty much everyone (more often than not: SOTW). IG went with them on tour several times (they tour once a year in early spring). I’ve seen it once (the bill I saw featured Lou Gramm of Foreigner, Dan McCafferty of Nazareth, Les Holroyd of Barclay James Harvest and IG as headliner among others), it’s a bit cheesy/cabaret, that just goes with the format. The orchestra gets tighter as the tour progresses.
From a more discerning rock fan’s point of view the good thing of Rock Meets Classic is that this way you sometimes get to see artists live such as Don Felder (ex-Eagles) or Rick Springfield that otherwise never tour Europe.
I’m not expecting much, but since it’s Glenn I’m going to their gig next month in Frankfurt. They will probably want him to do SOTW and Highway Star. 😁 Or the KLF’s What Time Is Love? Haven’t heard him do that live in a while. I’m expecting Burn and Mistreated. Glenn has done a wide array of music, but there are hardly any original hits to which he lent his voice. You wouldn’t expect a Rock Meets Classic audience to know anything from Trapeze. Maybe they’ll dig out something like this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryiOqkxyIpk
PS: At the gig I saw, Big Ian remained dressed throughout, Karin, which – as we know – is not always a given when he’s performing uninhibitedly with orchestras.
March 6th, 2025 at 14:21@3
March 6th, 2025 at 17:54If she’s the one you’re talking about, I’m with you. I miss her !
https://www.facebook.com/strangekindofwomen/photos/our-drummer-paola-caridi-her-fb-page-httpswwwfacebookcompaolettalabatteristaperf/1821963021445165/
@4
“At the gig I saw, Big Ian remained dressed throughout, Karin, which – as we know – is not always a given when he’s performing uninhibitedly with orchestras.” – 😄 good to know sweetie, I never know where to look in these circumstances ☺️
March 6th, 2025 at 21:08Coronarias, just for the record: My son and me went to see Glenn Hughes with his band last time around and we really enjoyed the drum solo. In fact it was stunning. Just in case Mr. Ash is around … 😀
Can’t bring myself to attend those orchestra shows. Poor Glenn having to sing SOTW and HS … guess you are right, Uwe. Even Tony Carey had to do it with Mandoki’s Soulmates … 😀
Whitesnake once did it in Russia – I only know of that one occasion in 1994.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRAJBLNCiQ
They are forgiven though – they may have played it for the sake of a rock starved audience. Thankfully DC never relied on songs by other DP line ups. Ok, then again he did not have to as he produced some major hits himself …
March 7th, 2025 at 14:54“They are forgiven though – they may have played it for the sake of a rock starved audience.”
No, they are DEFINITELY NOT forgiven, Max, our grandfathers were committed to the Ostfront for lesser crimes in a Strafbattalion (ok, WS were obviously already there!). That SOTW rendition is so ef-fing em-ba-rras-sing, any Schülereband could have done better. Would you believe that those genius guitar players from WS didn’t know how the verse goes (just 2 1/2 bars G minor, 1/2 bar F major, 1 bar G minor), instead the morons just continue to play the riff? Ouch … 😣 Die Kinder lernen heutzutage gar nichts mehr in der Schule.
Many things in life can be excused, we all err at times. Not knowing the SOTW verse as aguitarist is right up there with Ozzy’s admission as a universe-killer in ‘A National Acrobat’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozCnbfY-xM
“Destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime …”.
Yeah, right, but that is quite enough!
March 7th, 2025 at 18:28I’m expecting something like this at Rock Meets Classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sk0bbv5o40
It’s the kind of thing the audience there would go crazy for. Glenn has been performing the song for a long time (since the Marc Bonilla solo album) and while White Shade Of Pale has been played to death, yeah, Glenn can credibly pull it off. He still is that good, contrary to what the naysayers contrive.
March 7th, 2025 at 20:33@7 RE: Whitesnake… gee thanks, can’t un-hear that. 🤢
@8 Ja, die Kinder von heute wissen nichts über Scheiße.
March 8th, 2025 at 00:51Fair play to Glenn and his Management – my Portsmouth ticket for October £42.74. (cost of a tour t-shirt and a couple of pints)!! Hoping ‘they’ haven’t over stretched on the venue sizes for the UK tour? Seen Glenn in smaller venues (300-500 punters) in the past i.e. Engine rooms/ 1865 S’ Hampton, Komedia Club BTN, Astoria Club LND and probably the largest capacity De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill (1000 punters) etc?
March 8th, 2025 at 07:59Russ spricht Deutsch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASPURee4dJ4
March 8th, 2025 at 18:49@ 8 – “Many things in life can be excused, we all err at times. Not knowing the SOTW verse as aguitarist is right up there with Ozzy’s admission as a universe-killer in ‘A National Acrobat’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozCnbfY-xM
“Destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime …”.
Yeah, right, but that is quite enough!” Once again Uwe is taking a single lyric line out of its complete context, oh dear, those old lawyer habits do die hard Uwe. For anyone interested in Geezer Butler’s full lyrics for that Sabbath classic from SBS. Copied from online, some words may be a little different, but it sounds pretty correct to me. Cheers
” I am the world that hides the universal
Secret of all time
Destruction of the empty spaces is my
One and only crime
I’ve lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child who never was conceived
When little worlds collide
I’m trapped inside my embryonic cell
And flashing memories
Are cast into the never ending well
The name that scorns the face
The child that never sees the cause of man
The deathly darkness that
Belies the face of those who never ran
You gotta believe me
I’m talking to you
Well I know it’s hard for you to know the reason why
And I know you’ll understand when it’s time to die
Don’t believe the life you have will be the only one
You have to let your body sleep to let your soul live on
I want you to listen
I’m trying to get through
Love has given life to you and now it’s your concern
Unseen eye of inner life will make your soul return
Still I look but not to touch
The seeds of life are sown
Curtain of the future falls
The secret stays unknown
Just remember love is life
March 8th, 2025 at 22:49And hate is living death
Treat your life for what it’s worth
And live for every breath
Looking back I’ve lived and learned
But now I’m wondering
Here I wait and only guess
What this next life will bring
Ok, uhum, and what does it mean now EXACTLY?
Ole MacGregor and his forever adolescent penchant for fantasy escapism and pseudo-spiritual esoteric hogwash! 🙄
And what’s this with the sick farmed salmons and the skates on the brink of extinction I’m hearing about?
March 9th, 2025 at 02:06Geezer wrote the lyrics as we know and who knows what he thinks of them today. A bit of imaginative writing for him at the time, nothing wrong with wondering. How many other lyricists have done similar, especially in their early younger days. As for the ‘adolescent penchant for fantasy escapism’, now that is humorous indeed. You do not have to be an adolescent to ponder escapism Uwe. However at least now the entire story is there for all to see, to any who may be interested as I previously said. For anyone can ‘make of it what they will’. “Pseudo spiritual esoteric hogwash” now that is a mouthful indeed. I know what you mean in some aspects, but it has some good lines in there. It is a good song all the same, a classic album as we both know. The ‘sometimes inane’ lyrics don’t lessen the song in anyway for me, how many good songs have that running through them, from any artist. Cheers.
https://blacksabbathsabbath.tumblr.com/post/90295126237/a-national-acrobat-john-according-to-geezer
March 10th, 2025 at 03:30For the record: Geezer was a good lyricist, much deeper than Dio, I’ve always appreciated what he did for the Sabs. And the line “destruction of the empty spaces is my one and only crime” is a great one – plus if you translate “empty spaces” as the universe then it is obviously quite a Thanos-like statement, even though he only destroyed half of it!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c4/b4/05/c4b4050cc5d4ad5c69ff9cccc154886c.gif
March 10th, 2025 at 16:30@14 After silently reading chats on this plattform for quite some time now, I found that now is the right time to finally leave a mark here myself, as I was letting my old man do that part up til now. We do share a passion for Purple, but for whatever reason he never really got into what I’d call my other big-british-band-obessesion: Black Sabbath. So in my role as the Sabbath-expert and -spokesman of the family I now think I have to comment on that question about a song of what might be my favourite Sabbath-record. For years I thought of A National Acrobat being about teenage angst or depression. Then I read Geezer Butler’s book in which he states that he wrote the lyric about unborn life in general and the question about who or what decides which life comes to existence and which does not. That now makes sense too, having listened to the lyrics again after reading the autobiografie. As for Ozzy: He once stated that the song is about wanking. Considering what Geezer has written about it, he isn’t even completely on the wrong track there
March 10th, 2025 at 18:46(aghast …) Young Padawan Tillythemax, what went so horrendously wrong in your upbringing that the Dark Side of the Force took hold of your virgin soul?
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When a child goes bad, it’s no cause for celebration. 😑 Still, I guess it could have been a lot worse, you might have turned out a Led Zeppelinista! 😂
A Sabbath fan in our midst, that rarest of beasts! Share your views on the Dio era and the Born Again album with us please! My favorite Ozzy era albums ranked:
1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
2. Sabotage
3. Master of Reality/Vol. 4/Technical Ecstasy/Never Say Die
4. Debut/Paranoid/13
I‘m not a great fan of the real primal, stoner rock type Sabbath (the one everyone seems to prefer), Master Of Reality was when things got interesting for me.
A National Acrobat has always been one of my favorite Sabbath songs.
March 10th, 2025 at 23:14Poor Ozzy, I have often wondered what his thoughts about what he had to sing would be. He most likely would not have understood a lot of it, however he did do very well getting the melodies down and he did a good job overall. I can just imagine him saying many times, ‘what the f..k is this all about? Cheers.
March 11th, 2025 at 05:43Me I’d rather stick to self explaing lyrics like, say, I don’t go looking for trouble – it’s always comin’ my way…
March 11th, 2025 at 06:33@16
“For the record: Geezer was a good lyricist, much deeper than Dio,“
March 11th, 2025 at 07:16– well aren’t anyone?
Even a certain young(er) lady, TS, even though it’s quite obvious she isn’t writing her own songs 😂😂
(I imagine she gives the writers the months names of bfs who has angered her, and let them make up the ‘lyrics’ 😈)
@18 You, careless Uwe, encourage this son of mine in his ruthless behaviour and questionable tastes – oh of course, feel free and go on – while I will have to suffer from those doomy sounds that creep through the walls like black lava …and poor ole me trying to work …well … or at least contribute something meaningful to this forum.
March 11th, 2025 at 14:04Here’s a testament to Geezer’s strength as a lyricist and to Sabbath’s strength as composers outside of the heavy metal bracket:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfaOf70M4xs
March 11th, 2025 at 18:05@ 18 Nice to see Sabbath mentioned here. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage, Black Sabbath (first) and Heaven & Hell in that order, are to me the finest moments of Sabbath. I’m not fan of the primal, stoner stuff either. National Acrobat is a very fine piece of music.
March 12th, 2025 at 17:01Tillythemax, I no longer blame you for liking Black Sabbath, we all have parental baggage to lug around. It’s alright …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-puXiUMvE
And don’t let your old man read this!
PS: Magnificent song. With celeb fans …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig79bVlbn2E
March 12th, 2025 at 21:18@ 23 – a powerful emotional and mournful song is Changes. I can understand the guy ‘getting’ it after his mom had passed. However being a little pedantic now, it was written by Geezer in response to Bill Ward’s emotional state after a break up of sorts with a lady. Well that is what I have read at least. Same or similar emotion in many ways though, as many of us can relate to that either way. Not a bad version at all, good for the chap in helping him deal with his loss. I only know the original version and usually do not listen any others, especially you know who back in the day with her father. Cheers
March 12th, 2025 at 22:24@18 Well, same as with Purple I enjoy every era of Sabbath. With Iommi being the fundament to Sabbath’s sound and me adoring his riffs and sound, there is no such thing as a bad Black Sabbath record or one that’s somewhat less-sabbath then other ones. That being said I think one thing which always could be seen as prototypical Sabbath is that gloomy-doomy, slow stoner-sounding riffing of the 70s which got lesser during the years (a development staring with Technical Ecstatsy and ending after Tyr). While heavy riffs dominated every album before T. E., the amount of those trademark Iommi-riffs shrank to 2-3 song each album. Dehumanizer (and for that matter Cross Purposes and Forbidden) then brought a superior number of heavy riffing again. That’s why I still don’t understand why those records weren’t really in favour by old-school Sabbath-fans. Anyway, every Sabbath-record has it’s heavy riffs and even the ones that don’t have that many of them are no bad (Sabbath-)records.
March 19th, 2025 at 19:25Prolog finished, answer to question:
Heaven and Hell does strongly combine heavy Iommi-riffs and his new found enthusiasm for up-tempo songs (which he carried on with for the next decade) and even some bluesy-rock’n’roll-Dio-Elf- roots in Walk Away, Wishing Well (greatly underated song!) and Lonely is the World.
Mob Rules was one of my first Sabbath records and I still love it. If you skip Slipping Away (AC/DC, anybody?) and let E5150 just slip by you have an awesome record with great dynamics.
Born Again: Well there’s enough said about the production and I can’t say anything in defense of it (though the artwork’s not thaat bad). I love Gillans voice on that record, lyrically there could have been some room for improvment. And (ignoring the keyboard-intros again) it is the first album after Sabbath Bloody Sabbath were every song is an absolute highlight which i can’t do without.
Dehumanizer and The Devil You Know are two of my most-spun records in general, both having only one track each which is no 10/10. I know that poor lil Ronnie isn’t very well recieved as a lyricist for some, but those two albums really contain some of his very best texts and vocal performaces.
OMG (or devil), you ARE a Sabbath disciple! 👿666👿
Dad should have stored those records in a lockable cabinet, just you do with loaded guns —> Waffenschrank.
I you tolerate this your children will be next. 😂
What’s with the disliked keyboards? Didn’t Sabbath already begin touring with a hidden keyboarder around 1975 and have done so ever since? On Live Evil there is VERY AUDIBLE keyboard layer throughout – always thought it a little silly to hide a musician whose contribution you obviously need.
I always forget that The Devil You Know is an album of the Sabbath canon too though I own it!
March 20th, 2025 at 22:42@ 27 -nice to see a Sabbath and Iommi follower here with that passion for all things Sabbath. I followed and supported him through the later 80’s and into the nineties. I do have a penchant for Eternal Idol and Headless Cross, most of Tyr also and a fair bit of Cross Purposes. Some fans only like the 70’s era and fair enough. I used to get the odd comment, ‘but it isn’t Sabbath’ when the later 80’s etc was being played at my home or in the car. Some fans didn’t care, they liked to hear Iommi’s guitar and good quality hard rock songs. Dehumanizer is a dark album and we don’t get any of Uwe’s favourite Ronnie lyrics on that one. I just wish the production wasn’t so ‘industrial’ if that makes any sense. The drums in particular. The Devil You Know I have but I struggle to get into it. The three new songs they recorded before that album I like and they played one or two in concert if I remember in 2007. A wonderful gig that was, Ronnie was inspired and in very good vocal form indeed. Iommi’s wall of sound right in front of me was life altering. I do also have a fondness for his first ‘solo’ album Seventh Star. Powerful songs, ballads and a little blues and a couple of typical Sabbath riff based epics. Regarding the mid to later 70’s albums, I applaud them for mixing it up much more musically. They had to do something more musical than just the ‘stoner’ style. The only problem was when they played live, they couldn’t get that across in many of the songs. I witnessed them live in 1980, very disappointed at the time when we turned up to a different and unknown drummer in Vinnie. Just expecting Bill as he commenced the tour after the great H&H album. Mob Rules is very good indeed, and darker than H&H in production, in a good way. Now that Ian Gillan album, what was it called again? Oh thats’ right Born Again. Hmmmmmmmmm, we thought it was the bees knees at the time, but I do feel it hasn’t aged that well. A couple of standout tracks here and there. Not a bad album, just slightly misplaced of sorts. I own the DVD concert ‘live at Radio City Hall’ and the good thing there is a couple of songs they didn’t play in concert in August 2007. The wonderful Lady Evil and the epic Lonely is the Word. Ronnie was a wonderful lyric writer, never let Uwe say otherwise, he just doesn’t get the metaphors etc. And maybe he had bad dreams as a youngster about Dragons etc. Just a little from a few versus in the ‘Lady Evil’ lyrics. “Now if you ever get to witches valley, don’t dream or close your eyes, never trust your shadow in the dark. They say there’s a lady who needs darkness, she can’t face the light, with an awful shout, she’ll find you out and have you before the night” something like that. Classic Ronnie, bless him. Cheers.
March 20th, 2025 at 23:22Dio does metaphors? Since when? Unless you consider his obsession with rainbows as closet advocacy for LGBTQ causes way before they became popular. 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI5Vj6ToJUA&t=55s
Nearly all his lyrical output was about lame good vs evil conflict embedded in his comic book speech bubble (“Mortals! You will live to regret this!”) fantasy realm worlds – with a boring/weird tendency to use the same words, terms and figures of speech again and again. Dreams, rainbows, (d)evil , wheel, look out …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oZLCH0LVj0&t=56s
Ad-o-les-cent in a word.
I prefer Ron Mael lyrics, I really do. They’re thought-provoking, witty, sometimes just baffling. They also bear a bit more relation to my life than rainbows and assorted dangers looming in whatever dark plus offer some humor (something Lil’ Dio was never any good at):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0hSxdQHJ_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzNAQk1ppxc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j2CJN8rmBE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3CIDPuxwrY
March 21st, 2025 at 16:16It is ok Uwe if you do not understand, those adolescent days do play their part (a word I notice you use often). Don’t worry, those dragons, rainbows and spells should leave you when you shake off your mortal coil. I only hope (although I do find it amusing) that in your next life, it isn’t all waiting for you again, to repeat casting its dastardly spell all over again. Cheers.
March 21st, 2025 at 22:55Alas!, not only IG has determined that heaven and the afterlife cannot be trusted …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQB91PklNvE&list=RDFQB91PklNvE&start_radio=1
“Here, there are lots of things to do
And a panoramic view
Of the universe completely surrounding you
And here, you cannot buy souvenirs
We’re never going back, never, never
Basically, I guess it could be worse
Yes, I do suppose it could be worse
Here, there are many, many sheep
And the people only sleep
And awake to tell how gory and gruesome was their end
And I don’t have many friends
And it’s really very clean and I’m thinking
Juliet, you broke our little pact
Juliet, I’m never coming back
Up here in heaven without you
I’m here in heaven without you
Up here in heaven without you
It is hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here
For many, many years
Dear, do you often think of me
As you overlook the sea
Do I qualify as dearly departed or am I
That sucker in the sky
The fall guy for the first and the last time
Juliet, I thought we had agreed
Now I know why you let me take the lead
Up here in heaven without you
I’m here in heaven without you
Up here in heaven without you
It is hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here
For many, many years
Second thoughts, is that what you had?
Second thoughts, first I broke my back
Second thoughts, as I hit the sea
Second thoughts, for eternity, for eternity, for eternity …
Up here in heaven without you
I’m here in heaven without you
Up here in heaven without you
It is hell knowing that your health will keep you out of here
For many, many years
Up here in heaven without you
I’m here in heaven without you
Up here in heaven without you
It is hell being here without you, dear …”
Even as a 15-year-old, lyrics like that intrigued me more than, say, Man On The Silver Mountain, I guess I was always the sardonic miserable type!
March 22nd, 2025 at 06:20And that is where it really is Uwe. At least with Ronnie’s lyrics back then as a 15 year old myself, it made me think ‘outside the box’ and those lyrics printed above don’t. There isn’t anything to think about, if you know what I mean. Ian Gillan’a lyrics did that back then too, made me think, Fireball (amongst others) is a good album for that. And then we had a sort of opposite writer in Ken Hensley with Uriah Heep, going across to the fantasy world at times. It is the way it is written for me, how clever it is and where it takes me. Horses for courses again my friend. Cheers.
March 22nd, 2025 at 21:07@ 28 There’s no general disliking for keyboards and not even in the Sabbath context. I just don’t really need Geoff Nicholls dull instrumental intros (E5150, The Dark, Stonehenge, The Gates of Hell, The Battle of Tyr). Sabbath always had intros to songs listed as extra tracks and I really enjoy those bits when they’re instrumental guitar playing (Embryo, Orchid, Don’t Start Too Late, and the most beautiful one: Scarlet Pimpernel (one of my favourite Iommi melodies)).
I too find it dishonest to hide the keyboard-player behind a curtain, like shamefully a lot of bands in the Hard and Heavy genre did or do. When I went to see Black Sabbath on their farewell tour in 2016 Ozzy even intoduced Adam Wakeman, who then came on stage, bowed his head and left again only to play his parts backstage. I found that kind of embarrasing.
@33 I couln’d agree more about Dio’s lyrics. “Turn around and when you face the sun / We can make you be like everyone you know / Hey you, you’re just master of the moon” -> I always found that one to be about a teenager who isn’t sure about the promisses of a ‘regular’ life, who can’t decide wether he wants to go the way society has prepared for him or something alike. Just one quick example that came to mind to maybe underline MacGreogors statement. I could come up with many more… Almost every song Dio wrote the words to has lyrics which really stimulated my fantasy and made me find parabels on my own world and my own thoughts. And magnificently over the years the ideas regarding what those lyrics are about sometimes changed, but they always had a current meaning to me.
March 24th, 2025 at 18:21@ 34 – Yes the acoustic guitar conundrum has always left me a little perplexed at times, especially with Deep Purple. At least the Sabs (Iommi) did some nice little instrumentals back in the 70’s and he reintroduced it in the later 80’s a little. l really enjoy The Scarlet Pimpernel instrumental, wonderful that is. Led Zeppelin of course had plenty of acoustic instruments, but Purple (Blackmore eras) hardly any at all. Anthem, April and Soldier of Fortune. There may be a little more here and there on other MKI I material, I am going off my memory here. I guess the folkie thing didn’t sit well with them. Not to worry, it is what it is. Robert Fripp dropped any acoustic playing after 1973/4 with King Crimson. Everything after that is electric guitar. The keyboard situation in later Black Sabbath I don’t mind, it works for me. I think they commenced with Geoff Nicholls in 1980, I don’t think they had a keyboard player hidden off stage during the late 70’s, I could be wrong on that though. I agree regarding how it may look, especially if the player is introduced like you said. I think Adam Wakeman only appeared after the final song with the band members bowing in 2013 when I attended a concert. I have never noticed one appearing post performance at any of the H &H Sabbath gigs, 1980 and 2007. Cheers.
March 25th, 2025 at 07:57