Posted on 12/22/2021 6:11:23 PM PST by DoodleBob
In a recent interview with Spain's Mariskal Rock, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was asked which fellow British band was more important to him personally while he was coming up in the music scene in Birmingham, England in the late 1960s and early 1970s, DEEP PURPLE or BLACK SABBATH. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "They're all important to me for all of the styles and variety of music that they presented. I was naturally drawn to SABBATH because of the heaviness. If you put PURPLE on and then you put SABBATH on, or SABBATH on then PURPLE, they're both really strong, powerful bands, depending on which album you're listening to.
"PURPLE are hard rock; to me, they're not metal," he continued. "I'll probably be killed for saying that, but that's just the way I feel. SABBATH are exclusively metal, although Tony [Iommi, SABBATH guitarist] has always said SABBATH isn't metal. I don't know what's going on, but that's the world we live in, when musicians talk about each other.
"There's a certain speed, there's a certain intensity in PURPLE that is also in SABBATH, but it's in a different texture. When you listen to what [DEEP PURPLE drummer] Ian Paice was doing, for example, pushing those songs, I was as excited by that as I was by 'Fairies Wear Boots' or 'Iron Man' or any of these super-heavy tracks from SABBATH.
"So they were all important to me, as bands are to all musicians," Rob added. "All musicians are inspired and influenced by other musicians, so they all are very valuable to me. I wouldn't put one above the rest in terms of a list. The whole representation of the work that they make is important."
JUDAS PRIEST recently announced the rescheduled "50 Heavy Metal Years" North American tour dates for March-April 2022. Support on the trek will come from QUEENSRŸCHE.
JUDAS PRIEST was forced to postpone around two dozen North American shows on its rescheduled 50th-anniversary tour in late September after the band's guitarist Richie Faulkner suffered an acute cardiac aortic dissection during a performance at the Louder Than Life festival. He ended up undergoing a 10-hour life-saving surgery a short distance away at Rudd Heart and Lung Center at UofL Health - Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky.
Bassist Ian Hill is the sole remaining original member of PRIEST, which formed in 1969. Halford joined the group in 1973 and guitarist Glenn Tipton signed on in 1974. Rob left PRIEST in the early 1990s to form his own band, then came back to PRIEST in 2003. Founding guitarist K.K. Downing parted ways with the band in 2011, and was replaced by Faulkner.
>There was no metal in those days just hard rock. “One could say some bands were precursors to metal but that’s it”
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This
The genre was developed by the recording industry, who else?
“Highway Star” is my Theme Song....
This is about as inane as the old SNL bit “Who is most macho?” Fernando Lamas or Ricardo Montalban? And we care about this why?
Hey Jude is my theme song. Na-na-na-na-na-na 🤣
Probably one of my favorite tracks was Deep Purple and Black Sabbath on the Tie a Yellow Ribbon / Lady in Red / Blue Suede Shoes medley. Very, very heavy.
Not the whole album Paranoid, but every time I hear the song Paranoid, it strikes me that it was so far ahead of its time. I can hardly believe that was from 1970.
Geez... No contest. Sabbath all the way.
Which is more important? A Chevy or a Ford?
Lol you need to listen to After Forever and Lord of This World off Master of Reality.
Two very Christian songs.
The good news is that both Black Sabbath and Deep Purple are 100 times better than the creepy Judas (the guy who led vicious soldiers to the Lord) Priest (a guy everyone needs before they die). Who is better than Black Sabbath and Deep Purple? The Steve Miller Band is still popular today.
I agree in part, and dissent in part.
Like any art form, music is subjective; what I love about a band (Zappa's technical prowess) may bore others, while I find country music to be the leading cause of boredom in adults.
That said, Springsteen totally sucks, an army of people agree with me, and not just because he's a hoser politically. As such, there has GOT the be some objective measure of "good" in music.
By the way, huckfillary is correct. The Beatles are the most important band ever. No doubt about that.
Important....I dunno...influential? Yes.
I listened to DP. Didn’t like the Sabbath release. My musical tastes were shifting towards contemporary jazz and bebop and later to 70s fusion. But, with “educated ears” DP still held my interest.
From a garage band perspective, the kids that played Sabbath were just making noise.
Oooo deep purple fireball
Both Deep Purple and Black Sabbath are two of my favorites, but Black Sabbath still remains highly influential, more so than Deep Purple in some ways, especially in their influence in new forms of metal and new bands making death metal. Even though both were around at the same time, Deep Purple being earlier, I think Black Sabbath would be called out as the more influential band these days.
Here are two local bands that you Black Sabbath / Death Metal fans might like -
Gotsu Totsu Kotsu - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UDk7JI29hI
End All - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYRoDG4ZWbo
I go see both of these bands every chance I get.
Hey Doodle, just for discussion. I find it interesting in this discussion of the differences between DP and BS, they both have something in common, or, someone. Dio. Via Rainbow for DP and of course his relationship with BS over the decades after Ozzy, he elevated both Ritchie and Tony without overshadowing either. Heaven and Hell was a powerful album, and I feel was when you could start calling BS heavy metal. His influence on BS is further verified in his band Dio with Vivian Campbell. Scorching, intelligent metal.
I love these kind of threads. Keep posting ‘em Doodle
Good observation.
Had Duane Allman not died in a motorcycle accident, Derek and the Dominos would likely have joined that list. Eric Clapton and Duane developed a close friendship, and their collective efforts would have gone far beyond one album.
Have you listened to his newer stuff--Blackmore's Night is the group name.
Nothing at all like his earlier stuff.
Eat a peach. Duane WAS the allman brothers.
Eric is a brilliant musician. Saw him with Cream at the Philadelphia Spectrum in 1968. Saw him a few times solo in MSG. He is not a showman but his music is superb. Blind Faith a one album wonder is a fantastic effort by Clapton Baker and Windwood. Lots of great music in the 60s 70s. Lots of crap to. Seems like the crap is being reviewed on this thread.
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