BLACK SABBATH – Hammersmith Odeon 1977-1978 (5CD)

Hammersmith 1977 Audience 8.5 Not bad for a ’77 aud. but it doesn’t open up much, stays within a bandwidth that allows you to hear everything on stage but with mostly guitar and bass, with Ozzy singing rising over it all. Drums are somewhat buried the snare comes through OK  The more I listen to the more I adjust and like it, like the rating indicates this isn’t terrible seeing as how there are few really stellar ’77 tapes.

6-10-78 Audience 8.4 This tape does not rise above what seems at first a noisiness, where you don’t get a good separation of instruments and a frequency that favors upper mid and highs, but thankfully not annoyingly so. I would say that you might still endure it all the way through regardless because while I was not blown away, I also wasn’t offended. It’s average, but not garbage bin material.

6-19-78 Audience 9.0 The best of the Hammersmith set for sure. It’s pretty clear and has good separation of instruments. I did find it leans more to treble tone, but you can add bass and not destroy this at all…so there’s a lot to like about this show.

Black Sabbath
Hammersmith Story 1977-1978

Disc 1

Hammersmith Odeon
London, UK
1977-03-13

101 Supertzar
102 Symptom Of The Universe
103 Snowblind
104 War Pigs
105 Gypsy
106 Black Sabbath

Disc 2

201 Dirty Women
202 Drum Solo
203 Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor
204 Guitar Solo
205 Electric Funeral
206 Jam
207 N.I.B.
208 Iron Man
209 Children Of The Grave
210 Paranoid

Disc 3

1978-06-10

301 Supertzar
302 Symptom Of The Universe
303 War Pigs
304 Snowblind
305 Never Say Die
306 Black Sabbath
307 Dirty Women
308 Drum Solo
309 Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor
310 Guitar Solo
311 Jam
312 Electric Funeral
313 Iron Man
314 Fairies Wear Boots
315 Children Of The Grave
316 Paranoid

Disc 4

1978-06-19

401 Supertzar
402 Symptom Of The Universe
403 War Pigs
404 Snowblind
405 Never Say Die
406 Black Sabbath

Disc 5

501 Intro
502 Dirty Women
503 Drum Solo
504 Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor
505 Guitar Solo
506 Jam
507 Electric Funeral
508 Iron Man
509 Fairies Wear Boots
510 Children Of The Grave
511 Paranoid
512 Outro (She’s Gone)