BLACK SABBATH – LIVE 1983 (4CD)

Stockholm 1983 Audience 8.9 – This tape starts off kind of average and slowly but surely keeps getting better until what we have is a very good tape of a really good show. As most already know, any good tape of this line up is VERY welcome as it showcases what I consider a great band – I did not say a great Black Sabbath because you can’t get away from Ian’s obvious vocal inflections that inevitably recall his old band. That being said if you listen to this without that bias you realize how good this BAND was in 1983.

Paris 1983 Soundboard 9.1 – A most welcomed thing amongst Black Sabbath collectors without question is this board tape with the Ian Gillan line up.  I love the material they recorded on Born Again, this is almost the logical progression from Technical Ecstasy, to me anyway. The music is more ideally suited to Ian Gillan’s vocals than it would have been to Ronnie James Dio and I think that is obvious.

Black Sabbath Quebec City 1983 Audience 8.9 – I like this tape because you really get to hear and appreciate what the bass is all about in Sabbath and it is here in excellent detail. Everyone shines, it’s great to have this abundance of riches because this short-lived period of Black Sabbath is certainly one of the most unique sounding.

Black Sabbath
LIVE 1983

Ian Gillan – Vocals
Tony Iommi – Guitar
Geezer Butler – Bass
Bev Bevan – Drums
Geoff Nicholls – Keyboards

Disc 1

Johanneshovs Isstadion
Stockholm, Sweden
August 19th, 1983

01. -Intro (Stonehenge)
02. -Children Of The Grave
03. -Hot Line
04. -War Pigs
05. -Born Again
06. -Supernaut
07. -Drum Solo
08. -Rock ‘N’ Roll Doctor
09. -Disturbing The Priest
10. -Keep It Warm
11. -Black Sabbath
12. -The Dark
13. -Zero The Hero
14. -Tony Iommi’s Guitar Solo
15. -Digital Bitch
16. -Iron Man

Disc 2
Stockholm Cont’d

01. -Smoke On The Water
02. Paranoid

Espace Balard
Paris, France
September 30th, 1983

03 – Children Of The Grave
04 – Hot Line
05 – War Pigs
06 – Supernaut – Drum solo
07 – Rock ‘n’ Roll Doctor
08 – Disturbing The Priest
09 – Guitar solo
10 – Digital Bitch
11 – Smoke On The Water
12 – Paranoid

Disc 3

Quebec City Coliseum
Quebec City, CANADA
Oct 20 1983

01 -Intro – Children of the Grave
02 -Hot Line
03 -War Pigs
04 -Supernaut – drum solo – Rock’ n’ Roll Doctor
05 -Disturbing the Priest
06 -Iron Man

Disc 4

07 -Zero the Hero
08 -Heaven & Hell – Guitar solo – Digital Bitch
09 -Black Sabbath
10 -Smoke on the Water
11 -Paranoid