They're an evil drug to make you lose you mind
Don't dream of women
'Cause they only bring you down"
Hard to believe it's been six months since my last post but it was admittedly hard to top the one and only, Cinderella. Like most of you, life has once again gotten busier. I've had the opportunity to travel, see some shows, and live through months of construction on our house. In other words, time has flown but I didn't want to miss out on putting some words down during my favorite time of year.
Here we go again, the Halloween season. The weather is getting cooler, the nights are longer and houses are plastered with witches, ghouls and goblins all up and down the streets. Such a beautiful site.
Speaking of time flying, I snapped the above picture back in August of 2016 when a couple buddies and I journeyed up to Jiffy Lube Live (the corporate names on some of these venues are awful) in Bristow, VA to see the mighty Black Sabbath! For this tour the band featured three original members (Ozzy, Tony, and Geezer) Bill Ward didn't join the tour for reasons that are different depending on which camp you heard from. The show was a blast. As soon as the sun went down the stage lights went dark, a video of some sort of demon appeared and then Tony Iommi's opening riffs of the song Black Sabbath (Is Bad Company the only other band that has a song with the same title as the band? I'm sure there's a few others) blared from the speakers. Oh man! From then on it was hit after gloomy, sludgy hit and we all obeyed Ozzy for the new two hours as he told us continuously to "make some fuckin noise!" A memorable experience indeed and I'm so glad I got to see Ozzy when I did.
Unfortunately, I did not get the opportunity to see Mr. Ronnie James Dio (Ozzy's replacement in Black Sabbath) perform before his death from cancer in 2010. Since I've been gone for a bit why don't we celebrate a song from each of these dark legend's solo careers? Figured these two tracks were suitable for the season. Dio has one of my favorite voices in metal so let's feature a live version of a classic from the Holy Diver album. As for Ozzy, this is one of my early favs from his second solo album after Sabbath featuring the late, great Randy Rhoads on lead guitar. Alright everyone, raise your devil horns and crank it up!
Oh yeah, I also wanted to bring back some horror movie trailers this month starting with....1963's Black Sabbath of course! The movie that was inspiration for the namesake of the band that some argue created heavy metal. Till next time ghouls!
