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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
DVD includes commentary from Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler interspersed with video material, either live performance or music videos of tracks from the albums from the seventies and early eighties. Unlike other similar products the videos are of full songs rather than 10 second clips and you don't have to listen to music journalists. Sound quality is excellent but visually the clips unsurprisingly from over 30 years ago are poor. The whole package is quite engrossing and beautifully captures the ethos of the band. Recommended to anyone intersted in the band.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Black Sabbath Story: Volume One' runs for just over an hour and provides a small overview of Black Sabbath's early history. Featuring interview segments from Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler who chat about the band and it's progression from album-to-album. However, neither Bill Ward or Ozzy Osbourne are involved at all. And although both Tony and Geezer are able to offer up occasional interesting tid-bits about life on the road and their experiences in Sabbath, this DVD really fails to provide any real in-depth information or insight in the band's history to even the most average of Black Sabbath fans.
Adding insult to injury! The interviews are poorly interspliced with some really shoddy editing and as a result the live footage and rare promo videos really suffer because of it. Spinning images of pentagrams and lightning bolts... the heavy metal clichés are in full swing. However, the live clips do a really good job at showcasing the band's fiery passion as well as documenting their rise and success - moving from the blues-rock clubs to breaking big in America and headlining shows at London's Hammersmith Odeon and unleashing heavy metal!
While the live stuff makes for a cool watch, the whole experience is just too short and really flimsy. As an extra - Original Sabbath manager Jim Simpson gives a 20-minute interview talking about the band in the early days and beyond! Drummer Cosy Powell also says a few words about his experiences with the band too!
But all in all, an average release I'd say, I was pretty disappointed. I wish the guys could get together and collabrate a DVD full of information and footage that could please both old and new fans alike and give a in-depth account on how they began and what they became. Because this DVD falls far too short.
Adding insult to injury! The interviews are poorly interspliced with some really shoddy editing and as a result the live footage and rare promo videos really suffer because of it. Spinning images of pentagrams and lightning bolts... the heavy metal clichés are in full swing. However, the live clips do a really good job at showcasing the band's fiery passion as well as documenting their rise and success - moving from the blues-rock clubs to breaking big in America and headlining shows at London's Hammersmith Odeon and unleashing heavy metal!
While the live stuff makes for a cool watch, the whole experience is just too short and really flimsy. As an extra - Original Sabbath manager Jim Simpson gives a 20-minute interview talking about the band in the early days and beyond! Drummer Cosy Powell also says a few words about his experiences with the band too!
But all in all, an average release I'd say, I was pretty disappointed. I wish the guys could get together and collabrate a DVD full of information and footage that could please both old and new fans alike and give a in-depth account on how they began and what they became. Because this DVD falls far too short.
I'll keep this brief because there isn't a lot to say. This DVD features archive footage of Black Sabbath in their heyday and for that alone it is worth the money. The DVD is around an hour long, and maybe 15 minutes of it is given over to an interview with Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi which is interspersed throughout the footage. There is also a very brief talking head from Bill Ward. If anything it is a little less involved than your average VH1/MTV blah behind the music.
Perhaps one day somebody will serve the band's early history with the kind of documentary they deserve, but until that day this will have to do. It's not bad, it's just that as a documentary it feels very by the numbers, and the production value is never above what can be put together on a home computer.
Perhaps one day somebody will serve the band's early history with the kind of documentary they deserve, but until that day this will have to do. It's not bad, it's just that as a documentary it feels very by the numbers, and the production value is never above what can be put together on a home computer.
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What is this that stands before me?
To be honest I bought this as i'm a big Bill Ward fan and the early 70's footage is truly astounding. I also collect swirly's and so am familiar with the first 5 lp's. Read more
Published on 13 April 2010 by Andrew Aitken
I expected so much more
Every Sabbath fan should have a copy of this, but I was disappointed with the lack of concert footage. I have seen most of the other stuff elsewhere.
Published on 13 Feb 2010 by M. Raven
A Good Intro to Sabbath
This DVD is an excellent introduction to Sabbath but offers nothing new (in terms of insight) for their fans. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2009 by Spin
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