Eternal Sabbath - A Tribute To Black Sabbath

Vap said:
Hey, why did you delete the videos?
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Sorry, we removed the videos 'cos there's a new bass player and we're looking for a new singer, but as soon as we play our first gig with the new line up, we'll post videos.
 
Welsh Phantom said:
Shame! I was planning on checking the vids out today. :)
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Sorry, Welsh, but we removed the videos due to performance inconsistency, specially on the vocals which was really out and has almost no power in the voice and interpretation and the bass also wasn't powerful and groovy as it must be on a Sabbath tribute band; both left the band complaining about the band's mission, so why accepted to enter the band in the first place? Posers are really annoying.
 
Any bass player who can't get enthusiastic about Sabbath doesn't know a thing ... Geezer is a great bassist and playing his stuff is a lot of fun.

From about 1991-1993 I was in a band called Cosmic Fate. We were blessed with a singer who sounded exactly like a young Ozzy. Taking advantage, a full third of our set list (14 songs a night) were Ozzy-era Sabbath. So I've learned and played all those Geezer lines many times.

Our usual Sabbath selection included:
Behind The Wall Of Sleep
NIB
Wicked World
War Pigs
Paranoid
Iron Man
Hand Of Doom
Fairies Wear Boots
Sweet Leaf
After Forever
A National Acrobat
Killing Yourself To Live

I never bothered duplicating Geezer note-for-note, though. I have a mental library of his licks, and I'd mix them up with a few of my own. Although I learned it many years ago, I never played the NIB intro solo live. I did my own solo, with our drummer keeping a beat behind me, and my solo always ended with the theme from the show "Home Improvement".

Long-term effect: Geezer remains my #2 bass influence after Steve Harris. It's Harris for rhythm, but I still go Geezer for licks and solos.
 
Exactly, SMX! I didn't even know that the bassist wasn't even into Black Sabbath! He had never heard Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Vol 4, Sabotage, Mob Rules, nothing so to say, the singer was in the same level of Sabbathical unawareness. Pathetic!

Our new bassist is a Geezer and Sabbath freak, plus, he knows how to mix his own licks and playing all Geezer's and other Sabbath bassists original basslines just as they were recorded! We know him for a long time and I was going to suggest him on the band since day one, but the durmmer came with this guy firsthand, so I respected that and kept quiet about it, but it seems that it just meant to be we were going to join together as a band sooner or later, and he started playing by learning Sabbath in his bedroom, just like myself and the drummer. He was relearning some parts and told me he was already freaking with the songs we play. He knows a lot of songs by heart, on the tip of his fingers, like me and the drummer, so we hope to find a really good singer that loves all Sabbath catalogue, like we do, and then we'll keep on our mission which is celebrate and spread the Sabbath altar everywhere we can and where they pay what our efforts and performance are worth.

I'm really excited to start it again, as it was meant to be since we formed, in October 2010. :edmetal:
 
Well duh Harris, Maiden's music is alot faster.

Man Jeff, it sounds like you got yourself a pretty good gig there: Having two guys with the same love for the same band, and jamming together. I'm envy you.
 
Mega said:
Well duh Harris, Maiden's music is alot faster.

Man Jeff, it sounds like you got yourself a pretty good gig there: Having two guys with the same love for the same band, and jamming together. I'm envy you.
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Well, man, you're right about it, but never lose focus and the desire to find people who are in the same mindset as you, musically. Don't worry, you'll eventually find 'em.

Our new bass player also nails all Maiden stuff and he probably knows a lot of Rush and Dream Theatre, too. Basically, our fave bands (mine, the bassist's and the drummer's) are all the same: Maiden, Sabbath and Rush. We intend to write our own music when the right time comes around.
 
Stallion Duck said:
That doesn't make it harder.
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Of course it does. There may some cases where the fast band is just a punk band and the slower band is a bossa nova act with tons of complicated chords, but here we have Maiden versus Sabbath, which goes down to 2 finger gallops versues alot of drone notes and the occasional easy going solo. No contest.

And it seems I have passed the right amount of unrelated posts in a topic. If you still have something to say about that, PM me.
 
After 4 months of preparation, we played our first gig with the new line up for Eternal Sabbath - our tribute to the seminal Black Sabbath - and although the place was the same as of the first gig we ever did, back on January 2nd, 2011, the place wasn't packed due to the time and the day of the week 'cos bands play usually there on Sundays and we were the first to play there on Saturday and I had the idea to associate the Saturday (Sábado, in portuguese) with Eternal Sabbath for it would make great publicity. Well, I'm uploading videos to youtube right now and as soon as they finish uploading, I'll post them here. Hope you enjoy...

Gig's poster - http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l307/ ... oMetal.jpg

E5150/The Mob Rules - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iVvVDg_IHc
Children Of The Sea/War Pigs/Nib - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAhWSUn8Wy8
Country Girl - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xkAEwIQNzs
Bible Black - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ14tyxfcbE
Voodoo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XxCFJTRpRs
Tomorrow's Dream - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTlPKSyDqJA
A National Acrobat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGMEcwDYZ2I
Sweet Leaf - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVohdkFpEtE
Hole In The Sky/Iron Man - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud_ApXkVxhE
Computer God/Black Sabbath - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7byvGFORUts
I - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gu0fxEa9Y
Fear/Snowblind/Symptom Of The Universe - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erI_Awrz87U
Paranoid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JS_BPwRlB0
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UnJBewy-6E
Heaven And Hell - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rEu1jElBlI
Embryo/Children Of The Grave - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scnw6awtAgs
Neon Knights - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_z_dwqlvY
 
This is really good stuff mate ;)

Good band all round and I think you are doing the mighty Sabs justice.

Good to see a mixture of the various incarnations too!
 
That's our goal - to pay homage to all eras (I got about 3 songs from the Martin era lined up for the next batch of songs to learn).

Glad you're enjoying it!!! Thanx and cheers, mate!!! :edmetal:
 
Jeffmetal said:
(I got about 3 songs from the Martin era lined up for the next batch of songs to learn).
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Do that, if you want to play in packed venues!  :D

Cool vids man! Great job!  :shred:
 
Forostar said:
Do that, if you want to play in packed venues!  :D

Cool vids man! Great job!  :shred:
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Ahahahahahahahahahah...  :D

Thanx, Foro and I won't tell you which are those songs, but, I consider them to be Martin era classics (sorry, there are 2 songs from Martin era, actually, 1 from Ozzy and 1 from Dio. Each band member pick 4 songs). It'll take sometime to debut them live, but you'll be noticed. Cheers!!! :edmetal:
 
Thanx, Vap! This is one we had never played live! I loved to debut this one live and it's one of my faves to play on rehearsals!

Cheers!!! :edmetal:
 
Jeffmetal said:
That's our goal - to pay homage to all eras (I got about 3 songs from the Martin era lined up for the next batch of songs to learn).

Glad you're enjoying it!!! Thanx and cheers, mate!!! :edmetal:
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Don't forget the Gillan era.

Disturbing The Priest is an oft forgotten 'should be classic'  :)
 
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