espquade
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Tony is just a great person all around and glad he's still active even if it's not like the glory days and hope he remasters that Born Again album as I would love to get that if it ever sees the light of day?
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chumbucket
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Born Again might need a remix as well as a remaster. I love the songs but the production is cringe worthy.
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Alpha Stryke
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I met him in 1980 Evansville Indiana airport. True gentelman & true RockstaH -
Badass guitarist, innovator.
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Anje
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Love Tony!
Looking forward to that new solo album.
Looking forward to that new solo album.
technomancer
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I keep hoping a non-$5k production version of those sig heads... I meant to grab one the first time around and just never did and now they're hard to find
JDs Couch
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He really seems like a classy and down to earth guy. And a few years back we thought he was checking out! Glad to see he is still with us and happy. My first inspiration to play guitar was Sabbath. This dude changed the world.
GreatRedDragon
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That SG Junior he's got is so cool. 24 frets, bound fretboard, Monkey sticker and Iommi humbucker.
romanianreaper
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That guy just wrote the most insane riffs. Even with all of the music that has come out, his low gain tones crush everything.
espquade
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Agree. It needs a remix and remaster but heard they lost the original master tapes years and years ago.
That album scared the hell out of me when I first heard it as a little kid and I felt like Satan was coming thru the speakers especially when Gillian was screaming Disturbing the Priest! One of the heaviest songs Sabbath has ever done!
espquade
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Crazy expensive for sure! I have never owned anything made by Laney myself, but those sig heads look cool as hell!
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espquade
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This is such an underrated gem of an album in the Sabbath catalog. I'm a huge fan of Ozzy and Dio with Sabbath and I think this album holds it own .
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Kordoba
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The album scared the hell out of me before I even played it. My mom took me to Target lol. I looked at the front cover, looked at the band pics on the back cover and thought damn, I need this. Fortunately I had enough spending money on hand as I doubt my mom would've sprung for it.
thegame
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This song literally sounds like a devil worshipping seance
ultimatemetalguitartones
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I love Tony! The riffmaster!
espquade
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Dio doesn't want to be left out of this conversation....
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Alpha Stryke
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guitarded_1
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Masters have been found and it will supposedly be remixed soon - straight from Tony's mouth. Love that record.
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neptoess
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It’s somewhat upsetting that there isn’t enough demand for stuff like this and the LA100SM to keep them in regular production. The amps rip
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neptoess
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His tone was never really low gain. Even on the earliest stuff, he’s running a rangemaster into a Laney (somewhat similar to a Marshall Super Bass) on 10. Plug into that kind of setup and you’ll have no lack of sustain, feedback, or chest thumping palm mutes. After that, he started getting crazy high output pickups, modded amps, Boogies, etc.
The dude’s just a riff machine, and Geezer knew exactly what to play alongside those riffs to make them plow through like a bulldozer. But make no mistake, he’s playing with a lot more gain than AC/DC or Led Zeppelin.
GreatRedDragon
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I think the reason some people might feel his vintage sound was lower gain is because it's not EQ'd like later high gain tones.
Take Into the Void here:
And compare Zakk's rendition of the same song here in 2003:
Now Zakk's not using a super modern high gain rig obviously, but it's still one dating from the mid-80s vs the early-70s, and Zakk's sound is crunchier and tighter, but gain-wise Iommi's tone might actually be filthier. It's just not dialed in the same way.
(BTW a show from that 2003 Ozzy tour with Jason Newsted was my first concert and it made me a man).
