Black Sabbath FAQ by Martin Popoff

Author:Martin Popoff [Popoff, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MUS035000 MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock; BIO004000BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians
ISBN: 9781617131097
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Published: 2012-03-18T04:00:00+00:00

A US CD advance of the Forbidden album from 1995. Many consider this to be Sabbath’s low point, creatively speaking.

The Devil You Know

Geezer, Tony, and Ronnie each cooked up a number of demos at their home studios; for actual recording, the guys gathered at Rockfield with Mike Exeter knob-twisting, as he did on Iommi’s Fused album. Besides Rockfield however, a fair bit of actual work took place at Ronnie’s studio—mostly writing, in two banks of six weeks separated by tour dates. (Of note, the first three new Heaven & Hell songs, added to The Dio Years, were created entirely at Tony’s home studio, produced by Tony and Mike.) At Rockfield, Geezer and Tony met up with Robert Plant, whose son was recording there at the same time. The credits are interesting, however, with the production nod going to Ronnie, Tony, and Geezer, and an “additional production” credit going to Exeter (who we know is also the keyboardist on the album, although there aren’t many keyboards). Wyn Davis, assisted by Mike Sutherland and Adam Arnold, is credited with mixing and additional recording. Remarks Ronnie on Wyn, “Martin Birch will always be the best producer for me, with the exception of probably Wyn Davis, who has produced—not produced, but engineered—a lot of the Dio records. He’s a genius as well, and he reminds me of Martin. You are lucky when you find those people in your life. And even though I produce the Dio records, without Wyn Davis, there would not be those kudos to me.” In essence, work on The Devil You Know was a pretty much new combination of individually formulated and fleshed-out ideas, plus writing collaborations, an incubation period, distance from the project through live dates, and then recording sessions in a pastoral, isolated old school environment.

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