Experiencing Black Sabbath by Nolan Stolz

Author:Nolan Stolz
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2012-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mob Rules

Struggling with alcoholism and other personal issues, Bill quit the band in the middle of the 1980 tour and was replaced by Vinny Appice. Although stylistically Vinny is different from Bill, what he did worked well for Sabbath. Vinny said, “Bill didn’t play 4/4 [meter] or a beat through a lot of the songs. He did when necessary, and then he played a lot of tom and percussion kind of parts. . . . So when I came in, I was a little bit more straight forward.”[23] “I had to follow what Bill Ward was doing and capture that vibe of the old stuff, which is really weird, you know, [it] speeds up/slows down.”[24] Also, Bill has more of a swing feel (certainly the jazz influence), and Vinny comes from a rock background. An example of the swing versus straight rhythm feel is in the fast section of “Black Sabbath” on Live Evil when Vinny plays “straight eighths” on the hi-hat with his left foot against the swung rhythms in the other parts. Geezer describes Vinny as “more direct,” “less complicated,” and “less swingy” than Bill.[25] To get a sense of his background, listen to Derringer’s studio and live albums (1976/1977) and Axis’s It’s a Circus World (1978); the drum intro to Axis’s “Bandits of Rock” is pure Vinny. Neither is as heavy as Sabbath, but both could be classified as hard rock.

During a break in the tour, the band went to Startling Studios to work on music for the animated film Heavy Metal. Startling was located just west of London in the former home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono and, at the time, owned by Ringo Starr. Vinny said the writing and recording sessions took place over a few days a couple of weeks after John was murdered, thus dating it just before Christmas 1980. “E5I50” and “The Mob Rules” were recorded at Startling for the movie, but the latter was rerecorded for Mob Rules at the Record Plant in LA, where the band did Vol. 4 nearly a decade earlier. Most of “E5I50” was kept from the Startling sessions, but some guitar overdubs were likely recorded at the Record Plant, where they recorded the remainder of the album. Tony said they wrote the rest of the album in a rehearsal room northwest of LA in the San Fernando Valley but that he and Geoff would work ideas out in a rented house in nearby Toluca Lake and that he and Ronnie would work on ideas in his hotel room on Sunset Boulevard (a few miles south). They found it to be more productive at times to work in pairs instead of the entire band in the room at once. Ronnie said they wrote “Slipping Away” at a studio in England called Goldrock Road and that they mixed the album there as well, but I have found no information about a studio under this name.

Like Never Say Die! and Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules begins with a fast (181 bpm) song, “Turn Up the Night.

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