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Josh Oakley's avatar

The tribute concert seems to be a trend - had similar hippie country (Willie Nelson) and folk (Joni Mitchell) concerts/celebrations in LA in the past couple years. Great piece as always.

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Ian Cory's avatar

Thank you! The Joni concert is a great point of comparison, which makes me wonder who the Brandi Carlile of metal would be.

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ric leczel's avatar

I worked at the Hollywood Bowl for the Willie 90 - it was a once in a lifetime event!

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Patrick R's avatar

A comment from somewhere I saved to a commonplace book txt file seems germane here:

"It's OK that rock is dead. Fifty years on top is a HELL of a run. Jazz didn't even have that."

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Ian Cory's avatar

I think there's a case to be made that metal is better off dead (to quote one Finnish band), might get into that next week

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Kevin Gentilcore's avatar

I know it’s essentially a tribute to Ozzy, and a farewell, but I think at least SOME acknowledgment of the post Ozzy Sabbath would have been nice. Particularly Dio era, which maybe could have been represented with one single power metal band. Granted, he’s passed, but I think the overlooked secret metal fans know is that Sabbath continued to be good after Ozzy, something I think the band tends to disregard.

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Ian Cory's avatar

That's a great point about the absence of power metal, it does feel like they disinvited the Dio line from the family tree. A shame because (imo) "Heaven & Hell" is a contender for the best Sabbath record. Thinking along those same lines, it would have been nice if Tony Martin had been included, especially since his records are starting to earn some positive re-evaluation. Heck, why not bring out Ian Gillan?

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Kevin Gentilcore's avatar

Agreed. I mean the spotlight of course could be on the Ozzy era but one song with Ian and Tony would be a nice send off.

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ric leczel's avatar

gonna be classic - I wrote about how they made Paranoid here -

https://riclexel.substack.com/p/leadership-lessons-from-metal-gods?r=bcx26

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Philo's avatar

Oooo Mastodon, haven't seen them in years

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Duncan Gray's avatar

(Reads entire post looking for a mention of (The) Melvins)

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Ian Cory's avatar

Thanks for reading. Because Melvins are not on the bill for the concert discussed in this post, I didn't find them relevant to talk about at length. If I were to fit them in, I'd group them in with other direct descendants to the Sabbath style (Sleep, Uncle Acid, etc) that were not included on the bill.

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Moar Metal's avatar

I’d say Corgan does have some Sabbath influence but it is mostly limited to Gish. Moodier songs with massive guitar sound and unrepentant solos. And at some point he decided to take on a dark visual persona closer to a Cenobite than Ozzy but whatever.

I obviously don’t have tickets to this show but the addition of something Cavalera-ish would not be out of place. Kind of bridges a gap from Death to Nü/Groove.

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Ian Cory's avatar

That's fair! Though I suspect there are any number of bands with as tenuous a relation to Sabbath's music that would make just as much/as little sense as Corgan. 100% agree about the Cavaleras, this show could definitely use some southern hemisphere representation.

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