Master of Reality is "Soul" Music
This has been one of those rambling thoughts which seem to invade my mind from time to time, the idea that the band Black Sabbath (first incarnation, we'll get to the Dio years later) didn't start out just inventing the category of Heavy Metal they infused Blues and Soul music into their unique sound and from that was birthed Heavy Metal. Now I don't want to start my first post in SEVERAL years out without showing some semblance of due diligence to help prove my point. I want to take this time to tell you about how my ears interpret the sounds of the Sabbath (Ozzie Years), and how it compares to brain-shaking songs by John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, the latter especially. I think I was 14 or 15 the first time I heard the driving ominous bass-line of the self-titled Black Sabbath, I believe it was on one of those MTV "Rockumentaries" which they used to fill time and most likely get impressionable teens to sit through commercials. The clip migh
