My Essential Black Sabbath

[Terry]

I thought Perfect Strangers was brilliant, and am not really catching the Rainbow/Joe Lynn Turner comparison at all, since JLT doesn't write lyrics like Gillan and doesn't even sound like him. There will be some similarities, of course, because of RB and Glovers participation in both.

Too funny about the circumstances behind the Born Again album cover. Always thought it was totally laughable............loved the comment about the title track (music to slit your wrists to). That album
was so fuckin' heavy. A little bit bass heavy in the mix, agreed, but live Born Again-era Sabbath was even more relentless as far as the bass in the mix was concerned. They encored with Paranoid, and Butlers 4-string was cranking so loud it literally felt like my chest was caving in.

Bev Bevan from ELO played drums on that show we saw, which was always kind of a bummer, 'cause we were looking forward to seeing Geezer Butler. His drumming on that album was great.

[Stillwell]

Speaking of live era Born Again, Iommi playing Smoke of the Water has to be one of the cooler things to happen in metal.

The Deep Purple reunion was far from "Deep Rainbow." That wouldn't happen until 1990. PS and HOTBL was just Purple updating their sound for the 80s. They would've sounded old, slow, and out of place if they tried to deliver a "In Rock" sound.