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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3486444" data-attributes="member: 19675">OK...breathe...breathe...[grumpyoldman]WHIPPERSNAPPER![/grumpyoldman] <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Black Sabbath is the band that invented true heavy metal.  I'm not saying buy everything they ever did (though I did), or like everything they ever did (I don't), but their influence is heard today even in the new bands, some more than others.  Earth, Corrosion of Conformity, Kyuss...almost any of the black/death metal bands out of northern Europe...all owe them a great debt.  Then there's all that interrelation thing: BS has had 4 full time vocalists- Ozzy Osbourne (you know his solo career & TV show, right?), Ronnie James Dio (Elf, Rainbow, Dio), Ian Gillen (Deep Purple) & Tony Martin, and the album "Seventh Star was recorded and toured with by Glen Hughes & Geoff Nicholls.  Ray Gillen was briefly in the band, but his vox were replaced on Eternal Idol by those of Tony Martin, which would have been RG's first with the band.  It sounds like you've heard the Ozzy stuff, the Ian Gillen album, Born Again, has some of the wickedest stuff they ever recorded, and Dio's era is no less classic than Ozzy's.  In fact, there's a collection of the best from the Dio era out right now, including 3 new songs.  Geezer Butler, the bass player, had a stint with his more modern metal band called GZR, and Tony Iommi has recorded some solo stuff as well.  Like Carlos Santana, Iommi did his first true solo album (ignoring Black Sabbath's Seventh Star) with a varied band that included a new vocalist on each track, including the likes of Henry Rollins, Serj Tankian, Dave Grohl, Billy Corgan, Peter Steele, Ian Astbury, Brian May, Skin, and even Ozzy. (The second solo album is mediocre, though.)Deep Purple, along with Led Zep & Black Sab were the bands that really shaped early hard rock into what we hear today, and their classic lineup featured the acid-rock keyboards of John Lord, the skyrocketing vocals of Ian Gillen, and the classically informed guitar work of Ritchie Blackmore.  David Coverdale (Whitesnake, Coverdale/Page) also recorded with this band.Rush is the hypertalented power trio from Canada.  Each player- Geddy Lee (Bass, Keyboards & Vox), Neil Peart (Drums, Percussion), and Alex Lifeson (Guitar)- is a legend on their chosen instrument.  Originally just another hard rock band, they lifted a page from prog rock legends Yes and started writing intelligent lyrics with pyrotechnic music to go along with it.Budgie is a Welsh (I believe) power trio that never broke big, but their music influenced countless bands.  Unlike contemporaries like Rush, they never bought into the prog-rock vibe, but stayed more psychedelic...a rock style that was pretty much dying when they came along.  You've probably heard their work covered by someone else, like Metallica's version of Breadfan.BTW, I forgot to mention them, but they're no less important...you have heard of Judas Priest?</blockquote>

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