Frank was waiting to walk on and I thought, ‘He can’t, it’s disastrous, everything is going wrong, my guitar is going out of tune, there’s noise and crackles and God knows what.’ So I said to him: ‘It would be best if you don’t play, really.’” We’d put his stuff on stage, but we had a really bad night. Iommi recalled the night a bit differently. Especially in a place like Madison Square Garden with 20,000 people grunting and wheezing and shoving each other.” And I introduced them and then sat by the side of the stage over by Ozzy’s orange juice. The audience had already been sitting there waiting for an hour or so since Ted Nugent, and they wanted me to go out there and make an announcement and calm them down. “What happened was that Tony Iommi had some trouble with his guitar and decided to change his strings at the last minute. And I said “Shit, I’m not going to go out there without knowing what it’s going to sound like.’ I said I’d just watch the show. So, I went down there to the show and they said, ‘What are you going to play?’ and they’d set up a mini wall of Marshalls for me. “I was going to jam with them and they were supposed to call me up and tell me what time their soundcheck was, but I guess they didn’t have one. Zappa told writer Hugh Fielder what happened next. On Decemthe night Zappa and Sabbath were supposed to play together - Sabbath and opening act Ted Nugent had sold out Madison Square Garden, with 20,000 fans in attendance. Black Sabbath is the archetype of that style, the hard-core.” But critics’ bands like Aerosmith just don’t compare to Black Sabbath. “They’re in the same boat as Grand Funk in terms of what the critics say about them.
Meanwhile, Zappa told Baker why he liked Sabbath. See if you can set something up.” Geezer Butler and Frank Zappa I was planning to attend their show after ours tonight, ‘cause I’ve never been to their kind of concert. Of course it sounds absurd! We thought it’d be real funny if I got up there for their encore and did ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Iron Man’. We had a great time and discussed the possibility of teaming up at Madison Square Garden. They’re playing the Amphitheatre tonight. Last night, at the third annual Thanksgiving Banquet, I saw Ozzy and Geezer from Black Sabbath. “Hi, Miles, I’ve got a newsflash for you. Cary Baker of Triad Magazine picks up the story: The telephone rang in Zappa’s room. In November 1976, Zappa invited Ozzy and Geezer to his Third Annual Thanksgiving dinner.
At the time he’d just released this quadraphonic album called Apostrophe, which had a track on it called ‘Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow.’ Fucking classic.” I thought, ‘This guy’s taking the piss: there’s got to be a camera here somewhere…’ All of us looked up to Zappa – especially Geezer – because he seemed like he was from another planet. He said, ‘The song “Supernaut” is my favorite track of all time.’ I couldn’t believe it. “Frank Zappa – who was a very techno guy – invited us to a restaurant once where he was having a party. The feeling was, “Well, if Zappa likes Black Sabbath, maybe we should give them another listen.”Ī year prior to this, in 1974, Zappa had invited the Sabbath members to dinner. Zappa said it was the best riff he’d ever heard, and a lot of critics started to reconsider Sabbath. Sabbath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler, a Zappa fanatic who says his “musical life completely changed” when he first heard Zappa’s Mothers of Invention at the age of 15, credits Zappa’s endorsement of “Supernaut” with changing critics’ attitudes toward the band. I used to like ‘Supernaut,’ but I think ‘Iron Man’ is the one now.”īut in the mid-70s, Zappa’s favorite track was “Supernaut,” and Sabbath benefited from Zappa’s enthusiasm. Also, I happen to like the guitar lick that’s being played in the background.”Ī couple of years later, Zappa had a new favorite song: “Iron Man.” He told Hugh Fielder, “Are you kidding me? ‘Iron Man’! That’s a work of art. He said at the time, “I like it because I think it’s prototypical of a certain musical style, and I think it’s well done. June 1975, Frank Zappa picked Black Sabbath’s “Supernaut” as his favorite song of the moment, beating out Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush.” But here’s one you might not: Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath. Those are weird musical pairings you know about.
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