I figured now would be the perfect time to post this, a bona fide audio recording of Terry's illustrious period as a member of Black Sabbath! Huzzah!
Recorded Live At Stadthalle, Bremen, Germany - November 25, 1987, on the short-lived Eternal Idol tour.
Supertzar
Neon Knights
Children of the Sea
War Pigs
Die Young Drum Solo
Iron Man
Born to Lose
Black Sabbath
Glory Ride
Heaven and Hell
Children of the Grave
The Shining
Paranoid
Line-up:
Tony Martin: Vocals
Tony Iommi : Guitar
Jo Bert: Bass
Terry Chimes: Drums
Geoff Nichols: Keyboards
Outside of the Terry factor, it's a good audience recording of a solid, if unremarkable, mid-80s Sabbath performance. Admittedly not their best era, but I do have a soft spot for their less regarded albums.
Downloading now. I wonder if his drum solo on this is as cheesy as the one on his personal webpage. I can see him doing a passable job on Paranoid and Iron Man.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
I don't even know when I'll get around to downloading and listening to this, but just knowing it exists has helped make this world a little better/more terrible place.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
matedog wrote:I can see him doing a passable job on Paranoid and Iron Man.
2. You thought wrong, bitch.
EDIT...aw fuck it, you all need to hear this right now:
1-06 Drum Solo.mp3
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So eumaas and I had a listening party. The only real comments are that it is mostly just fills with crashes on the downbeat. About 30 seconds in he does an homage to the Clash by playing the intro to Car Jamming which ignites the crowd of Terry Tour fans. He ventures into some seriously bad double bass drumming at the end too.
All in all though, it's a pretty decent bone headed stadium rock solo. Technically unimpressive to say the least, but something that seemed to work up the crowd a bit at least.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
I can't believe that merited a full-on CCS breakdown. You are truly devoted.
I just love how he shoots his load and goes to sleep 3 or 4 times, then after an awkward silence gets a third or fourth wind and starts with something else based on a single fill played ever faster. And then fizzes out again. And that this goes on for a remarkable 2-1/2 minutes.
The Clash didn't rule the 80's because they didn't incorporate any inexplicable mid-set drum solos. There...I said it. That explains the whole stinking lot of it. AND IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY. . .
