Live At Last - Black Sabbath

'Live At Last' was the long-awaited live album from Black Sabbath, which unfortunately had a fairly controversial background by being completely unofficial, despite receiving a mainstream release. This evidently angered the band's management and was likely a key factor in releasing an official answering-back in the form of 'Live Evil' two years later, but fortunately for the contemporary fans who didn't mind giving some cash to an unlicensed product, this earlier release remained appealing and different for being recorded back in the Ozzy Osbourne years, when the band was arguably at its peak (and certainly its most popular). It's a damn sight better than a bootleg ...

If you like Black Sabbath, you've probably been to the Ozzfest, seen Sabbath or Ozzy in concert, or maybe you were at the Last Supper gig at the end of the last century. Whichever that may be, don't expect to hear the modern Sabbath here: what you'll hear is vintage 1973 Sabbath, at the height of their powers, still refining the material for "Black Sabbath Volume 4". Many favourites are in tow: "Paranoid", "Sweet Leaf" and "War Pigs", all of which are still regulars in both Sabbath and Ozzy sets today, along with (at the time) new material such as "Laguna Sunrise", "Cornucopia" and a ...

Black Sabbath at the Ozzfest in the Milton Keynes Bowl this year was great, the playing by Tony Iommi was amazing, Sabbath pulled the biggest crowd of the day as loads of people came down from round the bowl to stand in the middle in front of the stage, it was an fantastic site to be on the hill when there were so many people down from you waving there arms and cheering. Ozzy was on top form for the night and sounded great, the set was impressively ended by a huge amount of shiny bits of paper being showed on the crowed and a very good fireworks display. ...