Sunday, March 11, 2007

Concert Review: Heaven and Hell

Black Sabbath rolled into Vancouver last night. This time the lineup was the band from 1980 with Ronnie James Dio singing the tunes. I first saw this lineup in 1980 for their Heaven and Hell tour and then again in 1983 for the Mob Rules show. They played only Sabbath songs which Dio recorded from Mob Rules, Heaven and Hell, Children of the Sea, Sign of a Southern Cross, Die Young, and 3 new tunes from the upcoming compilation CD and they finished with Neon Nights. They were surprisingly really good considering how they have aged. I didn’t know if Dio was going to be able to hit the notes but he did and he looked good there back on stage. He’s just a little guy probably 60 and rocked the house. Tony Iommi played awesome but didn’t move around too much. He hasn’t changed in all these years. They played for 2 hours and I could have listened to them for another 2.

Megadeth and Down opened up for Sabbath. Megadeth got ripped off in the sound department. Their sound was lame compared to Sabbaths and they only got to play a 45 minute set which is too bad.

I was in the mosh pit as usual in the front. It was tense at times with all the pushing and shoving and aggressive rockers but I held my ground. I held onto the rail with all my might despite people trying for my spot. The guy behind me must have been 6’4 330 lbs but didn’t bug me. At one time the moshers behind him hit him and his girl and he turned around and dropped the punk. I’m all for moshing but not for the sake of hurting people. It’s usually the same crowd – shirtless early 20’s and tough or wanna be tough guys. It was good see the big guy drop them and they were sure surprised.

I took tons of pics of the show but most turned out real blurry. I wish I knew how to take indoor shots of a band with smoke and lights around. The videos I took were good but the sound was all just static.
The weather was so rainy when I got there I was soaked. I didn’t want to bring my jacket down onto the floor so I “lost it” and brought it to the lost and found for someone to claim and then after the show I “found” it. I thought that was pretty clever.

Hung around the back of the coliseum for almost 2 hours meeting the members of Down and Sabbath. Couldn’t Dave from Megadeth anywhere. Tony and Geezer just walked by and onto their bus but Vinnie and Ronnie spent a lot of time with all of us. We were all shaking hands and hugging and getting autographs and pictures. I was glad I waited. Meeting Dave and Tony would have been awesome as well though.
Slept for 3.5 hours and back to work sore and tired. Christina Aguilera tonight !!

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