How instrumental was he to changing the foundation of rock music and the sound of guitar?
>>130035680Iommi was as important as Hendrix, but his influence wasn't felt as immediately. Iommi's riffs created metal, nothing like it existed before him. Plebits on this board will call Black Sabbath a blues rock band because they can't analyze what they're hearing with any musical intelligence. It was Iommi's riffs that were metal, not his lead playing. Blackmore and Shenker were more metal sounding lead players as they incorporated full minor scales into their solos.
Very.Sabbath has little in common with the other rock music of the 60s at all aside from a few songs on the first album. The title track is completely different to anything else, by far.It's worth remembering that Iommi's big influence growing up was Hank Marvin from The Shadows too, he loved instrumental guitar music which was huge in the early 60s but doesn't get remembered as much as it should these days.
>>130035680Wop
>>130035680bigly
>>130035680You gotta remember when they released their first album in 1970, before that people were listening to the Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Yeah, Zeppelin came out the year before but they weren't that heavy. Imagine you're listening to Sabbath's debut for the first time and you hear Black Sabbath (the song) after listening to Buddy Holly previously
>>130035680How does someone create so many riffs? Almost every single one he wrote sounds so fresh and inspired.
>>130036406He reused riffs a ton. A lot of the sound the same
>>130037171no he didn't
>>130037909Yes, he did
not instrumental enough for most people to get his name right apparently
>>130035680you should just check all the artists that came after and named black sabbath as influenceat least half of the late rock shit that came out in the late 1980s
>>130037171Example?
>>130035680There were a few others doing the heavy riffage thing before him, or Jimmy Page. Wayne/Fred from the MC5, Ron Asheton, Cream era Clapton, and Leigh Stephens from Blue Cheer most notably.I think the biggest thing Iommi can really claim as his was just how much he would let his guitar ring out. Sabbath's intros were so drawn out and built up super menacingly which was something you really only heard done with entire string or brass sections in music before. Just one guitar, often even one string doing that was something new entirely when Sabbath came along and nobody else did that.
>>130035680IOMMIC
doom owes it all to him, MoR was the groundbreaking lp
>>130036381i love Black Sabbath st but dont act like Led Zeppelin 1 wasnt every bit as cutting edge, How Many More Times, Dazes and Confused and Good Times Bad Times were massive compared to what came before
