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Black Sabbath - "War Pigs" Art Video & Live from 1970 (Patreon)

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2026-09-06 15:00:15
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My parents never shielded me from much music growing up, but I believe they parented me with the thought in mind that "she won't understand everything she hears."

I learned that this was the case when my mom cringed hearing the lyrics "dream of Californication" on the radio from Red Hot Chili Peppers. I just looked at her and said what was so wrong of putting the two words "California" and "Vacation" together?

Looking back on that now...well...ya know...

War Pigs, to me, is very clear. I feel like any adult could understand what the lyrics are trying to allude to, so I find it crazy that one would jump straight into the Satanic idea. That's just me though.

After listening to this, I have many questions for my parents!

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Jim Lynch

Man, Geezer barely got any love in the live video!

Bill Whitaker

Geezer's birth name is Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler.

P in D

GREAT reaction ... and no cooking ... just watching ;) . Yes, the sirens are part of the original audio track ... no audio was added to the video production. I think you'd really have a field day with Ozzy's song "Mr. Crowley" ... but we can save that for another time ... about occultist Aleister Crowley as well as being a Randy Rhodes era track ... anyway ... Lets talk a little more about the video as it is simply chock full of symbolism. I am sure you watched closely but took an hour to talk about the music so we forgive you :) . It opens ... at the end. Lady Justice has been killed by firing squad ... but that is not the clearest thing until later. Lady Justice makes a few appearances and in one, if you look closely, her statue has been beheaded. The birds that morph into bombers, the "WORK" poster that transforms into Lady Justice in an open field ... The white handkerchief that ends up red stained with her blood ... I could really go on and on. It is super well done with attention to detail most of us can only imagine. Lastly the banner at the top of the structure as initially seen says "CAPITALISM" ... at the end of the video however it says "FREEDOM". Musically I think you did a wonderful job breaking this down. Sometimes music is written and it evokes emotion ... and maybe we don't know why until someone like you breaks it down for us. It is indeed simplistic ... but it is also very well written ... and that is a big part of what made Black Sabbath so great. Ozzy's vocals I have always described as "haunting". This is the music of my youth ... and this song has deep meaning for me. As a small boy I was absolutely petrified of being drafted and asked to fight in Vietnam. Today is not like yesterday and you talk about being afraid for your students ... but in the time this was written so many young men simply never came home. Imagine watching your school mates, your students, your sons, go off to war and simply never return. War did serve a "useful purpose" at one time. WWII (not eleven :p ) pulled the country out of the great depression. It galvanized a nation and made everyone work together with a sole purpose. I'm not sure anyone would tell you however, that it was worth the cost. Thank you for putting so much effort into this. You always see things that I don't.

David Cousins

War Pigs is one of the few songs that, IMO, could have been released today and ring true - it is still very relevant 56 years after release, and has been every year since. I'll be 63 in Dec and first heard this song in the mid '70s, was introduced to Black Sabbath by a friend. I was introduced to bands via friends or, for the most part FM radio when it was still good. Having always liked this song, the lyrics have taken a more profound and deeper meaning over the years, the music has always hit a sweet spot for me. For the live video, fun to watch and listen to. There were no in-ears back then, floor monitors at the front of the stage for the most part. Unlike most of the newer bands I enjoy today, there were no backing tracks (at least the bands I saw live) - there is one exception and it is understandable, Queen performing Bohemian Rhapsody and I think we know what part of the song was a track. I'll have to do a search to see what bands from the 60's -70's you've looked at - you just might get a suggestion or two that is not a Japanese band :). Anyway, take care of your ankle. You may want to consider getting one of those boots they use for injuries, help with not re-injuring it.

Luis Arispe

The accusations of Satanism is a sign of these times. The hard rock, proto heavy metal of Black Sabbat cause a lot of fire to them. In a time that the flower power of the end of the sixties talks also about the war of Vietnam but with other methods, the raw sound of Black Sabbat with the dark analogies gives them a reputation.

Andrew Hellebrand

Bear in mind the band name was actually taken from an Italian horror anthology starring Boris Karloff, they mostly got accused of being Satanists for a combination of the band name and wearing crosses onstage which weren't even inverted, this was the era where blokes just having long hair was still considered controversial and anti-establishment. Another early Sabbath song that got this unjustified stigma was NIB, which was allegedly meant to stand for 'Nativity In Black', in actual fact it was an in-joke/pun about how the bottom of Bill Ward's beard sometimes resembled the nib of a fountain pen in shape. I actually kinda did a tribute to this for one of my old band's songs, we had a track called 'Apt' which also stood for 'Andy's Pretentious Trickery' because of some of the guitar parts I played in it. The 1970-79 1st classic era line-up was Ozzy on vocals (& occasional harmonica), Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass and Bill Ward on drums. Bill Ward was in many ways their secret weapon, his approach to drumming and arranging comes from being initially inspired by jazz drummers in 1940s big bands like Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Louie Bellson, there's a real subtle swing to how he plays that you don't get so much in later bands when the hard rock/metal genres became more established. Ozzy would come up with the vocal melodies (that often followed the guitar riffs) but Geezer was responsible for nearly all the lyrics, as Ozzy wasn't exactly what you'd call well read or educated; from what he'd shared about his time at school and his behaviour on-stage he almost certainly had undiagnosed ADHD as well as what was later confirmed to be dyslexia. Geezer was talking more about the concerns of others they'd met on tour in the US being called up to serve, as the band is English, mandatory conscription/military service in the UK ended in 1963 and we had no real involvement in the Vietnam war. The studio version was recorded direct to analogue tape with minimal layering of overdubs (they would been limited to likely 8 or 16 tracks maximum and anything stereo like the air raid sirens would take up two of those) and no click track, on the early Sabbath albums Tony Iommi would often double track his guitar solos having come up with a rough structure beforehand (one panned left and the other right) but rarely would they be played identically and line-up fully, which introduced the divergences/chaotic bits that became a bit of a signature sound. To write like this you have various fixed melodic landmarks you hit every time, but with the bits in-between usually just improvised using the same scalar patterns. In the live video they're tuned down a half step to Eb to make the string tension easier for Tony's fingers (possibly Ozzy's voice also) and in the intro you can tell the 100W Laney valve amp stacks he's playing through are set really loud (the guitar & bass amps are not even going through the PA) and his P90 pickups are on the verge of feeding back when he has his volume up full. In-ear monitors weren't really a thing until the mid-80s & took until the mid-90s to really catch on, Ozzy probably just had one or two wedges to hear himself and has two microphones taped together to help his voice be louder through the PA (as well as acting as bit of redundancy if there was any cable faults mid-show). He sounds this good vocally because he would've been in his very early 20s here and the band hadn't yet started abusing drugs & alcohol.

Andrew Hellebrand

As for what I was doing whilst watching this particular video, I spent most of it with a guitar in my lap seeing how many of the parts I could remember and which other bits I could figure out by ear. Geezer's bassline is fun but might be a workout as he uses a lot of vibrato to fatten up the sound (he was an rhythm guitarist originally) whenever he's doubling Tony's guitar riffs. The cyclic arpeggio type pattern towards the end is a triad shape consisting of a root, fifth and minor seventh.

P in D

I dropped the tab in the DISCORD ... its not for the faint of heart ;) .

Vlad the Maidiac

I remember when I watched this "Artistic Video" with "War Pigs" as a soundtrack, I was shock how irrelevant it is to the song. Who even did it? If it was Ozzy who did it, then it's the same kind of a combination which BAND-MAID did with "After Life," where the story in the MV has nothing to do with the lyrics of the song. But I strongly doubt it was Ozzy who authored that video. First of all, it's Orwell's "1984." With images, if I understand it correctly, from "Archipelago GULAG" or "Dr Zhivago," something by Stanley Kubrick. I did not watch any of these movies, but I've seen a lot of quotes from them, they are used very widely. But "1984" has very little in common with the images in "War Pigs." Indeed, "War Pigs" is about politicians waging wars. In "1984" there are no politicians, it's a totalitarian Dystopia with the main idea of strict vertical control. The "war pigs" from "1984" will never repent and "crawl on their knees," as Ozzy sings. It's more a history of World War II, where the aggressors in the end have bitterly regretted that they have started the war because "Satan spread his wings" over them in the end and they all perished. In "1984," the system is shown as eternal and unbreakable.

Eaglez1

The last song I ever sang live on a stage 🥰