Outtake with piano and slide guitar from the Deluxe Edition of Master of Reality. Sounds like they used several layers of Ozzy here, as well as some great slide guitar.

Excellent outtake from the Master of Reality Deluxe Edition. Named after Evil Woman, presumably because it was an extension of that riff. Incredible for so many reasons. The only known Sabbath song to feature an egg shaker. The executives at the National Egg Council were right. The egg truly is an incredible fruit.

Black Sabbath playing Black Sabbath the song with the full guitar introduction, which was rarely played all the way through. Taped about two weeks into their first tour of America, on November 22nd, 1970 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco CA. Sabbath was opening for James Gang and Sugarloaf on the American leg of their Paranoid tour. Love (with Arthur Lee) might have played as well, at least that’s the rumor. They weren’t listed on the handbill. At this point in their american visit, Sabbath had been in the states for about four weeks but they still sound fresh and energetic. After completing a residence in LA at the Whiskey a Go-Go, Bill Graham hired Sabbath to play four consecutive nights at the Fillmore starting on Thursday November 19th. Supposedly the original recording of this bootleg was culled from an audience recording, taped on the final night of Sabbath’s residence that Sunday. Restored and remixed by me in Jan 2013. Both the vinyl and CD versions of this bootleg are mastered at the wrong speed. This is my best guess at what the correct speed should be.

Before it got phased out and renamed “Into The Void”, Sabbath had been playing this version of the song live, calling it “Spanish Sid”. This raw demo version surfaced on the Deluxe Edition of Master of Reality. Here Ozzy is improvising the words, he was especially good at doing this. Halfway through his improv runs dry and then his lyrics get kind of funny, “People say you’re gonna land on the moon?” George Lucas says a Rastafarian inspired his character Jar Jar Binks. Now I’m not sure if I believe him.

From Sabbath’s “Live At Last” LP. Totally different lyrics than the final version and great bridge with the lyrics, “Yeah, You’ll Die”. Easily the best live recording of this song. Geezer sounds electric, Ozzy’s voice perfectly captures the fear and dread associated with the lyrics. The man has great tone, that’s undeniable.

Sabbath recorded this version of Junior’s Eyes during their 1978 sessions for “Never Say Die!”. Walker had previously worked with Fleetwood Mac and Savoy Brown. It was the first time recording with a singer other than Ozzy, who had left the band under the guise of starting his own band, which later folded. When Ozzy rejoined the band later that year, he insisted on writing new lyrics to the song they had rehearsed with Walker.

Sabbath recorded this outtake in 1970. It wasn’t released until thirty-nine years later, on the deluxe edition of “Paranoid”.

John Peel engineered this session with Sabbath, which is the only time they’ve ever played this song “Walpurgis”, an early sketch of War Pigs. It was cleaned up and later released on Ozzy’s greatest hits collection for Epic Records called “The Ozzman Cometh” in 1997. Recorded on November 29th, 1969 for BBC Studios in London for the “John Peel Top Gear” show. Originally broadcast April 26th, 1970 on Peel’s Sunday Concert series.

An early draft of “Paranoid”, another one of Ozzy’s improv rehearsals. The band and Geezer used these rehearsal takes as reference for writing lyrics.

Outtake from the Deluxe Edition of Master of Reality, an early draft of the final version.