{"id":2213,"date":"2012-09-23T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T14:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2012-09-23T10:48:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-23T14:48:12","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-273-the-metal-years-sabbath-dio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/09\/23\/my-musical-evolution-part-273-the-metal-years-sabbath-dio\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 273 The Metal Years Sabbath & Dio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some more Black Sabbath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I could really sense the end of The Metal Years<\/em>. I was still occasionally buying metal albums but they just weren’t \"Dio<\/a>connecting with me the way that they used too.\u00a0 I still would break out the Metallica<\/em> or Iron Maiden<\/em> when the mood struck me but the truth was that the mood was striking less and less.\u00a0 I’m not trying to demean these albums, well maybe Sacred Heart<\/em> just a little.<\/p>\n

Particularly with Dio, the themes were getting tired. How many times can you string Light, Shadow, Darkness, Magic, Mystery <\/em>and the like into lyrics before you are just going around in circles?<\/p>\n

If you roll back to the Academy Days<\/em> you’ll recall that my first conscious Black Sabbath <\/em> experience was courtesy of that beloved Heavy Metal Soundtrack<\/em>. It was Black Sabbath <\/em>featuring Ronnie James Dio<\/em> on The Mob Rules.<\/em> It was a great song even though I was totally unaware of the concept of Black Sabbath <\/em> beyond that one song.<\/p>\n

By this time, I had come to know and appreciate the original Black Sabbath <\/em> featuring Ozzy Osbourne<\/em> and from that pouint on, the Dio version just didn’t feel right. It was akin to Sammy Hagar taking over for David Lee Roth<\/em> in Van Halen.\u00a0 Sammy<\/em> like Dio<\/em>was technically superior musically to his predicessor but the resulting concoction while good was never as electrifying as the original.<\/p>\n

Even in writing these posts about The Metal Years, <\/em>I can feel my interest waning. It has become a chore to slog through it where the earlier albums were easy to listening to and brought back numerous great memories and emotions.\u00a0 I’m listening to these also rans, and even though they are good bodies of work, I’m not emotionally charged by them. Still, they were a part of My Musical Evolution.<\/em><\/p>\n

Black Sabbath<\/em>
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