BLACK SABBATH - Live In Montreux 1970 - SPA Top Gear Edition - LISTEN - VERY RARE

Brilliant, fan-club Spanish CD, containing a 43-minute recording of the fantastic concert that took place in August 1970 at the casino in Montreux - the same one immortalised by Deep Purple in "Smoke On The Water". The band was just about to release the LP "Paranoid", hence, as a result of Ozzy's amnesia, "War Pigs" and "Iron Man" had changed lyrics. The band was in excellent form, and the quality of the sound, taken from the mixing desk, is almost ideal! This is the best-sounding Sabbath performance recorded in 1970-1974 - even slightly clearer than the famous concert from Paris (and in fact from Brussels) from 1970 and the one from March 1973 released on the LP "Live At Last". That is worth appreciating! Besides, the disc contains over 35 minutes of additional material! Four tracks made for the BBC in April 1970 (including the three-minutes-longer than the original "Black Sabbath" - containing an additional, unknown third verse, then "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" with a great, heavy jazz rock ending and "War Pigs" with alternative lyrics - all with corrected speed, that is, slightly sped up), two tracks made in summer 1969 under the name Earth (including the excellent "I'm A Rebel") and finally the phenomenal version of "Blue Suede Shoes" recorded live in the studio by the Beat-Club crew. The CD has been adorned with several very nice photos from the earliest period. A must! (JL)