
Devin Townsend
The Blindboy Podcast
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What Fascinates Me About Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath came from Birmingham and they would have grown up in the 1940s. Their childhood was the trauma of war happened before I was born but we're still living with this. And then when Sabbath first came to America, their audience was made up of Vietnam vets who'd just come back. They used to get vets in the front audience and their be dudes in wheelchairs and their friends would get them to stand up. And all these Vietnam vets who've just returned from war found them as attracted to the music of Black Sabbath. For me it has to be something about their sonic landscape, is about trauma and war specifically and it came out through the sound. Tony Aome chapped his
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