War Pigs

13 14 15 16 who hasn't been afforded the older sibling moment of like putting the cassette in the tape deck putting the needle down on the record and scaring the shit out of you with this thing but also blow in your mind like for instance mark lanning i saw a video of on the 50th anniversary of this record of musicians talking about it mark lanigan said

there was a kid in my high school who had his own apartment he was from another town like had to leave and so this It was odd that this kid lived on his own, but he played War Pigs for me, and I made him play it for five hours straight.

It just blew my mind.

There's a lot out there about why Black Sabbath is great, and hopefully it's all self-evident.

This is all, like, first-ish draft stuff.

You can hear early versions of stuff on this in Paranoid, them working it out.

There's that great live Paris set from 1970 where you can hear the verses of War Pigs sort of reordered and in progress.

Kind of a jazzy approach to all that.

And I thought, you know, as pure white trash, I would give an ode to my man, Ozzy Osbourne.

And I would name the top tier war pigs from the Black Sabbath days.

And we can name these other ones accordingly as we go, boys.

But I'm just going to go right ahead.

and say that Jameer Gibbs and Bijan Robinson are locks in that War Pigs tier, fellas.

I don't think there's much to be said.

There are no more multi-utilized running backs in the league than these two.

And the explosiveness that they provide on top of that is just second to none.

Woodpeckers from Mars, it's an instrumental.

They covered War Pigs by Savick.

And they had Cowboy Song, which was a B-side of Outta Nowhere.

Those are probably the big, big songs.

hair.

And then I closed my set out with War Pigs.

Did you come out for an

encore?

Did I do something after War Pigs? I'm trying to think.

No, you just left them wanting more.

Because Vanessa was there the whole time.

Yeah, and it was so cool.

We did War Pigs, and he played and doing my, you know, trying to cop Ozzy's voice.

Everyone was laughing, and Ed was just doing licks that were quintessential Ed in the middle of it.

He couldn't resist.

Thank God for the bomb.

Like, oh, Ozzy, I don't want my kids to listen to that.

But then you listen to the words and you realize that much like Suicide Solution and a lot of these other songs that he did, the message is... peaceful it's a peaceful thing that he's he's trying to convey whether it be Bob or geezer even like war pigs isn't a song about an evil group of people making music it's about people protesting war and protesting the politicians that are using us all as pawns you know yeah yeah don't judge a book by its cover and don't judge don't judge a song by its title you know exactly because you never know right

Yeah.

But we had the coolest logo because it was the black and white picture of Ozzy with his hands out and his circle glasses.

And I figured last year since he passed away, what better way to honor him? So we called our team the War Pigs.

And I think we were anything but.

I think we won one or two games.

But I know that's not why you picked the song.

Tell us a little bit about the origin and the idea of War Pigs.

Well, okay, so I'm going to just take us back a little bit.

I went back to the calendar, and this is before you revealed that Under the Covers was happening.

of Johnny God's Gun,

that, like, okay, since, you know, the source material for the source material is political, And so there's some sense in which that's a political song or like, I was thinking about this and I think like, I think probably the classic metal song with the best claim to like actually be meaningfully anti-war is, you know, War Pigs.

But like, you know, it's like, all right, well, that was sort of partaking of like, you know, coming right off the Vietnam era, right? You

know, it's

Rocket Man.

War Pigs.

[laughs] Rocket Man.

I'm a Rocket Man.

One, two, three.

Rocket Man.

War Pigs.

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