The Guitars of Tony Iommi: A Short History
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One of my most profound musical memories is hearing Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" when it came out. I had no idea music good sound, or feel, like that. So I really enjoyed digging into what Iommi used to create those tones and the choices he had to make along the way.
I hope you enjoy it.
Keith - Hudba
Met Tony before a gig in Bristol in 1974 I think, we were 14 years old having a chinese meal, and he was on the next table.
He clocked that we were Sabbath fans and came over for a chat and sign autographs.
He was a lovely guy, and I'll always remember how important he made us feel.
That's absolutely awesome 👍🤘
very cool
I like Tony cause his Italian it's cool peace ✌️ Joe
@@jojoe469 Yeah his early 70's tone's like a hot, spicy spaghetti sauce with spicy Italian sausage, damn that sounds delicious, I'm gettin' hungry right now
Truly a class act. I used to work at a motel where tons of rockers stayed. The douchebags were almost always the one hit wonders, never the legends.
Saw Black Sabbath at Madison Square Garden in 1978 with VH as an opening act. Concerts like that just don't happen anymore.
I was at the show as well and still have the concert stub. 😁
They sure do not. How was VH received by the crowd? Were you like I gotta get that record...
🤤🤤🤤🤤
Nice! What a show that would have been. Music just ain’t like this anymore.
I believe Window Pane acid was popular at the time. I missed that show unfortunately but some of my friends made it. Great time to be a teenager.
Tony Iommi's influence on hard rock cannot be overstated.
Amen
If you go listen to Cream's first record
Circa 1966 you will see where Tony got his influence - I know this pisses off the Black Sabbath faithful but the proof is literally on record - the only difference is the term "Heavy Metal" had not been invented - Clapton is a musical chamilion and he ever embraced the " metal" label incidentally this will probably upset Dark Siders out there but the very first artist to use a distorted guitar effect ?
You didn't guess it -
Marty Robbins - yes indeedy - Black Sabbath ( Heaven & Hell was my favorite)
May be the Godfathers of Metal but make no mistake - Eric Clapton was the first hard rock guitar player - and yes kinks fan he was before y'all too
- just sayin
@@davidrice3337 the post simply stated that his *influence* cannot be underestimated. Nowhere does he claim he invented or came first to anything. Iommi’s guitar playing and riffs are the singular influence to an entire genre of metal. 99 out of 100 metal bands will mention Sabbath as one of their main influences.
While you’re correct that Clapton influenced countless guitarists, both his contemporaries and those that came later, both in tone and style, your comment and the point you make is irrelevant.
Edit to add: Just sayin’
@@davidrice3337 you didn't guess it either. It's very well documented it was Link Wray and his song "Rumble" that had the first purposely distorted guitar. Good try though...
@@davidrice3337 😂 this is laughable. Clapton is as hard rock as Aretha franklin
Tony Iommi, I think is one of the pioneers of customizing guitars to fit his playing style. Custom strings, custom necks, custom pickups and bridges. True innovator
So, 5WW just raised it’s own bar and knocked it clean out of the park - awesome 30 mins of journalism, thank you!!!
20:22
Saw the heads up yesterday.
Looked this morning while getting ready for work.
Had to wait to view this but it had 575 views before the first half hour was up.
This is pretty awesome.
It just seemed like 30 minutes because there were no Telecasters...
Great video. I’m an amputee and I play electric 6 string with just one hand using a combination of tapping and strumming on the neck. Open D Major tuning, 7-38 strings, and string height as low as it’ll go. You don’t need ten fingers to make power chords… get a guitar you can afford and start experimenting.
Tony Iommi the Godfather of Metal himself.
Nice Hypes!!!
Why do you always call him hypes?
Old nickname from when we both talked too fast. I call Rick Hypes as well,
Tony iommi is the main reason I play guitar
Me, too
Same here. I first heard Supernaut right after they came out with Vol. 4 in '72 at age 8. Probably the most mind-blowing experience I've had to this day...
John Diggins and his family still work in Digbeth in Birmingham and his son is a particularly talented guitar finisher. Brilliant Birmingham metal heritage. Local people are very proud of Iommi and those local firms who have supported him all these years. He seems to be a thoroughly nice bloke too, a guitar hero who you would actually be able to meet. This is a brilliant video.
I am the proud owner of a Jay Dee Tony Iommi Custom SG finished in cherry. It took 3 years to receive it, finally in April 2022. it is my most treasured guitar and it sounds amazing. The sheer quality of the instrument is outstanding.
Don't forget he used Laney Amps, also made in Brum.
Never realised JD was in Digbeth... I used to work just over the bridge from The Forge.
@@somebodyelseuk Celestion Greenbacks for first several albums and for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Sabotage (I reckon) Goodman speakers, the Goodman Audio M 12P I think? Not sure of wattage or imped but yeah. Luckily, Iommic Studies are alive and well. Something about the sound... Don't forget to go and find your own sound(s)! Peace.
@@PaulieMcCoy It's not a sound I'm going after. Not even a Sabbath fan, but though I'm from up North, I moved to Brum just over 20 years back. I take an interest in the local music history, one of my mates is a nephew of one of the 'Brummie Music Mafia', and on top of that, my first amp back in the '80s was a Laney and I've been using Laney cabs since the '90s on my current rig. My combo had a 10" Fane speaker in it (IIRC) and the cabs had HH speakers in when I bought them (though they have V30s now). Like I say, not a Sabbath fan, but I'd love to meet Tony, as he was a favourite guitarist of one of my favourite guitarists, who I happened to be friends with and is no longer around.
Tony has a distinctive tone and style which is just fabulous. Often imitated, never duplicated. One of the most influential guitarists of any genre.
Hard Rock Cafe is where legendary guitars go to die.
I was twelve or thirteen years old when I first heard Paranoid. Changed my life. Now I'm 62, play professionally and now I'm switched over to the amazing SG guitar.
Metal guys finally getting episodes, thanks!!!! He was my inspiration to try out P90s after not using anything but humbuckers for 15 years….changed my playing forever. Now I have an arsenal of single coil guitars.
There's a couple misses, he used a Washburn 29 fret and a Hamer Phantom guitar each at some point in the early 80s Dio era, largely a footnote but I always found those two guitars to be quite interesting myself so I thought I'd note it.
Nice description of the impressions one got from first hearing Black Sabbath. I was a college junior living in a dorm when I heard the piercing tone of Tony's guitar through the thin walls from a room down the hall and dropped everything to get a closer listen. I was not disappointed.
In the 80's a buddy of mine walked into a music store in Toronto and bought a black SG. The salesman told him a story, that Iommi traded it in on another SG. I don't know if the story was true but the guitar had all the signs it might be. It was a left hand SG built by Jon Birch, it had crosses on the fret board, a spot on the back to install a 9 volt battery and a air brushed priest praying on it. This story was never verified. My buddy bought the guitar because he was a huge Sabbath fan.
Iommi used a Strat in the early days of Earth and Sabbath. He recorded Wicked World with it till the bridge pickup died. He had the ‘65 red Gibson SG Special backup. He finished the 1st album with it and used it through the 6th album- Sabotage tour. The white SG custom was used on a few songs on Paranoid and briefly on the road in 1970. The John Birch guitar was used from Technical Ecstasy through the Mob Rules album. John Diggins (JayDee) was made in the mid-70’s and was his main axe from the late 1980’s through the 13 tour. John Diggins made him guitars for the Born Again tour and the recent tours.
Yes, he had several Strats, one was a burst of some kind he painted white but it was not the the Jethro Tull guitar- when he left Tull so did the nice gear. Tony worked for Jensen Motors who manufactured the Jensen CV8, Interceptor I-III and later the Jensen-Healey and Jensen GT- Tony lost two sets of finger tips there. John was making guitars for Birch, it was one of the reasons Iommi went direct to the Diggins family. John and his family have been making him guitars since around 1974. The "Old Boy" was supposedly 75-78 but I have some color photors I bought from Japan and different locations Sabbath toured and you can see the JayDee headstock in late 75 and that original dark mahoghany finish. Birch was not a wood worker and he built pickups more than guitars, and that is reflected in his licensing the name. Tony toured with BC Rich Ironbird as well, and then Gibson was trying to make "metal" guitars for a brief period(SG-400 with Kahler trem ?) and they had a "thing" you could call a guitar that looked vaguely like an Ironbird- vaguely. He toured with it. He also toured with some Gibson's along the way. During the limited tour for Tyr he had a Gibson SG that was probably tobacco burst but under the lights it seemed to reflect odd, it had DiMarzio Super Distortions and he was using Laney amplification again. It was a post AOR boosted line of amps and into that period of their polished stainless panel amps- like what would be the GH, VH, etc.
One last comment: on the first record he maintains that he only used the Strat on one song. When the remaster of "Black Sabbath"- Wicked World and Evil Woman appear to have layers of strat takes or are entirely strat takes. Then he goes into the 65 Melody Maker he had that was originally 1 P90 and is now 2 P90's- it was right handed strung left, he traded it in a multilevel car parking deck for Monkey(the sticker was already there). Both Birch and John Diggins wound him P90's. By 1972, looking through photos he is using at least one "Birch" SG and he's got Birch pickups in others. By the time of 13- Monkey and Old Boy were not toured, those were replica's Andrew and John Jr. Diggins built. If anyone wonders how you can tell, the Monkey sticker's size changes. Also sometimes the way the Monkey is facing changes and the picture is no flipped because you can see the controls are in the proper location but the Monkey is not applied facing the same direction. One of the Ironbirds he had is now a neckthrough SG and he played it in the very limited dates for Forbidden. The "R" on the headstock is still visible when he did contract fulfillment promotion for "Forbidden"(which IRS Music "encouraged" (cough:forced) a pairing between Ernie C of Body Count producting and there were three tracks recorded with Ice-T on vocals with Tony Martin, though on the main record Ice T is only featured in a very uncomfortable track). Tony played a couple of shows for Forbidden before the IRS contract was fufilled. Those are the last shows with Tony Martin, and as a fan of the Tony Martin Sabbath, I enjoyed his and Iommi's work on the live shows for Forbidden. One of the photographs I have in my collection is from Forbidden era and Tony plays a neck through SG and it has the back and neckthrough of the Ironbird and for some time it has the headstock with an R on it. He played it during the Heaven and Hell dates because some of the Dio Sabbath songs require trem work- and despite his arthritis- Iommi was walking the fretboard and diving on that Floyd like it was 1980. Sabbath never toured with an Orange backline- though Tony has owned both Matamps and Oranges though he has said he does not like the Vox tone stack, though he hasn't said anything negative about the Baxendall tone stack used on the amps with the "Voice" and "Boost" dial in. From formation until Laney offered them the Supergroup(circa late '68 to early '69) he used "amps". 70's he uses the Supergroup and an ever aging Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster and an Echoplex delay. He's seen with Beat Club's backline of Orange amps(and dummy cabs and dummy heads). During the era after Vol4 he begins experimenting more and remained a supporter of Birmingham and Bromie music gear producers- though I have never seen an actual live gig where he plays the Laney Klipp. By 1978 he was with Marshall and has blamed a Marshall installer for trashing the original Dallas Rangemaster. If anyone has owned an original Echoplex Delay or a Rangemaster or even the New York Big Muff Pi- you'll know something very valuable- they sound great WHEN and IF they work. I do not believe the Rangemaster was intentionally or even unknowningly trashed. The unfortunate reality is that even if it was a studio piece- Sabbath lived communally in England and in LA(had houses both places, the LA house was during their tax exile years). Anyone who knows playing a pedal repeatedly that has been mass produced- it eventually needs tweaks and repairs and there are only so many tweaks and repairs one may do before you probably have a drawer someplace that can be called "pedal graveyard". Sabbath, no matter the lineup, was popular in Japan. Tony has a number of a certain Japanese maker's SG series and they're quite wonderful. Sabbath and the Iommi albums- 85's Seventh Star, 8th Star(aka DEP Sessions) from 1996 and 2000's Iommi remain my favorite music. I cannot begin to explain how much joy I get from it. My two favorite bands are Motorhead(RIP Lemmy & Wurzel) and Sabbath: Iommi was a brilliant guitarist who played in techniques not unlike a bassist, Lemmy was a bassist who played like a guitarist.
Yeah he got that Fender Stratocaster from Leslie West who gave it to Tony
@@mikekeeler6362 I'm getting old- you're right. Because it is in late 60's MOUNTAIN footage with Leslie. Thank you.
@@v.e.7159 I know that one Gibson daddy used John Birch replace two pickups and the strings on it still Tony could play it so basically it was a Gibson in body but it's been altered by John Birch he customized it so Tony could play it
I just happened to finish recording a cover of "Paranoid" with my Epiphone SG Classic with the P90's! XD If there is one guitarist I associate more with the SG than Angus, it's Iommi.
I got 3 black SG’s. I’m a fan
Got my first in 2020. Gib standard and currently can't put it down again lol..Angus Ebony of course 🤘
@@ericwarrington6650ive had a 2002 gothic SG since then, but recently I got a 1989 3knob special, and a 2005 ebony standard. Love the shape. Love sabbath and acdc
I own a red & black ‘61 reissue, an Iommi red monkey USA, a black SG3, and Inverness green Captain Kirk SG
@@tommorris5069 right on brother 🤘😁🎸🎶
I still have my John Birch SG from 1973.....one piece maple body and neck with a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard. Hyperflux pickups......priceless piece of guitar history.
The idea of brother Keith headbanging to paranoid makes me smile 💯✌️🤟🤘
Excellent video, Keith! You really knocked it out of the park! Iommi is my all time favorite guitarist and first inspired me to play! Three interesting facts about some of that gear:
1) If you look closely at those in studio pictures of the white SG Custom as they were recording Paranoid Tony had already had John Birch install a single coil, P-90 style, Simplux pickup in the bridge. By the time of their appearance on Beat Club and Top of the Pops they had been switched out for three open coil, black, PAFs.
2) Tony used a John Birch J1 or J2 model with a sunburst finish and maple fretboard on some shows during the Sabotage tour. It served as a backup to the Monkey and as a test bed to what ended up going I to the Old Boy. I think this is when the Monkey started to develop tuning stability issues due to the weak neck joint.
3) Tony's first Monkey replica was built by fan Lou Moritz of St. Moritz guitars and used on the 13 album and tour. You can even spot it on Sabbath's appearance on TV show CSI!
Oh and it's also worth noting that Laney reissued the LA100s back in 2017. A combination of the amp's 50th anniversary and because Iommi wanted to use the original Laneys one last time for The End tour. Iommi used the LA100BL reissues alongside his TI100s for The End tour, alongside a Laney-made (Blac k Country Customs) treble booster based on his old modded Rangemaster, but with even more boost on board.
Toni Iommi guitar playing is mind blowing in its musicality and heavy tone.
F-yeah, I was waiting for this.
What a great video, big Black Sabbath and Tony Iommi fan. I was lucky enough to find and purchase one of the 50 1997 Gibson signed SG's with the Iommi pickup. This was a Gibson SG and Pickup rollout in 1997 for the Gibson dealers. You can find a video of him signing the guitars. Thanks for another great video.
Tony Iommi was a part time Atlantan back in the 90s. I remember going to Music Midtown when it was at the site of the current Federal Reserve building. I was watching Silverchair when they suddenly introduced Tony, who played a couple songs with them. A bunch of frat boys, who were probably in preschool when Tony first hit the scene, started screaming "Sabbath!" when he came out of stage. Another great rock and roll memory.
Was the guitar shop near Music Midtown the one Curbow worked at before he moved to Morganton GA where his extended family settled ? Or was that the 5 Points ?
@@v.e.7159 Don’t know, sorry.
@@v.e.7159Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes were in Atlanta Cheshire Studio 1986 for the 7th star 🌟 album 👌
I used to have a Laney Linebacker back in the 90's. It was a great amp in all honesty. Iommi has to be up there in the pantheon of most influential guitarists ever. My parents were very young when I arrived & were really into music so I was fortunate enough to grow up in a home with Sabbath's first 4 albums. God, the amount of hours I spent in my bedroom trying to master his riffs as a kid lol
I look forward to all episodes, but iommi was my first guitar teacher whether he knows it or not!
Great video Keith, Iommi is a legendary player and great information here
Can't wait !!!
Sab ST, ABB at FE and Mountain 'Climbing" got me started for real in '72 at 15. Finally, my first electric guitar.
Never got to see Tony which is a drag.
Still jam on Sab stuff, Snowblind on high rotation lately. Riffs are great but I love those arpegiated chords at the bridge and the solo.
Makes me forget i'm 65 now ;)
Rock on, Keith !
Man, I always only wanted to play like Tony Iommi. Somehow I have forgot that. I am reminded. Thank you.
I was born in 68, so I was a kid in the 70's and teenager in the 80's. I grew up in a small rural town in Indiana and it was one of those towns where churches were damn near on every corner. We had 2 taverns and 12 churches! All my relatives were Bible thumpers. My parents not so much, but the whole town had that feeling. My dad's little brother, my uncle, was a hard rocker. He had all the "forbidden" music. I would go there to "visit" and like you, open up my world. That first Sabbath album actually frightened me, and I loved it. My uncle showed me a trick to record over a commercial tape. You covered the protection tabs with tape, recorded, then removed the tape. And that is how I got by without being discovered. I had an Osmond's tape that was Led Zeppelin, a Linda Ronstadt tape that was Black Sabbath, an Elvis gospel tape that was Iron Butterfly In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and so forth. I was in stealth mode up until high school. But Sabbath was my favorite, and Tony the main reason.
I absolutely love the Old Boy guitar, it looks like its straight from hell...Tony is a legend...Great video
Yeah that's because he left it in a car in South America and it took all the finish off of it
Your opening story was absolutely magic.
How I learned how to play guitar was two events. One, my dad showing me how to tune a guitar, and two was me asking my brother to show me how to play. He had me form a power chord and in an older brother condescending tone he tells me "That's all YOU need to know." Well, turns out he was right. I took that power chord and learned a boatload of Sabbath by ear, and to this day some near 30 years later there is about a 60% chance I'm going to play Sabbath while I'm warming up.
Yes, worth the wait.
Greatly done, Keith.
Story was he went home for lunch that day saying he wasn't going back.
His Mom threw a fit, "Go back and finish your shift!!" Then,,, y'all knew that already.
I remember the first listen of Sabbath like it was yesterday,,,,
Me and my Mom go to the 'mall (Serramonte) agreeing to meet at the 'fountain' at a certain time. This is summer of '70 and i'm 13.
Record store nearby is playing a killer instrumental boogie jam so go to check it out.
It's Warning from Black Sabbath. Couldn't stay long enough to hear the whole track but knew i had to have it.
Get some lawn mowing money together a week or so later and go to buy the album....
put on side !,,,,rain, thunder then the most scary thing i'd heard since the intro to The Surfari's "Wipe Out" when i was like 5.
Later learned this was The Devil's Tritone played in F#. ummm, that title works :)
I started playing two years later, trying to cop parts from this from the very beginning,,,NIB was a fave., Still is.
Rock on.
Tony is my favorite guitar player to see live. I took every opportunity to see him play. I am so glad I did, he may be done performing except for the occasional one off. His touch and tone is unrivalled.
I hope one day we can get a James Hetfield video 😏
I had the pleasure of seeing the original lineup twice. It changed my world, Tony Iommi is a legend. Thanks great vid 👍
I've been chasing his tone for decades. I have 5 SG's because of him as well as two Laney amps one of them being a Tony Iommi signature model. I built my own modded Range Master Treble Booster. I could never say enough good things about this man.
In 1976 I had John Birch make me a guitar. By then I was obsessed by what made a guitar sound great. It couldn't be magic so kept begging me to let him observe what he did and ask a few questions. John had what was an out of bounds room where he created his own tests to hear how different woods sound in the real world and to work on new ideas for PU's and hardware. I eared his trust and he let me into the room. Once he started talking he seemed pleased to share on all he learnt. I could write chapters on what he learnt. He had endless 'firsts' that only ended up on one or 2 guitars. Many things are given credit to others who discovered them years later.
He built me a guitar that he promised would sustain longer than a Les Paul by at least 30%. It did and he proved it in the lab. He made a device that strummed across the strings and timed it until the strings stopped. He did this 10 times. He threw out the highest and lowest readings and then average the other 8 to get the the number. We did an LP a Strat and my guitar. The Strat came in last :-) No it was hardly some exact science. John was concerned with the real world results of making a guitar that you would compare to his and prefer it. So basic better sustain was a given that could be improve by materials and construction.
Lists of who is the most influential player are always a battle between Hendrix, Page and EVH. But there is a massive flaw in this argument - so many guitarists don't even play lead. But everyone who plays high gain, palm muted rhythm guitar from the most extreme metal to Nickelback owes it to this guy. As a lefty he is my hero. His adaptation to his injury is inspiring, and his influence I think is actually bigger than any single other guitarist. Long live Sabbath!
I loved Tony's Mesa sound during the 80s. Seventh Star is a great sounding album.
I remember hearing the opening bars of Iron Man in junior high... Definitely changed my musical world.
Thanks, Keith!
Growing up there were two guitar players that filled my speakers with wailing sounds - Tony Iommi and Angus Young. You've covered both of them in great fashion. I know their stories by heart, but the heart you put into telling these stories adds a new dimension to them. Rock on!
I'm 70, 54 years a guitar player. Fifteen years ago I started playing with two fingers to relieve my hand of cramping. The music completely changed, more melodic. I call it the Django technique. It's the thing I do when my hand begins to cramp up. It changes the music. Try it! You might have to tape the pinky to the ring.
Nice one, Keith! Tony Iommi is one of my biggest guitar inspirations in a lot of ways. Black Sabbath is indescribable. He and Angus Young are probably the two biggest reasons I grew up loving SG's. Keep it up, five watt!
Same here on influencing me with the Gibson SG, my favorite electric guitar and mostly what I play and own several...
One of the most influential guitarists of the generation. A true master of the riff. Excellent content Keith, keep it up!
I saw the last original line up (I think) in 1978 with Van Halen opening in support of their first album. What a show! I remember thinking how old Black Sabbath seemed, but they were all around 30 years old!
This was long overdue. Thank you 🙏.
No one can deny the legacy of Mr. Iommi. Think i stopped listening to his stuff after Mob Rules.
Thank you Kieth. I will have to become a member of FWW. Appreciate your channel very much! Makes my day learning about all these legendary players and their instruments!
Iommi really is a guitar legend, and who doesn’t love a good distorted downtuned riff? Nice video!
Again...another sensational video....well done Keith and the gang.
Tony Iommi only did one gig with Jethro Tull for the Roling Stones Rock & Roll Circus. He was only in the band two weeks.
First time I heard the first album and looked at that spooky cover I freaked out. That was in 1971, still remember it like yesterday. Great job, as usual, covering the Mount Rushmore members of rock.
Can’t wait for this one!
theres nothing like these anecdotes from your youth to put a smile on my face keith
Thanks David
Thank you Keith for doing this tribute. He is one of the most underrated players! The first time I heard him I lost it!!! So many memories!
A great school day Keith, I learn a load from these so thanks for your diligence and sharing, best way to learn is when you don't know your being schooled 🏴👍👍👍🥃Respect to you mate
Great work Keith... in my early teens ('79-'80 or so) we would put on a friend's older brother's records... Black Sabbath and Sabotage were two often played and life has never been the same... ha ha ha.
I was in the dull drums regards my playing there for a few weeks, until i saw this. A fellow Southpaw and a legend i admire. Thanks Keith, another superb expose of a great Guitarist and his tools.
Nicely Done!!!!
The first reporting on The Master’s acoustic guitars I’ve ever seen.
You only missed one detail critical to his style, tone and influence, his wah. The Tychobrahe Parapedal.
Thanks Keith..Tony is one of my favorite guitarists... You nailed it!
And Tony Iommi is exactly why I bought a red SG in the early 70's!
I've been a fan of Iommi since I became aware of Black Sabbath as a teenager. His story of perseverance with his fretting hand inspired me to keep playing no matter what. Then his battle with cancer, recording and touring during chemo treatments, blew my mind! He is truly dedicated to his craft. One question I have for those with more knowledge about these things that I do, did Iommi never use Orange Amps? I seem to remember watching a performance of Sabbath from I think The Beat Club with Orange Amps behind them. ???
this is bought up a lot, especially with Orange owners. If The Beat Club is the performance I'm thinking of ("Paranoid" with the revolving black and white psychedelic backdrop), I believe the Orange amps were actually the club's backline amps - everyone had to use them. Geezer was using an Orange too.
@@dylanadams1455 that's the one. Seems maybe "Iron Man" as well? I'll have to go back and look. Thanks! That makes sense. I noticed Orange Amps behind Alice Cooper's performance of "I'm Eighteen" as well, so makes even more sense. I knew someone out there would know!
Great presentation as always Keith. Thanks!
Keeeeef hits another home run! Been a Sabbath Iommi fan since I was 12! Great stuff man!
The Riff Master General with the Hand of Doom!!!! I am a huge fan of Mr. Iommi and Peter Townshend's.....and have had my share of SGs with P90s.
Awesome guitars, awesome player taught to us by an awesome CZcams channel
My before and after moment was when I went for a piano lesson and my teacher played Sylvia by Focus on a reel-to-reel tape recorder in 1972. I was blown away by Jan Akkerman's guitar playing as it was so different to what we were hearing in the charts at the time. Later I heard Black Sabbath and realised Iommi was another innovator. I didn't know at the time why his sound was different but there was something that made me sit up and take notice. Around that time I came across David Gilmour. It wasn't for a few years until I heard anyone as different as those three and that was Allan Holdsworth. So, those four guitarists really stick out for me even though I know there are and have been so many other greats.
Got here because of the title. Clicked 'Like' immediately after seeing and hearing Angus Clark. Subscribed about midway through the video. This is much different than others. Loved the shoutouts to John 'Dawk' Stillwell. Thanks for all.
Still my favorite guitarist all these years later. 🤟
I have always been a fan of Tony Iommi. However, I never paid close attention to the specific guitar he played other than it was an SG Style guitar. Very interesting to see the different models, vs. just Gibson, he played. Well done Keith!
I'm a huge fan of Black Sabbath as a left Handed Guitarist from South Wales🏴 Valleys UK 🇬🇧 Tony Iommi. Is a icon
I can remember listening to Electric Funeral on the family turntable one Saturday afternoon when I was about 14. My mom was in the kitchen and after a while came in there and said What are you listening to?? 😄 that was in 1985 and I've been a fan ever since. Truly one of my favorites bands and favorite guitarists of all time. I can still remember hearing the first Black Sabbath album for the very first time and just remembering how dark and ominous it sounded and still does over 50 years later. Great video Keith thank you!
I have fond memories of playing music at my friend's garage and blasting Black Sabbath in his car on the way there and back. I started respecting Iommi even more ever since. Thanks for the video, Keith! Another amazing one.
Another GREAT video Keith!!!! Tony is truly one of THE GREATEST guitarists of ALL TIME and I am glad you chose to honor him on your channel!!!
The Greatest Metal Guitarist In The World is TONY IOMMI!!! I still am amazed at the thousands of killer riffs this band weaved together. When I hear a band play Sabbath correctly, all the way through, I’m amazed. So many bands skip whole sections of songs. 7:00 no mustache😳 Amazingly thorough with the Guitar details! 👏👏👏 Papa Het is No.2.
Too much fun was had by yours truly working on this!
ahhh Bill Kirchen quote! well done and many thanks!!!
I was never a big fan of his, although you have to show your respect to Black Sabbath as an epic band of its era. He and Angus Young definitely put the Gibson SG’s on the map. I own many guitars but never felt the need for an SG, though I do have an 80s era Yamaha SBG200 which is similar in shape and plays fast and easy so I get it.
Thanks Keith and Five Watt World team! Fantastic like always!
Iommi was/is a true original, and going through my uncle's old Sabbath records in the late 80's is part of what started me on my metal journey. I'm even a fan of Iommi's late 80s/ early 90s output with Glenn Hughes and Tony Martin! Worth noting are his cabs from the early days, which were loaded with Fane speakers, a huge contributor to his sound. And as a left-handed guitarist myself, he's always been somewhat of a musical role model.
Very smart of him to have his main guitar always close by.
One of my favorite guitarists ever. I was never upset when Ozzy couldn't sing. I enjoyed listening to the band just jam. And especially Tony.
Another outstanding episode. I remember meeting John Diggins around ‘83 when I asked him to fit a Khaler on a strat. He threw in a free setup. It played like butter. And Tony is from my home town. This video makes me feel very proud. Thanks for the video Keith.
Ozzy said it best, "He is, was and always will be the MASTER of heavy metal riffs."
On before/after moments, John Hiatt said that after hearing "Like A Rolling Stone" for the first time, he had the feeling that his mom wouldn't recognize him any more!
Intro speech and intro riffs are IMMENSE
Thanks!
The Burns Tri-Sonics! 3:14 Those pickups are the ones Brian May would fit into his original Red Special guitar, after the pickups he and his father made were far too microphonic to use in the instrument…and thus another legend was born!
YEEES!! I was waiting for it!
Keith and the Five Watt World delivering the goods as always. Great video.
I appreciate that you had the thought to post this on his birthday weekend, cool thank you
He didn't retire the monkey sg in '72. It's more likely he retired it in '75 or so. There's footage of him using it in 1974 at the California jam
Ya he never mentioned what replaced monkey
@@bls8959 Monkey was replaced by a John Birch as Birch had entered into building guitars. It is the one that looks like it has a Guild or DeArmond head stock except a bit pointy and the truss rod cover looks like a Birch leaf. In turn this is what led Diggins to build Old Boy which in turn is an odd guitar- he had a boost device when he first had it built(discarded) and he had the infamous rail style minibucker. That rail mini-bucker was not being used depending on which time period you want to look to. It was hooked up during the Ian G. period and the Glenn Hughes year.
Thanks again, Keith. I really appreciate the early look at how Iommi overcame so much adversity. Peace
In a time when guitarists seem to think you need your guitar strung with 12s… the 8 gauge strings are a huge part of Tony’s sound. You can hear it when he hits the low E string hard.
Using banjo strings was the thing back then. Everyone did it… Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, even John Lennon. This lead Ernie Ball to introduce Slinky’s.
Other famous users of very light strings is Jimmy Page (8s), Terry Kath (8s), Allan Holdsworth (8s), and Billy Gibbons (7s!).
I use 8s, with a 1.5mm pick and pick fairly hard. For all the people that think they will break them… you won’t if you have good technique. I never break strings.
Keith, another excellent short history. I always enjoy the “guitars of“ videos and I can’t wait to see who you feature next.
Excellent episode. I've been a fan of Tony Iommi as long as I can remember. Some of the first songs I remember as a toddler were Sabbath tunes. In those days my family lived in Marina Del Rey, a block south of Venice Beach, California. We lived in a small house right next to a filthy, stagnant canal. It was a grungy neighborhood in those days and a lot of our neighbors were dope fiends. But some of them were really into Sabbath and played their records incessantly. There's nothing like watching the sun set over the Pacific while hearing the smashing power chords of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" or waking up to "Paranoid" or hearing "Supernaut" as your mother fries homemade fish and chips. Their music was always a part of my life, and Sabbath was built around Tony's guitar wizardry. Tony was never the fastest player, or the flashiest. Tony was totally focused on the music. He was a great composer with a lot of soul. Live, he didn't run around on stage. Tony left the antics up to Ozzy. I've always loved the SG, not just because Tony and Angus Young have played them, but because they are great guitars. Perfect guitars? No. They do have their design flaws, like neck dive and they are prone to tuning issues. Both issues can be remedied. But they are very playable, light, and have great tone. While I've never owned an SG I have owned a number of Yamaha SBGs which are definitely SG "inspired".
my favorite guitarist and the ultimate riff master of all time
5ww is my favorite guitar channel ever. It's sophisticated but still has the edge all Guitarist crave..it also helps my buddy has Vermont experience..talk about small world..love you guys keep em coming....
I get exited and re-watch like documentary..
Also Toni is my favorite player..because of his limitations he accidentally made a world change with power chords and tasty but obtainable licks..but they are harder to play than you would think... I like iomi more than Rhodes but thats jst me luv ya guys