Black Sabbath VS Rush

 

There are breaks in Rush music where drum fills/written parts, are accented on the extreme upbeat...in otherwords..very pronounced and yet haven't a thing to do with what Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are playing. Not quite constructed like Gentle Giant's music where it is easy to follow a set written out pattern. This is complex because the timing of these small sections have to be practiced for hours. It's basically a small break maybe lasting 8 seconds, but because Neil Peart is playing something over top of it...that is precise and written, the bassist and guitarist have to plunge into the break with abundance of confidence. It's difficult for a 3 piece unit to master Rush songs and it's challenging.

 

When Black Sabbath first hit the music scene in America....people really (for the most part), couldn't quite understand their sound and were judgemental over the lyrics. They were the ultimate dark version of "Hard Rock". B.O.C. were heavy sounding, but with their superb harmony vocals it sometimes came across like a California sound. Black Sabbath had that distinctive dark British Rock style blended in with a very loud, frightning characteristic which was new to everyone's ears. Seriously....that was a weird time. Tons of Sobs by Free contained an undevelopment idea that Sabbath took steps further developing a real style from it. Paul Rodgers opens the song "Worry" with the line.."It's a cold black night", that's eating up your heart." or the song "Moonshine" were he sings about sitting in a graveyard. Although Blues oriented..."Moonshine" could have been easily a song on the first Sabbath album. Short of that and the sometimes heavier distorted guitar sound of some 60's English bands...Sabbath were more original because of how they mastered that sound and prepared it for people to actually digest.