Mind you, I was up all bloody night every night with a line of coke, play for a bit, another line of coke, play, so I was probably up for the equivalent of six weeks.” I’d never played the piano before and I started learning it right there and then, within a couple of weeks. “I’d found a piano in the ballroom up at the house and I used to play that thing when I’d had a million lines of coke. “The first three albums could’ve all been from the same batch really, but was when we started introducing different things,” Iommi said.
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“But we had done so much studio work by then, that we felt we knew how to do it ourselves.” “It’s not like we were fed up with (producer of the first three Sabbath albums) Rodger Bain or anything, I thought he was alright,” Tony Iommi said in his autobiography Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath. But there was an album to be recorded, and this time the stakes were higher because the band had decided for the first time to produce the album themselves.
Osbourne said in addition to cocaine, food, alcohol, groupies – basically whatever the band needed to live on – would be brought to the dwelling, leaving them no reason to leave the grounds, which led to many shenanigans along with the partying. “It would be almost impossible to exaggerate how much coke we did in that house…at one point we were getting through so much of the stuff, we had to have it delivered twice a day.” “I was putting so much of the stuff up my nose that I had to smoke a bag of dope every day just to stop my heart from exploding,” frontman Ozzy Osbourne would say of the period in his autobiography I Am Ozzy.
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“We felt it was pretty laid-back here, so we probably were attracted to the fact it was a much slower pace here and we could actually relax.”Ĭomprised of six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a swimming pool and movie theater where they would gather to rehearse and write, the mansion was also ground zero for copious amounts of drugs being ingested while creating what was tentatively titled Snowblind, a thinly-veiled reference to cocaine, the Black Sabbath drug of choice at the time.
when we played concerts here and all of us liked Los Angeles,” drummer Bill Ward recalled years later.
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