Did BLACK SABBATH Lift “Paranoid” Riff From HALF LIFE?; Audio Comparison
July 22, 2015, 9 years ago
“A friend recently shared some vintage garage-rock goodness with me from the Saginaw, Michigan band, Half Life and man, it knocked me for a loop”, reports Dangerous Minds’ Cherrybomb.
“On June 27, 1969 Half Life recorded the track “Get Down” at GM Studios in East Detroit (the same studio that the MC5 recorded Back in the USA). The minute I hit the play button, I was immediately floored by the opening riff in “Get Down” and its remarkable resemblance to Tony Iommi’s fuzzed-out riff on “Paranoid”. Even the opening percussion is eerily similar to the Black Sabbath classic. Recorded in only one take, when the band started shopping “Get Down” around to local Detroit radio stations they were told it had no commercial viability.”
Read more at Dangerous Minds, and compare the two tracks below:
