When was war pigs made

Toggle navigation Welcome Guest. War Pigs by Black Sabbath. Album: Paranoid This song is about man's desire to kill and destroy.

Black Sabbath got the idea from war stories they heard when they did a show at an American Air Force base during a tour of Europe. They wrote the song when they were in a grim deserted place in Zurich where they were playing for a small sum of money to an even smaller audience.

Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler, who was also their lyricist, recalled to Mojo in "Britain was on the verge of being brought into it, there was protests in the street, all kinds of anti -Vietnam things going on. Errant pronoun usage notwithstanding, Geezer was dialed in to something deeper than just Boris Karloff films and chillums for his taste in literature was more than just a smattering of supernatural paperbacks by Tolkien, H.

Lovecraft and Dennis Wheatley. The witches f, the he-goat s Electrically-charged with myth and atmosphere, the musical backing hangs relentlessly tight and visceral against four bleating stanzas projected from the gob of Oz that switch from opening soaring supplications as though with raised palms faced inwards into a series of perfectly bellowed rant-on sentences and its cumulative effect was a razing declaration on war.

But as the supernatural mystique foisted upon Black Sabbath became too large an inverted cross to bear, they decided their load would be lightened sizably by jettisoning some of the more provocative occult references from their lyrics. Although in those pre-teleprompter days, Ozzy forgetting, adding, dropping, repeating or mixing up lyrics was hardly an uncommon occurrence. Perhaps it was only Geezer sneakily re-arranging the letters on his talking board late one night. Although Sabbath were for the moment out of the satanic frying pan, no one wanted to see them fall outright into the anti-war fire.

According to some sources, the band and the record company were concerned with the recent events of the Manson killings. Not wishing to be seen as Satanists or dark occultists in any way, Geezer chose to rewrite the song into an anti-war statement. The original version of the song can be found on Ozzy Osbourne 's compilation album " The Ozzman Cometh " from that same session. Ward 's first memory of playing "War Pigs" live was at The Beat Club in where the band had to perform multiple gigs and they didn't have enough music written to fill the set, so they play long jam sessions.

Death and hatred to mankind. Poisoning their brainwashed minds. Oh lord yeah! Politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor. Time will tell on their power minds.

Making war just for fun.