Black Sabbath-Past Lives (2002)


 

Artist: Black Sabbath

Title: Past Lives

Label: Sanctuary Records/Divine Recordings

Format: 2CD

Cat: SANDP138

Year of Release:2002

Country and Year of Edition: UK 2002 limited edition gatefold digipak with guitar pick

Sell Price: $9.99 12/23/22  VG+/VG+ guitar pick still there

Discogs Last Sold: 10/22/22 NM/NM $4.30

Low:$3.19

Median: $8.59

Average: $9.20

High: $16.65

Current low price: $5.91

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 34

Have/Want: 1230/100

Where Sold: Johnstown, OH

Time it took to sell:  10 years

Where and When Purchased:  internet new when it came out

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

"Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home..."-Emily Dickinson

Past Lives was a fancy high end version of the NEMS quasi bootleg from 1980, Live At Last with fold out digipak, mini-poster and a guitar pick. Live At Last was in all the cutout bins growing up for nice and cheap.  Apparently the band didn't know it was issued yet it still went top 5 on the UK album chart.  Upon 2002 release, Past Lives charted in the US at 114 due to major distribution and a nice package.

This double expands the single album recorded in March 1973 at UK stops in Manchester and London.   It  include 5 tracks from the heavily bootlegged Asbury Park, NJ Convention Hall show in 1974 and also tracks from 1970 at the Olympia in Paris which surfaced on a quasi-official DVD in 2004.

The best musical moment on this is the slowdown of "Wicked World" that meaders off into soloing and a little "Into The Void."  It's also cool to have some of the Sabotage stuff live right before release like "Symptom of the Universe" and "Meglomania."  The first six albums are chiseled into the Great British Songbook of Metal or whatsever it is called, the only thing to quibble over is performance and tape quality which on this wavers from time to time.  You could also complain that these performances should be delivered in full concert editions and that the people that need this need even more Ozzy era live Sabbath recordings.

After all, some keep the Sabbath.



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