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Four working-class kids from one of the roughest corners of Birmingham picked up guitars, bass and drums with no plan beyond getting out of the factories - and ended up inventing an entire genre. This is the story of Black Sabbath: the blues club circuit, the accident that nearly ended Tony Iommi's career before it started, the album that gave heavy metal its name, the firing that could have finished them, the singers who came and went, and the final, impossible night 57 years later when the original four stood on a stage in Aston one last time.

00:00 Intro
01:06 Earth: Blues, Jazz and Birmingham
07:06 The Debut Album and the Sabbath Sound
11:04 Paranoid to Never Say Die: The Ozzy Years
14:13 Ozzy's Exit
15:25 The Dio Era & The Revolving Door
19:20 Reunion
23:45 Legacy

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Had a great chat with Pat Garvey ahead of Ozric Tentacles' UK tour to talk about 32 years as a working drummer. He tells us how he landed the teaching gig at BIM, how he went on to start the Brighton Drum School, and what it was like recording drums for the new Ozrics album, Harmonic Mind.

We also get into how to stay professional (and pleasant) on the road, why the portfolio career has taken over, and how social media is changing the way young drummers learn.

If you've ever wondered what it takes to last as a professional drummer, this one's for you.

00:00 A Day in the Life of Pat Garvey
01:47 Who Is Pat Garvey?
04:14 Joining BIM and First Day Teaching
07:41 Balancing Teaching and Touring
09:35 Skills Beyond the Kit
12:40 Staying Professional on Tour
14:17 How Young Drummers Have Changed
17:44 Ozric Tentacles Tour and New Album
21:38 The Sound of Ozric Tentacles
24:20 Freddie G's Drum Camp
29:19 Hosting Drum Events That Hold Their Value

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Video essay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHajaWKSomo&t

Bernard Purdie reckons he has played on 4,000 albums for 2,500 artists, and the striking thing is that almost nobody in the business thinks he is exaggerating by much. Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Steely Dan, King Curtis, Louis Armstrong, Hall & Oates. If you have ever owned a radio, you have heard him.

What I keep coming back to is that a man with that CV built the whole thing on playing less than everybody else. This one is about the philosophy behind the pocket, where the Purdie shuffle actually came from, and why the loudest mouth in the studio spent sixty years preaching restraint.

00:00 The Man on 4,000 Records
01:16 From Elkton to 104th Street
04:20 Stay Out of the Way
09:11 The Purdie Shuffle
14:10 In the Room
15:31 Legacy

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