Product Details

• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Geneon [Pioneer]
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Run Time: 20 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305534144
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,707 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Satan had a smaller budget upon first entering the music business, judging from the low-rent look of these 1970 Black Sabbath performances from German TV. Replete with cheesy post-psychedelic graphics and stonily blank facial expressions, the clips nonetheless put across the power of Sabbath's rudimentary metal on ace versions of "Black Sabbath," "Paranoid," and "Iron Man." One is more frightened for Ozzy Osbourne than of him, though, during the hilariously awful rendition of "Blue Suede Shoes" that closes this well-mastered DVD. --Rickey Wright

Product Description

In 1970, Black Sabbath made two appearances on the Beat Club/Musikladen television series. With their original line-up featuring Tony Iommi on guitar, Terry "Geezer" Butler on bass drums, and Ozzie belting out the vocals. These rare appearances highlight enormous energy projected by this popular rock band. Includes Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Iron Man and Blue Suede Shoes.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff, October 16, 2005

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BigBoogieman (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Sabbath - The Best of Musikladen Live (DVD)

The only thing bad about this is that it's only 4 songs. Well, the fact that one of those 4 songs is "Blue Suede Shoes" isn't so great either. But the performances are excellent, and the quality is good. Ozzy's performance in "Black Sabbath" is incredible, maybe even better than on the album. This is Black Sabbath in their prime, performing these songs live, with amusing hippie video effects over top of it. What more could you ask for? I think this is a must-have for any Sabbath fan.

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yet another half-assed Pioneer release., July 14, 2001

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This review is from: Black Sabbath - The Best of Musikladen Live (DVD)

Yet another bad Pioneer DVD. ONLY four of the original BS Musicladen performances. Pioneer seems to not have that much confidence in the storage ability of a DVD, according to their track record. They seem to have the tendency with their anime releases to only put 3-4 episodes on it, as though they are afraid that if they go any further, the disc will won't handle it any longer. But the picture is crap any way. -_-4 And it shows here. It's as though they get a KICK out of screwing people over! "We'll only use 25% of the disc space for no logical reason." Obviously, they're ignorant of the power of this format.

This disc also contains their lame attempt at a 5.1 remix.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality over quanity... i suppose, November 10, 2009

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McManus - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Black Sabbath - The Best of Musikladen Live (DVD)

Like Bigboogieman said, Ozzie's performance in the opener is just incredible, BETTER then the album. Which brings me to my next point: whichever reviewer said these aren't live performances obviously just can't believe his ears. I suppose, (similar to what im thinking after seeing this) he's never heard Sabbath so polished before in his life, except of course in the studio or maybe he's just never heard Sabbath before. Don't be fooled by his dis-information, there is an OBVIOUS distinction; it's 100% authentic. After jewing us on the length, you really think they'd try and pull something that audacious as well??

Anyhow, it's not just Ozzie; Iomi nails every note, and i'll be damned if anyone can watch this and not just marvel at how beast Geezer and Ward are, especially Geezer: Geezer > Entwistle > JPJ.. sorry if that offends.

So in conclusion- this is probably the best you will ever see the original lineup perform, so if you call yourself a fan press that button; it's easily cheap enough to recommend despite being only 20 min. :/ which is a bittersweet, as i do prefer quality over quantity. Blue Sued shoes is an example; very short but awesome, kinda punk-rockish even.