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Who: Various Artists
What: Back to the Beginning, a celebration of Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne music. Audience Recording (AUD)
When: July 5th, 2025 (2025-07-05)
Where: Villa Park soccer stadium, Birmingham UK (Oak Roam seat section, left side of stadium, about half-way down)
How: H2 Zoom recorder (16/44) -> Audacity, some clapping reduction, fading in/out, tracking -> WAV -> Traders little helper -> Flac level 8
My whom: enchantgy (
[email protected])
I am still (over a week later) struggling with the reality that I was there!
It was expensive. But zero regrets! Wouldn't have missed it for the world!
One of the reasons I wanted to be there was to witness the dedication to Randy Rhoads.
IMO the fact that so much music was performed that Randy was the original guitar player on, was already quite the dedication.
To my surprise there was a separate dedication done by Tom Morello, followed by a video segment by Kathy Rhoads.
To my complete surprise and this is something that leaves a lot of question marks in my brain: This wasn't included in the stream!!!
(01 under Ozzy Osbourne)
The Osbournes have been claiming for decades that there is no more video footage with Randy Rhoads.
Kathy showed a short clip of evidence to the contrary. Maybe this is why it wasn't included.
IMO others that have played an instrumental part in Ozzy's and Black Sabbath's success should have been mentioned as well. (I know the list is longer)
Like: Bob Daisley, Lee Kerslake, Tommy Aldridge, Brad Gillis, Dio, Vinnie Appice
There were multiple schedules out there. One said start at 1:00, another 1:30. Result: I missed the first Mastodon song.
There are 3 things I don't like about the Zoom H2 recorder: #1: It's super slow with file discovery on larger SD cards.
I used a 32GB card this day and it would take several minutes to power up.
I ended up just leaving it on the whole time (I had 4 sets of batteries with me, so figured that should do the trick.
And it did) so I could just press record. Which brings me to #2: to start recording, you need to press record, and then press record again.
But you can't press it too soon or it won't start recording. Which is what happened for Halestorm.
And it's indirectry caused by #3: recorded is attached to the mics. So, to check to see if it's recording, or to check the levels,
I need to take it out of its hiding place, which causes rubbing on the mesh covering the mics, which you would hear on the recording.
TLDR: First Mastodon song missing, No Halestorm. Otherwise: all live performances complete!
(track listing based off of setlist.fm Some files were combined because they were difficult to separate.
Normally, I leave song introductions as part of the song before.
But with the Black Sabbath covers, I felt it more appropriate to leave them at the beginning of the song)
Mastodon
(missing) 01 Black Tongue
01 Blood and Thunder
01 Supernaut (Black Sabbath cover) (with Mario Duplantier, Danny Carey, and Eloy Casagrande)
Rival Sons
01 Do Your Worst
02 Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath cover)
03 Secret
Anthrax
01 Indians
02 Into the Void (Black Sabbath cover)
Halestorm (missing. Not on purpose. See note about the Zoom H2 above)
Lamb of God
01 Laid to Rest
02 Redneck
03 Children of the Grave (Black Sabbath cover)
Supergroup A (Tom Morello's All-Stars)
01 Introduction
02 The Ultimate Sin (Ozzy Osbourne cover) (with Lzzy Hale, Jake E. Lee, Nuno Bettencourt, David Ellefson, Mike Bordin, and Adam Wakeman)
03 Shot in the Dark (Ozzy Osbourne cover) (with David Draiman, Jake E. Lee, David Ellefson, Mike Bordin, and Adam Wakeman)
04 Sweet Leaf (Black Sabbath cover) (with David Draiman, Scott Ian, Nuno Bettencourt, David Ellefson, Mike Bordin, and Adam Wakeman)
05 Believer (Ozzy Osbourne cover) (with Whitfield Crane, Scott Ian, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, ll, and Adam Wakeman)
06 Changes (Black Sabbath cover) (with YUNGBLUD, Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello, II, and Adam Wakeman; dedicated to Diogo Jota)
07 Mr. Crowley (Ozzy Osbourne song) (video; with Jack Black, Revel Ian, Roman Morello, Yoyoka Soma, and Hugo Weiss)
Alice In Chains
01 Man in the Box
02 Would?
03 Fairies Wear Boots (Black Sabbath cover)
Gojira
01 Stranded
02 Silvera
03 Mea culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) (with Marina Viotti)
04 Under the Sun (Black Sabbath cover)
Supergroup B (Tom Morello's All-Stars)
01 Symptom of the Universe (Black Sabbath cover) (Travis Barker vs. Chad Smith vs. Danny Carey, with Tom Morello, Nuno Bettencourt, and Rudy Sarzo)
02 Breaking the Law (Judas Priest cover) (with Billy Corgan, Tom Morello, K.K. Downing, Adam Jones, Rudy Sarzo, and Danny Carey)
03 Snowblind (Black Sabbath cover) (with Billy Corgan, Tom Morello, K.K. Downing, Adam Jones, Rudy Sarzo, and Danny Carey)
04 Flying High Again (Ozzy Osbourne cover) (with Sammy Hagar, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo, Chad Smith, and Vernon Reid)
05 Rock Candy (Montrose cover) (with Sammy Hagar, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo, Chad Smith, and Tom Morello)
06 Bark at the Moon (Ozzy Osbourne cover) (with Papa V Perpetua, Vernon Reid, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Wakeman, Rudy Sarzo, and Travis Barker)
07 The Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw cover) (with Steven Tyler, Ron Wood, Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo, & Travis Barker)
08 Walk This Way (Aerosmith cover) - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin cover) (with Steven Tyler, Nuno Bettencourt, Tom Morello, Andrew Watt, Rudy Sarzo, and Chad Smith)
Pantera
01 Cowboys From Hell (dedicated to Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul)
02 Walk
03 Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath cover)
04 Electric Funeral (Black Sabbath cover)
Tool
01 Forty Six & 2
02 Hand of Doom (Black Sabbath cover)
03 AEnema
Slayer
01 Disciple
02 War Ensemble
03 Wicked World (Black Sabbath cover) - South of Heaven
04 Raining Blood - Angel of Death
Guns N’ Roses
01 It's Alright (Black Sabbath cover) (shortened)
02 Never Say Die (Black Sabbath cover)
03 Junior's Eyes(Black Sabbath cover)
04 Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (Black Sabbath cover)
05 Welcome to the Jungle
06 Paradise City
Metallica
01 Hole in the Sky (Black Sabbath cover)
02 Creeping Death
03 For Whom the Bell Tolls
04 Johnny Blade (Black Sabbath cover)
05 Battery
06 Master of Puppets
Ozzy Osbourne
01 Randy Rhoads dedication
02 Intro - I Don't Know
03 Mr. Crowley
04 Suicide Solution
05 Mama, I'm Coming Home
06 Crazy Train
Black Sabbath
01 Sabbra Cadabra (intro video of the history of Black Sabbath)
02 War Pigs
03 N.I.B.
04 Iron Man
05 Paranoid