First time ever hearing this live performance of War Pigs — I’m absolutely blown away. 🤘
Bill Ward’s drumming is raw, powerful, and driving the whole thing like a machine. Sabbath fans, where does this live version rank for you?

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Bill Ward is criminally underrated. He’s a legend imo.

This clip is 51 years old and still kick asses.Bill Ward, one of the greatests

When you listen to more Sabbath you’ll hear that they’re pretty much the originators of all the genres of heavy music that followed.

He hits the drums so hard this entire song like he's trying to kill them

Ward used to describe Black Sabbath as "a swing band with heavy guitars."

Bill Ward proving that you don't need more than a small quality set up.

One of the greatest drum performances ever!  Such a small kit and so much sound.  Not enough words to honor this.

The guitarist is amazing, the bass guitar is amazing. Ozzy is amazing. The drummer steals the show though.

Sabbaths war protest absolute masterpiece. Untouchable.

One thing I would add is that Geezer Butler is the peanut butter to his jelly. One of the most under-talked about bassists in history. Stupid good rhythm section.

Bill Ward's tuning was based on Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Joe Morello. Krupa was his biggest early influence. Bill said: "I think everything that I've ever played has somehow trickled down from Gene Krupa".

 Bill was mostly self taught and he learned by listening to records and watching other drummers. Later on, he watched Jim Capaldi and Clive Bunker play live several times

Another of Bill's biggest influences was a local drum tech and tutor named Michael "Mickey" Evans. Bill would watch Mickey play for hours at the weekly drum clinics at Yardley's music shop where Mickey worked. Mickey sold John Bonham the green Ludwig kit and he sold Bill Ward a white Slingerland kit. Bill knew Bonham from the shop and watched him play triplets.

Like many 70s Rock drummers, Bill was very influenced by Swing, Bebop and Cool Jazz drummers. When you think about most of the big name 70s Hard Rock drummers, this makes perfect sense that they would listen to earlier Jazz music rather than the more recent Pop music of the 50s and early 60s.

Their parents probably owned those earlier Jazz records and the Rock n Roll drummers of the 50s and early 60s were not usually playing anything super challenging like the Jazz greats played. Also, many of those earlier drum heros were still around, well after the Swing era. Rockers could watch them on TV shows.

It seems that Bill was a total musical sponge, who learned a lot by watching others play and then practicing what they were doing.

Once upon a time someone said “ Bill Ward beats the drums like they owe him money”

The darkness of Sabbath can be traced to WWII.

Their youth consisted of growing up from the rubble caused by Nazi Germany.

Bill Ward and John Bonham were friends. The amount of work these guys put in is amazing. All the shows they played daily honed the machine.

This Paris 1970 live recording is probably the greatest performance ever to be seen by the human eye. As for Bill Ward, he doesn't play the drums, the drum kit is an extension of his DNA, the kit is him...

That kit got the absolute shit smacked out of it ❤️

Bill is beating his drums like they owe him money. Tony and Geezer are burning the strings up on their guitars. And Ozzie is just being Ozzie. I may be wrong, but I think they were in their early 20's at the time of this performance. They were darn good to be so young. They set the bar for this style of music. Often imitated but not matched. High energy!!! EPIC.......

Bill Ward is not a monster on War Pigs live, he's a monster...

I'm not a drummer, but loads of band's use massive drum kits, and don't get even close to the amazing sound you get from a tiny kit played by a master. And no costumes, no gimmicks, no fluff...just raw power and talent.