![]() Iommi has said that the decision to release Live Evil was prompted by two factors. We really want Tony to produce the album on his own.' Now I know this cryptic talk, so I say, 'So if you don't want me involved with this album are you saying it's over then?' And Geezer says, 'Well, er.yeah, I suppose so.' They could never just tell you straight. Ronnie and I would ride in one car, Geezer and Tony in another car, and everybody was breaking away from each other a little bit." In Mick Wall's 2013 biography Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe, Dio reflects, "Eventually Geezer phones me and says, 'I don't think this is working out. Dio also insisted the idea of him secretly altering the mixes was "complete and total bullshit." In the same interview series, Butler described the Live Evil mixing sessions as "the Yanks against the Brits," adding, "I think Ronnie seemed to desperately want to do his own stuff and we sort of wanted to keep it going as it was." In the liner notes to The Rules of Hell, Appice states, "I knew things were coming to a close from some of the things that were happening on the road. On the Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven and Hell DVD, both Dio and Appice claim that the mixing sessions were scheduled to start in the early afternoon but on the third day Iommi and Butler didn't show up until much later, and this ongoing schedule exacerbated the already apparent rift between the new and original band members until the singer was asked to leave. Dio steadfastly denied that this ever occurred and laid the blame on the engineer, who was 'telling tales'. Dio and Appice bolted after the album's engineer told Iommi that Dio had been sneaking into the studio at night to adjust the mix. Ronnie was just very outspoken." Iommi also contends that he and bassist Geezer Butler were unhappy that Dio was already rehearsing with his own band for a solo album that Warner Brothers had offered him. The way he conducted himself, the way he talked, it might have given that impression to the outside world, but he usually didn't mean anything by it. "We were working on the Live Evil record in Los Angeles, and in fact we nicknamed him 'Little Hitler.'" In 2011, Iommi was less harsh in his memoir: "By then Ronnie did come over a little more.I suppose, bossy. ![]() "Ronnie had started to take over a little bit too much and was becoming a bit of a Hitler," Iommi explained to Steve Gett of Guitar for the Practicing Musician. Even towards the end the shows were still great." However, tension had been building for some time between the band members, with Steffan Chirazi observing in 2008 that the story behind the creation of Live Evil is one of "quiet yet savagely visceral turmoil and a band collapsing under their weight of silence, unspoken accusation, and an unforgiving schedule." Mixing ĭio and drummer Vinny Appice abruptly left the group during the mixing of Live Evil. ![]() I think we were probably riding quite high on the Heaven and Hell success, and so we ended up playing really, really well. In the liner notes to the 2008 retrospective The Rules of Hell, vocalist Ronnie James Dio remembers, "It was an excellent tour. Christ, it was dangerous." Iommi also admits that the band had to cancel a show at Madison Square Garden when the bombs blew out the tubes in all the amps during the first note of the first song "War Pigs". ![]() If I'd been there, I would have been blown up. In his autobiography Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven & Hell with Black Sabbath, guitarist Tony Iommi recalls that the band's live show during this period featured "lots of pyro with fire and bombs" and that while playing the Hammersmith Odeon the bombs had been tested and "blew a two-foot-wide hole in the floor on my side. The sleeve states that the songs were recorded in Seattle, San Antonio and Dallas during the 1982 tour in support of the Mob Rules album, but doesn't give the venues or recording dates for the individual tracks. The Live Evil album was recorded on the Mob Rules tour. ![]()
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