The Horrific Accident That Created Heavy Metal
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- At 17, Tony Iommi suffered the loss of two fingertips in an industrial accident. The guitarist was forced to change his playing style, directly leading to Black Sabbath's signature sound and the birth of heavy metal.
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Losing your fingertips in an industrial accident in a metal press, overcoming the odds and inventing a new genre of music as a byproduct is the most metal thing in the history of metal music
Believe it or not I actually just had an accident at my house. I accidentally cut my left middle finger half way down the tip. Its not as bad as Tony’s injury but I wont have a nail and part of my finger tip for quite some tip until they heal up
@@synshenron798 Time to innovate, friend!
@@synshenron798 time to start workin on a new genre chief. We’re all counting on you
@@Raz-lw9vi Shit, now I gotta do something profound in the world of music
I Almost ruined the likes on your comment I would like it but it deserves to stay at 666 to stay as the most metal comment on a video about the most metal man to ever exist.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Tony goes from maimed blue collar man to guitar legend, all because he refused to just accept his lot in life.
Tony's also one of the most articulate people you'll ever hear in an interview and a very well liked man.
So, the guy that created Heavy Metal lost his finger tips to a heavy piece of metal... The universe is beautiful.
In a factory making army artillery. Breathing in metal particals, resulting in having metal flowing through the veins!
@@TheReincarnatedDeath If it wasn't for the 'War Pigs' he wouldn't have had a job!
the Real life IRON MAN
@@TheReincarnatedDeath "I am Iron Man"
Guess thats where the name comes from
There are many musicians that inspired other people to become musicians, like Hendrix and Page, but Tony's sound has inspired entire genres. Not a lot a bands flat out sound like Hendrix or Led Zeppelin (worthy of note at any rate) but tons of great bands sound like Black Sabbath.
Black Sabbath is the standard of Metal. No one sounds like Zeppelin or Jimmy. That is almost gone.
No one can come close to Sabbath
you are wrong about led zeppelin. Bonzo set the standard of heavy drum
@@davesaenz3732 Bonzo of led zeppelin is the standard of heavy metal drumming!
Imagine, his last day of working there before he quits for his band. He probably thought “Wow my dream as a guitarist is ruined, and it just had to be on my last day of work” But instead he didn’t give up, and invented a whole new genre of music. Respect
We will never know if we would have even have ever heard of him without that accident. He may have just been another struggling nobody.
1 day before retirement!
Imagine if that other guy showed up to work that day
That's why wise people use a sick day for their last day at a job if they know it's their last day. NEVER show up in person. You never know what someone else might have planned.
Lego jar jar it is I Darth vader
Tony is really strong. He didn't give up and continued reaching his desirable goals. Look up to his stamina and determination.
Tony is my favourite guitarist. He made the real sound of Heavy Metal!😍💞💕💗🌹🌹🤘🤘🔥
Heard about this. It's the kind of inspiration that never gets old. Thanks for sharing!!!
When I started playing guitar, I learned about this. I was already inspired by literally any left handed guitarist I came across because there aren't that many of us. When I learned about his fingers though..it put Tony in a completely different bracket of guitarists for me.
i totally agree,being also left handed myself i admire Tony for overcoming his accident,also their were very few lefty guitars 🎸 available during that time,glad to live during a time when you have a decent variety of lefty guitars available,i just got a schecter nick johnston hss best electric guitar i’ve ever owned 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
fellow lefties
Lefty should learn playin' like right one
@@lamargent5434 oh sorry you're right, let me just completely reorient my brain real quick.
@@HeisntLegend it should be possible.
I’ve suffered a similar accident. Got my left middle finger chopped off when I was a toddler. they managed to sew it back on, but it has always been a bit shorter than it should. It was also stubbier, and the some skin hung out and was attached to the nail, making it impossible to cut the nail short. When I got into guitar, this was a major hurdle for me. Using it hurt a ton, and I tried to work around it, but when I couldn’t figure out how, I was tempted to give up. But I decided to power through and use it, and it became much less painful and actually kinda helped me in the process. The extra skin under the nail formed into my callus and made it possible for me to cut my nails.
Damn. I have a lot more respect for him now. Didn't know about this at all. Amazingly cool that he figured out a way to allow him to keep doing what he loved. Adapt and overcome!
I thought it was strange when I was a teenager learning to play Paranoid. So much reliance on the 1st and 3rd finger which started looking familiar as I learned more and more songs. I didn't know Iommi had lost the tips of his fingers. I figured it was just a rock thing with so many 5ths and 4ths. I also assumed he never used his pinky because I, with all my finger tips, didn't need to. Looking at these videos it almost looks like his pinky replaces his middle finger some times.
Yep, the dyads and triads which are essential to metal now. “Power chords” as they’re better known.
He's a bigger influence on me as a guitar player than most I suppose because I learned darn near every tune they had available when I started in the early 80's. Sweet leaf was the first song I taught myself when I understood bar chords.....lol. that and judas priest......
Doctor: I'm afraid your guitar playing days are over, son.
Tony Iommi: I accept the challenge...
The dude literally inspired me to play guitar bc I have extremely short pinky. Then I looked at Tony Iommi and said if he could become a guitar master then how come I can't play? Thank you Tony.
Nothing calm me down better than metal.
And it is amazing that like the best inventions ever that came out of adversity or a mistake like in this situation was adversity and a struggle and that is what metal is all about going above and beyond and finding a way out.
And this is why I love metal
3:33 I love how we've evolved from Black Sabbath to Meshuggah, thanks to that particular sound.
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@@jesterfrombeyond1776Dumbass
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3:25 He didn't re-learn guitar from scratch. Iommi, being left-handed, actually thought about re-learning the guitar by playing as a right-handed musician, but he thought it would be a much longer learning curve and decided against it. He had this muscle memory to play left-handed and he preferred to stick to that. He says so in an interview I think is on Amazon Prime.
This man has always been an inspiration to me. When I was younger and first started playing I never knew about his accident until I broke my left hand and all my fingers. Lucklie I didnt end up loosing any but they never heeled up right. When my parents took me to the doctor he didnt take an xray and figured it was just some broken fingers so he taped them up and sent me on my way. 3 months latter I was taken to a different doctor who took an xray and discovered my entire hand had multiple breaks and fractures. Prolbem was they were healing up and at that point he would have to re break everything and do surgery to fix everything. Long story short my parents were broke and couldn't afford it. I strugled for years to play simple chords like a minor and crap so I had to invent ways to still play the chords right but my technique was completely unorthodox to what guitar teaches teach to properly form chords or play rifts. Eventually I got to where I could play very well and still enjoy playing to this day.
Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, lost most of a finger in a wood chopping mishap, the resulting stump helped him make weird sounding notes, that no one else could replicate (wonder how many other famous guitar players have similar backstories)…
This man...MAN... This legend is the reason I play today
This has long been one of my favorite facts. The fact that heavy metal's sound was the result of an industrial accident is pretty metal.
That final shift really moved mountains for his music career.
and the music world. It would be very different without him.
And crazily enough, Tony may never have gotten the same amount of recognition in music history if it weren't for that fateful "final shift" at the steel plant!
There are no mistakes, only happy accidents. - Bob Ross
(I know that's art but I like both Metal and Art)
I have a similiar problem with my fretting hand. When I was a kid I lost part of my pinkie in my left hand (Horse can bite folks). and when learning to play a classical guitar I had a hard time cuz I needed to learn many frets without using my pinkie finger. i never though about making an "extension" to it... guess I'm gonna try that method
oh god this is one of my worst fears, if I was gonna lose part of my finger Id want it to take the whole part, not leave a tiny bit of a nail but its crazy what that lead to
speaking of which, Ricky Faulkner of judas priest had an aortal rupture during the guitar solo of "painkiller" while at a concert, and managed to finish the song before going to the hospital. he now has a prosthetic heart, and says he's quite literally "made of metal". metal is so metal.
What!? I've loved sabbath for decades and I had no idea Tony used banjo strings. I love learning something new when I'm least expecting it!
It's somewhat misleading to say that Tony Iommi single-handedly, (or partial-handedly) invented heavy metal. I would agree that this incident was clearly the impetus, it did change TI's sound and music significantly, but it was as much down to Geezer Butler and Bill Ward innovating and creating a sound to accompany Mr Iommi's unusual new sound, that truly "invented" the genre. Heavy Metal is dependant upon, and driven mainly by the rythm section, the Bass and the Drums, that is where the "heavy" comes from. You may fiddle around with the various and sundry other musical elements, and still have heavy metal. But minus the driving bass and hard charging, relentlessy pounding drums, it loses the designation.
aww man, I was so invested that i thought it was an hour long documentary
django reinhart had a similar incident where his hands were burned and two of his finger were fused together but that didn't stop him for producing rapid fire jazz licks in the 40's. Tony Iommi is one of my top five guitarist of all time but I see him as the father of Doom or Stoner Rock not Metal. The manager for Blue Oyster Cult, Sandy Perlman, made that term Heavy Metal famous in the late 60's although the term really came from a William S.Burrough's book Novel Express...remember early hard rock band The Heavy Metal Kids. The years 1969 and 70 were the years for heavy music starting with Blue Cheer thundering with Summertime Blues (1967) followed Deep Purple, Lucifer's Friend "Riding the Storm, Led Zeppelin (1969), Mountain's use of pinch harmonics in "Nantucket Sleighride", The Who's high velocity rock n roll "Live at Leeds", America's Sir Lord Baltimore first two albums, Uriah Heep's screaming vocals of "Bird of Prey". Heavy Metal in my mind growing up during the 70's format was of frontman with soaring high pitched vocals, loud piercing harmonic solos and syncopated pulsing rhythm sections. Sabbath was a heavy groove band that Iommi used a lot of fast licks like Alvin Lee of 10 Years After but heavier with imagery of the supernatural. Judas Priest on the other hand although bluesy at first really pushed that whole screaming frontman with piercing guitars as well as Ronnie James Dio with Rainbow. Other heavy bands that came out the same time as Sabbath were Uriah Heep, the Scorpions, U.F.O., Nazareth (1965), Budgie (1965)
Thanks for this video, I'm a fan of black Sabbath but i never heard this story before!
Awesome❤️ Really touching
I saw Tony Iomi with Black Sabbath in the late 70's .
What an inspiration. After hearing the Van Halen Demos....and Sammy Hagar struggled,,,,,i'M Thinking success......is....determination and hard work.
true epic innovator he made the triad of rock zep,purple sabbath the nucleus of all modern rock!!GOd bless his CCC soul We love him for what he invented
Heavy metal Lord Iommi!!!
this is the story i needed to hear
Tommy Caldwell was a top rock climber, lost part of a finger to a table saw. Rehabbed and took his climbing to world-record status. Some people you just can't stop. LOVE me some Sabbath!
The first use of the term "Heavy Metal" was by a DJ describing "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple.
Dream was temporarily taken by metal, now he made Heavy Metal, power move
Out of struggle all greatness is created..
Life gave him lemons and he made heavy metal for us!!! Cool. 😎
amazing story very professional channel
The detuning thing confuses me because the first two Sabbath albums are mostly in standard tuning, and yet Tony lost his fingers before they were recorded. It wasn't until Master of Reality that he really detuned the guitar down 3 steps. So was he just enduring the pain of taut strings during the recording of the first two albums?
Metal took his fingers: His fingers created Metal. The circle of life.
Tony Iommi the riff lord and savior
I mangled a fret finger, and played a lot of Sabbath for a few years.
Thats Brutal. And Metal. And Heavy.
The godfather of heavy, Toni Iommi is the riff master 🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
When I read the title I thought it literally meant like a heavy piece of metal
Just because he had the Black Sabbath sound doesn't mean he was the first metal. The Beatles did metal nearly 2 years before Sabbath with Helter Skelter. No Tony was NOT the first.
Damn impressive!
Phil Keaggy lost a finger, too. Phenom guitarist.
hello fellow brummies. similar story but worse happened to a carpenter in Birmingham, it was i believe 1979, and a carpenter in our factory was on his last day before retirement. So instead of taking it easy, he ploughed on as usual, Sadly his mind was entirely on the job, while using a jigsaw, a special electric powered saw he must have blinked or something and in a split second cut off 4 of his fingers of his left hand!!!
One of my favorite sayings comes from Suicidal Tendencies "Gotta Kill Cpt. Stupid" and it will always ring true in my mind.
'What's that now, so now you're saying life sucks
Well 99% is what you make of it
So if your life sucks....you suck!'
Imagine what we would have missed out on if he would have lost his hand and couldn't play guitar!!
Love black Sabbath. I don't know if it's true or not, but I always heard Jimmy Hendrix invented distortion. If that's true, he had a part in the invention of heavy metal as well.
I mean he did somewhat give up. It wasn't until his manager gave him that record WITH THE SPECIFIC INTENT to show him that the loss of his finger tips was not the end that he looked at it from a different perspective.
Now my brain is trying to connect the name Heavy Metal with the metal crashing down on his fingers.
" Black Sabbath " Tony ,Geezer,Bill,Ozzy Absolute Best!
look on RUclips at WHO REALLY INVENTED SACRIFICE METAL?
Brutal.... thats so metal....
Upon loosing your fingers anyone would of probably just flipped the guitar to the other side or quit playing altogether but no, he innovated and persevered to create the greatest music genre out there.
His hand became metal hand gesture..
I remember the first Song that hooked me as a child. Eli's comin. The rhythm had me bouncing all iver the back of my Dad's Mustang. Eli's comin ,hide your heart girl. Eli ! .Then of course the immigrant song sealed my fate.
The world is very grateful
Props to Tony, but anyone who has ever read Longfellow or Poe knows that heavy metal has been a part of humanity forever. It's only lately that it's been set to music.
It wasnt the accident that created heavy metal it was his resilience and tenacity!
I had a guy in the shop cut off a couple finger tips. I tossed the finger tips into a plastic lunch bag and gave them to the driver who took stumpy to the hospital. They couldn't re-attach the tips, they sort of shriveled up on the way to the hospital.
The Kinks invented heavy metal. You Really Got Me and All Day And All Of The Night
i have the exact same injury with my ring finger looking exactly alike
They could have Made a song about that , like lost blood and heavy metal or something along those lines
Mistakes into miracles baby. I love to see him work with what he's got left..
I’m ventild people bout this for over 2 decade now
more information on what the sound he had to invent actually was would be great
Κάθε κακό γίνεται για καλό έτσι λέμε εμείς στην Ελλάδα και να και οι αποδείξεις γεννήθηκε η heavy metal 🤘🤘🤘🔥🐐
“Every cloud has a silver lining”
And these guys inspired Judas Priest, who actually refined and completed Heavy Metal as we know it today, with the leather and the full accompaniment of sounds from the "Sturm und Drang" depths of Sabbath and Zeppelin. Now, thanks to The Priest, and starting with Sad Wings of Destiny, and finally birthing Heavy Metal through HELL BENT FOR LEATHER and BRITISH STEEL, we have the full range of Metal at our disposal. Thanks, Tony!!
Tony got lemons 🍋 and he made lemonade 🎸
This is so random tho as I actually lost the ends of the same fingers on my right hand in a very sharp brass letterbox 😬
Heavy Metal forged in the fires of perseverance
SO AWESOME
Crazy never knew that
Metal Worker Made heavy metal :D THATS SO CRAZY !
Awesome 🤘
now that's metal
That's where the power cords originate from? 😵
That pretty metal
That's inspiration 🎸
Imagine being such a mad lad, that when you have a terrible accident happen that permanently physically scars you for life, you make a completely new genre of music
All hail the Riffmaster! 🤘
It is just a small sacrifice to open a new gate . A gate to heavy metal
Injury gives birth to a legend
The metal sharpened the metal god. The sacrifice of the metal god .lol. I also worked in a foundry. Had my share of fingernails squished. Blood squinted easily over 10 feet from being pierced with a paper clip heated in a bunson burner. Clip would burn a hole in the nail and blood pressure spray the corners of the ceiling
i literally thought this would be about the heavy metals on the period table
I was not expecting to be reminded of Black Ops II Tranzit when I clicked on this video, but here we are.
He named the genre after the thing the broke his finger
If only I had a dimensional time machine and hop to the time parallel universe to listen to
Tony iomi before he lost his fingertips.
To see how it sounded different to how he sounded being a guitar player for BLACK SABBATH.
It would definitely be interesting.
the devil took his finger tips and in return gave him metal 🤘
I'm Not a Metal Head but Sabbath deserves their propers.
It's funny, because I used to think the same about Hendrix but there is actually people out there that bad mouth Hendrix...Same with the Clash....
Glad that Banjo strings could finally be used for something good
I lost the tip of my thumb oiling a motorcycle chain while the engine was running. Most pain I've ever been in after the accident. I was 18 at the time and had no pain killers to deaden the pain. I needed morphine at the time, it was that bad.
I started playing in 1979 . My father said I'd give it up in a week . 3 years ago my thumb was turning black and a Dr told me It was a fungal infection. Until a year later it ruptured . Went to a hand surgeon and his eyes widened " How Long ? " . It was biopsied and came back malignant melanoma .Immediately scheduled for amputation and a lymph node biopsy .My girlfriend of 20 years never heard me play since I was shy .I played a night before amputation for her . Blood covering the strings and crying .. Let me show you !! listen . She was stunned and I flew like an eagle . My thumb was removed and the scans and biopsy came back ..It was now Stage 4 Cancer with three brain tumors .Expected not to live through the summer of 2020 . But here I am !! Playing the best I ever have .. Get back on that horse . Never give up and make what is seen as a disability .. An asset
damn vro death must be scared of you , keep rockin 🎸
the art is yours brother, nothing but death will do us part from what we make. keep rockin!!!!
I call horse shit on this story.
@@bambehdeluxe8751 lmao
@@marsyaszed For real though lol "I've been with this girl for 20 years and I'm too shy to play in front of her." Like are you fking kidding me? You'd think playing guitar would be one of the first things you'd show a girl you're interested in. "Started playing guitar while crying and bleeding all over it." Oh how horse shit. "I had 5 brain tumors too and I'm still here!" Like what the fuck kind of 'like-thirsty' comment is this?
Metal took his fingers, later, what's left of his fingers forged the heavy metal. What a legend
tony iommi all time A leaguer, riff lord and savior
Metal took his fingers, but he took the metal!
"the heavy metal" 😂😂😂😂😂
This is surely the most metal story in the history of electrically-conductive minerals.
@@MarcillaSmith wait what the fuck, thats how we designate if something is a metal vs another mineral?
School howd you fail me on this too, i gotta look into that, i just assumed the fact that metals i know are conductive was just a coincidence, well shit lmfao