Ray was having problems coming up with a completed version Yea it sure was a long and winding road makng the Eternal IdolĪnyway Black Moon was recorded in Monseratte with Bob Daisley on BassĪs Dave was not there by then when we come to put Lyrics on it In January of 2010, I received an email from Geoff Nicholls explaning the genesis of “Black Moon” which appears here and then later on Headless Cross.Bob said this, “By the way, the question as to why Dave Spitz is credited on the album in the bass credits is answered by the fact that I wouldn’t join the band and Spitz stayed, so to give some sort of continuity to the album and live performances, his name appears on the record.” In January of 2009, Bob passed along a remark to me about why Spitz was credited. While the album credits Dave Spitz as playing bass, all the bass on the album is Bob Daisley.Go check out this page for further details. This part of the band’s history is extremely confusing.The liner notes that accompany this album are missing the lyrics to the first two verses of The Shining.For the Eternal Idol Tour, neither Bob Daisley nor Dave Spitz played live.For this tour, Terry Chimes played drums. For the Eternal Idol Tour, neither Eric Singer nor Bev Bevan played live.Listen closely to that track, it’s Ray laughing. That being some laughter on the track “Nightmare”. According to Tony Martin, one piece of Ray Gillen’s version of this album made it to the finished product.There are a couple of versions with Ray Gillen floating around the collector’s circles. Ray Gillen (vocals) recorded this album and left the band before release – Tony Martin came in and re-recorded all the vocals.Black Moon was later re-recorded for the Headless Cross album.Black Moon & Some Kind of Woman were originally released as B-Sides in 1987.According to Tony Martin, his name is “Steve”. This person on bass in the video is not on any album or tour, he was just there for filming that day only having literally been plucked off the street for the shoot. The video for has Terry Chimes on drums, but there is a total unknown playing bass. There is a music video for The Shining. That is what is on the actual album cover art. The band could not get the rights to use the 1889 original sculpture for the cover art, but instead had a couple of models get all “dirtied up”, and posed in the same positions as the original sculpture.“Thursday the 18th June… I had a break of 4 days in the middle from the 10th to the 14th “ I started recording the vocals on Monday 8th June 1987.” He then went on to say this when I asked about when they were completed. I was told i got the job on Thursday 28th May 1987. Tony Martin posted this about some actual dates for this album. “I went for the audition to join Black Sabbath in London on Tuesday the 26th May 1987 ….Here’s a link with pictures and info about the real sculpture.
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