Spoiler alert: Black Sabbath and Paranoid on Rhino High Fidelity reel‑to‑reel have completely overturned a lifelong prejudice of mine! As a youngster I never really connected with Black Sabbath — my only childhood memory of playing my older brother Richard’s copy of Black Sabbath is of the thunderstorm intro and Ozzy’s opening line: “what is … More Black Sabbath’s ‘Black Sabbath’ and ‘Paranoid’ on tape from Rhino High Fidelity

My early Tull education Aqualung is an album I’ve been playing since my early teens. As a child I shared a room with my big brother Richard who, to my massive delight, bought his own stereo record player for our bedroom. It was therefore his early record collection that directed my initial entry into the … More Review: Jethro Tull’s ‘Aqualung’ on tape from Rhino High Fidelity Reel to Reel