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Mythology - Silloth, UK 68-07-13 (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Steppinī Out 2:40
  2. Top Of The Hill 2:13
  3. All Your Love 3:40
  4. Help Me 14:05
  5. Dust My Broom 3:06
  6. All That Jazz 7:02
  7. Room With A View 3:31
  8. Morning Dew 3:14
  9. Spoonful 6:13

Notes

Queens Hotel

Source: Audience
Quality: C+

This band had Bill Ward on drums and Tony Iommi on guitar and this show is their last. Tony and Bill went on to form Black Sabbath together with a couple of other guys..., and the rest is history.

The quality is below average, but hey - itīs the only one of itīs kind! The music is best described as blues-jazz with a little rock thrown in.

This is a private audience recording of Mythology?s very last show. During their final days, the band included Neil Marshall (bass), Chris Smith (vocals), Tony Iommi (lead guitar) and Bill Ward (drums). Mythology became dispirited after an embarassing incident where all four members were fined 15 pounds for possession of cannabis resin in Carlisle on May 27th, 1968. Since this was considered to be a serious offense at the time, much of their gigging work dried up as a result. Reluctantly, they agreed to disband after this final show in Siloth.

These revelations and the following information about the tape were recently discussed in the recent book, HOW BLACK WAS OUR SABBATH.

"Keith Jefferson recorded the gig using a reel-to-reel tape machine. The only surviving record of any of the band's performances, it contains nine tracks including such enduring blues favourites as "Steppin' Out", "Dust My Blues" [a.k.a. ?Dust My Broom?], "Morning Dew" and "Spoonful". [From HOW BLACK WAS OUR SABBATH (pg. #10)]