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An eight piece lounge act from Austin, Texas covers one of my favorite old Black Sabbath tunes:

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Actually, they're pretty good. I'd pay money to see that.

Here's a great (1970) version of the original:

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Black Sabbath's guitar player, Tony Iommi, was very original and inspired. But he nearly quit playing as a teen after losing two fingertips in an accident. A coworker urged him on, playing a Django Reinhardt recording for him:

My friend said, 'Listen to this guy play,' and I went, 'No way! Listening to someone play the guitar is the very last thing I want to do right now!' But he kept insisting and he ended up playing the record for me. I told him I thought it was really good and then he said, 'You know, the guy's only playing with two fingers on his fretboard hand because of an injury he sustained in a terrible fire.' I was totally knocked back by this revelation and was so impressed by what I had just heard that I suddenly became inspired to start trying to play again.  link