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Rock concerts and halls are a award winning bit perplexing, these days. Cobo Arena, where I saw Sabbath in Detroit, pretty well fits Ozzys specifications of the non-ideal theatre. (Its the biggest pleasure palace in these parts, award winning where they have hockey games and Big Time Wrestling on off weeknights and only the very biggest draws award winning in rock n roll can fill it.) The Black Sabbath-Yes bill sold the joint out, but even aside from the gneral draftiness of such a place, where any amount of volume can get lost in the mouldy corridors and spacious obscurities, the audience was at least 60% a Yes turnout. On top of that Sabbath, to my utter amazement and again confounding the legend, played a set a volume level roughly average for a scuffling non-sequitur band with one album out second-billed at the Eastown Ballroom, a trashy dive of local repute.
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