Black Night In San Francisco
Tracks 1-2 - live "Beat-Club" TV show, Bremen, Germany, May 25, 1970 Tracks 3-4 - live "Beat-Club" TV show, Bremen, Germany, Sept. 26, 1970 Tracks 5-13 - live Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 22, 1970 (correct?)
Planet Records (disc: 0871-21)
65:12
	1. Black Sabbath
	2. Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins cover)
	3. Paranoid
	4. Iron Man
	5. Paranoid
	6. N.I.B.
	7. War Pigs(/Luke's Wall)
	8. Black Sabbath
	9. Iron Man
	10. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
	11. Hand Of Doom(/Rat Salad)
	12. Fairies Wear Boots
	13. Wicked World (Including Orchid + solos)

The disc itself is printed with fake information--the font at the top of the CD reads "Dark Night" and the label listed on the disc is Conquer, with no mention of Sabbath. Part of the disc matrix has been scratched out from the top.

The bootleg itself lists the CA show as being from Nov. 27, 1970, and that's how it's mentioned practically everywhere. However, the band actually played a string of consecutive dates at the Fillmore (supporting the James Gang and Sugarloaf) from the 19th to the 22nd. I personally lean towards the 22nd because there is more compelling evidence, but keep in mind this may not be correct.

Also note that for the Fillmore dates, Sabbath was playing twice each night, and the Fillmore recording is actually of both sets. From what I understand, it wasn't two full gigs on the same date, but just two sets of songs seperated by a break (possibly another band played in-between?). As you can hear in the stage banter and announcer comments from tracks 9 and 10, "Behind the Wall of Sleep" starts off the second set. I cannot verify whether the sets are complete, but I have yet to see any reference to any songs missing or any other bootlegs/versions with additional tracks surfacing.

Note that the San Fransisco show is somewhat infamous for having a speed error and supposedly plays slightly too fast. Before you go thinking that it's at hyperspeed with chipmunk vocals, I must stress that it's very subtle and hardly noticeable at all, especially as the bootleg goes on. It's sort of detectable in the guitar tone of "Paranoid," but had I never heard anything about a speed problem, I probably would have written off any minor distortions to the age of the recording equipment. Some speed-corrected versions of this show fixed by fans exist in the CD-R/file-trading circuits, but I've never heard one of these or compared it to the bootleg.

No specific dates are given for the Beat-Club songs, only the year. Many people seem to attribute one of the Beat-Club dates to all 4 songs, but they were two seperate appearances. The dates above are for the recording of the songs, not the actual date the TV show aired (for example, the first show they were on was televised on May 30th).

There are breaks between all tracks except 6-9.

On the Beat-Club version of "Iron Man," Ozzy sings some of the early verses out of order.

The Fillmore version of "Black Sabbath" begins with a 2-minute guitar intro. I don't recognize it as one of the instrumentals/guitar pieces from the first few albums (please correct me if I'm wrong), so I'm guessing it was just a live intro.

The last minute or so of track 10 is an instrumental jam after "Behind..." which sometimes accompanied the song during Sabbath's early shows.

Some lines in the verses of "Hand of Doom" are shuffled around and repeated. The final "head starts spinning" verse is omitted entirely.

The band basically splits "Wicked World" in half--track 13 is the "Orchid" guitar piece in the middle, sandwiched by half of "Wicked World" and a guitar solo on each side.

The San Francisco show is also on the bootleg CD "Impressions from the Past." However, "Paranoid" is omitted and another version of unknown origin is added at the end, along with the Beat-Club version of "Blue Suede Shoes." I have not heard "Impressions from the Past" but supposedly it still has the speed problem and the sound quality is worse. The Beat-Club tracks are all available on numerous other bootlegs and some official releases.

Excellent soundquality for its age, and definitely the better of the two bootlegs of this show since it's not missing a track. While this is not quite the oldest Black Sabbath live material available, as far as I know, this is the earliest US show available as a pro-bootleg.