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〕 | rev2 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev2Score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Black Sabbath: Album Guide )〕 }} ''Technical Ecstasy'' is the seventh studio album by English rock band Black Sabbath, produced by guitarist Tony Iommi and released in September 1976. The album was certified Gold on 19 June 1997 and peaked at number 51 on the ''Billboard'' 200 Album chart. ==Recording== After the frustrating legal battles that accompanied the recording of their 1975 album ''Sabotage'', Black Sabbath chose Miami's Criteria Studios for the making of ''Technical Ecstasy'', which continued the band's separation from its signature doom and darkness that had been a trademark of the sound of their earlier albums. Writing in the July 2001 issue of ''Guitar World'' Dan Epstein noted, "The sessions proved extremely relaxing for everyone except Iommi, who was left to oversee the production while the others sunned themselves on the beach." Iommi explained to ''Guitar World'' in 1992, "We recorded the album in Miami, and nobody would take responsibility for the production. No one wanted to bring in an outside person for help, and no one wanted the whole band to produce it. So they left it all to me!" In the liner notes to the band's 1998 live album ''Reunion'', Phil Alexander writes that while the band were struggling to finish the album "rock had spawned a new set of iconoclasts as the Sex Pistols, the Clash and the Damned led the UK rock explosion. Suddenly Sabbath found themselves both unsure of their musical direction and labeled as has-beens." "It's not like now: If you're a heavy metal band, you put out a heavy metal album," Butler explained to ''Uncut'' in 2014. "Back then, you had to at least try to be modern and keep up. Punk was massive then and we felt that our time had come and gone." To make matters worse for the band, manager Don Arden began spending more of his time focusing on another one of his acts, ELO, whose 1975 album ''Face The Music'', was their first to make the US top ten. Iommi's determination to move Sabbath into a new direction was misguided according to some, with Mick Wall noting in the 2013 book ''Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe'' that while future soft rock million-sellers ''Hotel California'' and ''Rumours'' were just around the corner, "to try and force that sound on Black Sabbath was like trying to put lamb's wool on a suit of armour. It just didn't work, pleasing nobody." In his autobiography ''I Am Ozzy'', vocalist Ozzy Osbourne admitted that he had begun to consider leaving the band during this time, stating "I'd even had a T-shirt made with 'Blizzard of Ozz' written on the front. Meanwhile, in the studio, Tony (Iommi) was always saying, 'We've gotta sound like Foreigner', or 'We've gotta sound like Queen'. But I thought it was strange that the bands we'd once influenced were now influencing us." Osbourne also wrote that the cost of recording in Florida "was astronomical" and that he'd "lost the plot with the booze and the drugs" during the recording of ''Technical Ecstasy'', eventually checking himself into the Stafford County Asylum upon his eventual return to England. "That was the beginning of the end, that one," bassist Geezer Butler confessed to ''Guitar World'' in 2001. "We were managing ourselves because we couldn't trust anybody. Everybody was trying to rip us off, including the lawyers we'd hired to get us out of our legal mess. It was really just getting to us around then, and we didn't know what we were doing. And obviously, the music was suffering; you could just feel the whole thing falling apart." Osbourne briefly left the band following the tour in support of the album and, although he would eventually return for the follow-up album ''Never Say Die!'', the band temporarily replaced him with former Savoy Brown vocalist Dave Walker. The band wrote a handful of songs with Walker, and even performed an early version of what would later become "Junior's Eyes" on the BBC programme ''Look Hear'' with the replacement vocalist. While the band were recording the album, The Eagles were also recording their Grammy Award-winning album ''Hotel California'' in an adjacent studio at Criteria Studios in Miami. "Before we could start recording we had to scrape all the cocaine out of the mixing board," Geezer divulged to ''Uncut'' in 2014. "I think they'd left about a pound of cocaine in the board." The Eagles were forced to stop recording on numerous occasions because Black Sabbath were too loud and the sound was coming through the wall. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Technical Ecstasy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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