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1971-72 Master of Reality Tour

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Dates and research compiled by Joe Siegler & Robert Dwyer.

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Touring Personnel

  • Tony Iommi - Guitars
  • Ozzy Osbourne - Vocals
  • Geezer Butler - Bass
  • Bill Ward - Drums

Set List

  • N.I.B.
  • War Pigs
  • Sweet Leaf
  • Black Sabbath
  • Iron Man
  • Embryo
  • Children of the Grave
  • Wicked World
  • Guitar Solo
  • Drum Solo
  • Paranoid
  • Fairies Wear Boots



 
Date City Venue Opening Acts Notes
Jul 1 St. Paul St. Paul Civic Arena Bloodrock Unconfirmed
Jul 2 Cleveland Public Auditorium Brewer And Shipley, Sweathog Start of MASTER OF REALITY tour?
Jul 4 Detroit 'Outdoor Rock Fest' - Michigan State Fairgrounds July 3rd: The Blues Project, The J. Geils Band, Savage Grace & more
July 4th: Black Sabbath (HL), The Amboy Dukes, The Seigal-Schwall Band, Alex Taylor, Brownsville Station

 
Jul 4 Wheeling
 
Poco, Izz Cancelled
Jul 7 Atlanta Atlanta Municipal Auditorium No opening act advertised
 
Jul 10 Tampa Curtis Hixon Convention Hall
 

 
Jul 11 Birmingham Municipal Auditorium
 

 
Jul 14 Port Chester Howard Stein's Capitol Theater Yes, Humble Pie
 
Jul 14 Philadelphia The Spectrum King Crimson Unconfirmed
Jul 15 Port Chester Howard Stein's Capitol Theater Yes, Humble Pie 2 shows
Jul 16 Detroit Eastown Theater Yes Cancelled
Jul 17 Detroit Eastown Theater Yes, Humble Pie Cancelled
Jul 17 Hampton Beach Hampton Beach Casino
 
Postponed until 8/17/71?
Jul 18 Toronto Borough Of York Stadium 3 Dog Night [HL], Humble Pie, Grease Band, Yes 'Beggar's Banquet Dance' festival show
Jul 19 Ottawa Ottawa Auditorium (Civic Center?) Yes, Alice Cooper
 
Jul 21
 
MASTER OF REALITY is released in the U.S.
 
MASTER OF REALITY is released worldwide
Jul 24 Asbury Park Asbury Park Convention Hall No opening act advertised 2 shows
Jul 27 Salem Salem-Roanoke Valley Civic Center
 

 
Jul 28 Riverdale Gaelic Park - Bronx Black Oak Arkansas, Alice Cooper
 
Jul 29 Harrisburg Farm Show Arena Black Oak Arkansas Unconfirmed
Aug 6 Boston
 

 
Unconfirmed
Aug 8 Cincinnati Cincinnati Gardens Alice Cooper, Edgar Winter's White Trash
 
Aug 12 Chicago Auditorium Theatre Mountain Bus
 
Aug 13 Hartford Bushnell Memorial Stadium
 
Cancelled?
Aug 13 New York Union Square Park Ultra Violet, Mark Markham Group, Eleven Unconfirmed and doubtful
Aug 14 Staten Island Ungano's Ritz Sweathog
 
Aug 15 Long Island Commack Arena - Commack
 

 
Aug 16 Montreal Place Des Nations
 

 
Aug 17 Hampton Beach Hampton Beach Casino
 

 
Aug 20 Jacksonville Jacksonville Baseball Park
 
Unconfirmed
Aug 31 Miami Jai Alai Fronton Hall
 

 
Sep 4 Speyer British Rock Meeting - Rheinhalbinsel Rod Stewart & The Faces [only played on the 4th], Deep Purple, Family, Fleetwood Mac, Curved Air, Rory Gallagher, East Of Eden, Groundhogs, Hardin & York, Fairport Convention, Osibisa, Juicy Lucy, Mick Abrahams, Gentle Giant, Jerusalem, Beggars Opera, Bullit, Roy Young Band, Ashton Gardner & Dyke and Heaven 'British Rock Meeting' festival show
Sep 5 Wien (Vienna) '48 Hours Festival' - Stadthalle Gentle Giant '2-Tage Festival'
Sep 7 Palermo Palermo Pop Festival - Parco della Favorita Livin' Blues, Spontaneous Music Ensemble (featuring Julie Driscoll), Bill Coleman, Stephane Grappelli, Stars Of Faith & Italian artists.
 
Sep 10 Syracuse Onondaga War Memorial Auditorium Led Zeppelin (HL)
 
Sep 11 Rochester Community War Memorial Auditorium Led Zeppelin (HL)
 
Sep 20 Memphis Overton Park Shell
 

 
Sep 25 Long Beach Long Beach Arena Stoneground, Sweathog
 
Sep 26 San Diego Convention Hall
 

 
Sep 27 Houston Sam Houston Coliseum
 

 
Oct 1 San Francisco Winterland Ballroom Edgar Winter's White Trash featuring Jerry LaCroix & Sweathog
 
Oct 2 San Francisco Winterland Ballroom Edgar Winter's White Trash featuring Jerry LaCroix & Sweathog
 
Oct 5 Hollywood Whiskey A Go Go
 

 
Oct 9 Sacramento Sacramento Memorial Auditorium
 

 
Oct 10 Honolulu H.I.C. Arena Sweathog
 
Oct 17 Phoenix The Celebrity Theater Sweathog
 
Oct 18 Denver Denver Coliseum
 

 
Oct 20 Kansas City Memorial Hall
 

 
Oct 22 New York City Academy of Music No opening act
 
Oct 28 Rochester Community War Memorial Auditorium
 

 
Nov 16 Southampton Guildhall Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled due to the illness of 3 band members!
Nov 18 Carlisle Market Hall
 
Cancelled
Nov 19 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Newcastle City Hall Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled
Nov 22 Birmingham Town Hall Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled
Nov 25 Glasgow Green's Playhouse [a.k.a. The Apollo] Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled
Nov 26 Edinburgh Empire Theater Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled
Nov 27 Leeds Leeds University Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled
Nov 29 Manchester Free Trade Hall (Peter Street) Wild Turkey, Nazareth Cancelled
Dec 3 Rotterdam
 

 

 
Dec 4 Amsterdam The Paradiso Ten Years After Unconfirmed
Dec 6 København (Copenhagen) K.B. Hallen
 

 
Dec 16 Essen Grugahalle The Can Cancelled
Jan 1
 
Press Conference
 

 
Jan 24 Birmingham Town Hall Wild Turkey Sold out show!
Jan 25 Birmingham Town Hall Wild Turkey Sabbath added this show after the sell out of the previous night
Jan 27 Oxford Town Hall Wild Turkey
 
Jan 28 Glasgow Green's Playhouse Wild Turkey
 
Jan 29 Edinburgh Empire Theatre Wild Turkey
 
Jan 30 Carlisle Market Hall Wild Turkey Charity gig
Jan 31 Liverpool The Stadium Wild Turkey
 
Feb 1 Leicester De Montfort Hall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 3 Portsmouth Guildhall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 4 Manchester Free Trade Hall (Peter Street) Wild Turkey
 
Feb 5 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Newcastle City Hall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 6 Wolverhampton Civic Hall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 7 Bristol Colston Hall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 8 Sheffield City (Oval) Hall Wild Turkey Cancelled
Feb 9 Bradford St. George's Hall Wild Turkey Cancelled
Feb 10 Brighton The Dome Wild Turkey
 
Feb 11 Bournemouth Winter Gardens Wild Turkey
 
Feb 13 Hanley Victoria Hall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 17 London Royal Albert Hall Wild Turkey
 
Feb 19 Leeds Leeds University Wild Turkey
 
Feb 21 Sheffield City (Oval) Hall Wild Turkey Rescheduled gig
Feb 24 Bradford St. George's Hall Wild Turkey Rescheduled gig
Mar 1 Fayetteville
 

 

 
Mar 2 Miami Miami Beach Convention Hall Wild Turkey
 
Mar 3 Jacksonville
 

 

 
Mar 4 West Palm Beach West Palm Beach Auditorium Wild Turkey
 
Mar 5 St. Petersburg
 

 

 
Mar 6 Raleigh
 

 

 
Mar 7 Charlotte Park Center White Witch, Wild Turkey [cancelled]
 
Mar 9 Columbus Veterans Memorial Coliseum Wild Turkey
 
Mar 10 San Francisco Winterland Arena Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 11 San Francisco Winterland Arena Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 12 Seattle Seattle Center Arena Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 13 Vancouver
 

 
Cancelled?
Mar 14 Spokane Spokane Coliseum Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 15 Los Angeles Los Angeles Forum Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 16 Tucson Tucson Community Center Convention Hall Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 17 San Bernardino Swing Auditorium Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 18 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 19 Las Vegas Las Vegas Convention Center Rotunda Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 21 St. Paul St. Paul Civic Arena (?)
 

 
Mar 22 Detroit Cobo Hall Yes, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 23 Quebec City
 

 

 
Mar 24 Montreal
 

 

 
Mar 25 Rochester
 

 

 
Mar 26 Salem
 

 

 
Mar 27 Pittsburgh Civic Arena
 
Can anyone confirm the venue for this show?
Mar 28 Huntington
 

 

 
Mar 29 Philadelphia The Spectrum Edgar Winter, Wild Turkey
 
Mar 30 New Haven
 

 

 
Mar 31 Charleston
 

 

 
Apr 1 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
 

 
Apr 2 Columbia
 

 
Cancelled?
Apr 2 Passaic The Capitol Theatre Pig Light Show
 
Apr 3 Vega Baja Mar Y Sol Pop Festival Alice Cooper, The Allman Brothers, B.B. King, Billy Joel, Brownsville Station, Dave Brubeck, Bloodrock, David Peel, Dr. John, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Faces, Fleetwood Mac, J. Geils Band, Goose Creek Symphony, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Malo, Herbie Mann, The Nitzinger Band with Bugs Henderson, Osibisa, Poco, Pot Liquor, Roberta Flack and Savoy Brown. Cancelled
Apr 7 Osaka Koseinenkin (Festival) Hall
 
Cancelled
Apr 9 Osaka Koseinenkin (Festival) Hall