It really was a case of wine, women and song, and we were doing more drugs than ever before." 4, and we were trying to widen our sound and break out of the bag everyone had put us into." In the liner notes to the 1998 live album Reunion Iommi reflected, "By the time we got to Bel Air we were totally gone. The experimental stage we began with Master of Reality continued with Vol. They were all learning with us, and we didn’t know what we were doing either. The people who were involved with the record really didn't have a clue. 4 is a great album, but listening to it now, I can see it as a turning point for me, where the alcohol and drugs stopped being fun." Speaking to Guitar World in 1992 Iommi admitted, "LA was a real distraction for us, and that album ended up sounding a bit strange. We rented a house in Bel-Air and the debauchery up there was just unbelievable." In the same interview, Ward said: "Yes, Vol. Half the budget went on the coke and the other half went to seeing how long we could stay in the studio. and got into a totally different lifestyle. As bassist Geezer Butler told Guitar World in 2001: "Yeah, the cocaine had set in. 4 sessions could be viewed as the point in time when the seeds were planted for what would eventually be the demise of the classic Sabbath line-up. The Bel Air mansion the band was renting belonged to John DuPont of the DuPont chemical company and the band found several spray cans of gold DuPont paint in a room of the house finding Ward naked and unconscious after drinking heavily, they proceeded to cover the drummer in gold paint from head to toe. Now, his self-control was clearly slipping." Iommi claims in his autobiography that Ward almost died after a prank-gone-wrong during recording of the album. Retrospectively, that might have been a danger sign. According to the book How Black Was Our Sabbath, Bill Ward "was always a drinker, but rarely appeared drunk. It was like 'Well, just go home, you're not being of any use right now.' I felt like I'd blown it, I was about to get fired". "I nailed it in the end, but the reaction I got was the cold shoulder from everybody. "I hated the song, there were some patterns that were just horrible", Ward said. While struggling to record the song "Cornucopia" after "sitting in the middle of the room, just doing drugs", Bill Ward feared that he was about to be fired from the band. According to Sharon Osbourne's memoirs, there was also a Doberman at the mansion that had gotten into a part of the band's cocaine supply that was laced with the baby laxative mannitol and soon became ill from the effects of the altered drug.
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In the studio, the band regularly had large speaker boxes full of cocaine delivered. The recording process was plagued with problems, many due to substance abuse. In June 1972, Black Sabbath began work on their fourth album at the Record Plant studios in Los Angeles.
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