On July 14, 1974, Black Sabbath played the first show of their Sabotage album tour, at the Sports Arenas in Toledo, Ohio. They'd spend the next two months traversing the North America before heading across the Atlantic for the European leg of the tour. Then they flew back to the US to do it all again.
Opening up on that first leg were a variety of bands – UK acts like Status Quo and Slade, who'd always struggle to make headway in the US, plus names more familiar to American audiences in Brownsville Station, Peter Frampton, Mahogany Rush and Leslie West. And, in Baltimore, Providence and Boston, a rising band from New York going by the name of Kiss.
