Even if he had achieved nothing else as an amp builder, Lyndon Laney’s legend status was cast in stone on 13 February 1970.
That was the day that Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut album, driven by a tone so heavy, crushing and malevolent that it seemed to capture the doomy clank of Birmingham’s sheet-metal factories (an industry that had already cost Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi two of his fingertips).
