― tigerclawskank, Friday, 21 February 2003 10:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
my brother bought one of their albums for me in the mid 70s thinking it might be, ya know, what i'd like. complete shit in all ways - bad songs, ridiculous singing, pedestrian playing, awfull cover, stupid haircuts...
― phil turnbull (philT), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 21 February 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― earlnash, Friday, 21 February 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 21 February 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 21 February 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
You want the brilliantly twisted: one of my best friends knew a guy who **last year** actually drove **from CT to PA** **on a worknight** just to see Uriah Heep, and he **became a fan through their NEW stuff**.
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 22 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 22 February 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Do fish suffer from exposure to Uriah Heep?
― Brent, Sunday, 22 July 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Yhe Rodney Dangerfield's of early heavy metal, Uriah Heep.
"For Phonograph Record, Saunders wrote Heep had produced two 'essential" albums -- Look at Yourself and Demons & Wizards -- out of five studio shots by 1973. One can also add their debut -- simply called Uriah Heep or known as the 'worm' album in the States, and recipient of the infamous review in Rolling Stone that if the band made it, the reviewer (Melissa Mills) would have to kill herself."
You get those three, you have the classics.
Original
If you're cheap, Heep Live from '73 pretty much covers the best from the three albums. Optional: The Magician's Birthday with great Dean cover.
― Gorge, Sunday, 22 July 2007 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Superior Heep thread.
― Gorge, Monday, 23 July 2007 07:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Heep were one of the first heavy bands all women officially hate. (1) For that they must always be highly regarded. I introduced my brother to heavy rock concerts with a triple bill of Heep, BOC and Manfred Mann's Earth Band (ca. "Solar Fire") and there wasn't a single girl in the audience. Any woman who professes to a genuine fondness for Uriah Heep must be suspected of dissembling.
Poorly spelled Heep thread.
Uriah Heap - C/D / S&D
― Gorge, Monday, 23 July 2007 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.everythingsg.com/celebs/mickbox1.jpg
Woulda never bought a Gibson SG if it hadn't been for Mick Box!
― Gorge, Monday, 23 July 2007 08:06 (sixteen years ago) link
...Gibson SG being THEE quintessential heavy metal axe, of course! Plus all the Frisco bands liked 'em too, apparently.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 23 July 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
The ending of "Shadows and the Wind" (from Wonderwold, wasnnit?) is still one of those little things I like about them... Others? Uh, gotta think a bit...
― t**t, Monday, 23 July 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
My uncle has tons of albums by guys like Uriah Heep, Level 42, and 70s Moody Blues. All I can say is... this stuff is really, really bad.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Uriah Heep, Level 42, and 70s Moody Blues
Those three acts being oh-so-similar.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
what does early level 42 sound like anyway? i only know their mtv daze stuff.
― scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
very 'eavy very 'umble is still my fave, but i like all the 70's stuff. though there are probably a couple of later 70's albums i haven't heard. never heard the 80's albums. i even like return to fantasy and firefly. as far as later stuff goes.
― scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Me, I like everything pre-Heep Live 'cept "Salisbury" which I've always avoided (bad rep, dontcha know...)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 23 July 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
where's the love for 'Abominog'?
― henry s, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Oi, Abominog was an unexpectedly listenable late-Heep alb. From the 80s too, wasnnit?
― t**t, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
yep, 'round about the same time Judas Priest, Krokus and other metal acts were finding the lower end of the charts...
― henry s, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Try it! Title track is a 16 minute concept piece with brass and woodwind sections, I think at least a couple of the other tracks are good too (not that I've heard it since about 1983). It's pretty ridiculous, even by their standards.
― Matt #2, Monday, 23 July 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't "Lady In Black" on Salisbury as well?
The strange thing is that, although not having heard that alb for some ...least thirty-odd years, like, I still do remember how the vocal melody of that marathon title track begins :)
― t**t, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess they're not, but somehow they always seemed similar in being overly serious 70s prog.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Level 42 are 70s prog?
― Matt #2, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't think they were around in the 70's. early 80's is more like it.
― scott seward, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
b-b-but were they "overly serious"?
― t**t, Monday, 23 July 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
wow. getting a lot of heat regarding level 42 and uriah heep.
― Richard Wood Johnson, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:03 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I always heard that Level 42 started out prog. weren't they like Mark Sinkah's (author of the Where is the LOVE for Uriah Heep thread linked above) fave band?
Salisbury rules! "Simon the Bullet Freak"! everything rules up through the Live album. I own Sweet Freedom and Wonderworld but as big a fan as I am, that's when I got off the bus. Someday I'll undoubtedly pick up all the albums that still have Byron and Hensley on them. It's weird too because I actually own all the Byron and Hensley solo albums, the Rough Diamond lp, the Gods records, etc. Just never felt like picking up that late Heep for some reason.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Gotta love the SG. We should do a tribute thread. as played by my favorite Marin County cowboy:
http://www.rockzirkus.de/lexikon/bilder/c/copperhead/cippolina.jpg
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
man, I found this has-to-be-seen clip while trawling YouTube a few weeks back. Byron is *completely* annihilated. I'll try to find it.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
here it is ... amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8KN1b13Trg
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL2011382720070720
― P'zone, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
George, I have an aunt who actually had the Heep live album.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Bravo! It had wonderful big pictures and acapella versions of Blue Suede Shoes and At the Hop.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, she was pretty eclectic. Certainly had all the big doubles of a certain era, in retrospect -- not just Elton's, but those giant foldout Isaac Hayes records, too. Black Moses, Live at the Sahara Tahoe. Many trees died to package records then. She also had that Cat Stevens one that Xgau wailed about (I think correctly).
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 05:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Only seemed to own Physical Graffiti on 8-track, though. A shame.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 05:57 (sixteen years ago) link
My mom had The Magician's Birthday on 8 track and several Grand Funk LPs, though most of her record collection was 70s soft rock/country. I heard a lot of John Denver when I was a kid.
― Brent, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, I tried that Wizards album and thought it was one of the most monumentally boring albums I'd ever bought. Traded it for a Hot Tuna.
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Regarding that live album: I think Heep were a bit insecure compared to Grand Funk, who cheerfully filled the gatefold of their Mark, Don & Mel 1969-71 compilation with a collage of reproductions of the many bad reviews they'd received over the three years. The Heep evidently appreciated the concept, but only halfway, since they filled their gatefold with a mixture of reviews both good AND bad (including that infamous Melissa Mills suicide threat.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
On that Neil Young Fillmore 1970 disc from last year, he included a bad review of that particular show on the sleeve.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The best and only Uriah Heep humor column of all time, Inna Box with Mick Box, appears to be gone from the net. Or else something's malfunctioning. Anyway, I resurrected it from ILM search hell for placement where it now belongs.
====== IN THE BOX
with Mick Box
Last issue, Dodging Bullets proclaimed that we were going to have various unsung Gods of the hard rock underbelly deliver their two cents each issue. Last issue We gave the ink to Uriah Heep’s Mick Box. Due to the delight of our readers, we have forgone the idea to ask other heroes of the rock world to discuss their various dismay. In favor, we offered Mr. Mick Box the duties for as long as he wants them. Worms, I give you Mick Box’s own IN THE BOX… =========== ‘Ello there you ingrates. Mick Box here. I got a gripe or two about the things as they is. I mean, Th’ Heep didn’t master the art of falsetto choral prog metal only to be cast like stones into the sea.
What is this world coming to when a man can’t mix his lust to rock and roll with his lust for Dungeons and Dragons? You call them nerds, but let me tell you cunts that I was noooooo nerd in 1973. I had the birds lined up around the block and all the while I was spinning the dice. I was a Dragon Master in ’74. Why just last year me and my team The Rainbow Demons took second in the world Roll Players Cup tournament. We lost to Blackmore’s Night.
You kids today should be force fed the Sweet Freedom LP by Hensley, Byron, Box, Kerslake and Thain (aka Th’ Eep). I personally will piss in all your ale for your ungratefulness towards the vast achievements that the greatest band in rock and roll history laid forth. At least until John Lawton come along that is. Oh, Davey! I mean, Lucifer’s Friend was Germany's 10 cent attempt at being Uriah Heep and of course, the only Brit in the band, John Lawton jumped at the chance to replace Byron. What were we thinking? I need a fucking drink! Until next issue, I hope you die a bit more each day. Harsh you say? I’m Mick Box damn you!
― Gorge, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Had to dig out a second edition from the Internet archive. Credit to Dodging Bullets fanzine, over-the-top 70's hagiography and dumb jokes.
IN THE BOX with Mick Box
You wanna know what really chaps my hide? This disposible youth culture that's what. I mean the Heep didn't spend all that time creating several early 70's satanic prog masterpieces only for time to have forgotten about us. My good friend, and the greatest singer of all-time, Mr. David Byron hung his sorry ass for you people and what thanks did he get? Nobody bought the Rough Diamond LP.
Needless to say, that band that backed him then was not Hensley, Box, Kerslake and co. I mean do you people remember Demons and Wizards or what? You with your Strokes and your Candy Canes, do you really think it will last? "Rainbow (fucking) Demon," maaaan. What the hell? We cared about you people. Ken Hensley went to great lengths to ensure that each of our first several LPs had in-depth liners broken down from song to song so that your simple minds could more easily understand and digest our complex masterpieces. It was tough for him to write so much. He had carpal tunnel before it had a name from all the virtuosity he displayed on the keys. I can't believe the sacrifices we made and that time has left us in the dollar bin. Piss on you people. We inspired fucking great bands like Spinal Tap and Bad News and every pig friggin' hard rock vocalist that materialized after 1971 owes their very ass to David Byron. I miss you Davey boy! Your perm, your 'stache, your panache and yes, even your ass! You rock god! You people need to start to realize that the cutsie pie here today gone tomorrow trend suckling moronic ironic diseased pile of dung that you call modern music is nothing more than pure shit being squeezed by a pair of low cut hip huggers and a whore's pound of makeup. Do yourself a favour, buy a copy of Salisbury and get your fucking 'ed together, dig?
======
You thought the Dodging Bullshitters had done washed their hands of the Mighty Mick, right? I deliberately asked them to put me at the very end of this issue just to make you sweat. I know that my rants are the only reason most of you even bother to read this crap. This is my first DB outpouring of the year 2004. What kind of year has this been so far? Another year drunker and sicker of you, that’s what kind. How will this year shape up? Will this be the year that the greatest ball squeezing heavy tolkienesque kings of rock and sorcery, Ahem...The 'Eep, get their just desserts and regain the ultimate rock band status that we truly deserve? Judging by the universal lack of good taste and sex appeal that the masses in 2004 sport, I truly doubt it. Oh you with your The Darkness and you with your Jets and Morning Bikes, what could you possibly know about rock and roll? What is up with the rock and roll mustache anyhow? Those who know the Mickster know that I took great pride in my rock and roll lip hair and the art has become truly lost. Jack White needs to gain about 15-20 lbs and grow some fucking facial hair if he wants to dance with me. I was listening to that series of LPs that the boys and I made circa 76-77 without Byron and I just dunno. Pure crap, if you ask me. It's like we got all Foreigner on your asses and for that I apologize. Sometimes you just gotta know when to hang 'er up, like once your front man hangs himself for example. Oh well, I played a few tasty licks nonetheless. I truly site Hensley for the lameness of that era. He got a Elton John complex or something. As time went on, he'd be gone. In fact, yours truly old Stiff Mick is the only member of the Heep that has always remained constant. For you, the listener, a blessing. For me...well let's just say that until this lucrative writing assignment for DB came forth, the only job I ever knew. Next time I will share some of the Box families secret recipes. Until then, I hope you die a bit more each day!
― Gorge, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
The parodist's memory seems to be lapsing a little. David Byron died of heart failure/organ complications due to heavy alcoholism.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
"Heepster" is a term referring to fans of Uriah Heep, used among fans to refer to each other. Similar to Trekkie in usage.
Amazing what you learn from wikipedia. Also, shed a tear and light a candle for Gary Thain, the unluckiest man in rock history :
During his last tour with Heep he suffered an electric shock and was seriously injured. He also unfortunately gained an untreatable STD through a short relationship he had. Because of his drug addiction he wasn't able to turn in a good performance and was fired by the band and replaced by former King Crimson bassist/vocalist John Wetton. He died of a heroin overdose on 8 December 1975, aged 27.
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
"Who Needs Me" was written by drummer Lee Kerslake and is about his unhappiness at the rejection, by manager and label boss Gerry Bron, of pretty much any material by any one other than Ken Hensley. This is ultimately somewhat ironic, given the song's acceptance for recording.
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
The artwork was licenced from artist Chris Achilleos, although there seems to have been some alteration to the bodice: the breasts are not so exposed on the original. Whether this was done by Achilleos himself, or even with his approval, is currently unclear.
― Matt #2, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Tossing Gary Thain out of Heep caused a significant change in the band's sound. He had a melodic thudding style that kept the compositions by Hensley heavy. He also played better with Lee Kerslake than John Wetton, who'd only last two records before quitting. Return to Fantasy, the first with Wetton, is one of the Heap album's I just can't listen to. It just flops around like a dead fish and I blame him, mostly.
High and Mighty, after which Byron was fired -- another mistake no matter how drunk he may have been, tries to work Wetton in but the result is the band mostly abandoning things that were strengths for the sake of things that weren't -- like fancy prog playing and elegant production values. It almost succeeds in parts but there are no memorable songs on it. A few good performances and the prog feel make some of it appealing. The first tune -- One Way or Another -- is mixed loud with guitars and works as an opener. However, Wetton's bass playing is almost completely worthless. What worked for King Crimson didn't work in Heap.
I actually dragged these albums out and listened to them thisafter as a result of this thread. Now I'll skim through the entire catalog.
So do yourself a favor and get yourself a discount copy of Wonderworld, the last album with the mighty Gary Thain before he was debilitated by electrons and incurable venereal disease, dig?!
― Gorge, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, Return to Fantasy flops around like a dieing fish. Which, as it turned out, it was. The album didn't do well in the US although it was claimed to be their highest charting piece in the UK. If it was, I presume it contributed to acrimony in the band since it was so poor compared to things they'd worked much harder and more successfully on.
― Gorge, Thursday, 26 July 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I've spent the last few weeks buying and downloading from bands I'd never heard looking for something that really clicked for me. I've picked up Sleep, Kyuss, Ghremdrakk, some Agalloch demos, and a bunch of other stuff, but the first thing that I put on that really made me go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! was
http://www.fullandfree.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/demons_and_wizards.jpg
soooooooooooooooo great
― H-O-O-S yes i guess i could steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
What else do I gotta pick up
― H-O-O-S yes i guess i could steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 16 November 2008 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Spinal Tap, Bad News.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 16 November 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
magician's birthday. look at yourself. maybe get you some toe fat, but they're more rough'n'gruff and not so mystical.
― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 November 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The title track from "Look At Yourself" is the best thing I've ever heard from these guys. That's an inspired piece of music.
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 16 November 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
But the third Blue Oyster Cult record "Secret Treaties" blows away everything these guys ever did.
that is very very true.
― open the BLOOD gates! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 16 November 2008 11:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Get the first album. In the US, it was just called "Uriah Heep" with a big sci-fi space worm on the cover. In Britain, it was "Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble." It spawned the Rolling Stone review, by a woman, who famously wrote that if the band made it, she'd have to kill herself.
Actually, it's a good record. "Gypsy" and "Dreammare," two of the best cuts, are prime slices of early-Seventies hard rock going about the business of inventing metal.
You miss out a bit on the Heap experience by going digital. If you have a turntable, used copies ought to be easy to find for fairly cheap. Heap sold well in the US after Demons & Wizards. Anyway, the albums covers from the good part of the catalog are great. Look at Yourself is a good album. As above, The Magician's Birthday, while not as good as Demons & Wizards does have the OTT title track. Sweet Freedom -- which you hardly see anymore -- started a downhill slide although it had a charting tune, "Stealin'." Avoid. Wonderworld is about half good. Return to Fantasy -- which initially sold the best in the US -- is terrible.
A double live album made in '73 contributed to their success. If you don't have all the other good ones, it's a good collection of their best tunes onstage and they were very much a more than decent live band.
― Gorge, Sunday, 16 November 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone see Melissa Mills after that? The RIAA site shows them with four gold albums.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Sammy Davis Jr, Ozzy Osbourne: Two other folks who threatened suicide in dismay at the rising popularity of a new genre (rock 'n roll and rap, respectively.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 17 November 2008 07:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't like Michael Feinstein. What do I do?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 17 November 2008 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
This is their best album, but Very 'eavy, Very 'umble has some great tracks.
I remember getting a kick out of David Tibet saying Magician's Birthday was one of his favourite albums in that choose-a-record-cover feature in The Wire. Apparently Ken Hensley is a devout Christian too, so not sure if that has anything to do with it.
10/10 clip of The Wizard from some German TV show feat dancing corduroy babes...
― WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 17 November 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Do You Ever Wish You Were Dancing Onstage With Uriah Heep During An Appearance On German TV In The 1970s?
― creator of 2008's most successful meme (velko), Monday, 17 November 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I am STILL waiting for the Abominog love, people...I DO NOT have all day!
― henry s, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
From my blog a couple years ago, Heep in the context of their time. Charted up until 1974, at least.
― Gorge, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Having listened to it just this morning, I would be willing to argue that Uriah Heep Live is the best double live album of early/mid '70s rock, beating out Aerosmith's Live Bootleg, Nugent's Double Live Gonzo!, Grand Funk's Live Album and any/all other contenders. One of the great things about it is that it was originally a live radio broadcast, so Mick Box announces the title of every song, and which album it came off of. Thus, it's your perfect introduction to Heep. If you like it, you can immediately go and pick up the studio album(s) with the songs you like, an informed consumer.
― unperson, Monday, 17 November 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I have to agree with Phil from a personal standpoint. As a kid, I listened to it way more than Live Bootleg (lowest on my list), DLG (next) and Grand Funk's. Originally, I had Demons & Wizards first, and used the double as stated, as an intro to the rest of the catalog. Next purchase was the first album, then Look at Yourself.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 18 November 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm seeing Uriah Heep tomorrow and doing the background research I found Mick Box blogs... extensively.
http://www.heepstermusic.com/MickBox/Blog/Default.aspx
This going to be so awesome.
― Popture, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
In the Box with the fake Mick Box still makes me laugh.
― Gorge, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_qokOpyBKg
Contender for best guitar riff and best organ riff in one song.
And it might be the same riff. But I still will nominate them.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
I like this riff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZARIQiuxzk
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
VERY (PROTO-) METAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnKgvOKnIgs
― Hamilton, Joe Frank & Two-Thirds of Asphyx (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 10:48 (seven years ago) link
I love "Bird of Prey" - bonkers though it is. I do prefer the version on the North American s/t release, though, instead of the version above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1884-Os4woM
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
Er, the sound quality is better here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqdmjIRDvG0
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
Why did Priest take these clowns on tour
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 May 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
Because they rule. Their 21st century albums are really, really strong if old-school heavy rock (not metal) is your thing.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
Wasn't into the UH i heard in the oast but i respect your tastes so ill give an online listen
― Got your butt drank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 4 May 2019 01:16 (four years ago) link
Would you like to take this magic potion with me, on a trip to a cosmic playground far beyond?
― earlnash, Friday, 28 June 2019 22:52 (four years ago) link
Heep absolutely slayed opening for Priest. What a joy it was to see them on that tour.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 29 June 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
Uriah Heep are under appreciated. They still seem to have a nice fanbase for the current lineup across Europe and South America. Perhaps David Byron dying young, might have cost them a chance for the main members to have had a reunion and perhaps a higher profile in later years.
This July Morning get together that happens in Bulgaria is quite cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Morning
― earlnash, Saturday, 29 June 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
I have a friend who's a big vinylhead but he's only really into metal and the occasional old Hawkwind record (only if Lemmy's on it)...anyway he came over after scoring a copy of Demons & Wizards (maybe I shouldn't say 'scoring', its not exactly a hard LP to find) and man I never realized how much it absolutely rules
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:37 (four years ago) link