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Poll Question: soft-tended prog-well balanced metal
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    Posted: March 06 2005 at 12:04
avant-garde-outstanding metal-prog fusion!!!...
for waters,peter rivera and their ultimate words of wisdom
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I like Look at Yourself (The album with July Morning) more than any other Heep release, but it wasn't their Golden era, because neither Gary Thain or Lee Kerslake had joined the band.

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Pretty obvious answer... eve if I had to look to lady in black, a long time forgotten song...
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Points: 430 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 13:18
Another vote for July Morning!
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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 13:41

July morning for me too, despite my forum name!Embarrassed

Ivan, "Look at yourself" wasn't by the classic line up, but it was certainly from the band's golden era. Wink

 

 
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Points: 7559 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 13:53

Originally posted by rivera`s hope rivera`s hope wrote:

avant-garde-outstanding metal-prog fusion!!!...

I hope that's a joke, coz I'm LMAOROTFL

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Points: 1475 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 13:55
July morning, followed by Easy livin'. Two of the best songs ever.
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Points: 830 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 14:01
Uriah Heep rule, but I wish they didn't have Mick Box as guitar player.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 06 2005 at 14:07

Only four Uriah albums for me:

'Very eavy,Very umble'

'Sailsbury'

'Look @ yourself'

'Deamond & wizzards'

 

 

 
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JULY MORNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gypsy is another one of my fave classics...........
Just take a pebble, and cast it to the sea....

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The mighty Uriah heep my very favourite band in my teen years, how I loved these icons of the early 70's.

Just picture this Byron in full flow,Hensley hanging over the Hammond.Box hammering out the gut ripping chords of Gypsy and the strobe light capturing every moment in time and your sitting only 6 feet away from them and it's 1972 and how I wish I had a frickin time machine.

Loved all their albums up to Sweet Freedom but July Morning is a classic song from a classic rock band and gets my vote.
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I love the keyboards in July Morning so it gets my vote.

A mention to the Rock n Roll Medley on their live album though. The power that emanates from this track is amazing and its a wonder the ceilings on the venues they played at were still intact at the end of the performance. Maybe Fragile can shed some light?
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I like Gypsy, but overall Juli Morning reigns. Look at yourself, One of the few Uriah albums I have.

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Hey frosty, just in from my usual Sunday night out  ,half jaked, but to throw some light on this magnificent band they took me on an incredible spin in my early teens  ;I seeped Uriah heep at one point so passionate was I about them; Byron was a major singer and I loved this band so much.But your'e right the ceilings rocked and seeing them at the Glasgow Greens Playhouse the best rock venue in the whole damn world made my time then unbelievablely amazing.How can I convey what it was like seeing them they were simply awesome and shaped alot of my taste in music but to go back to the Electric Gardens and witness them in their rawness will never ever leave me.

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I managed to raise a laugh when my old prog band was interviewed on radio about 4 years ago ... and each of us were asked to name our very favourite band ... I followed the guitarist's Yes, the drummer's Rush and the bassist's Pink Floyd ... with Uriah Heep

Prog is my favourite style but I have some problems thinking of Heep as a prog band (in my collection it's next to Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Rainbow under 70's hard rock) ... although they distinctly have prog moments ... especially

Gypsy on the Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble album
Salisbury on the Salisbury album
Shadows Of Grief and July Morning on the Look At Yourself album
Paradise/The Spell on the Demons And Wizards album

Lady In Black is my favourite Heep song, but in the prog context July Morning is way ahead of the other tracks listed here ...

For me, the classic period extends almost all the way through the Byron era (the last Byron album High'N'Mighty had two brilliant songs in Footprints In The Snow and Weep In Silence) ... although if pushed I'd have to say that Heep's first six albums (up til Sweet Freedom) were their strongest ... the obvious classic line-up being Byron, Box, Hensley, Thain and Kerslake ...

Ken Hensley is still my all-time favourite songwriter ... and I'll never forget collapsing to the ground after getting an e-mail from him ... i also accosted Mick Box for his autograph once ... he must be the most down-to-earth rock legend ever ...
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Points: 476 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2005 at 02:21
Same for me really...Uriah Heep are definitely one of my favourite bands. 'Lady In Black' was the first song of theirs I REALLY loved, but the most prog-metal moment they've had has got to be July Morning.

Even though S A L I S B U R Y is still pretty damn good!
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You forgot Circle of Hands, an absolute classic!
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Points: 20273 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2005 at 11:06
what, no Salibury?
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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July Morning, every freakin' time!



Here we see the chaps running away before Ken's solo gets out of hand (poor David having slipped whilst distracted by a particularly ill-advised Moog arpeggio)

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Points: 1125 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2005 at 15:37

Great picture Jim brings back irreplaceable memories.Once had a letter that Ken Hensley wrote to me about songwriting, but foolishly I disgarded it, what an idiot They meant so much to me even after I realised that Yes and prog were my Universe.
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