Ken Hensley, does he deserve to be on PA? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

First: when you propose a band for inclusion, please post the relevant thread in this section - Suggest New Bands and Artists.

Second: what subgenre do you suggest him for?

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Sorry for posting in the wrong place

About the subgenre it quite fits in the prog related place, like UH.

If the band URIAH HEEP is in, why not the solo albums of its leader!!

Hensley first 2 albums have some good prog leanings and should be included as EASY LIVIN wrote in prog-related.....i have seen bands listed here on PA with definitely less prog credentials than Ken.

Of course , what came after these 2 albums is another story!

If you mean his first two albums 'Proud words on a Dusty Shelf' and 'Eager to Please', I don't detect anything prog there at all. Sort of watered-down UH to my ears.

Not that I vote against him being included, there are others here that seem to qualify even less, but perhaps we could introduce a new category, something like:

As far away from Prog as possible?

So, may i began the biography?

Good move including him, I would say PR as opposed to HP

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Good couple of albums were the first two (but , really, they are mid-Byron era sound). But his last album - Blood in the highway - is wonderful, I'm so glad that one of my fav composers and musicists can bring a so strong album in the autumn of his life (Wise man anyone?). But prog? well, I love UH byron and lawton era both, and shawn-era live isn't embarrasing. Wake the sleeper is a very good album, but UH never was a prog band, neither prog related. They are a heavy metal/hard rock band to my ears, and don't need to be blessed for the smart prog lovers to be one of the most wonderful group I've ever heard. So, a strong no is my two cents.

Bach, Ma, Bros, Déia, Dante.

Easy Livin wrote:

Not yet, it needs to be approved by the team concerned.

OK

I'd suggest you contact the team where Uriah heep are located first (Heavy Prog) to see if they want to add him there. If they decline, send me a PM and I will ask the Admin Team to consider for Prog related.

OK

Here's my update of the thread:

I send to David (Atavachron) some samples of the first album, he thinks that the are not HP.

Then in these days i strongly listen to the first album of him: Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf, and find very good prog.

1. When the Evening Comes, a good song with a carefully constructed guitar solo, that sounds amazing in headphones, and have the classic trademark sound of key albums of UH like Demons and Wizards and Magician's Birthday.

2. From Time to Time, a ver good and soulful acoustic number, the prog elements jump in the keyboards probably a moog sounding like and a somber, sinister mood of the song, hardly a pop number.

3.- King Without a Throne. a simple, accesible track that is great, Thain plays the bass like and powerful anchor and sound terrific, with a melody simple, but a elaborate bass playing, a sympatetic rythym.

4.- Rain. This is the Hensley version, than lacks the powerful vocal delivery from Byron but a good track that every heepsters knows well.

5.- Proud Words... a track that never make the inclusion on Demons and Wizards, a simple melody, but with little prog elements. Nevertheless a good track.

6.- Fortune.- probably the most prog track in the album, very reminiscent that UH was doing in albums like Sweet Freedom, Demons and Magician's, a great vocal delivery, a pounding bass line by Thain an very tigh but precise druming by Kerslake, a must, it starts with acoustic guitar but later delivery in a power semi epic track, the only fail is the time, i like that it would be longer.

I will listen the remaining tracks this day to update the post.

But believe me this is essential to be in PA.

Ok Bob, Thanks a lot.

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