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    Posted: September 08 2010 at 11:55
Originally posted by Alberto Muñoz Alberto Muñoz wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

I think you might have better started that discussion in the thread referenced in the second post of this thread, rather than reviving this dead one. Smile
 
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Darn.... that's a valid excuse. Carry on, as you were. Wink
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BTW i hear the show that the play the entire Demons and Wizards album with the current line up and sounds fantastic!!




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Byron was a great singer and Thain a wonderful bass player.
And so are successors like Lawton, Goalby, Wetton and Bolder.
Slowman wasn't bad on Conquest, With Gary Moore on the Rockin' every night(live inJapan)record, his voice is getting worse.
Hensley/Box/Kerslake are good musicians.
The best album is Look at yourself. Some great songs are: Pilgrim, The dance, Tales, Come away Melinda, The park, Cross that line, Free'n'easy, Red lights, Weep in silence and some more. All my life is their most wretched song.
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They've influenced a number of other bands, but their contribution to the evolution of the genre is in general underrated. Just one example: the first two Eloy's albums are full of Uriah Heep IMO
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I Love the Heep top band in there heyday , i saw them some years later in a pub in Reading  Berkshire England . and Mick Box got a Electric shock from Mic stand blew him of his feet,  but was a real trooper came back on half hour later finished there set . Brilliant !!! . 


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Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

I think you might have better started that discussion in the thread referenced in the second post of this thread, rather than reviving this dead one. Smile
 
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I think you might have better started that discussion in the thread referenced in the second post of this thread, rather than reviving this dead one. Smile
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I never associated them with any metal. I think Uriah Heep and metal belong to completely different worlds.
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I was giving someone on another thread recommendations for Prog Metal
As i was giving my 1st recommendations as Demons and Wizards and Magician's Birthday by Uriah Heep.
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It hit me that Uriah Heep(Even though their under Heavy Prog) are really Founding Fathers of the Prog Metal genre.
 
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Let's give Uriah Heep the respect their due as true Founding Fathers of the Progressive Metal genre
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Originally posted by Alberto Muñoz Alberto Muñoz wrote:

Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
             A dream came true: an interview with one of my favorite bands a few years ago, it turned
                      out to be with Mick Box, what a wonderful and very pleasant personality Thumbs Up
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
That photo and interview surely are priceless
 
Mick Box came from the same part of the world as me and I played darts with him in the King's Head Chigwell quite a few times in the early 1970s. Me and my mates were about 17 at the time and what a very nice bloke he was. No ego at all (if you see what I mean). I don't have a photo, tho.
 
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Originally posted by easytargets easytargets wrote:

I surely know you´ll be doing this thread in the future and  now it´s timeThumbs Up
, I am listening to Look at yourself right now and words are useless.
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Excellent album
 
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
             A dream came true: an interview with one of my favorite bands a few years ago, it turned
                      out to be with Mick Box, what a wonderful and very pleasant personality Thumbs Up
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
That photo and interview surely are priceless




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             A dream came true: an interview with one of my favorite bands a few years ago, it turned
                      out to be with Mick Box, what a wonderful and very pleasant personality Thumbs Up
 
 
 
 
 
 


Edited by erik neuteboom - February 12 2009 at 15:34
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I surely know you´ll be doing this thread in the future and  now it´s timeThumbs Up
, I am listening to Look at yourself right now and words are useless.
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I believe that everything they produced up to Firefly is at least respectable. For me, one of the greatest bands of the 70's witha very unique sound and songs that can be counted within the best of prog/classic rock history i.e. July Morning... Powerful riffs and melodic lines - what else do you need? Wink
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For example, almost 15 years ago i was very fond in a song called Illusion of UH, i believe that is a wonderful tear sorrow song and i still like a lot, very underrated
 
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I'm a fan of this wonderful band and never  tired to relisten and relisten their albums, specially the Byron and Lawton era!
 
 




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Originally posted by cacho cacho wrote:

Great band, but with time they had given me less interest. Though of course Demons & Wizards, Salisbury, Magician's and Very Eavy are excellent records, and Sea of Light a quite good one.

Great Hard Rock band with Prog leanings, but prefer Deep Purple, Sabbath, Rooster to it.


Couldn't have said it better myself. One of my gateway drugs into prog, which has now taken a back-seat when I've discovered more and more new and in my opinion more interesting bands. Rarely listen to them nowadays, since Deep Purple basically covers that ground in a better way Smile
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I was a fan of Hensley but completely lost interest after Conquest.
There's a lot of stuff I enjoy, but they had more than an appropriate amount of marshmallow songs; You know, the ones where there's just nothing there when you try and get your teeth into it.
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Demons and Birthday rank up there with Lord of the Rings (the book) as one of my greatest discoveries on my journey into adulthood and both these albums became great treasures to me- life altering, you would almost say. Young listeners nowadays probably don't get it, but this sound was so fresh, so new and unique at the time. To me that sound was magic in musical form.
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