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BrufordFreak 
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 Posted: January 25 2008 at 17:53 |
 I'm so glad some other people out there believe Uriah Heep belongs in the prog art category. I just joined this site today (just found it!) and was trying to put together my Top Ten All-time Favorite Prog Rock albums list and was seriously toying with some of Uriah Heep's works (espec. Demons & Wizards). Carry on! Am very excited to be a part of this site!!
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NotAProghead
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 18:53 |
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Welcome! Nice to see Heep fans here.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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Thandrus
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 19:32 |
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Welcome!
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 21:24 |
 NotAProghead wrote:
I don't rememember much chorus of DP, at least in times of Mk II.
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Not many, but I'm listening Child in Time and Highway Star, both with some chorus or backing vocals and both from MkII.
Anyway, Heep's Chorus were outstanding.
BTW: Welcome Bruford Freak, is nice to have more Heepers.
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 25 2008 at 21:33
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micky
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 21:26 |
there's no comparison in vocal harmonies between the two.. Heep has great ones.. DP?.. none come to mind 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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jimmy_row
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 21:59 |
^how about that Neil Diamond song they covered?
haha I just mentioned Neil Diamond on a prog website  |
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micky
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Posted: January 25 2008 at 22:02 |
jimmy_row wrote:
^how about that Neil Diamond song they covered?
haha I just mentioned Neil Diamond on a prog website |
clappies for you hahhahah 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Real Paradox
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 14:07 |
DP is not a very vocal band anyways...But I guess we are comparing very different bands man...Deep Purple with Rainbow maybe...but Uriah Heep, is a whole different lvl...Its a very self-defined music,Its prog, but it can't be compared, that's special! 
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What is This?
It is what keeps us going...
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everyone
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 15:14 |
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I own heeps of Heep albums and DP albums. I even own the Toe Fat album that Hensley is on. Rough Diamond was very disappointing. I have always liked UH since Look at Yourself.
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kiwi
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 15:28 |
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Slightly off topic, but was one of the band members electrocuted on stage?
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We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high.. (Baha'u'llah)
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NotAProghead
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 15:39 |
^ At least two.
First Gary Thain and it finished dramatically - departure from the band and death soon. Though main reason of his death was his strong drag addiction.
Second - Jown Wetton, fortunately without noticable after-effects.
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Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)
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kiwi
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 15:47 |
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^ Thanks for that.
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We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high.. (Baha'u'llah)
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 16:25 |
NotAProghead wrote:
^ At least two.
First Gary Thain and it finished dramatically - departure from the band and death soon. Though main reason of his death was his strong drag addiction.
Second - Jown Wetton, fortunately without noticable after-effects. |
The case of Gary was dramatic, they guy was clinically dead for a couple of minutes, he was already addicted to heroin but after the shock his addiction went totally out of control, the band had to ask him to leave in February 1975 because he wasn't reliable anymore.
He died of OD on December 8, 1975 less than a year after he left the band.
The case almost repeated a year after when David Byron was asked to leave by Ken Hensley, due to his erratic behaviour product of alcoholism in 1976 after he recovered he was invited to rejoin Uriah Heep in 1980 but he refused, he died of epyilepsy and liver faillure comsequence of alcohol abuse in 1985.
What a waste of talent. 
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - January 26 2008 at 16:32
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Raff
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 16:38 |
micky wrote:
there's no comparison in vocal harmonies between the two.. Heep has great ones.. DP?.. none come to mind
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You should probably give "Burn" a listen if you want to hear vocal harmonies... Though I'd probably call them "vocal duels" more than harmonies .
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 16:45 |
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micky
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 16:49 |
Real Paradox wrote:
DP is not a very vocal band anyways...But I guess we are comparing very different bands man...Deep Purple with Rainbow maybe...but Uriah Heep, is a whole different lvl...Its a very self-defined music,Its prog, but it can't be compared, that's special! |
RP.. vocal harmonies aside.. they are quite similar groups.... UR is not self defined music at all.. you can't go 10 ft from a write up on UR without some sort of a DP mention .. they are tied to together, for better or worse, in some sort of psychic loop or continuum hahhahaha
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NotAProghead
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 16:56 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
The case of Gary was dramatic, they guy was clinically dead for a couple of minutes...
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I can add David Byron actually saved Gary's life then, because he pulled bass guitar away from Gary's hands, i.e. 'switched off the electricity'.
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
David Byron ... was invited to rejoin Uriah Heep in 1980 but he refused...
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I read, in Dave Ling's and other books, that after Ken's departure Mick Box and Trevor Bolder came to Byron and offered him to join the band. But he didn't want to talk about it.
Why? I often thought about it, but I don't know the answer till now.
Edited by NotAProghead - January 26 2008 at 17:03
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NotAProghead
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Posted: January 26 2008 at 17:02 |
Ghost Rider wrote:
You should probably give "Burn" a listen if you want to hear vocal harmonies... Though I'd probably call them "vocal duels" more than harmonies.
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And "Smoke On The Water" performed by Coverdale/Hughes - it's real cats' choir . Though I love all DP line-ups.
Edited by NotAProghead - January 27 2008 at 12:22
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Thandrus
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Posted: January 27 2008 at 04:57 |
NotAProghead wrote:
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
The case of Gary was dramatic, they guy was clinically dead for a couple of minutes...
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I can add David Byron actually saved Gary's life then, because he pulled bass guitar away from Gary's hands, i.e. 'switched off the electricity'.
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
David Byron ... was invited to rejoin Uriah Heep in 1980 but he refused...
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I read, in Dave Ling's and other books, that after Ken's departure Mick Box and Trevor Bolder came to Byron and offered him to join the band. But he didn't want to talk about it.
Why? I often thought about it, but I don't know the answer till now. |
Perhaps he was greatly offended when they kicked him out in 1975, I don't know...
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Thandrus
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Posted: January 27 2008 at 05:07 |
[/QUOTE] RP.. vocal harmonies aside.. they are quite similar groups.... UR is not self defined music at all.. you can't go 10 ft from a write up on UR without some sort of a DP mention .. they are tied to together, for better or worse, in some sort of psychic loop or continuum hahhahaha [/QUOTE]
I think Uriah Heep still has a melodic world different to others. Songs like Wonderworld, Sympathy, If I Had The Time or their balads will prove my opinion, I guess.
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