The Uriah Heep Official Thread
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Topic: The Uriah Heep Official Thread
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Subject: The Uriah Heep Official Thread
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:45
Well after do a search in the engine button to se if this exist, i decide to create a "Official"  Thread of UH
To talk about their wonderful music and the opinions about who likes most their line ups, songs, etc.
keep Heepin'  -------------  |
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:52
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There is this one: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45538 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=45538
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 14:52
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Why Official? Maybe Appreciation Thread? I love Heep, though I don't know how to begin.  ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:10
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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. |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: February 11 2009 at 15:19
Yes great band , I'm a big fan
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Posted By: mobby
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 02:03
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i love heep..been a fan for ages..though i prefer the hensely period definetely! he is a gifted composer and a great player and all his compositions are far superior to the good but average rock songs that came after.
my favorite heep song and one of my fav songs ever is circus from sweet freedom..can't tire listening to this gorgeous little song..
my top 10 heep albums are
1-demons and wizards
2-salisbury
3-look at yourself
4-firefly
5-magician's birthday
6-abominog
7-return to fantasy
8-very eavy very umble
9-sweet freedom
10-high and mighty
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Posted By: cobb2
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 03:38
| 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. |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 03:48
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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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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 08:51
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  |
cacho wrote:Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 10:28
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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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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 13:47
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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
What do you think about? ------------- |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 14:24
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? 
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Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 15:22
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I surely know you´ll be doing this thread in the future and now it´s time
, I am listening to Look at yourself right now and words are useless.
Fantastic  ------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 15:25
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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
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Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 17:25
That photo and interview surely are priceless ------------- |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: February 12 2009 at 17:44
Excellent album
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Posted By: el dingo
Date Posted: February 13 2009 at 04:16
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.
Keep a-Heepin'  ------------- It's not that I can't find worth in anything, it's just that I can't find worth in enough. |
Posted By: WyattEarp
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 09:57
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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.
Then
It hit me that Uriah Heep(Even though their under Heavy Prog) are really Founding Fathers of the Prog Metal genre.
So
Let's give Uriah Heep the respect their due as true Founding Fathers of the Progressive Metal genre
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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 16:57
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I never associated them with any metal. I think Uriah Heep and metal belong to completely different worlds. ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 17:21
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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.
------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 18:23
That thread is closed ------------- |
Posted By: Hawkwise
Date Posted: September 07 2010 at 19:19
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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 !!! . Love the Heep.... ------------- 
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 04:08
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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 ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Rolf Bos
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 04:22
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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. |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 11:20
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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!! ------------- |
Posted By: Angelo
Date Posted: September 08 2010 at 11:55
Darn.... that's a valid excuse. Carry on, as you were. ------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |