The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 10

This is unfortunately the last in this series for the  foreseeable future as I have pretty much exhausted my collection of Heep covers, although the search continues so if anyone out there has tracks not already used and is willing to share them please get in touch. On that note I would once again like to thank Evert for supplying the vast majority of these(Check out his Website here) and also to Corrado and Higher Livin' for their contribution. And lets not forget all the other bands and artists out there who on a daily basis do there own bit to promote the music of Uriah Heep

Keep on Rockin'

CD1

01-Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Lady In Black
02-The Hensley-Lawton Band - July morning
03-Electric Blues Band - Easy Livin' 2
04-If I Had The Time - Jon Binder
05-Popeda - Kipsi (Gypsy)
06-Circle of hands - The park
07-Steerforth -July morning
08- W.A.S.P. - Easy livin'
09-John Lawton and Gunhill - Sympathy
10-The Hensley-Lawton Band - Gypsy
11-Easy Livin' - Sweet lorraine
12-Vintersorg - Rainbow demon

CD2

01 - Electric Blues Band - Easy Livin'
02-Sweet Lorraine - Circle Of Hands
03-Awaken - The dance
04-Easy Livin' - Stealin'
05-Ken Hensley & John Wetton - Confession
06-Smashing Pumpkins - Easy livin'
07-The Lawton Dunning Project - I've been hurt
08-Electric Blues Band-Circle Of Hands
09-Steve Krase & the In Crowd - Easy livin'
10-Horrible Hannah - Stealin'
11-Sweet Lorraine - Sweet Lorraine
12-The Past - Easy Living'
13-Yves Couture - Circle of hands
14-Wicked Minds - Gypsy
15-Period - Easy livin'

Enjoy

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 9

After a bit of a delay I present to you the ninth volume of the Ultimate Heep covers collection

Enjoy

Disc 1

01 John Lawton - Last Christmas - Free me
02 De Dommelaers - Easy livin'
03 Easy Livin' Band - Return to fantasy
04 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - I'm alive
05 The Blackflowers - Stealin
06 Phil Lanzon - Gypsy -alternate version
07 Ken Hensley & John Wetton - One way or another
08 Osvajaci - Tri-Boje-Duge (Free me)
09 Raging Speedhorn - Gypsy
10 John Lawton and Gunhill - Come back to me
11 Ritzerfeld - Easy livin'
12 Stella and Trevor Hensley - The easy road
13 The Blackflowers - Seven Stars
14 The Byron Band - Sweet lorraine
15 Vilperin Perikunta - Joulopukki (Easy livin')
16 Lucifer's Friend II - Free me

Disc 2

01 Grimskunk - Look at Yourself
02 Gamma Ray - Return to fantasy
03 Circle of hands - I'll keep on trying
04 John Lawton & Dave White - Sympathy
05 Josh Appletree -Rainbow Demon
06 Nightingale - Stealin'
07 Oulu All Star Big Band & J. Aloha - Easy livin'
08 Sweet Lorraine - Sunrise
09 Uriah Heep Tribute - Gypsy
10 Van Beukenstein - Easy livin
11 Wild Angel - Rainbow Demon
12 Circle of hands - The Wizard
13 Gerdesits Ferenc - Look at Yourself
14 Ken Hensley & John Wetton - Return to fantasy


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Higher Livin' - A Tribute To The Music Of Uriah Heep

Have I got a treat for you today!!

I was passed these MP3's for inclusion on the "ultimate covers collection" CD'S, for which I was most grateful.But when I sat down to listen to them something became immediately apparent. To me these were far too good to be buried in a compilation album. The band "Higher Livin'" hail from Italy and from the opening note on "Bird of Prey" all the way through to the conclusion of "July Morning" it is obvious that this extremely talented group of musicians are doing something they love. They have to my unqualified ears managed to do something that so many others have tried to do but ultimately failed, they have successfully captured

THE HEEP SOUND

So Thank you to Corrado for introducing me to the band and thank you to
Higher Livin' For the music

I only wish I lived closer so I could catch this band live

If you are reading these notes you already deserve a couple of thanks, first and foremost from Higher Livin', secondly from one of the greatest bands that Rock History has ever known, Uriah Heep!.













The collection that you hold in your hands was born from the immense admiration of Bassist and future Leader of Higher Livin', Daniele Rossi towards this Band. A band that sadly has not gotten his due as far as praise and its place in Rock Olympus is concerned.Daniele, had the idea of involving the House Band of famed Club "Vivere Su", i.e himself, Fabio Baruzzo on Guitar, Pierga Dettori on Drums and charming Vocalist Claudia Dani in his project, but in order to recreate the original sound of Heep consisting of a solid Rhythm base sustained by a deep Hammond organ and a nimble guitar switching swiftly from lead to back to support the Vocal harmonics of the Group, he needed his Ken Hensley. After countless efforts , Daniele finally found his man in Stefano Toni that in his old Band Butterfly's Tail proposed several pieces of Uriah Heep, mainly due to the love of said band's Vocalist Thor Bertolucci for David Byron. Obviously Daniele did not miss the opportunity to bring on board Thor adding further spices to the powerful vocal mix.All of them finally together , they proceded to organize the first "Heep Night"( and that's where due to mere chance I got involved), that was held at "Vivere Su" on January 27 2011. Being among the public to celebrate my 49th birthday, I had the honour to be called on stage to aid in the presentation of this band that right from the word Go, showed to everybody that they had all it takes to be a real powerhouse. Several other concerts followed until they realized that they needed to leave to posterity something from this wonderful experience.From this primal need stems the cd that you are now holding in your hands, a cd that on top of the pieces performed by the "Core Group", can call on the superb interpretation of Vocalist Extraordinaire Jon Binder on Corridors of Madness, the only song that cannot count on the help that comes from being on the classic and better known albums from the Byron and Lawton periods.Please try to appreciate the effort from the band to record everything Live without overdubs, in order to try to recreate the magic of those concerts.

Enjoy!

Steve The Rock , 04/25/12 (I don't know why April 11th was put on Original Italian issue)



P.S. Higher Livin' look forward to welcoming you back on their next work which will consist mainly of self penned compositions, clearly still inspired by that Classic Rock that we all love and cherish. Please follow www.inrockwetrust.it in order to get latest updates on Higher Livin' most recent projects and their releases.

The band

Claudia Dani (Lead Vocals)
Tor Bertolucci (Lead Vocals)
Fabio Baruzzo (Guitars)
Stefano Toni (Keyboards)
Daniele Rossi (Bass & Vocals)
Pierga Dettori (Drums & Vocals)

The Tracks

1 Bird of Prey
2 Sweet Lorraine
3 Corridors of Madness
4 Sunrise
5 Wise Man
6 Free 'n Easy
7 Gypsy
8 Rain
9 July Morning

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for more information on the band visit their Facebook page

The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 8

Disc 1

01 Blind Guardian - The wizard
02 Sweetheart - Easy livin'
03 Dreamer - I wanna be free
04 Finland - It ain't easy
05 Firefly - Circle of hands
06 Wild Angel - I hear voices
07 Steerforth - Dreamer
08 John Lawton's Gunhill - Sympathy
09 Ken Hensley - The name of the game
10 Kimera - Sunrise
11 Firefly - Easy livin´
12 Sleepy Sleepers - Pihipoika (July morning)
13 Sons of Noise - Gipsy - version 1
14 Steerforth - Look at yourself
15 Uriah Heep Tribute - Stealin'

Disc 2

01 Iverija - July morning
02 Kosmos - Viisi varmaa (Easy livin')
03 Dreamer feat. Ken Hensley- Circle of hands
04 Virgin Steele - Stay on top
05 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - Firefly/Come back to me
06 Uriah Heep Tribute - Time to live
07 Le 4ème - Easy Livin' ('82)
08 Circle of hands - July morning
09 Narnia - Sunrise
10 Native Son - Stealin'
11 Norway - The wizard
12 The Madmen - Suicidal man
13 The Spell - Wake up set your sights
14 Music Factory - Easy Livin'
15 Echoes in the dark - Circle of Hands

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 7

Disc 1
01 Van Beukenstein - Easy Livin` Live
02 Dreamer - Sunrise
03 Fast Finger - Time of revelation
04 Kalmar Union -Sadetta vain (Rain)
05 Horrible Hannah - Wizard
06 Nash - Weep in silence
07 Steerforth - Gypsy
08 Synkopy 61 - Bílý vrány (Easy livin')
09 The Spell - Sweet lorraine
10 VanillaHeep - Salisbury
11 Circle of hands - Rainbow demon
12 Vilperin Perikunta - Piirimyyjä (Easy livin')
13 Wild Angel - Look at yourself
14 Alwari Tuohitorvi - Sweet Lorraine
15 Dreamer feat. Ken Hensley - Rain

Disc 2
01 ...a meloun - kouzelnik -the wizard
02 Sad Juicies & the Fair Aussies - Godly Livin
03 Featherwheel - July morning
04 Easy Livin' - Return to fantasy
05 D.C.Cooper- Easy livin'
06 Heep Heads - Pilgrim
07 James Last - Easy Living
08 Ken Hensley - If I had the time
09 Liegelord - Too scared to run
10 Circle of hands - Sunrise
11 Shirley Zwerus - Easy livin'
12 The Madmen - Sunrise
13 Tonix - Frihet (Free me)
14 Easy Livin' -Circle of Hands

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 6

Disc 1

01 Century - The wizard
02 Circle of hands - Look at yourself
03 Easy Livin' - Easy livin'
04 Unknown - July morning
05 'Eavier than 'umble - Question
06 Freebase - Suicidal man
07 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - One more night
08 LawtonHulme - Return to fantasy-Magician's birthday-Wonderworld
09 Les Humphries - Look at Yourself
10 Outcast - Easy living
11 PLT - Rainbow demon
12 Sonic Perception ft. Antonio Carvalho - July Morning
13 Sons of Noise - Gipsy-version 2
14 Tesla - Stealin'
15 James Last - Live - Easy livin'
16 The Heavy's - Slow Down Mix

Disc 2
01 Unknown - Easy Livin'
02 Apphiliated - Gypsy version 1
03 Circle of hands - The wizard
04 Cosmic Banditos & John Lawton - Easy livin'
05 Danny - Itsesi näät vain, et enempää (Look at yourself)
06 Finland - Too scared to run
07 Fratres - Gypsy
08 Horrible Hannah - July morning
09 Sinister Purpose - Easy livin' - elektrisch
10 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - Tonight
11 Duett Komplett - The wizard
12 Knight Crawler - Stealin'
13 Native Son - That's how I am
14 The Byron Band - July morning
15 The Madmen - The hanging tree
16 Steerforth - Easy livin'

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 5

Disc 1
01 Apphiliated - Gypsy version 3
02 James Last - Easy Living
03 Easy Livin'Band -Bird of prey
04 Circle of hands - Rain
05 The Spell - Easy livin
06 Gamma Ray - Look at yourself
07 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - Wise man
08 Museo Rosenbach - Shadows Of Grief
09 Serpentcult - Rainbow Demon
10 Coverboy - Easy livin'
11 Steerforth - Tears in my eyes
12 Tad Morose - Rainbow demon
13 The Hensley-Lawton Band - I'm alive
14 The Madmen - Sweet lorraine
15 Circle of hands - Easy livin'
16 Emperor - Stealin'

Disc 2
01 Angel Dust - Easy livin'
02 Circle of hands - Circle of hands
03 Easy Livin' - Look at yourself
04 In The Adventures of Sir Vent @ KingArthur.com - Easy livin'
05 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - Feelings
06 Music factory - Return to Fantasy
07 Peter Pajic - Svetjo Tako Lep (Wonderworld)
08 PurpleHeep - Stealin
09 Red Baron - Gypsy
10 Steerforth - A Year or a day
11 Sweet Lorraine - Rain
12 Trifase - July Morning
13 Circle of hands - I'm alive
14 Uriah Heep Tribute - I'll keep on trying
15 Woodstosck - gypsy

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 4

Enjoy

Disc 1

01 Apphilliated - Gypsy version 4
02 Steerforth - Rainbow demon
03 Firefly - Between two worlds
04 Circle of Hands - Tales
05 Easy Livin' Band - Sweet lorraine
06 Medizine - Your turn to remember
07 Ken Hensley - Take care (Footprints in the snow)
08 Blackfoot - Easy livin'
09 Sweet Lorraine - Stealin
10 Uriah Heep Tribute - The Easy Road/Rain
11 Woodstock - Look at Yourself
12 Ken Hensley- Circle Of Hands
13 Yves Couture - I'll keep on tryin'
14 PurpleHeep - Easy Livin
15 The Lawton Dunning Project - Feelings

Disc 2

01 Backup(?) - Rain
02 Bronz - The other side of midnight
03 Circle of hands - Stealin'
04 Clive Rogers and Cobra - The wizard
05 Easy Livin' - Love machine
06 Gilles Snowcat - The easy road
07 Ken Hensley & John Wetton - July morning
08 Lana Lane - Weep in silence
09 Mindbender - Stealin'
10 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - Rain
11 Nightingale - Return to fantasy
12 Party Blues In Bb - Easy Livin
13 Alwari T - Sweet lorraine
14 Echoes in the dark - Stealin'
15 Circle of hands - One way or another
16 The Hensley-Lawton Band - Wise man

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 3

Volume 3 of the ever expanding covers collection Enjoy

Disc 1
01 Alex Gitlin & Curt Cornell - Pilgrim
02 Circle of hands - Return to fantasy
03 Bad Wizard - Love Machine
04 Easy Livin' - So tired
05 Cosmic Banditos - Gypsy
06 PurpleHeep - Sunrise
07 Music factory - Wonderworld
08 John Lawton's Gunhill - Live in germany '99 - Free me
09 The Blackflowers - Circle of Hands
10 Steerforth- Your turn to remember
11 Unknown - Easy livin'
12 The Spell - Gypsy
13 Sacred Steel - Return to fantasy
14 Woodstock - The Wizard
15 VanillaHeep - July morning

Disc 2
01 Bernd Clüver - Frieden (braucht auch ein rebel)- Free Me
02 Denny Ball - Firefly
03 Sinister Purpose - Easy livin' ( semi-acoustic)
04 Iverija - Sunrise
05 Kimera - July morning
06 The Blackflowers - What can I do
07 Easy Livin' Band - Look at yourself
08 Wild Angel - Bird of prey
09 Alex Masi - Easy Livin'
10 Muff & the Lady in Black Gang - Lady In Black
11 Onward - A return to fantasy - Bird of prey
12 Pulsar - No Return
13 Harri Lahti - Easy livin'
14 Steerforth - July morning
15 John Lawton - Free me

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 2

YOU CANT KEEP A GOOD B--- DOWN

It's breath and words and time you're wastin'
When you should be tryin' to have a good time
For a good few years it's been yours we've tasted
So here's a little piece of my mind

I'll blog and I'll blog and I'll blog and I'll blog
Till I run out of reason to try
If it happens you don't approve
It don't matter I won't ask why

You can't keep a good Blog down
You'll never find the solution
You won't stop us runnin' around
You're dealin' with an institution

I'll fill my cup with wine while you
Fill your head with high ideals
You know so much but you still can't touch
Till you find out how it feels

And now to our second instalment of the Uriah Heep covers collection. Another two CD's worth

enjoy

Disc 3

01 Ken Hensley - Does anything matter (Woman of the world)
02 Overload -Traveller in time
03 Kristina Dyck - Wise Man
04 The Dickies - Easy livin'
05 Vassili Dimitrov - Sunrise
06 Steerforth -Stealin'
07 Made in Japan - Easy livin
08 Museo Rosenbach - Look At Yourself
09 James Last - Easy Livin'
10 MSFunk - July morning
11 Easy Livin' - Sunrise
12 Fratres - Rainbow demon
13 Circle of hands - Bird of prey
14 C and K vocal - Pilgrim
15 Circle of hands - Tales
16 Apphiliated - Gypsy version 2
17 Blinside Blues band - I Wanna Be Free

Disc 4

01 Yellow Circle - Easy Livin'
02 Dreamer - So tired
03 Firefly - Sunrise
04 Grzegorz Kupczyk & Kruk - July Morning
05 Easy Livin' -Bird of prey
06 Fratres - Rain
07 John Lawton - Let it ride
08 Double Trouble - Real turned on
09 Uriah Heep Tribute - Look at yourself
10 James Last - Easy Livin'
11 Samurai & Hardbartle - Lady in black
12 Period - Stealin
13 Spiritual Beggars - Time to Live
14 Stella and Trevor Hensley - Tales
15 Ken Hensley - Rain
16 Mojo Blues Band - Love machine
17 The Hookers - Look At Yourself
18 Wild Angel - Easy livin'

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The Ultimate Heep Covers Collection - Various artists Volume 1

Over the coming weeks I am going to post a series of CDs that I have put together of Uriah Heep songs performed by other bands. Some of these have already appeared on other collections already posted ,but hey you cant have enough Heep songs right!. As with other compilations of this kind the quality of some of them leave a little to be desired but it is well worth listening to them to see just how other people/bands have interpreted the songs that we all know and love.

So far the collection is around the 20 Cd mark which I will post as double CD's with some basic artwork

Disc1

01 Axl Rudi Pell - July morning
02 Circle of hands - Traveller in time
03 Danny - Miehen tie (Blind eye)
04 HulmeDreher band - Circus
05 John Lawton & Steve Dunning - Been hurt
06 Mythology - Easy Livin
07 The Blackflowers - Sweet Lorraine
08 Uriah Heep Tribute - Bird Of Prey
09 Ken Hensley - Illusion
10 Big Band Nütheim Schleckheim - Easy livin'
11 Brotherhood- Easy livin
12 Karma - Pakoon pahaa maailmaa (Stealin')
13 Synkopy 61 - Look at yourself - Hrej se mnou fair
14 Finland - Rain
15 Dreamer - Time to live
16 Dreamer - Easy livin'
17 Grzegorz Kupczyk & Kruk- Gypsy

Disc 2

01 uriah heep revival - Medley
02 Bronz - All my life
03 Bugotak - Gypsy
04 The Madmen - If I had the time
05 Ken Hensley - Circle Of Hands
06 Graham Hulme & Dave White - Blind eye
07 Pate Mustajärvi - Kipsi (Gypsy)
08 Satrox - Stealin'
09 PurpleHeep-July Morning
10 John Lawton's Gunhill - Firefly(Live '99)
11 Yves Couture - The Wizard
12 The Blackflowers - Rainbow Demon
13 Sweet Lorraine - Something Or Nothing
14 Woodstock - love machine
15 Uriah Heep Tribute - Wake Up
16 The Sad Juicies and the Fairy Aussies - Godly Livin
17 Wild Angel - Dreammare


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Alternative link

A very special thank you has to go to Evert Achterberg who has kindly given me the vast majority of these songs To get an idea of the amount of cover versions available you should pay his site a visit click on the text

Uriah Heep - Covers

This is a compilation of covers that has been put together by Corrado which he describes as a "work in progress" The tracks on this compilation are of wildly differing quality but nevertheless they show just how influential Heeps music was to so many different bands and genres

 If anyone out there has any other covers that they can contribute to the "Ultimate Heep cover collection"

They would be most welcome

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CD 1 

CD 2 

CD 3

New covers

John Sloman- 1988-2007 Compilation (Original post here)

Bernie Shaw- The picking locks compilation (Original post here)

No new album in this post. I just wanted to tell you that i made two new collage covers (as in the recent Lawton compilation) for the two compilations, already posted, devoted to two other singers from the Heep, John Sloman (above with relevant link) and Bernie Shaw (below, always with link). If you were to lose them, are both a good listening suggestion for you...

Thank you and good listen