Uriah Heep - Into the Wild

 

Not quite sure where to start with this. 

I have been a Heep fan since 1980 (yes I was the one who bought Conquest), and the title of the blog should give you some indication of what I thought of the next album. 

I have eagerly waited for each new release like a child who is only allowed into a sweet shop every birthday, and over the years this feeling has never diminished. Ten years ago I really thought Heep had seen their day as recording artists, and we would never again see another studio album, as they seemed content just releasing live dvd's and touring. Then came Wake the Sleeper which I really thought was a great album, perhaps a bit repetitive in style but it was new Heep and all Heep is good Heep isn't it?.Well yes it is but is it good enough to stand the test of time, personally I don't think so, It was a great "comeback album" and there were a couple of tracks that I still play "What kind of God" and " Book of Lies" being a my favorites,but most of the album just leaves me cold now. so what of this new album? coming so close on the heels of Wake the Sleeper( in Heep terms anyway. 4 years is not bad)

will this album  

warm me 

or  

freeze me.

I  have had the album  now for 6 hours and am on the seventh or eighth play through and it just keeps getting better and better I don't believe there is one weak track on this . Sure some tracks are better than others but even the weakest track is far far superior to anything on the last album. This Sounds like modern Heep but they manage to capture their entire history on this. there are nods to the classic 70s line up as well as moments that could have quite easily have come off of Abominog or even Equator (listen to T- bird Angel and picture Goalby singing that one). In short this is a masterpiece and I only hope that the peers that be give them the recognition this album so deserves

GO BUY IT NOW!!!!!! from here

John Lawton Band- 2000- Sympathy- Live On German TV 2000

Originally issued as "The UH live archive number 5", this is a very good audio version of a special for the German Tv with the early John Lawton Band (only one year before, they were Gunhill). The Band is very good and thr John's voice is at the top. The Highlight of this concert, in my opinion, si their version of Free Me, over fourteen minutes long, with a Santana's Jingo citation in the middle and a very beautiful bass solo by Steve Dunning. If you have not this live album, download it and enjoy yourself...

TRACKLIST:

01 - Sympathy

02 - Big Fat Money

03 - Can't get you out of my mind

04 - Tomorrow

05- Firefly

06 - Tonight

07 - Starlight Angel

08 - Still Payin' My Dues To The Blues

09 - Free Me

10 - Ride the sky

LINE-UP:

John Lawton - Lead vocals, guitar

Steve Dunning - Bass, vocals

Reuben Kane - Guitar, vocals

Justin Shefford - Drums

Roger Wilson - Keyboards

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Uriah heep - Nail on the Head

First full listen to one of the new tracks off the album "Into The Wild"

What do you think???

Lucifer's friend- 1973- I'm Just a Rock'N'Roll Singer

Tracklist:

01- Groovin stone

02- Closed curtains

03- Born on the run

04- Blind freedom

05- Rock'n'roll singer

06- Lonely city days

07- Mary's breakdown

08- Song for Louie

Line-up:

Peter Hecht- Keyboards

Dieter Horns- Bass, backing vocals

Peter Hesslein- Guitar, backing vocals

Joachim Reitenbach- Drums

Herbert Bornhold- Percussion

John Lawton- Lead vocals

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The Uriah Heep Appreciation Society Magazine Collection

There was a time, when the internet was still too young and not so widespread as today, where a fan, to inquire about his heart's band, had to turn to publications like this, fanzines that were sent by air mail from the Fans Club to fans that are mambers of the same Club. For UH fandìs there was the "Uriah Heep Appreciation Society", created by hisortical UH fans David Owen and Alan Hartley (wich is my great gratitude for the work done and, of course, for this post). I was also member for, at least, one couple of years of the UHAS, and i possess the original issues from number 19 to 26. This fanzine came out from 1991 to 1999, when it was rendered useless by the arrival of an internet access in all our homes. Each issue is packed with reviews, informations about the band, reviews of concerts, pictures vintage and new, interviews with the various present and past members of Uriah Heep.

Taken togheter, these 33 issues of the Uriah Heep Appreciation Society Magazine are a real fanzine encyclopedia of Heep (EncyclHEEPedia?).

This LINK contains the complete collection of the Magazine in PDF format.

If tou are intersted in only some numbers, you can go HERE, in the beautiful site "Travellers in Time", where you can find PDF versions of each number.

This time, a good reading to all

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

The ill-fated boy for whom David Garrick became David Byron

- David Garrick - 1967 - A boy called David -

This post has apparently nothing to do with Uriah Heep, but the name David Garrick do not remember someone? That's right, the real surname of the great David Byron was right Garrick, then this singer of late 60's was his namesake. But the connection between the two David does not end here. Recently, reading some facts on the beautiful Italian site dedicated to UH (here), i found this curious news:

"The final decision about the name change was made by David because of the success that the Spice were getting in the various clubs and colleges in England, and this decision was a suggestion of Paul Newton's mother (Paul's family was in contact with the band, as the father of Paul was their manager at the time). The problem about the name Garrick was that there was another singer with same name and surname who, at that period, was getting some success with a Rolling Stones cover, Lady Jane. This singer soon disappeared by the scenes, but now the legal procedures for changing the name of our David had ended"

From now, there are not two David Garrick, but was born the only David Byron, when the 70's were still to come with the worldwide success and the excess that all we know...

So David Garrick, now very unknown pop singer of late 60's, was the cause of David Garrick became David Byron (and i'm sure that this name change brought him much luck)

I think that this ill-fated singer, whose parents even more reminescent of the songs, at least deserves a listen, what do you think?

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