I'm Alive We get a pounding rocker come in, and again it works pretty well, but they were a good live band.
Sweet Lorraine We move back to a classic Heep track, and a quite long version at about 13 minutes. We get an extended jam section, where everyone gets a bit of a play and then we get the audience participation section with a band introduction.
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Free Me / I'm Alive Lawton sounds really comfortable when singing his own song material. I'm Alive was the best song on Fallen Angel (IMO) and his live delivery is great. Even Free Me (a song I otherwise avoid) becomes quite enjoyable. Who Needs Me / One More Night The Kerslake penned track from Firefly and the the other track work live quite well but I think especially Firefly has better offers. July Morning / Sweet Lorraine etc. Regarding the Byron-era songs John Lawton does a pretty decent job but David Byrons casts a long, long shadow. The Heep as such play very well and are in '79 still a live force! I wish I would have been at one of those concerts :-/
Wow, a four minute song stretched out to thirteen. I’ll listen when I get the chance. Try to see what they did with it.
There is a decent lead break from Box, and some nice organ ... but mostly it feels a bit padded out with the band intros and audience participation ... to me at least
By the end of that I was cracking up. Sweet Lorraine as an audience participation number? “Can you sing it? “Yeah!” “The hour of truth. That was f-ing terrible.” Nice bass lines in the song itself. The Mick Box guitar solo was the most unusual Box solo I’ve ever heard. Pretty guitar hero-ish. I’ve never heard him play like that before.
Isn't that what hard rock bands were supposed to do in the seventies? I don't own many live records from that time but those extensive solo parts seemed to be a must (excessive audience participation, however, not so much I think). Well, I'm sure the audience enjoyed the singing and the interaction and the soloing. For the listener 4 decades later it can be a bit tiring. Especially when one plays the record more than once. (NB: 0ne guitar driven live album from the 70ies without both of the above is Mike Oldfield's Exposed 2LP ( 1979), just in case anybody is interested )
Extending the song by various solos was certainly normal. Personally, I think Sweet Lorraine...with the audience participation part being, literally, “Sweet Lorraine!” is a horrible choice to try and do that. The “ahh ahh ahh s” on Lady In Black makes better sense. With that nonsense out of the way, the extended song was just fine to me. But it would have been 8 (maybe 9 ) minutes or so.
I like Uriah Heep. They have had so many albums I haven't known where to start. In response I just bought one of their greatest hits compilations. Their catalog kind of scared me. It was so vast. Just to look into it it's kind of mind-boggling. I do remember Abominog and The Magician's birthday. I consider getting one of those but never got around to it. Thanks for putting together this thread it looks so massive and comprehensive I may be adding some titles to my library.
I think the general consensus would be Look At Yourself, Demons and Wizards and Magician's Birthday as essential. For me personally The Debut through to Sweet Freedom are essential. Innocent Victim would be in my essential list, but a lot of the guys prefer Firefly. Into The Wild, Outsider and Living The Dream kind of reach essential level too. Just above us is the reference guide and you can get to all the albums and songs with a click, so please feel free to browse and have a listen til your heart's content. The first link in the reference guise take you to the first half of the list ... as we have limited post lengths
I have to say, I haven't particularly loved what I heard of the John Lawton-era Heep (although I did buy Firefly), but I've just discovered Lawton's previous (and now I guess current?) act Lucifer's Friend, which seems more up my street. Interesting stuff!
Side 1 of this album seemed to be produced in hopes of a hit - a few covers, poppier stuff, but side 2 is killer - heavy 80s Heep.
Live in Europe '79 did not turn out the way I hoped. I can't say that I enjoyed that record as much as I thought I would. And I can't quite put the finger on it. Probably the particular choice of songs, the sometimes extensive involvement of the audience, the fact that it is not an officially band endorsed release, the cheap looking album artwork - most likely all of it. I much more enjoyed this today (John Lawton is in there, too): It is just a more relaxed performance and audience participation feels less forced. Well sung and played, too.
Wow! I listened through Circle of Hands and it was truly wonderful. I’ll try and watch the whole thing later. Thanks!
This is FANTASTIC! Really enjoyed it. Circle Of Hands, The Wizard (w Ken on lead vocals), Free Me (actually enjoyed this. John Lawton on vocals), July Morning (Lawton...forgets lyrics), Stealin’ (very unusual intro, different vocalist), East Livin’ (same vocalist), Lady In Black (Hensley on vocals, absolute pandemonium, never would have dreamed this would have become this big when it was released on Salisbury), Gypsy (finale). I would have seen this in a heartbeat.
I'm glad you liked it! I thought it was excellent, too. A pleasure to watch and listen. Edit: I just watched Lady In Black again - superb! A long time ago I got tired of this song but this version is pure joy
