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amatt - 2007-08-28 14:59:54
Uriah heep was my first rock concert.
Central Park 1973. Loud. I believe John Wetton was the bassist.
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grigorss - 2007-08-28 15:43:05
...Uriah Heep still exists
Eeh Gads! I shall alert the C.F.Z.!
I have beheld Van Der Graaf Generator's music...
I am impressed that you can "behold" music -- in an effort to match this feat, I will attempt to listen to the photos of Ansel Adams.
...Yes, I have had paint thinner
WHA...!?!
Was this back in your dissolute drinking days with Charles Bukowski?
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Joe - 2007-08-28 16:14:29
Uriah Heep have had the same lineup for about 20 yers now, and still play regularly in Europe. I recently started listening to VDGG, too. Peter Hammill's voice is hard to take at first - so stentorian - but the music is crazy. GODBLUFF is my favorite VDGG album. They're also still around - just finished touring.
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Paula - 2007-08-28 16:46:14
Yeah, apparently VDGG reformed a few years ago after Peter H. had a heart attack. I've been enjoying (maybe "enjoying" isn't quite the word) PH's solo reissues, many of which are available on Emusic.
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Bob - 2007-08-28 18:43:05
Gee, Uriah Heep was my first concert, too. Though technically, they were opening for Kiss... but my older (15) brother and I both wound up enjoying the Heep more. (Must have been a more optimistic time then, cuz my dad just dropped us off on the road near some auditorium in Hollywood, Flarda, and picked us up on the side of the road later, real simply.) Come to think of it, I think that's the only rock "concert" I've ever been to.
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Bob - 2007-08-28 18:46:47
Oh, and thanks for the heads up on (a hopefully better recording of) The Eat the other day, Paula.
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Janet - 2007-08-28 18:50:50
What kinds of sushi do you like, Paula?
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Paula - 2007-08-28 19:02:42
Bob: did you pick up that album? It's pretty much everything they've ever recorded, plus some live stuff.
Janet: so far, I can deal with the hand-rolled stuff--unagi, avocado, salmon, cucumber. Sushi proper still just seems like a sad slab of raw fish on a bed of lonely death.
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Baby Party - 2007-08-28 20:32:46
When I was twelve, in 1975, in Memphis, I used to listen to a "progressive rock" show on a local FM station every Friday night. The show's definition of prog rock was rather wide - it was really AOR. (Shortly afterward that particular FM station switched from Top 40 to AOR.) Anyway, I won a Uriah Heep record on a call-in contest. When I went to pick it up (my mom drove me), they had run out of Uriah Heep, and gave me ZZ Top's Fandango intead. Which is a great record! But consequently, I still know next to nothing about Uriah Heep, and wouldn't recognize one of their songs if it spit in my face. I think they should have T-shirts made up that say: "Uriah Heep is a band."
Sushi rolls are great, but oh: a perfect buttery piece of salmon on a bed of sticky rice, dipped in soy sauce and wasabi - the clean proteiny rush - umami heaven...
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Paula - 2007-08-28 20:55:15
That's a great story.
I learned today that Uriah Heep was Spinal Tap-ian in their inability to keep drummers. I listened to a couple songs of theirs today and they neither rang any old, buried bells, nor appealed to me too much. But God bless 'em!
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Bob - 2007-08-28 21:57:40
Did you listen to "Easy Living"? (That was Uriah Heep's bell-ringer.) I'm going to pick up that Eat CD, but I sort of already have that on cd, cuz a record store owner made a copy (maybe even with the band's permission, since he has pressed some vinyl re-releases of some other old Florida punk) of I guess a CDR that the band itself was selling in the nineties called "Slowly I Turn", for my brother when he was writing a book a few years ago, cuz it was no longer available then. But I welcome the opportunity to make the band a pittance and maybe get a better recording in the process.
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2fs - 2007-08-28 23:05:53
Pshaw - clearly you had some of that lame, cheapo, domestic paint thinner that's mostly your mundane, budget-rate aromatics. Get yourself some of that high-end, imported thinner: I recommend Esprit Blanc - especially some of the rarer distillations from the early 1960s.
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Sharon - 2007-08-28 23:52:12
Uriah Heep-- if not one of the all-time memorable bands, one of the all-time great band names in the days before tres creative band names became de rigeur. (The best one I've heard of lately is a kid band called Care Bears on Fire!) Other Dickens' characters whose names would have made good band monikers are: Magwitch, Oliver Twist, Barkus, Miss Havisham's Dress, and Mick Jagger (always thought his name sounded Dickensian)
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WV Dan - 2007-08-29 03:11:16
I gotta delurk to say early to mid-period Uriah Heep is probably my favorite band of all time. "Demons and Wizards" (1971) is their classic LP, while "Easy Livin'" (1971) and "Stealin'" (1974) are the two FM hits some folks remember. "Why," the B side of "Easy LIvin,'" is possibly their best song, but was never on a studio album. I'll always love the band's high harmony vocals, fantasy lyrics and mix of acoustic and electric guitars. They fired their best singer, David Byron, for being a drunk! BTW, John Wetton didn't join the band until 1976. And finally, a reviewer at Rolling Stone once said "If this band makes it, I'll kill myself!" Unfortunately, she didn't.
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Greg - 2007-08-29 05:51:46
I think there has been a Magwitch.. the others I can't speak for but what kind of weirdo would call himself Mick Jagger??? Must be a cry for attention.
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Paula - 2007-08-29 07:48:45
early to mid-period Uriah Heep is probably my favorite band of all time
Wow! Who knew that Uriah Heep had such influence? First concerts, favorite bands, etc.
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amatt - 2007-08-29 10:38:05
WV Dan, gee, I guess I didn't see them with John Wetton. What a foggy haze this life has become!
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WV Dan - 2007-08-29 15:17:09
When I had my heart surgery a few years ago I listened almost exclusively to Uriah Heep and the early Beatles while I was in the hospital. There was something comforting about them both. Also, John Wetton was with Heep for two albums and was the lead singer on at least one song, maybe two. I saw them live in Pittsburgh in 1978 opening for Jethro Tull. I'll shut up now.
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