Uriah Heep?

[pokerfan]

Thoughts? comments?

The "The Beach Boys of heavy metal?"

Wiki: In spite of their huge popularity in Britain and continental Europe, Uriah Heep were never able to break into the American market in a big way, with the exception of three hit songs, "Easy Livin' " from the 1972 album Demons and Wizards, "Sweet Lorraine" from the 1972 album The Magician's Birthday (a top ten album in Australia), and "Stealin' " from the 1973 release Sweet Freedom.

[RebelOne]

1. Love Uriah Heep. Played the Demons and Wizards album until I wore it out. n/t

[dembotoz]

2. love em

saw them in concert with Rush and Sweet? Outdoor thing.
Rush was the main act.
Crowd was wanting to hear Rush- did not like Heep much at all.
Really too bad

I thought they were great
rush was yawn rush....

god that was a long time ago....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. I always liked them.

a lot.

[MilesColtrane]

4. I'm more of a Wilkins Micawber fan.

[eyepaddle]

5. I dug 'em.

I always thought they were more "The Doors" of Heavy Metal than the Beach Boys though!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. The crowd I ran with in Uriah Heep's heyday...

...saw the band as eight or nine steps down the food chain from Grand Funk Railroad.

In other words, it appeared that all of the band members had opposable thumbs and could walk on two legs, not all four, but beyond that their abilities were...shall we say..."limited."

:toast:

[gmoney]

7. I always figured they named themselves that...

so they'd be the only artist in the "U" category... worked well until UB40, Ultravox and U2 came along.

[LSdemocrat]

8. Am I the only one who only thought of the Dickens character and has never heard of the band?

[Twillig]

12. Probably you never heard of them because

They're ever so humble...

[enigmatic]

9. Not a fan

A Sub-Jethro Tull if you're into that kind of thing.

[hellbound-liberal]

10. The liner notes to their live album described their music as a Panzer coming at you doing 180.

I really enjoyed their music especially their live album from 1973. This medley ROCKS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vpv3jHjLCU

[Swede]

11. What a deadly band!

I loved their stuff.

[mitchum]

13. That singer had quite a mustache!

[Kali]

14. loved them back in the day

live album was kick ass