SALISBURY

Today I've a free day, since an appointment is jumped and I have taken a free day to dedicate to my family. So I decided to review the album of my nick name. That is the first Uriah heep totally masterpiece. Because yes, "Very 'eavy... Very 'umble" is great but "Salisbury" is perfect (if the perfection exist). So I should remember the first meeting with "Salisbury". Was 1975 and one my friend was in London with me when bought this LP. After a good listening I remember that I had great desire to bought a copy of "Salisbury". That I bought in Milan. Immediately I love this album and, sure, today the love for salisbury is still high. Say these words this is the time of review. For the first time the music of Heep is in Prog field. For my personal point of view not only for the presence of "Salisbury", great long song with brass and woodwind, a sort of Heavy Symphonic song. In my opinion the Prog songs are also (I cited only the 100% Prog songs) "The Park", grat atmospherical ballad, "Lady In Black", electro-acoustic dreaming song (another symphonic song) while "Bird Of Prey" is also a "Very 'eavy..." song but extreme Proggy, "Time To Live" is Hard Rock like "High Priestess". In Prog field isn't a totally masterpiece and "Salisbury" help to lift the evalutation. In Hard Rock, Heavy Rock (Metal) and Heavy Metal field is one of the firsts masterpiece because, true or not, is a really Heavy Metal album. Ok, in the street that carry to Symphonic Prog (with Deep Purple, Black Widow and "(Led Zeppelin IV)" and Houses Of The Holy" and Rainbow's "Rising" and "On Stage") is a fundamental start. "The Park", (in little part) "high Priestess" and "Salisbury" is a part of this difficult delivery. The falsetto all voices of "The Park" united to the atmospherical acoustic music (more for the use of harpsichord and voice) is the born of Symphonic Heavy Music (I think that the Warlord in "Deliver Us" they blend wisely "The Park" and Rainbow's "Rising" for the first real Symphonic Metal album). If David Byron voice and Ken Hensley keyboards are the distintive head of the band, the wah wah giutar of Mick Box in "Time To Live" surpassed and surclassed Page, Blackmore, Beck and other 70's guitar heroes (because today?) also Hensley's organ and Byron vocals help too this fact. In my opinion also the production of Gerry Bron (for Hit Record Productions Ltd.) help this fact. In conclusion: a great and epochal album, in Prog also in etal field. Also today. (P.s.: Isn't cited in Hensley's instruments list in 1989 Castle version but the mellotron of "Lady In Black" is extreme brillant).

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