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Poll Question: Which of these Jonh Lawton Era Heep LP's Do You Prefer
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    Posted: March 07 2014 at 13:39
I have always prefered Firefly of the 3,seems a little more Lucifer's Friend influence is in there on some tracks.Innocent Victim & Fallen Angel have some moments too.Fallen Angel is the one i like the least.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2014 at 22:25
I used to have Firefly and loved the track 'Rollin On'.
I also had FA just for the cover art !!
Now I only have their debut album - I guess the Heep don't do much for me.
Oh yeah, love Lucifer's Friend heaps though.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 01:46
I really need an update on post '73 Heep releases. Love the first 6... tended to think the last two with Byron lacked inspiration, Wonderwall and Return to Fantasy were dull to me. The Lawton era never caught my imagination (Free Me....ok tune but not exactly Salisbury). And that one in 1980 I thought was god awful...  Renaissance time in the early 80s but I only managed a few listens to an album or two since then.

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This might indicate any Lawton era releases to insert into listening to the usual suspects (Genesis in particular)...Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 02:22
John Lawton, this is an interesting topic, David Byron to me was more and beyond one of the most incredible vocalists to date, I am not much impressed by singers, however he was and is one of the very few that I love. I have not kept up with everything going on with Uriah Heep, however I do know that John Lawton performed Salisbury live with his nemesis Ken Hensley and to date Salisbury was ever only performed live 3 times live thus wow!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 08:53
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

John Lawton, this is an interesting topic, David Byron to me was more and beyond one of the most incredible vocalists to date, I am not much impressed by singers, however he was and is one of the very few that I love. I have not kept up with everything going on with Uriah Heep, however I do know that John Lawton performed Salisbury live with his nemesis Ken Hensley and to date Salisbury was ever only performed live 3 times live thus wow!
I agree on David Byron being an incredible vocalist.A very underrated one unfortunately followed by an untimely death.What was the year of his death? Was it `83?I"ve been tying for years to get decent vinyl copies (without paying a fortune) of his solo effort's Baby Faced Killer and On The Rocks.I have Rough Diamond and Take No Prisoners.The Lawton era of Uriah Heep takes some getting used too,and as much as i like Uriah Heep there are many songs from that era i simply can't get into.It's my understanding that these albums did better in Europe than anywhere else.But in my opinion there are a few good songs to be found on them.I wouldn't recommend anyone rushing out and buying them though.I'm finding that this Heep era may not have much of a fan base on here,which is understandable.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 13:09
I can honestly say I have never heard any of those.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 14:04
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

I can honestly say I have never heard any of those.
They are in fact a reality.As they are in my LP collection.If you wanted to listen to any songs for curiosity sake i would suggest The Hangin' Tree,Sympathy & Been Away To Long from Firefly.I'm Alive and Put Your Lovin' On Me from Fallen Angel.On Innocent Victim i'd go with Choices,Free & Easy and maybe Illusion for a general impression of the music of that era of Heep. Actually some of the songs are not that bad....at all.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 14:29
Originally posted by Kentucky_Hawkwindage Kentucky_Hawkwindage wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

I can honestly say I have never heard any of those.
They are in fact a reality.As they are in my LP collection.If you wanted to listen to any songs for curiosity sake i would suggest The Hangin' Tree,Sympathy & Been Away To Long from Firefly.I'm Alive and Put Your Lovin' On Me from Fallen Angel.On Innocent Victim i'd go with Choices,Free & Easy and maybe Illusion for a general impression of the music of that era of Heep. Actually some of the songs are not that bad....at all.
 
Oh..I know they exist....I was 'taking the piss' as they like to say over the pond.
I have all the Heep Lp's up to and including Magicians Birthday.
I'll ck out some of those tracks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 15:51
Firefly.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2014 at 17:25
Firefly, obviously
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:12
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Kentucky_Hawkwindage Kentucky_Hawkwindage wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

I can honestly say I have never heard any of those.

They are in fact a reality.As they are in my LP collection.If you wanted to listen to any songs for curiosity sake i would suggest The Hangin' Tree,Sympathy & Been Away To Long from Firefly.I'm Alive and Put Your Lovin' On Me from Fallen Angel.On Innocent Victim i'd go with Choices,Free & Easy and maybe Illusion for a general impression of the music of that era of Heep. Actually some of the songs are not that bad....at all.


 

Oh..I know they exist....I was 'taking the piss' as they like to say over the pond.

I have all the Heep Lp's up to and including Magicians Birthday.

I'll ck out some of those tracks.

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you almost got me there, drWu23 in terms of Uriah Heep best era before they became rock mainstream I suggest you listen to July Morning, The Wizard, Salisbury from same name album, and Rain :) all these tracks I loce so much and all written and performed by David Byron and KEN HENSLEY     HUGS TO YOU
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:15
Originally posted by Kati Kati wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by Kentucky_Hawkwindage Kentucky_Hawkwindage wrote:

Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

I can honestly say I have never heard any of those.

They are in fact a reality.As they are in my LP collection.If you wanted to listen to any songs for curiosity sake i would suggest The Hangin' Tree,Sympathy & Been Away To Long from Firefly.I'm Alive and Put Your Lovin' On Me from Fallen Angel.On Innocent Victim i'd go with Choices,Free & Easy and maybe Illusion for a general impression of the music of that era of Heep. Actually some of the songs are not that bad....at all.


 

Oh..I know they exist....I was 'taking the piss' as they like to say over the pond.

I have all the Heep Lp's up to and including Magicians Birthday.

I'll ck out some of those tracks.

Wink

 


you almost got me there, drWu23 in terms of Uriah Heep best era before they became rock mainstream I suggest you listen to July Morning, The Wizard, Salisbury from same name album, and Rain :) all these tracks I like really so much and all written and performed by David Byron and KEN HENSLEY     HUGS TO YOU


Here is the youtube link with David Byron and Ken Hensley playing the Hammond organd performing live xxxx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzRrGNygjzs

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:21
drWu here is the youtube song link for the Wizard with David Byron and Ken Hensley of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0iuaxvkXv4
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 17:27
This will be one-way traffic, Firefly is possibly the last excellent album
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 19:00
'Firefly'. I quite love this LP despite it's surprisingly much less heavy than Byron-era stuff.

'Innocent Victim' had a couple of nice ideas but it was completely ruined by the plactic-sounding production.

'Fallen Angel' is a bit more interesting than 'Innocent Victim' because it at least has some catchy hooks, but it's also a very poppy album.

So actually Uriah Heep died for me after 'Firefly' and re-born only in 1995 with the killer album called 'Sea of Light'.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 19:35
Originally posted by Kentucky_Hawkwindage Kentucky_Hawkwindage wrote:

I agree on David Byron being an incredible vocalist.A very underrated one unfortunately followed by an untimely death.What was the year of his death? Was it `83?
It was 1985, February 28.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 19:56
Originally posted by ole-the-first ole-the-first wrote:

'Innocent Victim' had a couple of nice ideas but it was completely ruined by the plactic-sounding production.

I don't find its production plastic-sounding. 
Actually I love "Innocent Victim", it was the first Heep record I've heard. "Free'n'Easy", "Illusion", "Free Me", "The Dance" and "Choices" are great songs. Though I voted for "Firefly" because as a whole it's a better album.

In 1982 Soviet "Melodyia" label released "Innocent Victim" LP entitled simply "Uriah Heep" (original image with a snake was kinda censored LOL)
 
I didn't know it's called "Innocent Victim" but liked it a lot. Soon, after many listens on a primitive mono turntable, my copy became quite noisy and I found a copy in a better condition, this time with another cover:

And I still didn't know it's "Innocent Victim" album, back then, in the 80s, it was not so easy to find info. After several years of ignorance one of my friends told, to my big surprise, that I don't need to search for "Innocent Victim" because it stands on a shelf in my room. Smile  


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 20:40
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 10 2014 at 23:22
^^Oh yeah - I forgot Trevor Bolder was in the band! What a goofy album cover. I always loved Lawton's voice, especially with Lucifer's Friend. Innocent Victim is the only Uriah Heep album I have with him on it. I go back to it once in a while for nostalgia, but it doesn't have a lot of solid lasting appeal to me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2014 at 07:29
Originally posted by stegor stegor wrote:

^^Oh yeah - I forgot Trevor Bolder was in the band! What a goofy album
cover. I always loved Lawton's voice, especially with Lucifer's Friend.
Innocent Victim is the only Uriah Heep album I have with him on it. I go
back to it once in a while for nostalgia, but it doesn't have a lot of
solid lasting appeal to me.



My fav song from the album

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