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Poll Question: Which of these Jonh Lawton Era Heep LP's Do You Prefer
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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.

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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
As I said I was just being cantankerous...I've been playing the Heep since the first lp came out on vinyl. Still really like Gypsy Queen from the first. I still play Demons and Wizards, Salisbury, the first, and just picked up a used copy on cd of Look At Yourself.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2014 at 07:31
I love all the three albums. I couldn't tell which is the most favourite of mine.

Obviously Firefly is highly regarded because is the most balanced between old and new Heep' sound.

On Innocent Victim there are some of the band's most overlooked gems: Illusion, The Dance and Choices.

Fallen Angel is also recommendable for Woman of the Night, I'm Alive and the closer. Above all the wonderful Come Back to Me, penned by Kerslake.
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Originally posted by Andrea Cortese Andrea Cortese wrote:

I love all the three albums. I couldn't tell which is the most favourite of mine.
Obviously Firefly is highly regarded because is the most balanced between old and new Heep' sound.
On Innocent Victim there are some of the band's most overlooked gems: Illusion, The Dance and Choices.
Fallen Angel is also recommendable for Woman of the Night, I'm Alive and the closer. Above all the wonderful Come Back to Me, penned by Kerslake.

Well-looks like i'm not alone as a fan of these Albums.Fallen Angel is by far my least favorite,but as pointed out some great tracks to be found there as well
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Points: 1719 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 22 2014 at 17:08
2nd vote for Innocent Victim, just so I could praise "Free and Easy".
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I also enjoy Lucifer's Friend, and Lawton's addition to the Heep fold was a genius move, IMO. Firefly is outstanding and they didn't quite match it with the next two.

I also like Rebel with Lawton. The guy's an amazing singer.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I also enjoy Lucifer's Friend, and Lawton's addition to the Heep fold was a genius move, IMO. Firefly is outstanding and they didn't quite match it with the next two.

I also like Rebel with Lawton. The guy's an amazing singer.

I've got Lucifer's Friend S/T & i really like it.Thats the only LF i have any recommendations for other LF LP's?
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Originally posted by Kentucky_Hawkwindage Kentucky_Hawkwindage wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

I also enjoy Lucifer's Friend, and Lawton's addition to the Heep fold was a genius move, IMO. Firefly is outstanding and they didn't quite match it with the next two.

I also like Rebel with Lawton. The guy's an amazing singer.

I've got Lucifer's Friend S/T & i really like it.Thats the only LF i have any recommendations for other LF LP's?


The two immediately before Lawton left:

Banquet (1974) http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5106

Mind Exploding (1976) http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5107 (future Triumvirat/Saga drummer Curt Cress plays on this)
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Hi, 

I interviewed John Lawton for my blog. We discuss Uriah Heep as well as Lucifer's Friend.  The interview can be read at http://jeffcramer.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-very-candid-conversation-with-john.html
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"Free and Easy" is one of my all time Heep favs. Its no accident Uriah Heep puts in their encore to this day.
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Points: 4411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 14:26
Yeah that's a strong number a la Easy Livin'.

The whole Innocent Victim is better than most people think. I like the spacey key sound in songs as Illusion and Choises.
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Originally posted by flellis flellis wrote:

Hi, 
I interviewed John Lawton for my blog. We discuss Uriah Heep as well as Lucifer's Friend.  The interview can be read at http://jeffcramer.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-very-candid-conversation-with-john.html

Very interesting interview-thanks for sharing! The only Lucifer's Friend i have is the debut & it's a great album for sure.I've been tempted to buy Banquet & give it listen.
There are some great songs to be found on Firefly,Innocent Victim & Fallen Angel that is a fact.I have all 3 in my vinyl collection.
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Points: 7678 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 30 2014 at 21:24
Originally posted by flellis flellis wrote:

Hi, 

I interviewed John Lawton for my blog. We discuss Uriah Heep as well as Lucifer's Friend.  The interview can be read at http://jeffcramer.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-very-candid-conversation-with-john.html
Thanks, very well composed interview. Great job! Clap

By the way, if you'd like to you can repost it from your blog to the "Interviews" section of PA forum: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=47.
It deserves to be noticed by more site visitors.
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Thanks, I will.  I also just interviewed Sonja Kristina as well, so I will do that one as well.
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First off, thank you, for the kind remarks on my John Lawton interview. Yes, as I said in the interview, Lucifer's friend is a challenging band  to get into because the band kept changing styles on each album.  My favs are the first album for that heavy Sabbath/Purple/Heep sound and Banquet, as the best of the progressive stuff from Lucifier's Friend.  
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^ Thanks once again for your interview. I see you gave the link to here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=98109&FID=47.

Though I expected you repost the whole text and pictures with the link to the source. Kind of:

- The thread title: John Lawton (ex-LUCIFER'S FRIEND, ex-URIAH HEEP).
- The whole interview.
- Links to; the interview in your blog, LF and UH pages on PA, John Lawton official website.

The same in case of Sonja Kristina. 

An example how interviews are usually presented in the forum: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=74726 

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I am very new to this thing, sorry, so bear with me.  I'll be doing future prog interviews, I work with the same publicist  who did John Lawton and Sonja Kristina, and he represents other prog legends as Jon Anderson and Greg Lake. Going forward, I'll do this prog archives similar to how it is done.
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