:)Īnyway, "The Wizard" is great (it's Mark Clarke singing the bridge BTW), "Tales" is another fav and early song "High Priestess" is a nice ditty with Hensley on lead vocals. They were very popular in Finland and no wonder as many of Hensley's songs sound like Finnish schlagers, only with more distortion on guitar. They have a decent song here and there and a long list of awesome bassplayers but generally the cabaret -like acts of David Byron (good singer but I can't stand his voice) and almost proto-powermetal style writing of Ken Hensley got on my nerves. I used to listen to Heep quite a lot but got eventually rid of the albums. The band called him Joni Sloman 'cause he used to play Joni Mitchell songs on a piano. Some of the tracks like "No Return" were originally his songs from when he had a band called Pulsar (featuring Pino Palladino and Greg Dechert). Sloman himself admitted that he was a wrong guy for the job because the band didn't want to change. The album with John Sloman on vocals (Conquest) is "interesting" in that he was such a different singer. Firefly is the first and best, the other two are much the same in quality as the later Byron albums.Īpart from their first 4 albums I also have a soft spot for Firefly and High & Mighty. Of what followed, the Lawton albums mostly move towards soft-rock. Probably would have been better to have released fewer albums. The four Byron albums after that point are all much the same too much weak material. It's raining outside But that's not unusual But the way that I'm feeling Is becoming usual I guess you could say The clouds are moving away Away from your days And into mine Now it's raining inside It's kind of a shame And it's getting to me A happy man Why should you want to Waste all my time The world is yours But I am mine Rain, rain, rain in my tears Measuring carefully my years Shame. I hear a slight dip on The Magician's Birthday, with some below-par meat and potatoes/'boogie' material like 'Spider Woman' making the cut. The next three (Salisbury/Look At Yourself/Demons And Wizards) have always been my favourites and are as strong as anyone's hard rock from the time IMHO. The throwaway tracks to me are 'Walking In Your Shadow', 'Lucy Blues' (the US version elbowed this dud in favour of an early version of 'Bird Of Prey') and 'Real Turned On'. What happened with that one was that they were still putting the line-up together, there's three (!) different drummers and some of it was done even before Ken Hensley had joined- the tracks with Mellotron aren't him. Let me hear what you think about our cover.I still rate them, but it's the first four/five albums which have their best work.Īs for the debut, I don't agree that it's only 'Gypsy'. Uriah Heep - Rain (Letras y cancin para escuchar) - Its raining outside / But thats not unusual / But the way that Im feeling / Is becoming usual / I. I decided to do a b/w-video which fits to the song title and atmosphere IMO. I ended up with a 2mm Dunlop Gator Grip which has the least amount of chirping and a good tone for single note picking. I also tried various plectrums for the acoustic guitar recording. I have already reduced it in the mixing process. Uriah Heep Outsider (2014) Speed of Sound: Speed of Sound: 9292: 9292. Uriah Heep Into the Wild (2011) Southern Star: Southern Star: 9291: 9291. On the acoustic guitar I had quite a bit of string noise. UFO Making Contact (1983) Diesel in the Dust: Diesel in the Dust: 9203: 9203.
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So there is some free (lower) frequency space for the piano and the acoustic guitar. Intro: C-F-C-F- C I can see the laughter in your s F mile C And the flowers bloomin' Ever Am ytime you pass 'em G by C And the innocence of you Is F what brought me to my knees But it was ne G ver meant to be Yet l F et me love you p G lease Refrain C There will never F be Another o G ne like you C What you a F re. In addition to the piano and the acoustic guitar, I recorded a bit of strings, e-piano and organ here and there as well. I have added a guitar part to this cover which hopefully fits into the song. The song arrangement and the instrumentation of the original song is outstanding and very decent. a G way from yo Gsus4 ur days G, and into F7 mine C. b C ut the way that I'm fe G eling's b F ecoming usua Am l G. We probably will do some more song projects with him in the near future. I C t's raining outsi G de, bu F t that's not unusua Am l. Without exaggeration, I think my Vocal Duo partner performs this song pretty decent.Īnd we were lucky to find a good piano player for this recording. Nevertheless I think this song has its own fan club. It is not one of the most popular songs from Uriah Heep. I remember, sitting in front of my crappy record player somewhere in the early 70s listening to that epic Rock ballad from Uriah Heep in an infinite loop.
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