[Heeplist] Heeplist] No apologizes (translation)

[Igor Shveitser]

 Bob, most of your speech regarding "bashing" doesn't apply to me, if you remember, perhaps, my thorough and more than positive review of the Outsider. Well, bottom line is: I praise them for what they are (some new music inclusive)  and criticize for things I do not like (their treatment of classics, as you say, ad nauseum). May I retain my point of view, after all? :))) No, I am not a fanatic anymore, I grew up quite a long time ago :))) Of all the bands that I grew up with, perhaps, only Iron Maiden still retain most of their qualities of the(ir) classic era. I prefer the 70-80-s music in general as it had much more quality to it, as regards the modern era - it is ok, but hardly anything really touches me  as deep as did, for instance "Abbey Road", "The Shades Of Deep Purple", "Song For America" or "Grand Funk On Time".
Cheers, Igor


Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:55:34 -0500 от Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net>:
>I get Igor's point now and I know many do not agree.  What he seems to be
>saying is current Uriah Heep is a watered down version of the 1972 era Uriah
>Heep, with only one original member left.  I got that from another recent
>post where he says Trevor and Lee are gone.
>
>Now I ask, is there anyone on the list that thinks current Uriah Heep is
>better than the 1972 verison?  Ok, that is a rhetorical question as I doubt
>anyone will say that.
>
>The majority of us feel we are lucky that there is a version of Uriah Heep
>that makes us happy and puts out great new music.  We celebrate the past,
>yet embrace the "now"  (our Heep glasses are half full)
>
>So Igor while you have a valid point, you continue to belabor such point
>into ad nauseam.  Your help glass is half empty or maybe a drop left, lol
>:-))  I do have a question, if they are so bad and so watered down and such
>shells of their former selves, why are you here?  To celebrate the past and
>reject the now?
>
>One last question, do you have a band in mind that is playing now that does
>live up to your expectations and that you are a huge fan of?  As some of us
>over obsessed, pie in the sky Heep fans on the list?
>
>Perhaps I should simply rephrase: Are you a fanatic of any current band?
>
>Just aksing here, not trying to cause trouble, only trying to figure out why
>you bash the current incarnation of Uriah Heep over and over on a list of
>fans?  Are we to be college fraternity pledges who are naked on hands and
>knees and every time get spanked, have to scream out "Thank you sir, may I
>please have some more"?
>
>
>On 11/17/14 4:47 PM, "Igor Shveitser" < zlenko_iv at mail.ru > wrote:
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>>  We are talking at cross purposes, Merrick: you treat all that as Uriah Heep,
>> I obviously do not. Still, the latest modification of Heep plays pretty much
>> the same AOR/modern hard rock since the late 80-s, and I can't see where they
>> are being experimental :) The compositions are good, but they are made in
>> accordance to several musical models, patterns,whatever you call them. Gypsy
>> was different, but that's another band and another story altogether.
>Cheers,
>> Igor
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