[Heeplist] Heeplist] No apologizes (translation)

[Bob Winward]

Ok, I guess I misunderstood, but it sure sounds like "Heep bashing" to me


On 11/18/14 8:41 AM, "Igor Shveitser" <zlenko_iv at mail.ru> wrote:

>  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:
>
>>  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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