[Heeplist] Lucifer Friend

[Dale Fredericks]

Got my order in for LF !!
I like the choices by Norbert, those three LP’s are a great cross-section of the stuff with John Lawton. Can’t wait to get the new one delivered !!!

Dale :-)>  



> On Apr 6, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Igor Shveitser <zlenko_iv at mail.ru> wrote:
> 
> Norbert,
> Though I generally do agree with your assession of Lucifer's Friend legacy (especially with regards to non-Byron stuff), I see their first LP as a pure hard rock with a little touch of psychedelia (what  progressive is in the songs like Ride The Sky or In The Time Of Job?) while the second LP was progressive indeed and all its successors until 1976 when the became more pop-fusion-oriented.
> Cheers, Igor
> 
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> Понедельник,  6 апреля 2015, 19:47 +02:00 от Norbert von Fransecky <news at musikansich.de>:
>> Hi David!
>> 
>> You shouldn't keep yourself away from a great group just because the 
>> provoking name - Just remember URIAH HEEP wasn't a nice guy as long as 
>> he lived only in a Dickens book.
>> 
>> The records of LF are very different. The band started with a strong 
>> progressive approach, changed to a more funk and jazz influenced style, 
>> than to a tough hard rock, to AOR and even to a disco influenced album.
>> 
>> Try the Records "Lucifer's Friend" (progressive), "Banquet" (jazz / 
>> swing /  funk) or "Mind exploding" (Hard Rock) - I think all three are 
>> each in its own way a good appendix to a HEEP collection - in my ears 
>> even more than a great marge of the non-Heep Byron stuff.
>> 
>> Norbert
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