[Heeplist] HEEPVENTION 2015
Bob Winward
uriahheep at comcast.net
Sun Aug 9 11:56:06 EDT 2015
I would like to think of it as Heepnosis! All Heepnosis is good Heepnosis
Bob Winward
> On Aug 9, 2015, at 10:33 AM, merrick3 at comcast.net wrote:
>
> HA HA HA H AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AH AHA hhahahahahahahaha
>
> madman
>
> p.s. URIAH HEEP forever
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "staf p" <staf.p at skynet.be>
> To: "Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)" <heeplist at travellersintime.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 10:11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] HEEPVENTION 2015
>
> Hey Claudia, you are doing a great job Heepnotizing your boyfriend ;-)
> Next time, i will have more time to hang out, i was too busy this time.
>
> Thanks for coming to the event and yes, the people who were not there were
> highly missed.
>
> Staf
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> From: Cláudia Leão
> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 4:42 PM
> To: HeepList
> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] HEEPVENTION 2015
>
> Hi Staf
>
> I would be gladly buy some your wooden beer mats, if that helps. Seriously.
> And yes I had the best of times.
> Thanks to your efforts and all the brilliant musicians who played in the
> HV2015 the boyfriend was finally Heepnized. He is almost keen to join the
> list, just a lil bit scared to do so as "no one leaves"... hahaha
>
> For all those who couldn't attend you were highly missed and I wish you can
> come to the next one in 2017.
>
> Claudia
>
>
>> From: staf.p at skynet.be
>> To: heeplist at travellersintime.com
>> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 23:07:22 +0200
>> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] HEEPVENTION 2015
>>
>> Hey hey,
>>
>> With Heepvention 2015 behind your back, not yet behind mine, but that's
>> ok,
>> i had already written something earlier today, but as those who read the
>> posts on the Heeplist know, for some reason it didn't come through. So,
>> second try :
>>
>> Monday, arrival of Merrick and Laura, we were going to pick up the harp in
>> the North of Belgium, I mean, that upper tip of the handkerchief. Anyways,
>> the three of us drove in my car up there and arrived at a gentle young
>> lady's place. She had a bunch of pretty harps standing there and did they
>> sound great. Laura's eye fell upon a nice model just waiting to be picked
>> out. After a test play, we aggreed to take this one with us.
>> And of we went, back to Leuven to the hotel.
>> I went back home, doing more stuff for the Heepvention as it doesn't do
>> that
>> itself. Wednesday i started building up the stage props and Frieda worked
>> on
>> setting up the tables and chairs and stuff, went out for those little
>> decorations on the tables. Nothing much, but just enough. Finaly, thursday
>> came and we were still preparing things moments before the bus arrived
>> from
>> the hotel.
>> It was great to see and greet and hug and so on, all those Heepsters that
>> were already in Belgium. Some 30 were already there i think.
>> The event started of with a meet and greet, i opened the Heepvention
>> myself,
>> i wasn't even too nervous. Called Paul Newton and Lee Kerslake to the
>> stage
>> and the meet and greet went on. Then it was time for a South African duo,
>> Fade to Gray, to plunge us in the pool of sounds, the concerts began. And
>> what a concert that first one was, Frans and Ray put a lot of effort in it
>> and it came out just great.
>> After them, time for Never Land, the rock band with the harp, never seen
>> before but here they were, where i wanted them to be in the first place,
>> playing Heep-songs on a harp, YEAH ! Great concert it was and i was in
>> love
>> with the two girls, but don't tell my wife ;-).
>> Midnight, the bus came picking up the Heepsters to drive them back to the
>> hotel, a good 20 minutes from the venue.
>>
>> Friday, 2pm the venue got slowly full with Heepsters again, some new ones
>> who just arrived. I already had picked up Phil Baker as we had a few
>> things
>> to talk about, schedule-wise. Took him to our place for a coffee and a
>> chat.
>> And then to the venue. Time for the first part of the Heepster Jam
>> Session.
>> And i must say, the quality of this event's edition was just awesome, so
>> much better than in Spain for instance. Not as many people taking part,
>> but
>> their drive was lots better and sometimes even semi pro, just wow.
>> After the warm food, it was time for the concerts, today opened by Deigjj,
>> from the Faroer Islands. Man they rock big time. And then Circle of Hands
>> from Germany came on stage and did their set. These guys are the best and
>> they showed us again. Sure, we heard some songs more than once, but nobody
>> cared about that, all Heep is Good Heep, right ?
>> The bus left at midnight again and left me and the rest of the team alone
>> again, ... yep, like in the song.
>>
>> Saturday came and the second Heepsters Jam Session was a blast. So many
>> songs passed the speakers, i can't put a name on them. Kind of, all of
>> them.
>> After the Jam Sessions and the food, time for The Innocent Victims, whom i
>> had asked to play two entire albums, one had to be Innocent Victims, as
>> that
>> was the first album i ever bought and the other was their own free choice.
>> Beat me now, cause i forgot what album they played. But oh goodie goodie,
>> they nailed it completely, all attendees were just enjoying every second
>> of
>> their sets. They needed a rest between two albums. It was so good and i
>> was
>> so pleased that this band wanted to do that favour for me.
>> Everything comes to an end and that brought The Legends to the stage, with
>> a
>> little help from Phil Baker, Torsten Ilg and Joe Weiler, Paul Newton and
>> Lee
>> Kerslake played the best songs in a fairly short set, as we wanted to have
>> a
>> little hour left to hang out before the bus left and we could go that way.
>> That is the shitty thing when you organise these events yourself, you
>> gotta
>> start tearing down the stuff you just put in a couple of days ago. Ah
>> well,
>> i was very happy to know and to feel that everyone had a great time, maybe
>> even the best of times, who knows. Will i do it again ? No, it is costing
>> me
>> money as there were too few people to make it profitable, but i didn't
>> want
>> to cancel eighter as i didn't want to put those in troubles, who payed for
>> their flights and booked tickets and rooms already.
>>
>> All in all, i loved organising this event, though it's a one off for me. I
>> like to think that this is the biggest thing i ever did in my life, so
>> far.
>> And i like to think that i did well as everybody was very pleased and i
>> had
>> gotten no complaints at all. I will not blame myself or anyone else, times
>> are difficult for everybody, also for me now, as i have a financial hole
>> to
>> fill. I am thinking of making wooden beer mats with stone inlay and hope
>> that at least some of the attendees will want to buy some. If not, that is
>> ok too of course, you know me.
>>
>> Well, i will survive and i hope Heepventions will survive too as they are
>> the best thing. Heepsters from all corners of the world meeting up and
>> sharing their love for Uriah Heep. So, hoping that, i passed the stick to
>> a
>> Dutch friend of mine, who will try and find out if she can organise it in
>> 2017. Read this well people, 2017 in Holland. I start saving already, as i
>> will be there for sure.
>>
>> Heep on, rock on !!
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> From: Ron Mann
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 10:23 PM
>> To: 'Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)'
>> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] HEEPVENTION 2015
>>
>>
>> Facebook was flooded with photos, updates and info on this marvelous
>> event.
>> If you are friends with Staf, Mac, Mike Taylor, Merrick, Keith Shaw and
>> others these came in hourly. I felt as if I were there.
>>
>> Oh and there were great shows by Merrick's band, Neverland [with outside
>> help to make up the band] and a short show by the Harms Way Project since
>> we
>> had four members there. That was a bittersweet happening however since
>> our
>> lead vocalist Jon Binder passed away from a heart attack just three weeks
>> ago.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>> I can answer the question, it tells me heepster comraderie is dead, the
>>> list
>>> is dead (except for 4 posts over the weekend about t shirts made 16
>>> years
>>> ago). It also tells me to enjoy the Heepster experience one now has to
>>> be
>>> wealthy and free of responsibility, so they can travel. It also tells
>>> me
>>> the ones that are and can, no longer give a crap about the rest of the
>>> heepsters who cannot.
>>
>>
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