[Heeplist] Fwd: Ken to play UK

Tue Mar 22 19:39:49 EDT 2016

"There's nothing magic about UH since he left."
Our taste of music is a personal thing, so I can only say that for me the five latest Heep albums are magical. And all of them are better than some of the Heep albums with Ken, as for example the album Innocent Victim. IV is a good album, but for me it has not the magic as we get now in the New Classical Heep era.
Right now I look forward to the next Heep album, very eagerly. I hope it will contain a new epic song in the veins of The Golden Palace, but that the whole album has a hard and fat sound picture more like Wake The Sleeper and Into The Wild than the radio tuned sound picture of SO.
Outsider has a good sound picture, but it has a lack of contrasts, it is to much rock.
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 08:19:29 -0700
> From: docofun at gmail.com
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> Subject: [Heeplist] Fwd:  Ken to play UK
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> From: *Igor Shveitser* <zlenko_iv at mail.ru>
> Date: Monday, 21 March 2016
> Subject: [Heeplist] Ken to play UK
> To: "Heepsters Mailing List \(Travellers in Time\)" <
> heeplist at travellersintime.com>, Don Malecic <docofun at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Thank you very much for resending my recent message to the list. I also
> wanted to share something about Ken, his role in the band and more. I've
> already sent this to Mr.Booth and then decided to make it more public due
> to the fact that too many people here seemingly are not quite aware of what
> happenned during Classic Heep era. So, some more thoughts on the topic of
> "mean Hensley" :) I have a few thoughts about Ken, and I believe I have the
> right to share them in order to clarify certain disputable points :) First
> of all, without him, there would've never been such a band as Heep. Never.
> No, he isn't the Heep himself (as some proclaim him to be), but most of his
> songs are the most important ones - and they are the majority of all this
> band has ever done. The majority of high quality material anyway, and you
> can check it easily. Mick Box, Lee Kerslake, Trevor Bolder - over the years
> they've said a lot with a certain purpose to blacken his image. I believe,
> some of the facts are true, some are not. Unfortunately, Ken himself also
> did a lot of such things, and - again - some thoughts of his are realistic
> whilst the others don't make much sense to anyone who's got to a certain
> level of Heep knowledge from the official (and not only) sources. His
> latest interview with Mr.Wright is full of cynicsm and even major mistakes.
> Still, no matter how nice or nasty he might appear to be, he was the main
> driving force behind this band and without him they immediately slided down
> to the state of, on one hand, camaraderie - which is positive, of course -
> and mediocrity on the other. There's nothing magic about UH since he left.
> They're a hard working act ever since, they make quality music which has
> little if any relation to classic Heep which most of us fell in love
> initially Sad truth is also that without the musicians (players) of Box and
> Kerslake caliber Ken also degraded quite significantly, but for quite a
> period afterwards he was still a better songwriter. Now, about Byron's
> departure: if you've read the book about David, you must know by now that
> he was a maximalist and didn't really want to carry on with the band which
> was obviously not in its prime anymore and gradually going downhill. So I
> am more than sure that in the end he wanted out with some money (which he
> would've never obtained if decided to leave of his own accord officially)
> to start a new carreer and leave Heep to its doomed fate. And you can see
> such thoughts of his in the later interviews. "For Heep it was all over by
> 1976" - he said smth like this a few years later, and it was his firm
> belief. You also know where it led him to, unfortunately, - without "evil"
> Gerry and Ken. :))  So, don't blame Ken too much, he's no angel, of course,
> but the blame for most of the mistakes lies on ALL of them including Gerry
> (without whom this band would've never appeared, and you must know it).
> Anyway, it is all in the bast now, so let's enjoy the terrific legacy that
> ALL of them have left for us.
> Cheers, Igor
> 
> 
> Суббота, 19 марта 2016, 2:00 +04:00 от Don Malecic <docofun at gmail.com
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> From: *Igor Shveitser* <zlenko_iv at mail.ru
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> Date: Friday, 18 March 2016
> Subject: [Heeplist] Ken to play UK
> To: "Heepsters Mailing List \(Travellers in Time\)" <
> heeplist at travellersintime.com
> <https://e.mail.ru/compose?To=heeplist@travellersintime.com>>, Don Malecic <
> docofun at gmail.com <https://e.mail.ru/compose?To=docofun@gmail.com>>
> 
> 
> 
> I still can't post to the list but wanted to say a few words 'bout the
> interview. In my opinion, it proves how important it is to listen to your
> heart and not to what nowadays Ken or his interviewer say. There's only one
> word about it really - disillusion. Sometimes it is better to keep silent
> than to speak - and it is about both of them now. Still, I am not in the
> least surprised. Jeb Wright 's interviews were always rather ... shallow,
> let's put it that way. Firefly released in 1976? The only thing worth
> discussing on Very 'eavy - Gypsy? Salisbury isn't a great album? Come on,
> we like and know a different band then. :)))) As for Ken, I am strongly of
> the opinion that he's simply great. As a songwriter, band member, player.
> But with one "but": it's all behind him now , so sometimes he seemingly
> doesn't remember or feel how it really was then. No offence, but his
> revelations at times sound way too cynical and not very accurate. Still, we
> love him - but not for what he says, for sometimes it is terribly hard to
> agree with his opinion or simply believe in what he says.
> Cheers, Igor
> 
> 
> 
> Четверг, 17 марта 2016, 21:04 +04:00 от Don Malecic <docofun at gmail.com
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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','docofun at gmail.com
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> 
> Free me works, because it is countryish
> Sounding, which is very popular today and of course Free n Easy works
> because of its high energy guitar.
> A big time country artist could take Free me
> And make it a huge hit today.
> Funny to hear Hensley in his interview say he forgot how to play his epic
> Synth solo in Wonderworld lol.
> I used to be able to play that myself and tried last night and couldn't get
> it. Oh to be young again and have memory .
> Don
> 
> On Thursday, 17 March 2016, Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net
> <https://e.mail.ru/compose?To=uriahheep@comcast.net>
> <https://e.mail.ru/compose?To=uriahheep@comcast.net>> wrote:
> 
> > I know Innocent Victim is low on most lists here and Ken skipped
> completely
> > in the interview, yet Heep still regularly plays 2 tunes from this lp,
> Free
> > Me and Free N Easy, so I ask Why is that?
> > I still mentally trip over Choices and Illusion and totally love the weird
> > keyboards and guitar sounds of the Dance!
> >
> >
> > On 3/16/16, 6:51 PM, "Ed Halliburton" <ehallib at earthlink.net
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> > <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > > Wish I could be there! Yes, great interview with Ken. My main takeaway
> > was
> > > that Ken did not consider High and Mighty to be a Heep album. I ever
> > liked it
> > > so much so maybe that explains why I did not. Hmmm.
> > >
> > > Ed
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >> Subject: [Heeplist] Ken to play UK
> > >>
> > >> Great news for Ken fans, he is to play one UK gig in Southampton
> > Wednesday
> > >> 13th April
> > >>
> > >> First time in 15 years!
> > >>
> > >> http://www.ken-hensley.com/tour.html
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