[Heeplist] Living The Dream Review

Thu Sep 6 22:05:30 EDT 2018

I love to see the excitement whenever there's a new album coming out of her
concert tour about to happen

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 9:03 PM Dave Crookham <crookham at peoplepc.com> wrote:

> If Pete had a really good review I would start to worry :)
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Winward
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 9:43 PM
> To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Living The Dream Review
>
> I don’t think anybody’s expecting Demoms n wizards again.  gone are the
> days
> of mushrooms bongs and bellbottoms
>
> Bob Winward
> All Heep is Good Heep!
>
>
> > On Sep 6, 2018, at 1:21 PM, Pete Wharton <heeppete at sky.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well, while I'm on a roll, this is slightly relevant to the subject
> matter
> > but just a lot out of date since I tried to post it a few millennia ago
> > :-)
> >
> > Just back home from Heepvention and back at computer. On Sunday at
> > Heepvention, we were privileged to get a run through of the new album. I
> > don’t know if it was played in the final cd order or not or just as
> random
> > tracks. Bearing in mind that wasn’t done in a small room or with
> > headphones, there may have been some sound anomalies on where I was sat
> > listening to it. So just some quick thoughts on our one and only run
> > through which of course we were requested not to record!
> >
> > It definitely seemed (like grazed by heaven) very very heavy on the bass
> > and drums. Both Joe Keenan and I commented after the first five tracks
> > about there seeming to be a lack of those Heep harmonies, but we did get
> > some on the later tracks. Bear in mind the note about not knowing the
> > correct track order. On one track, Mick seems to have just disappeared
> and
> > gone for a tea break or something. Phil seemed very low down in the mix
> > apart form one track where he does get to solo for a while. Fortunately
> > Mick it seems must have finished his tea break in time for the other
> > tracks   A couple of tracks that could be commercial sort of, maybe.  I
> > don’t know about the Panzer doing 80 analogy, I think more like a
> > Chieftain tank doing 120!
> >
> > I think it could raise quite some discussion. If you’re expecting
> classic
> > Heep, forget it, it isn’t happening. I guess it’s just an evolving of
> Wake
> > The Sleeper and Outsider. Personally I think I missed the lack of any
> out
> > and out gentler song.
> >
> > There’s an expression in England to do with the Marmite spread, where
> you
> > either love it or hate it, this could be along the similar lines.
> >
> > For Mac, it’s also like having baked beans for breakfast, you either get
> > it or you don’t 
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > Bob Winward
> > Sent: 06 September 2018 17:56
> > To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
> > <heeplist at travellersintime.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Living The Dream Review
> >
> > Yes I am posting 34 times a week.  It is just not going through.
> > Glad to see you I made it
> >
> > Bob Winward
> > All Heep is Good Heep!
> >
> >
> >> On Sep 6, 2018, at 12:26 PM, Pete Wharton <heeppete at sky.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Bob, you're still alive :-) I thought you were one of the list people
> who
> >> couldn't post and that's why you were so quiet :-) I'd been expecting
> >> lots of excited posts from you about the new album coming up. But I
> don’t
> >> suppose you'll see this as I seem to be a list reject still :-)
> >>
> >> Pete
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On
> Behalf
> >> Of Bob Winward
> >> Sent: 06 September 2018 12:18
> >> To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
> >> <heeplist at travellersintime.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Living The Dream Review
> >>
> >> Lannis was this your review or did you share another’s?
> >>
> >> Bob Winward
> >> All Heep is Good Heep!
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Sep 6, 2018, at 7:05 AM, Scott Manion <scottmanion at earthlink.net>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Really nicely written Lethridge.
> >>> Good Job on this one!
> >>> Scott
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Heeplist <heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com> On Behalf Of
> >>> lethridge at carolina.net .
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 7:42 PM
> >>> To: heeplist at travellersintime.com
> >>> Subject: [Heeplist] Living The Dream Review
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Earlier this year, like many other people I decided to go and see The
> >>> Rolling Stones because “they ain’t toured for ages and won’t be around
> >>> forever…”
> >>> So good were the band that I decided to go again later in the tour. As
> I
> >>> was driving home from both gigs, I found myself musing on why seeing
> the
> >>> old, classic bands is often such a rewarding experience, and came to
> the
> >>> conclusion that even allowing for the songs, it is more – surely that
> if
> >>> you’ve been doing something for half a century then, surely, it is
> >>> second nature.
> >>> It was in this spirit that I approached this – the 25th album, no less
> >>> in Uriah Heep’s career. The band, with Mick Box at its heart since
> 1969
> >>> has largely been pretty settled in fairness since 1986, which puts
> them
> >>> at odds with many bands of their vintage, as does the fact that
> they’ve
> >>> mostly managed to keep the band alive in that time.
> >>> As Box himself noted in the run up to the release of “Living The
> Dream”:
> >>> “The mighty Heep are proudly able to tour in over 61 countries” which
> is
> >>> not to be sniffed at. The good news, for both Heep and for those that
> >>> love the band – whatever period they found them along the journey (in
> >>> the interests of full disclosure, 2008’s “Wake The Sleeper” in my
> >>> case) – there is enough here to keep them on the road for a good few
> >>> years yet.
> >>> Indeed, right from the start of “Grazed By Heaven” it is evident that
> >>> “…Dream” is from the very top drawer of UH’s work. It is typical of
> >>> their sound, which personally, I’ve always thought was somewhere in
> the
> >>> middle of Deep Purple, Magnum and UFO, to make something entirely
> their
> >>> own.
> >>> In many ways too, “Living The Dream” is an album driven by the
> wonderful
> >>> organ work of Phil Lanzon, who absolutely propels this in a way that
> >>> latter day Europe might try.
> >>> Likewise, the title track, which begins with some Queen-style
> harmonies
> >>> and a gritty, almost bluesy groove is a cracker, and the opening Box
> >>> riff to “Take Away My Soul” is perfect, and very British sounding,
> hard
> >>> rock, before it changes gear with some Beatles style swirl.
> >>> This record crackles with an energy, and maybe it is just the fact
> that
> >>> everyone here knows it’s a cracker, but also the choice of Canadian
> >>> Producer Jay Ruston (who has worked with the aforementioned Europe as
> >>> well as The Winery Dogs, Stone Sour and Black Star Riders) seems to
> have
> >>> injected a real freshness.
> >>> The likes of the thrilling “Knocking At My Door” – a real highlight –
> >>> and the epic prog freak out of the eight minutes plus of “Rocks In The
> >>> Road” are both indicative of a band that was brimming with ideas (and
> I’d
> >>> be willing to bet that outtakes from this would make for a damn fine
> >>> album, never mind anything else).
> >>> There are touches of Led Zep about the melodic “Waters Flowing” – as
> >>> singer Bernie Shaw shows his class – and the slow building, brooding
> “It’s
> >>> All Been Said” is the sound of a whole band firing on all of its
> >>> cylinders, and the piano work here is enough to make Avantasia
> jealous,
> >>> while the lyrics lament the modern world. The modern world, though,
> can’t
> >>> be all bad when people make music like this.
> >>> “Goodbye To Innocence” has a kind of “nudge, nudge, wink, wink”
> student
> >>> sleaze, but its filthy boogie is a lot of fun, while modern bands – I
> am
> >>> thinking of Inglorious here – will do well to listen to “Falling Under
> >>> your Spell” and understand how you do this for nigh on 50 years.
> >>> As it all ends with the reflective “Dreams Of Yesteryear” – “let me
> tell
> >>> you how it was, so many years ago….” Sings Shaw as its opening line –
> >>> you are struck by the fact that this is the first time anything in
> this
> >>> collection has slipped into a reverie.
> >>> “Living The Dream” is not the sound of old men sitting around telling
> >>> war stories. It is the sound of a wonderful hard rock band playing
> some
> >>> magnificent songs. There’ll be some kid, somewhere who’s never heard
> of
> >>> the band who finds this and loves it. That, right there, is why Uriah
> >>> Heep – and other bands of similar vintage – are still vital.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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