[Heeplist] Living The Dream Review

Fri Sep 7 00:57:35 EDT 2018

Thanks Mac every review makes me anticipate this album even more

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018, 11:52 PM Mac Steagall <rsteagall at carolina.rr.com>
wrote:

> Pete,
>
> I've heard the new album and there are lots of softer moments,
> particularly Waters Flowing and Dreams of Yesteryear but also
> in epic songs like Rocks in the Road  and Take Away My Soul. As far as
> Phil or Mick disappearing, I'm guessing it may have been down to where you
> were sitting in the room. I didn't get any of that from the cd.  My
> favorite tracks so far are Take Away My Soul and Waters Flowing. The cd
> really covers all the bases. IMO this album rivals Sea of Light as the best
> Bernie
> era album.
>
> Mac
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On Behalf
> Of Pete Wharton
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2018 1:21 PM
> To: 'Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)'
> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Living The Dream Review
>
> 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 but just a lot out of date since I tried to post it a few millennia ago :-)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
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> 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
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> > 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
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> >> 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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