[Heeplist] Living The Dream Review

Fri Sep 7 11:52:12 EDT 2018

Don, We will never have a demons in wizards different band different era.   when you hear the lyrics of the last track it will help you understand

Bob Winward
All Heep is Good Heep!

> On Sep 7, 2018, at 10:37 AM, Don Malecic <docofun at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But I ask , is there any acoustic guitar parts?
> There's something so tranquil about acoustic guitar
> Are there  different softer themes and mystic sound effects?
> Harmonies need to be boosted up. I did hear that Phil has some piano
> part(s)
> To break up the organ , which is nice to hear.
> 
> I hope it's not a continuation of wake.
> I thought I enjoyed the double drumming at first but I think I would prefer
> the ole standard drumming now.
> 
> Outsider was refreshing and energetic but wouldn't want another one like it.
> 
> I won't be able to hear it till the 19
> When I recieve my cd and I'm not going around digging pieces and bits of
> the music on the internet till then.
> 
> I just hope Mick hasn't gone for tea!
> Yes Bob, I'm hoping for another demons and wizards! Why not.lol. but I'll
> take anything we can get from our beloved band at this point.
> Don
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 3:00 AM Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> All Been Said has lots of Soft Bernie voice.  It starts out hard
>> rocking.  My first listen to the song I got excited by the intro, then it
>> kicks down to soft vocal.  Bernie sings “stop talking, stop speeding ....”.
>> I looked down I was doing 95 mph (145 km)
>> 
>> Bob Winward
>> All Heep is Good Heep!
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 7, 2018, at 12:51 AM, 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
>>> 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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