[Heeplist] Living The Dream Review

Fri Sep 7 16:28:04 EDT 2018

Yes, there are some acoustic guitar parts. It's not like WTS, or the last album, it's simply better. DaveS

On September 7, 2018, at 7:37 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
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>> 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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