[Heeplist] Living The Dream in UK 57th

[Don Malecic]

Bob,
The answers to your questions:
Yes and No
I will take the advice from a wise owl ( my wife) and the lyric from Its
all been said”
“ Stop talking”

“ He’s a lone dream rider”
“ He is the outsider “!
Don


On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 9:35 AM Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net> wrote:

>  I will not let your opinion of LTD diminish my enjoyment of the record.
> Now be honest and tell me don’t you get some goosebumps the last four
> minutes of rocks in the road?
>
> But let’s be fair to Mick and the boys. Hey I’ll take Demons and wizard
> over anything on LTD any day of the week. That was 48 years ago and
> honestly tell me has anything by any artist approached that level since??
>
> Bob Winward
> All Heep is Good Heep!
>
>
> > On Sep 30, 2018, at 7:21 AM, Pete Wharton <heeppete at sky.com> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry Don, still no "wow" from me. I think it will come over better live
> though. I just hope they don't waste time with the lightweights "Waters
> Flowing" and "Goodbye To Innocence" :-)
> >
> > I think lyrically it's weak, really lacking in imagery. That opening to
> "Its All Been Said", "Stop talking, stop speeding", what a ridiculous line
> just so that in the next line reading has something to rhyme with! Heep are
> better than that!
> >
> > "Waters Flowing" has a better, different guitar opening from Mick but
> just develops into a c & w shuffle. The chorus is simple and annoying with
> the the na na nas
> > and stupid lyrics at the end of last verse about the only song the
> guitar would play.
> >
> > "Goodbye to innocence" A simple shuffle that is very quickly boring like
> "nail on the head" is.
> >
> > "Falling under your spell" is another shuffle but more interesting and
> Mick is at least better between the last 2 choruses.
> >
> > "Dreams of yesteryear" has a different guitar opening and is at last a
> meaningful song and drums not overpowering it all. But still you get the
> rubbish lyric about how "the young will make it better" . At last though
> you get Mick's guitar sounding different to wah wah wails.
> >
> > Where is the real class of "Against The Odds", "Time of Revelation" a
> beautiful image full song like "Mistress Of All Tme" or "Fires Of Hell" or
> "Dream On", "Between Two Worlds" "Question/Change". I could go on. Even Bob
> Winward's favourite "Sweet Sugar" ranks higher than most of the tracks on
> LTD!
> >
> > There, just a few random thoughts for people to disagree with me on.
> >
> > Oh incidentally we've had a decorator in this week who's into his music,
> though more recent stuff like the early Level 42. I loaned him D&W and LTD.
> His preference was for D&W (he even made a copy of it)  saying that LTD
> sounded just too forced, like they were trying too hard. His words not
> mine, but I honestly don't think I can disagree. He's a bass player too, so
> he's been loaned the Live 73 album this weekend and told to play it loud :-)
> >
> > Here's a question for you all though. If you just heard LTD somewhere
> randomly and it didn't have the Heep wrapper on it, would you buy it?
> Unfortunately, being totally honest I would have to say no personally.
> However I do expect that to change after hearing it live, well at least I
> hope so. But I can be pretty sure I won't still be picking it out of my
> Heep collection as first choice play in even 5 years time, never mind the
> 47ish of Salisbury/LAY and D&W!
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > Living is a great album, no doubt about it.
> > the sounds of the instruments are great. A few things I would have liked
> to hear differently , just my opinion, but it is  solid .
> > Lyric writing , backup vocals, melodies,  a little better on outsider!
> > We still haven’t heard the “ wow “ from Pete yet! Lol.
> >
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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