[Heeplist] Heep in Hollywood

[Pete Wharton]

Will be interesting to see the setlist when they're not supporting Priest
and do a longer set. 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Heeplist [mailto:heeplist-bounces at travellersintime.com] On Behalf Of
Bob Winward
Sent: 05 May 2019 02:45
To: brendajh <brendajh at bellsouth.net>; Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in
Time) <heeplist at travellersintime.com>
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Heep in Hollywood

Thank you for sharing. You are the first USA tour review!!!!

Bob Winward
All Heep is Good Heep!


> On May 4, 2019, at 12:59 PM, brendajh <brendajh at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> We attended the first show of the Uriah Heep/Judas Priest North 
> American tour last night (May 3rd) in Hollywood Fl. The boys rocked 
> the house and did not disappoint! We drove 5 hours to attend the 
> performance. The Hard Rock venue has a capacity of 3500 and appeared 
> to be a full house. The mighty Heep played for approximately 50 
> minutes. The set list included: 1.) Grazed by Heaven, 2.) Too scared 
> to run, 3.) Take away my soul, 4.) Stealing, 5.) Between two worlds,
> 6.) Gypsy, 7.) Look  at yourself, 8.) Sunrise, and 9.) Easy Living. 
> Heep had a stellar performance. Uriah Heeps' music was tight, played 
> at  just the right volume, and they kept the attention and interest of 
> everyone including The Priest fans. Heep played with heart and soul 
> and stayed true to who they are. We are thankful that they made the 
> long journey to Florida and that we got to see them. We will see the 
> Heep again this evening at the Miramar Beach venue. Lot of time in the 
> car over the last 2 days, but they are worth it. They have traveled a 
> lot further to bring their music our way.
> 
> Just a few comments about the Judas Priest part of the concert. I will 
> say it was strange that Uriah Heep was not the headliner. (They were 
> the headliner in our opinion). The first thing we discovered when 
> entering the Hollywood Fl Hard Rock venue was the merchandise area. 
> There was a wall and table loaded with Priest shirts etc. but only 4 
> types of Uriah Heep tee-shirts. The crowd appeared to be predominantly 
> Priest fans based on seeing Priest tee-shirts on what seemed to be 9 
> out of 10 concert goers. Suggestion to Heepsters attending any of the 
> upcoming Heep/Priest shows, wear your Heep tee-shirts and show your 
> Heep pride! Stand out in the sea of Priest fans! Another tip, brush up 
> on Uriah Heep discography and history so when a young Priest fan asks 
> you questions about Heep you can enlighten them. Not being that 
> familiar with Judas Priests' music other than what the radio in the 
> States plays and the MTV era, most of the music was new for us. Judas 
> Priest was well received by their fans and their performance was a 
> highly orchestrated grandiose production with the front man changing 
> his outer wear too numerous times to count. Judas Priest certainly 
> delivered on heavy metal music, and the crowd was happy. Probably the 
> most favorite thing of the Priest part of the concert was the Black 
> Sabbath - War Pigs song that was played just before Priest went live 
> on stage. The volume went way up and the audience was all singing the 
> song.  I think this was a tribute to Ozzy. The entire event with Uriah 
> Heep and Judas Priest lasted 3 hours (8-11).
> Brenda
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