[Heeplist] (no subject)

Dave Crookham crookham at peoplepc.com
Sat May 18 20:02:12 EDT 2019


The only other 2 I can think of are U2 and amazingly Aerosmith.

Dave

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bob Winward
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2019 7:36 PM
To: Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers in Time)
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] (no subject)

I love so many Canadian bands rush, guess who, April wine, triumph, lover 
boy, Bryan Adams.  Now that rush is retired, I think the only major 70s 
group with its original members left is ZZ top

Bob Winward
All Heep is Good Heep!


> On May 18, 2019, at 6:44 PM, Stan From Home <evens78 at chartermi.net> wrote:
>
> Don - didn’t realize you were from Canada, two of my favorite bands are 
> Prism and Trooper!
>
> Thanks
> Stan
>
>> On May 18, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Don Malecic <docofun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ya Norbert, definitely you were lucky. Europe was always much more Heep
>> friendly.
>> Heep was a very tough sell here in Canada back then , with the likes of
>> BTO, Guess Who, Steppenwolf, April Wine, Triumph, Rush etc topping the
>> charts along with the Brit heavies, Heep had no chance here. Lol.
>> Don
>>
>> On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 2:25 PM Norbert von Fransecky 
>> <news at musikansich.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Don!
>>>
>>> I must have had a lucky youth.
>>> Among my peers Heep was definitley the number 1 - (I'm talking about a
>>> time about 75 to 77) - followed by Purple. Sabbath and Zeppelin were
>>> well respected too, but I think Rainbow and Status Quo were even between
>>> theses two and Heep / Purple.
>>> The late 70s brought a change. Heep and Quo lost a lot of reputation
>>> because of the pop appeal of their releases. (Purple and Zep took "the
>>> easy road". They split and called it a day.) In the case of Heep
>>> Innocent Victim and Fallen Angel had been the reason why.
>>> Escpecially the singles.Most  friends didn't noticed songs like
>>> "Free'n'easy" one of the hardest Heep tracks by then or the great ballad
>>> "Illusion" at all.
>>>
>>> ... and the mighty Heep is the only one of the Hard Rock Pionieers who
>>> makes the 50th anniversary without any split or break. They are really
>>> 50!! Big up!
>>>
>>> Norbert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 18.05.2019 um 22:26 schrieb Don Malecic:
>>>> Probably the few  Heep songs that could come head to head with say
>>> Sabbath
>>>> , Purple and  Zeppelin back in the seventies, in my opinion, was Look 
>>>> at
>>>> Yourself , Love Machine , Magicians birthday.
>>>>
>>>> I remember friends back in seventies who were die hard Sabbath, Purple,
>>>> Zeppelin fans, not so much Heep fans,  respected those songs, therefore
>>>> Best of Heep Volume 1 made the cut at the parties lol
>>>> Tough competition back then. I remember the Girls were ok with the
>>> wizard,
>>>> that's about it .lol.
>>>> Don
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