Listening to Uriah Heep: The Magician’s Birthday, Part 2
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Part One of Demons and Wizards by Uriah Heep
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This album came out when I was in high school and the acid was very clean. I'm 70 now and still have fun listening to it...More Kazoo !!!
Love this album so much!!!
👍😎
Always love a good kazoo.
Bought this and demons and wizards on original UK pressing vinyl today off a bloke in my town......blinding.
Love Uriah Heep. Have you listened to Judas Priest? Sad Wings of Destiny is Great.
Ken Hensley: The saddest thing about this album is that management brought the release date forward... They didn´t give me time. I was writing a short story called 'The Magician´s Birthday' and the title track was the core song from which all the others spread out to paint the complete picture. It would have been so cool, but they took away my time and I consider this album to be less than 60% of what it could have been... I didn't really finish writing it. So, it's not complete for me.
Bedankt
This album has an American rock, on the Kansas more experimental side of things, twang to it. Hints of space folk rock too, especially tracks like Tales do appeal👍 Def at the top of my Uriah Heep heap...
See what i did back there👀😁
Hey Jim! Need to change the title in the description. You have The Wizards Birthday instead of Magician. Thanks! Yearly tradition for me playing the title track on my birthday. This day also numbers 13!!!👍😎
Duly noted! Thanks Jeff 👍🏼
@@JimNewstead You're welcome Jim.👍😎
You mention the length of an album
I agree the perfect length is around 40 mins
Queen nicked the screechy harmonies off Heep, lock stock and barrel 🤔
The difference between Heep and Zep, Purps and Sabs is that the dominant figure and major songwriter in the band was the keyboard player. Ken Hensley had his own style of lyric writing which I find very earnest and pompous in comparison with Geezer and Gillan’s more sardonic efforts, but it suited Byron’s voice very well.
Agreed that Gary Thain was a fantastic player who gave their sound a huge boost when he joined, and his demise was tragic (electrocuted on stage in ‘74, booted out by the management who wanted to keep the show on the road and couldn’t give him time to recuperate, and death by drug overdose the following year).
Anyway, Heep’s first 3 albums are all tremendous too, and even after Byron was sacked and replaced by John Lawton, they carried on churning out good stuff. The only Heep album to avoid is Conquest, which is a total stinker, and Hensley abandoned ship afterwards, leaving Mick Box as the last man standing for the surprisingly excellent Abominog, and numerous subsequent albums.
If only their management hadn’t pushed them so hard in the early 70s things probably wouldn’t have fallen apart so quickly. Their contract called for two albums a year, plus almost constant touring. The strain made them turn to drink and drugs, and fall out with each other. But they were great while they lasted.
Btw, in 1970, David Byron supplemented his earnings by singing on many of those Hot Hits/ Top of the Pops ‘facsimile’ cheapo albums (as did Elton John and others). There was at least 3 CDs of Byron singing the current chart toppers from back then (United We Stand by Brotherhood of Man et al) which showed just what a versatile singer he was.
Hard Rock Kazoo!
Title track sounds like they were told to extend the time. 😂
I wouldn't mind if it was even a little longer 😆🤘
According to Mick Box, he and Lee Kerslake went to the pub, had a “liquid lunch” then returned to the studio where they knocked off the wild, duo part in one take.
@@michaelcapewell4811 thanks Michael , great info, want a good one in return?
Jim, Is the singing style reminiscent to that of Iron Maiden?
Is it just me or does the singer on Magicians Birthday track sound especially like early Bowie?...👨🎤🪄🎩🎂👍👀
Ken Hensley is UH secret weapon
Singer guitarist and keyboard player
... and I never understood why he joined Southern Rockers Blackfoot in the mid 80s, not win-win, but lose-lose situation 😟
@@rudolfbecker4313 yeah
I mean completely different styles too
@@retrorambles517 just why? 3 great Studio albums followed by one of the best live albums of the 80s (someday here on the channel) and then keyboards? Same mistake as Molly Hatchet - must have been the record Company :-(
Great music! However, I think sometimes the transitions don't always work. Gary Thain very under-rated bassist!
Agree about Gary Thain, tragically overlooked.
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