@@michaeldeliberate8251being this age and getting here so quickly and the 51 years flying by since this song first came out just feels like the universe played a dirty joke on all of us . I've asked other friends and other older people if they felt that way and pretty much all of them have said yes
HI!! /HI!!/Salut.....,.You know why?? cause they don't do rock & roll, They only make one kind of music it's Uriah Heep music and it's not any kind of others. The sound (specially with the "Dream Team") of Uriah Heep is UNIQUE I try to find something who's sound like them.....sorry I haven't find any. ....When I was 17 back in 1972 I had the "privilège" of seen them in concert at the mystique Montréal Forum with Buddy Miles and deep Purple and again in 1974 with Savoy Brown and again in 1976 or 77 with Jethro Tull(the concert of the century and, by that time, I knew that I will never see that again in my life and until today,( I'm 66 ) HONEST I never did. Have a good day a serious fan.....from Montréal. PS after 3 Uriah Heep concerts I can die in peace....thank's to Uriah Heep, nothing is the same since the 1st concert!!
It's hard to appreciate now how good this sounded back in '73 when it first came out. This song and Aerosmith "Dream On", Deep Purple - "Smoke on the Water", Golden Earring "Radar Love" Pink Floyds "Dark side of the Moon" album and ZZ Top's "Tres Hombres" album. Man. What a time to be a teenager.
Yes! They were all great bands. I miss Rare Earth too. Saw them in an Iowa corn field while it lightly rained! Helped a really messed up girl too. She finally came around hours later. I had he in my car putting on clothes and getting warm! I always loved those field concerts. Look out for the cow patties! 😍😍😍
A great Ken Hensley classic. The Uriah Heep sound is iconic, this was their best line up: David Byron, a magnificent lead vocalist, the talented Gary Thain on bass guitar, as mentioned, the multi talented Ken Hensley, the driving lead guitar of Mick Box, and the vastly underrated drumming of Lee Kerslake. The Seventies! What a magical decade of truly awesome rock bands, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd to name a few!
@R G if you want another great throwback song from the days of yesteryear.. and you have Never listened to it.. check out the song "Proud Words".. from the Ken Hensley solo L.P....titled "Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf"... this song is very much like the Uriah Heap stuff ..beautiful slide guitar work...
After hearing Stealin' ,for the first time , I was left reelin'....And nearly every Heep song had that effect.....No wonder , then , why they remain one of my very favourites
I put my own 8 track player and homemade speakers in my first car in 1973. "Dark Side of the Moon" was the first 8 track I played followed by Uriah Heep. That's a 19yr. old's best memory. The worst was I couldn't be 20 on "Sugar Mountain" and I was about to be.
Same here, man. The "life life life" bit perked my ears up when I was 2 and asked him for the song ever since. Years later I realised the lyrics suited him perfectly (apart from the killen part, thank Dog) 🤣 RIP Pa 🤘🤘🤘
I was raised by a Mom and Dad and all the hippie's that were with them. I heard Uriah Heep my whole life, voice from my childhood Much love ❤️ be at peace with your self
Reminds me of something my ole friend Gene would say. 'My generation had the best cars and the best music'. Here's to you Gene, you were a baaad maaan.
There were good times - youth, youth, and then it seemed it would never end. And here is a break - you are already well over 60 🤣. Of the outstanding line-up of the group, only Box is alive, and the last album seems to be not bad, but somehow it doesn’t warm like before. Increasingly, between going for a drink or going to the “girl”, you choose the first 😂😜. Good luck to all
Yep, Well over sixty and still listening to this most awesome band URIAH HEEP! I listened to all kinds of music as I grew up but, this band, I wore my first Album out. Had to buy another.😍😍😍
Time is a jetplane, runnin so fast. Yap! Uriah Heep... I also still enjoy this stuff, after 40years. Handmade amazing music. Most of tha kids 2day don't have any knowing. Sometimes they wear shirts with tha STONES -tongue without any knowledge what it stands for. Kindly regards to folks can understand what I meen.
These guys opened for Judas Priest a few years ago in Nashville and blew the roof off! Pure Classic Rock in anyone's book. Top ten show for this old head!!!
I saw them in Marquette, Michigan with April Wine in 1983. Was an awesome concert. I was 22, today is my birthday, I am 64, I still listen to all the classics.
Uriah Heep is one of those bands where you know every word, rock it out in the car and then say, "I had no idea that was UH!" It happens to me all the time. 😅
Same here. I saw them in 1975. My brother gave me this album for Christmas after the release. He’s gone 30 years and whenever I hear this song it reminds me of him. RIP, Gerald.
The .music. these guys put out is something out of melodic history, that voice , guitar, and the organ phenomenal. 70's. music can not and will not ever be duplicated !!!
I retired two years ago and am 67 yo, and for the past day for some reason I had this very song in my head, so came in for a fix! A great one, and my high school band "Soundstorm" (my brother on Hammond, me on guitar, our drummer singing, and bass) did this number! A great era for music and Uriiah Heep was key- sure as hell hope they made Rock Hall of Fame, as they deserve it!
Take me across the water 'Cause I need some place to hide I done the rancher's daughter And I sure did hurt his pride Well, there's a Hundred miles of desert Lies between his hide and mine I don't need no food And no water, Lord 'Cos I'm running out of time Fightin', killin', wine and women Gonna put me to my grave Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin' Nothing left to save but my life Stood on a ridge And shunned religion Thinking the world was mine I made my break and a big mistake Stealin', when I Should've been buyin' All that fightin', killin' Wine and those women Gonna put me to an early grave Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin' Nothing left to save but my life, life... So I stood on a ridge And shunned religion Thinking the world was mine I made my break and a big mistake Stealin', when I should've been buyin' I was stealin' When I should've been buyin' I was stealin' When I should've been buyin' Stealin', when I should've been buyin' I was stealin' ...
I really enjoy the distortion that Mick Box gets out of the guitar solo. I read somewhere he used a Gibson SG and a Dunlop pedal on the studio version of Stealin.
Not many people know but Uriah Heep is actually the guys name that formed the band he also has a daughter named Imogen Heep who also performs and is an awesome singer Uriah was around in the sixtys performing long before forming the band
First band, first act that I saw before Billy Thorpe & Nazareth at the tender age of 15 back in Dallas at the convention center…. I paid 15 bucks back then for the ticket… best $$$ I’ve ever spent
Who's listening in 2024.
Was listening when it first came out too..Had the vinyl.
Me medesimo 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Yep same here Im the same age but it doesn't seem that long ago I was 15 when this came out and was played all over the radio 51 years ago .
@@gsp49We had the album when it first came out .
I went from 12 to 22 in the 1970s and wow a lot of great music came out in that span
Just rolled here from some Nazareth.
Terribly underrated group, this is actually one of my favorite classic rock tracks.
no kidding them and Grand Funk Blue Oyster cult
@@gregboardman915 I like Boc but I think classic rock radio stations overplay don't fear the reaper.
@@kingkat8080 true
How about a favorite classic rock album!?!
@@Sunfleuria I admit I've not listened to Sweet Freedom in it's entirety but I should.
I was Lucky Enough to see them Up Close when I was a Teenager, Now I am still listening at 66 yrs old, And Still Doin the Rancher's Daughter.
64 over here
I'll be 66 soon myself yup ... that must have been mind-blowing to see them live ... and especially up close ... we grew up in a great time for music
@@michaeldeliberate8251being this age and getting here so quickly and the 51 years flying by since this song first came out just feels like the universe played a dirty joke on all of us .
I've asked other friends and other older people if they felt that way and pretty much all of them have said yes
So am I !
I always got a kick out of the little laugh he did right after he sung that line...
They don't make rock and roll like this anymore the 70 s kicked ass a lot of good music !!!!!!!!!!
HI!! /HI!!/Salut.....,.You know why?? cause they don't do rock & roll, They only make one kind of music it's Uriah Heep music and it's not any kind of others. The sound (specially with the "Dream Team") of Uriah Heep is UNIQUE I try to find something who's sound like them.....sorry I haven't find any. ....When I was 17 back in 1972 I had the "privilège" of seen them in concert at the mystique Montréal Forum with Buddy Miles and deep Purple and again in 1974 with Savoy Brown and again in 1976 or 77 with Jethro Tull(the concert of the century and, by that time, I knew that I will never see that again in my life and until today,( I'm 66 ) HONEST I never did. Have a good day a serious fan.....from Montréal. PS after 3 Uriah Heep concerts I can die in peace....thank's to Uriah Heep, nothing is the same since the 1st concert!!
They do make Viagra,...so now you can fuck into your 80s,bet your great granddad wishes he had in back in the 70s
@@pierrebelanger8656 I saw the Uriah Heap Buddy Miles Deep Purple Lineup in Minneapolis Minnesota.
Truth
This song fuckin rocks!!! Sorry!!!
Well over 60 myself. Still likely to sing this song loudly and badly in my car 🚗!
I ain't sorry 🙃😉
I’m sorry for ya 😂
@J M C if you were in the passenger seat, I am not sure you would be sorry or in ear agony 😱 Maybe both!
I totally agree , I’ve been known to belt this jammin’ tune out back in my partyin’ days 👍👍🍻🍻🎤🎤
It's hard to appreciate now how good this sounded back in '73 when it first came out.
This song and Aerosmith "Dream On", Deep Purple - "Smoke on the Water", Golden Earring "Radar Love"
Pink Floyds "Dark side of the Moon" album and ZZ Top's "Tres Hombres" album.
Man. What a time to be a teenager.
spot on.
So true in Spring of '73 , i was 15
-- man , we grew up with the best effing music .
You nailed it......I agree 100 percent...
I was in the 10th grade and loving life with this music.
Uriah Heep for me is Right Up there with my Other Rock Gods … Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,Cream , Humble Pie☝️
Yes! They were all great bands. I miss Rare Earth too. Saw them in an Iowa corn field while it lightly rained! Helped a really messed up girl too. She finally came around hours later. I had he in my car putting on clothes and getting warm! I always loved those field concerts. Look out for the cow patties! 😍😍😍
yeah my order is Sabbath,Purple Uriah. Priest Saxon Maiden, its subject to change any time.we c as n all agree the 60,70, 80's had some nice tuneage
Grand Funk is the king of them all, can’t forget BöC
Don’t forget Rainbow, especially with Ronnie James Dio.
A great Ken Hensley classic. The Uriah Heep sound is iconic, this was their best line up: David Byron, a magnificent lead vocalist, the talented Gary Thain on bass guitar, as mentioned, the multi talented Ken Hensley, the driving lead guitar of Mick Box, and the vastly underrated drumming of Lee Kerslake.
The Seventies!
What a magical decade of truly awesome rock bands, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple,
Pink Floyd to name a few!
A dissertation!!
They were around in the 60's. I feel really old hearing this one! ;)
@R G
if you want another great throwback song from the days of yesteryear.. and you have Never listened to it.. check out the song "Proud Words".. from the Ken Hensley solo L.P....titled "Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf"... this song is very much like the Uriah Heap stuff ..beautiful slide guitar work...
So glad I got to grow up in the 70s and can still enjoy this great music!
Es el roll Royce del rock
After hearing Stealin' ,for the first time , I was left reelin'....And nearly every Heep song had that effect.....No wonder , then , why they remain one of my very favourites
I put my own 8 track player and homemade speakers in my first car in 1973. "Dark Side of the Moon" was the first 8 track I played followed by Uriah Heep. That's a 19yr. old's best memory. The worst was I couldn't be 20 on "Sugar Mountain" and I was about to be.
Remember when you couldn't turn on a radio and not hear this tune ?
0❤😂🎉😢😮😅
On FM at least,AM,not as much.
I grew up to this music. Instead of "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window", my daddy was playing this. GREAT MUSIC!
Same here, man. The "life life life" bit perked my ears up when I was 2 and asked him for the song ever since. Years later I realised the lyrics suited him perfectly (apart from the killen part, thank Dog) 🤣 RIP Pa 🤘🤘🤘
Saw them in '73 in Albuquerque. Manfred Mann opened for them.
I was raised by a Mom and Dad and all the hippie's that were with them. I heard Uriah Heep my whole life, voice from my childhood
Much love ❤️ be at peace with your self
I'm 35 and found this way toooo late frickin love this
This song ROCKS
Loved this song long before you were born but you get to enjoy it as a new experience.
Wow this takes me back to my teenage days on my Eight Track Craig Power play in my 1968 Road Runner⭐️👍❤️! Made my day🤣!
67 Cougar for me
Wish i still had it
😂😂😂😂. 😢
66 Galaxie 2 Dr hardtop with a big motor. But my dam tape player had the propensity to eat my favorite tapes all the time😂
Bro, they ALL ate tapes at one time or another. LOL, just a part of life then.
1969 mercury cougar.
This band is highly rated.never been underrated by my standards of kick butt rock and roll
Yup
Rest in peace, my Idol! I will remember your songs until I leave for you in a better world.
They're still at it. Only Mick is left. Saw them this spring in Grand Rapids MI, Sounded great.
Reminds me of something my ole friend Gene would say. 'My generation had the best cars and the best music'. Here's to you Gene, you were a baaad maaan.
True Uriah Heep Sound.
There were good times - youth, youth, and then it seemed it would never end. And here is a break - you are already well over 60 🤣. Of the outstanding line-up of the group, only Box is alive, and the last album seems to be not bad, but somehow it doesn’t warm like before. Increasingly, between going for a drink or going to the “girl”, you choose the first 😂😜. Good luck to all
Thank you brother.
Good to hear 😊
I know he's not on this album but Joe Konas is still alive and well living in Windsor Ontario Canada
Yep, Well over sixty and still listening to this most awesome band URIAH HEEP! I listened to all kinds of music as I grew up but, this band, I wore my first Album out. Had to buy another.😍😍😍
@@gabriellemueske4626 Me too ( age ).
I had LP for the first time , later changed all albums to CD
Hi, Yes 2024, remember seeing the band at the Glasgow Apollo, unforgettable night, ears were still ringing the next day....
goddamn I love how Kerslake used the kick pedal to set up the snare crashes. He had his own style that's for damn sure...RIP 🤘
This music will last forever...
One of the most underrated hard rock bands from that era of the early and mid seventies! They are phenomenally good-- no great!!!
Pure,70s gold
Yeah Baby! The mid seventies, Ft. Benning, Ga and Asshafenburg, Germany. Rock and Roll!
Undeniable genius. I’m almost 67 - lived it and this song still gives me chills!!!
Erinnerungen werden wach🤩💯✌
I saw Uriah Heep and Jethro Tull at the Shrine auditorium in LA. Great concert! Ahhhh! The good old days! ❤
I bet Tull was something else as well...
Saw Heep in South Bend, IN in 1975. Real rock.
What year was that? Pretty sure I was at that same concert.
@@flsuccesscoach I think it was around 1977 or 78 can't remember for sure.
@@wendyroman4944 Yep, pretty sure it was the same one. I was in high school when I went.
Saw the heep when they opened for KISS in the mid 70's. They were better than KISS.
On any day!
real musicians imho....
I totally believe that! ☮️😊
Superb English band mate , great lyrics and effing great brilliant ness
Kiss was a better fucker than them😁
Happy Heavenly 79th BD in 2024 - Ken Hensley, keyboards, guitar & songwriter for Uriah Heep. Ken Hensley 8/24/1945 - 11/04/2020
Time is a jetplane, runnin so fast. Yap! Uriah Heep... I also still enjoy this stuff, after 40years. Handmade amazing music. Most of tha kids 2day don't have any knowing. Sometimes they wear shirts with tha STONES -tongue without any knowledge what it stands for. Kindly regards to folks can understand what I meen.
Holy trinity of hard rock:Deep Purple-Uriah Heep-Black Sabbath.❤❤❤
No denying, this song is cool AF
70's Rock & Rock still has the kick it had back in the day, Uriah Heep is timeless
77 here and I done a couple of rancher's daughters in my time. Still doin' the last one.
These guys opened for Judas Priest a few years ago in Nashville and blew the roof off! Pure Classic Rock in anyone's book. Top ten show for this old head!!!
Might have been "the poor man's Deep Purple", but they were afeckin'numberone, with me!!!!
"Stood on a ridge and shunned religion,thinkin' the world was mine"-just about sums up my youth. How the world teaches us differently as we age.
I saw them in Marquette, Michigan with April Wine in 1983. Was an awesome concert. I was 22, today is my birthday, I am 64, I still listen to all the classics.
They don't make them like this anymore, todays artists and their fancy equipment do not come close to this!
Kick ass band and song👍🔥🔥
I saw them in an open air concert out in a field in the early 70s. Had a hell of a time, Thank You Uriah Heep!
Gary Thain's bass is magic. My absolute fav and gone too soon.
Oh them 70s...what a great rock and roll decade. And all the albums I was buying.
This shit regularly rocked classic radio of the late 70's and I enjoyed every last minute of it! #ChicagoRocks
Uriah Heep is one of those bands where you know every word, rock it out in the car and then say, "I had no idea that was UH!" It happens to me all the time. 😅
One of the bands that NEVER got their due. I was 16 when this album came out, and I was damn glad after buying it. Played the hell out of it!
Same here. I saw them in 1975.
My brother gave me this album for Christmas after the release. He’s gone 30 years and whenever I hear this song it reminds me of him. RIP, Gerald.
The .music. these guys put out is something out of melodic history, that voice , guitar, and the organ phenomenal. 70's. music can not and will not ever be duplicated !!!
I saw Uriah Heep at Eastown Theater with Deep Purple front row awesome concert
I retired two years ago and am 67 yo, and for the past day for some reason I had this very song in my head, so came in for a fix! A great one, and my high school band "Soundstorm" (my brother on Hammond, me on guitar, our drummer singing, and bass) did this number! A great era for music and Uriiah Heep was key- sure as hell hope they made Rock Hall of Fame, as they deserve it!
Walked into a record store and this album was playing bought it immedately.Imiss those days
yep i had 1 two blocks away in n.j. van houten ave .clifton DJ'S MUSIC
One of my favorite songs of all time
They had a God consciousness about them and sung from the Spirit.. you can’t deny it.
Saw them in the mid 70s with my grandmother....
My band opened our second set with this song back in the 70’s. Smoke machines, flash pots, full light show.
Great days, I miss them!
Are local bar and hall parties we would always open the night with this song, late 70s for all of your seasoned citizens ❤
Take me across the water
'Cause I need some place to hide
I done the rancher's daughter
And I sure did hurt his pride
Well, there's a
Hundred miles of desert
Lies between his hide and mine
I don't need no food
And no water, Lord
'Cos I'm running out of time
Fightin', killin', wine and women
Gonna put me to my grave
Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin'
Nothing left to save but my life
Stood on a ridge
And shunned religion
Thinking the world was mine
I made my break and a big mistake
Stealin', when I
Should've been buyin'
All that fightin', killin'
Wine and those women
Gonna put me to an early grave
Runnin', hidin', losin', cryin'
Nothing left to save but my life, life...
So I stood on a ridge
And shunned religion
Thinking the world was mine
I made my break and a big mistake
Stealin', when I should've been buyin'
I was stealin'
When I should've been buyin'
I was stealin'
When I should've been buyin'
Stealin', when I should've been buyin'
I was stealin' ...
Thank's for the lyrics i was just going to type it in the search bar (lyrics) 😊
Curie High school. Seventh period lunch. Basement of Chicken Unlimited. 1974. Best time ever!
Still sounds as good as day one!
Easy Living and Sunrise fantasy. Can anybody make that music now? NOBODY.
Blew my mind at the Swing Auditorium Berdoo Ca 70s.
Had this album as a teen...great band
GRANDISSIMI Uriah Heep!!!👏👏👏👏👏
First saw heep in 71 never be another byron up there with the best 13seot 24
Arguably the GREATEST ROCK & ROLL SONG EVER!!!
Gruppo straordinario!!!!!
Never get outdated!
off to see them in Bristol, February 2025👍👍🫡
true rock n roll classic
l bought this vinyl album shortly after it was first issued in 1973.
Great band, great music... They were incredible live...
Saw Heep open with this song in concert at Little Rock during the Wonderworld tour, 1974 I guess. Manfred Mann opened.
awesome track and im born 67 been a fan since early 80s.nobody jams like the Heap
Saw them at a bar in Las Vegas in 81. Excellent!
I met the bass player in the late 1980's who was judging à talent show in Sacramento, California
One of the best things to happen to rock, when these guys alll came together 😊
One of my all time favourite bands
I really enjoy the distortion that Mick Box gets out of the guitar solo. I read somewhere he used a Gibson SG and a Dunlop pedal on the studio version of Stealin.
Not many people know but Uriah Heep is actually the guys name that formed the band he also has a daughter named Imogen Heep who also performs and is an awesome singer Uriah was around in the sixtys performing long before forming the band
Yes , awesome track .saw heep in Cardiff twice. Great live band.😊
First band, first act that I saw before Billy Thorpe & Nazareth at the tender age of 15 back in Dallas at the convention center…. I paid 15 bucks back then for the ticket… best $$$ I’ve ever spent
Damn. I wish I could have seen Dan McCafferty in his prime. Nothing against Nazareth's new singer but Dan's voice will never be duplicated
Hi, Was that the australian singer Billy Thorpe you saw?
Just curious, didn,t know he went to the states if were talkin bout the same guy
This song was meant to be played loud👍
Great iconic rock song of the 70s. Bittersweet Memories of my youth
Hats off to the Band that did it All... And i mean ALL!
Saw them open for jethro tull at boston garden, what a show!!!! Sometime in the mid 70s bryon was still vocalist lol the 70s are still a blur
One of my all time favorite albums !!
1979 was great---real music,,,
Still one of the best groups that are all but forgotten, one of my 1st albums was Return to Fantasy.
PURE CLASSIC ROCK
I still have the original album
My first concert as a 14 year old kid in 1976.
Saw them many times.
Always a great show!
Great music!
One of my favs of my fav album of Heep.
I'm bringing the AAL speakers you know 😮🎶🎵
Great Song!
Dad's old westerns 😊
Reminds me of the Badlands to the
Black Hills Riding Free in South Dakota.
" I Love Morphine!!! "
ahhh the magical music of my youth. nice to come across it again after so many years :)