I don’t think! I prepare and I practice so I am as ready as I can be and so I can relax and enjoy being with you and playing and singing for you. Song: TalesArtist: Uriah HeepAlbum: The Magician's BirthdayReleased: 1972Label: Bronze RecordsGenre: RockStyle: Hard RockMusician:Gary Thain - bassLee Kersla.
I just love to play and sing! If I stop to think about it though, the idea of being on stage alone, with just my acoustic guitars, my piano and my book of songs is quite intimidating. "I really like doing these solo shows, although the whole experience is obviously totally different from, say, a Live Fire concert.
All others be forewarned: the Heep might become an addictive, guilty pleasure as one of the consummate bands of the 1970s they embodied everything wonderful about the rock decade as well as its tawdry, conceited excesses.Recorded live at ¨La Caja Negra¨ Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain 20th August 2012Ī brand new unreleased live recording by the legendary Ken Hensley, including songs from his Uriah Heep days as well as from his successful solo career, Ken continues to tour the world and spends most of the year abroad playing to his large and expanding fan base. Chapter and Verse is highly recommended for the faithful. Box did a fine job of keeping the dross of the albums from Different World through Sonic Origami at bay, but all is redeemed on disc six with the live material, showcasing the awesome power and sheer dynamic theatricality of a band that walked the line between hard rock, metal, and prog rock. It is true that the material on discs four and five can be dicey at times, but there is still plenty to love. Virtually every track a fan would want is here: "Sweet Lorraine," "The Magician's Birthday," "July Morning," "Look at Yourself," "Tears in My Eyes" (an unreleased alternate take), to "Easy Livin'," and "Stealin'," to "Sweet Freedom." The new cuts here, like the alternates of "Lady in Black," and "Why," are wonderful sit-ins for their originals. There are 14 unreleased studio cuts, in total, and a whopping sixth disc of live material, most of which has never been released before. The Heep story continues through the glory years when they rang the bells at the higher reaches of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic through 1977, and into the demise and back again - musically if not popularly. Hensley's keyboards against Box's roaring SG are devastating. The earliest UH material here is "Gypsy" and the previously unissued "Real Turned On" and "What's Within My Heart." It's frightening how the band has a sound a lot like the music Deep Purple would make in 1974. Interestingly, this music, though it has its flaws, is utterly compelling, particularly the cuts by Spice - the unreleased cut "Astranaza," and "Born in a Trunk" contain the earliest version of the sound the Heep would hone on Magicians Birthday and Demons and Wizards. Chordsound to play your music, study scales, positions for guitar, search, manage, request and send chords, lyrics and sheet. Disc one begins the tale with 12 tracks by Heep precursor bands such as the Gods, Spice, Toe Fat, Head Machine, and the Keef Hartley Band. Hensley, including songs from his Uriah Heep days as well as from his successful solo career.