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You forgot "Alice", the WHO, Nugent, Johnny Winter, etc. MAN, I was just graduating "High" school back in '72 and the music couldn't have been better, (not to mention the "House" parties with ALL this music blaring in a quiet suburban neighborhood).
@@Gerrys-Channel What Sharon did to Kerslake and Bob Daisley was total bullshit. Anybody who knows bass and drums can tell Tommy Aldridge and Rudy Sarzo did not play on Diary.
I love Uriah Heep and I love the fact that I’m the first one to watch it and the first one to comment. Thank you Midnight Special for taking me back to when I was 12 years old.
Saw them open with this song at a concert in St. Petersburg in 1974. Fog on the stage, lights down, and then you hear the opening chords, then Byron, and then it was full game on. Will never forget it. They wrapped it up with that great rock 'n roll medley with Blue Suede Shoes and At The Hop.
The 70's on full display here. Gawd how I miss this time in my life. And what a wonderful awesome experience only those that were alive at the time could appreciate.
I love the fact that all performances on The Midnight Special were live and not lip-synced like American Bandstand. Bring The Midnight Special back along with everyone alive who performed on the show!
@@ricleonardis9314 what is she without fancy clothes, makeup and electronics to what she presents ? Can she make music that would touch people's souls?
St. Louis radio station KSHE has a digital side channel that I just recently started checking out. It has a wide range of late '60s-and-up songs: I heard Strawbs today; Renaissance - and an obscure Deep Purple cut Friday, among others. I think it can be streamed online - if not geo-fenced.
what is called music now is throw away garbage. It all sounds the same. There is no personality to new music. Excuse me I just had to barf thinking about it.
@@lucalone Thank you for the reply. Yes they are. The older I get, the more I recognize how the US falls short and is backwards in many ways... music recognition is certainly one of this.
I bought that album for around $3.50 because of the album cover. What a find! Did it with several bands back then, Strawbs, From the witchwoods for another
It must have been great. Great musicians concentrating on their playing and a stage small enough to see them w/o huge monitors. And to be able to sit and enjoy the music…perfect.
In some ways it definitely was (or is, if you buy the block universe model). This is not the best UH song for sure, but a not bad performance. Easy Living is a much better song. The thing about this time is that while the clothes and hair seem wack by today's standards - of course they didn't when you were living through (those times).
@@scottlarson1548Definitely True 💯% Agree! I went to downtown Nashville, Tennessee over Thanksgiving and was dancing outside along the sidewalks, live music was pouring out of every restaurant/bar, with doors & windows wide open. What a fantastic experience & nothing like I thought it would be, now I want to go back!!
This was truly an amazing band. All supremely talented and David Byron was a great singer and very charismatic front man. I saw them right around this time opening for Emerson Lake and Palmer when ELP was at the peak of their Brain Salad Surgery era. Remember when you could see a show and sometimes have two or three bands that were all headliners in one night. Wow. Glad I was a teenager at that time. We may not have been the Greatest Generation, but we were sure as fuck the Luckiest Generation. Hey, that would make a good book.
I have a copy of Sweet Freedom autographed by the whole band, courtesy of Mick Box. He and I both come from the same part of East London (Walthamstow) and I worked as a teenager in Sainsburys with the mum of a school friend of his. She had a word with Mick and the album duly arrived! A treasured possession still, over 50 years later. Sad to think that of the guys in this clip only Mick is still with us…..
My God this brings back so many great memories!! These guys were great,all of them.....51 years have passed now and their music is still relevant today.
Meine Band der 70 er. Es war besonders, sich eine Scheibe zu kaufen, um sich dann ins Zimmer zu verkriechen, um diese Musik zu inhalieren. Diese Band hat mir in den jungen Jahren soviel gegeben. RIP Gary, David, Ken und Lee. Never forget these days...
Such a phenomenal band. As a bassist myself Gary Thain was one of the best out there. Great songwriting great vocals great look...when bands looked like bands.
Take a close look at the album cover of SWEET FREEDOM. Do you notice that the four late members died in the exact sequence in which they are shown? Gary, Dave, Lee and Ken. Rock on, Mick! The favourite band of my youth!
I first heard this song on a Warner Brothers loss leader album called "Heavy Metal" and fell in love ❤. I got to see them open for KISS in 77, Stealin was their encore. After that KISS looked like they were mailing in their show, they quit during Beth, and a riot ensued. Heep owned that night
@reverendtos4271 me as well k- tel records I believe, was also a double album I think ,paranoid, Frankenstein so many hits on that one record that open and expanded my musical experience.
I also have that Warner bros compilation double album..it got me into alot of good music..that was a great album..it was also the first time I heard yes,starship trooper live..and it still gives me chills to this day..
Saw Heep 5 times in Baltimore/Washington/Harrisburg PA ‘73-‘76, 4 times with this (best) lineup. I was a bit of a junky. Rock and Roll Medley off their live album at the Harrisburg show was off the charts. We met them getting in limos afterward and I got picks from MB and a friend got a set of sticks from LK. Manfred Manns Earth Band and Blue Oyster Cult led off. MMEB doing Father of Night Father of Day was intense, especially Mick Rogers’ guitar lead. Good memories 😊
@@Randetroit I did not but a friend did in Pittsburgh. IIRC it was one of the very first US appearances of Rush when he saw them. BTW, I have to correct myself….I saw them 4 times, not 5. It was a lifetime ago!! BOC backed up UH twice (once in Landover 1975 and once in Harrisburg 1974), and strangely (I thought) Earth, Wind and Fire and little known ZZ Top did in Baltimore in 1973. By the second time in Landover 1976 they had become the backup to BOC. Wetton had taken over for the late Gary Thain at that point (Return to Fantasy tour). I saw dozens of shows ‘73-‘78 but I confess my memories of details aren’t always robust 😎
Takes me back to my teenage years. Absolutely fantastic times, being able to appreciated Uriah Heep, partying and feeling the new found freedoms of late adolescence.
Thank goodness for these Midnight Special uploads! So much clarity of vision and sound. THANK YOU! The mighty Uriah Heep just as they were peaking in that 1972/73 period. How cool does Hensley look behind that Hammond? His songwriting really made that band.
One of my first heavy rock bands to get into and listen to tons at 14. I had this album but that was there later stuff. I about wore out "Look at Yourself". One of my favorite early raging guitar solos, Mick Box on "Magician's Birthday"! They always had such amazing vocals too!
Super quality for a 1973 production! Everything live! Sadly only one member of this line-up is still living, but that one is still active on the road: Mick Box and Uriah Heep. Incredible!
Back in those days before the internet and youtube, even before MTV there really was no such thing as a music video and most of these bands we never saw unless you went to a concert. I had no idea what Uriah Heep looked like but I had all their albums.
I'm not joking, but when I was in bands in my younger days, I meet 4, four, different people, in 4 different cities, who said they were in Uriah Heep! 😂🤣 I thought I was on a hidden camera show. It was all about 3 months total for all of them!
Man, this is so good, I've been hooked on this channel for the last week. Thanks so much for putting out this high quality replication of what the groups were really like in their heyday. Awesome. Really appreciate it.
