Gary Thain!!! What a bassist. Gary and Lee in the pocket driving the song and Gary jumps out of the pocket and flash bangs you with his unreal bass licks!!! Uriah Heep Forever 🔥🔥🔥
In 1972 Keep came to the Jacksonville, Fla coliseum three times that year. I saw them all but in July, after waiting six hours at the doors to be the first to run to the "wall", the four foot high barrier closest to the stage.... during the crescendo of this song, nearing the last 60 seconds, the music was so powerful, and seeing David and Mick head banding their way toward each other, both a fixed to one position... I couldn't take it any longer and leapt over the wall, past security, grabbed the lower leg of Byron and joined the final minute of perfection. I was 17. and now 68, but when listening to this recording... seems like yesterday.
I have been a front line rock vocalist in my 70’s and still to this day have not a bass player like Gary and there have been masters since then. Gary you were a grand master. Rip
As a bass player of 50 years myself I have to say the live 73 album in my opinion contains the best live bass playing performance ever! The word genius is used too much but not in the case of Gary Thain RIP Gary
Brother you nailed it! Gary Thain was a player beyond description!! I got to see them live twice, the second time had John Wetton on bass and he was a disappointment for me.
@@theirishhammer9451 thank you friend! I have seen John Wetton a few times myself I think he was a great Bass player but perhaps his style wasn’t so suited to Heep. I think in the end Gary was irreplaceable
@@theirishhammer9451 yes the more contemporary music of Asia definitely suited his style better and of course it allowed him to use his singing talent more.
I agree with those who find this the absolute top of all Uriah Heeps songs! Everything is 100 % perfect AND live. Still gives me goose-bumps 48 years later :)
Agree Lisa, the Greatest Band Ever! Had the great honour meeting Ken and corresponding with him for decades, also Mick, shared a few pints of Guinness and also many years (still) corresponding.
Everyone is commenting on the amazing vocals and instrumental perfection but let's not forget the absolutely unrivaled, magical poetry of Ken Hensley! " Sky full of eyes, mind full of lies, black from their cold hearts, down to their graves" wow!Let's not forget the profundity! "Today is only yesterday's tomorrow!" I actually did find another comment about Hensley's words though.
This band were fantastic, wonderful and fine style typical of hard rock in the early 70s, and is not in the Fame Salon of rock and roll|!!!....is a big injustice!!....URIAH HEEP FOREVER!!!. AVE!!! Ken Hesnley and the others gays of the band (the originals...)
Bass master indeed. I love his work and that of his bandmates more and more as time goes by. I am so glad a girlfriend let me borrow her vinyl record of Demons and Wizards. I was hooked forever after the first listen!
And let`s not forget per the liner notes of the vinyl album that they recorded Magician`s Birthday within 11 months of recording Demons and Wizards while on tour! Phenominal acheivement.
I saw them perform this song on the American leg of this 1973 tour in Syracuse New York. 60 rock concerts later of various artist and these guys were still the Best show back in 1973 through today, hands down.
swyman10 awesome! What city did you see them in? I believe this is when they were at their absolute finest! And yes, they were loud then. I took my son and my two oldest grandchildren to see them last year in San Juan Capistrano and while they were great, they were nowhere near as exhilarating or as loud as they were in 1973. As you know, the only remaining original members Mick Box and he still is great as he ever was.
Yes and only if people were educated in cleaning the players tape transport assembly along with the heads. This would've made the players and tapes last longer.
Great Band, Great Musicians, wrote Music History, and some of them are still here. Whish they could all be here, but they have gone , but will never be forgotten. Love them since i was 7...🔥♥️👌
Circle of Hands is, of course, from the Demons and Wizards album, the first I truly feel in love with as a young teenager. It really was Heep's zenith. Lots of great music after that, but they never flew quite as high again as they did on that immaculate album, every song a gem. For me it has always been their masterpiece.
Uriah Heep was the first band I truly loved - over Led Zep .... over Deep Purple ... I just gravitated to Hensley's flaming Hammond, Byron's voice and Thain's melodic bass .... That combination kept my attention until Return To Fantasy ... then I drifted away .... but the magic 5 albums are still in my collection .... and when I enjoy them, so do my neighbors! :)
@@jorgeosunaaguilar7408 Man, they sure did ... Gary had that ability to fit that "melodic bass" anywhere, and Lee had no problem keeping up with him! :)
URIAH HEEP Una de las mejores bandas de todos los tiempos,Gary Thain en mi opinion,esta entre los mejores bajistas del rock!!!!!!!!!! Somos HEEPSTERIA!!!!!!!!!!
And Mick Box one of the most under rated guitar players of all time. Listen to the lick in Magicians Birthday with that Fuzz Box and Cry Baby Wah wah pedal.
Ken on the hammond on tracks like this, July morning and other heavy tracks like Shadows of grief, his organ playing as his slide guitar playing was flawless
Uriah heep , boc, thin lizzy, grand funk, golden earring.. Too many to list it was a dazed time, Microdot first tkme I heard this album at my buddies place with his Marantz blew me away and I'm still gone! Was 17
Gary Thain had to be one of the top ten bassist to ever play the instrument...too bad he had such hard luck...the way he riffs thru this sound is unsurpassed...very impressive👍👍👍
The Band is still magic. I sah their opening concert in Hamburg for the 50th annivesary Tour. Mike is still speedy playing his guitars on both, acoustic and electric guitars, phil Lanzon is a fantastic organ Player, Bernie Shaw has a strong and powerful Rock voice, Russel Gilbrook good drive on drums and davey Rimmer is a good Bass Player. Not as strong as the original Band, but it was a time journey with an rather impressive Performance
Grande e superbo gruppo rock . Pezzo notevole per voce eccezionale, tastiere potenti, solo di chitarra maestoso e geniale creatività al basso del grande Gary Thain.
What a great band, COH one of my fav UH songs, Gary Thain’s thundering bass guitar is immense on this and really underpins this track, brings back so many memories, RIP all but Mick.
@@jorgeosunaaguilar7408 yup.. i think there’s a video interview with Lee Kerslake on how he recorded the drums part on Ozzy’s blizzard of ozz album.. plus with Bob Daisley.. btw my other fave of Uriah Heep’s album is ‘Abominog’... totally digs Peter Goalby’s voice.. 😀😀 they tried going commercial & still fine with me.. 😀
Thain was a bass monster....I saw Heep several times during the Magician's Birthday / Demons & Wizards era and he could blow the roof off the building...... Gone too soon :(
I don't think he is the best of the best, but in a way I agree with you. Can you imagine that NO ONE dislikes his style, his playing? ALL the bass players adore him! So do I. I was also amazed to hear Gary play the songs previously recorded by Paul Newton - a pretty bass player - and feel the difference. It blows your mind. Gary and Lee Kerslake, what a powerhouse!
I like Gary alot. That being said, I feel that John Wetton did an amazing job replacing Gary. The band didn't skip a beat with Wetton. Trevor Bolder followed, and he was a tremendous groove builder too. The Dance, Free and Easy, Illusion, Sympathy, Woman of the Night, Love or Nothing, I'm Alive, Falling in Love, etc. Great bass player.
Without a doubt, the BEST Hard Rock Live album ever. I saw them many times in the 70's & they always had the best live shows not only in the music but Davids stage presence. Always made you feel like they were playing the show just for you. Long live the Mighty Heep.
Я люблю британский рок 70 х еще тогда , когда не знала , что за группа . Я искала эти записи полько по слуховой памяти 27 лет.А вам нрааится Лед Зеррелин
Not gonna say Heep is better than Purple, but both deserve so much more. Demons and Wizards and Magician's Birthday. In Rock and Fireball. 2 bands, 2 albums, 2 words. Holy Fuck! Love
At This Time Uriah Heep were Untouchable...Saw every Concert on This Tour, ,Got Fired From My Job, But The Memory of some great shows still remain after nearly 50 years...Check out a dude on Facebook Named Konstantinos Takos..He Runs a great Uriah Heep Site...He has some amazing material about the band...he is mates with Mick Box and former Bassist Paul Newton...Top Bloke..
Byron is great, eo and without him the group was always top in hard rock. And Lawton and Ken Hensley were in no way inferior to the Byron, and the music was always art prk level, rich, multifaceted, melodious ...
I know a lot of emphasis is on David, Gary, Lee and Ken ... but I have to say that Mick brought a lot of great guitar work that fit well with Hensley's Hammond. What really appealed to me was his use of tremolo and whammy bar together on "If I Had The Time" but there are other examples .... also seemed he always brought those sort of "whistling solos" where the guitar sounds as it might if you were whistling a counter-melody. I always liked that sound. The "magic 5", I call them ... influenced my taste in hard rock forever.
Ah pure musical delight from the incomparible Uriah Heep! Still love this wonderful music that lives on untarneshed and unequaled by the sands of time. Every true rock music lover knows Heep`s music not only sounds as fresh and innovative now as it did when they first performed it but like fine wine tastes more savory to our musical taste buds as we rock on down the road!
