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Uriah Heep - Uriah Heep Live Audio CD

A fair review of the Uriah Heep "Uriah Heep Live" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Uriah Heep reviews here, or go back to the Uriah Heep tabs.

Uriah Heep Band: Uriah Heep
Title: Uriah Heep Live
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Release Date: 1989-07-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Introduction 2: Sunrise 3: Sweet Lorraine 4: Traveller in Time 5: Easy Livin' 6: July Morning 7: Tears in My Eyes 8: Gypsy 9: Circle of Hands 10: Look at Yourself 11: Magician's Birthday 12: Love Machine

JUST LIKE THE CONCERT...ANYTIME!
The nice thing about it was the band's live show was identical to the LP. I was a huge Heep fan in High School and College; I puffed a lot of good stuff to this LP. I saw in Phoenix w/Golden Earring, another great live band in the early 70's and reviewed it for the Scottsdale Community College paper. They kicked ass, that is the only way to put it. I remember reading one review that still sticks in my mind, "Like a Panzer Tank Rolling Over You At 80 MPH". How true, how true. I don't think there is another "live" album of the time can really touch this up until the release of Live and Dangerous by Lizzy. Buy, pop a couple of PBR's, and dig it.


Truncated and inferior
This album especially. A historically underrated band, Uriah Heep has been well served with remastered versions of their albums, showing that popular acts (like Dickens) sometimes prove the critics wrong in terms of quality and longevity.

For one thing, it's raw and truthful. Unlike other classic Seventies double-live albums, "Uriah Heep Live" was recorded one sole January night in Birmingham, England, and unlike similar albums by the Allmans, Derek and the Dominos, Led Zeppelin, and Thin Lizzy, it doesn't reveal significant overdubs or splicings. The Seventies were an age when studios and producers became name brands, and even "live" albums were stamped with their mark. "Uriah Heep Live" isn't, yet almost every track is superior to its studio incarnation.

The original 1989 CD release does not include the 'Rock 'N' Roll Medley' from the vinyl album. The 1996 Castle remaster corrected this due-to-CD-time-limitations problem with the additional track, better sound, and superb packaging. The 2003 Sanctuary remaster sounds even better (thicker, more detailed) and includes not just the complete album but an additional disc of live material mostly postdating the 1973 album. The first four tracks were originally heard as a U. S. radio show compiled from live recordings made in 1973 ("Uriah Heep Live") and 1974 (Shepperton Studios sessions). The other eight tracks come from the Shepperton Studios sessions BUT, like the two (duplicate) tracks that were included in the radio show, with tremendously improved sound quality. That is, the formerly hard-to-hear guitar parts are now as loud as they should be, and the "Wonderworld" tracks come across as they always should have--as classic Uriah Heep. The mushy echo is gone.

Uriah Heep fans should feel blessed. Young goth listeners could do far worse than trying out a band that, in its early years, could drive reviewers to contemplate suicide. Any other fan of 70s hard rock would do well to pick up this exemplary reissue. Unless you're a (very) casual listener, you may want avoid the original CD issue if at all possible.


A SHAME FOR MERCURY LABEL/RECORDS...MISSING THE BEST SONGS FROM THE ORIGINAL ALBUM..!

I WONDER WHY THE CD DOES NOT HAVE ALL THE SONGS AS IN THE LP. GYPSY, JULY MORNING AND MEDLEY ARE THE BEST SONGS THAT MAKE THIS ALBUM SPECIAL AND UNIQUE, AND THEY ARE NOT IN THIS CD.
THIS LP IS A CLASSIC FROM 1973 AND ONE OF THE BEST LIVE CONCERTS EVER. . !.


Shark Sandwich
And I have bothered to listen to nearly all of their albums. I've maintained an open mind but Uriah Heep IS Spinal Tap. There are some interesting parts but most of it is masturbatory and silly at best.


Missing a great track
If you don't mind that one track missing, the rest of the CD is great. I love Uriah Heep and this album was awesome, but the CD version is missing the "Rock n Roll Medley" track that I foolishly didn't notice was not listed when I ordered it. For me, I liked that medley a lot. It was on the album, it should have been included on the CD.


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