Uriah Heep- Rainbow Demon (REACTION & REVIEW)
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Song Link: • Uriah Heep - Rainbow D... - Hudba
Oh yes, just a quick reminder that the last two tracks from Demons and Wizards, Paradise/The Spell, MUST BE REACTED TO AS ONE TRACK. 🙃
Must...
You got it! 🤘
The Heep...so underrated. This album is a cosmic, mystical and magical masterpiece.
College dorm room stoner time in 1972
@@bumperu Exactly.
@@ProgBartleby Verdade. Muito subestimado.
Uriah Heep legendary band.
Great musicians with the vocals of the great David Byron.
With the deafening Hammond!!
I commend you on the mere fact that you took the time to look into Uriah Heep. It takes a person of refined taste for this type of music. I've watched a lot of reaction channels and they usually would only play certain songs by them but, there's so much more to look into and I'd find myself feeling frustrated, I don't understand why they wouldn't give other songs a chance. Thank you for showing some love for Uriah Heep, this was fantastic!
Thanks Seira; I'm really enjoying them :)
I always thought that the lyrics are not really important, just a carrier for the voice. But it fits great.
A German saying: "Don't praise the day before the evening." And never judge an album before you heard every song. Don't think you know "Going for the One" before you heard "Awaken". And don't believe you heard the best song from "Demons and Wizards" before you heard "Paradise/The Spell" the two final songs that belong together as one.
Word !!
Great album and cover. Great band. The jewel in heeps crown 👑..1972..and in same year the magicians birthday...nuff said 🎵🎶🎸🎹 .heep forever 👍
Ahh marvellous, thanks Justin. This is my favourite off Demons and Wizards, I've always been a sucker for a medieval style Hammond sound. 😁
The lyrics to the song are inspired by a dream that Ken Hensley had and immediately wrote down after waking up. This was not unusual for him, "The wizard" famously came to be in exactly the same fashion.
In 77 the campus bar where I went to college in Chicago sold ceiling squares to campus groups to paint and put on the ceiling. Every other school org/frat etc.... basically just put their logo etc on their squares. My fraternity got a 4x4ft square and did this album cover. We had a lot of design students artists etc. It was a great recreation. Everybody would try to get the table under it.
Demons and Wizards was one of the first vinyl's I ever owned back in the mid to late 70's. For a long time, I liked the second side better than the first. Now I just like it all as a whole.
1972. Just consider the production of this album, then think about the year it was recorded.
Astonishing.
Good review as usual JP.
URIAH HEEP British LEGENDS.
They were musically way ahead & with the great vocals of David Byron.
And that deafening Hammond! Brilliant
Totally appreciate how you respect the tune by allowing it to end, even through the fade out, before commenting. Cheers.
Ty vtaro
Trying to find a favorite song on a good 70s album ought to be like finding a favorite chapter in a good book - not something you do.
Love it !! Great album, great reaction !!
Long before there was Ronnie James Dio, Uriah Heep were away with the fairies. I'm feeling a strange urge to mount my trusty steed and ride off into the sunset on an epic quest for some mysterious lost artefact. I just need to fix the wheel on my bike. I would have loved this when I was fourteen.
Exquisitely expressed!😁
I love your takes when you get a song that moves you. I felt the same way when I first heard this.
This is a short story written by Ken a battle between a Wizard and a Demon continues to Magicians Birthday album
I never rate the songs from DEMONS & WIZARDS & MAGICIANS BIRTHDAY because as a 16 year old I simply fell in love with BOTH entire albums as if going on some ancient magical Hard Rock Adventure. Roger Dean's covers set the visual atmosphere. And each song IN SEQUENCE is beautifully aligned and flows like chapters to a mythical book. Heep were doing something very special and unique in 72 and it captured my young imagination fully. Heep, Sabbath, Zep, Purple, Captain Beyond & Grand Funk are the HARDROCK bands I was raised on after Hendrix, Cream, Beatles & Traffic days before my discovery of PROG overshadowed them. But by the early mid 70s I hated most or all what became METAL. LOL! I just didnt do it for me like their earlier HARDROCK older brothers. I think KISS ruined the genre. Haha!! I did like Aerosmith's first album though but I was moving deep into my Dad influenced JAZZ roots towards FUSION and PROG but still love hearing classic nostalgic URIAH HEEP with singer Byron. I loved ❤ their lyrical visceral storytelling of Merlinish and Mythic characters going on these Journeys to save mankind and to spread peace and wisdom. It was so what the early 70s & post psychedelia era was all about for me. A very enlightening time after the 70s Cultural Revolution or (Revelations)! Very uplifting & inspiring for me. Them and the kings of positivity,, YES were 2 big inspirations
There is an awesome Swedish band that did a remake of this. They are called Vintersorg, give it a try it is totally awesome.
I’m reminded of Dio, when I hear titles like Rainbow Demon…
Vocals are in a similar vein also.
Other than the guitar solo, that seemed a bit simple, I liked it.
I knew people that brought up UH back in the days of ether, just never got around to hearing them till now.
Did hear the radio stuff though.
Knowing these songs it thrills me to see your actions while listening
Hey Justin you might want to consider doing Paradise together with The Spell, they kind of lead into each other really hard. Just a recommendation.
This Song Rocks
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the artwork on the album. Specifically the left hand side. I didn't notice it when i first got the album, then my dad pointed it out and now it's all i see.😉
Hi JOHN just found you, I grew up with this, and Hawkwind. I agree with your take on Heel, especially this Album being a metal precursor Byron and Hensleys vocal style and range were definitely part of the tradition that Purple, Dio, at all were in. I won't say heep were pioneers here but certainly among the front runners, of the counter tenor/ falsetto style which was so powerful in 70s rock. I am just delighted it still speaks to a younger generation. This was 50 years ago for me and as you played I was waiting for the break and the drum intro that throws Mick Box's guitar solo at you. A lot of very understated, restrained playing as you observed, building layers and tension . Great to hear it again. Thank you. Keep on rockin
Yes, more of one of my favorite albums!! :)
And lee kerslake played drums on Ozzie's first two albums...
I just ♥The Heep. As I may have mentioned once or twice..
Una bellissima canzone e l'album Demons & Wizards un capolavoro!
Yeah good video. Love your analysis. Rainbow Demon is one of their best. Uriah Heep is heavy and magical. As Alan Enticott said in his comment below, when you get to Paradise/The Spell they must be listened to in one reaction, cuz they are really one song. Great reaction JP!
THIS WAS MY REACTION TOO!
❤
I’m not sure if you’ve done July Morning with Uriah Heep. You might want to hear how they sound now with the set-up. There is a live version from Wacken 2019 that should not be blocked. Uriah Heep is going on a tour September to December 2022 so they are still active though with only one founding member Mick Box on guitar and backing vocals
A Great Song 1 Of My Favorites Uriah Heep Are Still Cool.
Hey Justin, This is bizarre. I was listening to my one and only favorite Uriah Heep track and thought no-one on the Tube ever reacts to their stuff. Got it in my head that I'd challenge a reactor to do one on Uriah Heep, but who would be a prime candidate? Immediately thought of you as an open-minded, thoughtful reactor. I was greatly surprised when I found there was indeed several reactions/reactors to the group and you appear to be amongst the most ardent. The truth is, being something of a jazz person, I'm not an out and out 'Heep fan, but I can also not deny being a bit of a closet rocker. The 'Heep track I simply love somehow blends these two most loved genres seamlessly, and I'm sure you'll like it. So when you're up to the challenge, how's about doing one for "Wake up, Set your sites" from the "Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble" album. I'm over 50 now and have loved the piece since I was 6. My 10 year older brother, God bless him, introduced me to this amazing music..
I like this song
Oh brother ..wait til you get to Paradise/The Spell .. it's an absolute masterpiece
LOVE URIAH HEEP ✌️✌️👍🇦🇺.. have you played
LOOK AT YOURSELF ✌️
HEY JP . I will keep saying it . GYPSY QUEEN from the first album . Please😁
It has been so long since I last heard this track... Not quite 50 years but close. It was an album I really enjoyed for awhile but my musical tastes changed. Going back and listening, I can still hear the things that appealed to me. It is good in it's way but I have moved on.
I love that song 😀It's so awesome😃
I think a lot of the "stories" (or what seem like references to stories) in Uriah Heep just come from the old Dungeons and Dragons style fantasy games of the days before story-driven computer games. (The plots were just as thin, so I generally try not to think of those possible origins too much, but I seem to remember that at least in the case of their Return to Fantasy, that was indeed the case. I suppose, thin plot lines notwithstanding, there's a beauty in all of this being in the imagination. A thin plot and paper cut-out characters mean that anything deeper or meatier added to this is a creation of the lyricist's own mind. Anyway, that would explain why there's not that much to make of what a "Rainbow Demon" might be. It's a feeling. The music tells you more about that feeling than the lyrics do. The lyrics are just from some comic book that you throw a dice to follow.
If you want deep lyrics, you need to listen to ... (spam spam spam Spam Warning danger danger )
Jon Ivar Kollbotn
It turns out the reason the lyrics in their last great album, Blackbox, are so literate is that Jon is obsessed with literature. He did a masters degree in literature at the University of Bergen. (He hadn't planned on going that far, but it drew him in, and that's how it worked out.) Here's an interview in which he talks about that, and other matters:
www.nordicmusicreview.com/post/2018/01/05/major-parkinson-an-interview-with-jon-ivar-kollbotn
(Interesting. Turns out his dad was involved in the Polish unions that began the end of the Soviet Empire - and, thence, the Soviet Union. The interview goes into this.)
Did you know they're about to release a new double album? I think I might have mentioned this recently.
Nice Nice Nice. I never listened to this band before this channel. I especially like the vibrato de-emo-ón
Dude, admit it, the whole album rocks.!!!
Excellent album by Uriah Heep; one of our favorites of them.
Justin, we told you this twice before, but since you did not react we are not certain you read it. The whole performance of the Barbara Dennerlein clip you reacted to (which showed only her solo) was uploaded exactly a week ago in a much improved audio and video quality. You can see and hear the contributions of the other musicians too in this clip. The clip is called "Extra Hot Stuff", and here is the link again:
czcams.com/video/zCK7CynC5MY/video.html
For some reason we recently have problems watching your videos on CZcams; we have to download them. Did you change anything in the way you record or upload them?
Hi JP. DP from UK. Good song, but I could have done with A Little Bit More. Love the chunky Hammond, and the riff, but the guitar break was pretty uninspired. Like you, I like symphonic metal but so often these bands' instrumental breaks are much more dramatic. As an aside, in the early 80s I was into a band called Grand Prix (saw them at the Marquee Club) whose singer was Bernie Shaw and keyboardist (and co-singer) was Phil Lanzon, both of whom went on to join Uriah Heep. Favourite track - Which Way Did The Wind Blow?
P.S. song ref A Little Bit More is by Dr Hook.
Of course I love deep purple but uriah heep was way more heavier and had darker songs
Hey JP, been a fan of your videos :) Can you do 'Colours' by Airbag? hope you like it! Thanks
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UH were visionary prophets or time travelers! How else could they have known about the LGBTQ...... Rainbow Demon ranting tik tok videos of today?
A Welsh saying says: “3 chynnig i Gymro”
Already written 2 lengthy comic reactions so this’ll have to be shorter, one word sloganeering as opposed to the tryin to be clever irony statementing doh im doin it again
This is my 3rd listen and its gettin worse
I initially liked the guitar solo but
No it’s truly appaling by now
As was the chorus which again initially i thought was quite catchy
I feel sick
I’ve heard it 3 times now and I don’t want to press comment coz the other 2 which didn’t register were funnier and on point
So to thspeak.
I won’t even dare to say
Corny
Comic
Or
David Coverdale
Oh my brain.
Great Fun
Though
Jack Black says hi.
College of wok.
Press dat button quick
It's not that I dislike this band, because I think they made some good songs, but I always saw Uriah Heep as ersatz Deep Purple. They have the same ingredients (a first class organist, a powerful lyrical singer, a swift lead guitarist....) but not at all of the same quality. Make the comparison between Byron/Gillan, Box/Blackmore, Hensley/Lord, Kerslake/Paice, The former do not play in the same category, it's clear !!! I only see Gary Thain to be on par with Roger Glover. As for this piece, I find it lukewarm and even dull. It does nothing to me.
I agree with your comments, and as for the song I just find it a bit dreary and it doesn't really go anywhere
@@parshakamarsh Yes, musically there are no surprises. a track among others in the band's discography. For sure, it's not "Salisbury" !!!
Uriah Heep were not a DP rip off, they had their own sound and in fact Purple would never have been able to pull off the sheer range of styles that Heep did.
@@pentagrammaton6793 I never wrote that Uriah Heep was a rip off but to me they and Purple had a similar line-up and were in a fairly close vein initially only to eventually come to a very different gait, a bit pompous at times which fact that from my point of view Uriah Heep was a bit of an ersatz of Deep Purple.
Totally agree. I always saw them as ok, but not outstanding. I do own 3 of their albums, and only remember a few tracks from each.
I find this song pretty dull and uninspiring. I've heard similar stuff done much better by other bands from the same era
Well this was dull, and screamed filler. I'm waiting for something to happen, sadly nothing does. Ultimately, uninteresting, and like Marley's chains, ponderous... Move along, nothing to hear here.
@@waynecox3958 Nice one. It had to happen eventually 🙂
It's a song with a specific vibe, not filler! My lord.
@@pentagrammaton6793 Sadly, the only vibe I was getting was plodding tedium. The only solid track I've heard so far is 'Salisbury'.
@@jfergs.3302 that disturbs me on a profoundly musical level, lol.
@@jfergs.3302 There are driving songs, there are songs for running, there are songs which gallop, and this is most definitely a plodding song. It would probably do for trudging as well.
Meh band