FIRST TIME HEARING Uriah Heep- "Rainbow Demon" & "Firefly" (Reaction)
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- FIRST TIME HEARING Uriah Heep- "Rainbow Demon" & "Firefly" (Reaction) | Almighty rock of the coolest kind and 3 beautifully crafted songs in 1! More greatness from these super talented guys...
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Almighty rock of the coolest kind and 3 beautifully crafted songs in 1! More greatness from these super talented guys... Thanks for watching! 🥰
Their first three albums are their best. The third on, "Look at Yourself" is one of my all time favorite albums. They were much harder rock and even metal. Them and Deep Purple really got that genre rolling.
Love the mighty Heep!!! Demons and Wizards is a masterpiece IMHO
Hi Paul! Heep's music is scoring big with me so far! Excited to hear more from both albums featured here... and more!!
Uriah Heep are an awesome band that takes me back to my youth! "Firefly" is one of my favorite Heep albums! I hope you explore this album with a deep dive! 😁
Hi Denny. Glad you like this band. Nostalgia with music is the BEST! I will have to revisit both albums again 😊 Thanks for stopping by!
Uriah Heep have several facets in their albums, I love them all. In the song Firefly it is Ken Hensley who sings lead vocals most of the time. John Lawton is more present on the other titles.
I collected in the last years all their albums, done. I am a fan of John Lawtons voice and the three albums, he is in it. Also Johns other bands and solo stuff., too. R.I.P.
Hello. Very glad to know you like this band as well as John Lawton solo. Thanks so much for watching!
Life long Heepster here. I first saw them live in 1971 I beleive. Just before they released Look at Yourself. Then again in 2015 and 2018. Awesome band and part of what makes them so great is that they have lost members and replaced them with equally talented musicians. They create new music and can still perform the very complex songs of yesteryear.
Their best album in my opinion is Sweet Freedom. Heep and Grand Funk Railroad were my favorite bands when I was a kid. Please check out PILGRIM by Uriah Heep. Love your channel.
Hi BobbyG.. Thanks so much for watching and for the suggestion. I added your vote for it on my list. I appreciate the compliment too! 😊
Saw them May of this year,Still kicking ass!
URIAH HEEP British LEGENDS
Hi Brandon,
I have all The URIAH HEEP Albums.
Love Them.
Especially Demons and Wizards.
Still going strong.
David Byron was an excellent Vocalist.
Keep Rocking.
Ronnie
SCOTLAND 😊
Good evening Ronnie! Great to hear you love Uriah. Yea, especially love David's low register in the beginning vocals of Rainbow. We shall rock on!!! ✌
Saw this awesome band 3 times up to 1974. Demons is their best abum with the great David Byron vocals.
How cool is that?! Definitely excited for the rest of Demons, plus big epics like July Morning and The Magician's Birthday and all their ballads! Thanks for watching...
@@retroreactions.... Uriah Heep had reached the peak of their creativityand musicianship from 1971-73 with the 4 albums "Look At Yourself", "Demons And Wizards", "The Magician's Birthday" and "Sweet Freedom". They are all awesome from start to finish. and highly recommended to discover.
Guitarist Mick Box still keeps the band alive nowadays, though it's very sad to tell he now is the only surviving band member of the glory days. The current line-up is still amazing to listen to, with their recent albums "Living The Dream" (2018) and "Chaos And Colour" (2023). I hope I can see them on tour in summer this year (maybe the last chance with Mick Box at age 77 now)
Thanks for the additional info! Happy to hear that Mick is still active musically...
Great breeze from the past, in the style of Deep purple (that Distorted Hammond organ) in a smoother way, vocal chorus reminds me of Styx, great voice by the way. Yes! nice keyboard moods, string machines as they usually got in the seventies, I didn't heard them as much. But remember they were prolific. Thanks for digging these songs for us, Brandon. Have a nice week!
All the elements we love in a song! You're welcome and hope you have a beautiful rest of the week too!
Cool! I'm a massive Heepster, so thanks for trying them out again. 😁
Hey! Great to hear...Heepster.. I love that 😊 Safe to say they will be on my channel for quite a long time, especially with their big discography...Thanks for being first here today!! 🥇
Can't decide between Led Zepp and Deep Purple? Uriah Heep gives you a bit of both, which is a good thing
There you go! I've already heard plenty of diversity in this band with just a handful of songs. Thank you!
"That was c-o-o-o-ol." LOL
Man….what did we do to deserve such an amazing week?? Loved hearing these two songs. I really enjoyed Rainbow Demon, as you know I’m partial to the Demons and Wizards album. Unfortunately Firefly wasn’t the best received album, although I think it’s pretty solid! John Lawton could be another rabbit hole, as I’ve got a few albums from his former band Lucifer’s Friend, as well as his solo work. As far as you mentioning hearing “Rainbow Demon” live….check your email! I think it finally worked!
Haha! Super rockin week for sure. Next week I'll be going in some different directions.... RD SO cool.... I am certain the rest of that album is amazing as you say. I'm guessing it's the same case with UH of "got less love and enthusiasm from the public as we move to the late 70s and full on into the 80s"... Seems to have happened with Yes, ELP, and many others, at least based on Spotify numbers. Ah, so John went solo too. Will check email shortly!! Thanks..
Good stuff! 😎👍
For sure, thanks for stopping by...enjoy your night!
Thanks, always was one of my fav bands - have seen them several times live and they always were fire. They released a fantastic new album last year (Chaos and Colour) that hails back to their early days with a lot of prog metal influence - well they kind of co-invented the genre. Demons and Wizards is one of the big four albums that founded Metal. The other were Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin IV, and Deep Purple's Machine Head. All released a few months from each other.
You already did some epics by them. Try out Pilgrim, Stealing, Return to Fantasy or one of their new tracks like Rocks in the Road from 2018. Bernie Shaw is their lead singer for the longest time now and he is really good (no David, he is unreplaceable, but still great). You should once go to one of their gigs, really worthwhile and Mick is the coolest, always smiling bandleader and guitarist.
BTW Firefly - song and album are one of their best. Fans love it, but outside of the fandom only the pop hit Free Me from this era (from Innocent Victim) is famous. But Hanging Tree, Wise Man or Sympathy are also highlights of the album.
Rainbow Demon ROCKSSSSSS!! 🤘😆🤘💙🎵🎶🎶🌈👿 The band just rocks. I love them.
Glad you like that awesome song! My kind of rock 😊 🎹🎸
Yes!! Thank you for having such a great channel. It's ALWAYS fun!! 💙🎵🎶🎶
Thanks!! I want to take some non-rock song turns next week...maybe more 80s!! 🥰
I'm up for it. I like non rock music too. 🤣🎹🎹🎹🎵🎶🎶
Yes I love that you're open minded and have a wide range of musical tastes like me!
I love for the rest of my life and easy livin . Check those out same album .
Hi Brandon, you picked 2 very great songs from the massive Heep catalogue, though those are not been considered as part of their "all time classics", as they never have been released as singles.
As you mentioned, "Rainbow Demon" has the great David Byron on vocals. 1972, when it was released on the "Demons And Wizards" album, put Heep to the heights of their popularity back then.
You're right, with "Firefly", the album and the title song from 1977, David Byron was gone and John Lawton was hired to be their new lead singer. But Ken Hensley, the keyboarder and composer of the song, sang the lead vocals on the first verses until the middle section (he also sang some occasional leads during the time with David Byron, f.ex. on their very popular song "Lady In Black from 1971). John Lawton sings lead in the final section. When you watch more carefully, you hear the different tone in their voices.
Hi Max! Wow, both songs are so strong, I'm shocked that neither was a single! Wow, thanks for the info on Ken singing. I wish Wikipedia would have told me that beforehand. I will have to listen again for that. Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting!!
Heep-fan since 1970! Leadsinger of Firefly was - of course - Ken Hensley (RIP). Only other song of Heep with Ken as leadsinger: Lady In Black. More David Byron? The Wizard, Time To Live, Circle Of Hands, Wonderworld, Echoes In The Dark & Weep In Silence - to name a few. More ballads? Why Did You Go, Your Turn To Remember & Rain. Heavy Metal: Shadows Of Grief! My favourite John Lawton songs are Wise Man & Illusion - highly recommended. Favourite John Sloman song: Out In The Street.
Lawton was perhaps my favourite lead singer. Not all their albums were as good at the 'classic' line-up, but The Dance, Illusion, Come Back to Me, Free Me were all very powerful vocal performances.
Ken & Lee Kerslake on dual lead vocal on "Firefly".
That is Ken Hensley on keyboard and vocals. Listen to wiseman that is John lawton. Rip John lawton rip Trevor bolder rip Ken Hensley rip lee kerslake
Not a bad choice, actually
Never could connect with this band. Perhaps it’s that overstated false sounding (IMO) Vibrato. No likey
OK, thanks for any watch time and for the comment!