Search - Uriah Heep :: Salisbury

DON'T get this version - get the import

N. Chandran | 12/01/2005

(1 out of 5 stars)

"without 'bird of prey', salisbury is like tarzan without the loin-cloth!



'bird of prey' is to uriah heep, what 'child in time' is to deep purple or 'immigrant song' is to led zeppelin. ie nobody else could have done the song but david byron.



get the import version. it opens up with 'bird of prey'."

Hard Rock to Prog Epic

H. L. Thomas | Athens, GA | 03/28/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"When I was a teenager I bought a lot of albums because of the cover. Salisbury was one of those because it looked so much like a Gustav Klimt painting. Uriah Heep was hard, elegiac, symphonic, rocking, and at times corny, in short, they were a typical 70's arena band. This CD/LP is at the top of early prog music along with King Crimson in a way that where Robert Fripp/Greg Lake played off of the jagged edges of jazz and rock, Uriah Heep played off of the edges of a Berlioz style Romantic symphony and Rock. I saw them just before Demons and Wizards and thought it was a great concert, very alive and very hard rock. The vocals were up there with Plant and later 80's metal and had a scratchy howl that searched out the dark side of music in the 70's. The Hammond B3 organ perfectly complements the wah wah guitar on the shorter songs. On the epic, Salisbury the keyboard moves in and out with a stoney leslie sound that was able to hold the vocals just close enough to the front to keep the song a "rock" song. The first four Uriah Heep albums make it possible for a lot of later bands in the 1980's, in particular Guns N Roses. Why?

When I heard Sweet Child O' Mine I thought that it was a Uriah Heep reunion song.

If you are at all interested in the whole of Hard into Progressive Rock then an inspection of Uriah Heep up through Magicians Birthday is essential. If you are to own only three Heep albums then let it be the first, Salibury, and Demons And Wizards. You will be surprised.

And finally to the "Judge" reviewer: if you play the Strokes first cd over Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers first LP you find a glaring line by line theft of the music. A music lover loves music, period. Strokes and White Stripes have nothing to do with Uriah Heep."