ROCK BAND #95 - URIAH HEEP Traditional Cache
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ROCK BAND #95 - URIAH HEEP
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This is a new cache series we are starting that will be named after some of our favorite bands. Uriah Heep was one of LAM & my favorite bands as young adults. They are not a well known band in the states, as they mostly tour in Europe. I still enjoy listening to their music. Great musicians that can jam with the best of them.
Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969 and regarded (along with Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin) as a seminal classic hard rock act of the 1970s. Uriah Heep's progressive/art rock/heavy metal fusion's distinctive features have always been massive keyboards sound, strong vocal harmonies and (in the early years) David Byron's operatic vocals. Twelve of the band's albums have made it to the UK Albums Chart (Return to Fantasy reached #7 in 1975) while of the fifteen Billboard 200 Uriah Heep albums Demons and Wizards was the most successful (#23, 1972). In the late 1970s the band had massive success in Germany, where the "Lady in Black" single was a big hit.
The band maintains a significant following and performs at arena-sized venues in the Balkans, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia and Scandinavia. They have sold over 30 million albums worldwide.
The Band started off as a four-piece band known as Spice. In 1969 they found themselves booked into the Lansdowne Studios in London, still under the name of Spice. Then the name was changed to that of the well-known character from David Copperfield, Uriah Heep (for, according to biographer Kirk Blows, "Dickens' name being everywhere around Christmas '69 due to it being the hundredth anniversary of his death") and the decision came of widening the sound. "We'd actually recorded half the first album when we decided that keyboards would be good for our sound. I was a big Vanilla Fudge fan, with their Hammond organ and searing guitar on top, and we had David's high vibrato vocals anyway so that's how we decided to shape it", Box recalled. First session player Colin Wood was brought in by Gerry Bron, then Ken Hensley a former Newton's colleague in The Gods who was currently playing guitar in Toe Fat was lined up. "I saw a lot of potential in the group to do something very different", remembered Hensley.
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Typical hide. Not too dificult. If you need help, maybe you could get that Ipod out and put on "The Wizard" while you are looking for this cache. Maybe the Wizard can help you find it! :-)
Congrats to southtexas and Steve-n-Kim on the FTF!
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