>set small_rant on
>Where are the songs > 360s today ? Remember in the 70's Uriah Heep out"YES"sing everybody else with Salisbury and July Morning? Or Thick as a Brick and Passion Play...
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>You know something, I really know very little Uriah Heep - sounds like I need to spend some time on Napster tonight.

A band with one of the best first release albums ever - and they topped it easily with their second, which perhaps was their best. But then they kinda tapered off - tried their hand at theme albums as well, experimented but without ever regaining that first flame, although there were some nice tunes. Not sub-standard or abhorrend later on, but after the first 5 or six albums the songs from the newer discs created no memories like most of the later Tull disks did - I grin on tunes from catfish rising also, whlie not as broad as to those for me "immortal" ones of Aqualung... But Tull *is* special for me.

If you haven't immersed yourself by now, in U.H. just go for the first 2 Albums after a week of late 60-early 79 disks. Some Deep Purple, Black Sabath on the Rock front, ELP and Yes for "state of the keyboard art" back then And then those 2 U.H...
In a way they missed the boat in a similar way Deep Purple (and some other groups) did after gaining large success - no consistency in the group and not enough new ideas in the music.

>I love the story of Cask of Amontillado - I know of two people in particular (no one actively involved on the forum here) I'd love to lure in with a bottle of sherry wine. :)

"One Bourbon, one Scotch, one Beer" was a long time my motto (exchanging the bourbon for another beer). Champagne grew on me in the nineties, wine this century - sherry not yet...

regards

thomas