Ken Hensley on Uriah Heep (1985)

Excerpts from "Easy Livin' - A History of Uriah Heep" (Japanese laserdisc edition).

"Excerpt" means all the music parts are left out.

I posted this because, AFAIK it's not currently available commercially in any format. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Uriah Heep
• Ken Hensley
• interview
• documentary
• David Byron
• Bronze Records
• British Rock
• Heavy Rock
• Hard Rock

[TheOuterBoogie]

Love to see more of this, it was wonderful

[MrSilverside]

being a heep fan since 1973,i, have heard both sides,david,kenny,as wel mick,these guys were great,however things got out of control,from bron mng. to the obvious,these very talented musicians were over worked,to much touring,to much studio work,too much..... they needed a well deserved break,one ,two,five yrs. to rest,and then ,well it never happened!!

[VistaRecordsBoard]

@mauricemorning I would suggest that you check out Sea of Light from '96, as well as their latest albums, Wake the Sleeper and Into the Wild. Sea of Light was an updating of their early 70's styles, while their two latest albums are a little more focused on the harder edged stuff with tons of Hammond organ. It's really classy, melodic stuff even though it's fairly hard and heavy.

[mauricemorning]

@milansc

Hear, hear. I never liked Uriah Heep after David's departure. I tried hard, believe me. The only post-Byron song that came close to the magic of the real Uriah Heep was Wise Man. Can you imagine Byron singing that? I get chills just thinking about it. But blame Byron, not Hensley. Ken Hensley, god love him, got lost himself after Return to Fantasy. "Sympathy just doesn't mean that much to me. Compassion's not the fashion in my mind." Please. Talk about 180 degrees wrong for Heep..

[Englandin1819]

best live band of all time, bar none. purple is the only band that came close but they didn't have the vocal harmonies, the stage presence, or the overall live effect of Heep a live show that grew and grew until audiences just literally levitated.

[Aminaminaminam]

@milansc on the other hand leaving byron in the band, could give uriah heep a very bad name, cuz of live performaces which are very bad cuz of byron drinking, and they warned byron way before and making him stop drinking is almost impossible so ken really had no choice but to letting him go. :( 

[kernowredneck]

IMHO David Byron WAS the best rock / metal singer ever.

[sehaalturk]

If David Byron did not have it, I cannot imagine who did!

Give us a break !

The man was a choir unto himself and with the exception of Deep Purple's

IG, I don't know anybody who would measure up to him.

[MsAnstie]

Interesting that Ken says David Byron "didn't have the world's best voice". I think David's voice is incredible as I'm sure many would agree. Sorry but post DB, hardly worth a listen.

[jdakjr]

Thank you so much for posting this. I would love to get ahold of this entire disc!