Lol. Well, it's actually 2 tickets. A plane ticket from Stockton to Vegas and back is $145. Ticket to see the band is $64. That's happening this Saturday, at the Green Valley Ranch Hotel, Las Vegas.
Man, if I had the spare coin this would be a no-brainer (lobbing a softball out to anyone wanting to swing at it). I've enjoyed their stuff for many years (sorta faded after Return To Fantasy), and now I'm really liking some of their new stuff. Has anyone heard this one?
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov...97305u2ule.jpg
Anyhoo, I'm just bored, so I thought I'd throw out yet another post to be ignored in this musical wasteland of a board. :17:Quote:
Uriah Heep play to their strengths on Into the Wild, the band's 22nd studio album in 41 years. Despite the group's reputation for personnel changes, its current members have mostly been in place for decades (drummer Russell Gilbrook joined in 2007), and they play like musicians who have been reading each other's minds on-stage during hundreds of shows a year for many years; the disc is full of cohesive musical teamwork, creating a unified sound. Like many long-lived outfits, Uriah Heep created a classic sound (the goth/prog style of the early ‘70s), then spent an extended period (mostly the ‘80s) modifying that sound to try to conform to contemporary styles, after which (starting with 1995's Sea of Light), they fell back on trying to re-create their golden era. The group is, in a sense, a tribute band to itself, and while it has worked steadily, it has recorded less frequently; Into the Wild's predecessor, Wake the Sleeper (2008), was the first new Uriah Heep studio album in nine years. Like Wake the Sleeper, Into the Wild sounds like an album that could have been made in the 1970s. From the outset with "Nail on the Head," the hard rock style is reminiscent of Led Zeppelin and, particularly, Bad Company, with singer Bernie Shaw often recalling Paul Rodgers. On songs like "Money Talk," which prominently feature Phil Lanzon's organ, Deep Purple is heavily suggested. The songs, mostly written by Lanzon with sole original member and guitarist Mick Box, have sturdy structures all the better for filling with soaring guitar solos and lyrics that, notably on the power ballad "Trail of Diamonds," can lean toward the mystical. There may be no new Uriah Heep classics here, but there are songs that can be slotted in the set list among the group's classics without sending fans rushing to the concession stands. Uriah Heep don't really need to make new albums anymore, but it's understandable that, as an ongoing outfit, they want to, and Into the Wild is a respectable addition to their catalog.
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Uriah Heep live in Vegas. One ticket, $209.
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08-16-2011, 11:21 AMFinch PlatteUriah Heep live in Vegas. One ticket, $209.
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08-17-2011, 04:15 AMMasterCylinder
No way.
In my earlier life, I was a roadie (SHOWCO Sound, Dallas, Texas).
I did a number of shows with the Heep.............................................D avid Byron was one of the biggest a$$holes you will ever meet. -
08-17-2011, 04:41 AMHyfi
You made me play Demons and Wizards last night....thanks.
Tonight I think I will spin Ken Hensley's Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf. -
08-17-2011, 05:13 AMbobsticks
Who is the opener," Methuselah" ?
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08-17-2011, 08:32 AMFinch PlatteHey, I'm 55 years old, and it beats the fock out of the work I'm doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by bobsticks
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08-17-2011, 08:43 AMFinch PlatteWhat does that have to do with the band today? Byron is dead, in case you didn't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterCylinder
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08-17-2011, 09:51 AMFinch PlatteI think you sent me this a while back. I really dig it & play it "from time to time." :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Hyfi
Edit: In case you didn't get it.
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Once I loved a pretty woman till one day she up and ran
S'pose I should have felt it coming
But it's hard to think of her with another man
Oh my lady I need you
Though from time to time I don't seem to
Once the sun shone in my garden
Till my love took off and left me with the rain
Now my heart and I are starting
To forget it all and start out again
Oh my lady I need you
Though from time to time I don't seem to
My heart is hurting bad
And all the trees look so sad
And all the love we could have had
Oo from time to time
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08-17-2011, 09:56 AMMasterCylinderDied from a$$holemialgia.Quote:
Originally Posted by Finch Platte
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08-17-2011, 12:27 PMFinch PlatteSounds painful!Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterCylinder
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