I've been missing out big time...

[stereofanboy]

I love Uriah Heep's "Magician's Birthday" and "Demons and Wizards". I like all their albums from the first half of the '70s, but I love those two.

I also love "Bursting Out". Really a lot of great memories tied to those three albums for me.

 

[spok]

Yeah will listen to Look @ y4self and Salisbury by Uriah Heep for the whole initiation. Magicians Birthday their follow up to Demons and Wizards is pretty good to. Side two of Salisbury is great with their opus close to 15 minutes where Mick Box does some fancy guitar licks.
I give up on Tull ,almost everything they did was good,I mean I couldn't tell you where to start but if your buying CD's the re masters are worth it. If I had to suggest one it's Benefit. They have been through so many phases,Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play where basicaly one song on two sides of a record.

I absolutely love Salisbury from beginning to end

 

[rhomanski]

I think uriah heep's live album from 73 was the best. If you can find it I would say get it first. I love the "gum on me boot".

 

[phatster]

Just a quick comment.......Tull was absolutely the tightest band I ever saw,they essentially went through their whole catalog which took 3 hours plus,this was straight through.They actually exhausted the audience,My favorite remains Thick as a Brick.

 

[KeninDC]

Heep's "Demons and Wizards" is great fun. If you must have one Heep LP, that's it. Early US Mercury pressings are pretty darn good. I have not heard the UK pressings, but they are likely better. Not a band I want to sepnd too much money on, though.

I just started getting into Tull. You know - really into Tull. I picked up pink Island copies of "Stand Up" and "Aqualung." I also have a green Chrysalis (w/ Island "i") on "Thick as a Brick." The UK pressings are worth a listen.

Ken

 

[finnbow]

Just a quick comment.......Tull was absolutely the tightest band I ever saw,they essentially went through their whole catalog which took 3 hours plus,this was straight through.They actually exhausted the audience,My favorite remains Thick as a Brick.

About the same timeframe (~1972) I saw Tull and Yes, albeit not together. They both set the standard for me for how "tight" a band can be. I'm not sure I've seen better musicianship since.

 

[grillebilly]

Ian Anderson is quite a nice guy...when he was in town he came by my sons high school so he could visit their "classic rock" club. He popped in their meeting and shot the breeze, then came back after school in case any of the parents wanted to meet him. How many rock legends do that kinda stuff?

 

[RickB]

I also liked "Crest of a Knave"....

 

[RickB]

I saw Tull a few times back in the late sixties and early seventies...once with Iron Butterfly...or was it with Jefferson Airplane? Steppenwolf? Was it with all?

I can't remember the **** I did 40 years ago in any kind of detail any more...must have been the '70's that did that to me...

Ahhh yes, the 1970's, the best twenty years of my life!

Rock-N-Roll was alive then!

None of this derivative and imatative schlock that passes for rock today...


And, Jailtime, my best friend in the world works up there at Hill AFB...know a fifty-something fellow up there originally from San Antonio that occasionally drives a maroon Morgan +8? If you do, you know my bud...