Ten Years After and Uriah Heep

Mean Mr Mustard · #1 12-17-2006, 01:57 AM

Anyone listen to them?

"A Space and Time" is my favorite album by Ten Years After. I dont know who the Bass player is but hes pretty good.

also check out "Demons and Wizards" by Uriah Heep I enjoy their bass players style as well.

If anyone has any info on these guys (Who played bass for the bands on these albums) let me know.

Alvaro Martín Gómez A. · #2 12-17-2006, 02:16 AM

Leo Lyons was TYA's bassist and he's credited on all albums until 1976. Gary Thain played bass with UH at the time that "Demons And Wizards" was recorded.

jerry · #3 12-17-2006, 05:08 AM

I spent time with both of those albums when I was a kid, nice flashback! Good times, good times.

MaddAnthony_59 · #4 12-17-2006, 05:35 AM

Yes, I am a HEEPSTER! Gary Thain was one of my major influences, and drove me to learn to actually read sheet music to be able to play some of his progressions. (My "EAR" Bites...) He played with Uriah Heep during their "Glory Years", appearing on Demons & Wizards, Magicians Birthday, LIVE, Sweet Freedom, and Wonder World. Tragically, he had a drug problem, and was asked to leave the band. He died of an overdose shortly afterwards. If you can find Inside Uriah Heep: The Hensley Years: 1970-1976, it has lots of video of Gary, on stage, back stage, and goes into a lot of details of this bands history. I think I'll watch it again today!

zombywoof5050 · #5 12-17-2006, 02:22 PM

Check out this video of Ten Years After, with Leo Lyons playing his Wal bass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl8nyXookP0

swooch · #6 12-17-2006, 03:04 PM

Uriah Heep rocks my socks. Strange how the bass playing of all those 70-s songs seem so much more interesting.

**Thor** · #7 12-18-2006, 01:42 PM

I think Jerry and I came down around the same time ...

Cold winds and cloudy skies
turn to sweetness in her eyes.
Fantasies I realized
came to life to my surprise.

Great record. I always play that in winter when my
wife wants me to take her convertible (the one she
won't let anyone touch) in for an oil change. Sunny
day, 18 degrees, top down, heater blasting on recycle,
doing 65 in a 50 zone and The Poets Justice on the
CD player. At 11.

The other drivers look at me in a funny way, what the
heck is with that?

hairman · #8 12-19-2006, 01:26 PM

Okay .... Gary Thain "the thin man" .. he was awesome! .. but let's not forget that Trevor Bolder, the current UH Bass-magician is from the same planet! Man, can he play! .. and like the whole band, still loves every single note played.

UH, i hope they will go on for a very very long time

Garry Goodman · #9 12-22-2006, 03:41 PM

I think anyone playing in bands circa 1970 knew Uriah Heep. I saw them open for Deep Purple. My rock band played "Gypsy", "Real turned On" , "Look at Yourself" and maybe it was called "July Morning".

and the song that started with vocals :" As I wake up everyday, with no new songs to play, feelin' like I ought to pack my bags and run" And "Blind Eye"

I saw Ten Years later, I think 1976....

The bands I remember along with Uriah Heep were Deep Purple, Savoy Brown ,The Allman Bros., Grand Funk Railroad, Dominck Triano and Bush, Santana etc. The Hammond B3 and CV organs were the thing. I remember having an SVT was a requirement as a bass player.

lawsonman · #10 12-22-2006, 03:52 PM

Uriah Heep blew everbody away when they hit the scene back in the day.The Magicians Birthday was a great album. Also if you find a clip of Alvin Lee at Woodstock (the first)
doing goin' home, it's a classic.

dhadleyray · #11 12-22-2006, 08:51 PM

That's funny, I checked out the Heep growing up, but when I started working for Gerry Bron (briefly), and seeing all these gold albums on his wall that said Uriah Heep, I had to go back and see what it was about. Good band, Good bassist, Good production..

stuonbass · #12 12-25-2006, 10:54 PM

One of my first albums was Wonder World. It is not well known but has cornicopia of bass lines on it. Great tone too. Gary is always pictured with a Jazz Bass. His bass lines are very creative and inspiring.
Trevor Bolder is very good too but not as tasteful as Thain or other earlier Heep bassists. I saw a video of the current Heep line up and Bolder takes a song like July Morning and goes full throttle any time the band is playing the instrumental passages. He soloed over Hensley's B3 solo. What a clusterf8#k.

Guiseppe · #13 01-01-2007, 01:22 PM

...had some great, tasteful walking bass lines on a LOT of the old TYA stuff. We do "Choo Choo Mama" pretty much every weekend and it still draws them in.

tappingtrance · #14 01-01-2007, 03:55 PM

Check out UNDEAD

Stabone1972 · #15 01-01-2007, 05:18 PM

What about the albums "Argus" and "Pilgrimage" by Wishbone Ash, you dont hear alot about them much n e more

jerry · #16 01-01-2007, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stabone1972

What about the albums "Argus" and "Pilgrimage" by Wishbone Ash, you dont hear alot about them much n e more

I think if you do a search, you'll find Wishbone Ash and those album getting love from time to time here.

brianrost · #17 01-02-2007, 06:24 AM

Wishbone Ash is still touring, they played a gig here in MA just a few weeks ago.

KJung · #18 01-02-2007, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

Leo Lyons was TYA's bassist and he's credited on all albums until 1976. Gary Thain played bass with UH at the time that "Demons And Wizards" was recorded.

While the UH stuff sounds painfully dated to me now, I am still impressed with Gary Thain's playing and tone... clean, warm and round... wonderful player IMO.