I never knew this! Learn something every day dontcha!

Uriah Heep with Coverdale. An album or two of that would have been grand.

Mick Box a Legendary Great Guitarist ! Awesome Revolutionizing 6 string razor leads .... to the highest level of playing abilities .... At the Pinnacle !!! Great Guitarist in all leagues and in all fields of play ! A MASTER GUITARIST . ♦️

Мик Бокс,мы с тобой виделись в Саратове на концерте в 2012г!!

Heep Purple

@visionsofhere3745

Жыл бұрын

Deep Heep!

@robbiekop7

Жыл бұрын

Chris Rea nearly joined Dire Straits and they nearly called themselves Dire Rea.....so you never know

@lionelalias4561

Жыл бұрын

Heepsnake

@vladislavreznik1955

Ай бұрын

Uriah Snake

Would love to hear that jam.

Well folks I was there, playing bass. Another near miss in my career!

@compactedponderer

3 жыл бұрын

Whao Denny! You have to tell us more! So it was Mick, Ken, Lee, David and yourself? Late ‘76? Who were you playing with before to be asked to this Jam?

@dennyball2055

3 жыл бұрын

@@compactedponderer I met the guys when I was playing bass for the Long John Baldry Band. We opened for Heep on the summer USA tour in 1972. I then played in BEDLAM with Dave Ball, Frank Aiello and Cozy Powell. After that band finished, I did lots of session work, including David Byron's "Take No Prisoners" album, Donovan's "Cosmic Wheels", John Baldry's "Good to be Alive" Album. I was also doing sessions for Ken Hensley.

@compactedponderer

3 жыл бұрын

@@dennyball2055 oh man, you’ve sure lived the dream. Hats off to ya!

@ponkopanajot5143

2 жыл бұрын

Are you wake up?!

@dennyball2055

2 жыл бұрын

@@ponkopanajot5143 Did you mean "Are you awake"? 🤔

do recordings of this jam exist? would be awesome to hear

Finally a video with someone asking that to him...

Great story. I wonder what that would’ve sounded like. Perhaps Ian Gillian or Glenn Hughes might be a better fit, but Coverdale has nice baritone pipes and the charm to pull it off.

Now Glenn Hughes in Heep would've been interesting.

@thetruthhurts6652

3 жыл бұрын

He would have turned them into Stevie Wonder.

@margovallen

3 жыл бұрын

True.. now that you mention it. Hughes and Byron both, had vocal ranges second to none.

@margovallen

3 жыл бұрын

@@thetruthhurts6652 Lol!

@a.k.1740

3 жыл бұрын

@Mike Neal Totally agree ! on the Conquest album John Sloman reminds me a lot of Glenn Hughes, and it doesn't match the band's style at all!

@TheSteveSteele

Жыл бұрын

@@a.k.1740 Hughes has a much better sense of melody and phrasing than John Sloman. Sure, Glenn would have displayed his freakish voice, but it would have been good I think.

Would DC have fitted UH? Don´t think so, as DC did not have the high register in his singing voice back then (i.e. like GH), imagine him sing July Morning. And also, there is something a little inaccurately here in what MB said: the band Whitesnake was put together in late 1977. And DCs audition for UH was in late 1976...

@thetruthhurts6652

3 жыл бұрын

Coverdale didn’t fit in Deep Purple mark 2 style either. I’m sure he would have transformed the Heep sound.

@Nissardpertugiu

3 жыл бұрын

David had always high register . He just purposely not showiing after Ian gillan signature . But live , he had to scream with Ritchie Marshalls ! I think you never heard the chorus of Lay down , he s hitting high notes . On others songs such Lady double dealer . He just hit the notes in full uped voice open throat , gritt , low harmonics . Dio use a similar technique . It came from soul singers .. But its High ..the way they use that is deceiving . Try to get the right key note of the verse You 'll have surprise . Then i guess you never heard or remember David final on smoke on the water live , he hiit that fucking scream . Even in the danemark first show 1973 . In stormbringer tour , he did more . Before the reprise in stormbringer , After John solo , in burn here and there . In smoke of the water of course . Then the proto whitesnake style Come taste the band . What David did even on keys on that record is hard ... very hard and very high . Coming home , full uped voice . Lady luck , various with full upped voice and mixed voice high larynx but super warm .. Hey try to attack the second verse , Love child ... you think thats low? In the tour , the volume and adrenaline beign what it is . And uncontrolled glenn hughes taking all the space , David did almost sang a semi tone or 1 tone higher live . Something he will reproduce with the euphory live in 1984 towards 1991 . The screaming update . So in 1976 /1977 he had the high register further . And in the David coverdale's whitesnake album , he hit high stuff . Especially the last verse of title track . And in 1978 tours even before trouble release , he did scream high and quite very agressive ...but alterned ..

@Nissardpertugiu

3 жыл бұрын

@@thetruthhurts6652 uriah heep will get heavier with David C . More ... north sounding :) .

@thetruthhurts6652

3 жыл бұрын

metalheadoldschol I heard every song you are referring to. not saying he didn’t have range. He did but not in the style of Gillans Child in Time or a lot of the Heep songs. I prefer Coverdale singing songs like Sail Away.

@a.k.1740

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nissardpertugiu David Coverdale never had a high register compared to Ian Gillan or Glenn Hughes, and it is the latter that you can hear on passages with a high voice, not Coverdale which has a low register. Anyway, he hasn't had a voice for a long time, unlike Glenn Hughes who has kept his range intact all these years.

Bernie Shaw is the right man for the job

Ritchie created Rainbow, thinking about the Uriah Heep's sound ...and Rodney James Dio was a huge fan of David Byron . Dave Coverdale got his own band, the best thing he did

@dogfight2008

3 жыл бұрын

Who is Rodney James Dio??? It must be Ronnie James Dio!!

@markrago7217

3 жыл бұрын

Technically, Ritchie was seeking a Uriah Heep sound when he recruited Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale for the Deep Purple MkIII lineup. He liked the idea of adding a new dimension with multiple quality vocalists. Jon Lord occasionally contributed suttle backing vocals, but the band essentially relied on a single primary vocalist to that point. He originally asked Paul Rodgers from Free to be the frontman for Purple, and team him with bassist/vocalist Hughes, who unsurprisingly joined Purple under the condition that he was allowed to contribute as a second featured vocalist, as he was the lead singer for his previous band Trapeze. Anyhow, Rogers ultimately declined the offer after deciding to assemble a new band (Bad Company), so the band went back to the drawing board, considering an established rock singer (including Gary Pickford Hopkins of Tucky Buzzard). Ultimately, that plan didn't work, the band posted ads in magazines seeking a singer. They ended up auditioning a young man who had the necessary voice, on the strength of a demo tape he sent them, and that guy was Coverdale.

@christervainio

2 жыл бұрын

It's Roger James Dio, Ronnie's neighbor.

@robsco1249

2 жыл бұрын

Where you read that Ronnie was a Byron fan? Anyway Rainbow are not inspired by UH.

@notfound4174

2 жыл бұрын

@@markrago7217 and coverdale was the best choice for dp not p.rodgers.

Coverdale...would not have been a good fit for Uriah Heep. I know...David Byron has left us, but David...is irreplaceable. No one else-to date-can/could touch him.

He sounds like Steve Harris.

@lmjones7716

6 жыл бұрын

I suspect everyone from the south of England sounds like Steve Harris to people outside of the UK.

@furyomori3896

Ай бұрын

Cockney accent.

I don't know if I could see David being a good fit for Uriah Heep. Going from Deep Purple to them would've seemed like he was taking a step backwards in terms of musicianship. No disrespect to Mick Box, but let's face facts here. Ritchie Blackmore could play circles around him!

@blueshades9312

6 жыл бұрын

+Harold de Mure- I completely agree with you. Mick Box is one of the most wonderfully fluid lead guitarists still alive from the "Classic Rock" era, his touch is absolutely wonderful & to this day I am yet to hear a bad solo from him. Blackmore IS amazing, but its more his ego that would play circles 'round him. In fact, not only do they have mutual respect for each other, it would be wild to hear some two way guitar crosstalk between them!

@wardka

6 жыл бұрын

Blackmore has greater virtuosity. I love what he's doing with Blackmore's Night. But for me Box has the kind of expression, tone and feeling I need to hear. Those smooth legato leads and that wah-wah!

@mrdemocracy7106

5 жыл бұрын

Mick box is a legend great versatile guitarist who is Blackmore

@rio2nyc

3 жыл бұрын

It has nothing to do with to do with that.

David Coverdale wouldn't fit Heep. He didn't even fit Deep Purple either. It's like Ian Gillan didn,t fit Sabbath.

@marcelopepinho

6 жыл бұрын

Could be for an album as Heep had lots of singers in the past

@dwightropp3014

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, I disagree that Coverdale didn't fit Purple. He was great for them, especially on "Burn"!! Excellent vocals and album itself! He even added a richness to "Stormbringer" (though generally, the songwriting wasn't quite at the high level of Burn). But I've never heard any DP fan say he wasn't good for the band. Until now.

@haliaeetus8221

4 жыл бұрын

Lol. It was the best DP era when he was with them imo.

@stevetobin7495

3 жыл бұрын

Born again is amazing!!

@kristeradolfsson5594

3 жыл бұрын

Gillan DID fit Black Sabbath I think. It is a great album, but Gillan prefered Deep Purple obviously....

Bernie Shaw is the best singer for Uriah Heep, because he's the best singer of the Universe. And a great generous british gentleman.

@hubertallusson1896

5 жыл бұрын

Bernie Shaw is a canadian gentleman...

@garrynorris4478

3 жыл бұрын

He’s Canadian

Whitesnake a very very poor man's Free.

@martianshoes

6 жыл бұрын

No, more like a poor man's Deep Purple (in their prime).

@thetruthhurts6652

3 жыл бұрын

Paul Rogers is over rated.

@euanelliott3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@thetruthhurts6652 Tell that to his accountant.

@thetruthhurts6652

3 жыл бұрын

@@euanelliott3613 I didn’t say he was poor.

Thanks God, David Coverdale didn't sing for Uriah Heep!

@carloslima6705

7 жыл бұрын

Why?

@wardka

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. Bernie Shaw fits the sound perfectly.

@emanuellolarue4476

6 жыл бұрын

worst singer for them at last

@dyr234

6 жыл бұрын

thank god? get out of town

@dennisarellano1681

6 жыл бұрын

It's different styles...!