All about Uriah Heep's gig history here
Uriah Heep in Amsterdam Holland
Mick Box, Trevor Bolder, Lee Kerslake, John Lawton & Ken Hensley
March 30 1977
Update October 10th 1999
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In 1976 Uriah Heep played the Jaap Eden Hall during the Return to Fantasy tour. The Hall was sold out and the crowd went crazy by the energetic set and Dave Byron's stageact. That year Holland saw Dave Byron at one of his last gigs with Heep at the Pinkpop festival in June. |
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The bands popularity in Holland was still huge. At this point of Heeps career it was one of the few countries they had a hitsingle. Sympathy entered the charts by the time the band did their Amsterdam gig.
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This tour also had
one of the best Tour programs Heep ever had: A full color A4
booklet with outstanding live pic's of each member of the
band and a detailed bio. I buyed one ofcourse as also a huge
poster of the Firefly albumcover . Both items are rare to
get, and I would I didn't cut my program into pieces to
cover my roomwall's with it:-)) |
Woody Woodmanseys U -boat
was the supporting act on this European tour. Woodmansey was a good
friend of Trevor Bolder. Both played with The Spiders from Mars the
former band of David Bowie with who Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust
were recorded. Their set was not very impressive, but their album
also became a collectorsitem as it is the only one recorded by this
band, produced by Heepproducer Gerry Bron who appaers on the cover
drawing . The Uriah Heep set : Do you know |
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Signed tour program page |
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It was clear the fans looked a
bit shocked when John Lawton hitted the spot with feathers in his
ears and eye make up. A complete different look compared to the
Byron presentation. Uriah Heep was changed and everyone involved
needed some time to get used to the new line up and musical
direction. I myself was excited by the new album and had a very good
time with the live performance of Who needs me and especially the
titletrack. It sounded beautiful to me and still when I listen to
the illegal recording I made during the gig I couldn't understand
why the song was dropped from the setlist that fast.
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The band was successful in
cheering up the crowd, and to be honest they played technically
better then a year before. John Lawton had a strong and powerful
voice. Though, at that moment there was more of a disappointment
kind of feeling because of the fans who were wrong staying away.
This review is not that positive on Heep's concert that night in Amsterdam. Lawton tries to imitate Byron it says, and musically everything is the same as the year before. Ken Hensley is definitely the boss, now Byron is sacked. The supportact U-boat gets some nice lines, their set was surprising.
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