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The Lansdowne Tapes

a Compilation/Boxed-Set release
by Uriah Heep

Release Year: 1993

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Release Information

The Lansdowne Tapes (1994) From Spice To Uriah Heep - The Transition
Uriah Heep

Album Description:

Uriah Heep enter their third decade with a worldwide following and an extensive back-catalogue, but these newly discovered recordings take us back to the very start of Heep's career, and their early beginnings as a band called Spice.

With Mick Box, Paul Newton and David Byron in the band, these early recordings, featuring numbers which had been an integral part of Spice's live repertoire, were taped in 1969, and only shelved when Ken Hensley joined the band.  His arrival gave them their definitive sound, and to mark the change, Spice renamed themselves Uriah Heep.

The rest of this album features material taped by the embryonic Uriah Heep line-ups. it includes several excellent tracks which, for various reasons, never made it onto vinyl, along with alternate takes of old favourites, all taped during 1970 and 1971.  All the material here has been newly mixed down from the original 8-track tapes recorded at Lansdowne Studios.  Mick Box, Paul Newton and Ken Hensley have been unstinting in their co-operation, fascinated to hear this material once again. 

Added To Proggnosis Database on: 5/6/2019 12:00:00 AM
Entry Last Updated on: 6/16/2021 10:31:00 PM by: rienst

Track List

  1. Spice  Born In A Trunk (3:47) 
  2. Uriah Heep Simon The Bullet Freak (3:29) 
  3. Uriah Heep Here Am I (8:14) 
  4. Spice  Magic Lantern (8:32) 
  5. Uriah Heep Why (11:21) 
  6. Spice  Astranaza (4:46) 
  7. Uriah Heep What's Within My Heart (5:26) 
  8. Uriah Heep What Should Be Done (4:28) 
  9. Uriah Heep Lucy Blues (5:11) 
  10. Spice  I Want You Babe (Behind The Green Shed Blues) (5:43) 
  11. Spice  Celebrate (4:26) 
  12. Spice  Schoolgirl (3:26) 
  13. Spice  Born In A Trunk (Instrumental) (4:02) 
  14. Uriah Heep Look At Yourself (3:21)

Performer Credits

Mick Box
Guitars

David Byron
Vocals

Paul Newton
Bass (1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)

Colin Wood - (1, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Ken Hensley - (2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15)
Keyboards

Alex Napier - (1, 4, 10, 11, 12, 13)
Nigel Olsson - (9, 15)
Ian Clark - (5, 8, 14)
Keith Baker - (2, 3, 7)
Drums

Osisbisa
Additional Percussion (14)

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