Another band that I still love from my schoolboy days. Nothing can compare to when I first heard the voice of Dave Byron opening up the album with The Wizard. This album was recorded in ’72 and still sounds fresh to me. The Heep were huge around this time and sold out everywhere. Just before COVID, I saw them in a small bar near where I live. How the mighty have fallen!
Lots of live favourites and Heep classics are enclosed in these grooves: Traveller In Time, Easy Livin’, Circle Of Hands, and the monumental Paradise/ The Spell. That huge Hammond sound of Ken Hensley combined with Mick Box’s raw guitar used to blow me away, and this is pure nostalgia for me. I have to go with Easy Livin’ as my favourite, I just love singing along to the earworm hook and chorus.
Mick Box is still playing with the band and has been there for way over 50 years. Happy days!
9/10 from The Grooveman.
