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Very nice. That was in 2022, I can still remember it. Greetings Hilco.

Couldn’t agree more. Timeless flight is such a great album full of brilliant songs. Steve was a big part of my musical youth and I’ve listened to him right up to now at 67! Such an underrated song writer

Same with Gary Thain...they both really needed help... 🥝💚🖤

I’m 18 years old. I was born Almost 5 decades to the peak of Uriah Heep. My father was almost my age during this time, he experienced a lot of the hard rock and REAL musicial culture of rock. I will say out of all the bands from the 70s and 60s Uriah Heep has a special place for my heart, especially David Byron. Something draws me to him and its hard to explain. But he acts as someone who you wanted to know, he was larger than life in a way. Thanks for the information about David if you have anymore please feel free to share!!

He was the instigator for Byron's exit. He gave the ultimatum that either Byron goes or he goes and the band rightly decided with Ken. Byron was an absolute train wreck live for years up to that point and Ken didn't want it anymore. This of course was a far cry from his brilliant studio voice on record but he was out of it live. Bloody shame that it went down that way but I don't think Byron would have lasted much longer in the band or maybe on the planet had he stayed on. As it was, he would be dead from alcoholic complications just nine years after getting ousted,

I think Hensley, by this point, could see Byron was pissing away not only his own career, but that of the other band members as well.

@@joeblog2672 All things considered and given the circumstances, nine years is a very long time.

@@iananderson3799 It was much the same,although due to drug-fueled psychosis, when the other four members of Pink Floyd had no choice but to simply not pick up Syd Barrett for one of their gigs. They couldn't take any more of him either standing on stage with his arms hanging limply by his side or deliberately detuning his guitar and playing the same jangling not all night. It was bad with David Byron's drunken antics, but at least he was animated and trying, albeit with subpar performances. Syd was just totally out of it by mid-1967.

How do you know he hasn't posted the whole thing? This appears to be taken from a TV broadcast, so it's quite possible this is all that exists (to be fair, there actually are two other songs, at least, Midnight and Sweet Lorraine which are also on UA-cam, but Sweet Lorraine is terrible)

I guess i don't know for positive . But I don't see any more on his site . And if you switch to newest comments , his reply to Heepster69 implies that there might be more . He states " I have the whole concert how it was broadcast on TV at the time " . His comments at the top also imply that the recordings with original sound are rare , and that he recorded this himself on video cassette . I guess when he said " whole concert " , I was just hoping there might be more . @@Kohntarkosz

Spot on. R.I.P David Byron. Great singer.

Mick was surprised but then he and the others sided favourably with Ken Hensley's when Ken issued his ultimatum of "He (Byron) goes or I do" back in the summer of '76, leading to Byron's sacking. There is no question in my mind that he deserved to be tossed given the accelerating train wreck he was. I don't know if he would have straightened out had he rejoined Heep in '81 when asked. Even though his career had been nothing compared to his Heep days ever since leaving the band, I kind of doubt it but it sure sounds like it was a second chance for him to get his shit together and make a better go of it. From what I've seen of him on stage, from about '72 on, he mostly sucked in every possible way. Focus, pitch, body, tone, concentration, you name it. Such a far cry from that fantastic studio voice on so many Heep records. I think Box is wrong in his impression of Byron's generally intoxicated state. Byron looked and acted like he drank so bloody much that I suspect his alcoholic tolerance was high enough for him to be physically outlandish on stage where other drunks could not. Of course he would die a few short years after passing on a second stint with Heep. Very sad story indeed.

If person is motivated, the things may be changed. Mick told in one of the recent interviews that Byron actually answered nothing then back in 1981... It may evidence that he was not motivated to come back and his projects were more interesting and important for him. Although they also sounded good both on tape and stage. Taking into consideration that live performance is not constant thing anyway...

In early 1990th Ken also proposed Heep members to rejoin for joint work with Heep after their gig. He wrote that all the band was on their own and did not pay attention to his proposal.

Yes. Offer to re-join rejected by David because he was stoned and drunk when Mick and Trevor Bolder went to his home to see him in 1981, after Sloman left Heep. Trevor himself told me this and added that "Byron simply could not see that he was nothing without Heep and Heep were nothing without him". Byron's doctor, whilst he was in Rough Diamond, LUDICROUSLY advised him he could resume drinking after a long period of abstinence. What shit advice.

Yes ..he told mick " I want to be a leading man , and your not welcome on this land" ...and as a foe ...he told him to go .