Uriah Heep- Circle of Hands (REACTION & REVIEW)

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Song Link: • Circle of Hands (2017 ...

[@Beshan-Art]

Uriah Heep is a jewel in rock music.

[@rakeshadhin]

Gary Thain is the best rock bassist that (almost) nobody has heard of! It's a shame that he died in 1975 at the age of 27. Catch him on Live 1973, where there are lots of stellar bass performances, especially in Sweet Lorraine. Listen to his melodic yet powerful playing during the synth solo in the middle of this song. Thoroughly awesome!

[@seansweeney2875]

Dead right buddy, what a bass player so sad he died so young RIP Gary..he's bass playing was awesome and magical 🎵🎶🎸 he was unique in every way.

[@kumarapatch1234]

I have

[@sev2945]

@@kumarapatch1234 Me too

[@antoniomanuelpereirogonzal726]

@@seansweeney2875 Enormous bassist whose life was taken by heroin at a very young age

[@SQUATCHY614]

Jamming to this group as a teen made me love rock more and more. Damn good tunes.

[@billhawkins1236]

" Today is only yesterday's tomorrow" Awesome line.👍🤠

[@midnightfury9001]

Always thought how interesting that line was. ✨

[@ley98]

It is deep that's for sure

[@bumperu]

One of my favorite Uriah Heep lyric.

[@mrdemocracy7106]

Uriah Heep legendary band. There is no other group like UH and never will. Fantastic musicians with the vocals of the great David Byron.

[@ReubenAotearoa_]

Gary. Thain. When people talk about the best bass players of all time he should be the first name mentioned.

[@Bigdave1369]

I am patiently waiting for "Paradise/The Spell" (last tracks of side 2)...the best tracks ever recorded by Uriah Heep (IMO)...

[@lucapizzini831]

They have surpassed all music history.....they have become that weird immortal state , that will endure on it's own creation....

[@pentagrammaton6793]

This song, like all of the others on this album, is flawlessly written, played and arranged. Rainbow Demon is next, my favourite. ♥

[@thegardenfix]

Oh yeah...that driving riff on Rainbow Demon is nice. One of my faves too. Very 'Deep Purply' :)

[@Hippydon94]

Mick Box's solo on Rainbow Demon is flawless. everything from Very 'eavy Very 'umble to the Magicians Birthday are must listen albums. after gary left, and david and ken left they just were no longer the powerhouse they were.

[@erikthompson619]

@@Hippydon94 Only Ken left - Gary and David were both fired.

[@luisclaudiodesouza540]

Circle of hands awesome, masterpiece! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@ZalMoxis]

Heep's first 7 or so albums (Up until Return to Fantasy) are all treasures.

[@johnnynilsen4884]

The slide guitar is played by Ken Hensley

[@ParanormalLight]

Always loved the phrase "Today is only yesterday's tomorrow"....sooo cool, and true.!!! Gary Thain was always my favorite bass player, up until the day he died. Awesome melodic basslines and fill-ins.!!!!

[@junglejane2824]

I love your interpretation of this song. I feel like the whole album is spiritual. I've been listening to this album for 40+ yrs.. 🥰

[@ragnarmyhr7238]

And to day is yesterdays tomorrow. Sing it even in 2022.

[@ingridgabelo2934]

Hace más de un año de ésta reacción 😮...no había encontrado reacciones a Uriah Heep...no entiendo por qué nunca fueron incluidos en la Trinidad Impía. Casi había olvidado al grupo 😞, y son verdaderamente fantásticos!! Gracias por traerlos a tu canal ❤

[@brucematzen4678]

From your language I conceive you are a poet sir. Rock on!

[@JustJP]

Thats very kind of you Bruce, thank you :)

[@ukiahsguitarsolos3436]

The seventies were so awesome!

[@td-12kx53]

Very cool reaction.

[@p.g.byronconty9471]

My favorite Uriah Heep song, excellent album Demons and Wizards!

[@notfound4174]

Какая интересная раскладка по ролям разговор человека и Бога. Да, мощная по смыслу и музыкально вещь. Время, когда песни имели не просто смысл, а глубокий смысл. Философская.

[@wendellwiggins3776]

Some group members have stated in Docs. that the bassist Gary Thain was one of the band's best musicians. As a teen learning bass Gary's distinct style and contributions always stood out as uniquely imaginative even in a simple song like this. In this manner he always reminded me of the master Chris Squire of YES. Their other great attribute was the mythical fantasy themed lyrics & arrangements. Unlike most Hardrock I appreciated at that time UH music still moves me and strikes a deep nostalgic nerve within. I was 16 and this was what struck a chord!

[@kenl2091]

Yeah, Uriah Heep at their best - nicely structured song with great instrumentation (especially organ) good melody and great coda (almost a follow up to July Morning) Nothing wrong with the vocals. It was the 70s but they're still fine in the 2020s.

[@krisdecave4167]

Beatiful song. it s gets me emotional.......Great singing and backing vocals Hats off A true classic...........

[@erikthompson619]

About the lyrics: those were inspired by a seance Ken Hensley attended. He went there because a couple of girls he wanted to hook up with asked him to, and nothing spriritual actually happened, but with his vivid imagination and amazing vocabulary he still had no trouble weaving a whole story around the experience. In hindsight, it could be sort of be seen as foreshadowing his turn to Christianity, even though he didn't actually become a Christian until 1993.

[@markspooner1224]

This is a great track, everything in it's place. I just can't fathom why some people don't like David's voice.

[@jfergs.3302]

Speaking of 'Everything in it's Place' kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWPLg31piNeEf6s 🙂

[@jfergs.3302]

PS. re the guys voice, hard to explain. there's a feel of theatre rep, doing commercial musicals about it... very Paul Nicholas, if you know what i mean.

[@a.k.1740]

It's not that I don't like David Byron's voice because he was quite a good singer overall, but I find him a little bombastic at times, and it's especially on stage that he was really embarrassing with his mannerisms and his stupid poses (especially when he was very drunk, like at the Pinkpop festival in 1976. A disgrace !!!).

[@markspooner1224]

@@jfergs.3302 Christ, Paul Nicholas!

[@markspooner1224]

@@jfergs.3302 There'll never be another Mick Lynch.

[@skunkworksu7638]

HEY JP you gotta listen to GYPSY QUEEN of the first album.

[@gfakruddinahmad8316]

Man ! This is the first time I have found a reaction video on a Uriah Heep song and needless to say, this is one of my most favourite Heep song- unbelievable vocals from Byron, otherworldly bass playing from Gary Thain, Hammond organ play from Ken Hensely, guitar from Mick Box and lastly superb drums play from Lee Karslake. What an awesome composition this was and a fabulous album too. Would you please react to the epic number Salisbury (1971) of Uriah Heep ??

[@sanjayjani8099]

And in the face of Beauty, evil was lost!!!

[@johnstorton]

Ya know, I kinda feel pity for people who haven't experienced the Uriah Heep: Acoustically Driven set. Pure, overwhelming beauty, both the audio and the visual. Give it a try, folks.

[@ljsites]

Ah…the days of easy living.

[@-davidolivares]

Days of .36 a gallon gas… was easy living.

[@BaldJean]

Uriah Heep were a great band in the 70s and made many excellent albums. We have them all. An album we highly recommend and that is totally unique and was the favorite album of our daughters Alice and Dorothy (named after "Alice in Wonderland" and "The Wizard of Oz", by the way) when they were kids (they are both 20 meanwhile) is "Fairy Tales" by Mother Gong; you will understand why it is unique when you listen to it. It has only three long tracks: "Wassilissa" (22:41), "The Three Tongues" (12:44) and "The Pied Piper" (14:41); "The Three Tongues" is actually kind of a prequel to "The Pied Piper". Mother Gong is an offspring of Gong, as the name suggests. There are actually many of them like Planet Gong, New York Gong, Gongzilla or Gongmaison, to name but a few. We uploaded the whole album; here links to all three tracks: "Wassilissa": kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5rSYWh_d9ymrqs "The Three Tongues": kzbin.info/www/bejne/hV6yh6F8YtWKmqs "The Pied Piper": kzbin.info/www/bejne/kGbKdISHaaeFes0 The album is very little known, so you probably won't get any other suggestions for it. There is great musicianship on the album, especially from Didier Malherbe of Gong on saxes and flute.

[@-davidolivares]

Going to give a listen, thanks!

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Pardon my pathetic prose, but it sounds like you have 'Gong' wild! I absolutely agree with your love for all things Gong! Peace from Connecticut.

[@markspooner1224]

Love all Gong's incarnations but don't get your hopes up, some of us on here have been trying to get The Teapot Trilogy into the mix to no avail. Harry Williamson made music with Anthony Phillips based on his father Henry's book (a childhood favourite) Tarka the Otter. (My ganddaughter is also named after Alice.)

[@BaldJean]

@@markspooner1224 The Teapot Trilogy is actually an hexalogy including the three albums "Shapeshifter" from 1992, "Zero to Infinity" from 2000 and "2032" from 2009.

[@lemming9984]

@@markspooner1224 A coincidence you brought up Henry Williamson - I'm reading A Fox Under My Cloak at this very moment! My favourite author.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Yes, back to the heep! 😀

[@JustJP]

🤘

[@chris-j5f1s]

Great song. Great band. Great analysis.

[@billhawkins1236]

Now you need to explore " Look at yourself " album.🤠👌🤠

[@rodmoor-bardell9174]

Too many people want to slag off this band, or cannot accept they have a career beyond Byron/Thain. I have really enjoyed Uriah Heep since the early 70s - my favourite of that time being The Magician's Birthday. But the band have continued and have released many fine albums. Trevor Bolder (RIP) was a great successor to Gary Thain and kept up the melodic bass style. The latest studio album, "Living the Dream" was released in 2018 and has many fine songs. My personal favourite Heep song is "Love in Silence" and there are some great live versions to be found on KZbin. I totally get that David Byron was a great vocalist and Gary Thain a superb melodic bass player - but Heep fans of the 70s - look at how others dislike 70s Heep! Give later incarnations a chance. Liking this reaction, JP. Though, I believe that when there is slide guitar on a Heep song - it is probably Ken Hensley playing - Mick Box was the wah-wah king!

[@mightyV444]

Synchronicity! 😀 I was talking with one of my good community centre friends about Uriah Heep only a few hours ago, when we were discussing the possibilty of me running a weekly beginners guitar group there, with Heep's 'Lady In Black' being the very first song I'd teach; It's THE best 2-chord song ever, in my opinion! 😍

[@stevenbeck5746]

I agree with that

[@seansweeney2875]

Well done young man, its great that you like heep. Great track. Good and evil 😈

[@JustJP]

Thanks Sean! :D

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Great way to wake and start the day. It's good to know that all my hope is not in 'Thain'. (sorry could not help myself!). I let my oldest son use my tickets to see Uriah Heep in Aug. since I will be unable to go. He's up here from Houston for the summer, so this will be something his wife will be new to! (she's a Texas 'country' gal and not musical adventurer!) Peace and Health to everyone.

[@dennispower5362]

LOVE .. URIAH ✌️🇦🇺

[@bobshaw8319]

Rest in Paradise ..David, Ken,Gary,Lee, carry on Mick .. Just the best album ever

[@denisemartins6654]

Incontestavelmente,obra prima,puro Rock original perfeição vocal, instrumentos,letra isso diferencia essa banda das outras,com essa formação,foi a melhor banda de todos os tempos sua mensagem ecoara através dos tempos,poucos entenderao,estavam alem do seu tempo.

[@chucklasher6061]

Just so you know there are a few albums that tell the story of the wizards battle against evil. "Demons and Wizards" and "Magicians Birthday" you should check out both full albums. Nothing like Mick Vox guitar licks

[@pianocovers4227]

Hi Justin ! Yeah, it's a nice closing of Side A !

[@noddynewbold]

Now go listen to the version on Uriah Heep Live 73, sooo much more emotion & power!

[@xomthood]

both versions are great, but the live version is sheer power in the end..the best of Heep live

[@rydelldownward7808]

Congrats. You just turned me onto Heep. Never really paid attention to them before.

[@davidmooney2512]

This album runs into the Magicians Birthday all one short story wrote by Ken Hensley

[@ragnarmyhr7238]

From the first rock album I heard back in '72. Love it.

[@xomthood]

If you hear "cursing the SON from which love is born.." the song takes a whole different meaning. Additionally, you talk of two Mick solos, the out track solo on the slide is Ken, just to be clear.

[@georgeslone5071]

You are absolutely correct, Ken was also a guitarist - and a very good one! Ken and Mick had very different styles that was always easy to detect.

[@timarnett672]

FOLKS DON'T KNOW THAT KEN HENSLEY HAD FAITH IN JESUS, AND IT CAME OUT IN MAY SONGS HE WROTE LKE EASY LIVING, AND THIS SONG. THE LYRICS SPEAKING, 'CAME A CROSS, LOVE'S SWEET COST, AND IN THE FACE OF BEAUTY, EVIL WAS LOST. THEN LATER, MURDERED THE DAWN, SPREADING THEIR SCORN, CURSING THE SUN (RATHER SON) OF WHICH LOVE WAS BORN.' TRULY A SONG ABOUT REDEMPTION. THANKS FOR SHARING WITH OTHERS...

[@johndrx165]

That's the stuff! Such great lyrics in this one.

[@browndatuwwedu]

One of my favorite albums for over 40 years, but I can't help but look at this song in the context of current events and the war in Ukraine.

[@ДмитрийГрабовский-б1х]

This band don't recorded bad songs in 1970-1978. Pure brilliant in all line-up .

[@johnmodzelewsky3655]

By far my favorite group discovered them in the early seventies actually saw him in concert with Earth wind and fire and Rush

[@majorgruber5925]

Seriously, after all this time am I the only one who keeps thinking David Byron could have been the understudy to Ian Gillan (Deep Purple fame) as Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar? Just sounds so "rock opera" to me now.

[@dennispower5362]

I don't know whether you have done the first album pls Play 1st album

[@thegardenfix]

Great choice. Great song. :) Perfect reason I follow you.

[@JustJP]

Ty RL :)

[@thegardenfix]

@@JustJP You're welcome. Your channel has become one of my daily checks. You could easily just go through a list of the top 500 songs of all time, and get more hits...but you do it your way, which is different. I like how you hear a song from a band, and then decide to systematically do an album from them over time. Keep up the good work.

[@JustJP]

@@thegardenfix Really appreciate that :) I try to make sure I have something for (almost) everyone at least once a week

[@NotData]

Planning ahead to the end of the album, the original vinyl and early CDs list Paradise and The Spell as one epic two song medley. But I see later releases show them as totally separate tracks. I guess you will have to decide which way to go here. If you go with the two song medley, that would make a good option for a long song Saturday.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

My teenage pot head self has re-awakened.

[@Thundermuscle]

This is the album that stirred my interest in music. Nuff said.

[@tx0h]

let me suggest you one song to react to: gamma ray by birth control. oh, and just a few people reacted to moondog yet.

[@lassekristoffersen5906]

Kind romantic music....

[@JimmyRJump]

Uriah Heep was the most "progressive" of the big four from the early seventies (the others being Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin) but to me, as an admirer of the first ten Heep albums that had David Byron as singer on them, the Heepsters couldn't quite keep it together, in the sense that their albums' content was often all over the place, music-wise. Their more hard rock oriented prog pieces were okay, with the driving growl of Ken Hensley's Hammond B-3 organ and Mick Box's sharp guitar, but Heep intertwingled those songs with others that didn't seem to fit the album(s), or even the band. I love Uriah Heep, at least, the albums on which Byron sings; lost interest after 1976's "High And Mighty" although I still bought 1977's "Firefly" with new singer John Lawton. But I didn't like his voice and the music had deteriorated by then. Hensley much later had a stint with American Native band Blackfoot and did good work with the guys on albums like Siogo (1983) and Vertical Smiles (1984). Ken Hensley died November 2020 aged 75.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

We must've listened to different bands, given that Demon's and Wizards, The Magician's Birthday, Sweet Freedom and Wonderworld are all albums of incredibly strong material. Heep could handle moods and styles that (Much as I love them) Sabbath, Purple and not even Zeppelin could manage to pull off.

[@JimmyRJump]

@@pentagrammaton6793 No, my dear fellow, we just must have listened with different ears and different interpretation as a result. I won't ever tell you you must hear things my way, and I'll always grant you your interpretaion of what you just heard. My opinion isn't law, it's just my opinion as I remember it from fifty years ago. Or from last week, as I still listen to this divine music on a regular basis. I have thirty-three discs from the Byron era alone. Tell me, how many do you have? Not that the amount of albums in one's possession matters, but it still implies I have more material to listen to and thus have a broader platform to base my findings on. Have a good day sir.

[@HippoYnYGlaw]

This made me feel a trifle queezy.

[@jfergs.3302]

A tune of two halves. The first with heavy keys, vocals, put me strongly in mind of 'Thank You' off Led Zep II. I'm not crazy on this guys voice, or the overt backing vocals, schmaltzy. But worth the wait for the predominantly instrumental 2nd half. Some good stuff here. Overall it's ok, but I wouldn't rave over it.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Schmaltzy?? Medic!

[@jfergs.3302]

@@pentagrammaton6793 just the backing harmonies, a little OTT

[@pentagrammaton6793]

@@jfergs.3302 well, OTT was the style and I love it 😄

[@jholcomb4246]

Uriah Heep . . . Just Spinal Tap in the flesh. Pompous silliness. Don't try to find meaning.

[@delorangeade]

I'm still coming to terms with Uriah Heep. I liked this one more as it continued. There is something cheesy about it and the lyrics are drippy, but I enjoyed it overall. I think David Byron had a great voice, but there is something overly mannered and theatrical about his stage presence that doesn't quite work for me. I don't know why, because I don't have a problem with Robert Plant or Freddie Mercury.

[@JustJP]

How about some Russell Allen and Symphony X? :D

[@delorangeade]

@@JustJP I'm not really familiar with them. That kind of symphonic metal is completely lost on me.

[@xomthood]

one man's cheese is another's sustenance

[@JustJP]

@@delorangeade I totally understand that, it can be a bit much :)

[@jfergs.3302]

PS... Speaking to god !!! what a quaint notion.....

[@pentagrammaton6793]

Has Christian paid you for all this? 😆

[@jfergs.3302]

@@pentagrammaton6793 You've lost me a little with this one 🤔

[@-davidolivares]

Quaint or otherwise, I’ll put in a good word… oh yeah, I already did.

[@pentagrammaton6793]

@@jfergs.3302 oh he's down on the Heep is all.

[@jfergs.3302]

@@pentagrammaton6793 Ah, right.

[@richardbailey1295]

Evil in the world........must be careful. Keep them away or we'll pay.

[@jhamptonjr]

It's funny how I didn't recognize the song Until I heard the lyrics today is only yesterday's tomorrow. Then it all came flooding back to me like I was in my pillow fort smoking my favorite herb back in when I was 15!