In today's market, you play a song and 30 seconds later it's up on YouTube or something. Mick Box: Yeah, it was as simple as that really. Were you just not playing songs from the record at that point? The show happened prior to the release of your latest album Living the Dream came out. ĬBS SF: I also noticed looking back at the set list, it was very much a classic-era greatest hits set. We played the Chapel, which was a really small and intimate venue, but the fans made it sound like an auditorium. So it was good to go back there and play. Mick Box: We hadn't been to San Francisco in a while. Do you recall how long it had been since you played in SF? Uriah Heep (Richard Stow/Chipster PR) I couldn't remember when you'd played the Bay Area prior to that show. Box would eventually find some of the collaborators who have continued to work with him to this day in Candadian vocalist Bernie Shaw and keyboard player Phil Lanzon (bassist Davey Rimmer and drummer Russell Gilbrook round out the current line-up of the band).ĬBS SF: I got to see the band for the first time in SF at the Chapel last year and was absolutely blown away by the show.
The guitarist would make adjustments in the '80s, cultivating the band's sizable German following with albums that embraced more of an AOR/pop metal style that kept Uriah Heep in business through the decade. Eventually, songwriting and keyboard stalwart Hensley would also leave the band, leaving Box as the last founding member still with the group.
The band would tone down some progressive elements on subsequent recordings Sweet Freedom and Wonderworld, but still maintained its appeal to fans with catchy hits like "Stealing" and "Something or Nothing." As the '70s wore on, the band saw the departure of Byron and Thain, soldiering on with new additions John Lawton (formerly the singer for Lucifer's Friend) and former David Bowie bassist Trevor Bolden for 1977's Firefly.
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