Well another year has come to a close and we'd like to say thanks for your love and support. We'd like to extend to you our wishes for a new year filled with peace, health, happiness and of course, music. We are looking forward to many new things coming in 2009 like the new release of Heepsteria 2 Tribute CD and hopefully more songs from the Heepheads. Keep rockin, Dave, Bob, Muzzy and Graham
Dave White : Lead guitar, keyboards
Bob Dreher : Acoustic guitar,electric guitar, slide guitar, drums, vocals
Mike Fedysky: acoustic guitar, bass guitar, vocals
Graham Hulme : Percussion, vocals,
Take a look at our fun time in Cleveland in August 2003. It was the first time we recorded together and not over the internet. We also got to attend a Beatlemania weekend in downtown Cleveland so you will see some of that in the video. Listen to a "demo" which got written over the two days but "shelved" ( for now ) called "Fire in his Soul". This video isn't complete and is missing the last minute, so sorry about that, but hope you enjoy it. We'd love to hear some feedback on the song and if you think we should complete it. Thanks and keep rockin'
Read all about Mick Box ( Uriah Heep) and his guitars from his guitar tech Chris Kodjamanis during a recent intervue. Just click here
COMING SOON..............
Watch for our addition of "Suicidal Man". The newest update is that it may be released some time in the fall with our addition of " Heep Rocks" as well as another Heep song. Suicidal Man was recorded in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and England.
Musical lineup:Graham Hulme- Drums, background vocals
Dave White- Hammond B3 organ, lead guitar
Muzzy Fedysky- Bass guitar
Bob Dreher- rhythm guitar, vocals
Production & Engineering- Bob Dreher
Special thanks to Lynn Arngrimson-webmaster, Don "Fred" WIlliams- Hoosier Hillbilly Studios
And of course, thanks to Uriah Heep...without which none of this would have been possible. What a priviledge to be able to pay tribute to the greatest rock band in history. Our hats are off to Heep, past present and future. Last but not least...thanks to all Heepsters, this one is dedicated to YOU!
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BROADBAND CONSPIRACY CD REVIEWS & COMMENTS:
Been listening to your CD. You guys are great! Your songs are very good. Quite complex arrangements at times too. Very Heepy too of course ;)!
You do them proud.
Love.
Heather Findlay
(Mostly Autumn)
I received my Heepheads CD today, excellent job !
Congrats to Bob, Dave & Muzzy! I highly recommend this to all Heepsters-
Jay
I played it a few times in my car and it sounds like you guys are really
into it which is great. Well done,
Cheers,
Mick Box
(Uriah Heep)
Received my Heepheads cd yesterday and I love it. The guys have put together a great bunch of songs.
I congratulate the guys on giving us Heepsters more great music.
Take care, Glen
Got mine just before I left for work so I got to listen to and from work, and this is the best of all the Heepster`s stuff yet, with some really great songs and vocals.
Great job .. DaveS
Just received your CD ........IT ROCKS!!! Awesome tunes and lyrics...gotta luv that Bass! Thanks guys!
Patunia
The Heepheads CD is fantastic. From the very first song, which lyric says, "I was hooked from the very start", well, I was and so will you. Each song has incredible lyrics and the instrumentation and vocals are clean and tight. There is definitely a Uriah Heep sound to this CD, and all fans of Uriah Heep will not be disappointed. Also, the song Heep Rocks, there is a sound of AC/DC's Hell's Bell's in the beginning riff, which was not anticipated and totally surprising, thank you! There is a jam session on this CD, which is something you just do not hear much with other bands, and it shows how well these musicians play off of each other. Anyone looking for a great CD, well, look no further. The Magician has struck gold with this one. Tami ( Washington)
"SUICIDAL MAN" COMMENTS :
Suicidal Man sounds Great ! (Uriah Heep)
Hi marvellous musicians, I've listened to Suicidal Man and I like it very much, especially the harmony is very very beautiful! You guys sound really great and I think that's because you like doing this so much that the joy actually shines through it! (Inge)
It sounds great Dave ! You all sound great !'Appy Days
( Mick Box )
We've just added our version of a cover tune called "The Story In Your Eyes" by the Moody Blues. This song features Graham Hulme singing lead and backing vocals, rythym guitar, drums and mixing. Dave White ..boards and Lead Guitar, Muzzy on Bass and Bob Dreher doing the Producing and Technical support.
We did this for a special friend and wanted to share our version with all those lovers of the Moody Blues. It was fun to do and we hope you keep coming back for a listen. Thank you Moody Blues for a terrific song !
To hear songs likes Graham's version of "Blind Eye" or Dave White's " Only a Dream", and other songs from heep musicians please visit "Heepstermusic.com"
<<<< A NEW PLACE FOR HEEPSTER MUSICIANS>>>> Click on the pic below and sign up !! It will be a fun place to be !!!
Mike "Muzzy" Fedysky, Dave White , Bob Dreher, and Graham Hulme along with numerous other Heep fans/musicians (Heepsters), formed an informal songwriting partnership after meeting in St. Louis at a Uriah Heep convention in 1997. Our songs together reflect Uriah Heep as a major influence in our music. We do all of our recording through the Internet, as we live in different regions, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois and England. Broadband internet access has enabled us to trade our various music files accross the internet instead of mailing cd's and tapes back and forth...speeding up the process dramatically.
In July, 2003 we completed a tune called "Wait". This is a song Bob wrote a few years back and it just now is seeing the light of day. Everything has been re-recorded in the past week by Bob, Muzzy and Dave. As you will notice on first listening, this is another tune obviously influenced by Uriah Heep ;-) Dave plays all keyboards, and all lead guitars on this one, including some nice dual lead guitar work. Muzzy as usual, put down an excellent bass track that gives this tune the real feel of Heep. Working with the drums to create that classic driving beat only Heep could lay claim to. Bob does Drums, Rhythm guitar and vocals on this one, attempting to re-create the lush harmonies that take us all back a few years. Hope you like the new tune and we're starting work on the next one already!! Stay tuned!
"Rainbows End" is also available for you to hear. This tune shows our influence by Uriah Heep, and more to the point, Ken Hensley...songwriter, keyboardist, vocalist and guitarist for 20 years with Heep. His writing style influenced us all a great deal. Muzzy wanted to write a song about Ken and had hopes of meeting him one day so he wrote the lyrics for this song and again plays the bass with that Gary Thain influence, and Bob came up with the arrangement, does the vocals and guitars. Dave adds keys and once again an inspired lead solo that will send chills up your spine when listening to it
"Turn Around" is a very special song written for a very special lady. Muzzy wrote the lyrics to this tune during a tough time in her life and this was to help her through it. He said why not write a song about it so he sent the lyrics to Bob Dreher who came up with the music. Bob does vocals, guitars, drums and engineered it to the finished product while Dave White added a guitar part and keyboards. Muzzy slipped in his bass track. Hope you like our song "Turn Around".......Love you Lynn !
See our video "Heep Rocks" !!! This song was written by Bob Dreher as a tribute and to pay honor to the greatest Rock Band in the world, Uriah Heep. We also wanted to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the recording of the worlds greatest live album...Live 73. Bob wrote the lyrics and the main melody, while Dave contributes a blistering Mick Box inspired wah-wah guitar solo which drives the song to new heights. Dave also added the Hammond B3 organ to the song, an essential item if you're paying homage to Heep. Muzzy wrote the bass guitar line, and beleive me, the song was not complete until we heard his bass part the first time. Listen to the intricate parts he plays during the slower middle section...he couldn't have done better in paying tribute to Trevor Bolder and Gary Thain. It finished the tune and gave it the true "Heepy" quality we were looking for. The icing on the cake. So give it a listen as you watch the Video Dave put to the tune, and tell us if you like it.
"Answers" is a song written by Bob Dreher and Ron Mann for the Promyse CD/Audience of One Project which featured Dave White ..boards & guitar, Bob Dreher on guitars & vocals, and Mac Steagall on Bass. We had asked Mac and Ron if we ( Heepheads ) could rerecord this song with Muzzy on Bass and put it on our Broadband Conspiracy CD which they graciously said yes to. Thank you Mac and Ron. We hope you like this version as well as the original on the Promyse CD. It truely is one of our favorite songs.
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ATTENTION HEEPSTERS !!!!!!!!!! HEEPVENTION 2008 in SPAIN...............Click on the logo for pictures, stories, etc.
Our friend's John Lawton and Alan Keetley. John's wearing one of his favorite shirts........."The Heepheads"...:-) click on picture for a closer look.
Words from the Heepheads :
"The story of my getting back into music began in 1995 when I discovered Uriah Heep on the internet. Like so many fans, I had thought they were gone, and that the legacy of the band would remain with me, but there was no one to share it with. Little did I know that I would start a chapter in my life that would engulf my very being...it's been marvelous.
It's something to be able to share your music, or your life history with people you don't know.
The net lets us all reach out, to share, to create and to stay in touch world-wide.
Music that one makes is a very personal thing. It comes deep from within, and if you are able (and that is not always the case) to make music with people that are on the same wavelength as you, it's a wonderful feeling.
This is how it happened to me. I was able through the magic of the early internet to meet up and to ultimately perform with fellow musicians that sometimes seemed to know exactly where I was in my feelings.
Recording at home, we all had the time to "tweak" and to do the music the best way we felt it could be. It was both exhilarating and humbling as these people played their hearts out over the years.
To date, I have been fortunate to record on over 90 songs with others. Many of them are listed here. Some were written by me, some by a collaboration with others, and some were sent to me from people that wrote them for my additions to them.
I am continuing to write and record both alone and with these (and newer) fine people.
If you're a "player" or "writer" and someone responds to your music, that's like the icing on the cake ... that's something you never forget, and I have to thank the people who have responded favorably in the regard that some of the music I have done touched them in some way.
I guess that's what it's all about."
Dave White Visit me here.
"Back in about 94-95, I wrote to this Dave White guy and asked him...geez, I don't even remember what I asked him. I was just so thrilled to be in communication with somebody else who liked Heep!
We exchanged a few e-mails (this was WAYYYYY TOO COOL) and realized that each of us were musicians.
He suggested that we do a tune together by sending tapes back and forth to each other until it was complete. Luckily our equipment was compatible and we got started. Please check out more on my homepage." Bob Dreher Visit me here.
"1980 was a year when I lost touch with Uriah Heep here in the USA. Record stores and news media quickly forgot the unbelievable affect their music had made on me, leaving me to wait and wonder where they were and what they were doing until 1997. I didn't think my new computer would change my life musically or personally in the way that it has.
I definitely wanted to get involved with the musician's who loved to record Heep tunes so I purchased a Fostex 4 track tape machine and asked if I could join in the fun. I learned so much from guitarist's like Bob Dreher, Dave White, and Graham Hulme. The years went by, and our friendships matured. They developed personally as well as musically. As we worked together on Heep tunes we would send each other our own song ideas and through that collaboration we put together our “Broadband Conspiracy” CD.
All of the people I've had the pleasure of meeting and knowing, I consider my “ Heep” family. I want to thank you all for this special friendship. Please, if there is ever anything I can do, I'm just an e-mail away. May God bless us all with health, and life's best, Uriah Heep, and rock & roll forever! Muzzy Fedysky Visit me here.
"Sometime around 94, I got myself an old 286 machine, a cheap $30 piece of DOS MIDI-sequencing software, and a Roland sound module and began learning computer sequencing. Having got into computers, the time soon came for an upgrade, and I got a machine from this guy who told me it had this Windows thing (whatever that was!), that I could hook up to the internet (whatever that was!) Soon after, it’s "Wow, Uriah Heep’s on here". I found a girl in Florida called Jessica Wollam, who was the only Heep fan left in the world. Wait, that can’t be right – I am the only Heep fan left in the world. Soon after, I found another only Heep fan left in the world. Then another and another. The world is suddenly full of only-Heep-fans-left-in-the-world, and we’re all talking and discovering we’re not what we thought we were. Some of us turn out to be musicians and start sending tapes back and forth to record Heep songs together.Now, I’ve reached the age of…well…something a little over 26 J .So I struggle to remember the order in which things happened, but I think the first thing was that Dave White added some guitar parts to a MIDI file I’d already made of Return To Fantasy. He sent it to Dave "BigDog" Griffin to add vocals. I got the tape back, and got a great buzz. Whitey added some real balls to the song with heavy guitar parts, and some great "twiddlies" (as I later began to call them). BigDog sounded more like Byron than Byron. This was fun! More songs followed and then came a real highlight for me. "Through the Eyes of a Child" was always a favorite, and we added some parts to it - a guitar solo and some more "twiddlies" which we discussed and planned out properly. For the first time, we were doing something more that just copying. Although I no longer have them, I remember the e-mail exchanges vividly: "Dave, you know the bit at the end, where you do the twiddly "eee-aaar-eeee-eeaaaaoowww". Could you make it just half a measure later to fill in the gap between the lines of vocal, and make it more of an "eee-> twiddly-deeee—aarrr---owww?"Hahaha! Hearing other Heepster recordings, the "best" ones (I know it’s not a competition, but I can’t help having my favorites) always seemed to feature a guy called Bob Dreher from Illinois. I wrote to him asking if he fancied doing something, and signed myself "A Dreher Fan". Having worked on various projects with him, I’m proud to carry that signature to this day. I speak here not just in musical terms. The guy is a gem of a person. As far as music is concerned, he can play guitar like a demon, beats the crap out of me as a bass player, sings lead, sings harmony including the stratospheric tight-trouser stuff, and knows more about recording than any of us. It’d be very easy to hate the guy! J ...But I can’t. There’s still a bit of writing and recording going on between some of us, but thankfully a little less frantically than before. It’s still as much fun as ever.To those guys I was fortunate enough to record with…Mac, Whitey, BigDog, Bob, Michael K, Rich, John, and Muzzy…Thank you for the fun and friendship. (Forgive me if I missed anyone.) To Rodrigo for his constant encouragement and taking time to produce the CDs. To Louis – always supportive…. and he got us some airplay!!! Most of all to the Heepsters on the mailing list back then, who unselfishly allowed us to drone on incessantly about our bloody recordings without telling us to shove it!" Graham Hulme
To whom it may concern:
The Easter Bunny and I started drinking late last night and there's no sign of him slowing down anytime soon. So have a Happy Easter! The bunny will be around when he sobers up.
Hello My Dear Friends!
Sorry I haven't been in touch for so long, but over the winter I had major abdominal surgery, and though recovery has been slow, it has been steady and I'm starting finally to feel like my old self again. For surviving my wife bought me a new Stratocaster that I hope to include on some new songs in the very near future. I hope all is well with you and that 2009 is bringing BIG things your way. I just wanted to stop by and say I'm still alive ....literally!
All of my love and the absolute best to you and yours,
David England
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“We, long time fans of Uriah Heep from all over the world, are very disappointed and disgusted at the treatment that the band are getting from Universal Music and the seemingly lack of support from their management company Duroc Media.”
This is the first paragraph of a petition that is now online at www.petitiononline.com/uhwts/petition.html
If you agree with this and want to try and do something about it, here is what you can do:
First of all go to www.petitiononline.com/uhwts/petition.html and read the full petition text. If you still agree (and I think you will!), then please sign the petition with your name or nickname and the country where you live. You have to provide your email address too, but you do have the option to keep it private. If you want you can also leave a comment.
Then spread the word about the petition in any way and to as many people as you can! Start by sending this message to all Uriah Heep fans and other lovers of good rock music that you know. Webmasters of Uriah Heep websites can post a message about the petition and petition link on their websites and tell about it in their newsletters. Also we can leave messages on forums and on networking sites such as MySpace. Last but not least, you can copy the full petition text into an email message, change the “We, long time fans (……..), are” into “I, long time fan (………), am”, sign your name and send it to
info@durocmedia.com info@umusic.com
Maybe all of this will not help Uriah Heep get their new album in the stores, but I think it’s better than doing nothing, a united effort to give off a sign to Duroc and Universal is at least worth a try!!! So hopefully as many Heep fans as possible will try to help by signing the petition and spreading the word!!!
