#abominog

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Abominog playing Club K in Baltimore, MD in April 1991.

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Tuesday, January 24: Uriah Heep, “Hot Persuasion”

R.I.P. Lee Kerslake (1947-2020)

Abominog was presented as a retooled version of Uriah Heep embracing heavy metal in general, and to a lesser extent the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in particular.  But aside from Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake coming in fresh out of the Blizzard of Ozz and the opening riff of “Too Scared to Run” the album didn’t feel like such a drastic departure from what Mick Box had been doing with Heep up to that point.  Sure, there was an economy to “Hot Persuasion” that was anathema to “The Magician’s Birthday”, but the band’s discography throughout the ‘70s was littered with brisk and relatively commercial rockers featuring melodramatic vocals.  And so it was here, perhaps the biggest distinction being Peter Goalby’s broader singing range.  Maybe the real story was that after several years of half-assed records made by scattershot lineups, here was an iteration of Uriah Heep that was focused and committed to their approach, and without delusions of grandeur or significance. And arguably that more than anything else made “Hot Persuasion” more likable.

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Abominog - “Resting in Your Grave” from Resting in Your Grave (1990)

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Uriah Heep - Abominog hand painted denim.

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From Left To Right:

Bob Daisley,Mick Box,Pete Goalby,Lee Kerslake,John Sinclair

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