I was stealing when I should have been buying I was stealing when I should have been buying. I made my break and a big mistake, stealing when I should have been buying. So I stood on a ridge and shunned religion, thinking the world was mine. Runnin', hidin′, losin′, cryin', nothing left to save But my life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life, life. All that fightin′, killin', wine and those women gonna put me to an early grave. Stood on a ridge and shunned religion, thinking the world was mine. Oo-oo oo-oo ah ah ah Oo-oo oo-oo ah ah ah. Fightin′, killin', wine and women gonna put me to my grave. I don't need no food, no water, Lord, 'cause I′m running out of time. Well, there′s a hundred miles of desert lies between his hide and mine. I done the rancher's daughter and I sure did hurt his pride. WHERE: The Kent Stage, 175 East Main St.Take me across the water ′cause I need some place to hide. We’ve played concerts in 61 countries, and we’re still on the road 150 days a year. We’ve still got a passion for what we do, and I think that passion gives us the energy and drive. We played to 180,000 people over a 10-day period. But we found out we were huge, and people bought all our albums on the black market. That was just incredible because you think what you were taught in school about the Russians, you would never go there let alone go there and play your music. “In 1987, we were the first Western rock band to play in Russia. One of them is called, ‘Free Me.’ Another one is ‘Too Scared to Run.’ In the end, he said, ‘Don’t worry, that’s fine.’ What was really funny was seeing the warden, a prison guard and the prisoners all standing beside each other with their fists in the air enjoying themselves.” I said, ‘We’ve got some strange album titles.’ But we weren’t sure they were going to work in the scenery we were working with. You take these things on, but you think, ‘Well, hang on, not everyone who committed an offense and is in jail is a Uriah Heep fan.’ (Laughs) I had a word with the warden. “We played in a prison in Rothenburg, Germany. So once we started playing, it was like playing to a thousand boiled eggs!” The audience were all given these white protection hats. Luckily, it was an acoustic show and not an electric one. It’s where Hitler evidently hid all his gold as well. It took two hours to get the audience down in lifts to the bottom. “We played in a salt mine in Merkers, Germany, which was thousands of feet below the ground. They had to close down the bar, stop the show and try to sort it out from there (Laughs).” Go back to the dressing room.’ We found out the audience was so drunk, the police were pulling them out and putting them in the cells, but the station was full up! So they had nowhere else to put them. He said, ‘The police are here, you can’t play another note. It got to about two-thirds through the set, and my front-of-house guy is standing on the stage telling me to stop playing. By the time we got there, everyone was completely off their head! We could see it in their eyes. We came along as the headline band about 9 at night. The Fins do like a drink, and it was proven right there and then! (Laughs) We were playing, they had an exhibition that started about 8 in the morning, and they were serving beer all night long. “We once did a show in Helsinki, Finland. Once we crack that, it’s natural process.” It’s gotta have a good melody or be saying something musically and lyrically. It’s very important as you make a piece longer, that it actually says something and means something rather than just being a means to an end to get to somewhere. We play them to the boys, and the boys say ‘yay’ or ‘nay,’ and then we try to work on the ones everyone is excited about. We get together and start formulating songs. Our keyboard player Phil Lanzon is my writing partner. I’ve always got a bunch of guitar riffs and ideas and chord sequences and choruses. “We’ve kind of got the template down now, mate (laughs). The affable and enthusiastic Box talked about the band’s latest album, longevity and some of its wildest and best shows ahead of this weekend’s appearance. Known stateside for tunes like “Easy Livin,’ ” “The Wizard,” “Sweet Lorraine,” and “Stealin,’ ” the band will perform a mix of songs spanning its entire catalog during its three-night Kent stay. Uriah Heep is a band of milestone moments.
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