Uriah Heep has been following a pair of parallel trails for a number of years; remaining active in the studio, but also going the "Classic Rock" route of keeping the marketplace active with live albums (which currently numbers thirteen releases).



Released in Europe and Japan in 1996 and - finally - in the U.S. in 1999, there are 11 live tracks and one studio cut, the outstanding Sail the Rivers, that features a contemporary lineup; Mick Box (g), Lee Kerslake (d), Trevor Bolder (b), Phil Lanzon (k) and Bernie Shaw (v). Though a good chunk of the set could have been pulled from gigs during earlier eras, these are not perfunctory performances to sell tour T-shirts at the souvenir stand; UH has the sparks flying throughout the nearly 63 minutes.



To casually dismiss UH as dinosaurs from the arena rock history books is a grievous error....the band can still rocka rolla.