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My friend is in the audio business and as a byproduct he has vast quantities of very old but excellent music. Several months ago he gave me a rather large amount of Jethro Tull and a group I'd never heard about called Uriah Heep.

I have their albums "Wizards and Demons" and "Look at Yourself". I've discovered that very few people seem to have heard them. My parents and their siblings have, but it seems like no one else has.

Any fans?

Uriah Heep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_Heep_%28David_Copperfield%29) is a fictional character created by Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield.

The character is notable for his cloying humility, obsequiousness, and general insincerity. His constant references to David as "Master Copperfield" are repeated so often by Dickens that they quickly seem insincere. He is the central antagonist of the later part of the book. David first meets him when he is living with Mr. Wickfield and his daughter Agnes. Uriah works as Mr. Wickfield's clerk and because of Mr. Wickfield's alcoholism Uriah controls most of his life and business. He eventually succeeds in having himself raised to being a full partner in the business. His eventual ambition is to marry Agnes and gain control of the Wickfield fortune. Like most of Dickens' villains, greed is his main motivation. Heep is eventually stymied by Mr. Micawber and Thomas Traddles, with help from David and Agnes. Once his fraud and treachery are unmasked, he persists in hounding Micawber and Copperfield. Towards the end of the novel, he is last seen in Mr. Creakle's prison where we find that he has returned to his "umble" ways, and puts himself forward as a model prisoner.

Sounds like a pretentious asshole to me. Then again, I've never liked Dickens.

:p

Dickens was an ass. I bet they make the prisoners in Guantamo read that shit.

My friend is in the audio business and as a byproduct he has vast quantities of very old but excellent music. Several months ago he gave me a rather large amount of Jethro Tull and a group I'd never heard about called Uriah Heep.

I have their albums "Wizards and Demons" and "Look at Yourself". I've discovered that very few people seem to have heard them. My parents and their siblings have, but it seems like no one else has.

Any fans?

Well I don't have a lot of them, only one album: 'Very 'eavy ... very 'umble'.
But I like it a lot, so yeah, I'm a fan of them.

My friend is in the audio business and as a byproduct he has vast quantities of very old but excellent music. Several months ago he gave me a rather large amount of Jethro Tull and a group I'd never heard about called Uriah Heep.

I have their albums "Wizards and Demons" and "Look at Yourself". I've discovered that very few people seem to have heard them. My parents and their siblings have, but it seems like no one else has.

Any fans?
No, they're like the real life Spinal Tap. They've changed from style to unoriginal, cheesy style and been through 30 band members.