I only noticed bass playing because of Gary. His contribution to Uriah Heep was priceless. Why do all the greats end this way? Sadly missed Gary.

Gary Thain, what a unique style and sound. Nobody sounds like him. Rest in Peace Gary!

I've been a bassist my entire life(64 yrs) and I can say, without a doubt, that my style of playing is a direct result from hearing Gary....especially on the Live 73 album. I play it weekly...to this very day. If he could only see my smile every time I hear him on "Circle of Hands"!! My Lord ....nothing like it!! Magical. RIP Gary and Thank You! Thank you also for doing this feature!!!!

Gary Thain is by far one of my favorite bass player's in rock and roll history.

Best bass player ever..so underrated.

I was a fan of Uriah Heep from a young age but I remember years later re listening to their music that I realized what a great bass player Gary Thain was, absolutely one of the best ever!

At 1970 I began to listened rock music and I listened Uriah Heep with Gary Thain there. Most amazing bass guitar player and until now I still listen him with the band.

Thanks you Dave for this. For me Gary is the best bass player ever. He is and always be my idol!

I liked Gary Thain's playing in Uriah Heep so much, that I had to know about the Keef Hartley's band (his previous band) just to hear more of his playing. He was great for them too.

Been a UH fan since 1971. It’s no coincidence that with the arrival of Gary Thain and Lee Kerslake UH was jettisoned into super stardom. As good as their first 3 albums were D&W was the beginning of without a doubt their best years of music creativity. Unfortunately you can begin to start hearing the cracks in the band on Wonder World as the album is definitely the most disappointing album of the Gary Thain era. Obviously drugs and alcohol were taking their toll. After Gary was dismissed he was replaced by an absolutely fantastic bassist/singer in John Wetton. Amazingly as good as JW is he just could not replace the amazing chemistry that was had between Gary Thain and Lee Kerslake. Although UH still has some fairly decent albums after Gary was gone I would say most people will agree UH reached their peak when Gary was with the band.

Gary is iconic bass player. I have never forget "Circle of hands" from UH Live'73. He was amazing musician......

wonderful melodic bass player he was

I got to see Gary with Uriah Heep twice, and as a Drummer, Lee was one of my early influences, Heep is one of my favorite bands, still rocking

Thanks for making this documentary about the bass master Gary Thain.

I heard the live album around late 74. I was so into Gary's playing. Fantastic.

Such a shame, and loss of an awesome Bass player. Was my favorite. RIP Gary...

New Zealand's greatest export .. The great Gary Thain

65 - 75 was the golden era of hard rock when they made real music .... uriah heep humble pie deep purple some of the greatest bands from that era gary thain one of my favorite base players in rock music rip gary thain who sadly joined the 27 club

Gary Thain was the reason I listened to Uriah Heep . . . a unique and hugely talented bassist. Thanks for this doccie

Good tribute DC .....Gary was the reason I got into bass playing at 15 in 1973

Thain could drive Byron's vocals like no one else. December 1972, Pirate World Pavilion, Dania Florida, Heep took the stage with Easy Livin'. Thain was stage left, about 10 feet from me. Before Byron began with the lyrics, he turned to Thain, and Thain walked forward center stage, pounding away on his bass. Byron reached up, tweaked Thains "A" string tuning peg, then began to belt out the lyrics. I have never forgotten that moment!

As a bass player myself Gary has always been a huge influence on me. Jazz bass with Acoustic amps just like another one of my faves John Paul Jones. He had a great style that was busy but added not overshadowed Uriah Heeps songs. Great tone great look. RIP Gary.

I'm a Brazilian fan of Uriah Heep... congratulations for the documentary of this excellent bassist... good times ❗❗

GARY TAIN É O MAOIR BAIXISTA DO ROCK,QUASE 50 ANOS DA SUA MORTE E ELE É LEMBRADO POR SEU TALENTO E LEGADO.

The opening bass line on Stealin is iconic, you know the song as s soon as it starts, even if you haven't heard it in years

Thank you for this Dave. In my opinion perhaps the greatest bass player ever. His work on UH live 73 is out of this world, the reason I took up bass playing 47 years ago

I'm a bass player for nearly 50 years, I liked Uriah Heep in the seventies but never really listened deeply. I think it's time to ReDiscover Uriah Heep and Gary Thain, thanks for this great video.

Amazing that he played at Woodstock

Thank you, great video. As being a bass player myself, he has been a tremendous influence on me.

I'm learning Blind Eye on my bass right now . Man what a bass player he was , definitely among the greats of his time.

Excellent backstory filling in the huge gaps & questions I've always had about Gary. That period of UH was the absolute best IMHO. I was about 14 years old & was enthralled w/ the group then & ever since. Thanx for putting this together as it's a fitting memory of a beautiful talent that we lost way too early on. Always remembered, never forgotten!

Saw Ken Hensley solo 1980. They played 'Easy Livin' and Hensley mentioned writing with "The Late Great Gary Thain" five yrs later. I talked to him after the show, so nice a person to chat with.

Thank you . Great musician

Uriah Heep showed promise but never quite up there with the big boys. Kinda rock, a little prog, good players but nothing spectacular, okay songs. But when Thain joined, they went to another level. The groove, the melodicism, the energy all shot up several notches. And you can tell it inspired the band and the producer as well. The result -- Demons and Wizards, which is an undeniable masterpiece.

What a wonderful musical mind. He was truly one of the most beautifully gifted and sadly underrated player of all time. His choice of notes was breathtaking. His manipulation of melodies was unsurpassed. His early death...heartbreaking. LONG LIVE THE HEEP.

FOREVER.

Gary Thain had the most Tasteful and Biggest Sound of any bassist in history. I'm as amazed listening to his unique style today as I was when he first caught my ear back in 1972.

Gary il più grande genio bassista di tutti i tempi

Gary is part of the 27 Club - not well known as the others - Jim - Jimmy - Kurt - Janis - Brian - Amy - but he is there today and forever

Now that’s a piss poor management for fact !!!😡. Rest Well and FLY high Gary !!!

Thanks for posting this. I got into Uriah Heep at age 16 in 1976 with "The Best Of Uriah Heep", which had come out that year. It was really different music than what I had been listening to, so it took some time to grow on me, but when it clicked, it really clicked. I studied the chart on the back of that album, so I knew who Gary Thain was, and of course I loved his sound. My next album was "High And Mighty", featuring John Wetton on bass. I loved that album as well, but it had a completely different sound. All that to say that until these videos, I knew who Gary was, and I knew his fate, but I didn't know his story. Thank you for bringing me that story.

I was blessed to see UH in 2010 with the legend Trevor Bolder on bass

Thanks 4 making this about garys life,for me he was the bass monster musician.!I ve been a fan since 2009.from shaz in the uk.

I’m way too young to experience the 60s and 70s, but there’s a certain vibe or mystique from that era. I love the music from small garage rock like bands to the big powerhouses such as Heep or Deep Purple. There’s a video of Gary’s bass solo during a live show where he goes into a melodic rendition of a classic piece, I can’t remember which, and it just sounds so powerful. God knows what he would’ve gone on to do… RIP Gary, David, Ken, and Lee. Edit: Bach’s little Fugue in a G minor was the piece that Thain performed, he was turning classical music into melodic rock bass playing haha kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m99jY6yCp7HFdoE.htmlsi=KcGGL9-6H8ZdyqsI

Back in those days Uriah Heep was putting out a new album every 6 months.

Than you so much Dave. Never thought I'd see this background and history of an amazing musician. I have memories, just, of seeing an NZBC current affairs item on our one TV channel of Gary Thain back in NZ visiting his mum. All I really remember is Gary walking away from the camera in a residential street wearing a fur lined jacket. I was 12/13 at the time and already a Heep fan. My only other news memory is that he electrocuted himself on stage, which presumably came from an "Evening Post" newspaper item. In those days in NZ we weren't allowed FM radio, and AM state radio, the only radio, turned off overnight, with reduced hours on a Sunday, starting 9am. Sometimes the techs played "test" tracks before official broadcast began. It is burnt into my memory I woke up one Sunday, turned on my 8 transistor Sanyo radio, permanently tuned to 2ZM , heard static, then suddenly Sweet Freedom, both sides, uninterrupted, played, finishing just before the official start at 9. I was an enthralled 13 year old. I also have the memory that Sweet Freedom was a local number 1 album several weeks running.

The best rock bass player there's ever been in my opinion.

Best bass note all time🤘🤘🤘

I am a big fan one of my favourite bands I saw them 3 times live but Not with Gary one of the kind bass player R I P Gary god bless

He is my favorite bass player!thank you.

Rip 🙏 Harry Thain, Uriah Heap!!!❤️

Wonderful. Thanks Dave

Yes !!! One of bass player All time's, powerful and clean sound !!!

Enjoyed this, wonderful player. I remember when the infamous Jaffa DJ/Writer and Hedonist Ray Castle got a right old telling off from David in '74 when he kept calling the album "Wonderland'" during an interview at the groups hotel. Gary wasn't there, he had gone down to see his Mummy...as Mick and Lee put it. I nearly forgot Gary was a telegram boy for the PO in Christchurch, I met an old workmate of his.

I've always loved Uriah Heep influenced so many other great musicians I'm a kiwi myself and so many kiwis dont know who was the most succesful kiwi bass player of all time-good quiz question. R.I.P Gary Thain

Pt 2 is most excellent

have seen Gary with The New Nadir many times at Zurich. (MusicHall Hirschen). That time i could unfort. not afford a photocam nor recording tape. But we can still remember this great musician.

Saw the guys live in 1980,still have the ticket.that show changed my musical taste forever.

Dear sweet heart Gary,i am so deeply sorry

RIP Gary Thain

Gary and the boys paved the way for alot of people. If you have ever heard him play,then you we're influenced one way or another by it. He has inspired countless musicians. To be better players. God Bless Gary, may you live forever in are hearts,and souls. Love ya man!!!

Listen to Gary's bass on Overdog with Keef Hartley Band, he's got Jazz, Soul R&B influences early on. How he incorporate them into rock is brilliant. As to why he could move easily around chord changes, that's his Jazz n Blues knowledge. Love you Gary.

Gli uriah heep senza di lui hanno perso tanto.......Gary dovrebbe essere nell' olimpo ..... Io quando sento dire di basso subito penso a lui .. dovrebbero tutti pensare come me .great Gary rip in peace

Mick said in an interview I read that “if we would have taken time off and gotten Gary and David the help they needed who knows what might have been “. Sad thing was they were a money machine and the management would not let it happen.

I was listening to UH in the early seventies..by then I had already picked up the Bass, but as I listened to more of Gary's playing and those riffs it gave me inspiration, I was driven by his bass work, I still listen to UH and I still play today..

One of my favourite bands

Great doc, wow just wow.

I didn't know Thain was a Kiwi.... aside from Chris Squire I loved his playing..... Thain was brilliant.

GREAT JOB DAVE!!!

thank you.

I was a fan of Uriah Heep since 1970 something when I saw them at the Marquee club. I did not know that Gary was a kiwi!

I was in Dallas the night Thain was dropped face first on the stage.

❤❤❤❤❤❤thank you very much for this😊

thanks you for that

Gary - Super Bass

May be the only one still living, Hensley died in Spain.

Unfortunatey, Heep didn't Had Peter Grant as Manager, the Zeppelin Man. Uriah Heep would have been around a Lot longer and healthier unser his Wings. And, of course, in the best line-up in their Carrer

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Saw heep 3 times with Thain Free trade hall Manchester brilliant every time

Gary thain finger is constantly moving along the fretboard... he cannot stand still..

Saw him in Little Rock, Ar USA during the Heep Wonderworld tour. I think he was wearing the fur boots. LOL

sad sad sad

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Te pai katoa,piki te ora Gazza the one and only!

Mick Box blames the management for ignoring Gary when he was recovering from his injuries. But he could also take responsibility himself. After all, your fellow band members are the ones who are supposed to support you and wait til you're ready to get back on the road. But Mick Box and the others obviously didn't have the patience to wait and moved on with a different bass player, leaving Gary behind on his own, knowing very well he was addicted to heroin. This led to his death in 1975, he was only 27. That's quite a weight to carry, for the rest of your life.I stopped being a fan of UH after Gary's death. It just gave me a bad feeling.

Erm, at 12.58, that whatever-cover is all wrong! Ken Hensley would never meet John Lawton for the later incarnation of Uriah Heep until after both Gary and David had been forced to leave the group. The original cover was much more blue and red, though! I DO have the original LP, after all... ;P

140 shows and 5 albums in 3 years doesn't seem to be that crushing. Of course the tour dates are because they are jammed together as close as possible because you have to pay the trucking company, drivers, road crew, sound, light and staging people and you have to keep the dates one nighters pretty much to maximize profits with the only days off being the luck of the travel schedule and booking dates. the managers and record companies could care less if you were travelling and performing concerts daily. They only care about the bottom line at the end of the tour. I have worked in live entertainment since 1976. That is simply how it's done. I still work in live entertainment and I'm in my mid 60's. I have slowed a bit though. I call it semi retirement even though it's more work than most people do full time at times.

John Glascock from Jethro Tull was a great bassist

it baffles me how a close knit band like this could allow managment to SACK there bass player ... and then go on with someone else ..

наиболее близкое произношение к оригиналу - Гэри Саин...

What version of July Morning was that? Sounds a bit different

Why wasn't Gary buried in New Zealand ?

Why is it the very best ones have to die from overdoses,,,

Insurance policy killed him.

Hard illuminati industri demonic pressure.. so sad