I had never seen/heard Trevor with Heep. That was just spectacular!
Was it very cold being deep-frozen since the mid-seventies, Scott?
(To be fair: I know how Heep lost the US market after Byron's departure - in Germany they continued to be a quantity though not on the scale of Deep Purple.) The guy was the longest serving and on-most-records-playing UH bassist ever! He's played on every UH album (that should be 10 to 15, not counting the live ones!.
) since 1976's Firefly - with the exception of Abonimog and Head First which were graced by Bob Daisley's bass playing in the early eighties, but Trevor returned soon from Wishbone Ash (Twin Barrels Burning) to the Heep fold and recorded Equator with them in the mid-eighties. Since then he had stayed on.
I saw him a couple of times - on the Firefly tour with Lawton, sometime in the eighties when they plugged Equator, as an opening act of various Purple gigs and at a club gig two or three years ago. He got better and better and took more and more freedom in playing. Hats off to Mick Box (always a band-serving guitarist) for letting him.