Uriah Heep’s Mick Box – HuffPost 8.22.14

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Mick Box: Believe in yourself and work hard at your craft. Try to be an individual and not one of the pack. I can best explain this by saying when the bands of the seventies came out they all had their own flavour and never two of them were the same. I never played guitar like Ritchie Blackmore–Deep Purple–and Ritchie didn’t play like Jimmy Page–Led Zeppelin–and Jimmy did not play like Paul Kossoff–Free–and on and on. That went for the bass players, drummers, keyboard players and vocalists too. It was the sum of the parts that gave each band its musical flavor. Unfortunately today so many sound and look the same, you cannot really tell the difference.