I’m divorced and have 1 beautiful daughter, Jordan who is 18. I just remarried again for the 2^nd time to a beautiful woman Anne, who has been my partner and soul mate for almost 11 years now.

I live in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Canada’s east coast, but was born and raised in a quiet little village named Jacquet River in the northeast of our province.

My passions are music and football (CFL, The Great White North version, 3 downs, wider field). My favourite football team for 34 years and counting is the Montreal Alouettes, go Al’s, defending Grey Cup champs for 2002, who will repeat in 2003, I hope.

I’ve been a big Heep fan since about 1974 when I discovered them after buying their Best Of Volume 2 (a Canadian release). I have been hooked on Heep music ever since.

I enjoy a lot of music including Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rare Bird, Budgie, Grand Funk, Babe Ruth, April Wine, Beatles, Bowie, Charlie, Styx, Alice Cooper, Doobie Brothers, ELP, Moody Blues, Doors, New York Dolls, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Elton John, Lucifer’s Friend, Lighthouse, Nazareth, Queen, Rush, Santana, Stampeders, BTO, Guess Who, Strawbs, String Driven Thing, Supertramp, Ten Years After, Three Dog Night, Rick Wakeman, Crawler, Jethro Tull and many others but my favourite is Heep and anything heep related.

No other band seems to do it for me like Heep. Their music touches your soul; their lyrics are intelligent, thought provoking, timeless.

I lost touch with Heep and good music in general in the 80’s and early 90’s but began buying music again in the early 1990’s.

Growing up in the eastern part of Canada, we lacked the population to attract big bands to our area unless they were Canadian bands. Most UK or US bands only played the large cities, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, etc. So keeping in touch with your favourite bands was very difficult if not impossible.

However, with the advent of the web, one of the first things I looked for was Uriah Heep and I discovered their site and also so many people worldwide who love the band as much as I do, which has been a very rewarding experience.

My greatest Heep moment was seeing them live in Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada. We were on vacation in the Canadian Rockies at the same time Heep were playing at a 3-day concert in northern BC. A seven hour drive through the mountains and I got to see my favourite group.

The pictures you see below are of Anne and myself with Mick, Trevor, Bernie and Phil. The camera screwed up the shot with Lee, which sucked. Words cannot describe the feeling I had meeting the guys (notice the grin from ear to ear), except I was at a loss for the right words to say while talking with them.

Everything I have read over the years about how approachable, nice guys they are is absolutely true. There were no pretences on their part; they were just genuine friendly people who were happy to meet us.

I’ve been fortunate with the web and e-mail to be able to communicate with Mick and Ken, Dave Kaffinetti (formerly of Rare Bird) and Jenny Haan (formerly of Babe Ruth). This would have been impossible not that many years ago but is a fan’s dream come true today.

My dream before Heep retire is to see them live again, hopefully in Europe somewhere and preferably at a Magician’s Birthday party in England so I can also meet many of the heepsters.

Take care and keep on Heepin,

Glen Doucet

September 4, 2003