David Byron vocalist for Spice (1967–1969). Deciding that the Spice sound would require keyboards, they recruited keyboardist/guitarist/singer/songwriter Ken Hensley, who was Paul Newton's bandmate in The Gods. During this time Bron redubbed the band Uriah Heep from the Charles Dickens novel "David Copperfield". Shortly afterward the band's career really took off, first in Germany, Britain and finally the United States. In 1971 Byron also appeared on two LPs by John Schroeder. Byron was the original singer of the English rock band Uriah Heep between 1969 and 1976. David Byron sang on ten Uriah Heep albums: "Very 'eavy Very 'Umble", "Salisbury", "Look at
Heavy metal bass who played Hammond organ on some songs or the bassists from mainstream metal bands such as Styx and the Scorpions who use a pedal keyboard, which is played with the feet. Professional metal bassists may have a bass technician who tunes their basses before and during a performance, sets up the speaker cabinets, amplifiers and effects units, and performs routine maintenance on the instruments and equipment (e.g., changing strings, replacing speakers, replacing amplifier tubes, etc.). In relation to the gender composition of heavy metal bands, it has been said that "[h]eavy metal performers are almost exclusively male" "... [a]t least