Joe Meek Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Heinz Sessions Vol.1 (LP, 10inch)

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(Cherry Red Records) 9 tracks THE SECOND RELEASE FROM JOE MEEK’S LEGENDARY TEA CHEST TAPES!... more

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Joe Meek: Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Heinz Sessions Vol.1 (LP, 10inch)

(Cherry Red Records) 9 tracks

THE SECOND RELEASE FROM JOE MEEK’S LEGENDARY TEA CHEST TAPES!

PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD VERSIONS, OUTTAKES AND DEMOS!

ALL IN SUPERB, PREVIOUSLY UNHEARD CLARITY, TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM JOE MEEK’S OWN TAPE ARCHIVE.

TAPE WORK AND MASTERING BY MARTIN NICHOLS.

SLEEVENOTES BY ROB BRADFORD, EDITOR OF THE JOE MEEK SOCIETY’S ‘THUNDERBOLT’ MAGAZINE.

Having been part of The Tornados (and their smash hit ‘Telstar’), Heinz was quickly singled out for solo stardom by Joe Meek, whose eye he had caught. Tailored by Meek in the classic pop impresario tradition, usually with material written expressly for him, Heinz and his remarkable bouffant blond hairstyle set out to take the world by storm in 1963, just as Beatlemania changed the rules entirely.

We present selected highlights from the many hours of recording Joe Meek dedicated to his protégé between 1963 and 1966, including the hit single ‘Just Like Eddie’ and classic album tracks, alongside the unreleased ‘Voices In The Wind’.

Featuring early takes, guide tracks and guitar sessions, Side One provides a fascinating insight into the hard work Meek was prepared to invest in his pet project.

Side Two, on the other hand, takes the listener back to the beginning of the process, with three of Joe Meek’s home demos and a Dave Adams guide track, all of which were later re-recorded by Heinz.

Hand-picked for their unprecedented degree of insight into Meek’s working processes and his relationship with Heinz, and presented with track-by-track notes from ‘Thunderbolt’ magazine’s Rob Bradford, ‘The Heinz Sessions Vol 1’ is a must-hear for fans of Meek and Heinz, British pop historians and enthusiasts, and anybody with an interest in the evolution of recording techniques and the mysterious alchemy that goes on behind those studio doors.

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Interpret: Joe Meek
Album titlle: Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Heinz Sessions Vol.1 (LP, 10inch)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Cherry Red Records
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 5013929790230
weight in Kg 0.21

Meek, Joe - Joe Meek's Tea Chest Tapes - The Heinz Sessions Vol.1 (LP, 10inch) LP 1
01	JUST LIKE EDDIE (GEOFF GODDARD’S GUIDE)	Joe Meek
02	MOVIN’ IN (GUITAR SESSION TAKE 8)	Joe Meek
03	I GET UP IN THE MORNING (TAKE 4)	Joe Meek
04	COUNTRY BOY (VOCAL SESSION TAKE 1)	Joe Meek
05	VOICES IN THE WIND (TAKE 7)	Joe Meek
06	TRIBUTE TO EDDIE (JOE MEEK’S DEMO)	Joe Meek
07	THE BEATING OF MY HEART (JOE MEEK’S DEMO)	Joe Meek
08	LONG TALL JACK (JOE MEEK’S DEMO)	Joe Meek
09	YOU MAKE ME FEEL SO GOOD (DAVE ADAMS’ GUIDE)	Joe Meek

Joe Meek Meek came from Gloucester and did his National Service in the RAF as a radio... more

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"Joe Meek"

Joe Meek

Meek came from Gloucester and did his National Service in the RAF as a radio technician in the early Fifties. In 1953, he came out and went to work as an engineer at the IBC studio, at that time one of only two independent studios in London. There he engineered records by Frankie Vaughan (`Green Door'), Denis Lotis, Lita Roza, Shirley Bassey, Anne Shelton, Harry Secombe and Petula Clark. In 1956, Meek went to work for Denis Preston at Lans-downe Studios, where he was engineer on several of Lonnie Donegan's early hits, including 'Cumberland Gap' and `Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O' as well as trad jazz records by Humphrey Lyttelton and Chris Barber. He also began dabbling in songwriting and in 1958 wrote Tommy Steele's Tut A Ring On Her Finger'.

Leaving Lansdowne in 1960, Meek built his own studio in a flat above a shop in Holloway, North London, equipping it with £3,000 worth of second-hand equipment. He called it RGM Sound and simultaneously activated his own label, Triumph, going against all odds at a time when British pop was monopolized by the three major labels.

A cover version of an American hit, 'Angela Jones' by Michael Cox, reached the Top Ten in June, 1960 but none of Triumph's other releases were successful and Meek discontinued the label in favour of tape-lease deals with the majors. He scored the following year with John Leyton's eerie, futuristic 'Johnny Remember Me' and 'Wild Wind', Mike Berry's poignant `Tribute to Buddy Holly' and several smaller hits by the Outlaws (with Richie Blackmore) who backed many of Meek's artists on record.

In 1962, a combination of Meek's session musicians recor-ded an instrumental he wrote titled `Te!star', under the name of the Tornados, which proved his biggest selling hit, reach-ing No. 1 in both Britain and America. In production terms, it still remains far ahead of contemporary records. The Tor-nados followed up with several slightly less successful records including 'Robot', 'Globetrotter' and 'Ice Cream Man' be-fore being swamped in the ensuing Merseybeat craze. Never-theless, Meek scored early in 1963 with Mike Berry's 'Don't You Think It's Time' and in 1964 with the Honeycomb's `Have I The Right', but found the going hard in the mid-Sixties.

He had no hits in 1966 and faced with increasing anxiety through personal problems, blew his brains out with a shotgun on February 3, 1967.

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