[Heeplist] 1981 cassette recording?

[Tapio Minkkinen]

Very interesting tape. People seem to be pretty narrow minded as the  
discussion for example in Facebook has been mainly a debate of whether  
it's Sloman or Goalby. At least to me it was clear after a couple of  
listens that the person singing on the tape is neither one. The first  
option I then thought was it could be Trevor Bolder as Think It Over  
is credited to Bolder and Sloman and if this was Trevor's song  
originally then it would be quite normal for him to sing lead on the  
demo. However, it does not sound like Trevor either. The backing track  
of Think It Over sounds the same as the original single version  
(axcper this is longer, the single version was edited shorter) so I  
have no doubt this is from the 1980 sessions with Greg Dechert. Who,  
where and when has lead down the lead vocals is then anybody's guess.  
I remember reading from somewhere that Think I Over was used to test  
the vocalist candidates when Goalby was chosen so the most logical  
explanation would be that this is a tape by someone who auditioned at  
the same time in 1981. This would explain also why there are only two  
songs on the tape when it is a know fact that Heep recorded an album's  
worth of material at these sessions. Hopefully this will be clarified  
sometime and the "mystery vocalist" revealed.

-- 
TapioM.
tapio at uriah-heep.fi

www.uriah-heep.fi



Lainaus Iain Barnes <i.barnes3 at ntlworld.com>:

> What we know from history tells me it should be Sloman but although not
> totally convincing the vocals sound alot more like Goalby.
>
> I've spent the last half hour comparing the cassette to both Sloman and
> Goalbys versions and I must say it sounds alot more like Goalby.
>
> If its John he must have had a really bad throat the day of recording
> and the tape must be running slightly slow.  It's very interesting
> whatever the truth.
>
> Iain
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Igor Shveitser
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 10:33 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Heeplist] 1981 cassette recording?
>
> It is definitely not! :)))))) More like Goalby but not very convicing
> either...
> Cheers, Igor
>
>
> Fri, 08 Aug 2014 00:27:23 -0400 ?? Mac Steagall <rsteagall at carolina.rr.com>:
>> It's definitely Sloman... These are two of the songs from the
>> unreleased Sloman-Dechert Heep album. That being said. These may be  
>>  scratch vox
>> and not mastered. The background  vox on Losing You are pretty weak
>> by Heep standards.
>>
>> Mac
>>
>>
>> At 12:03 AM 8/8/2014, you wrote:
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