[Heeplist] 1981 cassette recording?

[Mac Steagall]

Yeah I really jumped to conclusions on that one.  When  the song 
title matched the unreleased album track,  it seemed to fit together. 
Now I wonder if Heep considered bringing in another singer to replace 
all of Sloman's vocals on the album.  Otherwise it seems like a 
strange pair of songs for a new singer to audition.  There might be 
some better songs to try... like July Morning, Stealin' and Easy 
Livin for example. ;-)

Mac

At 04:30 AM 8/10/2014, you wrote:
>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
>>To: Heepsters Mailing List \(Travellers in Time\)
>>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
>>>
>>>
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>>>>        but I do believe John Sloman is on vocals. > Date: Thu,
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