[Heeplist] 1981 cassette recording?

[Mac Steagall]

Absolutely David. These unreleased  Heep rarities are tailor made for 
Kickstarter but a label still has to be willing to sell the rights for that to
work.  Maybe it will happen....

Mac



>As an aside, I do hope the unreleased Sloman album gets some sort of 
>release. Wish they'd do a Kickstarter / crowdfunding of sorts for 
>it, or allow a sort of "internet only" pre-subscribe release via the 
>website. Put out the Sloman and Goalby rarities as an official 
>bootleg or something - whatever! They bothered to re-release the 
>original Conquest and Goalby albums (twice?) so why not go ahead and 
>put it out there?
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>D.
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>  From: Tapio Minkkinen <tapio at uriah-heep.fi>
>To: heeplist at travellersintime.com
>Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 10:30 AM
>Subject: Re: [Heeplist] 1981 cassette recording?
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>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.
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>TapioM.
>tapio at uriah-heep.fi
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