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After 5 decades of waiting Joe Meek's tapes are finally being digitized. There are 1,864 tapes weighing in at around 2 ton. It will take approximately 2 years from the end of 2020 to digitize and catalogue. There's bound to be a percentage of rare instrumental within the collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja-8mmgP40c

Last edited: Feb 05, 2021 04:31:05

There will be lots of them disrupted by his neighbour yelling for him to turn it down as well.

Joe Meek was one of the first to recognise that the sound on the tape was all that mattered, regardless of how it was achieved.

My favourite story was of one band who turned up to record and Joe took the bass drum away from the drummer saying, "I'll take care of that". During the recording, Joe was upstairs in the bathroom, one foot in the bath and one foot on the bare floorboards stamping away next to a microphone wrapped in foam rubber and tape. That's how he got his phenomenal bass drum sound. You can hear it on Telstar and Just Like Eddie.

If drummers are anything like guitarists trying to chase a sound recorded in a studio, there will be a drummer somewhere asking "What bass drum do I need for a Joe Meek sound?"

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There was a good article about this in the December Vintage Rock Magazine for those who are interested.

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https://www.vintagerockmag.com/2020/11/issue-48-of-vintage-rock-is-now-on-sale/

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I probably listen to more Joe Meek stuff than is healthy. Two lives cut tragically short and some of the most evocative sonic records of the period. 2022 can't come soon enough for me.

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