Music videos that feature EB0 to EB4 and SG variant basses...

[Alanko]

Tiny Tim and Joe Meek is a lot of craziness for one small thread to take.

There is something uniquely haunting and other worldly about Joe Meek's recordings. Vocals often sped up just to the edge of sounding cartoonish and unsettling, making the drums also sound frantic and edgy. Then layers of eerie echo and reverb added on top, all squashed into one dimension with heavy compression. Definitely the soundtrack to somewhere else that only Joe had the map for.

I gather Tiny Tim was trying to do some sort of important work and make an important statement behind his own slightly eerie and unsettling delivery.

[Dave W]

Never heard of Heinz or Just Like Eddie.

Tiny Tim married for the second time and settled down in southwest Minneapolis in his later years. Shame he relented to pressure to perform again at the Womens Club of Minneapolis even though he was in poor health. Turned out to be the last time.

[Stjofön Big]

Heinz was the German born bass player in The Tornadoes, of Telstar hit. Eddie is Eddie as in Cochran. I believe the guy from Deep Purple played guitar on the 45.

[uwe]

You don't say!!!



Dave, Joe Meek (who I believe wanted to be an English Phil Spector) created his own little recording empire in the early to mid 60s in England. He recorded an immense amount of music, "throw everything against the wall to see what sticks"-approach, before his untimely suicide in early 1967. He was closet gay - that might have had something to do with it in the England of these times.

Part of Joe's recipe was patterning his home-cooked-up product after previous US hits which hadn't made their way to England yet. He was also obsessed with "death songs" about or from people who had died, both famous (Eddie Cochran)



or imagined like this one here:



A young Blackmore (and sometimes Jimmy Page too) were part of his "wrecking crew" of talented, but underpaid and regularly uncredited session youths. Blackmore parts crop up on hundreds of songs from the Meek Empire.



Over the decades, Joe Meek has become a cult figure for pre-Beatles British pop of the 60ies.

[ajkula66]

No clue whether this was previously posted...

[Dave W]

I don't think we've seen that one before.

[gearHed289]

The Tornadoes rhythm guitarist George Bellamy is the father of Muse front/main man Matt Bellamy.

[uwe]

I didn't know! So Muse will one day do Telstar as an encore? 

Re Wigwam, I knew their name and their Finnish background, but had never heard anything from them - surprisingly funky!

[ajkula66]

Re Wigwam, I knew their name and their Finnish background, but had never heard anything from them - surprisingly funky!

They were one of those bands whose records differed greatly among themselves, but always had outstanding musicians in their line-ups. Late Jim Pembroke - the only Brit within a bunch of Finnish folk - was quite a unique singer/player/songwriter, IMO.

[ilan]

No clue whether this was previously posted...

08:12 — the 17th fret fell off.

[gearHed289]

08:12 — the 17th fret fell off.

Ha!

[Alanko]

I know Wigwam from their earlier incarnation with Pekka Pohjola on bass. Their album Fairyport is pretty nice. Keyboard-driven prog rock with a toe dipped into 20th century classical Impressionism (maybe?) and slightly odd English-adjacent lyrics and pronunciation. The version I have somewhere has a bonus track of them playing their song 'Losing Hold' with a grandiose intro lifted from Sibelius's Finlandia, albeit radically harmonised. Not bad for Finnish teenagers. 

This later clip suggests they became a bit of a Barclay James Harvest deal.

[uwe]

"This later clip suggests they became a bit of a Barclay James Harvest deal."

You mean they became pompous, stodgy and began singing about crucifixions? 

[uwe]

08:12 — the 17th fret fell off.

I think he simply wasn't allowed to play any further up the neck - those Fins can be radical in their educational measures.



First offenders only had the frets pulled. Repeat offenders ... the fingernails ...

[Alanko]

Don't Finns go to the toilet together to keep the conversation running?