Texas - The Reel Deal!

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Holy shit! - check out this thread on the Waxidermy forum (scroll down):

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=39347

Some samples:
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Alec Palao was in there 2 weeks ago for a week straight dubbing this stuff to his computer. Some killer shit coming out next year. Lots of unreleased!!! The Huey Meaux label stuff will roll out first starting this summer.;) Some vinyl re-issues too.
 
Alec Palao was in there 2 weeks ago for a week straight dubbing this stuff to his computer. Some killer shit coming out next year. Lots of unreleased!!!

Cool! But do you mean next year or this year?
I want it yesterday! :lol:
 
Alec Palao was in there 2 weeks ago for a week straight dubbing this stuff to his computer. Some killer shit coming out next year. Lots of unreleased!!! The Huey Meaux label stuff will roll out first starting this summer.;) Some vinyl re-issues too.

Hey, you edited your post!:)
Vinyl? YEEEEAAH!!!
 
WOW! Looks like 2012 is gonna be a good re-issue year! the Waxidermy post made it sound/look as if this is the IA vault, which it cant be. So where were these tapes all those years?
 
Those pix are from my iphone! To be clear, this is the vault at Sugar Hill Studios. I was in there doing the fly on the wall thing while Alec worked... First time visitor getting all my tourist shots! Over the years it seems like other vaults have been absorbed there... It just cracked me up that after searching in vain for years to find a copy of "mass produced" 45 by certain bands, to come face to face with a room full of the reels by them! too funny...
As a related aside, Frank Davis seems to have a team of youngster-minions attempting to sort through what is non-pillaged of the Walt Andrus reels...
http://andrusstudiosarchive.org/about.html
 
Speaking of Frank Davis and 45s I am looking for... If anybody wants to let loose of a Grand Candy Young Sweet 45.....
 
Can you elaborate on what's been unearthed? Who's masters were stored there besides the Meaux material (and how many sub labels did that crazy Meaux-faux own with garage band fodder)?
I personally can't tell ya much of anything. I do not work there or anything. I poked my head in for 60 or so minutes which was more than enough to tell me that they have a LOT of great music that I would love to hear. We are talking about a studio (Gold Star/Sugar Hill) that has been in continuous operation since the 1940's.... Not every note committed to tape is findable (or listenable)... A lot of the reels had questionable and cryptic notes attached as to what exactly it was on there and a lot of the work that Alec seemed to be doing was re-splicing decades old splice jobs to be able to find out..... Sometimes things were clearly a band you knew.... Other times not so much (random lounge singers with notes that just read "Fem vox" or some such)....Gotta listen to the whole reel in case there is some gem at the end....
If you are interested, you might enjoy this book. http://www.amazon.com/House-Hits-Houstons-SugarHill-Recording/dp/0292719191 (not that I have read it but I have heard it is a good read)
As for how many labels Huey Meaux launched... The world may never know! There is a collector/dealer that sets up at ARC that is constantly updating his discography in a questionmark ridden puzzlebook that includes: All Boy, American Play-Boy, Aura, Bayou Soul, Boogaloo, Brown Sugar, Cadette, Capri, Copyright, Crazy Cajun, Dante, Double Bayou, Eric, Front, GCP, Jet Stream, Kingfish, Kirk, L&K, Meaux Sound Memories, Pablo, Pacemaker, Pic-1, Princess, Rival, Shane, SOM(Son Of Mississippi), Skill, Starflite, Tear Drop, Tribe, Tri-US, Ventural, Wet Soul.
 
I personally can't tell ya much of anything. I do not work there or anything. I poked my head in for 60 or so minutes which was more than enough to tell me that they have a LOT of great music that I would love to hear. We are talking about a studio (Gold Star/Sugar Hill) that has been in continuous operation since the 1940's.... Not every note committed to tape is findable (or listenable)... A lot of the reels had questionable and cryptic notes attached as to what exactly it was on there and a lot of the work that Alec seemed to be doing was re-splicing decades old splice jobs to be able to find out..... Sometimes things were clearly a band you knew.... Other times not so much (random lounge singers with notes that just read "Fem vox" or some such)....Gotta listen to the whole reel in case there is some gem at the end....
If you are interested, you might enjoy this book. http://www.amazon.com/House-Hits-Houstons-SugarHill-Recording/dp/0292719191 (not that I have read it but I have heard it is a good read)
As for how many labels Huey Meaux launched... The world may never know! There is a collector/dealer that sets up at ARC that is constantly updating his discography in a questionmark ridden puzzlebook that includes: All Boy, American Play-Boy, Aura, Bayou Soul, Boogaloo, Brown Sugar, Cadette, Capri, Copyright, Crazy Cajun, Dante, Double Bayou, Eric, Front, GCP, Jet Stream, Kingfish, Kirk, L&K, Meaux Sound Memories, Pablo, Pacemaker, Pic-1, Princess, Rival, Shane, SOM(Son Of Mississippi), Skill, Starflite, Tear Drop, Tribe, Tri-US, Ventural, Wet Soul.

Is that all? :lol: Just looking at the shelving, is appears that Mr. Pala-eaux could spend months combing through the vault. Perhaps the long missing 13th Floor masters are lurking in Fem-vox or polka labelled boxes...
 
Don't let all those tapes fool you, the majority are crap (Polkas, easy listening, commercials, southern gospel etc.) The estate owns the tapes but it doesn't mean they own the rights to license them.