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Secret Skwirl
In late 2009, a recording engineer (Sheldon Gomberg) and a friend of his drove by a garage sale, in Tarzana, CA; and noticed a stack of 2 inch tape boxes. After a brief discussion with the homeowner, he found out that the tapes had apparently been left in a closet, under the stairs of her home, and were there when she moved in. She found the tapes when the wood floors of the house were being refinished. She was the fourth owner of the home, which was built (according to her) in 1972. There were 23 boxes of tape; which Sheldon bought for the forty-seven bucks that he had
in his wallet, at the time.
Sheldon took the tapes back to his recording studio The Carriage House in Silverlake, and cracked them open. The only information in the boxes were song lists with the name “Sloan Kramer” written by hand, beside each title. A quick count
of the titles totaled slightly over one hundred songs!
“I decided that I had to release these songs, the album, as it were. In homage to the guys on the tapes, who were obviously huge Beatle fans; I decided to have the mastering done at Abbey Road”.
He dubbed the project “Secret Skwirl”, registered the songs with BMI, and asked a friend of his to draw and direct and animated video for the song “Jeez Louise”, and released the album. In his continuing effort to locate the real band, Sheldon started a website www.secretskwirl.com and is hoping the answers to the mystery will come to him from cyberspace. “In this day and age of social networking, someone MUST know who these guys are”.
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Secret Skwirl
In late 2009, a recording engineer (Sheldon Gomberg) and a friend of his drove by a garage sale, in Tarzana, CA; and noticed a stack of 2 inch tape boxes. After a brief discussion with the homeowner, he found out that the tapes had apparently been left in a closet, under the stairs of her home, and were there when she moved in. She found the tapes when the wood floors of the house were being refinished. She was the fourth owner of the home, which was built (according to her) in 1972. There were 23 boxes of tape; which Sheldon bought for the forty-seven bucks that he had
in his wallet, at the time.
Sheldon took the tapes back to his recording studio The Carriage House in Silverlake, and cracked them open. The only information in the boxes were song lists with the name “Sloan Kramer” written by hand, beside each title. A quick count
of the titles totaled slightly over one hundred songs!
“I decided that I had to release these songs, the album, as it were. In homage to the guys on the tapes, who were obviously huge Beatle fans; I decided to have the mastering done at Abbey Road”.
He dubbed the project “Secret Skwirl”, registered the songs with BMI, and asked a friend of his to draw and direct and animated video for the song “Jeez Louise”, and released the album. In his continuing effort to locate the real band, Sheldon started a website www.secretskwirl.com and is hoping the answers to the mystery will come to him from cyberspace. “In this day and age of social networking, someone MUST know who these guys are”.
View VPK: cyberpr.biz/clients/3008