Deniz Tek's Discography

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Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Bob Weber : Drums
• Jean-Paul Williams : Bass

Recorded at ACA Recording Studios, Houston, Texas Jan '81

Reference : Citadel CIT003

Tracks

1. Miss You Too Much (D. Tek)
2. Destination Void (D. Tek)
3. Last Chance (D. Tek)
4. Why Tell Me (D. Tek)
5. 100 Fools (D. Tek)
6. R.P.M. G. Usher / M. Bordetta)
7. Big Ride (D. Tek)
8. A C M (D. Tek)
9. Sweet Jane (Lou Reed)
10. Monday Morning Gunk (D. Tek)
11. Louie Louie (R. Berry)

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar, vocals, all instruments (7-8)
• Angie Pepper : Vocals (1-2-3-4)
• Art Gottschalk : Keyboards (1-2-3-4)
• Marty Smith : Bass (1-2-3-4)
• Tab Nesbit : Drums (1-2-3-4)
• Otis Dickerson : Saxophone (1-2-3-4)
• Bob Weber : Drums (5-6)
• Jean-Paul Williams : Bass (5-6)
• Really Red : Background vocals (6)
• Phil "Dust" Peterson : Bass, Background vocals (9-11)
• Craig Fuller : Drums (9-11)

• Deniz Tek : Vocals, Guitar
• Chris Jones : Guitar
• Gilles Van Der Werf : Bass
• Gerry Jones : Drums

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar, vocals, all instruments
• Angie Pepper : Vocals (1)
• Art Gottschalk : Keyboards (1)
• Marty Smith : Bass (1)
• Tab Nesbit : Drums (1)

Tracks

1. Is It Good Enough !
2. Press On
3. Hanky Panky (Barry/Greenwich)
4. Let The Kids Dance (Mc Daniel)
5. Pushin' The Broom

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar, Vocals
• Chris 'Klondike' Masuak : Guitar, & extra vocals
• Phil 'Dust' Peterson : Bass (on 1&2)
• Scott 'Rock Action' Asheton : Drums, percussions (on 1&2)
• Shane 'Catfish' Cooke : Bass (on 3, 4 & 5)
• Gerard 'Sundance' Presland : Drums (on 3, 4 & 5)
• Johnny 'Zeus' Kannis : Extra vox (on 3 & 4)

Tracks

1. Run Out The Water
2. Dead If Looks Could Kill
3. Where Dreams Go
4. Steel Beach
5. Don't Axe Me
6. Me & Gene
7. Is It Good Enough
8. Torpedo Woman
9. Those Times Are Gone
10. Ships In

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar, Lead Vocals
• Chris 'Klondike' Masuak : Guitar, Keyboards, Mazaphonic tremolator
• Phil 'Dust' Peterson : Bass
• Scott 'Rock Action' Asheton : Drums, percussions
• Special Guest - Angie Pepper : Vocals

Reference : Red Eye / Polydor REDCD29

Tracks

1. Blood From A stone
2. Day To Ride
3. Waiting
4. Give It Up
5. Dozen On Ice
6. Searching
7. Condition Black
8. Rough Slide Drag
9. Walking
10. Outside
11. Sailors Hymn

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Kent Steedman : Guitar, Ghost Drum & Didge
• Jim Dickson : Bass
• Nick Rieth : Drums, Percussions & Xylodrum
• Special Guest - Angie Pepper : Vocals
• Special Guest - Chris Masuak : Guitar

Reference : Red Eye / Polydor REDCD38-521 141-2

Some CD comes with free "Insideout CD"

1. 1968
2. Searching (Acoustic)
3. Rough Slide Drag (Instrumental)
4. Outside (KaosMix)

Mini-CD given away with French Magazine "Abus Dangereux" Face 42 - June-Sept 95

• Ed Hall
• Seveb Hate
• Nick Riff
• Bushmen
• Vic Chesnutt

Tracks

1. Hondo's Dog (D.Tek)
2. Mezozoic Cave (D. Tek)
3. My Wall (D. Tek)
4. Not Right (Stooges)

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Kent Steedman : Guitar
• Jim Dickson : Bass, Harmonies
• Nick Rieth : Drums
• Special Guest - Chris Masuak : Additional Guitar (1)
• Special Guest - Pip Hoyle : Keyboard (1,2,3)
• Special Guest - Rob Younger : Guest Vocals (4)

Reference :

• Red Eye / Polydor 851 389-2
• Munster Records 7083 - Double 7" vinyl

Tracks

1. Tubular Dreams (D.Tek/K. Steedman)
2. Lunatic At The Edge Of The World (D. Tek/K. Rieth)
3. Without A Face (Steedman / Pasquini)
4. Surf O.T.B (Dickson/Steedman)
5. Shellback (D. Tek)
6. VMO (Tek/Steedman/Rieth/Dickson)

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Kent Steedman : Guitar & vocals (3,4)
• Jim Dickson : Bass
• Nick Rieth : Drums
• Special Guest - Clay Green : Percussion
• Special Guest - Angie Pepper : Backing Vocals

Reference : DTG01

Tracks list

1. Imaginary Man
2. Lunatics at the Edge of the World
3. Away From Here
4. Tubular Dreams
5. Rabbits Foot
6. Clear Itself
7. Salted Leeches
8. Saucer Pilot Blues
9. Ze Good Way
10. Dave's Insanity
11. VMO

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Kent Steedman : Guitar
• Jim Dickson : Bass
• Nick Rieth : Drums
  
• Special Guest - Clay Green : Percussion

Tracks list

1. City Slang (Fred Smith)
2. I.94 (D Tek/C Jones)
3. Citizen of Time (Wayne Kramer)
4. Future/Now (Rob Tyner)
5. Fire Comin' (D Tek/P Ill)
6. 100 Fools (Deniz Tek)
7. The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff)
8. Over and Over (Fred Smith)
9. Better Than That (W Kramer/D Tek)
10. I Got A Right (I Pop/J Williamson)

Musicians

• Wayne Kramer: Guitar and vocals, lead vocals on 3 and 7
  
• Deniz Tek: Guitar and Vocals, lead vocals on 2, 5 and 6
  
• Scott Morgan : Vocals, lead vocals on 1, 4, 8, 9, 10
  
• Paul Ill : Bass
  
• Brock Avery : Drums and percussion

Tracks list

1. Bad Road
2. Heavy Air
3. Workingman's Shoes
4. Steel Beach
5. 1968
6. Bad Road (Acoustic)

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Kent Steedman : Guitar
• Jim Dickson : Bass
• Nick Rieth : Drums, Percussions, Vocals on Workingman's Shoes middle
  
• Clay Green : Drums & Percussion on 1
• Pip Hoyle : Keyboards on 2 & 3

Heavy Air & Workingman's Shoes :
Recorded at Electric Avenue febuary '95.
Produced by Phil Punch and Deniz Tek .

Steel Beach:
Live desk recording 1995. No further details.

1968 :
Live demo recorded at Smash Studios. Engineered by Greg Wales.

Bad Road (Acoustic) :
Recorded at David Weyer Systems, Montana during Bonne Route sessions.
Produced by David Weyer and Deniz Tek .

Tracks list

1. Seven Is
2. Agua Caliente
3. Christmas Eve
4. Moon
5. Sideways Motion
6. Billy Was A Cathar
7. King of the Carnival
8. Good Citizen
9. Hit 29
10. Shellback
11. Tone Poem

Musicians

• Deniz Tek : Guitar & Vocals
• Todd Eagle : Bass
• Clay Green : Drums
• David Weyer : Keyboards
  
• Special Guest - Angie Pepper : Vocals

Following the split of the Deniz Tek Group, new players were recruited for Equinox. Session bassist Todd Eagle, who contributed to several songs lyrically, was also encouraged by Deniz to handle lead vocals on this material. He has now become a full time member of the touring band which frequently plays shows around America. Clay Green, the drummer and percussionist who played a large role in the polyrhythmic approach to Le Bonne Route, now does the same and more for Equinox. Dave Weyer, overworked and extraordinary producer, plays keyboards. There is a welcome guest lead vocal by Angie Pepper. All guitar parts are now of course played by Deniz.

Equinox has been intensely and carefully produced, giving it a noticeably improved sonic quality over prior efforts. There is also an emphasis on keyboards and cinematic sound effects to balance the guitar work of Deniz. This balance works as effectively as that provided by foils Kent Steedman, Chris Masuak and Pip Hoyle in prior bands, although in a different and more progressive way. Longtime fans willing to be open to new directions will not be disappointed. New fans will be rewarded.

The album opens with the crushingly heavy power chords of Seven Is coming out of a brief intro featuring the glassy insect-like tones of a Turkish saz, with dogs, children and horse carts in the background. Agua Caliente is a Latin tinged fast rocker featuring blistering drumming and guitar, salsa keyboards and a vertiginous ending. Christmas Eve, played for the first time on the December 24th night that it was recorded, begins as a straight ahead rock tune with funk elements in the rhythm section. It features an astonishingly unusual guitar solo, a powerful yet disturbing vocal, and a surprise ending on an icy road in some unknown place and time.

Moon is a quiet pop ballad of paranoia sung by Angie, musically reminiscent of the Passengers with hints of Pet Sounds era Beach Boys. The carefree tones of a kalimba and African thumb piano belie the songs underlying menace. Sideways Motion is a hard rock vision of the next great flood, with alternating vocals by Deniz and Todd. Billy Was A Cathar, a tale of the inquisition, is a respectfully retro cross between Let It Bleed era Stones and early Who. King of the Carnival is a Todd Eagle autobiographical medium paced work that features prepared guitar hit with wrenches, experimental tape loops dug out of an old box unopened since the sixties, and crowd noise, but still manages to be an accessible tune, possibly even radio friendly.

Good Citizen is a fast loud pop rocker sung by Todd, with a wild overtone saturated guitar solo thrown in just to mess things up. Hit 29 can only be described as full sleaze keyboard lounge music contrasting with heavy angst-ridden choruses. The song ends up in the bar...where else? Shellback, released as a demo bonus track on the special edition Italian Tour '96 ep, is reworked here with heavy keyboards. Finally, Tone Poem, just Deniz with spoken word over guitar ambience and feedback, reprises the lyrical theme of the opening track.