Meek didn't appear to be very good at listening to people which would have been a major failing when dealing with bands and artists with their own material and their own 'vision' as opposed to the right face to front 'Tin Pan Alley' material.
You couldn't see him working successfully with strong willed individuals such as Lennon and McCartney. I would suggest that George Martin was an enabler, enabling and assisting the Beatles in sounding how they wanted to sound at the time, and obviously that sound evolved.
I wouldn't see Meek in an 'enabling' role because he appeared to be trying to actualize his idea of how a record should sound. The players probably didn't have much input. Secondly, and this is arguable, I wouldn't see him working successfully with bands/artists who want to develop and evolve.
Having said that of course Meek was 'innovative' and 'experimental' but I wonder whether this had run it's course. It was also out of necessity and Meek's need to control things. If he was in a resourced studio with much less control how would he have fared ?
Joe Meek
Re: Joe Meek
He was really scared when that phone was ringing when the other bloke asked him whos that?