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FLLR GB004 - The Cure - 1991-01-17 - Town & Country Club II [secret show]

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  Archive dot org has all the details Next up in the GaoBest pile was this show, which is one of two audience recordings which are known to exist for this show. recorded by both C.C. and J.F. with Sony PC-62 mics into a WM-D3.  The other audience recording was done by somebody we know as "UKBT". GaoBest got his copied directly from J.F. when he visited him so it has an iron-clad lineage.  As well as a 16kHz line... The master clone of the CC&JF version is already online though...if not here than via the link at the very top.  However, our suspicion is that it was sourced via minidisc so it's not truly lossless....but we won't dwell on that. There are also two incomplete soundboard recordings, both taken from different versions of  The Cure's Play Out , there's a two-hour one taken from the original Windsong VHS posted by " Marble Girl ": Or you can listen to them here: As well as, unbeknownst to me (and not in the archive dot org link), a soundch...

FLLR GB003 - Pulp 1993-03-05 South Parade Pier, Portsmouth [ANA1] +

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(YT link) Recording done by Yannick P. using Aiwa CM-30s plugged into a Sony TCD-D3 DAT.  This is a first generation cassette copy made on high quality Maxell XLII tape. The extant version on YouTube (from  @dirtypearl ) is an Nth gen copy taken from the same source recording, most likely. This also includes the soundcheck, which wasn't included on the above. In addition we get filler from the best bands possible, starting with St. Etienne.  This is a brief snippet of "Nothing Can Stop Us Now", which you can find in full here . This then followed by three tracks from Cocteau Twins December 1995 Black Session....actually it's followed by the Pulp soundcheck, but I've grouped that above...and then succeeded by the Cocteaus, followed by Echo and the Bunnymen doing "With A Hip". There's a couple of versions of this set online.  This is the best SQ. Holly Hotfoot CratesClouds All of these can be heard / downloaded here. FLLR GB003 (lossless FLAC)

FLLR GB002 - GaoBest tapes - Pulp Roskilde Festival 1998 [FM0]

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thehappyone (me) GaoBest supplied me with a black TDK Black Limited SA90 type II cassette, which I used to improve the audio shared with the original RollingRockVideos footage, which you can see here: RollingRockvideos  (not me) Here are scans of the cassette (A Side, after I digitized so not rewound) and J card inserts: And here's a link to the FLAC set  for nerds wanting the original in lossless format.  This was a more recent digitization used for the YouTube share, with slightly tweaked audio, though it's substantially identical, I don't edit out any announcers or anything like that. Other ephemera associated with this gig... One of the Pulp band members (guitarist Mark Webber) was interviewed about their favorite Roskilde memories: Also, one track...quite a rare one live called "I'm The Man" was pro-shot, and can be seen here: Dargun Evans

FLLR GB001 - GaoBest tapes - Saint Etienne

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  South Parade Pier, Portsmouth FLLR GB001 = Saint Etienne This first selection from this Maxell XLII 90 minute tape was recorded on 1993-03-05 at South Parade Pier, Portsmouth. Taper is abbreviated as YP, who probably recorded with a Sony TC-D3 DAT and Aiwa CM-30 mics.  GaoBest's copy comes directly from the taper. It's one of his favorites, he played it frequently before it got shelved and then loaned out to me to ascertain and compare to what's already out there.   This show is already up on YouTube, here, from  "whatdoidonow 1997 ", and my tape source doesn't better it. Turns out that my tape ran a bit fast compared to this reference, so slowed it down 4.67% or about .79 a semitone, so that it is the exact same 45:00 length.  I've also provided the original transfer so you can compare and conclude it indeed runs too fast. NOTE: this is not just true for Portsmouth, as it was pointed out to me, but for the entire tape, so I've also speed corrected t...

FLLR TZ001 - Tomzero tapes (part 1)

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From a first gen tape made by Tomzero for GaoBest, this is a show that both of them attended on Friday, April 11th, 1997 at the Bottom Of The Hill in SF, which you can see listed for the 11th. Some neat shows like Dwarves, Hazel, and That Dog, as well as Henry's Dress and Poundsign, the last of which I saw earlier this year! The Divine Comedy show was first circulated on DIME at the end of January 2010.  I'm certain that if you were to A/B this against the master, it would sound very similar. Setlist In Pursuit of Happiness Tonight We Fly Everybody Knows (Except You) The Frog Princess Becoming More Like Alfie Someone Your Daddy's Car If... Don't Look Down --- Something for the Weekend Openers Half Film were a SF based slo-core group that I fancy quite a bit listening to on Bandcamp / Apple Music, which you can do for their albums. through these links. 1998 - East Of Monument 2000 - The Road To The Crater As for the live tracks, only the third and fifth tracks match up t...

FLLR DAT-02 - (More From) A Box of DATs

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My project for much of last year was to transfer a huge cache of DATs (pictured above) that contain much that likely has already been put out there but also seems to have quite a bit that has not. So of course here at tapefiller.org the whole point isn't to present these (they will go through the usual channels) but instead, anything that wasn't listed on either the spine or in an insert, grouped in digestible bites of songs. So without any further ado, here's more from whence the first set ( FLLR DAT-01 ) came from... Starting off with 20 seconds of what appears to sound like keyboard typing ...wait, is that right?  I guess that's what it is. Next we have six Cure B-Sides, included here because most of this is supposed to be live material so this can't be anything but filler, even if it does appear on the J-Card. Lament (Flexipop version) Airiel (spelled various ways) from the 1982 Kid Jensen session Purple Haze (Hendrix), which first appeared on the Stone Free (a ...

FLLR DAT-01 - A Box of DATs

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My project for this part of the year is to transfer a huge cache of DATs (pictured above) that contain much that likely has already been put out there but also seems to have quite a bit that has not. So of course here at tapefiller.org the whole point isn't to present these (they will go through the usual channels) but instead, anything that wasn't listed on either the spine or in an insert, grouped in digestible bites of songs. So without any further ado, here's the first set. Nirvana - Return Of The Rat (The Wipers) .   The description can tell it to you better than I can... looks like the taper/compiler had a copy of the Eight Songs For Greg Sage and the Wipers comp. Hole - Over The Edge (The Wipers) [cut] It's probably not becoming to give any credence to any conspiracy theories about Kurt's passing but let's just say reading about the possibilities did pass the time for me one warm summer nearly 30 years ago...Amusing to see the guy still at it...though ...