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FLLR MB003 - Echo & The Bunnymen - 1981-04-17 - Whisky A Go-go, Hollywood CA (both shows)

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  ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 17 April 1981 Whisky A Go-Go West Hollywood, CA   Dedicated to the memory of JC, who is currently journeying in a better realm. 1st set October 2025 transfer by BCingYou  Master audience by John Campbell on Sony TCD-5 + ECM 990-F | 1st generation audience on TDK SA90 cassette(tape #063) | Denon DR-M11 cassette deck playback | Olympus LS-5 WAV capture at 16bit/44.1kHz | CD Wave Editor tracksplit | TLH FLAC level 8   note: JC arrived late and missed opening tracks: Over The Wall, Pride, Show Of Strength, With A Hip and Zimbo. IJWTHSTD blog (ijwthstd.blogspot.com ) posted more complete recording from different source of this early set but is missing Crocodiles. October 2025 transfer by BCingYou 1st set 01 [cut] All That Jazz 02 It Was A Pleasure [ 2:31 ] 03 Heaven Up Here [ 5:26 ] 04 Pictures On My Wall [ 9:35 ] 05 No Dark Things [ 12:36 ] 06 Villiers Terrace [ 16:09 ] 07 A Promise [ 19:38 ] 08 Rescue [ 23:12 ] encore: 09 Crocodiles [ 28:55 ]...
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FLLR MB002 - Thick Pigeon Demos (c.1981)

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  THICK PIGEON c.1981 Rough Mixes/Demos New York City Low generation studio source received in mid-1980's trade with John Campbell on TDK SA90 (tape#257) 1 Who Is This - I 2 Tracy & Pansy* - I    3 Now That I Weigh 200 Pounds - I  4 Who Is This - II    5 Tracy & Pansy - II  6 Now That I Weigh 200 Pounds - II  7 Who Is This - III Bass, Vocals - Stanton Miranda Keyboards, Percussion, effects - Carter Burwell who later scored soundtracks to films such as Fargo, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple and Hudsucker Proxy. *Freely Inspired By "I Wanna Walk You Home" by Antoine Domino bcingyou: "I've had these demos for so long and heard so many times that I wrongly assumed they were officially released on 1984's Two Crazy Cowboys LP with additional help from Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert but apparently not. "Who Is This" and "Now That I Weigh 200 Pounds" are only my guess at titles and can't be found in their discography. Tracy & Pen...
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FLLR DR1 + DR4G0N - Misadventures in Tape Transfers

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One thing this blog site hasn't really covered are the units I use for tape transfers.  Well, here they are.  The top unit is my "daily driver", a Nakamichi DR-1.   The bottom one is one of those legendary Nakamichi Dragons.  Unfortunately, this particular Dragon is feeling a bit ill with what I presume is a worn idler tire....meaning playback will grind to a halt, as the unit seizes up.  Rewinding/FF'ing is supposed to heat up the tire, and cause it to grip the transport better...but for me, it's not effective. Here's what this sounds like, tested through the Dragon on a silly tape I wouldn't otherwise bother with.  The first couple of tracks start out ok, but ends up warbling and stalling, not allow playback to resume. ( Discogs ) FLLR DR4GON - A Slice Of (a broken) Nickelodeon (there's a "tracksplit" subdirectory if you want a copy of it done with the DR-1)
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FLLR MB001b - Tone 1980 single

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thehappyone After posting the digitization of the Savage Republic KPFK 1983 session onto Tape Filler, I quickly heard back from bcingyou...who mentioned there were other tracks that were broadcast which he cut out... If I'd known you were gonna take all this tape filler stuff so seriously I would have included more that didn't fit on the 80 minute CDr I made from it. I edited out a few things like Ms. 'Enthal talking about 'new psychedelia' then playing "Going Sane" by Tone from a rare 7" out of L.A. in 1982.  I have the Tone 7" so didn't bother to include in fileset. I can't even find it on Discogs right now.   Thanks for tracking down sources to tracks which were unknown to me. I've got scads of tapes here that I recorded off radio in early 80s that contain songs that are still a mystery to me. Someday... Yes, that format vagrancy is one I hadn't considered...since CD-Rs are ten minutes shorter than a typical C90 side, so some e...
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FLLR MB001 - Savage Republic, KPFK-FM broadcast, 1983-11-29 [FM0]

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Fractured/Image playlist While the focus of Tape Filler is always what lies between what you wanted and the end of the tape, it's also worthwhile to present a better-quality copy (two, actually!) of the main course while you're at it. This was recorded off-air by my associate bcingyou at the time it originally aired and improves on the Nth gen copy which Fr. Image shared. This to me is *the* seminal recording of independent origin for anybody who values both this group and So. Cal post-punk overall.  One of the tracks was released on a single, a "tenth anniversary commemorative souvenir"...looks like I own one of the green vinyl copies.  Don't ask me where it is at present, hopefully in alphabetical order on a shelf. The first filler track is a Flesh Eaters (or "Flesheaters", I've seen both spellings) track, also played on the 5th of December broadcast, but "Pony Dress" and not what ended up on the release.   I have links to a couple other...
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FLLR 041 - The End (demos)

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  The End  1st demos  Spring / Summer 1984  tracklist   Over My Shoulder [ 0:00 ] / Entertainment Tonite [ 2:44 ] / Love Comes Home [ 6:04 ] / Don't Go Thru This [ 9:07 ] / Changed My Name [ 11:02 ]    Kindly provided by RH, and shared here for the first time, that I know of. This is a second generation copy, so it's a bit hissy as a result, but not enough to detract from the proceedings. RH: " 'The End' were an 80's group from Texas. Austin or maybe Dallas - can't remember. TM was good friends with them. So was Woody, Dr. Death of Deadly Records - the promoter of the KLSU Section 25 show in 1985. "The End" were all about dark, synth wave. They played a lot of shows in Louisiana. I think they had one 7" and one 12". Saw them a few times - really good live." 'Love Comes Home' written by Tench only. The rest are Tench/David. Would love to find whether these are listed on Discogs but as there's 80+ bands with that ...
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FLLR 040 - Silvia's Parents - Baggage Boy 7 inch

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  This "tape filler" on the pictured tape surfaced a few years ago, and I am as clueless now (at least until being updated by the fabulous Fractured/Image) as I was then.  Information (and files) supplied by the legendary "bcingyou". He notes: "I perhaps incorrectly transcribed notes on insert from trader's letter (which I can't locate) as filler being from "Sylvia's Parguts". This is obviously from vinyl as you can hear from surface noise before and after tracks but I can't find any match on Discogs. This sounds like a New Order influenced band from mid to late 80s or possibly a side project since keyboards sound like New Order's from that period. Any help with correction to the ridiculous band name is appreciated." He subsequently added:  "Only thing I can find is that 'paraguitas' in spanish means tiny umbrella." Suspect we'll never get to the bottom of this, but won't go down without swinging...  ...
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