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  DVD sampler supplied by psycherelics.  This is not filler per se but in the context of what I was provided it seemed to be a fun extra item for me to digest.  This is why I do this. The contents have been transcoded in Handbrake and are available here to view (MP4s) A close friend of mine has provided the following opinion. Now, Hang On The Box ARE worth viewing a few times. I have a soft spot for Asian girl led bands but being from China is an entirely different kettle of sweet and sour octopussy.  Hope these gals are careful and their families don't find them "missing" under a repressive government. I hope so too but believe they are still alive and kicking!  My local newspaper wrote about them back in 2003. There's a 27 video playlist if you want more, most of these videos (except for "There Is A City")   were on there. All the rest of these are already online, and I suspect the DVD was compiled from the YouTube clips...a few of them have since shown...

  FLLR030 New Order Tapes Part 12   More collected flotsam and jetsam from various New Order tapes collected by myself and others over the years.   The first three tracks comprise Section 25's first Peel Session from January 1981, featuring "Hit", "One True Path", and "Babies In The Bardo".  This can be viewed on Youtube, here, courtesy of Vibracobra23 ... The next two tracks are also fairly common, the first of which was their 1984 BBC "Top Of The Pops" Blue Monday performance, where they famously chose not to mime, only to find that their single sank afterwards, but other groups would then go up to them and apologize to them for faking it! Was recently spotted that New Order themselves (on the neworder Youtube account) are now sharing these in pristine broadcast quality.   Originally broadcast 31st March 1983: As a bonus, they also shared Thieves Like Us, on the 3rd May 1984   (note: this wasn't on any of the filler I'm presenting,...

  FLLR 029 - At SDC ...At SDC (shopping.com), which was acquired by eBay about the time I got there. Field recordings at work, not really working....done with my Archos Jukebox AV320 which I've featured in one of my prior posts.  For completists only, as it was an early run-through before I'd attempt to take this on the road at live shows, with mostly disasterous results. First item is a recording from 17 March 2005, of myself and coworkers taking a break from the daily grind on the ping-pong table.   This is a fun listen, even if the quality isn't that great. Second item was a presentation during an engineering lunch, recorded on 18 March 2005, with an employee named Jordan Redner presenting a Java framework for web applications called Tapestry.  It's still around , and is hosted by the Apache Foundation.  Fairly sure that parts of the old shopping.com site were built with it.  I really haven't listened to it since 2005. FLLR029 - Listen / downloa...

 So my first digital recording device was an Archos AV320, which is shown here. Remember, this was several years before iPhones and being able to enjoy movies on the go.  This also played MP3s, but man was it bulky...and buggy.  I previously had a Jukebox Multimedia JBMM20, but that didn't support remote recording and had a tiny screen as well. Unfortunately, the AV20 turned out to be a very poor choice for the recordings I wanted to do, as anything with a portable spinning HDD in it does not like being jostled or moved.  I would only use this for two shows until I replaced this with a Sony Hi-MD (records to WAV), which lasted for a couple of years. So for some reason I saved some recordings I made to it as a part of testing it out. ...including this GEM from Robot Wars which I'm surprised hasn't been sampled by any of those wacky pro-Brexiters (or has it?).... "yes, the borders have gone back up, we've said "SEE YOU" to the EU and European harmony most ...

Misc Live 1992 pic via Howsyourmorale.com From a tape digitized back in 2000, which was just an audio capture of things I have on video, done before MP3 players existed and your K7 was the format to play music on the go.  Have all the original videos of course, but most of these are online already.  Link to download/stream all this at the bottom, so you'll have to make it through my writings, or you can just scroll down... A rundown of what's on this... 01 - The Breeders - Divine Hammer (live CO'B) 02 - The Breeders - interview (CO'B) One of his first musical guests, legendary for the hickeys!  Probably the sloppiest guitar solo ever heard on television, bless Kelley Deal. 03 - PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me (live CO'B) 04 - PJ Harvey - interview (CO'B) I had long misattributed these to also being from Conan, but it was actually from the more stodgy Jay Leno Tonight Show outfit, but credit Jay for having the "balls" to allow Polly Jean to describe her Dorset fa...

  My wife Natalie's one recording! Not music, though. She was taking a world history class back at the University Of Toronto (around 1991 or so), and was taping the lecture to take notes later.  This specifically dealt with South Africa and all of their apartheid-related laws....this would have been about the time they were starting to work their way out of the madness. She used the following to capture it, a GE AVR microcassette deck. She doesn't remember the name of the professor, but did remember he didn't have a car and she had to pick him up at the side of the road once. Anyway, here's the lecture for you to "enjoy".  I actually listened through it, wasn't bad, even though the speaker seems to have a bit of a heavy accident  accent which sounds eastern European. FLLR 026 stream/dl

 New Order Tapes (part 11) Getting all the FLLR in Order (awful puns never cease)....we're now ready to post #023. This next set does not feature much in the way of actual New Order aural content, but a couple of other fellow traveler bands that often comprised filler slots on cassettes that traders would mail to one another. The first few tracks are taken from a New Order tape of their 26th February 1983 Kolingsborg Stockholm, Sweden performance.   Prepended to the set are some oddities... 1)  Lesson 27, part 4, dialogue ...history lesson.  Pay attention, John.   Yes, Professor Garcia.  What did you read today?   Latin American history.  What do you remember?   It was an exciting era.  Name an important country?   Mexico, for example.  W hat did you learn about it?   It is a beautiful land.  Are its people successful?   Yes, they work together. 2)  Then there's a loop of a Bernard Sumner stating that he's ...