Update on Volume One

.....Last year I got an e-mail about one of my posts asking for an mp3. Generally I don't embed these because: (a) I don't own publishing rights to any of this music; (b) my computer has limited capacities that I have to use economically; and (c) it's really just a blog, not a full blown website, and the purpose is to organize all of these loose notes I have piling up and loose memories that dim with age and put them into a more manageable and maneuverable form. I admittedly invite millions of strangers to watch, even comment and contribute, but ultimately it can never be anything more than a personal endeavor.

.....That being said, I am not averse to connecting interested parties with hard to find music. In a sense, this blog has always done that by the mere fact of its existence. It doesn't help anyone for there to be millions of uploaded songs online available to be heard if no one knows they exist or knows what their names are to search. As I've said before, there are quite a few songs I blog about that were rare or underexposed back in the mid-90's when I made most of these compilations, but which have become more common since then, often making it to CD for the first time as bonus tracks on remastered albums or incentives in a boxed set. Some just haven't. So when a commenter requested a copy of the punk version of the Mr. Rogers' theme song by P.B.S. (originally on a Troubled Youth 7") I thought I should contact the band (we had friends in common a lo-o-ong time ago) and ask if they had any objections to posting it. Google searches got pretty frustrating pretty quick. I don't normally track down people often enough to make it worth subscribing to sites that do so routinely and I found far more people than I expected to with the same names (complicated by the fact that both the band name and the song title are famous for many more reasons than the record). Then I started developing technical problems, which, when fixed, required me to work through backlogged plans for my comic blog, and if you've been reading for any length of time, you know the rest.

.....Well, it seems the question has been resolved for me. Better than a fourth generation mp3, the band (or a former member) has posted the actual original 1980's video on You-tube. You can find it at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ad8PkYZzqU

...and you can find the band's page at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/pbsoww

.....So, if anyone has been attempting to patch together their own compilations following the play order, this shouldn't be quite the obstacle it once was. I should also give the band proper credit.

• Mike Bourque: Vocals, Guitars
• John Saylor: Vocals, Bass
• Peter-oww-Oldrid: Drums
• Produced [actually, "Prduced"] by Hirsh Gardner
• Engineered by Bruce Macomber
• Recorded at Sound Design Studios

.....There are also photo credits and thanks to friends and family members not relevant to most readers. One curious detail I hadn't noticed earlier is that both sides (TR-001-A and TR-001-B) have the same mastering number (23445) both on the labels and in the trail-off grooves. Hunh. Oh, well, small labels have all kinds of quirks much stranger than that. We'll see what I can remember (and how accurately) in the new year.