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DEMOS

Afterbirth - Who's In There
Avant Garden
Buick City Boom Box Recordings Vol.1 (VARIOUS)
Chewbakka - Anthology 1989-91
Crux Ansata
Devil's Night Arsonists - Prelim Bums
Dissonance - On Top (unremastered)
Draincleaner - Clinical Death
Free Cheese
Head Cleaner - Cleans Both Heads
Hypyr - Psychedelic Dogs
Straight Bob - Live One-On_One Phone Sexxx
The Cripples - Totally Blitzed
The Freakies - The Red Headed Slut Sessions
The Guilty Bystanders - 2000s Demos
The Guilty Bystanders - Broccoli Rules
The Guilty Bystanders - Inflatable Party Sheep
The Guilty Bystanders - Worthy Attempts
Viva Tempo
Wig Barn - Wigrospective 1990-1995

LIVE

Crossed Wire - St. Andrews Hall, 1993
Dissonance - Kishma Grotto, 1984 (from the legendary 7 Seconds show that changed the Flint scene forever)
Genocide - Blondies, 1986
Gore - Blondies, 1986
Smiling Sacrifice - Earpfest, 2007 (original and new members)
The Guilty Bystanders - Prospect Hall, 1984 (Dave Grave on drums)
The Will - Earpfest, 2007 (Bruce Powers on bass)

The 'Images & Stories' section has been redesigned to accommodate more menu choices. Later this year, the 'Flyers' menu will be arranged by year as more flyer images are added.

Updates for this summer are expected on or around the first of each month. Next update: June 1st.

Stories:
Shawn Wharton & Keith Fleetwood have added their memoirs

Articles:
Mike Absher's Uncommon Sense article on this archive and the restoration of the TNP TV series has been added in addition to all of Tim Flynn's recent articles in the Flint Journal covering a variety of topics.
The entire 'Images and Stories' section is being redesigned to accomodate many more entries. Please bear with...

Video:
Carlito and Otis' groundbreaking 2008 performance.

Dr. Schwartz Kult/Peter C. Cavanaugh/John Mueller - 2002 show

The Bumps and Twitch appearing on a Sterling Hts. cable show - 1994

The Bumps at Churchill's - 1992

Shrimpanzee (Andy Turpen and Dave Grave...) - Highland, MI performance - 2007

MuSH - (Andy Turpen, Dan Russel, Tim Flynn, Al Korth, Bruce Powers) documentary by Andy Turpen plus shows at Riverbank Park and The Loft.

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Images:
Rudy Varner has added a photo of the ROH at The Rusty Nail

Audio:
Check out Keith Fleetwood's page in the 'Links' section. It contains his recent interpretations of songs that he used to play with Free Cheese and Crüx Änsàta (original recordings of either band appear not to exist at this time).

Video:
The Guilty Bystanders 25th Anniversary Show - 3/2008 - The Aloha Lounge
Empty Arms & The Amino Acids - 2/2008 - The Aloha Lounge
Smiling Sacrifice - Earpfest 2005 & Metropolis in 2002 (their #2 video from there that year)
Kill Flint Radio documentary - 2/2008 - The Aloha Lounge...11 legendary Flint area DJs including DJ Steve Dub, DJ Michael A, DJ Bullfrog, DJ Psycho and others turn in stellar performances.

Plus much more to follow over the next week...

Tim Cronin and Joel Rash's extensive audio collection of essential stuff from the late '80s and 1990s are up. They are mostly in the Audio Demos section. Highlights include the complete anthologies of Political Silence, Mondo Cane, Feast of Saints, Medulla Oblongata, Smatch and The Rugby Mothers. In contrast to previous versions made available last year, all files lited in the archive are properly tagged with ID3 info such as track names, etc.

Tim did an amazing job getting the original artwork restored for these recordings and even reformatted them for CD. All of the artwork is available to download alongside the audio files for each recording.

All of the Earpfest 2007 videos have also been included in the Live Videos section as well as a handful of new links in the Links section.

Many additions and refinements have been made since the site launch on Dec 1, including banner ad code in various places to help promote the site. Specific links to new files will not be listed in the 'Updates' section until the spring. Starting in January, new files will be added @ the 1st of every month.

During December, the host for the audio files, Archive.org, has been experiencing system slowness. Hopefully this issue will improve after the holiday traffic eases.

Until each page can be updated on Archive.org, for the best sound quality, choose 'VBR M3U' for streaming audio and 'VBR MP3' for downloads. These options are located in the left column on each page containing audio files. In addition, all of the available artwork for each recording is included as a JPEG in both the list of files available individually on each page as well as inside the complete downloadable folders for each item.

For the best video quality, download, rather than stream the videos.

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