Waysiders - Good Lord on a Bun (1996)

Another from the Cam Hayden Archives. We don't remember much about the Waysiders, other than the fact that Mark McCaul went on to great things with the Bionic 6 and Trickl Act.

Get it here.

Push - Loop (1993)

We had dug this little tape out before Steve Elaschuk contacted us and offered up his little treasure trove of tapes. How many bands has Steve played bass with? All of them?

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Joker - Laff and a Half (1990)

Here's another addition from the Steve Elaschuk collection. Why do we care about this? Hint: it's not their cover of Black Sabbath's Paranoid. James Hayden played drums with these guys, assumedly before he went on to Fire Engine Red. This pretty much provides the missing link between his FER days and his current gig, playing with the legendary DOA.

Get it here.

Ninth Configuration - Ninth Configuration (1987)

Big thanks again to the good folks at Making Time for Thoughcrime, who have just posted the first tape from Calgary legends Ninth Configuration. There's some question as to the exact date of this tape, since the j-card is MIA (another! where do these things go?). If you can add any details to this, please let us know. We're assuming this is the same membership as what we've got for their Vegas tape.

(Update: thanks to our Sherlock Fox-y friends at Golden Rock for giving us a fix on this tape's date! - and extra thanks to Trev from Saturday Morning Poke for finding a cover for us!)

In the meantime, grab the download.

Fire Engine Red - Good Coffee Burns (1994)

How happy are we to have this? Pretty damn happy. We've listened to "Black Day" about five times today.

By the time FER called it a day, they were quite a different band than what's on this tape. Lee Shedden bowed out shortly after the recording of their CD, 1530 (which we've played many, many times in the past 14 years). Brooker Buckingham stepped in on bass, then moved to guitar and brought in Steve Elaschuk on bass. And then at some point, Brooker stepped out and Pat Andrews stepped in, creating Fire Engine Wagbeard.

Anyways, this is from before all of that. So why did we bother telling you all that if it's not relevant? Because that's what we do best.

Thanks again to Steve Elaschuk for digging this out!

Sit in you bedroom and stare at the wall.

Skin Barn - Two Words for Cool (1990)

Sadly, we don't have a cover for this one, which comes to us from the secret stash of Steve Elaschuk. Steve says this predates the Skin Barn tape over at Making Time for Thoughtcrime, but since we don't have the art... we're going to guess this is from 1989 or 1990. It's a complete, wild-ass guess. That's what we do when we don't have the j-card. We make stuff up. To fill space. Like this.

Get your slap-bass on!

Update: Josh Etherington passed the art for this on to us. Turns out it's the famously-titled Two Words for Cool. We should have known. But we didn't. Thanks, Josh!