John Roundear Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Hi, I used to sell records and back in the day I used to bu wholesale from Cargo Records that distributed Kung Fu in the U.K.The guys that worked there were great to deal with and gave me a copy of the Buddha Sample cassette tape along with a Shirt( bugeyed bunny), don't have the shirt anymore but do have the cassette! Having checked a whole load of Blink websites there seems to be a huge discussion whether this actually does exist and I can confirm it does and that I have a copy, Never issued in a sleeve, comes in a transparent tape with printed details, both sides say Under the Spindle BUDDHA (FULL LENGTH) SAMPLE CASSETTE *KUNG FU RECORDS ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY BLINK 182 AND RECORDED IN 1995 side of spindle P 1996 A side tracks A NEW HOPE.THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.STRUNG OUT.BEN WAH BALLS Bside tracks DOES MY BREATH SMELL.VOYEUR.WASTING TIME.DON'T Some of you may know me, I sold punk records for decades and always had a stall at Rebellion, and was at many gigs (usually near the bar) inc Blink 182 supporting Lagwagon in France and again in London but can't remember (due to alcohol)exactly who (but NOFX comes to mind!), I stopped selling a few years back and am in the process of sorting out the last bits and pieces and lo and behold here's the cassette, if anyone is interested in owning it, its for sale, just let me know cheers John (Roundearnomore) Quote
zzzz Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 Welcome @John Roundear would love to see pix, do you recall what year you got this? I've been trying to solve some of the questions surrounding the Buddha tape. Thanks! Quote
John Roundear Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 Think I got it in 1996, bear with me for photos I'm rubbish at this! Quote
Speedo Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 19 minutes ago, John Roundear said: Think I got it in 1996, bear with me for photos I'm rubbish at this! You'll have to use an image sharing site like imgbb.com or something of the like ... this board sucks when it comes to uploading photos directly. Quote
John Roundear Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 Hopefully this is it! https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ar99kA3QVmA735Cm8 2 Quote
Speedo Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, John Roundear said: Hopefully this is it! https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ar99kA3QVmA735Cm8 Here you go, bud 1 Quote
Thibaut182 Posted January 25, 2021 Posted January 25, 2021 1 hour ago, John Roundear said: Some of you may know me, I sold punk records for decades and always had a stall at Rebellion, and was at many gigs (usually near the bar) inc Blink 182 supporting Lagwagon in France and again in London but can't remember (due to alcohol)exactly who (but NOFX comes to mind!), I stopped selling a few years back and am in the process of sorting out the last bits and pieces and lo and behold here's the cassette, if anyone is interested in owning it, its for sale, just let me know cheers John (Roundearnomore) Welcome John! Those Lagwagon shows were in November 1997 along with Pulley ? Being french, I'm super jealous that you got to see Blink play in France especially in that era and with the original line-up (was way too young to go unfortunately ...) They played in Bordeaux and in Paris on that tour and that London show was at the Astoria if I remember correctly! Quote
John Roundear Posted January 25, 2021 Author Posted January 25, 2021 Howdy. The gig was in Bordeaux in a music school,even then we were the oldest there! One studentwas asking everyone their age to work out average age,we messed up the results completely! We were in town working at the Bordeaux record fair, which we went to occasionally for years. Happy times. 1 Quote
daveyjones Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 13 hours ago, John Roundear said: Hopefully this is it! https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ar99kA3QVmA735Cm8 welcome to the boards! thanks for the fresh info. would love to see a pic of the second side. do you have the capability to rip to digital audio? i have a rip of this cassette but it is not lossless. Quote
John Roundear Posted January 26, 2021 Author Posted January 26, 2021 https://photos.app.goo.gl/W9HoHdZDNrMMUDX59 This should open (hopefully!) photo of second side, sorry unable to copy to digital. Quote
wastingtime Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 Incredible that this stuff can still come up after all this time. So grateful for those doing the research/comparisons, it's so interesting. Quote
radioactive tomdog Posted January 26, 2021 Posted January 26, 2021 i think this has been discussed before but are all of these tracks from the "short bus sessions"? and this was prior to recording cheshire cat, right? Quote
boxelder Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 well, this completely puts to rest perhaps one of the greatest mysteries surrounding the early days of the band. We definitely need a lossless rip of this. very curious as to why Kung-Fu chose to quietly issue these songs (all of which I think are Short Bus era) and not include them as bonus tracks on the Buddha reissue, or save them for another release. perhaps mark didn’t want them released? 1 Quote
radioactive tomdog Posted January 28, 2021 Posted January 28, 2021 some thoughts - cheshire cat would have been a better album with a new hope and enthused on it instead of a few weaker buddha era tracks. i'm not sure why they held those songs over for dude ranch. dude ranch would have been a better album if they swapped a new hope and degenerate with zulu and wrecked him. however, enthused fits well on that record. lastly, i wish blink would do something cool and re-release short bus and tctcu as 10" versions featuring all of the tracks from their respective recording sessions. 1 Quote
daveyjones Posted January 30, 2021 Posted January 30, 2021 On 1/28/2021 at 7:44 AM, boxelder said: and not include them as bonus tracks on the Buddha reissue, or save them for another release. perhaps mark didn’t want them released? @Ry-Bread good question for hoppus on the podcast Quote
blinkstillrules Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 This must be the "Buddha promo" I've had mp3s of since the early 2000s. It has a version of "Voyeur" (it's called that at least) that sounds nothing like the one on Dude Ranch. Quote
blinkstillrules Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 I've made my mp3s downloadable here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Fskz0qvdGNDBwiO0sFiP_oM5I9yUIyFK?usp=sharing FYI my mp3s are from 2001ish I think and they are awful fucking quality. @John Roundear could you rip your tape to loseless and share? I'm really thinking your tape is the same as these mp3s I've had for years. I would love a listenable copy, especially of Voyeur. I wonder if this is the song from the DR demos that never was released. @daveyjones @Q182 @Ry-Bread I have an image file of the cassette itself that came with the mp3s I downloaded back then. I just uploaded it to imgur: 1 1 Quote
daveyjones Posted January 31, 2021 Posted January 31, 2021 alternately @John Roundear i will offer to pay insured shipping to my location and return to you. i will rip the tape with my professional equipment and provide the files from lossless on down to the community. 3 Quote
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