TCS Rare Stuff

Currently available:

T-Shirts

Acoustic Sessions 7" vinyl

"On a B-Road" double CD

No longer available:

"On a B Road...Again" single CD

"On a B Road" single CD

T-Shirts

here is a picture of the official trash can sinatras t-shirt design, which was first available at the king tut's show on july 5.

it may be a bit difficult to make out the design as the picture has been shrunk to fit this page, so here is what it says across the top:

tcs - trash can sinatras - stereo music system tcs - 5 - solid state

in the uk, the t-shirt is £12 plus £3 postage. this is the price they sold for at the king tut's gig.

in the rest of europe or the usa/canada, including postage, it is £16, or US$23.

in japan, including postage, it is £17 or US$25.

the t-shirts are 100% cotton and white (the design does not show up well on other color sirts). adult medium and adult small are currently available. other sizes (large, xl, xxl and children's) will be available soon.

to order you can do one of the following:
1) send an e-mail to me at jdimaria@gis.net requesting shirt size and snail mail ordering information
2) pay the appropriate amount for your country of location through paypal to jdimaria@gis.net

you can currently pay in US$ or £, and I am looking into making other currency payments available. please remember to indicate the shirt size you are interested in so the appropriate number of t-shirts in each size are made available.

as with all items currently available on this page, all profits are sent to tcs to help support the band.

Acoustic Sessions 7" vinyl

When TCS were in Japan in support of "A Happy Pocket" in 1996, they played an acoustic seesion at FM802 (Osaka, Japan) on September 24, 1996. This 3-track radio session, released by Moonlets Records in Japan, features Paul Livingston (acoustic guitar), John Douglas (acoustic guitar and vocals), Stephen Douglas (maraca and tambourine) and Francis Reader (vocals).

The vinyl come in a sleeve with liner notes on the insert. The quality is excellent and comes from the session's master tapes. The tracks are as follows:

side-A 1.the safecracker side-B 1.obscurity knocks 2.how can i apply...?

in North America and Europe, this 7" vinyl is £9 or US$13, including postage.

in Japan, you can pay in yen and have this shipped to you from Japan by contacting kangaroo@pop07.odn.ne.jp

if you need ordering information for another country please let me know. If you are interested in ordering the vinyl (for payment (in US$ or £), you can do one of the following:

1) send an e-mail to me at jdimaria@gis.net requesting snail mail ordering information (for payment (in US$ or £).
2) pay the appropriate amount for your country of location through paypal to jdimaria@gis.net

If you have any other questions, please let me know.

as with all items currently available on this page, all profits are sent to TCS to help support the band.

"On a B Road" double CD

"On a B Road" is not an official release, but is a limited CD of b-sides and cover songs that became available in January 2001. In the past, there have been single CDs called "On a B Road", "On a B Road...Again" and "Aberrations". This new "On a B road" double CD includes much of what was in the other CDs, replaces certain live tracks with better/different versions and adds some new tracks from the last couple of years. The cover and live songs on the CD come from various sources: radio sessions and audience recordings of varying quality (most are soundboard/audience DAT or equivalent although a couple are audience analog recordings).

There are 46 tracks, running close to 155 minutes. The CDs come in a slimline jewelcase with full color artwork on all 4 panels of the front insert and both sides of the tray card. The CDs are silkscreened and shrinkwrapped, this is not a CD-R.

Following are the track listings:

The set costs $25, including postage in the US. Outside of the US it will cost an extra couple of dollars ($27 in Europe, $28 in Asia and Australia). If you're interested in a copy, you can pay via paypal to me at jdimaria@gis.net. If you're not signed up with paypal, send me an e-mail and I'll give you the snail mail ordering information. Note that people in the UK or people who want to pay in pounds sterling can do so, you won't need to worry about getting US$ cash or a bank check/international money order in US$ (again, this is only for people who can pay in pounds sterling, otherwise you have to pay in US$).

"Chewing a Brick" is is not an official release, but is an indie release by Bo Bame Records. There are two main shows on the CD, from Queens' College in Cambridge, UK on March 3, 1993 (a show to preview songs from "I've Seen Everything", whch would be released a couple months later), and from Club Quattro in Tokyo on September 22, 1996. There are also three songs from Club Quattro on September 21, 1996. The Queens' College show came from an analog soundboard tape. The quality is excellent except for the first song and about 40 seconds into the second song. The recording levels on the soundboard were set too high, so the songs were maxing out at the low end. This has been fixed pretty well, but you will probably notice that something doesn't sound quite right. After this, the levels were set to something more normal so the recording doesn't have any problems. I don't think this is a big deal but just want to make sure everyone knows about it. TCS' performance is good, I think they hadn't played many of these songs live very many times before this.

The Tokyo shows are from an audience DAT and are excellent quality, among the best DATs I have heard. These were practically the last shows they played in support of "A Happy Pocket" so the performance is solid. I have posted three MP3 files from this concert over the last couple of months and there is still one up right now. This will give you an idea what this concert sounds like.

Both shows were put onto digital tapes, dumped onto CDs and then mastered as best as possible.

In all, there are 36 songs and over 130 minutes. The CDs come in a slimline jewelcase with full color artwork on the insert and tray card, and black and white artwork with liner notes inside the insert. The CD spine finishes off the anchor picture from the 'anchor box' issued with the "I've Seen Everything" era digipak CDs. The CDs are silkscreened and shrinkwrapped, and manufactured by a CD company (not a CD-R).

There may be a couple of extras included...

Disk 1 - 'Over the Moon'	Disk 2 - 'Under the Influence'
Hayfever#	Send For Henny@
Only Tongue Can Tell#	The Pop Place@
Bloodrush#	Sorry...Wrong Song@
Worked A Miracle#	Earlies@
I'm Immortal#	The Main Attraction@
Easy Read#	The Hairy Years@
Obscurity Knocks#	A Boy and A Girl@
Killing the Cabinet#	I've Seen Everything@
I've Seen Everything#	The Safecracker@
Thrupenny Tears#	The Therapist@
One At A Time#	Twisted and Bent@
The Hairy Years#	Stephen's a Little Shy...@
The Best Man's Fall#	Only Tongue Can Tell@
Outside@	January's Little Joke@
The Sleeping Policeman@	Obscurity Knocks@
How Can I Apply...?@	Killing the Cabinet*
Hayfever@	The Best Man's Fall*
I'm Immortal@	Free As A Bird*
Nice Weather...@
Easy Read@
To Sir, With Love@

# = March 3, 1993; Cambridge, UK; Queens' College
@ = September 22, 1996; Tokyo, Japan; Club Quattro
* = September 21, 1996; Tokyo, Japan; Club Quattro

The set costs $25, including postage in the US. Outside of the US it will cost an extra couple of dollars ($27 in Europe, $28 in Asia and Australia). If you're interested in a copy, you can pay via paypal to me at jdimaria@gis.net. If you're not signed up with paypal, send me an e-mail and I'll give you the snail mail ordering information. Note that people in the UK or people who want to pay in pounds sterling can do so, you won't need to worry about getting US$ cash or a bank check/international money order in US$ (again, this is only for people who can pay in pounds sterling, otherwise you have to pay in US$).

A total of 4 hours! All of the videos from the last compilation plus a few new items and 2 more hours of material graciously donated by TCS. Here is the complete listing for each tape (note that around 25 minutes are repeated between the two tapes). There are also about 15 random (often bizarre) outtakes from concerts, the dressing room, shopping, etc. totalling 5 minutes. Ordering information follows the tape listings.

To get your copy of "Trash Can Sinatras - Videos Lost and Found", you will need to do the following:

• Send me an e-mail, telling me you want the video and where you live
• Send $25 for the tapes, postage and 'TCS support' to the address I'll give you (note that the person you'll get the tape from is based on wherever you live). Cash, check or money order are all fine. Make sure you include your name, address and e-mail address. If you live outside of the US, postage will likely be higher.
• If you only want one tape, it will cost $17 for the tape, postage and 'TCS support'. Be sure to tell me which of the two tapes you want

The videos are also available in PAL format for those of you that live in Europe. I do not know the final cost, I think it is approximately 15 GBP. If you are interested in the PAL format videos, please send me an e-mail or Jim Nisbet, who is coordinating the PAL tapes.

The Ayr College "Sound of Purple" 17 song CD is now available. This promo CD was put out as part of a business project at the school, and is not intended to benefit TCS or any other bands. The CD features a new TCS song, "Duty Free", as well as other local bands from Scotland/UK:

• Heist - "Defectors" (John Douglas' former girlfriend Alison's band)
• Cat Protection League - "Duty Free" (this is TCS - "produced anonymously and therefore no animals were harmed during the recording of this song")
• Noonday Underground - "Looking for Something" (Simon Dine (signed TCS to their first recording contract) on samples)
• Johnson - "Flipside Head" (Stephen Douglas is currently playing drums for them)
• Heirloom - "To the Afton"
• Freeloader - "Sick and Tired"
• Fonda - "Copycat" (Frank's sister Michelle's band)
• Nu Cen 4 - "The Physician"
• Racingreen - "Follow On"
• Listmaker - "Under Red"
• Polivalenta - "Aqua Angel"
• Captain 22 - "Come On"
• Restless Natives - "I Want You"
• Harmonica Jones - "Sunday Man"
• Psychedelic Funk Circus - "Medium Dry Roast"
• Graham Chalkley - "Fallen Angel"
• Bad Stars - "Face of the World"

Note: The 'Cat Protection League' is in reference to the large number of homeless cats near the TCS' Shabby Road Studios.

The CD costs $12, including postage in the US. Outside of the US it will cost an extra couple of dollars ($14 in Europe, $15 in Asia and Australia). If you're interested in a copy, you can pay via paypal to me at jdimaria@gis.net. If you're not signed up with paypal, send me an e-mail and I'll give you the snail mail ordering information. Note that people in the UK or people who want to pay in pounds sterling can do so, you won't need to worry about getting US$ cash or a bank check/international money order in US$ (again, this is only for people who can pay in pounds sterling, otherwise you have to pay in US$).

If you have any questions, please send me an e-mail at jdimaria@gis.net.

"On a B-Road...Again" CD

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Note: The original "On a B Road" CD was available during the summer of 1996 and "On a B Road...Again" was available during the summer and fall of 1998.

"On a B Road...Again" was a 22 track CD-R of b-sides, that featured the following :

Who's He
Drunken Chorus
Useless
Tonight You Belong To Me
Circling the Circumference (single mix)
My Mistake
White Horses
Senses Working Overtime
For the Meantime
Say
Kangaroo Court
Skindiving
I'm the One Who Fainted
Houseproud
Ask Davy
No Gasoline
Mr. Grisly
A Boy and A Girl
Stainless Stephen
Charlie's Atlas
Jane's Estranged
Aberration (unlisted on track listing)

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Note: This was a 21 track CD-R of b-sides, live covers and sessions that featured the following:

Ghosts of American Astronauts	radio session - Mekons cover
The Safecracker	acoustic radio session
Born Free	b-side - Matt Monroe cover)
Tales From the Riverbank	live - Jam cover
You Only Live Twice	b-side - Nancy Sinatra cover
Love On a Farmboy's Wages	live - XTC cover
When I Kissed the Teacher	live - ABBA cover
Save Me	b-side
Free As a Bird	live - Beatles cover
Aberration	live
The Sleeping Policeman	radio session
Spanish Stroll	live - Mink DeVille cover
I Know It's Over	Smiths cover
Claw	b-side
Dolphins	acoustic radio session - Fred Neil cover
Aberration	b-side
Worm With a Head	b-side
The Lady is a Tramp	live - Frank Sinatra cover
Something Stupid	live - Nancy Sinatra cover
Little Things That Keep Us Together	b-side - Scott Walker cover
Tomorrow Never Knows	radio session - Beatles cover

Note that many of these tracks are live recordings and don't have the perfection of studio production/recording.

If you have any questions, comments, etc, e-mail me at jdimaria@gis.net
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