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G’day folks,

If you’ve tried to click on one of the recent videos up here and got nothing, well, yep, I know. I hadn’t realised the server space was getting full and had to delete stuff.

Hanging out for a fresh AV update? So are we! As mentioned elsewhere on this site, best you grab the RSS feed and add it to your feedreaders as there’s no schedule in place for updates. New AV update being done up as I speak.

Well g’day folks,

It has been a seriously busy time at the house of Frankster the last week and a bit, which explains my disappearance from the site.

The last couple of weeks, my two cousins from Italy (Sylvia and Jenny) came for a visit and it was really cool! They had a ball and so did we, we and the rest of the clan took them all over Sydney and surrounds and they absolutely loved it. Last wednesday they flew back out to Italy after their two week sojourn.

The same day they flew out, my dad went into hospital for a cataract operation - I’m happy to say he came through it with flying colours and is now recovering. He’s just rapt, can see everything very clearly and just loves life again. Amazing what something like that can do!

On the social side I visited a mate on friday night and he invited one of his mates over and we sat down and watch some rugby union on Fox Sports 3, then a DVD of Tonight Live Revisited (Steve Vizard) - absolutely hilarious if you’re into that sort of humour!

Dad’s cataract operation meant he had to rest for a few days, so saturday morning I took the groceries helm. Did that, came back early afternoon and went out for a bit of lunch with my sister and a drive, then came back - and this is where the bulk of my “busyness” went for 3 days.

Sis booted up her PC as usual (Acer system running Windows Vista Home Basic [yes, licenced]) and once Windows started, she lost access to both the keyboard and the mouse. Rebooted several times, it didn’t fix it.

More trying followed, continuing on for an hour afterwards when the clock made its way towards 6pm. Sis and I were planning on going to the local club and having a spin of the pokies for a while - so we did that and got back home about 9pm, where the PC work continued. No matter what I did I just could not get it to respond - one final reboot before bed (at that point 2.50 am Sunday morning) then displayed boot error. I reasoned something went wrong and the hard drive was now blank or something else weird was going on.

Sunday morning at 11am I get up and try again, remembering there was a complete backup of the whole drive on a seperate hard drive. This unfortunately didn’t get it going either. Off we went in search of the Acer product recovery discs we made when we got the computer home in late 2008. Could not find recovery discs, we were stuck.

A phone call followed to Geeks To You, a mobile computer repair service. They couldn’t do anything either when Monday came around. I then called Acer hardware support who were very sympathetic to it all and for $163 we could send the PC back to them and they would reload Windows, do the recovery etc etc. Fantastic. They send an Australia Post eParcel label to put on the box and advised to take it down to the post office to send, at no postage cost to us. (presumably included in the $163 quoted above). Computer is now with Acer or maybe tomorrow they’ll receive it where they’ll load things again and ship it back. Good.

Then after that it was time for dinner, and a recording/demo session for a mate from 2RDJ where I used to work. This happened at 7pm with a mutual friend of ours arriving to oversee everything and offer some input as to how it should be sounding. Great catchup too. Finished at 10.30pm, then straight to bed as I had to be up early the next morning.

Today comes and we get word Sis’s new workplace is ready and we move in, unpack, and it’s then up to me to connect the computers, fax, phone etc up. Find that due to the fact the phone lines were dormant it neccessitated a visit from Telstra to make them active again while keeping the same number. Fine. Place has several other business branching off the one block and phone system. Cool. Telstra guy arrives and proceeds to work making our phone connections alive. Connections are finished and all is fine - until he leaves. Voice line and eftpos work, internet and fax doesn’t. Trouble. Voice and internet (ADSL) are connected by means of a filter - voice side of the line works, ADSL part doesn’t. Possible the new connection was only provisioned for voice and not voice/data? Very weird. Try the fax line. Dialling into it makes the fax ring once, then it diverts twice - first to a recording saying “this number is not connected”, then seconds later to a voice in her best chinese accent saying hello. Uh oh. Guy from business just adjacent to Sis’s work comes running in and saying his fax works but his voice line is out. Oh my gosh..what has the telstra guy done??

Get onto Telstra - guy on line says he will send a text to our phone confirming a visit this afternoon. Text never arrives after 70 minutes. Another call made. This time told by them nah, can’t make it, it’ll have to be tomorrow. “What time tomorrow?” “Uh, don’t know”. Great…

The saga continues…’til then, another early start tomorrow, then thursday and friday off along with the weekend. Let’s hope Telstra get their act together and fix up everything properly this time. I’m stumped though.

Voice line has ADSL filter, voice works but ADSL doesn’t - as I said, possible it was provisioned for voice and not voice/data? This line however has a working Eftpos connection as well via the use of a third connection (which is probably an extension point of the fax line, I don’t know - the old place, the fax and eftpos line were together - when the eftpos was in use the fax would be offline). Weird (again).

I know, you’re due an AV update - it’s coming, bear with me, it’s been very busy recently.

One cool thing about Wordpress is the fact when a comment’s waiting for moderation it reveals which IP address the person wrote from.

125.41.181.59 IP:
125.41.181.59
125.41.181.59 server location:
Beijing in China
125.41.181.59 ISP:
China Unicom Henan province network

has written….

“Website : piano sonatas (IP: 125.41.181.59 , hn.kd.ny.adsl)
URL : http://www.en.grand-pianos.org
Trackback excerpt:
piano sonatas…

Megacool Blog indeed!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website Enjoy!…”

Google searches on this IP reveal it’s a dictionary attacker. Interesting…

Well all I can say is - what a bummer.

Doug Fieger of The Knack succumbs to cancer

Bloody cancer once again. RIP Doug, thanks for the music. Their huge hit “My Sharona” is still getting an absolute hammering on some classic hits radio stations but what about the rest of it? They had more than just that…

Anyway be that as it may, this song always takes me back to Club Veg’s version which was retitled “My Computer”. One hilarious verse was:

“Maybe I am dumb…but I’ve come…to the point where I say shove your pentium…up your bum…ha ha ha, die, computer…”

**All files are available for download from 11.00pm AEDST Wednesday February 10th 2010**

G’day Wordpressers,

Welcome to our latest AV update! This time around, all tracks have been taken from low-band 3/4″ u-matic format tape. Enjoy! I’m aware of some of the slates stating those cuts are 16:9 Anamorphic, however they were recorded onto the u-matic release dub at 4:3, and that’s how they’re presented here.

J Walter Thompson:

J&B Scotch sales presentation tape 24th June 1999
Dur: 5′57”, 20.9 MB

The Lab Sydney:

HSBC Waratahs series of TVC’s - February 2005
Dur: 3′02”, 24.1 MB

The Lab Sydney:

Samsung D500 Boys Club - March 2005
Dur: 0′57”, 2.2 MB

Cutting Edge Post:

Marie Claire magazine - Infidelity - January 2005
Dur: 0′37”, 2.2 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - Deforestation - January 2005
Dur: 0′37”, 2.1 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - Plush - January 2005
Dur: 0′36”, 1.9 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - Plush 2 - January 2005
Dur: 0′35”, 1.8 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - Counter Intelligence - January 2005
Dur: 0′34”, 2.1 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - White Collar Crime - January 2005
Dur: 0′36”, 2.3 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - Foreign Affairs - January 2005
Dur: 0′36”, 2.1 MB

Cutting Edge Post:
Marie Claire magazine - 30″ Compile track - January 2005
Dur: 0′57”, 3.4 MB

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Audio Tracks: Top Spots Studios Release Dubs
192kbps 44kHz Stereo MP3 files - 10.1 MB Zip File

Click here to download

Zip file contains:

1. 2UW - Beatles A-Z TVC audio track 25-5-87 (0:16)
2. 7 Keys Video: “Touch and go” 4x 30″ tracks (2:52)
3. 7 News with Ross Symonds: Various intro’s and beds (2:37)
4. 60 Minute Dry Cleaners: 5084,5085,5086,5087,5088 (1:34)
5. 60 Minutes wang computer ID’s 1 and 2 (0:10)

G’day Wordpressers, (well I have to use that now seeing we’re not on blogger anymore!)

If you’re not aware of it, and you’re a fan, then make sure you check out The Benny Hill Show on 7TWO (Digital 72). Absolutely hilarious! The repeats started again on Thursday January 28th this year with Shows 5 and 6.

7TWO seem to be playing the half hour syndicated shows containing compiles of various sketches from Benny and crew over the early to late 1970’s. So wanting to enjoy this great show again, I thought I’d set the timer to get all 5 episodes down through the week then watch them all on the weekend last week.

Well didn’t I look like an idiot - I was dismayed to find I had inadvertently set the timer for Channel 7 and not 7TWO! There on my hard drive were 5 episodes of Today Tonight and not Benny Hill. Just bloody wonderful…grrr…

Thankfully I corrected it and my recorder is now doing the job as it was meant to.

OK - now that we’re all up and running again, expect a fresh AV update before week’s end.

G’day bloggers,

Well at this point I must say a very big thankyou to two people who helped me make the switch from blogger to wordpress.

I have been tearing my hair out since saturday trying to get this going and got nothing. First of all, Matt from Wireless Fodder offered a few suggestions but I still couldn’t get it working.

Samuel from Samuel’s Blog had the key. With lots of emails back and forth and many changes throughout, Sam for 2 hours and a bit took over and helped me work out where I was going wrong, what needed to be adjusted, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

What you’re seeing here now is the end result of those 2 hours - a fully working blog, now running on Wordpress. Samuel, many MANY thanks to you for helping me out and getting this all up and running. I can’t thank you enough - I’m absolutely grateful.

So all that’s left to say now is - welcome folks!

G’day bloggers,

As you know, this blog and associated content is hosted on a server at Zanyspace - the posts themselves like this one are written at blogger.com and published to my blog via FTP. Now, blogger have decided they’re gonna stop ftp support and migrate everyone to a custom domain!

Um..I already have one. With FTP support being shut down this is gonna be a major pain in the bum. I may have to dump blogger and start using Wordpress or something. But last time I tried to set it up I made a total hash of it.

Here’s the notice I received yesterday:

Dear FTP user:

We have a number of big releases planned in 2010. While we recognize that this decision will frustrate some users, we look forward to showing you the many great things on the way. Thanks for using Blogger.

You bet it’s frustrating. Why fix something that isn’t broken? Grr….

A mega-huge thankyou must go to my mate Mechie for this info:

The TVC’s appearing on the January 20 and January 25 video updates were from a recording of ADS7 Adelaide from August 19th, 1977.

Thanks heaps Mechie, appreciate it!

If any of you folk live around Windsor NSW and surrounds, be sure to check him out on Hawkesbury Radio 89.9 FM every sunday from midday to 3pm with “The Mechie Show” - tell him Frankster sent you! Not in Windsor NSW/surrounds? Never fear! There’s a live audio stream of 89.9 here. Click on the Listen Live link and enjoy!

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

The Today Show with Liz Hayes: Mid 80’s portion
Dur: 0′52”, 2.7 MB

TVC: Electronic Sales Security with Joe Hasham
Dur: 1′00”, 7.1 MB

7 Promo: Sons & Daughters
Dur: 0′22”, 1.9 MB
**This cut is black and white due to the colour signal on the tape having faded

TVC: 2DAY-FM - In tune with today
Dur: 0′31”, 2.5 MB
**Unfortunately another black and white cut

TVC: Shu-Shu’s
Dur: 0′31”, 3.0 MB
**…and another black and white cut. You’ll have to take the voiceover girl’s word for it as she’s describing the colours.

The next few cuts were transferred by Troy and many thanks must go to him for supplying me with dubs!

TVC: Wisk Laundry Detergent
Dur: 0′24”, 2.1 MB

TVC: Pine O’Cleen
Dur: 0′31”, 4.7 MB

TVC: Mistral Rangehoods
Dur: 1′01”, 5.6 MB

TVC: Sabco Top Mop
Dur: 0′31”, 2.4 MB

TVC: Masterfoods Hamburger Dressing
Dur: 0′31”, 4.1 MB
**This ad makes me laugh - they’re barely biting into the burgers!

TVC: Glad Wrap Yourself In Diamonds promotion
Dur: 0′31”, 4.0 MB

TVC: Streets Cornetto
Dur: 0′31”, 5.7 MB

TVC: Freedom Carpet Spray
Dur: 0′31”, 5.7 MB

TVC: Telecom Business Office
Dur: 0′31”, 2.8 MB
**I love this one. At the end, a cat appears out of nowhere. Did the guy when he went to buy the phone at the TBO also pick up the cat there?

TVC: Air New Zealand - We’re the pacific’s number one!
Dur: 0′31”, 5.5 MB
**Download an alternate version of this TVC’s bed below!

Air New Zealand: We’re the pacific’s number one! - Alternate bed

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**This cut comes from a master tape from Top Spots Studios entitled “Pacific Probex master #1″ - presumably Pacific Probex were the name of the ad agency who did the ad. Yeah, another disintegrating monster in the form of Ampex 406 tape..grr..managed to save this and several others though and over this year you’ll be able to listen/download them here!

G’day bloggers,

I wanna quick give a quick hoy to the gang at 2GB Sydney for putting together a really awesome broadcast today for Australia Day! These guys have done SO well today with it all and should be commended. Well done you guys, absolutely sensational!

Unfortunately this wonderful day is now marred by a few callers and 2GB’s own Glenn Wheeler stating there’s various groups in Cronulla being their usual selves, with these same callers stating they would not be surprised if we get a Cronulla Riot 2 tonight. I really hope not.

Anyway I digress - Alan Jones, Ray Hadley, Andrew Moore, Jason Morrison and associated behind the scenes folk, producers, techs and others, hold your heads high and be proud of yourselves for what you accomplished today. In a word - brilliant!

(fixed Quick to Give above…ugh…fingers too slow, brain too fast)

**Clips this update are sourced from a 1976 and 1977 half-inch videotape. Many thanks to John G for the transfers. Due to the number of clips available, and because I’ve got more time up my sleeve this update due to a public holiday, here’s a few more videos than normal! Enjoy!

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

TVC: Molly Bushell
Dur: 0′31”, 3.4 MB

TVC: Quick-Eze Antacid Tablets
Dur: 0′30”, 3.0 MB
**Gotta love the interviewer’s question. “What causes your indigestion?”..well, duhhhhhhhhhh - over-eating and drinking mostly! Gees…

TVC: The Advertiser - Sports Sedan Challenge
Dur: 0′30”, 4.3 MB

TVC: Shell Super Motor Oil with John Goss
Dur: 0′59”, 8.3 MB

TVC: Arnott’s Yo-Yo Biscuits
Dur: 0′31”, 4.5 MB

TVC: Canberra Home Centres
Dur: 0′31”, 3.0 MB

TVC: The Discount Liquor King
Dur: 0′31”, 4.7 MB

TVC: GEC Home Appliances - The living is easy!
Dur: 0′30”, 3.0 MB
**I love the thing advertised as the “Juicy Lucy” - lots of connotations there!

TVC: Schweppes Soda Water - “Expensive these days!”
Dur: 0′31”, 2.6 MB

TVC: Wings Magazine
Dur: 0′30”, 4.2 MB

7 ID: Who Colours Your World
Dur: 0′06”, 449 KB

7 Promo: Nightmoves Special - Salute to Elvis Presley
Dur: 0′46”, 5.1 MB

7 Promo: Some Mothers Do ‘ave ‘em
Dur: 0′21”, 2.1 MB

7 ID: Who Colours Your World/The Colour Machine
Dur: 0′22”, 4.9 MB

**Clips this update are sourced from a 1976 half-inch videotape. Many thanks to John G for the transfer.

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

TVC: General Electric “Stowaway” mobile washers
Dur: 0′26”, 3.7 MB

TVC: Fab washing powder
Dur: 0′26”, 3.9 MB

TVC: Vicks Formula 44.C
Dur: 0′29”, 3.2 MB

TVC: Vicks Sinex
Dur: 0′31”, 2.7 MB

TVC: Coles - Women’s clothing
Dur: 0′31”, 3.3 MB

TVC: Kriesler TV’s
Dur: 0′31”, 2.2 MB

TVC: Philips reading globes
Dur: 0′32”, 2.1 MB

TVC: Honda Civic
Dur: 0′30”, 4.7 MB

TVC: Akta-Vite
Dur: 0′31”, 3.2 MB

TVC: Kelly’s Electrical Discounters
Dur: 0′30”, 3.6 MB

**More 1976 stuff in the next update!

G’day bloggers,

A regular segment that appears on 2GB and has been on air there for a few months now is the return of “How green was my cactus”. This series used to be on 2DAY-FM Sydney as far back as the early 1990’s. Loved it then, and I love it now.

Such a shame 2GB’s Luke Bona, in which this segment is played on his shift anywhere between 2.40pm and 3.00pm weekdays, either doesn’t like it or is fed up with it - and I must say I’m getting a little bit sick and tired of him indicating his displeasure with it almost daily.

Day 1 at the conclusion of Cactus: “Oooooooookayyyyy…”
Day 2: “Oh is that it?…(gap)…that’s all? (gap)…Oh good”
Day 3: “I didn’t get any of that! *sighs* Okay…”

..and so it goes on. Repeated attempts on air as I say indicating his displeasure of it are really starting to piss me off. Luke, just shut up and play the damn segment. I don’t wanna hear how much you hate it, nor do I wanna hear your displeasure about the bloody thing. Fair dinkum. You’re really starting to get on my nerves.

It really is not about what the listener wants or likes anymore is it folks.

G’day bloggers,

Welcome to our latest video update! Answering an email by Greg who said he visits frequently and enjoys the site (many thanks Greg!) but wonders why the clips are mp4 format.

Greg, they’re done in this format as I not only wanted ipod video owners to be able to download and play these clips on the move, but for cross-compatibility between Windows and Mac as well as any other systems able to play mp4 files. It would be quite limiting if I encoded the clips in only a form that Windows could decode.

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

TVC: Atari 2600 with free games
Dur: 0′31”, 2.7 MB

TVC: GIO Insurance - Big, safe and friendly
Dur: 0′45”, 5.0 MB

TVC: Spangles Shoes
Dur: 0′31”, 1.9 MB
**Done in one shot by the looks of things. Keep the camera in one spot and then add graphics. Simple eh?

TVC: Centrepoint - The heart of the city
Dur: 0′31”, 2.6 MB
**Holgar Brockmann takes the voiceover on this cut

7 Sydney nightly closedown sequence
Dur: 5′22”, 29 MB
**Starts with 7’s “Watch us now” ident, cuts to shots of Sydney with “My city of Sydney” playing, then to the old clip of a kangaroo putting joey to bed, drawing a “good night” curtain, then the national anthem before the obligatory fade to black. From there, a test pattern, then a slight “shhhhp!” as 7 turn their tx off for the evening. Unfortunately the year of this one escapes me so if anyone can help me remember, drop us a line so the title of this and the info in the archive can be updated. Thanks!
**Large download - may take some time if you’re on anything less than broadband**

10 Eyewitness News Update with Claudia Emery
Dur: 1′07”, 4.0 MB

10 Promo: Eyewitness News
Dur: 0′31”, 3.7 MB

10 ID: Ten Out Of Ten Australia
Dur: 1′01”, 7.2 MB
**The other version of this ident which had a glitch in it was downloaded from here and re-uploaded onto Youtube, without any credit or acknowledgment, complete with the glitch. This isn’t the same version but it’s from beta just the same. Look out for Wayne Pearce milking a cow! Go Wayney!

TVC: Bing Lee Discounts
Dur: 0′30”, 3.2 MB

TVC: Family Circle - 1976
Dur: 0′31”, 4.1 MB
**This one and a few others appearing in the next update are coming off a half-inch open reel videotape from 1976

Who’s the announcer on triple m sydney at 11.20 am doing lame jokes? Commenting on Peter Garrett’s appearance in ‘pirates of the carribean’, it was mentioned he’d be a buccaneer. Which caused said announcer to blurt out:

“…what a buckin’ thing to do!”

Laugh? I nearly shat. Haw haw haw…how incredibly lame. Ratings 2% eh? Case closed…

Welcome folks! We’re back for 2010 and to kick off, here’s a fresh video update!

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

TVC: Band Aid with schoolkid “it hurts!”
Dur: 0′17”, 1.4 MB
**Wonder if this needed to be re-shot. The way the band-aid is applied is only half over the cut shown!

TVC: 0055/00555 Sexlines - Cut 1
Dur: 0′30”, 1.8 MB
**From the days when you spent 24c per 20 seconds. Now it’s up to $4.95 a minute on 1900/1902 numbers!

TVC: 0055/00555 Sexlines - Cut 2
Dur: 0′30”, 1.6 MB

TVC: Diet Pepsi with Ray Charles - You got the right one baby, uh huh!
Dur: 0′30”, 3.4 MB

The Ernie ‘n’ Denise Show (1991/1992) partial
Dur: 1′57”, 8.2 MB
**The portion available to us is actually 4 minutes in length but here’s half anyway. Features good ol’ Ernie Sigley and Denise Drysdale, Ernie of course unable to resist commenting on the length of Denise’s black shorts.

TVC: Woman’s Day Magazine
Dur: 0′30”, 3.0 MB

TVC: Cold Gold KB (beach/athletes version)
Dur: 1′01”, 10.7 MB

TVC: Export Light Beer with Warwick Moss
Dur: 0′31”, 3.5 MB

TVC: Leichhardt Markettown (now Leichhardt Marketplace)
Dur: 0′30”, 3.5 MB

7 ID: Watch Us Now!
Dur: 0′23”, 2.3 MB

G’day bloggers,

Well there we go, Christmas and New Year break is almost officially over - at least for me it is. Our first AV update for the year will be available on Monday January 11th, but please note there’ll be our next reset before then.

Grab anything you can before 12:01am Monday January 11th 2010 if you haven’t already before it disappears. Go for it!

G’day bloggers,

Quick g’day! Hope you all had a nice Christmas. Since I last wrote I’ve been in hospital twice - had very severe stomach pains. It’s 10 days later now and bar a short hiccup on Christmas Day I’ve been fine ever since. Whatever it was I hope has been banished into oblivion for good.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the Newcastle earthquake - yep, and even back then I was doing audio stuff and managed to catch a few minutes of the 2GB newsbreak and the program going to air at the time. Will have it up here by the end of the day.

On a slightly different note, I need to get a gripe off my chest.

Sometimes I need a lift someplace, and for the most part, someone I live with has been able to get me where I need to go. But today I’m stumped.

My sister never drives anywhere outside of her immediate area - which means if I have to go to places like Auburn or Guildford, I have to catch a train or two. Likewise for something as simple as Homebush (I’m in Five Dock myself). So how is it then, that my neighbour has claimed all rights to transport whenever the hell she feels like it, and suddenly my sister is no stranger to a place like Auburn when my neighbour needs to go there?? I don’t get it! And it sucks the big one. Never mind I often do up DVD’s or CD’s for her or whatever. No. All my neighbour has to do is snap her fingers, and my sister will go running no matter whereabouts in bloody Sydney she has to go to.

That’s alright, I’ll just stop giving her a hand with CD’s or DVD’s for the time being. Stuff it! Why am I killing myself doing this crap when the places I need to go have to be on a train but these same places my neighbour wants to go to it’s no problem? What rot!

**This update only contains a few clips due to the server space being nearly full. Would be a bugger to do a reset right on Christmas, it’d mean you guys would have nothing to download. The next reset is scheduled as soon as we come back for 2010 - January 11th. Shortly afterwards, a new update will be in place.

This is the last update for the year! All of us here at the archive (all one of me!) would like to wish you a happy and safe Christmas, and all the very best for a seriously hot pumpin’, jammin’, slammin’ 2010! If you’re going out new year’s eve,
party like you’ve never partied before, and dance like no one’s watching. Thanks for your support everyone, it IS appreciated. See you in 2010!

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

TVC: NSW Lotteries “When I Win The Lottery” (Grant Dodwell)
Dur: 1′01”, 4.9 MB

9 long ident 1992
Dur: 1′32”, 41.5 MB
**Pretty lousy quality I know but I wasn’t able to get an alternate source tape for this cut. Please note this is also a large file and may take some time to download if you’re not on a broadband connection.

Lotto Draw (partial) with John Tapp and Karen Pini
Dur: 1′25”, 11.6 MB
**Bit of a discrepancy with the file sizes isn’t there for two cuts near and just over 90 seconds. I thought it was because they were done in VBR (variable bit rate) mode but it’s fixed at 192kbps. Who knows. I’ll figure out why one day.

Audio Clips:
Compatible with any MP3 player - duhhhhhhhh….
128kbps 44kHz Stereo unless noted

Top Spots Master Tapes: Heckendorf #8 final part and cuts from Heckendorf #9

Sydney City Mission: 1x 60 sec and 1x 30 sec release dub

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Keys: UW319C and UW319D

Pizza Hut: Taco Amigo - Burger For A Buck promotion 2x 30 sec release dub

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Keys: TC002 and TC003, Main V/O by Ron E Sparks

Tobac Original Aftershaves: 2x 30″ release dub

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Track 1: Christmas version Track 2: Misc track

Katies Winter Sale: 3 versions - 1985

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Track 1: 2 track jingle Track 2: 2 track mix v/o cut 1 Track 3: 2 track mix v/o cut 2
Lots of bleed (adjacent channel interference) on this cut, mostly caused by the used tape tracks being too close to one another and/or a desk that wasn’t that good at isolating various channels. Ah the good ol’ days of analogue multitrack recording.

Oral B Labs: Asia Submission Tracks - TV Tracks 1 and 2 - August 5th 1985

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V/O: (Track 1) John Laws
“This man is a dentist. So we can’t show you his face on television. Instead we’ll show you his bum!”Ah, old joke but I bloody love it, however these two cuts don’t follow that copy.

**It’s also a little known fact that I love to make my own mashups/re-edits/remixes of songs. Sometimes I’ll add a new rhythm track, other times I’ll completely change the structure of the song, and other times I’ll extend a track to sometimes more than double its original length. I very rarely put my mixes online but I can’t resist putting this one up.

This is a VERY rough demo of a new rhythm track over the 12″ extended mix of Huey Lewis’s “Heart and soul”. The rhythm came from a DJ mix of Culture Club’s “Miss me blind”. Bit screwy in places and it goes off time a little, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. As I say it’s a very rough demo and far from polished, but take a listen!

Heart and Soul (Frankstermix 2009) - Huey Lewis & The News
PLAY - Dur: 6′09”

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See ya there!!

G’day bloggers,

Well if you’re wondering where the hell I’ve been - don’t. Things just got very busy in the house of Frankster.

The last couple of days has seen me do a course and it was probably the most rewarding I’ve ever done in my life, short of the radio stuff I did with AFTRS and TAFE in the last couple of years. My trainer was fantastic, down-to-earth and all, and the people I met were fantastic as well. One guy landed himself a new job which was great news and of course we all wished him well. It’s great to see.

So where’s a new AV update hmmm? It’s coming (I know, I know, so is Christmas) but hang in there, it’ll probably be up by friday.

Congratulations also to 2GB for another ratings win - well done guys - and commiserations to Triple M..2.2 and 2.0% are some of the figures from the results released on tuesday. Hope things change for them next year.

As previously mentioned this site will be expanding next year so server resets should happen less frequently, giving you guys more time to download all the goodies! If you’re new to the place, you might be wondering why there’s a watermark on the vids - well, put simply, some have seen fit recently to download the content, and re-upload it all to sites like Youtube without any credit or acknowledgement. If you wanna do this then by all means, just credit the source when you do it. It’ll only take a few seconds, and I promise you your face won’t crack

G’day bloggers,

Memo channel 9 news - if you’re gonna do a radio story, get your shots right. You dillweeds reported on 2GB’s Chris Smith then closed the story with a shot of 2UE’s on air system, not 2GB’s. Duuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…..

**All tracks available for download from 3.00pm AEDST Friday December 11th 2009

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

9 ID 1982: C’mon along with Channel 9 (another version)
Dur: 20 sec, 3.3 MB

TVC: Sydney Tower/Centrepoint
Dur: 31 sec, 2.70 MB

10 Promo 1985: Eyewitness News - Academy Awards ‘85 version
Dur: 18 sec, 1.7 MB

10 Promo: Perfect Match with Greg Evans
Dur: 15 sec, 899 KB

TVC: Comet Couriers - Helloooooo Comet!
Dur: 31 sec, 1.9 MB

10 Promo: Star Search 1st semi-final
Dur: 30 sec, 2.6 MB

TVC: Cherry Ripe
Dur: 31 sec, 2.0 MB

TVC: Nabisco - Hey Day biscuits
Dur: 31 sec, 2.6 MB

10 Promo: Eyewitness News - Lotto Results
Dur: 30 sec, 2.0 MB

10 Promo: National Panasonic cup/Movie
Dur: 31 sec, 3.5 MB
**The tape this came from was a bit worn unfortunately

Audio Clips:
Compatible with any MP3 player - duhhhhhhhh….
128kbps 44kHz Stereo unless noted

2UW Jingles: Master Reel #2 - 1/4″ Scotch tape, either 177 or 206

Jingle Medley #1

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Contains various generic 2UW jingles

Jingle Medley #2

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This one primarily deals with 2UW’s “Magic 11″ period

2UW Promos/Programmes: Master Reel #57 - 1/4″ Ampex 406 - Part 1

11 Songs in 11 Seconds - 6 promos

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V/O: Ron E Sparks, games 11 to 16

Bazz ‘n’ Pilko in London - 6 promos including Peter Plus

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V/O’s: Ron E Sparks (Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 6), Graeme Stone (Tracks 4 and 5)

Bazz ‘n’ Pilko London OB (lead-up tracks) - 4 promos including Peter Plus

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V/O: Andrew Vicory

**All tracks available for download from 2.15am AEDST Saturday December 5th 2009

Video Clips
All clips compatible with Quicktime and the iPod Video
MP4, 320×240, 192kbps vision, 128kbps audio

Ford New Faces with Bert Newton (ending only) (1982?)
Dur: 58 sec, 9.5 MB

TVC: Lipton Teabags (France version)
Dur: 29 sec, 4.0 MB

TVC: KB Lager (Cold Gold KB)
Dur: 60 sec, 10.7 MB
**This beer was a hit when I was in school. It was forever known as “Kids Beer”! No we didn’t drink it before you ask!

TVC: Holden Camira
Dur: 31 sec, 2.2 MB

TVC: KFC with Evonne Cawley - We do chicken right
Dur: 32 sec, 4.4 MB
**There was a sendup of this TVC on the Doug Mulray and Ken Sterling album “What a rude album” - the section changed was “Gong! Lunchtime!” to which the person doing the Evonne Cawley impersonation in the sketch said “Ah better not! I’m still having trouble with last night’s chicken you know!”.

TVC: Lan Choo tea’s - Tea to a T promotion
Dur: 31 sec, 2.2 MB

TVC: McDonalds - Atari promotion
Dur: 31 sec, 3.5 MB

TVC: Greater Union Cinemas - R Rated movie double
Dur: 30 sec, 3.5 MB
**NOTE: Partial nudity warning** (of course putting up warnings like this is like waving a red flag to a bull)

TVC: Tooheys - I feel like a Tooheys! (Yachting version)
Dur: 1′01”, 8.6 MB

9 Promo: 55th Academy Awards
Dur: 1′02”, 5.9 MB
**I couldn’t resist including this one. Check out the bed - keen Billy Birmingham followers will note that it’s the same music that was used a few years later for his “Wired World Of Sports” album!! I managed to source just where the bed came from - it’s from a production music album from 1979 on the Bruton Music label, available in 60 and 30 second versions!