"Get Yer Fa La La's Out" is a new downloadable Christmas compilation featuring:
KLAATU "December Dream" - previously unavailable digital version of the 7" edit (different than the one on Solology/Raarities); TERRY DRAPER "Christmas Time Is Here Again" (a Beatles tune done two different ways) and several other rare Xmas tracks; MAUREEN LEESON "A Song For Christmas" originally only found on Terry Draper's "Furzall Family" EP available here. Draper wrote, recorded and produced this track; DR. LOTECH "Xmas Spasmas" is this former Terry & The Twilight Zone keyboardist's Frank Zappa-esque spin on a Christmas track.
 
You'll also get great tunes by The Carpet Frogs (Burton Cummings/Randy Bachman backing band), Jeff Jones (of Tom Cochrane & Red Rider fame), Tom Hooper (ex-Grapes Of Wrath), The Kings (who had a major hit with "Switchin' To Glide" back in the '80s), Bob Segarini (he of Wackers/Family Tree/Roxy fame), and MORE!
 
http://www.cdfreedom.com/artists/christmas/catalog/getyerfalalasout

Klaatu has been paid the ultimate compliment by being spoofed in an animated parody of the ROCK BAND video game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-delgGVmw

Terry Draper says: "How come I look better animated?"

Klaatu's Terry Draper returns after a 6-year absence with a tribute to Canada's war heroes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAW6Cobf5k8

Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye Records

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Featuring Dee Long and Terry Draper on various tracks.

2004 SEALED OOP release of BULLSEYE RECORDS' 3CD Beatles Tribute 'It Was 40 Years Ago Today' (BLR-CD-4060).

With liner notes about each Beatles track.

This is the COMPLETE 73 song 3-CD set featuring top name power pop artists from six countries. The original commercial version of this set was a 2CD package. Bullseye added a 3rd promo disc called 'The Beatles NOT For Sale' for online purchasers only. The third disc is included in this auction.
including:

Disc: 1    
1. Sie Liebt Dich (Intro) - Trimatics    
2. Good Morning, Good Morning - The Lolas    
3. Savoy Truffle - The Dons
   
4. Paperback Writer- Alison Solo
   
5. Fixing a Hole - The Helium Kids (featuring Jef Leeson, Jaimie Vernon, Brian Gagnon)    
6. Drive My Car- Cadence
   
7. Here, There and Everywhere - Stacey Wheal    
8. Lady Madonna - Andrew Gold    
9. Eleanor Rigby - First Time    
10. Long Long Long - Tom Hooper (Grapes Of Wrath)
   
11. I Feel Fine - Frank Soda    
12. Don't Bother Me - Eytan Mirsky    
13. I'm Happy Just to Dance With You - Sun PK
   
14. For No One- The Kings
   
15. You Can't Do That - Goddo    
16. I've Just Seen a Face - Jeff Jones (of Red Rider)    
17. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)- Cats & Dogs (featuring Drew Winters & Bob Segarini)
   
18. Taxman - Dr. Lotech with Mrs. Hippie & Terry Draper (Klaatu)    
19. Blue Jay Way - Dee Long (Klaatu)    
20. Fool on the Hill - Rockbeach
   
21. Hey Jude - Eight Seconds    
22. Hey Bulldog - Lackloves    
23. Helter Skelter - Popdudes    
24. Eight Days a Week - The Deal
   
25. I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Dexters    
Disc: 2    
1. Here Comes the Sun - Dave Rave with The Wretches    
2. Because - Donkey
   
3. Mean Mr. Mustard - Receiver
   
4. She's Leaving Home - Steve Barton    
5. Eleanor Rigby - Al Kooper    
6. It Won't Be Long - Bentwood Rocker    
7. Oh! Darling - Phil Vincent    
8. And Your Bird Can Sing - Greg Godovitz & Bob Segarini    
9. I'm Only Sleeping - Phil Angotti    
10. Julia - Neil Hubbard    
11. Happiness Is a Warm Gun - Jim Basnight    
12. It's All Too Much - Jeremy Morris    
13. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite - The Spongetones    
14. You're Gonna Lose That Girl - The Oohs
   
15. If I Needed Someone - Michael Carpenter    
16. I Need You - Geoff Gibbons    
17. Cry Baby Cry - Barry Holdship    
18. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - MILK
   
19. Got to Get You into My Life - Andrew Gold w/Michael White    
20. I Will - Walter & The Dairy Kings Clevenger    
21. I Want to Tell You - Paul Myers    
22. She Said She Said - The Pozers
   
23. Across the Universe - Bill Lloyd    
24. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End - Brian Gagnon    
25. Sie Liebt Dich - Trimatics

Disc: 3
1. Goodnight - Jeremy Morris
2. Dear Prudence - The Carpet Frogs
3. Two Of Us - Eric Baragar & Tim Campbell
4. Please Please Me - The Dipsomaniacs
5. Oh! Darling - Maureen Leeson
6. I'm Down (live) - Mannix
7. Revolution - Ed James
8. Across The Universe - Dee Long (Klaatu)
9. The Inner Light - The Ringles
10. Savoy Truffle - Chris Richards
11. Why Don't We Do It In The Road? - Urban Sprawl
12. Things We Said Today - Strangecloud
13. Little Child - The Beaverleys
14. Norwegian Wood - The Andersons!
15. Fool On The Hill - Glowfriends
16. I'll Get You - The Brambles
17. I Saw Her Standing There - Jaimie Vernon
18. Nowhere Man - The Roswells
19. I Call Your Name - Stratocruiser
20. We Can Work It Out - Steve Hoffman, Nilsson & John Wick
21. She Loves You (live) - The Wackers
22. 'Til There Was You - Terry Draper (Klaatu)
23. You're Gonna Lose That Girl - Bednjanec

Ladies and gents...

An original pencil sketch by graphic designer Ted Jones of Klaatu's "SunSet"/"Raarities" project(s) has just been put on Ebay for auction.

This is from my personal collection. The sketch is autographed by Ted as well.

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Jaimie Vernon,
Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.

Many fans who've received the new CD have been commenting on the amazing sound quality from what amounts to a collision of demos, outtakes, live tracks and just plain studio noodling. What the liner notes don't elaborate on is the monumental effort over 10 years to restore the band's archives.

The six 'new' live tracks were recorded at The Toronto Doubletree Hotel ballroom in Toronto in May 2005 by Bullseye co-owner Jim Hoeck. The material was remixed in 2005 by Dee Long. This rough draft became the working audio files which John and Terry contributed their production skills along with engineer John 'Beetle' Bailey in the summer of 2008. There are NO overdubs. Just a lot of finessing.

The songs on "Solology" that came from the 2005 vinyl collection 'Raarities' were lifted from many sources: 1/4" reel-to-reel (7 ips, 15 ips, and even 30 half-speed ips), cassette, and vinyl.

Klaatu webmaster and audio restoration professional David Bradley did the transfers on "December Dream" (alternate 7" edit); "Silly Boys" (Suna Sunaru mix); and "Love Of A Woman" (alternate mix)...and the two components of "A
Routine Day" (instrumental composite) that were later assembled into a single stereo track using Sound Forge by Jaimie Vernon.

Peter Moore (who also mastered 'Peaks' for Bullseye and tape transferred the major  portion of 'SunSet') did the transfers on "Sub Rosa Subway" (Terry Brown mix); "We're Off You Know" (7" mix); "California Jam" (instrumental) and "Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III" (instrumental)...oh, and the CDs hidden bonus track.

Garwood Wallace did the vinyl-to-digital transfer of "Juicy Luicy" because there was no original tape transfer....de-clicking and de-hissing using a combination of RCA and Columbia Records' RIAA standard vinyl audio mastering curve algorithm.

Bullseye's Jaimie Vernon did the CASSETTE transfers of "Hot Box City" (Live) and "Come One, Come All" (unreleased song demo) plus the edit of "Loneliest Of Creatures" (European 7") which was really the album version spliced and pasted in Sound Forge to replicate what was on the original single from which there was no master tape available.

The "Calling Occupants" re-edit is a bit of a quagmire. Terry Draper had John Woloschuk's master tape from 1976 of three different 7" single edits transferred in 1996. After the remixed version of the song done by Dee Long and Terry Draper for the 'Due South' soundtrack was vetoed by John (and, as yet, never released), Terry tinkered with two of those alternate edits and created the version you hear on the TV show soundtrack (and the only Klaatu song available on iTunes). So...I don't have any info about who did the initial tape transfer of the three original edits in 1996.

The version you hear on "Solology" is yet ANOTHER re-edit from those three alternate versions...so it differs from the album, it differs from the single, and it differs from 'Due South' version. Terry Draper was never happy with the original 7" single version -- the whole second verse was missing -- so he wanted to tinker again and we came up with what you hear.
[Jaimie Vernon again did this in Sound Forge]

NB:
What's even more mind-boggling is that there is also three newer edits that Jaimie Vernon did for the "Calling Occupants" video that had bee shown at Klaatu Kon in 2005. We did a 6 minute, a 5 minute and a 4 minute version as the length of the song on the screen would depend on how much money it was going to cost us to animate it. We initially sent the 4 minute version to the video's animator....and he was disappointed that some of the lyrical imagery he'd heard on the album version was now gone. So we then sent him the 6 minute and 5 minute versions....we settled on the 5 minute one because it was cheaper to do and he got to include some of the more dynamic animation elements he'd envisioned.

The Raarities portion of the disc was mastered by Joe Lambert in New York; the new live tracks were mastered by John Bailey here in Toronto; everything was edited together and sequenced by Jaimie Vernon in Audacity.

And that's the rest of the story....

1) The "Solology" disc is now available. You can buy it here on the MySpace page, through http://www.cdbasement.com (an authenticated Ebay site) and http://www.bullseyesongs.com

2) TONIGHT @ 10PM EST http://www.radiothatdoesntsuck.com will be airing a one-hour World Premiere of the new "Solology" which will feature songs from the disc and archival interview clips by the band members. Just click on the Flash Player in the middle of the page and it will launch a playlist....I expect the Solology show will be at the top of that list.

3) http://fyimusic.ca/talent/all-the-news-with-fits-from-fyi#more-6733