{"id":706,"date":"2010-04-05T02:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T08:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/?p=706"},"modified":"2010-04-03T08:35:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T14:35:42","slug":"ferd-mert-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/MNPunk.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Ferd Mert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best Friends<\/p>\n<p>More Ferd Mert.\u00a0 Odd.\u00a0 I went from knowing little about this band, and never seeing them play, to finding out a lot about them, and linking to several of their recordings.\u00a0 I remember seeing this one all over the place in the mid-90&#8217;s.\u00a0 Now you have a change to check it out too.<\/p>\n<p>This one is posted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/onesidedwar.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">One-Sided War<\/a> blog, which has some great posts, and has become one of my favorite blogs to follow because of the great stuff he posts over there.<\/p>\n<p>Get it <a href=\"http:\/\/onesidedwar.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/ferd-mert-best-friends-1995-self.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sorry about the lack of posts recently.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a busy time at work, and my home computer died, which has slowed down my ability to rip some of those old cassettes.\u00a0 I should resume the cassette archiving in the next couple of weeks.\u00a0 Until then, I&#8217;ll be linking to other stuff periodically, so keep checking in.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Friends More Ferd Mert.\u00a0 Odd.\u00a0 I went from knowing little about this band, and never seeing them play, to finding out a lot about them, and linking to several of their recordings.\u00a0 I remember seeing this one all over the place in the mid-90&#8217;s.\u00a0 Now you have a change to check it out too. 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