My Perry Farrell story Back in the aughts, some friends and I did a short-lived DJ night called Weird Gear. The idea was that we as 45 collectors (we were as a group mostly into soul/funk but also garage, among other things) would in our record-hoarding efforts scoop up stray 45s that didn’t…quite…fit into our preferred genres—weren’t things that we would naturally find ourselves playing out but that still had found their way into our collections. (continued below…)