Frank Zappa - Live Germany 1980

Frank Zappa - Live Germany 1980
KBFH FM/soundboard @flac

7/2/1980 - Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
7/3/1980 - Olympiahalle, München, Germany

Frank Zappa in concert at the following locations in Germany in July 1980, to promote his latest album, Joe's Garage Acts I, II & 3:

 

Musicians:

Frank Zappa - Guitar & Vocals 

Ray White - Guitar & Vocals

Ike Willis - Guitar & Vocals

Tommy Mars - Keyboards 

Arthur Barrow - Bass 

David Logeman - Drums 

 

This is a combination of the best of both shows.

 

Track List: 

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Greg Kihn / Willie Nile "King Biscuit Flower Hours Presents Greg King Band & Willie Nile"

Greg Kihn / Willie Nile
"King Biscuit Flower Hours Presents

Greg King Band & Willie Nile"
Catalog Number on CD spine: DIR 366.2

01 Greg Kihn - Rendezvous
02 Greg Kihn - Girl Most Likely
03 Greg Kihn - The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'em)
04 Greg Kihn - Sheila
05 Greg Kihn - Madison Avenue
06 Greg Kihn - Can't Stop Hurting Myself
07 Greg Kihn - Valerie
08 Willie Nile - Grenade
09 Willie Nile - Poor Boy
10 Willie Nile - Shoulders
11 Willie Nile - Vagabond Man
12 Willie Nile - Golden Down
13 Willie Nile - Hide Your Love

As a Kihn collector, I couldn't pass this unusual CD up when I spotted it on EBAY.  On first glance, it looked like one of the officially released King Biscuit Flower Hour Records CDs issued in the late 1990s. The KBFH logo is used, as is the "In Concert" title.

Closer examination reveals differences. 

There are several misspellings, such as the plural on "Hours" on the front cover of the CD.  Song titles are off; "Rendezvous" is "Rendevous."  Well, that's French, and their spelling is tricky.  "Can't Stop" is "Can't Stop Hurting Myself," but that's forgivable.  

Where I draw the line is "B's Song" for "The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'em)."

That screams "bootleg" to me.

Plus, as if that's not enough, King Biscuit Flower Hour Records did not issue "two artist" CDs that were duplicates of an original broadcast, stripped of commercials and Bill Minkin's announcements.  They presented one artist only, usually in a longer release than the original radio show.

Anyway...a duplicate of the original radio show's live material is what this is.  

It's a copy of "Greg Kihn Band / Willie Nile King Biscuit Flower Hour D.I.R. Broadcasdting - 366 Air Date: May 10, 1981"

Greg Kihn was recorded live at the Savoy, New York City, NY, USA, 26 April 1981
Willie Nile was recorded live in New York, NY, USA, 14 April 1981

And yeah, the original King Biscuit LP had it as "Khin."

https://mega.nz/file/XVQEwDTY#4MrCAdAoI4sYhp-VWr4MjXwCJ1IlxeHtF17I_AImFCg

ZZ Top / Krokus - King Biscuit Flower Hour #431

ZZ Top / Krokus
King Biscuit Flower Hour #431
air date of August 8, 1982

ZZ Top recorded at
Frank Erwin Center
Austin, TX
April 16, 1982

Krokus recorded at
My Father's Place
Roslyn, NY
May 17, 1982

01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro
02 Commercial - Sears (Cheryl Tiegs)
03 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
04 ZZ Top - I'm Bad
05 ZZ Top - Driving While Blind
06 ZZ Top - Lowdown
07 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
08 Commercial - Nestles $100,000
09 Commercial - U.S. Navy
10 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro  
11 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses 
12 ZZ Top - Dust My Broom
13 ZZ Top - Jailhouse Rock
14 ZZ Top - Tush
15 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
16 Commercial - Jensen
17 Commercial - Honda
18 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
19 Krokus - Heat Strokes
20 Krokus - Rock City
21 Krokus - Bedside Radio
22 Krokus - American Woman
23 Krokus - Long Stick Goes Boom
24 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
25 Commercial - U.S. Navy
26 Commercial - Sears (Cheryl Tiegs)
27 Commercial - Honda
28 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro

From Discogs:
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): KB-431-A MCR Joe
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): KB-431-B MCR Joe
Matrix / Runout (Side C, Etched): KB-431-C MCR Joe

Note: the "Joe" is a cursive script squiggle, also interpreted as Bre, gre, SRE or Joe.
MCR stands for "Master Cutting Room," and the squiggle for Joe Brescio, the mastering engineer. As his first name is "Joe" and last name starts with "Bre" it's possible he intended it to be both.

Another from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection.

The scans of the disc labels are from Discogs, so they're a bit blurry.

There is a longer version of the Krokus set up at Concert Vault.  Concert Vault does not have this ZZ Top show posted.

"Dust My Broom" is listed as "Blues Jam" on the cue sheet.

I found a newspaper article from the Austin American Statesman that says, "tonight's who at the Erwin Center will be the first Austin appearance in eight years, which dryly refers to itself as "the little 'ole band from Texas."

https://mega.nz/file/7QAW0RaD#zi6L0IxX7utfm08yuKBWmRB9DAOgU9crV984Tbswnjg

Yes - Wembley Arena, London 1978

Yes - Wembley Arena
London, England
1978-10-28
Evening Show
"Silver Anniversary"
presented by KBFH @FLAC

Lineage: Pre-FM recording -> CDr trade -> FLAC (Xact) -> You

 *Original Notes*

I literally have no specific information on this show.  It was a CDr trade some years ago, but is awesomely clean. I've had several versions of this show and the 25th Anniversary recording has been my go to version for a while.  What made me revisit this plain 2CDr set was the name scribble on the discs - "Silver Anniversary." I thought that this may just be a play on words, but alas it appears not.  This recording is from the notes with the CDrs claim, to be a pre-fm recording from the KBFH.  There are three mentions the KBFH within the show itself - none being over the music. However, it clearly states "from the Los Angeles Forum," which I know is incorrect. Except this show contains Future Times/Rejoice which sounds exactly like the rest of the show.  There are several other differences - no BBC or Tommy Vance intros.  No BBC or Tommy Vance outros.  This show also contains Rick Wakeman's solo, the full version of Awaken and Madrigal which leads directly into On the Silent Wings of Freedom. All super clean recordings like the rest of the show.

Now I'm no audiophile, but I've compared (by listening) all other ROIO SBD/FM versions of Future Times/Rejoice that I have and NONE of them match what is on this recording. Maybe someone else can solve the mystery? The show is from Wembley, but the KBFH clearly states LA Forum.  Could Future Times/Rejoice and the other "extras" mentioned above actually be from the LA Forum and mixed into the rest of the Wembley show by the KBFH?  I don't know.  You be the judge.  Until then, enjoy this show for (what appears) to be the first time in its entirety.  


Tracks:

Disk 1:
101 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Intro)  1:26
102 Siberian Khatru 10:04
103 Heart of the Sunrise 10:30
104 a)Future Times b)Rejoice 6:48
105 Circus of Heaven
106 Anniversary Medley: Time and a Word > Long Distance Runaround > Survival > The Fish   (Schindleria Praematurus) > Perpetual Change > Soon 27:05
107 Don't Kill the Whale 4:17

Disk 2:
201 Clap 4:35
202 Starship Trooper 10:08
203 Madrigal 1:18
204 On the Silent Wings of Freedom 8:53
205 Rick Wakeman Keyboard Solo 7:09
206 Awaken
207 I've Seen All Good People
208 Roundabout

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Playboy Playmate July 1978 - Karen Morton

 

King Biscuit Flower Hour #412 LeRoux / Blackfoot

LeRoux / Blackfoot
King Biscuit Flower Hour #412
broadcast date of 03/28/82
LeRoux recorded at the Municipal Auditorium, Nashville on March 3, 1982
Blackfoot recorded at the Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA on July 24, 1981

00 NO ARTIST - 1 kc Tone
01 Bill Minkin - Intro
02 Commercial - U.S. Navy
03 Le Roux - You Know How These Boys Are
04 Le Roux - Rock 'n' Roll Woman
05 Le Roux - New Orleans Ladies
06 Le Roux - Nobody Said It Was Easy
07 Bill Minkin - Break
08 Commercial - Honda
09 Commercial - U.S. Navy
10 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
11 Le Roux - The Last Safe Place On Earth
12 Le Roux - Addicted
13 Le Roux - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
14 Bill Minkin - Break
15 Commercial - Nestle's
16 Blackfoot - On The Run
17 Blackfoot - Fly Away
18 Bill Minkin - Break
19 Commercial - U.S. Navy
20 Commercial - Honda
21 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro
22 Blackfoot - Train, Train
23 Blackfoot - Highway Song
24 Bill Minkin - Break
25 Commercial - Levi's
26 Commercial - U.S. Navy
27 Bill Minkin - Outro
28 Bill Minkin - Music Bed with announcer
29 Bill Minkin - Music bed only

Run Out Grooves:
KBFH•412•A   MCR Bre
KBFH•412•B   MCR Bre
KBFH•412•C   MCR Bre
blank side, no etchings

Yes, NOW IN STEREO.  Yet another one where I output the files in mono on the original post (which, of course, I've taken down).  So, if you liked that, you'll like this even more.

The original liner notes are in the Artwork file, and the big topic was "What's the furthest distance you ever traveled to attend a concert?"

https://mega.nz/file/eYgCWLJa#f-pr-DLqtgdJ-trz9MGZOyl0uqfpotCspI7pqyoHbRU

The Psychedelic Furs - Madrid, Spain 1984

The Psychedelic Furs - Estudios Roma
Madrid, Spain
June 26, 1984
Soundboard recording @256

(quality: VG++; audio rip from DVD)

Recorded at Estudios Roma, Madrid on June 26, 1984.
Broadcast by La Edad de Oro (TVE2), Jan. 1, 1985.
(#2 in the Stolen Files DVD Series)

 

Setlist:

01 stage entrance
02 Love My Way
03 Pretty In Pink
04 Here Come Cowboys
05 My Time
06 President Gas
07 Sleep Comes Down
08 The Ghost in You
09 Heaven
10 Only You and I
11 Sister Europe
12 Alice's House
13 Heartbeat
14 Forever Now
15 Imitation of Christ
16 Into You Like a Train
17 India
18 stage exit

 

MASSIVE THANKS to kingonjiro for sharing!

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Bruce Hornsby & the Range / Daytona Beach, FL March 24, 1987 KBFH

Bruce Hornsby & the Range
Daytona Beach Band Shell,
Daytona Beach, FL
March 24, 1987 (confirmed by newspaper listing)

01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro
02 Commercial - AT&T
03 Commercial - Universal Action
04 Commercial - Greyhound
05 Commercial - U.S. Navy
06 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - Jacob's Ladder
07 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Long Race
08 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - Mandolin Rain
09 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
10 Commercial - AT&T
11 Commercial - Trident
12 Commercial - Contact
13 Commercial - Universal Action
14 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - Every Little Kiss (Ritz, NYC, Feb. 2, 1987)
15 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Red Plains
16 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - I Know You Rider
17 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
18 Commercial - AT&T
19 Commercial - Greyhound
20 Commercial - Trident
21 Commercial - U.S. Navy
22 Bruce Hornsby - KBFH Spot
23 Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way It Is
24 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro
25 Bill Minkin - Segment Intro to Blues Traveler
26 Blues Traveler - Defense & Desire
27 Blues Traveler - Love & Greed
28 Bruce Hornsby - Promo 1
29 Bruce Hornsby - Promo 2
30 Bruce Hornsby - Promo 3
31 Bruce Hornsby - Promo 4
32 Bruce Hornsby - Promo 5
33 Bruce Hornsby - Promo 6

Flac files of wavs. Included 300 dpi scans of the CD disc and cue sheet, a newspaper listing for the show, and an article about corporate sponsorship that mentions that Miller Beer paid for the concert (which was free to the audience).

https://mega.nz/file/CF4SBYSb#UPWXeP9CfVF1gDbBMX7fFHEKTRDN-IFEYh0eJ5hyBYg

This is another in the KING BISCUIT KLONE series.  It's number 10, if you're keeping count.

The History of Bruce Hornsby on the King Biscuit Flower Hour:

The first Bruce Hornsby KBFH show had an air date of August 16, 1987. This was on 2-LPs. Discogs says it was sourced from their February 2, 1987 show at the Ritz in New York City.  The KBFH show has the following tracks:

Jacob’s Ladder
Every Little Kiss
Mandolin Rain
The Wild Frontier
The Red Plains
I Know You Rider
The Way It Is
On The Western Skyline

Tracks from this show were released as the promo LP Bruce Hornsby And The Range – Live - The Way It Is Tour 1986-87 (RCA-6275-1-RDJ) in 1987. Tracks are:
Every Little Kiss
The Long Race
The Way It Is (solo piano intro)
The Way It Is
Mandolin Rain
The Red Plains
On The Western Skyline

In 1990, KBFH issued a show on CD from the March 24, 1987 show at the Daytona Beach Band Shell in Daytona Beach, Florida.  The set list on the CD is:
Jacob's Ladder 
The Long Race 
Mandolin Rain 
Every Little Kiss 
The Red Plains 
I Know You Rider
The Way It Is

There is a streaming audio of Daytona at Concert Vault with the following track listing:
Jacob’s Ladder
The Long Race
Mandolin Rain
The Wild Frontier
The Red Plains
I Know You Rider
Piano Instrumental
The Way It Is
On The Western Skyline
Down The Road Tonight

The Concert Vault version adds "The Long Race," "On The Western Skyline," and "Down The Road Tonight."  "Piano Instrumental" is a long introductory section to "The Way It Is."  On the Concert Vault version, the two sections add up to 14 minutes; on the 1994 KBFH CD the two parts sum up a total of 12 minutes 30 seconds, so they may be edited down.  

The Concert Vault version does not list "Every Little Kiss."  Comparison with the other shows at CV prove that track is from the Ritz, New York City, NY February 2, 1987.

The Daytona Beach Band Shell edit showed up multiple times over the years.

07/09-15/90
03/16-22/92
01/25-31/93 (with G.E. Smith as the added second artist)
01/17-23/94 (this show)(with Blues Traveler as the second artist)
02/06-12/95 (with Rusted Root as the second artist)

Other things to note....the Blues Traveler first song ("Defense & Desire") is obviously faded out before it ends.

Roger Daltrey - KBFH - Orpheum Theatre, Boston, Dec. 8, 1985 (plus Tower, Philadelphia 3 tracks...)

Roger Daltrey
King Biscuit Flower Hour For Broadcast The Week Of October 23-29, 1989
Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA December 8, 1985
Tower Theatre, Upper Darby, PA December 5, 1985

00 NO ARTIST - 1 kc tone for level setting and balance
01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro
02 Commercial - Paul Masson
03 Commercial - Dodge Trucks
04 Commercial - Warner Home Video
05 Bill Minkin - KBFH Segment Intro
06 Roger Daltrey - Substitute
07 Roger Daltrey - Pictures of Lily
08 Roger Daltrey - Behind Blue Eyes
09 Roger Daltrey - 5_15
10 Roger Daltrey - After The Fire
11 Roger Daltrey - Under A Raging Moon
12 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
13 Commercial - Dodge Trucks
14 Commercial - Magnavox (Smothers Brothers)
15 Commercial - Levi's
16 Commercial - Dodge Trucks
17 Roger Daltrey - Let Me Down Easy
18 Roger Daltrey - Giving It All Away
19 Roger Daltrey - Won't Get Fooled Again
20 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
21 Commercial - Magnavox (Smothers Brothers)
22 Commercial - Levi's
23 Commercial - Dodge Trucks
24 Commercial - Paul Masson
25 Bill Minkin - KBFH Segment Intro
26 Roger Daltrey - Free Me
27 Roger Daltrey - Summertime Blues
28 Roger Daltrey - C'mon Everybody
29 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro
30 Bill Minkin - KBFH Promo

Recorded (mostly) in Boston, plus three tracks from Tower Theatre, Upper Darby ("Philadelphia") Dec. 5, 1985

Bootlegged as Roger Daltrey: Summertime Blues (That's Life TL 930024, 1992)

This is another in the KING BISCUIT KLONE series.

The concept is to duplicate the contents of the syndicated radio show, but with the content tracked.  This allows for easy navigation to the track you desire and allows the user to drop the commercials if they are of no interest.

As is sometimes the case with King Biscuit shows, the tracks from a concert were repeated in various configurations for many years.

Tracks from the Orpheum (and Tower) shows first turned up on a Roger Daltrey show broadcast on January 5, 1986.

A "Best of Roger Daltrey dated March 1, 1987 is likely from from the same source.

Dec 18, 1988 there was a split Daltrey  / Townshend / The Who show, with Daltrey's four songs in his segment credited to Boston December 1985.  (Substitute, Summertime Blues, Behind Blue Eyes/5:15 but Summertime Blues was probably from the Tower Theatre.)

Then there's this show.  After about 1990, KBFH began repeating the same shows with only the commercials changing, but Daltrey does not appear to have been one of the artists on repeat.  There was a Daltrey show from 2005, with a different set list, but all of the song were songs done at the Orpheum show.

https://mega.nz/file/edZUVabB#BVVtmWjuIjNa2g1A-ZsGeBom9VPez6H7YVbZ_OwRC84

Rolling Stones - KBFH Radio Meets The Rolling Stones interviews

The Rolling Stones – 
King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents: Radio Meets The Rolling Stones
Released: Jul 27, 1980

01 Scott Muni – Scott Muni WNEW Radio Intro
02 No Artist – Commercial Block - Pioneer High Fidelity, Honda Motorcycles
03 Scott Muni, Mark Parenteau, Norm Winer, Tempie Lindsey, Jack Snyder, Charlie Kendall – DJ Intros
04 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
05 Rolling Stones – Dance
06 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
07 Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue
08 Scott Muni – Segment Break
09 No Artist – Commercial Block - Haagen Daz Ice Cream
10 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
11 Rolling Stones – Where The Boys Go
12 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
13 Rolling Stones – Down In The Hole
14 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
15 Rolling Stones – Summer Romance
16 Scott Muni – Segment Break
17 No Artist – Commercial Block - Budweiser
19 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
19 Rolling Stones – Indian Girl
20 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
21 Rolling Stones – Let Me Go
22 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
23 Rolling Stones – Send It To Me
24 Scott Muni – Segment Break
25 No Artist – Commercial Block - Honda Motorcycles
26 Scott Muni – Segment Intro
27 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
28 Rolling Stones – She's So Cold
29 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
30 Rolling Stones – All About You
31 Rolling Stones – Interview Segment
32 Scott Muni – Segment Break
33 No Artist – Commercial Block - Pioneer High Fidelity / Haagen Daz Ice Cream
34 Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue
35 Scott Muni – End Credits

I chose to follow the DISCOGS track breakdown as much as possible.  The Discogs entry has "Rolling Stones – Interview Segment" after track 7 (Emotional Rescue) but there's nothing there like an interview.  Tracks 31 and 32 are reversed on the vinyl (that is, Discogs has it as Segment Break followed by Interview Segment, and it's the opposite.

I did not digitize the vinyl.  I was sent the unprocessed files by an internet friend.  He didn't have scans included, but I found 72 dpi scans on Discogs.

The show is about 85 minutes long, but only 2 LPs were used.  While 2 LPs was the standard for KBFH 60 minute shows, they were pushing the limits on a 33 1/2 LP.  Side C is 23 1/2 minutes long.  The vinyl source was heavily worn with a lot of surface noise.  Normally I don't take a "brute force" approach to click removal, but this one required multiple passes of Click Fix to clean it up.
The only real reason to listen to this is for the interviews.  The tracks are available on official releases in far better sound.  As the interviews are faded in and out of the music, I chose to place the breaks so that the interviews are fully on the tracks, and the music is less than the full track.

Flac files of wavs.  72 dpi scans.

So...yeah...this is not up to my usual standards.  The recording is still noisy, the scans are lower resolution than my usual 300 dpi.  But it's of interest to Rolling Stones collectors, and the price range on Discogs ($59.99 to $217.09) and the last time sold (August 2021) tells me most of us have never seen a copy.....so here ya go!

One more thing:  while this says "Rolling Stones," Keith Richards is NOT there.

https://mega.nz/file/DYRVGKRC#_-t-6QqBy5y9gJJU2sgYSUQnjvI-rt9EPyrGxKlen5Y

From Discogs:

"New York radio disc jockey Scott Muni leads a "round table" discussion with several well known disc jockeys from across the United States and the members of The Rolling Stones for a King Biscuit Flower Hour 90 minute radio special. The disc jockeys present are Mark Parenteau from WBCN in Boston, (who was later sentenced to three years in federal prison for sexual child abuse, and who passed away in 2016), Norm Winer from WXRT in Chicago (who quit being a DJ in 2016 after 37 years at WXRT), Tempi Lindsey from KTXQ in Dallas, Jack Snyder from KMET in Los Angeles and Charlie Kendall from WMMR in Philadelphia (who later appeared as a regular host of Westwood One's Superstar Concert Series). The entire group met at the WNEW studios in New York, where they all sat around a table drinking, smoking, telling stories and asking / answering questions from the various DJs. Some questions from "fans" are also presented, but no call-in audience members are present. One can actually hear cigarette lighters clicking, beer cans popping open and being poured, and glasses clinking throughout the show. Tracks from the most recent Stones album at the time, The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue, were also featured during the show. Original commercial blocks are also included."

Coming up: The Return of Mellenfest!  I'll be starting a run of Westwood One appearances by everyone's favorite Hoosier.

KBFH Best of the 80s Part Two

The King Biscuit Flower Hour 
Week of 11/27/89 - 12/3/89
BEST OF THE 80'S Part Two

01 1kc tone for setting level and balance
02 KBFH Intro - Bill Minkin
03 Commercial - Paul Masson
04 Commercial - Greyhound
05 Commercial - U.S. Marines
06 Commercial - Budweiser (Toots Hibbert)
07 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
08 Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
09 The Who - Eminence Front
10 The Kinks - Come Dancing
11 Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway
12 Grateful Dead - Hell In A Bucket
13 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
14 Commercial - U.S. Marines
15 Commercial - Warner Home Video (Batman)
16 Commercial - Greyhound
17 Commercial - Budweiser
18 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
19 Robert Plant - Good Rockin' Tonight
20 David Bowie - Let's Dance
21 Eric Clapton - Forever Man
22 Elton John - I'm Still Standing
23 KBFH break - Bill Minkin
24 Commercial - Warner Home Video (Batman)
25 Commercial - U.S. Marines
26 Commercial - Greyhound
27 Commercial - Paul Masson
28 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break
29 Genesis - Invisible Touch
30 KBFH Outro - Bill Minkin

This is the third in the KING BISCUIT KLONE series.

Flac files, with 300 dpi scans of the disc and cue sheet.
This is Part Two of KBFH's Best of the 80's 2-part show.

https://mega.nz/file/7Igm1ahK#V2QakHeAoGVFSVKnie-wmvw1bj5F6YsGvx0af6DwUtA

KBFH Best of the 80s Part One

The King Biscuit Flower Hour 
Week of 11/20/89 - 11/26/89
BEST OF THE 80'S Part One

01 1kc tone for setting level and balance
02 KBFH Intro - Bill Minkin
03 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
04 Foreigner - Urgent
05 U2 - New Year's Day
06 Bon Jovi - Runaway
07 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
08 Commercial - Paul Masson
09 Commercial - Greyhound
10 Commercial - Magnavox (Smothers Brothers)
11 Commercial - U.S. Marines
12 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
13 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
14 John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane
14 John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane (uncensored)
15 Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
16 Tom Petty - Refugee
17 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
18 Commercial - Magnavox
19 Commercial - Greyhound
20 Commercial - U.S. Marines
21 Commercial - Budweiser
22 KBFH Break - Bill Minkin
23 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
24 KBFH break - Bill Minkin
25 Commercial - Greyhound
26 Commercial - Magnavox
27 Commercial - U.S. Marines
28 Commercial - Warner Home Video (Batman)
29 Commercial - Paul Masson
30 Commercial - Greyhound
31 KBFH Outro - Bill Minkin

This is the second in the KING BISCUIT KLONE series.

Same deal as last time (tracked, but not altered...)  

However, I also provided two versions of John Mellencamp's Jack & Diane: the original censored version, exactly as on the CD, and an uncensored version.  KBFH dealt with profanity several different ways.  They often used the classic "beep," putting a tone over the offending word.  Sometimes they just cut the word out; if it was short enough, it didn't interrupt the flow of the music.  They also reversed the word...most likely on computer as it would be a heck of a lot of work to play a single word backwards and dub it back into a tape.  When they do this, it's possible to reverse the reversal, restoring the original word.  On Jack & Diane, they reversed the word "sh*t". I give to you both versions. 

https://mega.nz/file/DM4lmZhI#KY3s5evmUCZFS1-xj6J4hjv6cOeIw5jHs9T8I1IbC-o

John Couger & the Zone, Channel Club 1980 / Gamma, Old Waldorf 1980

JOHN COUGAR and THE ZONE 
The Channel Club, Boston, MA - October 2, 1980
GAMMA 
Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA July 13, 1980
Original air date December 14th 1980

01. K.B.F.H. Intro
02. Sugar Marie
03. Ain't Even Done With the Night
04. This Time
05. Taxi Dancer
06. I Need A Lover
GAMMA
07. Gamma Intro
08. Ready For Action 
09. Thunder And Lightning
10. Voyager
11. Four Horsemen
12. Mayday
13. K.B.F.H. Outro
14. Ad For Show # 1
15. Ad For Show # 2

https://mega.nz/file/iZRSBILD#kFx7U9UuGsCpERmd5KowWsF4diThmbwaxl2UQflrXBw

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First of all, this was a great transfer from the original discs.  It was up on Guitars 101 but the link was not working the last time I checked.For this run of Mellencamp shows, I wanted to add SOMETHING to it.  While it was a great transfer, there were a few clicks and pops here and there......so I "altered" it by converting to wav, removing clicks in Audacity, fixing sector boundary errors with Trader's Little Helper, and converting back to FLAC.  I did not "remaster" the sound, or normalize the volume.   All I did was remove some minor surface noise (clicks and pops).  

There is a GREAT website for KBFH info at http://www.eclipse67.com/kbi.htm

I use that website and cross-reference it with a list I compiled from EBAY listings to document the various track listings and reappearances of these shows.

This was the first concert by Mellencamp on the nationally syndicated King Biscuit Flower Hour radio show.  KBFH did not repeat any of the five tracks on future KBFH broadcasts.  The show is not posted on Concert Vault.  The only current source is the original vinyl discs.

Of note is how fast KBFH managed to get live music pressed up.  The show was recorded on October 2nd and was edited, mastered, pressed, sent by US Mail and played by the radio stations on December 14.

There is another D.I.R. Radio Network recording Mellencamp was on a DIR show with a broadcast date of May 11, 1981 which is out of sequence with the regular KBFH shows, as it's a Monday.  KBFH was broadcast every Sunday, and the May 10 Sunday show was Greg Kihn Band/Willie Nile.  The Monday broadcast was "The Rock Radio Awards V," with three songs (Hurts So Good, Jack & Diane, and I Need A Lover).  If that May 11 date is correct, it would mean that Mellencamp was performing Jack & Diane a full year before the LP was released in May of 1982.  That possible...but it could also be the EBAY listing got the date wrong and it was really a 1982 show.  So there may be another show out there...if any of our Beloved Audience have information (or a copy...) of this show, please let us know!

After that, the next KBFH show was Pershing, NB 1982, which was then repeated by DIR many times. The John Cougar/Mellencamp King Biscuit history powerpoints down to:

One show in 1979, shared with another artist
A few songs on "best of" compilation shows over the years
Pershing 1982 repeated many times

Check back in a few days...there's more MELLENPALOOZA coming later next week!

Boz Scaggs / Radio City Music Hall, NY Nov. 26, 1980 - King Biscuit #361

Boz Scaggs
Radio City Music Hall
King Biscuit Flower Hour show #KB 361 (scratched on the run out groove)
for broadcast on April 5, 1981 (NOT the date the show was recorded...)
Recorded November 26, 1980

01.  KBFH Intro - Bill Minkin
02.  Commercial - 1981 Hondas
03.  Breakdown Dead Ahead
04.  What Can I Say
05.  Hard Times
06.  You Got Some Imagination
07.  KBFH break - Bill Minkin
08.  Commercial - Pioneer
09.  KBFH break - Bill Minkin
10.  Georgia
11.  Jump Street
12.  Lido Shuffle
13.  KBFH break - Bill Minkin
14.  Commercial - Miller Beer (Dave Mason)
15.  Commercial - $100,000 Bar
16.  KBFH break - Bill Minkin
17.  Middle Man
18.  Lowdown
19.  KBFH outro - Bill Minkin
20.  Commercial - Honda
21.  Commercial - Pioneer
22.  KBFH credits - Bill Minkin
23.  KBFH Boz Scaggs promo bed
24.  KBFH Boz Scaggs promo ad

Originally digitized in 2013.  This version was declicked a second time in December 2021, the files were retagged, and liner notes updated.  As of August 2023, I added the cue sheets to the download.

The broadcast date printed on the KBFH syndicated discs says April 5, 1981.  This date often shows on the Internet as the date of the concert, but I think that's in error.  Wolfgang's Vault has the show up with the April date, which perpetuates the mistake.  KBFH records the shows well in advance of the broadcast date.  KBFH did not record the show, press up the records, and distribute them to hundreds of radio stations on the same day as the show.

Setlists.com also lists the April 5 date, but there are no other concerts near it, except for an appearance at the Bammies (Bay Area Music Awards).  Boz was not on tour in 1980, and it's not likely he would have done a single stand-alone show in New York City just for this broadcast.

The show was recorded on November 26, 1980.  I've included a ticket stub from the November show, plus a newspaper listing.

The streaming audio version does NOT include "Middle Man," which was on the original broadcast discs.

I cleaned the discs with Titebond II wood glue and then went through it on Audacity and declicked the show. I went through the files a second time in December 2021 and did some more clean-up.  The sound quality is top-notch, the drums really snap, the two background vocalists are well-defined.

I've tracked all the commercials and KBFH breaks so they can be left out if they're of no interest. 

There's one "star turn" where Dave Mason does a pretty heartwarming commercial for Miller Beer that may be of interest to Dave Mason completists. He really "sells" the commercial.

Flac files of wavs; unfortunately, there was no cue sheet.  I've included a 300 dpi scan of the disc label and a copy of a ticket to the November show.

https://mega.nz/file/HFRDBSaQ#ysdzbKeZMF-mgp85cXH1rgBRw6hC4SN40cqrdFaQFo8

Roxy Music / KBFH 98-38 - Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA March 30, 1979

Roxy Music
King Biscuit Flower Hour 98-38
(CUE:) FOR THE WEEK OF: September 14, 1998
(DISC:) For broadcast week 9/14 to 9/20

Roxy Music recorded at the Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, March 30, 1979

01 KBFH Intro - Ed Sciaky
02 Manifesto
03 Trash
04 A Song For Europe
05 Still Falls The Rain
06 Mother Of Pearl
07 KBFH Break - Ed Sciaky
08 In Every Dream Home A Heartache 
09 Casanova
10 KBFH Break - Ed Sciaky
11 Love Is The Drug 
12 Editions Of You
13 KBFH Intro - Ed Sciaky
14 Promo Music Bed (30 seconds of Love Is The Drug)

The cue sheet has a lot of minor errors in the titles, but also one big error: Remake Remodel is not on the disc, even though it is on the cue sheet.

300 dpi scans of the disc, cue sheets, and Certificate of Performance included.

I've also included a short article I wrote on what I know about the Roxy Music KBFH shows.  As it is mainly just documentation of the tracks and sources, I'm not reproducing it here on the blog.  If any of our Beloved Audience has updates, corrections, or comments to this article about the Roxy Music KBFH shows, please add it in the comments and I will update the article with your contributions.

https://mega.nz/file/HUYxgIZC#8Ca__E-4FJ6cwdYjzFhkVK1AsFQmJfxRJMJ5aHP74-E

(Can You Still) Rock In America?

 

Night Ranger was one of those bands back in the 80's that straddled the fence (quite successfully) between Hard Rock and being Radio & MTV friendly! Their first few albums were really good, I thought!

This is a Great Concert! It's an Exciting Performance by the band with Excellent Sound Quality provided by King Biscuit Flower Hour! And a solid setlist!

I was listenin' to this one in the car the other day on the way to the store and back, so I thought I'd throw it out there for anyone that wanted to live in the past (like me) and remember some good times with some catchy, rockin' tunes...

I've seen this one on other sites - but most have a song or two missin'! I believe this to be the Complete Concert Broadcast!

Not much else to say, 'cept IF it's You're kinda thing of thing grab it - IF Not - Let It Pass and Wait for somethin' else to go by (gots more things comin' up, as do the other folks postin' here and over at FBS and in the Bookstore)!

(NEW LINK: 3/6/21)

https://krakenfiles.com/view/7ab45c0814/file.html

Greg Lake with Gary Moore - London 1981

 Greg Lake with Gary Moore

Hammersmith Odeon

London, England
November 5, 1981
KBFH soundboard @320
{out of print}

Starting off with “Fanfare For The Common Man” in the same rock arrangement ELP played in 1977.  Gary Moore’s guitar takes the place of Emerson’s keyboards in the first half of the show, but Tommy Eyre does assert himself during the improvisation in the middle.  He solos on the keyboards and duets with Moore’s guitar.  The Copeland cover segues into a heavy metal arrangement of “Karn Evil 9.”

The bulk of the show is drawn from Greg Lake including the Moore written “Nuclear Attack,” “The Lie” and “Retribution Drive.”  Thin Lizzy is represented with Moore’s “Parisienne Walkways” and they play a cover of the 1962 hit “You Really Got A Hold Of Me” by The Miracles.

A highlight of the set is “Love You Too Much” from Greg Lake.  This is the song which Lake co-wrote with Bob Dylan.  The lyrics are closer to Lake circa Love Beach and really not too much like Dylan, but it is a fun song none the less.  Moore especially has fun with the solos in the middle.

“21 Century Schizoid Man” has a spacy introduction and Moore doesn’t try to duplicate Fripp’s angular guitar solo, but rather plays his own brand of heavy riffing power chords.  The show ends with a version of “The Court Of The Crimson King” in which Moore plays the mellotron melody on the guitar.  It is interesting how Lake, wanting to establish a solo career, would end the song with two ancient King Crimson songs.

Set List:

1."Fanfare for the Common Man – Karn Evil 9"
2."Nuclear Attack"
3."The Lie"
4."Retribution Drive"
5."Lucky Man"
6."Parisienne Walkways"
7."You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
8."Love You Too Much"
9."21st Century Schizoid Man"
10."The Court of the Crimson King"

Greg Lake – lead vocals, guitar
Gary Moore – lead guitar, vocals
Tommy Eyre – keyboards, vocals
Ted McKenna – drums, percussion
Tristram Margetts – bass

pass - fbsvw

 

@$@

 

Moody Blues / KBFH show #647, broadcast in 1986

Continuing the gnarly Voodoo Wagon tradition of dropping in a fresh, uncirculated digitization making it's "internet premiere," here's a KBFH show right from the original LPs.   They don't announce a venue; if anyone knows where this is from please leave a comment.  As usual, I continue my habit of including the vintage commercials; in this case it's less pointless than usual as there's one by the pride of East Los Angeles, the wonderful LOS LOBOS, who make the Budweiser commercial actually SWING (that's how good they are...)....and also one by the Bus Boys...a band deserving of more recognition.  Also...there's one that sounds like it could be Willie Nelson, but I can't be sure as I'm not a fan.   Give it a listen and let me know what you think...toss in your two cents in the comments.  Is that really Willie Nelson "singing for Spuds?"  Or just a convincing sound-alike?

Flac file of wavs.  I include for your careful examination 300 dpi scans of the cue sheets, and disc label.

The promo commercials for the show were originally right in the middle of the show and would have been tracks 18 and 19, which WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGGIN' STUPID, so I took the liberty of moving them to the end of the show, which made more sense.  To me, anyway...this being the Internet, you probably disagree. :)

Moody Blues

King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #647

Broadcast date of September 28, 1986

Recorded at

the Poplar Creek Music Theater

Hoffman Estates, IL.

July 18, 1981 

01 Bill Minkin - KBFH Intro

02 Commercial - U.S. Army

03 Moody Blues - The Voice

04 Moody Blues - I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)

05 Moody Blues - 22,000 Days

06 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

07 Commercial - Budweiser (Los Lobos)

08 Commercial - Reese's

09 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

10 Moody Blues - Gemini Dream

11 Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon

12 Moody Blues - The Story In Your Eyes

13 Moody Blues - Gypsy (Of A Strange And Distant Time)

14 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

15 Commercial - U.S. Army

16 Commercial - Budweiser (Willie Nelson)

17 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

18 Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

19 Moody Blues - Question

20 Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw

21 Bill Minkin - KBFH Break

22 Commercial - Reese's

23 Commercial - U.S. Army

24 Commercial - Budweiser (Bus Boys)

25 Bill Minkin - KBFH Outro

26 Bill Minkin - KBFH Promo

27 Bill Minkin - KBFH Promo music only

The groovy runout grooves say:

KB • 647 A  MCR Bre

KB • 647 B  MCR Bre

KB   647 C  MCR Bre

Note: the "Bre" is a cursive script squiggle, also interpreted as gre, SRE or Joe.

MCR stands for "Master Cutting Room," and the squiggle for Joe Bresio, the mastering engineer.

There is no date or location mentioned in the paperwork or during the broadcast, but one of our readers, Propylaen2001, identified the show, and said, "I can now confirm that it was recorded on July 18, 1981 at the Poplar Creek Music Theater, Hoffman Estates, IL."

Concert Vault has sets from both shows the Moody Blues played at Poplar Creek on July 17, and July 18...but also has a set listed as from August 17.  It's likely that's an error.

Retagged by Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï Feb. 2025.  I've also added all four disc labels, plus press coverage.

Rick Derringer - Bottom Line, NYC, Jan. 3, 1980 WNEW-FM

I bought this show on a used cassette tape on Ebay, so I don't know anything about its generation. Whatever it is, it's fairly low, a good copy of the concert. There's an obvious tape flip in the middle of an extended jam at the end of "Rock and Roll Hootchie Koo," but it falls in the middle of the guitar-hero jamming, so it's not too much of a distraction.  The tape was a low bias tape.

They mention that it's being recorded for the King Biscuit Flower Hour, but it doesn't look like the KBFH ever broadcast anything from this show.  The show was the second show of the evening and Derringer's voice sounds slightly strained in a few places, which might explain why it was left in the can.  

A bit of history:  This concert took place two months into the Iran Hostage Crisis. At one point, Derringer shouts out an uncensored "F*ck Iran."  And after the show, the WNEW deejays ramble on for a bit about the concert.  Normally I would fade that out, but as they veer between apocalyptic comments about nuclear Armageddon and prosaic banter about Bert Parks losing the Miss America gig.  It's a piece of history, so I've preserved all of it until the fade out over the Clash's "London Calling." 

Rick Derringer
The Bottom Line, New York City, NY
January 3, 1980
WNEW-FM
Unknown generation Maxell-UDXL II C90 cassette

01.  WNEW-FM Intro
02.  Guitars and Women
03.  It Ain't Funny
04.  Teenage Love Affair
05.  Something Warm
06.  Man In The Middle
07.  Jump Jump Jump
08.  Let Me In
09.  Uncomplicated
10.  Back In The U.S.A.
11.  Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo (tape flip)
12.  WNEW-FM Accouncers
13.  Hang On Sloopy
14.  WNEW-FM Announcers
15.  Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
16.  WNEW-FM Announcers (six minutes over the Bottom Line crowd noise...)

https://mega.co.nz/#!2MQAVCxY!eQfAAiMmQlmMTkN65F-KF0YJdHG_AE5r29qlDKGTCto