Franke & The Knockouts / The Dregs (Dixie Dregs w/Alex Ligertwood)
King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423
Franke & The Knockouts: The Agora, Cleveland, Ohio, USA April 28, 1982
The Dregs (Dixie Dregs): Rumors, Atlanta, Georgia, USA April 22, 1982
For Broadcast June 13, 1982
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl Rip
Flac Level 8 24bit/96khz
Flac Level 8 16bit/44,1khz
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Cue Sheet & Label Scans Included
From The Collection Of Sam Elliot's Mustache
Brought To You By The Collective Of Live Music
Digitized From An Original 3 Sided 2 Record Radio Broadcast Set.
Lineage: Pre-FM 2x Vinyl LP Set > 280gram Record Weight > Sony PS-LX300H Belt Driven Turntable @ 33+1/3 RPM/60Hrz (Turntable & Tone Arm Balanced: Needle Tracking & Azimuth Set: Tone Arm Pressure Digitally Dialed In at .84: Anti-Skid set 1.0) > Sony TA-AV561 AV Control Integrated Amplifier (bass/treble +/- zero) > Line In (4ft cables w/gold plated tips) > HP Envy 700 Series > BEATS Audio Realtek High Definition Audio Soundcard (Stereo Field Maximized) > Goldwave v6.83 (recording, editing) > Wave 24bit/96khz > Goldwave v6.83 (LAME) (encoding, tagging) > Flac Level 8 24bit/96khz
Hosted By Bill Minkin
01 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
03 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Intro - Bill Minkin
04 Franke & The Knockouts - Never Had It Better
05 Franke & The Knockouts - Keep On Fighting
06 Franke & The Knockouts - Without You
07 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Break - Bill Minkin
08 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Candy Bar
09 Commercial - United States Navy
10 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Intro - Bill Minkin
11 Franke & The Knockouts - Sweetheart
12 Franke & The Knockouts - Tell Me Why
13 Franke & The Knockouts - You're Just What I Want
14 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Break - Bill Minkin
15 Commercial - Warner Pictures's FIREFOX Starring Clint Eastwood
16 Commercial - Jensen High Fidelity Systms
17 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Intro - Bill Minkin
18 The Dregs (Dixie Dregs w/ Alex Ligertwood) - Bloodsucking Leaches
19 The Dregs (Dixie Dregs w/ Alex Ligertwood) - Crank It Up
20 The Dregs (Dixie Dregs w/ Alex Ligertwood) - Rock 'n Roll Park
21 The Dregs (Dixie Dregs w/ Alex Ligertwood) - Take It Off The Top
22 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Break - Bill Minkin
23 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
24 Commercial - United States Navy
25 Commercial - Warner Pictures's FIREFOX Starring Clint Eastwood
26 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin
27 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Promo Bed w/Voiceover - Bill Minkin/Franke & The Knockouts
28 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-423 Promo Bed Music Only - Franke & The Knockouts
Total Playing Time: 59mn 22sc
Franke & The Knockouts:
Franke Previte lead vocals
Billy Elworthy lead guitar
Blake Levinsohn keyboards
Tom Ayers keyboards
Leigh Foxx bass
Charlie Dominici rhythm guitar
Tico Torres drums
The Dregs (Dixie Dregs w/ Alex Ligertwood):
Steve Morse guitar
Andy West bass
Rod Morgenstein drums, percussion
T Lavitz keyboards, saxophone
Mark O'Connor violin
Alex Ligertwood vocals
Runout Grooves:
Side A: KB-423-A MCR JOE
Side B: KB-423-B MCR JOE
Side C: KB-423-C MCR JOE
Side D: Blank
JustDave's Notes:
- The Collective Of Live Music owes Sam Elliot's Mustache a huge debt of graditude for sending his vinyl for encoding.
- A Big Thank You to Draftervoi for once again snooping out the elusive concert date for another Collective release.
- The more of these shows I edit for SAM the more grateful I am for this thing we call music. I am listening to more bands and styles of music that I would never have listened to in my younger days which is saying a lot. I live music, I am a vocalist, play drums and bass. I have worked as an engineer, producer, and as a musician. Lately I just have been amazed at how music touches that thing inside me we call a soul and lifts my mind and body.
Recording Notes:
- There is a locked groove "Ovu" Test Tone at the beginning of Side A used by DJs to set volume and balance levels before broadcasting. It has been encoded and placed in it's own folder so it will not be accidentally played.
- There are 2 locked groove promo bed at the end of Side B with music by Franke & The Knockouts, one with a voice over from Bill Minkin, one without. They have been encoded and moved to the end of the program.
- The Dregs portion of the show was broadcast in entirerty before being picked up and edited by King Biscuit Flower Hour.
- During one of his talks to the audience Franke Previte says "God it's early" leading me to believe the Franke & The Knockouts portion of the show may be a Coffee Break Concert At The Agora in Cleveland.
Editing Notes:
- A Zerostat Positive Ion gun was used on LPs prior to playback.
- A carbon fiber record brush, then a microfiber disc cleaner was used on the records prior to playback.
- Records hand cleaned with Record Research Lab Super Record Wash before playback.
- LP cleaned with the HumminGuru Ultrasonic Vinyl Record Cleaning System using distilled water prior to playback.
- Raw transfer: EQ off, treble and bass levels set at +/- zero for most accurate sound of LP.
- Turntable & tone arm balanced: Needle Tracking & Azimuth set: Needle Pressure & Antiskid digitaly set:
- Computer Soundcard stereo field maximized.
- Goldwave set to record while filtering any DC Offset.
- Recording and all editing done in 24bit/96khz.
- Preservation being key the show is encoded complete with commercials and voiceovers.
- Declicked manually and some noise reduction used depending on what best served the situation.
- Raised the volume of the commercials to match that of the music and voice overs.
- A rumble filter with an initial cut off of 50khz and a static steepness of 2 was used to lessen the needle noise on the commercials due to having to raise the volume to match that of the music and voice overs.
Other Notes:
- Franke & The Knockouts had a pretty good beginning. Their eponymous debut album had hit a respectible No 31 and spawned a Top Ten Billboard Hit with the # 10 "Sweatheart" which also hit #13 in Cashbox. Their follow up album Below The Belt hit No 48 with the single "Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)" hitting #24 on Billboard and #22 on Cashbox. The Album Oriented Hard Rock genre would be swallowed up by Hair Metal by time Franke & The Knockouts released their thid album.
- Tico Torres who played drums on the tour would leave Franke & The Knockouts for fame and fortune in the Hair Metal band Bon Jovi.
- Band leader Franke Previte would go on to song writing fame and fortune with the song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" hit which went Platinum when used in the motion picture Dirty Dancing's soundtrack sung by Bill Medley and Jenifer Wells. Previte also hit Multi-Platinum with the Dirty Dancing single "Hungry Eyes' sung by Eric Carmen formerly of The Raspberries.
- The Dixie Dregs in a move to garner more radio airplay shortened their name to The Dregs in 1981. They also decided to write some songs with vocals in 1982. For those songs Alex Ligertwood of Santan and Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers were used in the studio. Alex Ligertwood would appear live with The Dregs to perform the vocals. This didn't improve the bands commercial apeal so the band split up in 1983.
- Steve Morse would go on to form The Steve Morse Band, play guitar for Kansas, then Deep Purple. Rod Morgenstein would join Hair Metal band Winger and the Pro group Rudess/Morgenstein Project. Andy West went on to session and live work that put him into high demand. T. Lavitz went on to work with Jazz Is Dead a Grateful Dead Jazz Cover Band. Original violinist Alan Sloan studied medicine at Medical College of Georgia, earing an Anesthesiology residency. His replacement Mark O'Conner who had won Nashville's Grand Masters Fiddle Championship prior to joining has gone on to play more sessions than I could list here. Alex Ligertwood sang with Santana from 1979's Marathon til 1985's Beyond Appearances.
Digitized By JustDave For Sam Elliot's Mustache And The Collective Of Live Music
Project Started: August 8, 2026 Project Finished: August 20, 2026
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