PRiSM / Ian Hunter King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-420 (Pre-FM)

PRiSM / Ian Hunter
King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-420
Prism Wings Arena, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA, April 25, 1982
Ian Hunter New York City, New York, USA, 1981
For Broadcast May 23, 1982
Pre-FM Recording
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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 KB-420 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - United States Navy
03 Introduction Of Prism - House MC
04 PRiSM - Young And Restless
05 PRiSM - Heart And Soul
06 PRiSM - In The Jailhouse Now
07 PRiSM - Rain
08 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Break - Bill Minkin
09 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Candy Bar
10 Commercial - United States Navy
11 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Intro - Bill Minkin
12 PRiSM - When Will I See You Again
13 PRiSM - Hole In Paradise
14 PRiSM - Don't Let Him Know
15 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Break - Bill Minkin
16 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
17 Commercial - United States Navy
18 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Candy Bar
19 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Intro - Bill Minkin
20 Ian Hunter - Central Park And West (with All The Young Dudes Tease)
21 Ian Hunter - All The Way From Memphis (Mott The Hoople)
22 Ian Hunter - Just Another Night
23 Ian Hunter - All The Young Dudes (Mott The Hoople)
24 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Break - Bill Minkin
25 Commercial - United States Navy
26 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
27 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin
28 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Promo Bed w/Voiceover - Bill Minkin/PRiSM
29 King Biscuit Flower Hour KB-420 Promo Bed Music Only - PRiSM

Total Playing Time: 1hr 3mn 44sc

PRiSM:
Henry Small lead vocals
Paul Warren guitar
John Trivers bass
Doug Madrick drums
Robyn Robins keyboards

Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter lead vocals, guitar
Rob Altar lead guitar
Marke Clarke bass
Mark Kaufman drums
Tom Mandel keyboards

Runout Grooves:
Side A: KB-420-A MCR JOE (Script)
Side B: KB-420-B MCR JOE (Script)
Side C: KB-420-C MCR JOE (Script)
Side D Blank

JustDave's Notes:
- I have to say thank you to Sam Elliot's Mustache because this comes to us from his ever growing collection of Pre-FM recordings.

Recording Notes:
- There is a locked groove "Ovu" Test Tone at the beginning of Side A for DJs to set levels before broadcasting of program. It has been encoded and moved to it's own folder so as not to be accidentily played.
- There are 2 locked groove Music Promo Beds at the end of Side B, they have been encoded and moved to the end of the program.

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 digitally 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:
- I always wondered what happened to Robyn Robins after he left The Silver Bullet Band. He spent 1982 through 1983 playing keyboards for the Henry Small led PRiSM during their tour to promote the album Small Change.
- I found a date April 25, 1982 for the show from the Kalamazoo Public Library website at https://www.kpl.gov/local-history/kalamazoo-history/arts-entertainment/loverboy-at-wings-stadium-4-25-1982/ which says both Loverboy and PRiSM were recorded for King Bicuit Flower Hour, tickets were $10.00 US and it was a sellout at 7200 persons in attendance. PRiSM was the opening act for Loverboy. It gives an initial date of May 23, 1982 airing for PRiSM on King Biscuit and a full setlist of Young and Restless, Heart and Soul, He’s In The Jailhouse Now, Rain, When Will I See You Again, Hole In Paradise, Don’t Let Him Know, Encore: Long Tall Sally. There is also a page just for dates of concerts at Wings Stadium https://www.kpl.gov/local-history/kalamazoo-history/arts-entertainment/wings-stadium/
- Looking through the Ian Hunter Track finder at https://www.hunter-mott.com/discography/index_tracks_ih.html this recording could be from Dr. Pepper Music Festival, Pier 84, New York NY September 11, 1981 or The Rick Derringer Benefit The Palladium, New York NY September 13, 1981 both shows were licensed by King Biscuit Flower Hour for broadcast.
- Bill Minkin only says Ian Hunter was recorded in New York City. I do believe it's from the Dr. Pepper Fest but I am not certain so just the year 1981 was used to date it.

Digitized By JustDave For Sam Elliot's Mustache & The Collective Of Live Music

Project Started: September 14, 2026          Project Finished: September 25, 2026

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Ian Hunter - Berkeley Community Theatre Berkeley, California, USA July 7, 1979 (KSAN-FM) - Master

Ian Hunter
Berkeley Community Theatre
Berkeley, California, USA
July 7, 1979
KSAN-FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Sourced from a later rebroadcast - most likely in October 1980

Lineage: Master Copy: TDK-SA90 > Audacity > wav > flac

01 FBI
02 Don Wehr's Music City commercial
03 Once Bitten, Twice Shy
04 Life After Death
05 Laugh At Me
06 Letter To Britannia From The Union Jack
07 Just Another Night
08 Angeline
09 Standing In My Light
10 Bastard
11 Cleveland Rocks (12 second patch from Cleveland 6/18/79 )

Draftervoi's Notes:
The July 7, 1979 Ian Hunter show from the Berkeley Community Theatre circulated widely on the “Drunk On Wine And Wisdom" bootleg. For many years, that was one of the only Ian Hunter bootlegs available.

But if you have that bootleg....check this out. I digitized this in July 2011 from an uncirculated master cassette.

The cassette is of a later rebroadcast of the July 1979 show that I believe to be from October of 1980. The deejay refers to the show as a “Rock-tober Special” which gives us a month, and the Don Wehr Music City commercial references the start of the Iran - Iraq War (“while Iran and Iraq are cutting each other in half, we’re cutting prices in half….”) which started in late September of 1980….so that gives us October of 1980.

I left the Don Wehr commercial in;  I used to buy guitar equipment there (as did most of San Francisco's famous bands, and they also rented gear to many touring bands playing the Fillmore and Winterland...)   Plus, its tasteless, topical and references vintage effect pedals ("even the Ayatollah could use a Crybaby Wah-wah pedal about now...").  It gives you a feel for the era when a LOCAL guitar emporium was running ads on a LOCAL radio station.  While I enjoy Guitar Center as much as the next guy, it's not the same!

There is a long tape flip at the start of “Cleveland Rocks,” so I used a patch from the 6/18/79 Cleveland show to make the gap less jarring. (Yeah, I patched "Cleveland Rocks" with a patch FROM Cleveland.....) The last three songs had increasingly worse radio static and distortion issues, but I spent many hours minimizing the problems with Audacity.

So....it's still not perfect (there must be a copy without a tape flip....), but most of this is better than any copy you've heard before, if you owned the bootleg LP. The first three quarters of this sound incredible, for a thirty year old tape.

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Guitar Bandits 1974 California Jam 3 CD Set (SBD/FM)

Guitar Bandits 1974
California Jam (Seagull CD 025/1)
Soundboard/FM Recordings
Exact Dates & Venues Unknown
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

 

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CD1

Ten Years After
01 Rock And Roll Music To The World
02 Spoonful
03 I'm Going Home

Johnny Winter
04 Bad Situation
05 Stone Country
06 Silver Train
07 Jumpin' Jack Flash

Robin Trower
08 The Day Of The Eagle
09 Bridge Of Sighs
10 Too Rolling Stoned
11 Alethea
12 Little Bit Of Sympathy

Bachman Turner Overdrive
13 Roll On Down The Highway
14 Takin' Care Of Business

CD2

Mountain
01 Tales From An Imaginary Western
02 Nantuckit Sleighride
03 Roll Over Beethoven / Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Aerosmith
04 Dream On
05 Walk This Way
06 Train Kept' a' Rollin'

Mott The Hoople
07 Golden Age Of Rock n' Roll
08 Sucker
09 Born Late '58
10 One Of The Boys
11 Gren Marionette
12 All The Way From Memphis

Humble Pie
13 I Want You To Love Me
14 Stone Cold Fever
15 Come On Everybody

CD3

Eric Clapton
01 Badge
02 Let It Rain

Edgar Winter's White Trash
03 Keep Playing That Rock n' Roll
04 Frankenstein
05 Tobacco Road
06 Rock n' Roll Boogie Woogie Blues

The Who
07 Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
08 Substitute
09 My Generation
10 Pinball Wizard

Peter Frampton
11 Do You Feel Like We Do

This isn't just a Flac Upgrade The MP3 was VBR So t's An Upgrade There Too!

The first thing I want to say about this great sounding set, is that not one performance took place at the California Jam no matter what the title might suggest. That being said, EVERY PERFORMANCE is Soundboard/FM quality, leading me to believe it's a compilation of radio shows. The Who tracks come from one of their King Biscuit Flower Hour appearances. I was told but can't confirm that the Mott The Hoople tracks are from a King Biscuit Flower Hour show. I highly recommend this 3CD set, I mean look at the artist and track list, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Robin Trower, Leslie West, Peter Townsend, et al one thing the title was correct about is the Guitar Factor!

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Ian Hunter Band featuring Mick Ronson - My Fathers Place, Roslyn, New York, USA June 12, 1979 (FM) - Analog Master

Ian Hunter Band featuring Mick Ronson
My Fathers Place
Roslyn, New York, USA
June 12, 1979
WLIR-FM Broadcast Recording - Analog Master
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

A KRW&CO Presentation from the Joe Maloney Collection

Lineage: FM Analog Master > Nakamichi DR-1 > Creative Soundblaster X-FI HD Model #SB1240 Wav (24/48khz) > MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab for track marks Wav 16/44,1khz > Trader's Little Helper > Flac Level 8

01 Intro
02 FBI
03 Once Bitten Twice Shy
04 Life After Death
05 Laugh at Me
06 Ships
07 All the Way From Memphis
08 Standing in My Light*
09 Bastard
10 Angeline
11 Just Another Night
12 Cleveland Rocks
13 applause
14 All the Young Dudes
15 Outro

*tape flip edit at 44:24

Ian Hunter guitar vocals
Mick Ronson (R.I.P.) guitar vocals
Tommy Mandel keyboards vocals
George Meyer keyboards vocals
Martin Briley bass vocals
Tommy Morrongiello guitar vocals
Hilly Michaels drums vocals
Ellen Foley vocals
Susie Ronson vocals

Mick Ronson died April 29, 1993 from liver cancer, he was 46 (way to damn soon F#$K CANCER)

This Rocking little tape was Rosebud's introduction to Ian Hunter, Mick Ronson and the Mott The Hoople Legacy...I must be slipping and I apologized to her, Rosebud has some catching up so she is now learning about all that legendary music. I tell you as much as I love Southern Rock, I did not know Mick Ronson played on Pure Prairie League's Bustin' Out. He even did string arrangements for the album. I knew he had played with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan & Elton John but did not know he produced Morrissey's Your Arsenal.

The tape is a little aged but a damn nice listen if you ask me.

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