Pat Benatar - King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-394 & #KB-395: Pat Benatar Live In Texas 2 Part Special (Pre-FM)

Pat Benatar
Pat Benatar In Concert 2 Part Special
King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-394 Part 1
King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-395 Part 2
Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas, USA October 5, 1981
Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA October 6, 1981
Part 1 For Broadcast Sunday November 22, 1981
Part 2 For Broadcast Sunday November 29, 1981
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl To CD-r Rip
Flac Level 8 16bit/44,1khz
High Quality MP3 320kbps/48khz
Cue Sheet Scans, KBFH Ad & Newspaper Clippings Included

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Digitized From Two Original 3 Sided 2 Vinyl Record Radio Broadcast Sets

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CD 1 Part 1 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-394

01 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-394 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
03 Pat Benatar Introduction - House MC
04 Pat Benatar - No You Don't (The Sweet)
05 Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right
06 Pat Benatar - Out-A-Touch
07 Pat Benatar - Precious Time
08 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-394 Break - Bill Minkin
09 Commercial - United States Navy
10 Commercial - Pioneer High Fidelity Stereo Systems
11 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-394 Intro - Bill Minkin
12 Pat Benatar - We Live For Love
13 Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark
14 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With You're Best Shot
15 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-394 Break - Bill Minkin
16 Commercial - Miller Beer - Eddie Rabbit
17 Commercial - Honda Motorycles
18 King Biscuit Flower Hour Intro - Bill Minkin
19 Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children
20 Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker (Jenny Darren)
21 Pat Benatar - Encore Break & Band Introductions
22 Pat Benatar - Little Paradise
23 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-394 Break - Bill Minkin
24 Commercial - United States Navy
25 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Bar Mini Album Giveaway
26 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-394 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin

CD 2 Part 2 King Biscuit Flower Hour Show #KB-395

01 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-395 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - United States Navy
03 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-395 Intro - Bill Minkin
04 Pat Benatar - You Better Run (The Young Rascals)
05 Pat Benatar - It's A Tough Life
06 Pat Benatar - Fire And Ice
07 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot (same take as on part 1)
08 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-395 Break - Bill Minkin
09 Commercial - Pioneer High Fidelity Stereo Systems
10 Commercial - Miller Beer - Gary "US" Bonds
11 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-395 Intro - Bill Minkin
12 Pat Benatar - In The Heat Of The Night (Smokie)
13 Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker (Jenny Darren) (same take as part 1)
14 Pat Benatar - I Need A Lover (John Cougar Mellencamp)
15 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-395 Break - Bill Minkin
16 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
17 Commercial - United States Navy
18 King Biscuit Flower Hour Intro - Bill Minkin
19 Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children (same take as part 1 minus Pat's Intro)
20 Pat Benatar - Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
21 Encore Break
22 Pat Benatar - Just Like Me (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
23 King Biscuit Flower Hour #KB-395 Break - Bill Minkin
24 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Bar Mini Album Giveaway
25 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
26 King Biscuit Flower Hour Break #KB-395 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin

Total Playing Time Part One: 57mn 35sc
Total Playing Time Part Two: 58mn 25sc
Total Playing Time Both Parts: 1hr 56mn

Pat Benatar lead vocals
Neil "Spyder" Geraldo lead guitar
Myron Grombacher drums
Scott Sheets guitar
Roger Capps bass

Runout Grooves:
Part One Show #KB-394:
Side A: KB-394-A
Side B: KB-394-B
Side C: KB-394-C
Side D: Blank
Part Two Show #KB-395:
Side A: KB-395-A MCR JOE
Side B: KB-395-B MCR JOE
Side C: KB-395-C MCR JOE
Side D: Blank

JustDave's Notes:
- A Great Big Thank You to Sam Elliot's Mustache for sending me the show for encoding!
- As always a huge thank You to my fellow members of The Collective Of Live Music for help and inspiration.
- Thank you to Draftervoi who heads up The Collective's Research Department for the newspaper articles and the King Biscuit Ad Poster from Your private collection.

Recording Notes:
- Sam Elliot's Mustache sent this one to me on CD-r after recording it at home so I could compare this 2 part show with the Best Of The Biscuit version of the show.
- There is a locked groove test tone at the beginning of both Side As for radio stations to set balance and output levels before broadcast. It was not encoded.
- There are two locked groove show promos for both record sets as well and these were not encoded either
- This King Biscuit Flower Hour 2 Part Show was produced by Neil "Spyder" Geraldo.
- 2 shows were recorded and they took the best performances from the 2 shows to make up this 2 part broadcast.
- The songs that Part 1 and Part 2 have in common "Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Heartbreaker" and "Hell Is For Children" are the same performances just repeated.
- These recordings have also been released as King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit Show #409. Both parts are edited to make one regular length King Biscuit Flower Hour show.
- The Best Of The Biscuit show drops "Little Paradise", "We Live For Love", "Hell Is For Children", "It's A Tough Life", "Fire And Ice", and "In The Heat Of The Night".
- There are no different takes of songs on the Best Of The Biscuit either although the running order is different.

Editing Notes:
- Recording and editing done in 16bit/44,1khz.
- No 24bit/96khz edition of this show will be released due to it being recorded to CD-r at 16bit and upsampling to 24bit is just making a 16bit file bigger not a file with more depth.
- Exact Audio Copy was used to extract the audio from the CD-rs.
- Preservation being key the show is encoded complete with commercials and voiceovers.
- Manually declicked with just a little noise reduction used in parts because it better suited the situation.
- As with all King Biscuit shows I've edited so far, the commercials had a maked difference in volume to the music. Volume was adjusted to match the body of the show.
- A High Pass Rumble/Bump Filter with an initial cut off 40Hz was used on the commercials as the low volume they were mastered with causes needle noise.
- The beginning of Part 2's "Hell Is For Children" had a bad noise that could not be removed. The beginning of Part 1's "Hell Is For Children" was used in it's place.

Other Notes:
- During the show I heard Pat mention Austin but I did not hear her mention Dallas.
- It does not escape me that in the late '70s early '80s so many Rockers were using Reggae rhythms and guitar riffs. Examples being, New Wave: The Police: Punk Rock: The Clash: Hard Rock: Pat Benatar: Rock: Eric Clapton: Progressive Rock (Progressive Metal Godfathers): Rush. Disco and Funk were borrowing from it too. All to great success in the U.S.A.
- Saddly in the U.S.A. real Reggae like Bob Marley, Toots and The Maytals, and Peter Tosh, they were relegated to the high school stoners, college scenesters and hippies.

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Pat Benatar - King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 (Pre-FM)

Pat Benatar
King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409
University Of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA
The Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas, USA
For Broadcast March 7, 1982
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl Rip
Flac Level 8 24bit/96khz
Flac Level 8 16bit/96khz
High Quality MP3 320kbps/48khz
Label & Cue Sheet 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 > Sony PS-LX300H Belt Driven Turntable @ 33+1/3 RPM/60Hrz (Balanced, Needle Tracking, Azimuth & Pressure Dialed In) > 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 > Goldwave v6.83 (recording, editing) > Wave 24bit/96khz > Trader's Little Helper > Flac Level 8

Hosted By Bill Minkin

01 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - United States Navy
03 Pat Benatar - No You Don't (The Sweet)*
04 Pat Benatar - You Better Run (The Young Rascals)
05 Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right
06 Pat Benatar - Out-A-Touch (miss-named "Out Of Touch" on Cue Sheet)
07 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Break - Bill Minkin
08 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Bar
09 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
10 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Intro - Bill Minkin
11 Pat Benatar - Precious Time
12 Pat Benatar - I Need A Lover (John Cougar Mellencamp)
13 Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark
14 Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker (Jenny Darren)
15 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Break - Bill Minkin
16 Commercial - Jensen Sound Systems
17 Commercial - Nestle's $100,000 Bar
18 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Intro - Bill Minkin
19 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
20 Pat Benatar - Just Like Me (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
21 Pat Benatar - Helter Skelter (The Beatles)
22 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Break - Bill Minkin
23 Commercial - United States Navy
24 Commercial - Honda Motorcycles
25 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin
26 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Promo Bed - Bill Minkin
27 King Biscuit Flower Hour Best Of The Biscuit #409 Promo Bed - Music Only

Total Playing Time: 58mn 1sc

Pat Benatar lead vocals
Neil "Spyder" Geraldo lead guitar
Myron Grombacher drums
Scott Sheets guitar
Roger Capps bass

Runout Grooves:
Side A : BoB·409·A MCR Joe
Side B : BoB·409·B MCR Joe
Side C : BoB·409·C MCR Joe

JustDave's Notes:
- Huge Thank You To Sam Elliot's Mustache for sending me his vinyl to encode!
- Thank you also to Draftervoi, Sam Elliot's Mustache and avnut for input and assistance!

Known Faults:
- During Bill Minkin's wrap up of the show there is a couple spots of distortion that could not be removed without making the noise worse.

Recording Notes:
- There is a locked groove test tone at the beginning of Side A for radio stations to set balance and output levels before broadcast. It was not encoded.
- There are two locked groove show promos at the end of Side C, one with a voice over, one without. They have been encoded.

Editing Notes:
- A Zerostat Positive Ion gun was used on LP prior to playback.
- A carbon fiber record brush, then a felt disc cleaner was used on the record 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 prior to playback.
- Raw transfer: EQ off, treble and bass levels set at +/- zero for most accurate sound of LP.
- Turntable balanced: Needle Tracking, Azimuth, Pressure & Antiskid Dialed In: Soundcard stereo field maximized: Goldwave always set to record while filtering any offset.
- Recording and all editing done in 24bit/96khz.
- Preservation being key the show is encoded complete with commercials and voiceovers.
- Declicked manually no Pop Fix Noise Reduction was necessary with this rip.
- As with all King Biscuit shows I've edited so far, the commercials had a maked difference in volume to the music. Volume was adjusted to match the body of the show.
- A High Pass Rumble/Bump Filter with an initial cut off 40Hz was used on the commercials as the low volume they were mastered with causes needle noise.  

Other Notes:
- This was a fun project to work on. Pat Benatar and the band had a great couple shows to make up this recording. I've always loved Pat's choices of cover songs. On her first album there was 2 Smokey covers "In the Heat of the Night", and "If You Think You Know How to Love Me", John "Cougar" Melloncamp's "I Need A Lover", The Sweet's "No You Don't", Nick Gilder's "Rated X", Alan Parson's "Don't Let It Show" and Jenny Darren's "Heartbreaker". On Crimes Of Passion there was The Young Rascals' "You Better Run" and Kate Bush's "Wurthering Heights". On Precious Time she covered Paul Revere & The Raiders' "Just Like Me" and The Beatles' "Helter Skelter". Six of these covers are in this set, with "Helter Skelter" being chosen as the show closer.
- This show was released as Pat Benatar Greatest Hits Live.
- Pat Benatar has stopped playing "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" because of the gun violence in the United States. She says that she will not preach to her fans, that's not her place. She says as a citizen that she talks to U.S. Legislators about the situation. She however feels she can not sing the song when it personally makes her think of the violence in the world.

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Pat Benatar - US Festival 1982 ~ Glen Helen Regional Park: Devore, California, USA September 4, 1982 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Pat Benatar
US Festival 1982
Glen Helen Regional Park
Devore, California, USA
September 4, 1982
TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Included

Lineage: Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5 > Wave 16bit/44,1khz > Goldwave v6.75 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps

01 - Treat Me Right
02 - You Better Run (The Young Rascals cover)
03 - I Need a Lover (John Cougar Mellencamp cover)
04 - The Victim
05 - Precious Time
06 - Anxiety (Get Nervous)
07 - In the Heat of the Night (Smokie cover)
08 - Little Too Late
09 - Fire and Ice
10 - Promises in the Dark
11 - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
12 - Heartbreaker (Jenny Darren cover)
13 - Hell Is for Children
14 - No You Don't (Sweet cover)
15 - Just Like Me (Paul Revere & the Raiders cover)

Total Playing Time: 1hr 11mn 2sc

Pat Benatar - vocals
Neil "Spyder" Giraldo - guitars
Roger Capps - bass
Myron Grombacher - drums
Charlie Giordano - keyboards

JustDave's Notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to re-edit some track marks, add a fade out at the end of the show. No EQ or Noise Reduction was used, and no remastering or remixing. I also double the volume to give it a little more punch. There is a TV hum which is most audible during the non music parts of the recording.

Pat & band are in great form for this show. The band actually only rehearsed one encore but pulled off an awesome rendition of their Paul Revere & the Raiders cover "Just Like Me" from Pat's 1981 album "Precious Time". This show marks the sound turn for Pat Benatar's music. She move to a more MTV Top 40ish direction that I didn't follow her into. She did however, despite my not buying one of them, continue to make hit records.

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Pat Benatar - WBCN-FM The Basement Tapes ~ Paradise Rock Club: Boston, Massachusetts, USA October 30, 1979 (FM) - Master

Pat Benatar
WBCN-FM The Basement Tapes
Paradise Rock Club
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
October 30, 1979
FM Broadcast Recording - Master Tape
Flac Level 6 & MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Only

Lineage: WBCN-FM Broadcast > Sansui 8 reciever > unknown cheapo cassette deck (dolby off) > TDK-SA 90 min cassette > played on Nak. 125 > soundforge 4.5 (WAV) > FLAC 6

01 If You Think You Know How to Love Me (Smokie cover) 5:36
02 So Sincere 3:19
03 I Need a Lover (John Cougar Mellencamp cover) 4:18
04 My Clone Sleeps Alone 3:28
05 In the Heat of the Night (Smokie cover) 7:56
06 No You Don't (Sweet cover) 4:10
07 Just Like Me (Paul Revere and The Raiders cover) 3:12
08 Heartbreaker (Jenny Darren cover) 3:56
09 Come On, Let's Go (Richie Valens) 2:53

Total Playing Time: 38mn 48sc

Pat Benatar lead vocals
Neil "Spyder James" Giraldo guitars, vocals, keyboards
Scott St. Clair Sheets guitars, vocals, synthesizer
Roger Capps bass, vocals
Myron Grombacher drums

So this is the earliest live recording I have from Pat Benatar. It comes just two months after the release of her debut album. I didn't realize that seven of the ten songs on In The Heat Of The Night, including the title track, were cover tracks. The show you are reading about now has six of the nine songs are covers. To varying degrees of success Pat makes the covers hers enough to snag some FM radio attention for "I Need A Lover", "No You Don't" and "Heartbreaker". Pat Benatar's debut along with her next two albums, Crimes Of Passion and Precious Time, will establish her as one of the pioneers of Women in Hard Rock & Heavy Metal. Us leather jacket boys fell for Pat Benatar for her music just as much as her sex appeal.

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Pat Benatar - Westwood One Superstars in Concert Show #CO 89-02 ~ Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, November 10, 1988 (Pre-FM)

Pat Benatar
Westwood One Superstars in Concert Show #CO 89-02
Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA, November 10, 1988
For Broadcast the weekend of February 3, 1989
Pre-FM Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Vinyl Rip
Cue Sheet, Box Top & Label Scans Included

Thanks Go Out To Draftervoi For This One!

Lineage: Pre-FM vinyl discs > ? > HDD > WAV > Audacity > TLH > FLAC (L8)

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Disc One:
01 Superstars CO 89-02 Intro
02 Commercial - Miller Lite
03 We Live For Love
04 Fire And Ice
05 Love Is A Battlefield
06 Commercial - Miller Lite
07 Commercial - Greyhound
08 Westwood One - Steve Downes
09 We Belong
10 Cool Zero
11 Commercial - Greyhound
12 Commercial - Clorets
13 Commercial - Trident Gum
14 Westwood One - Steve Downes
15 Outlaw
16 Invincible
17 Heartbreaker
18 Commercial - Clorets
19 Commercial - Miller Lite
20 Commercial - Greyhound
21 Westwood One - Steve Downes

Disc Two:  
21 Promises In The Dark
22 All Fired Up
23 Commercial - Miller Lite
24 Commercial - Greyhound
25 Westwood One - Steve Downes
26 Shadows Of The Night
27 Hell Is For Children
28 Commercial - Trident Gum
29 Commercial - Miller LIte
30 Westwood One - Steve Downes
31 One Love
32 Let's Stay Together
33 Westwood One Outro
34 Superstars CO 89-02 Promo Spot

Total time: 1:23:31

Pat Benatar - vocals
Neil Giraldo - guitars
Kevin Savigar - keyboards
Frank Linx - bass & background vocals
Fernando Saunders - bass & background vocals
Pat Peterson - background vocals & percussion
Myron Grombacher - drums

Yep Rosebud picked this weeks entry for Pre-FM Season, she said....

It's simple Pat Benatar was one of the first woman Hard Rock artist to really open up that genre for future ladies...This boot is actually from the days after she change her sound some to fit the MTV era...Dave once told me if not for the style change she might have gone on to be a queen of Hard Rock/Heavy Metal instead of Lita Ford. I agree....

Draftervois Original notes:
Here's a Pat Benatar show from the late 1980s...probably from late 1988, digitized from the syndicated radio show discs.

The vinyl was mint, virtually unplayed, so the sound quality is top-notch. There's a similar (but not identical) show circulating on the Internet as "from the Westwood One Superstars In Concert" attributed to Philadelphia with a date of November 10, 1988...but this differs in several songs. It's likely that WW1 broadcast the show several times but with different running orders, and swapping out several songs. I'm not sure if the date they list for that show is the broadcast date of the syndicated show, or the date of the actual concert, so I'm not listing a date. I also haven't compared the tracks to see if they're from the same source. If you have it, perhaps you can check and post something in the comments?

The Tower Theater is in Upper Darby, a suburb of Philadelphia, so I've listed it with the name of that township.

As usual, I've included scans of the cover, cue sheet, affidavit, and a record label. I've tracked the commercials and the Westwood One breaks so that you can exclude them if you're not interested.

Additional notes:
Myron Grombacher gets no mention in the band introduction at the end "One Love" but I'm pretty sure it must be him.

Considering all available information it should be safe to assume this concert was indeed recorded at the Tower Theater, Upper Darby, PA on November 10, 1988.

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Pat Benatar - The Bomb Scare Show ~ The Rendezvous, Fort Lauderdale, FL 01-14-1980 (FM)

Pat Benatar
The Bomb Scare Show
The Rendezvous
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
January 14, 1980
WSHE-FM Broadcast Recording
MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

01 - Intro & Instrument Tuning (1:13)
02 - If You Think You Know How To Love Me (Smokie Cover) (5:21)
03 - So Sincere (3:11)
04 - I Need A Lover (John Cougar Mellencamp Cover) (4:18)
05 - An official concert stop...there's an explosive device in the building (1:10)
06 - WSHE-FM host's outro (0:23)
07 - WSHE-FM host's intro (0:48)
08 - Hit Me With Your Best Shot (3:19)
09 - ....nice to be back (0:36)
10 - My Clone Sleeps Alone (3:46)
11 - Myron Grombacher's drum solo intro (0:40)
12 - In The Heat Of The Night (8:33)
13 - We Live For Love (3:41)
14 - ...to all you people out there (0:39)
15 - No You Don't (Sweet Cover) (8:12)
16 - Just Like Me (2:44)
17 - Heartbreaker (3:42)
18 - ...thank you, good night..crowd (1:49)
19 - Pat's back again (0:55)
20 - You Better Run (3:56)
21 - ...thank you...more crowd noise (1:54)
22 - Come On, Let's Go (3:07)
23 - ...final crowd noise & WSHE-FM host's outro (0:36)

total time: 1hr 4mn 33sc

Pat Benatar lead vocals
Neil "Spyder" Giraldo lead guitar, backing vocals
Scott St. Clair Sheets guitar, backing vocals
Roger Capps – bass, backing vocals
Myron Grombacher drums, percussion

A pretty good FM recording from early in Pat Benatar's career. I can't help wondering why someone would call in a bomb threat to a Pat Benatar show. Any way for our first Pat boot on The New JDP it's a great place to start.

Also a nice way to start what will be a running theme for the month, and that's Women Who Rock.

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