Hi,
For a long while I collected and studied King Biscuit Flower Hour - Rolling Stones 1981. There were several broadcast of the Rolling Stones 1981 live material.Without looking-up specifics, I can tell you that there were two 'waves' of Rolling Stones 1981 Live material. The first wave was in the early-mid 1980s. The second 'wave' (series of broadcasts) were after 1989.
Many of the tracks are different from the first set of broadcasts compared to the second set.
Many common mistakes happen when identifying these KBFH 1981 broadcasts. One broadcast people assume the show is from New Jersey since the announcer says, "New Jersey." One particular track you'll notice "Under My Thumb" playing as the announcer is introducing the band. Then "Under My Thumb" is cut and then starts again. That's because the introduction from the announcer was in New Jersey and the first song, "Under My Thumb" was not from the same show.
I can't remember all of the details but there is two of each:
Under My Thumb (NJ & Detroit)
Shattered (Hampton & 1978)
20 Flight Rock (Hampton & Detroit)
Going to a Go-Go (Detroit and Hampton)
Time is on my Side
Start Me Up
There's only one each of:
Let It Bleed (Louisiana)
Waiting on a Friend (Detroit)
She's So Cold
Hang Fire
Let Me Go
Beast of Burden (Chicago)
Just My Imagination (Hampton)
The first wave of 1981 broadcast had the more rare tracks from Detroit and there were 1978 tracks used as well.
The bootlegs that came out with the original KBFH tracks usually went under the names of "On Top of Old Smokey,""Mission Direct Hits" and "Black Limousine." Later DAC-069 was named Mission Direct Hits even though it came out just a few years ago.
A great collection of the older KBFH tracks come on "Ride Like the Wind" (Rattlesnake) four CD set.
The original broad casts included Detroit's "Under My Thumb."
There's only one "Let's Spend the Night Together" which is from Hampton on all of the KBFH 1981 broadcast and "Still Life." The KBFH "Let's Spend the Night Together" is at a different speed than than on "Still Life's" "Let's Spend the Night Together."
The original broadcast had more banter from Mick with the audience talking about the Silver Dome and coming down from Canada before "Let's Spend the Night Together." There's other dialog that was lost with the post 1989 KBFH broadcasts.
The more rare 1981 KBFH tracks were also gone. Never again did we get "Under My Thumb" from Detroit, Detroit "Go-Go," "Time is on My Side" or Waiting on a Friend. The great 1978 "Shattered" wasn't used anymore in the 1981 broadcasts.
Also on the second wave, post 1989 broadcasts songs were added from "Still Life" and from Hampton such as "Miss You," "Time is on my Side."
From memory...I think "Honky Tonk" from 1978 and the rest of the 1978 songs which ended the early series/first wave broadcasts.
Another big disappointment was the loss of one of the very best songs from the tour "Waiting on a Friend."
A few ways to spot the first set of 1981 broadcasts is to see if it has "Waiting on a Friend" which is a very good indicator that the 1981 KBFH show is not post 1989, second wave of KBFH 1981 broadcast. It forever changed in 1989.
Another great song that did make it to the new series of broadcasts was "Let It Bleed." A great performance! "Waiting on a Friend" back-to-back with "Let It Bleed" was an awesome running order for the faux radio concert.
The older broadcast that we got on bootleg CD in the early to mid 1980's, were very good quality but not the highest quality as compared to CD technology of post 1989.
I listened to:
Tracklisting / Additional Info:
1. Under My Thumb
2. Beast of Burden
3. Let’s Spend the Night Together
4. Shattered
5. Black Limo
6. 20 Flight Rock
7. Goin' To A Go-Go
8. You Can't Always Get What You Want
9. Let Me Go
10. Time Is On My Side
11. Let It Bleed
12. Just My Imagination
13. She's So Cold
14. Hang Fire
15. Miss You
16. Start Me Up
17. Jumpin' Jack Flash
18. Satisfaction
This is a great representation of 1981 Rolling Stones American concert! It's a great album. "JJ Flash" is very cool and it's not 1978 like the early broadcasts. I guess it's from Hampton.
The set list above is later-second wave KBFH without the more rare tracks. Like someone said, It's an extended "Still Life." It's more "Still Life"/"Hampton" than the true KBFH tracks that didn't make it on to "Still Life."
If anyone wants to identify where each track came from, for sure, it would help to even improve this concert.
The question for me always was, "Do we want an extended "Still Life" or the KBFH tracks. The problem with KBFH is that there's no end of the concert since they use 1978 tracks. It works well because 1978 was a faster-paced show than the later 1981 shows.
The trick to knowing what we have from King Biscuit Flower Hour is to identify each track. I had it all figured-out and written and it was all lost. I had all of the markers, etc... The 1978 Shattered has a little feed back in the middle of the middle part.
Just compare "Ride Like the Wind" to the listing above to see two different versions of the 1978 radio shows. "Start Me Up" with the castanets. KBFH (Superstar Concert Series), it's all the same tracks.
I really like the set list above. I downloaded this offering (thanks) but it didn't come out in 1982 or 1983. This is from the second series of 1981 live rolling Stones radio concerts.
In 1989 KBFH moved "Beast of Burden" to song number two probably because it was a popular song in the USA and some person probably thought it would have a stronger start to the show.
"Beast of Burden" in slot number two clearly shows this broadcast was not from the original series of broadcast, therefor the rest of the tracks are no either. Also "waiting on a Friend" missing is another clear indicator that the radio concert is from the original series of broadcast from 1982-1983.
Rolling Stones
The King Biscuit Flower Hour 9/27/87
Lineage : Original Silver > EAC >Flac
Original Broadcast Silver, DIR Broadcasting Corp
Sleeve insert notes:
Segement A
Open 00:00
:30 Tri-Star Pictures 01:36
:30 U.S. Marines 02:06
:ROLLING STONES 02:06
:30 Ford Motorcraft 19:49
:30 U.S. Army 20:19
Outcue 'paid for by the U.S. Army'
:60 Local (:10 Blank Tape) 20:49
Segment B
ROLLING STONES 21:49
:60 Budweiser 42:39
:30 Tri-Star Pictures 43:39
:30 U.S. Marines 44:09
Outcue 'paid for by the corps'
:60 Local (:10 Blank Tape) 44:39
Segment C
ROLLING STONES 45:39
:30 U.S. Army 57:52
:30 Tri-Star Pictures 58:22
:60 Budweiser 58:52
Close 59:52
End Of Show 60:37
(:10 Blank Tape)
Tracks:
Segment A: [Chicago 1981 (November 23/24 or 25, 3 dates played)]
1. Miss You
2. Hang Fire
3. Beast Of Burden
4. She's So Cold
Segment B: [Detroit 1978 (July 6th)]
1. Honky Tonk Woman
2. Shattered
3. Tumbling Dice
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash
Segment C: [Brussels, (October 17th 1973)]
1. Brown Sugar
2. Happy
3. Gimme Shelter
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RS KBFH 1994 3-14 to 3-20 Bill Minkin host
1 Intro
2 Under My Thumb
3 Let’s Spend the Night Together
4 Shattered
5 Beast
6 She’s So Cold
7 Hang Fire
8 Miss You
9 Honky Tonk
10 Brown Sugar
11 Start Me Up
12 Satisfaction
13 Beast of Burden (excerpt)
It would be a good idea for a project to use all of the 1981 KBFH tracks for two concerts, a first wave as broadcasted in 1982 and the later series of broadcasts.
First to identify each track. Should be easy since I basically spelled it our where to look for every thing.
Make the newer concert, the "Extended Still Life." Identify all tracks from the set list in the first post which was shared in private emails. Then see if there are better sounding tracks from those performances. Now we have more resources than when all of the past bootlegs were offered. In recent years we had Hampton and Detroits.
Then identify each track from "Ride Like The Wind" and "On Top of Old Smokey" VGP-280 which contains I think all of the older broadcasted tracks.
We have to compare the sound to everything that is available. Then we could have the best sounding KBFH tracks and all of the KBFH 1981 tracks in one folder/set without duplicates (except for "Waiting on a Friend" and a few others.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 2015-08-07 05:48 by exilestones.