Mason Ruffner / Jon Butcher - King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 (Pre-FM)

Mason Ruffner / Jon Butcher
King Biscuit Flower Hour #694
Mason Ruffner: The Living Room, Providence, Rhode Island, USA July 1987
Jon Butcher: The Palace Theater, Los Angeles, California, USA July 7, 1987
For Broadcast August 23, 1987
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl Rip
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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 > 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 #694 Intro & Break - Bill Minkin
02 Commercial - Budweiser Beer - Blues
03 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Intro - Bill Minkin
04 Mason Ruffner - Ain't Nothin' But Trouble
05 Mason Ruffner - Dancin' On Top Of The World
06 Mason Ruffner - Fightin' Back
07 Mason Ruffner - Lady Moon
08 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Break - Bill Minkin
09 Commercial - Schick Razors
10 Commercial - J.C. Penny
11 Commercial - United States Army
12 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Intro - Bill Minkin
13 Mason Ruffner - Red Hot Lover
14 Mason Ruffner - Gypsy Blood
15 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Break - Bill Minkin
16 Commercial - Rightguard Deoderant
17 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Intro - Bill Minkin
18 Jon Butcher - Writing On The Wall
19 Jon Butcher - Wishes
20 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Break - Bill Minkin
21 Commercial - Hooters - One Way Home
22 Commercial - Schick Razors
23 Commercial - J.C. Penny
24 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Intro - Bill Minkin
25 Jon Butcher - Goodbye Saving Grace
26 Jon Butcher - Holy War
27 Jon Butcher - Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)
28 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Break - Bill Minkin
29 Commercial - United States Army
30 Commercial - J.C. Penny
31 Commercial - Budweiser - Bo Diddley
32 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Wrap Up - Bill Minkin
33 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Promo Bed - Jon Butcher & Bill Minkin
34 King Biscuit Flower Hour #694 Promo Bed - Mason Ruffner & Bill Minkin

Total Playing Time: 1hr 1mn 20sc

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

Run Out Grooves:
Side A : KB-694 A AD 8-23-87 MCR JOE
Side B : KB-694 B MCR JOE
Side C : KB-694 C MCR JOE

Known Faults:
- Visual inspection shows some minor vinyl flaws that should be easy to edit around if they cause any type of noise. For the age of the vinyl it looks nice.
- Side B looked to be pressed slightly out of round. Fortunately there seems to be no problems when the LP was played.
- Record set was not mastered very well. The different segments all seem to have their own volume settings. This was dealt with in the editing process.

Recording Notes:
- There is a locked groove test tone at the beginning of Side A for radio stations to set output levels before broadcast. It was not encoded. It's also not listed on cue sheet.
- King Biscuit put 2 locked groove show promos at the end of Side C they have been included.
- King Biscuit Flower Hour pressed the albums with the commercials half as loud as the music and voice overs. This was dealt with in the editing process.
- Mason Ruffner released Mason Ruffner Live in 1999. It contains the song "Gypsy Blood" and the notes say that it was recorded at The Living Room, Providence, Rhode Island, USA July 1987 (from Mason Ruffner.com) PDF included in extras folder.
- Draftervoi found some articles from newspapers that show Jon Butcher played the Hollywood Palace July 16, 1987 (included in extras folder). He also played The Living Room twice around the time that Mason Ruffner did. Mason Ruffner is reported to have played The Hollywood Palace close to the same time as Jon Butcher but no info was found to confirm that

Editing Notes:
- 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.
- A Zerostat Positive Ion gun was used on LP 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 and some noise reduction used depending on what best served situation.
- Some minor flaws may still show after all the work, we are after all working with vinyl sources.
- Raised volume of the commercials 50% to equal the volume of the show.
- Evened out the volume of entire show, but did not normalize/maximize audio.

Other Notes:
- I went into this project not knowing Mason Ruffner's music at all. I would say he writes Southern Blues with a touch of Louisiana Swing and some Rock-A-Billy thrown in for texture.
- Mason Ruffner writes music that lets the notes and vocals breath while Jon Butcher has a more dense sounding style.
- Although Jon Butcher is clearly influenced by Jimi Hendrix, he shows influence in his song writing by Robin Trower and Frank Marino. "Holy War" could be a Frank Marino song the way the keyboards interplays with the guitar. Both were heavily influenced by Hendrix but each had their own way of crafting a song. Stevie Ray Vaughan is also heavily influenced technically but sounds nothing like Jon Butcher, Frank Marino or Robin Trower.
- Jon Butcher shows some more of his influences by playing Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground". You can hear the R & B influence in his music like Robin Trower (Check out Trowers album with Maxi Priest).

Digitized By JustDave For Sam Elliot's Mustache & The Collective Of Live Music April 27, 2025

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Jon Butcher Axis, Graham Parker, and Greg Kihn Band - Concert Magazine Issue No.9 (Pre-FM)

Jon Butcher Axis, Graham Parker, and Greg Kihn Band
Concert Magazine Issue No.9
For Broadcast The Week of May 29, 1983
Pre-FM Recording
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Vinyl Rip
Cue Sheet & Label Scans Included

 

Repost New Links Added 05/03/2025

Thanks Go To Draftervoi For This One!!

Hosted by Michelle Roth, Phil Harvey, Shari Famous, Joe Cipriano

01 Concert Magazine Introduction
02 Introduction > It's Only Words - Jon Butcher Axis
03 Ocean In Motion - Jon Butcher Axis
04 Sentinel - Jon Butcher Axis
05 Situation 30 (also seems to be known as "Information") - Jon Butcher Axis
06 New Man - Jon Butcher Axis
07 Concert Magazine Break
08 Concert Line report - Walter Egan Interview
09 Concert Magazine Tour Report
10 Concert Magazine Break
11 Intro > Discovering Japan - Graham Parker
12 Stick To Me - Graham Parker
13 Passion Is No Ordinary Word - Graham Parker
14 You Hit The Spot - Graham Parker
15 Concert Magazine Break
16 Convert Line Report - Steve Miller Interview
17 Shari Famous - Concert Confidential
18 Concert Magazine Break
19 Can't Stop Hurting Myself - Greg Kihn Band
20 Hit The Road, Jack - Greg Kihn Band
21 Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Band
22 The Break Up Song - Greg Kihn Band
23 Concert Magazine Break
24 Concert Magazine Report from KMJK Little Rock
25 Shari Famous Report - Stranglers
26 Concert Magazine Outro
27 Promo 1
28 Promo 2
29 Promo 3

Sourced From The Original Radio Broadcast Vinyl

Draftervoi's Original Notes:

Jon Butcher / Uncle Sam's, Nantasket Beach, MA (also sometimes identified as Hull, MA.  There is a Facebook page identifying it as having been in Nantusket Beach) The track list seems to match some of the BBC Rock Hour show set list (which I don't have so I can't compare to see if it's the same show).

Graham Parker / Park West, Chicago
Note:  There is a KBFH show from 1982 that may be a longer version of this show Again, I don't have that one so I can't compare it.

Greg Kihn Band / Channel, Boston, MA
The tracks are the same as those on the BBC Rock Hour #420 recording.

Jon Butcher Axis
Jon Butcher – Guitar, Vocals
Derek Blevins – Drums
Chris Martin - Bass

Greg Kihn Band
Greg Kihn - vocals, guitar
Steve Wright - bass
Larry Lynch - drums
Gary Phillips (R.I.P.) - keyboards
Greg Douglass - guitar

This is a great find! Jon Butcher Axis bootlegs are kind of rare, and here we have one in fine Pre-FM quality. Rounding out  the show is Graham Parker & The Greg Kihn Band. The D-man hit it out the park again! Thanks Draftervoi!!

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