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King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert

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Just love re-discovering these vintage King Biscuit live performances of many days gone by. This fourteen track CD is of a gig that took place in March, 1983 in Worchester, MA. If I remember correctly, Def Leppard opened for Squire on that stateside tour. Damn fine arena rock to experience here. Best tunes {without a doubt} are the uplifting "Everybody Wants You", What Da Ya Want From Me", "My Kind Of Lover", "Emotions In Motion", the super radio friendly "Lonely Is The Night", "The Stroke" and {haven't heard this song in ages} "Rip This Joint". Line-up: Billy Squire-guitar & vocals, Jeff Golub-guitar, Alan St. Jon-keyboards & backing vocals, Doug Lubahn-bass & backing vocals and Bobby Chouinard-drums. Great work, King Biscuit. I can still think of several (very cool) shows they had on the weekly radio show every Sunday night but will never likely see a legit release. A must-have.

Recorded in 1983, this collection includes all of Squier's major hits up to that point, including "Everybody Wants You", "Learn How to Live", "My Kinda Lover", "Lonely is the Night', "In the Dark", & of course, "The Stroke." If it had been recorded just a couple of years later, to include a few later Squier essential hits, it surely would have been a classic.

This live concert CD is great. I loved Squier's slightly different interpretations of some of his music. A classic rock CD. The energy is electric in this concert.

Billy Squier was the first live concert I ever attended and it was during the "Emotions In Motion" tour, so this CD is also a keepsake for me. I remember listening to The King Biscuit Flower Hour when I was younger and I am not sure if this was intended to be put on a CD when it was recorded for radio airplay, but I feel like the quality is pretty good over all. I am no sound engineer, but I found the sound to be good quality. I saw Billy Squier on the Ringo Starr tour and it made me yearn for his music, so I bought this as well as "Happy Blue" and I have been listening to both almost non-stop. If you are a Billy Squier fan, you should definitely buy this CD.

Billy Squier was huge for a short time in the early 80's. I was a fan, especially of "Don't Say No", which I own the CD. This is a great concert. He just straight rocks through the set, which is what I like. Great for those nostalgic for him and want to hear him live.

I remember staying up listening to the original broadcasts of the King Biscuit Flower Hour as well as Westwood one live broadcasts on 97 rock in Buffalo. This was one that I heard back then and when I heard it again it brought back great memories of being a teen and rockin out to Billy's music. I also recently bought a live DVD of a performance of his around about the same time. Its good but I think the concert captured here on this disc is better. If you remember Billy Squier fondly then you will love this. Get it before they discontinue it. Other KBFH concerts have gone away!