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Release Date: 1989-07-31Label: D.I.R. Broadcasting Corp.
Live D.I.R. "King Biscuit Flower Hour" weekly radio show is subtitled "Todd Rundgren: Retrospective" and features a compilation of various live performances by Todd Rundgren, recorded for King Biscuit over the years, 1977-1985. Several of the performances are with Utopia. This was broadcast for the week of July 31-August 6, 1989.Recordings dates & locations:
2.2 "Road to Utopia", St. Louis, 1980 (with Utopia)
2.3 "Set Me Free", Poughkeepsie, NY 1984 (with Utopia)
2.4 & 2.5 "Can We Still Be Friends" & "I Saw the Light", The Bottom Line, NYC, May 1978
3.1 & 3.2 "Real Man" & "Hello It's Me", Central Park NYC, July 1979 (with Utopia)
3.3 & 3.4 "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" & "Love Is the Answer", LA 1982
4.1 "Something to Fall Back On", Bismark Theater, IL, 1985
4.2 & 4.3 "Love of the Common Man" & "Couldn't I Just Tell You", The Palladium, NYC, May 1977 (mis-spelled as "Pallacium") (with Utopia)
4.4 "Just One Victory", Akron, OH 1981 (with Utopia)
Track 5 "Promo Bed" is music taken from the show with the script for the DJ to read over, printed on the cue sheet.
Track 6 is Rundgren himself speaking the show ID.
Hosted by Bill Minkin.
Total time: 59:37
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"The King Biscuit Flower Hour" was a 60-minute, weekly national radio show that was broadcast on radio stations in the US who paid for the subscription. These shows feature portions of professionally recorded concerts, as well as national commercials.
Each show was mailed with cue sheets with the CDs placed in D.I.R. paper sleeves. These were not issued with traditional CD cases.
The cue sheets list the contents, commercials and duration for each segment for the DJ to be able to properly cue up and end each segment during the broadcast. (see photos)
These were available only to radio stations who subscribed to D.I.R. and were not sold in stores.