KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR PRESENTS GRAHAM PARKER CD, King Biscuit Flower Hour Records KB88060, 1/15/2002, USA

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15 		JUST LIKE A MAN
THUNDER AND RAIN
FOOL'S GOLD
FEAR NOT
SOUNDS LIKE CHAINS
LOVE GETS YOU TWISTED
PASSIVE RESISTANCE
YOU CAN'T TAKE LOVE FOR GRANTED
GLASS JAW
LIFE GETS BETTER
YOU CAN'T BE TOO STRONG
LOCAL GIRLS
PROTECTION
SATURDAY NIGHT IS DEAD
DISCOVERING JAPAN 		2:49
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total running time 52:23

recorded live at The Chance, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1983

All songs: G. Parker Ellisclan LTD /
Administered by Bug Music (ASCAP)
Graham Parker appears courtesy of Arista Records, Inc. and BMG Entertainment UK & Ireland Ltd.
Executive Producers: Steven Ship & Kevin Cain
Mixing and Mastering: Glen Robinson
Cover Illustration: Graham Parker
Art Direction: Lia Starace
Design: Ronn Spencer / Boiling Point Design
Liner Notes: Scott Schinder
Photographs: Ed McCarthy
King Biscuit would like to thank: Len Handler, Beth Patterson, Spencer Cohen, Jason Rosenfeld, Viera Rysula and John Cafferty




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The eighties were more of a rest period for me, actually. I'd burned pretty hard during the first four years of my career and was now enjoying my winnings, relaxing a bit, experimenting musically, saving myself for the long haul to come. Having left the intensity of the Rumour and fallen in with the blander recording ethic of the times, my live gigs were consequently also less exciting, more about cool musicianship and seamless arrangements than angry posturing and the stuff-it-down-their-throats tactics I used to employ. At least that's the theory. And so the intensity of this show, recorded by the King Biscuit Flower Hour at The Chance in Poughkeepsie in 1983, came as some surprise to me.
It doesn't let up, really, and although the band aren't trying to emulate the Rumour and seem more respectful of the songs and less inclined to bludgeon them into submission, they still attack them with an unexpected energy and rock like a barrel full of monkeys.
Nice recording job, too. Enjoy.

GP



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