On to the next tape: “Assortment #4,” mentioned here before.

The enclosed index card lists eight tracks — three studio cuts by Led Zeppelin, all of which I had; three tracks by the Eagles, two of which I had; and two live tracks by Zeppelin, which I did not have. I played those, and the list was accurate — but that wasn’t the end. There was a lot more that wasn’t listed anywhere.

Specifically, Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” — the single version, a minute shorter than the album cut, and I decided I don’t need that since I do have the album. Then Bad Company’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy,” which I did not have. Then two concerts from the King Biscuit Flower Hour, featuring Blondie and George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

So that’s interesting.

I tossed out the three studio tracks by Zeppelin, transferred “Take It to the Limit” to MP3, and tossed the other two Eagles tracks (which I had listed with the wrong titles).

The two live Zeppelin tracks turn out to be Side Three of “The Song Remains the Same.” I’m cool with that. They’ve been added to the collection.

I dumped “Heart of Glass.”

Those KBFH concerts — they’re less than half an hour each. Maybe they were a two-artist show? Or parts of two differents shows?

Anyway, they’re all squared away now — sorta. The thing is, when I went looking for dates, I only found KBFH shows for these bands from later than internal evidence indicates these to be. The playlists didn’t match, either. From the stage chatter on the Blondie set it’s from mid-1978, where the Blondie KBFH that turns up as a bootleg is from December 1980. I couldn’t find any record of a 1978 show.

So I swiped the cover of one of the 1980 bootlegs and used that, even though it isn’t right.

As for Thorogood, he did several KBFH, but this appears to be from earlier than any that I’ve found listed. It’s from a concert in Cleveland, but that doesn’t seem to help — they play Cleveland a lot. In fact, they’ll be there again later this year.

So I pasted up a cover using the KBFH logo with the name of the band lettered in.

The sound quality on the Blondie one isn’t all that great — I think I recorded it off a radio with less-than-perfect reception. The George Thorogood one is just fine, though, and the band was having a good night.

As for Side 2, which I didn’t play until a couple of days later: Twelve minutes (three songs and some stage chatter) of Devo in concert followed by eighty-five minutes of blank tape.

Nice to have the Devo — which is not King Biscuit Flower Hour; I don’t know where it’s from, but it’s off the radio, and the partial station break on the tape doesn’t fit the KBFH pattern. The playlist and other details lead me to think it’s a July 1980 appearance in Cincinnati, but how these few minutes of it wound up on the radio, I don’t know.

So that leaves what, thirty-seven?