The Kinks - Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, 6-25-1978

With the Kinks being my second favorite rock band (after the Beatles), I'm always looking for worthy music to post from them. In this case, I found a decent bootleg and improved the sound quality to make it worthy.

When it comes to Kinks concerts from 1977, there are several with excellent sound quality. And for 1979, there also are a couple, plus the official live album "One for the Road." But there's no concert with soundboard quality for 1978. 

However, I recently discovered this concert. It's only an audience bootleg. But it was recorded by Mike Millard, who had pretty good recording equipment. A big problem with such audience bootlegs is that there's usually too much crowd noise. That was the case here, with people often making noise all through the songs. But nowadays, there are audio editing tools to do something about that. So I used the MVSEP program to get rid of ALL the crowd noise, except for a little bit at the starts of songs, the usual cheering at the ends of songs. Plus, occasionally some in the middle when there was a particularly big roar from the crowd. But that was pretty rare. The result is this audience boot almost turns into a soundboard quality boot, since it recorded what was on stage pretty well.

In 1978, the Kinks released their studio album "Misfits." So this concert differs from those 1977 concert recordings mentioned above mainly by including six songs from that album: "A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy," "Hay Fever," "Live Life," "Misfits," "Permanent Waves," and "Trust Your Heart." Plus, there were still four songs from the album prior to that one, "Sleepwalker," making the set list pretty different from those of other eras.

This album is an hour and 41 minutes long.

01 You Really Got Me Intro [Instrumental] (Kinks)
02 Life on the Road (Kinks)
03 Sleepwalker (Kinks)
04 Mr. Big Man (Kinks)
05 talk (Kinks)
06 Waterloo Sunset (Kinks)
07 talk (Kinks)
08 Misfits (Kinks)
09 talk (Kinks)
10 Permanent Waves (Kinks)
11 Hay Fever (Kinks)
12 Lola (Kinks)
13 talk (Kinks)
14 Celluloid Heroes (Kinks)
15 A Well Respected Man (Kinks)
16 Death of a Clown (Kinks)
17 Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
18 talk (Kinks)
19 Trust Your Heart (Kinks)
20 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
21 Slum Kids (Kinks)
22 talk (Kinks)
23 Alcohol (Kinks)
24 talk (Kinks)
25 A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy (Kinks)
26 talk (Kinks)
27 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
28 talk (Kinks)
29 Live Life (Kinks)
30 talk (Kinks)
31 Juke Box Music (Kinks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/jHmHfNhy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/jGCABUZtHx1AGvP/file

The cover photo of lead singer Ray Davies is from a concert at the Uptown Theater in Chicago, Illinois, on June 11, 1978.