The Kinks - Winterland, San Francisco, CA, 2-19-1977

Here's a really great concert from the Kinks, in great sound. If you like the band, you should check this out.

In 1977, the Kinks made some major changes. They switched record companies. Their new record company wanted them to drop all the concept albums and return to more straight ahead rock and roll, so they did. They also changed bass players, and dropped the brass and back-up singers in their concerts for a more streamlined sound. The result of all this was the album "Sleepwalker." It marked the beginning of a new surge in popularity for the band, which peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

This concert takes place just one week after "Sleepwalker" was released. The concert was recorded for radio and apparently broadcast live over some or all of the US. As a result, the sound is excellent. It's basically exactly like an official album from the era, with soundboard quality, but also the right amount of audience noise.

This is a popular bootleg, but strangely, most versions lack the very first song and the last two. The first song is mostly just a repetition of the "You Really Got Me" riff to get the crowd excited. But the last two - "Life on the Road" and "Victoria" are very worthy additions. These extra songs come from a different source that isn't quite as good, but that's quibbling. It's still excellent soundboard quality.

The song list is a great summary of the Kinks' career to that point, with songs from most of the years of the band's existence, for nearly two hours of music. There's a slight emphasis on "Sleepwalker," with six songs from that album. There's a fair amount of talking between songs. As I usually do, I've put all the talking on separate tracks.

01 You Really Got Me [Introduction] (Kinks)
02 talk (Kinks)
03 One of the Survivors (Kinks)
04 Sleepwalker (Kinks)
05 Rush Hour Blues (Kinks)
06 You Make It All Worthwhile - Ordinary People - Everybody's a Star [Starmaker] (Kinks)
07 talk (Kinks)
08 Day-O [The Banana Boat Song] (Kinks)
09 A Well Respected Man (Kinks)
10 Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
11 talk (Kinks)
12 Waterloo Sunset (Kinks)
13 talk (Kinks)
14 Celluloid Heroes (Kinks)
15 talk (Kinks)
16 Schooldays (Kinks)
17 Schooldays [Instrumental] (Kinks)
18 talk (Kinks)
19 Education (Kinks)
20 talk (Kinks)
21 Brother (Kinks)
22 talk (Kinks)
23 Stormy Skies (Kinks)
24 talk (Kinks)
25 Life Goes On (Kinks)
26 Full Moon (Kinks)
27 talk (Kinks)
28 Lola (Kinks)
29 talk (Kinks)
30 Alcohol (Kinks)
31 talk (Kinks)
32 You Really Got Me - All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
33 talk (Kinks)
34 Life on the Road (Kinks)
35 talk (Kinks)
36 Victoria (Kinks)

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Unfortunately, I couldn't find any photos of the band from the concert in question. But I got pretty close. I used a photo of Ray and Dave Davies on stage in concert one month later, at the Rainbow Theatre in London, on March 24, 1977. Ray is the one in the orange light.