The Kinks - Rockpalast, Grugahalle, Germany, 4-4-1982

It's been a while since I've posted any Kinks related material (my second favorite group, after the Beatles). So here's some more.

There are lots of Kinks concert bootlegs out there, but few and far between that have excellent sound quality. Here's one of those rare stellar sounding ones. It sounds so good because it was professionally recorded for the German TV show "Rockpalast."

In 1980, the Kinks released the live album "One for the Road." This comes two years later, and one album later, the 1981 "Give the People What They Want" studio album. So there's some overlap between the songs on "One for the Road" and here, but the Kinks have such a deep catalog of popular songs that there are lots of differences as well. Seven of the songs played come from the "Give the People What They Want" album, and one song, "Bernadette," came from their soon-to-come 1983 album, "State of Confusion."

The bootleg I took this from was so well recorded that I only had to make a couple of tweaks. The song "Celluloid Heroes" essentially had no applause at the end. So I took applause noise from other songs and patched it in there. And "Back to Front" had several seconds of silence in the middle of it. Luckily, it was during a guitar riff instrumental section, so I was able to patch that up with more of that riff from elsewhere in the song. I also put any significant between song banter on their own tracks, but there was very little talking for this concert.

01 Introduction (Kinks)
02 Around the Dial (Kinks)
03 The Hard Way (Kinks)
04 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Kinks)
05 Catch Me Now, I'm Falling (Kinks)
06 Come On Now (Kinks)
07 talk (Kinks)
08 Destroyer (Kinks)
09 Yo-Yo (Kinks)
10 Lola (Kinks)
11 Dead End Street (Kinks)
12 Add It Up (Kinks)
13 Low Budget (Kinks)
14 talk (Kinks)
15 Art Lover (Kinks)
16 Back to Front - Get Back (Kinks)
17 A Gallon of Gas (Kinks)
18 Celluloid Heroes (Kinks)
19 Till the End of the Day (Kinks)
20 Bernadette (Kinks)
21 All Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
22 Give the People What the Want (Kinks)
23 Pressure (Kinks)
24 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
25 talk (Kinks)
26 Stop Your Sobbing (Kinks)
27 David Watts (Kinks)

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The cover art photo comes from the exact concert in question, as you can see from the Rockpalast sign in the background. I found a neon Rockpalast sign for the text at the bottom, and then added more text around it using a similar font.