THE KINKS

Saturday, 3 October 1981

Madison Square Garden
4 Pennsylvania Plaza
New York, New York 10001
USA


FLAC master, 23 June 2019, by elegymart:
Analog audience recording (stereo): unknown mics/recorder > analog audio cassette master > two 1979-81 US/European TDK SA-C90 (Type II CrO2) analog audio cassettes {from the Stonecutter Archives} > Sony TC-WE435 (azimuth adjustment) > Roland R05 (24/96) > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (audio cleanup, convert to 16/44) > SHNtool (fixed SBE) > CD Wave (track splits) > TLH (WAV > FLAC8).
Created this text file.


Total running time [2:04:52]
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01 introduction [3:00] >
02 Around the Dial [4:26]
03 The Hard Way [3:26]
04 Destroyer [4:33]
05 Yo-Yo [4:49]
06 Catch Me Now, I'm Falling [4:03]
07 Better Things [2:51]
08 NYC Blues > Lola [9:12]
09 Too Serious [5:06]
10 Art Lover [4:14]
11 Waterloo Sunset [4:59]
12 You Really Got Me [4:04]
13 Back to Front (incl. Get Back) [5:07]
14 A Gallon of Gas [5:56]
15 Till the End of the Day [2:37]
16 Celluloid Heroes [9:15]
17 20th Century Man [6:09]
18 Killer's Eyes [3:56]
19 All Day and All of the Night [6:40]
-- encore 1 --
20 Give the People What They Want [5:31]
-- encore 2 --
21 Misfits [3:55]
22 Low Budget [4:28]
23 Add It Up [2:57]
24 (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman (w/ Batman Theme / Shakin' All Over) [5:47]
25 Pressure [2:22]
26 The Village Green Preservation Society [1:37]
27 Twist and Shout [3:37]


Band line-up:
Ray Davies - lead and backing vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards
Dave Davies - lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on t09
Jim Rodford - bass, backing vocals
Ian Gibbons – keyboards, backing vocals
Mick Avory - drums


Notes:

Courtesy of the Stonecutter Archives is this Kinks debut show at Madison Square Garden during the "Give the People What They Want" tour. The band started playing the larger venues during this tour, and Ray reminisces about their small club days playing Ungano's for their first New York show, back in October 1969.

The band puts in a full-throttle show, probably on account of Ray and Dave having flown their mum in from England to attend this show. Clive Davis and Richard Gere were also greeting Ray backstage. There's a good mix of material here, typical of their setlist on this tour, with a few surprises thrown in.

Considering the size of the Garden, a nice stereo recording was pulled off here, but there is treble from the recording mics and the last part of the recording comes from a second cassette hat is slightly muffled (probably from when it was copied). You can hear a drop in the high ends during the last 40 minutes or so during if you are really listening intently -- otherwise it's not too apparent. There are few other flaws here, except for "Killer's Eyes" cutting in after a tape flip.

This transfer has been a long time in the making -- it was begun late last year, and required a second visit to the Stonecutter Archives to unearth the second tape. Somewhere along the way, Stonecutter and I got to meet Dave Davies in person and listen to him wax philosophically on life, which was a memorable experience. Much thanks goes again to Stonecutter for the safekeeping of these tapes for the past thirty-plus years, so that they can be shared now.

Enjoy,
elegymart