The Kinks live in California 1983

The Kinks live at The Forum, Inglewood, CA, USA 25/4-1983 Band Ray Davies - Vocals/Rhythm Guitar Dave Davies - Guitar/Vocal Jim Rodford - Bass/Backing Vocal Ian Gibbons - Keyboard/Piano/Backing Vocals Mick Avory - Drums/Percussion Setlist 0:00 - Around The Dial 5:52 - Definite Maybe/State Of Confusion 10:03 - The Hard Way 12:39 - Catch Me Now I'm Falling 16:08 - All Day And All Of The Night/Destroyer 21:02 - Yo-Yo 28:53 - Come Dancing 33:35 - Don’t Forget To Dance 40:42 - Lola 46:48 - David Watts 48:39 - A Gallon Of Gas 55:09 - Back To Front 1:01:39 - Art Lover 1:05:30 - Band Introduction 1:06:02 - Till The End Of The Day 1:08:33 - Bernadette 1:13:22 - All Day And All Of The Night Some good Sunday rock’n roll. Legendary band The Kinks performing at The Forum in 1983. Recorded by the late great Mike Millard. The atmosphere is captured perfect. Some songs are missing. Enjoy/GråZon Read about the Kinks here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kinks State Of Confusion (released 1983) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Confusion Tape notes: This show finds The Kinks at peak of their second wave of popularity, driven by the success of the single "Come Dancing," which hit No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 largely due to the power of MTV on which the video for the song was in heavy rotation. The album State Of Confusion would not be released for another few months, but the band was featuring several songs from it in the set beyond "Come Dancing" including "Don't Forget To Dance," "Bernadette" and the title track. The rest of the set favors recent successes like "Destroyer" and a few classics. Mike only rated this recording as "Fair" on his list, and as we have come to learn, what Mike considered good or fair most would call excellent. There is perhaps more movement in the stereo image, but this is a very nice capture, sounding close and rich like most Millard masters do. Samples provided. Here's what Jim R recalled about The Kinks at the Forum 1983: Mike and I went together to The Kinks concert at The Forum on April 25, 1983. I could not find my ticket stub, but I remember we sat in the 7th or 8th row on the floor. In other words, at the back of our "sweet spot." Still great seats and you get a little more camouflage there than in the third row. A payoff was used to get Mike's equipment into the venue. I left my camera gear at home to be less conspicuous as was often the case as we moved from the relatively openness of the '70s to the more restrictive '80s. This was our fourth Kinks tour. Being big fans since we first saw them in 1978, this was a "must see" show even though it was in an 18,000 seat arena. I admit that we were spoiled from seeing them at Universal Amphitheatre (capacity 6000) in '78 and '79 and The Hollywood Palladium (capacity under 5000) in '81. Much more intimate settings! Despite The Kinks' increased popularity as evidenced by playing The Forum (a benchmark venue), we were happy to see they were still a fun party band. We had plenty of exuberant fans around us embracing the high spirits. I hope you enjoy this one. A little on the short side but still enjoyable. Cheers to my buddy Mike. JEMS is proud to partner with Rob, Jim R, Ed F, Barry G and many others to release Millard's historic recordings and to help set the record straight about the man himself. Of late we have tied each week's volume number to the year of recording, but that ends this week. After taping the ARMS show in December 1983 (Vol. 65 in the Lost and Found series), Mike retired from recording for the next four and half years. As I've written before, the details behind his decision to stop are not entirely clear, but we believe it had something to do with Mike getting caught recording at a Robert Plant show at The Forum in September 1983. We recently learned that Mike had been caught once before at a Pretenders show in September 1981, but that was at a small venue in Pasadena so there were no lingering consequences. Being caught at The Forum after taping there for years meant Millard believed he was a marked man and security would be looking for him. We canít thank Rob enough for reconnecting with Jim and putting his trust in our Millard reissue campaign. He kept Mikeís precious tapes under wraps for two decades, but once Rob learned of our methods and stewardship, he agreed to contribute the Millard DATs and cassettes to the program. Our releases would not be nearly as compelling without Jimís memories, photos and other background contributions. As many of you have noted, the stories offer an entertaining complement to Mikeís incredible audio documents. Special thanks this week to Professor Goody, for weighing in on proper pitch, and to mjk5510 for cover art and post production. Next week will be a wild card choice. Remember, due to the NAB list, some artists can't be posted on DIME, so if a Saturday arrives and there is no Lost and Found release, Try To Discover another site where the rules are different. BK for JEMS

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