Category: Ray Davies

Ray Davies – San Luis Obispo, CA (04/06/97)

Ray Davies
April 6 1997
Cuesta College Auditorium
San Luis Obispo, CA

Front Row Center: Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o.
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.39, Tags Via xACT 2.44

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. ’Gotta Roll With It’
  2. ‘The Book Of X-Ray’
  3. Victoria
  4. ’Mediocrity Rises’
  5. 20th Century Man
  6. ‘Muswell Hill’
  7. London Song
  8. ‘The Front Room’
  9. Old Black Magic
  10. Tired Of Waiting For You
  11. ‘The Little Green Amp’
  12. Set Me Free
  13. ‘The Fart Box’
  14. See My Friends
  15. Autumn Almanac
  16. ‘The Freak’
  17. X-Ray (I)
  18. X-Ray (II)
  19. ‘Not Like Everybody Else’
  20. X-Ray (III)
  21. Stop Your Sobbing
  22. Minnie The Moocher
  23. Art School Babe
  24. ‘The Kinks Were Formed > You Really Got Me Story’
  25. You Really Got Me

Disc II:

  1. ‘Perseverance Story > Play You Really Got Me’
  2. You Really Got Me (II)
  3. A Well Respected Man
  4. Harry Rag
  5. A Well Respected Man (II)
  6. ‘Guns & The Wild West’
  7. I Go To Sleep
  8. Two Sisters
  9. Powerman
  10. The Money-Go-Round
  11. ‘Let’s Hear It For The Kinks!’
  12. Lola
  13. ‘The Old Radiogram’
  14. To The Bone
  15. ‘Highgate, Hampstead & Muswell Hill’
  16. The Village Green
  17. ‘End Of The Kinks Story’
  18. Days
  19. Waterloo Sunset
  20. ‘Let’s Go And Get Pissed’
  21. You Really Got Me
  22. taper babble

OldNeumanntapr Notes; (2017)
I can’t believe that it’s been exactly 20 years since I recorded this Ray Davies solo show. This was the only time that I’ve seen Ray, and I really enjoyed his performance that night. This was a night of music, interwoven with storytelling. For me, a song’s greatest impact is the story that it tells, and these songs wove the tale of the Kinks from start to end.

My friend Dave procured a block of seats in the front row and I was fortunate to receive one. I can’t begin to list all the wonderful concert experiences that I have had as a direct result of Dave’s generosity and influence. I was sitting to the left of his friend Rick, another taper, who told me as the show was beginning that, “There would be a lot of singing along at this show and I was going to have to ‘roll with it’”. I thought that was funny so I titled the first track of my recording after his quote, you ‘Gotta Roll With It.’

I miss seeing / recording shows at the Cuesta auditorium. It was a shoe-box type auditorium located on the old campus which used to be part of the Camp San Luis CA National Guard army base. The theater, built back during WWII has since been closed down having not been deemed worthy for a seismic safety retrofit, and is slowly rotting away. The theater had peeling paint and a leaky roof but the acoustics were great!

There is a very brief fade during the applause between “Tired Of Waiting For You” and ‘The Little Green Amp.’ There is a space after “See My Friends.”
“Autumn Almanac” cuts in. There is a space between “Art School Babe” and ‘The Kinks Were Formed > You Really Got Me Story.’ “A Well Respected Man” fades in and there is a small space in the beginning of “Lola.” This show has been torrented once before, by my friend Kling Klang, but this is the first time that I tagged the files myself.

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
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