The Kinks: All Day And All Of The Night [1979]
from the classic One For The Road
I raided my mom's basement vinyl stash a few weekends ago and retrieved some of my old LPs, including this warhorse. I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is my favorite spoken intro to a live rock song ever, although when I was a little kid I thought Ray was saying "Rock fans will come, rock fans will go..." -- which isn't a very nice thing to be saying to an army of rock fans. Either way, the crowd reaction and the power chords kicking in are pure bliss. I had also forgotten the extent to which Dave channels Eddie on this solo. Good times!
recorded at The Barn, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, March 3, 1979
THat friggin rocks.
ReplyDeleteI have been a hardcore Kinks fan since the first time I heard this album,in about 1981. My friend bought the LP becuse his Dad had been a fan since about 1965, so like father like son. There was a couple years there where I listened to this album once, maybe twice, a day.
ReplyDeleteHey anon -- I spinned this one a lot as a youth as well. Kinks at New Haven Vets on the "Come Dancing" tour was maybe the first rock concert I attended. Good times...
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