(Audience FLAC)
Kinks - Mc Alister Auditorium, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA - February 20, 1976 Schoolboys Live
Unknown Stereo Audience -> Trade CD -> PC
Quality: Pretty darn good for a 70's audience. Clear, great mix, little bit of echo (see sample below)
I have been a Kinks Kultist for many decades now, and I was always ticked off that there was a great quality soundboard Soap Opera show, but no Schoolboys In Disgrace show, which I consider not only a far better album then Soap Opera, but one of the best albums they ever put out. (By far the best of the RCA period)
Sometime a while ago I found a guy with a million Kinks boot who had this, and so I traded with him (back in the days of trading CD-R's via the Post Office). Usually I don't get into audience shows, nor do I put up shows I didn't record myself, but this seems to be really rare. And after decades of looking I have found only one other Schoolboy show ever (and it was terrible quality).
The quality of this is quite good. Certainly really good for those who are use to audience shows, but even perfectly acceptable to me who usually only listens to high quality soundboard/FM shows.
Date and venue have been verified from Doug Hinman's excellent Kinks book. Obviously this is not the whole show, they opened with a 45 minute Kinks set, then an intermission before coming back for the Schoolboys set (according to Hinman's book). But this is the whole Schoolboy set, which is what is most important!
This was the last show of the 2nd leg of the US Schoolboys show, and therefor the last US Schoolboys show. There were a UK and European legs after this. They really didn't play the Schoolboy show in full too much. The whole tour consisted of (actually shows, not counting studio and TV appearances):
US Tour leg 1: 17 shows East Coast (11/21/75-12/18/75)
US Tour leg 2: 13 shows West Coast, TX and one LA (1/30/75-2/20/75)
UK Tour: 7 shows (2/27/75-3/10/75)
European Tour: 4 shows, 2 Sweden, 1 Denmark, 1 W. Germany (3/26/75-3/31/75)
01 - Schooldays
02 - Flash's Schooldays
03 - Story Of Preservation
04 - Jack The Idiot Dunce
05 - Education
06 - The First Time We Fall In Love
07 - I'm In Disgrace
08 - Headmaster
09 - The First Time We Fall In Love (Reprise)
10 - The Hard Way
11 - The Last Assembly
12 - No More Looking Back
13 - Finale
My rant on comments: Please do NOT thank me in the comments (unless you really want to). Please only leave a comment if you have something particular to add (about the show itself, the artists, the venue; a funny story; a correction, question or observation; story about being at the show, meeting the artists etc…) I find it annoying to go through a whole page of ‘thank you’ just to get some interesting info on the show. I do not understand why some people are so self-important and insecure that they demand everyone thank them for uploading a show. The fact that you download the show is implied thanks! (These are the same people, back in the tape trading days, would only trade you a show if you have equal material that they wanted)
