When it comes to Kinks concerts from 1977, there are several with excellent sound quality. And for 1979, there also are a couple, plus the official live album "One for the Road." But there's no concert with soundboard quality for 1978.
However, I recently discovered this concert. It's only an audience bootleg. But it was recorded by Mike Millard, who had pretty good recording equipment. A big problem with such audience bootlegs is that there's usually too much crowd noise. That was the case here, with people often making noise all through the songs. But nowadays, there are audio editing tools to do something about that. So I used the MVSEP program to get rid of ALL the crowd noise, except for a little bit at the starts of songs, the usual cheering at the ends of songs. Plus, occasionally some in the middle when there was a particularly big roar from the crowd. But that was pretty rare. The result is this audience boot almost turns into a soundboard quality boot, since it recorded what was on stage pretty well.
In 1978, the Kinks released their studio album "Misfits." So this concert differs from those 1977 concert recordings mentioned above mainly by including six songs from that album: "A Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy," "Hay Fever," "Live Life," "Misfits," "Permanent Waves," and "Trust Your Heart." Plus, there were still four songs from the album prior to that one, "Sleepwalker," making the set list pretty different from those of other eras.
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