Is this kind of crap (with the weird screaming fans effect) also on the mono version?
There’s also issues with bad editing (like where they end their mash-up of ‘Milkcow blues boogie’ and ‘Batman’ and were going to go right into ‘Beautiful Delilah’ but that’s hacked off and a few seconds of Ray Davies thanking the audience is spliced on instead). I also wonder if unedited raw tapes still exist from the Gucci Shoes show?
Both mono and stereo. And, like pretty much all pre-’68 (and some post-) Kinks stereo, it was going to come out weird sounding regardless. But what didn’t help was -
Ray Davies actually devoted one track to the audience, and purposely mixed it louder than the band! He was worried because the girls were no longer giving the “wall of scream” for the Kinks, like they did for the Beatles/Stones/etc, just a couple of years previous. So, that album could’ve actually sounded really good if Ray had wanted it to. It seems he saw it as more of a promotional device/contract filler, than a real album…