Capital Ship

“You know it’s gonna get stranger…” It’s hard to imagine things getting a whole lot stranger than they are these days in Washington, DC, where we are told (as George Orwell himself might have warned we would be) to accept the existence of such things as “alternative facts.” Clearly, our Nation’s Capital has been in need of a happier sort of alternative reality, and Dead & Company were just the guys for the job for at least this one November night, delivering one of the strongest shows of the 2017 Fall tour.

DYNAMIC BROADCAST RECORDING FROM THE KINKS’ 1972 US TOUR • By the end of 1972, The Kinks were going through a serious transition. It marked the end of the group as a 1960s British Invasion pop band, to them becoming a vehicle for Ray Davies' increasingly introspective rock 'n' roll poetry and his over-the-top performances, which borrowed heavily from the vaudevillian style of stage charisma.