Two different of one Kinks song...

The difference between the original studio track and live versions in performance can be interesting. Case in point:

Some years back (1969), Ray Davies was working on a television concept - a recounting of the British working-class experience from the beginning of the Twentieth Century up to the 1960's, in the form of a narrative of the life of one Arthur, whose family were all gathered together one last time as his son prepared to emigrate to Australia.

The television production fell through, but the Kinks recorded the songs Ray had written for it as the concept album Arthur.

The opening track on Arthur is Victoria; an uptempo song - almost a skiffle number, maybe sort of a fast ballad - in which Arthur looks back with nostalgia to his youth.

A pretty little song; but here (from Wolfgang's Vault) is the live version they played as an encore at Winterland in February 1977, on the Sleepwalker tour:

According to Wikipedia, BTW:

The story is based on Davies' brother-in-law Arthur, who emigrated from England to Australia with his wife Rose - Ray and Dave's older sister, and the subject of the song Rosie Won't You Please Come Home from the album Face to Face - in the early 1960s.

The lead character, Arthur, is a carpet layer whose family's plight in the opportunity-poor setting of post-war England is depicted. The songs describe the England that Arthur once knew, the promise of life in Australia for one of his sons, the emptiness of his superficially comfortable life in his home, Shangri-La, the resolve of the British people in World War II, and the death of his brother in World War I, among other things. Many of the songs (such as Victoria and Brainwashed) represent a strong return to rock and roll, which The Kinks had largely forgone during the 1966-1968 period.

(I disagree with that last sentence, BTW)

I cauht this tour a couple months later, and they were rocking out hard.