The tour was a chaotic one, to say the least, poor ticket sales at the start of the tour left promoter Betty Kaye unable to pay the Kinks in cash, as she had originally promised. This understandably pissed the band off immeasurably. So, in retaliation, they delivered a shortened set in at their Reno show and put the near-empty Sacramento crowd to the sword with them having to comically sit through an extended version of ‘You Really Got Me’ for most of the concert.
Things then got even worse when the band decided they would cancel their San Francisco show if they weren’t going to get paid in advance. It was the last straw for the promoter and it saw Kaye fire back by filing a formal complaint with the American Federation of Musicians. The union had the power to withhold work permits for British musicians if they misbehaved on stage or refused to perform without good reason. That’s exactly what would happen.
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