For the next two years Quaife played on albums such as "Something Else by the Kinks" and "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society", and helped rehearse some songs on the album "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)". Quaife left the Kinks permanently in April 1969, but the others did not at first believe him, and only realised his intention when they saw an article in a music paper revealing Quaife's new band. Ray Davies asked him to change his mind and stay, but without success. He was again replaced on bass, this time permanently, by Dalton.