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Bloody good bands
So many good songs
Waterloo Sunset
Very enchanting and moving
You really got me ......Great stabbing guitar 🎸
Have it
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You really got me, All day and all of the night.
I loved the mid sixties music. Still do. Solid , no frills rock'n'roll.
Not so keen on later Kinks. Got too airy fairy for me.
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Groundbreaking stuff. You heard it here first. The Kinks had good some songs.
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Ray Davies a very decent songwriter but I also enjoy "Death of a Clown" by the other brother (Dave?).
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Former Labour leader
You really got me, All day and all of the night.
I loved the mid sixties music. Still do. Solid , no frills rock'n'roll.
Not so keen on later Kinks. Got too airy fairy for me.
I like their hippy stuff
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Seabird
Ray Davies a very decent songwriter but I also enjoy "Death of a Clown" by the other brother (Dave?).
The bassist ?
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SLUDGE FACTORY
So many good songs
Waterloo Sunset
Very enchanting and moving
You really got me ......Great stabbing guitar 🎸
Have it
I like my football on a Saturday
Roast beef on Sunday alright
I go to Blackpool for my holidays
Sit in the Autumn sunlight
Wasn’t /Isn’t Ray Davies an Arsenal fan ?
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stan butler
:xmasthumbup:fantastic & very moving, Waterloo Sunset, marvellous memories of the 60s.
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Yes, yes, yes, it's my Autumn almanac.
I've got one CD of The Kinks - the Ultimate Collection, a greatest hits thing. There are 44 tracks on it, and not a single duff track. Recommended.
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Face to Face, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur are fantastic albums. The Kinks don't get nearly the respect they deserve.
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stan butler
Terrible dye job. Is he wearing make up too?
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stan butler
Hardly anyone in the crowd seems to know the words. Crazy.
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For me one of the most influential bands ever.
Credited with inventing metal because of “that”
opening guitar riff but I will forgive them as they gave us Waterloo Sunset.
The Davies brothers were an odd pair though.
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NYCBlue
Hardly anyone in the crowd seems to know the words. Crazy.
Always moaning
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stan butler
Always moaning
I didn't see anyone moaning. They seemed to be enjoying it.
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NYCBlue
I didn't see anyone moaning. They seemed to be enjoying it.
Just looking for faults stop moaning.
Most will watch it but you have to pick faults..
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SLUDGE FACTORY
So many good songs
Waterloo Sunset
Very enchanting and moving
You really got me ......Great stabbing guitar 🎸
Have it
Preferred them to the Beatles.
The song Days was sublime
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I love love love them.
Waterloo Sunset and Days are so beautiful.
I also love The Village Green Preservation Society.
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Wash DC Blue
I love love love them.
Waterloo Sunset and Days are so beautiful.
I also love The Village Green Preservation Society.
Totally agree with you mate. I love them too, probably even more now than at the height of their fame in the 60's and 70's.
As an aside, we got to know Jim Rodford and his family when he was with the Zombies until his untimely death a couple of years ago. Jim was also the bassist with the Kinks for nearly 20 years and we had quite a long chat one particular evening. I told him that I had seen the Kinks live once in Cardiff, during their Schoolboys in Disgrace tour. He said that was just before he joined the band but the concept of dressing up as a schoolboy was later usurped by Angus Young of AC/DC. As much as I liked Jim, I think he got that wrong, as Angus started doing that in 1974, a year before the Kinks' Schoolboys in Disgrace album was released.
Much like the Beatles songs, I never get fed up listening to the Kinks classics. Timeless.
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Moodybluebird
Totally agree with you mate. I love them too, probably even more now than at the height of their fame in the 60's and 70's.
As an aside, we got to know Jim Rodford and his family when he was with the Zombies until his untimely death a couple of years ago. Jim was also the bassist with the Kinks for nearly 20 years and we had quite a long chat one particular evening. I told him that I had seen the Kinks live once in Cardiff, during their Schoolboys in Disgrace tour. He said that was just before he joined the band but the concept of dressing up as a schoolboy was later usurped by Angus Young of AC/DC. As much as I liked Jim, I think he got that wrong, as Angus started doing that in 1974, a year before the Kinks' Schoolboys in Disgrace album was released.
Much like the Beatles songs, I never get fed up listening to the Kinks classics. Timeless.
Waterloo Sunset is a staggering song
Right up there with in my life by the scouse gits
Very clever guitar
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Majorblue
For me one of the most influential bands ever.
Credited with inventing metal because of “that”
opening guitar riff but I will forgive them as they gave us Waterloo Sunset.
The Davies brothers were an odd pair though.
The guitar on you really got me was played by Jimmy Page , later of Led Zep
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SLUDGE FACTORY
The guitar on you really got me was played by Jimmy Page , later of Led Zep
An urban myth apparently Sludge. Even Page himself denied he played that riff.
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It's two chords. F & G. Based around an E chord which is literally the first chord you learn. Even the changes are the same chord just moved up the neck. If your band needs to hire a session musician to play that, you're in big trouble.
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NYCBlue
It's two chords. F & G. Based around an E chord which is literally the first chord you learn. Even the changes are the same chord just moved up the neck. If your band needs to hire a session musician to play that, you're in big trouble.
Very true, plus the fact that Dave Davies slashed his amp in temper and inadvertantly came up with the distorted sound you hear on the record. Hardly likely that he would 'invent' this new sound and pass it on to another guitarist to replicate.
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Moodybluebird
Totally agree with you mate. I love them too, probably even more now than at the height of their fame in the 60's and 70's.
As an aside, we got to know Jim Rodford and his family when he was with the Zombies until his untimely death a couple of years ago. Jim was also the bassist with the Kinks for nearly 20 years and we had quite a long chat one particular evening. I told him that I had seen the Kinks live once in Cardiff, during their Schoolboys in Disgrace tour. He said that was just before he joined the band but the concept of dressing up as a schoolboy was later usurped by Angus Young of AC/DC. As much as I liked Jim, I think he got that wrong, as Angus started doing that in 1974, a year before the Kinks' Schoolboys in Disgrace album was released.
Much like the Beatles songs, I never get fed up listening to the Kinks classics. Timeless.
Very very cool!
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They were indeed a very good band Sludge. I love the music from this era, even though i was only born in 1964. From my early days as a seaman i was introduced to all the great music of this era from the older hands. To this day my favourite all time band are the Moody Blues, i have been binging on the latter lately.
Spedger
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Moodybluebird
An urban myth apparently Sludge. Even Page himself denied he played that riff.
Ray Davies brother has said page created the riff
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Sloop_Jon_Bee
They were indeed a very good band Sludge. I love the music from this era, even though i was only born in 1964. From my early days as a seaman i was introduced to all the great music of this era from the older hands. To this day my favourite all time band are the Moody Blues, i have been binging on the latter lately.
Spedger
You sir are a treasure. Sadly, following the recent death of Graeme Edge, the band are unlikely to perform as the Moodies ever again. Still, a Justin Hayward solo concert is well worth going to even if his fantastic voice is not quite what it once was.
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NYCBlue
It's two chords. F & G. Based around an E chord which is literally the first chord you learn. Even the changes are the same chord just moved up the neck. If your band needs to hire a session musician to play that, you're in big trouble.
Page was a session guitarist for lots of bands at the time
Dave Davies has said Page wrote the riff
Maybe to piss off his brother ? but he's said it
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Sloop_Jon_Bee
They were indeed a very good band Sludge. I love the music from this era, even though i was only born in 1964. From my early days as a seaman i was introduced to all the great music of this era from the older hands. To this day my favourite all time band are the Moody Blues, i have been binging on the latter lately.
Spedger
I think the Kinks , like the Beatles , had lots of different sounds
There is a reason why a lot of bands from any era are not praised , its because they could only play a few songs
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Page was a session guitarist for lots of bands at the time
Dave Davies has said Page wrote the riff
Maybe to piss off his brother ? but he's said it
My sources are clearly on drugs , like Jimmy
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/dave...really-got-me/
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SLUDGE FACTORY
There's a 'riff ' of conspiracy going on ere
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Moodybluebird
An urban myth apparently Sludge. Even Page himself denied he played that riff.
It appears it was Mr Moody
Link below
👍 👍
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life on mars
There's a 'riff ' of conspiracy going on ere
A spliff even
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Strangely the kinks were the first band I ever saw live, 13 yr old mod at st david’s hall in 1984, still got the ticket stub somewhere.
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goats
Strangely the kinks were the first band I ever saw live, 13 yr old mod at st david’s hall in 1984, still got the ticket stub somewhere.
I saw Saxon at St David's Hall in 1984
I thought I was cool as a fridge
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SLUDGE FACTORY
I saw Saxon at St David's Hall in 1984
I thought I was cool as a fridge
You were lucky us mods didn’t show up :getscoat:
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The Kinks went on to stadium rock in the 80s and 90s in the U.S.of A.
Albums such as Low Budget ,Give the people what they want and my favourite
State of Confusion charted in America but goot n0 aiir play in America,
This is the last ever single To the bone 1994.Ray Davies reckoned he was going to call it 12inches and black.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxYY26qV1Y
The B side is also worth checking out.
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Moodybluebird
You sir are a treasure. Sadly, following the recent death of Graeme Edge, the band are unlikely to perform as the Moodies ever again. Still, a Justin Hayward solo concert is well worth going to even if his fantastic voice is not quite what it once was.
:xmasthumbup: