Bloody good bands

[NYCBlue]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

Always moaning

I didn't see anyone moaning. They seemed to be enjoying it.

[stan butler]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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..

[life on mars]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

I love love love them.
Waterloo Sunset and Days are so beautiful.
I also love The Village Green Preservation Society.

[Moodybluebird]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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

[Moodybluebird]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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.

[NYCBlue]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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.

[Moodybluebird]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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.

[Wash DC Blue]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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!

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

An urban myth apparently Sludge. Even Page himself denied he played that riff.

Ray Davies brother has said page created the riff

[Moodybluebird]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: The Kinks were a bloody good band

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