aah... the music of
Let's hear it for
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These were made in 1965 when the Kinks first visited Holland. Their current hit was Sunny Afternoon. I had great fun that week-end driving around Holland's snowy, iced-over - put it in a nutshell, slippery, roads for Muziek-Expres, same publisher as Tiq.
As the fog was so heavy, the Kinks did not arrive by air but had to take the night boat to the Hook (Hoek van Holland), where they arrived with an 18 hours delay, rather green-looking.
The audience, by the time they arrived in Enschede, had stopped believing the group would turn up. The publisher had the sense to distribute old issues without, as usual, waiting for the end of the performance, but it took too long and the angry mob started shredding them to throw crumpled up balls of paper at the stage.
During the concert, at least two beer bottles were thrown on stage. Manager Grenville Collins merely commented he'd seen worse.
Mark those tiny Vox amplifiers... kitchen chairs... what a crummy back-stage scene. But I got hooked good and solid. By the way, nobody liked my pictures very much; but as time goes by, they seem to grow getting better and better. Not only, even even, to me.
"These pictures are priceless"
Pete Quaife, 2008
Pete & Coralie almost forty years later in Utrecht
photo courtesy Siem van den Berg, 2004
the group
The Kinks had just about the best drummer in the business, Mick Avory; best rhythm and lead guitar, Dave Davies; best bass, Pete Quaife; and best song writer, Ray Davies. Alas, Ray was not a real leader like Duke Ellington or Frank Zappa. Part of the reason Pete Quaife left so suddenly was that. Not putting down the excellent players who replaced him, the Kinks never really got over Pete's departure. There's the animus between the two Davies bros. I understand they're not even on speaking terms anymore. Dave now claims he has really written Lola (he has also had a revelational vision). Who could even guess?
No matter - the most interesting English rock group
Dey's the Kings, honeylam'!
List of recordings
The trouble is there are so many re-issues on the market in which old numbers
have been newly combined that it's hardly worth it to keep track.
Especially PYE's Marble Arch has been guilty of that, much to Ray Davies' chagrin.
The Kinks sites on the triple-double-u have a habit of disappearing, or I'd link to a Kink!
fairly complete list: original albums and their songs
many are available on CD
X-Ray
Ray Davies
The Unauthorized Autobiography
"amusing" - "informative" - "pack of lies"
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