It was a great joy to see the Kinks in excellent form. Their impact runs deep into other bands and artists, no question. Ray Davies, the brooding genius, his brother Dave with the frenetic guitar, the rest of the band. The Fox Theatre in Atlanta, seating fewer than 5,000 people, a majestic venue right of One Thousand and One Nights. The show: October 20, 1980. The price of admission: $9.75. My sister...
The influence of the Kinks goes far and wide. "Waterloo Sunset" (1967) is a good example. Not only is the song widely saluted as a major achievement in songwriting by other songwriters and critics, it's also been covered by bands and artists as diverse as Def Leppard (hear below, from 2004), David Bowie and Billy Bragg; let's also not forget that Ray Davies' charms captivated Chrissie Hynde....
Time for a really rock and roll classic by 2 very different bands - The Kinks and Van Halen but which version of You Really Got Me rocks the best? The Kinks orginal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3Ei_yoI4c or Van Halens cover?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB8WHA3WWz0
This is the only reason this hot bish gets a mention… oldy but a goody: Gasolina. Puerto Rican reggaeton recording artist Daddy Yankee is 34. Singer Jessica Harp The Wreckers is 28. Rapper Sean Kingston is 28. Singer Dennis Edwards The Temptations is 67. Guitarist Dave Davies of The Kinks is 63. Actress Morgan Fairchild is 60. Guitarist Lee Ranaldo of Sonic [...]
A new wave of biopics and rockumentaries – including films about Blur, the White Stripes and Muse – leads the attack on "the blandest of the bland" A backlash has begun against the stranglehold that television talent shows have on the British music industry. Films about rock history are the first line of attack, according to the leading directors and musicians who are driving...
We visited our local Dorset pub twice today, first to devour steak pie, now home-made, and later to see the group Wayward. It comprises amplified acoustic guitar, electric bass guitar and electric drum kit, with the drummer providing the vocals. At first they attracted no applause due to numbers fading out rather than ending. Once we understood this we led the applause and others followed. Our favourite...
Dave Alvin - Black Sky Wax Tailor - Ungodly Fruit Arkestra One - Seu Pariso Damned - Noise Noise Noise (live) Mekons - Country Eleventh Dream Day - Among the Pines Kinks - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman Eliot Lipp - Tic Tac Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain Roxy Music - Re-Make/Re-Model Forgot my iPod again, so this is from Pandora. What are y'all listening to?
HEADS UP Dave Davies (of the Kinks) with Year Long Disaster @ El Rey Fri 2/5 (Canceled.) Why not put on “Death of a Clown” and revisit Sung’s photos and review from his brother Ray’s Kinks Choral Collection show at the Orpheum last November?
As Jodi ponted out in response to yesterday's post, ABBA had a big hit with "Waterloo" in 1974, applying the battle's outcome to a romantic disaster. As Mark (Walking Man) noted, the battle's name has become synonymous with defeat. Waterloo connects to so many things it may equal the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Here's a shot of Waterloo Station taken by my Dad in 1992, not too far from the...
Went to the 'Missing Believed Wiped' music special session at the NFT in frosty London yesterday which featured a few rare music TV clips of which the most egaerly awaited was Pink Ployd's appearance on Top Of The Pops in 1967. In the audience seemed to be the owners of many of London's independant record shops, music nerds (yours truly), music quizmasters and Victor Lewis Smith. a friend said it...
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This will definitely be filed under those posts that nobody reads, but we’re tickling our music geek gland here at Toxic Towers by building our own Music Town, just like the city that Jefferson Starship built using only rock’n’roll. So no more introduction is needed to this spiel. Here goes… Streets • Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan • Across 110th Street - Bobby...
The Soundtrack of My Life for Today Sing along with me, children! "Better Things" (Ray Davies)-- three versions: 1. The Kinks 2. Dar Williams 3. Fountains of Wayne Here's wishing you the bluest sky And hoping something better comes tomorrow Hoping all the verses rhyme, And the very best of choruses to Follow all the doubt and sadness I know that better things are on the way. Here's hoping...
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