Anyone else old enought to know and love Ray Davies & the Kinks!
I can remember as I kid thinking how saucy 'Lola' was!
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You Really Got Me!
I was heavily into the Kinks as a teenager - started out as a Mod listening to Tamla Motown and ended up as a 'Sixties Child' listening to psychedelia like The Perfumed Garden and Tintagel Abbey. The Kinks, the Who and most particularly the Small Faces were a big part of the music I listened to.
'You Really Got Me' was one of 'my' songs during the eighties (that and the theme to Hawaii 5-0!) when I frequented the King John pub in Nottingham at weekends, working my butt off in Fine Fare on a Saturday to afford Friday and Saturday nights out. Then, there was a discoteque downstairs called 'Dummies' and the only music played was Sixties stuff from R Dean Taylor to the Action and the Creation. I remember introducing psychedlia from John's Children and the Electric Prunes. Anybody else remember 'I had to much to dream last night'?
Anyway, the Kinks were really important to us, so when they had a gig at the Royal Centre we snapped up the tickets. Thing was, we had to stay seated, and all we wanted to do was dance. The bouncers kept telling us to sit down. For weeks after that people came up to us in the street and asked if we were the chicks who go-goed at the Kinks. A while after that the Animals played there and Eric Burdon got really pissed off at the sound system.
Hell, Alex - you've really brought back the memories with this thread! Thank you!
'You Really Got Me' was one of 'my' songs during the eighties (that and the theme to Hawaii 5-0!) when I frequented the King John pub in Nottingham at weekends, working my butt off in Fine Fare on a Saturday to afford Friday and Saturday nights out. Then, there was a discoteque downstairs called 'Dummies' and the only music played was Sixties stuff from R Dean Taylor to the Action and the Creation. I remember introducing psychedlia from John's Children and the Electric Prunes. Anybody else remember 'I had to much to dream last night'?
Anyway, the Kinks were really important to us, so when they had a gig at the Royal Centre we snapped up the tickets. Thing was, we had to stay seated, and all we wanted to do was dance. The bouncers kept telling us to sit down. For weeks after that people came up to us in the street and asked if we were the chicks who go-goed at the Kinks. A while after that the Animals played there and Eric Burdon got really pissed off at the sound system.
Hell, Alex - you've really brought back the memories with this thread! Thank you!
Sex God
Now don't start me. Unfortunately I have to admit, I can remember the Kinks from the sixties. It was rip-roaring stuff but always with Ray Davies' intelligence behind it.
Mrs TE and I went to see them about 4 years ago in Cardiff. It was fantastic and we were dancing on the seats - does that qualify me as a go-go chick??
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Before they started Ray Davies came out front with an acoustic guitar (and a raincoat?? on) and solo entertained the audience. It was a magic night from a classic outfit.
Thanks Alex - for the memory. I think the 40th anniversary is of You Really Got Me.
Mrs TE and I went to see them about 4 years ago in Cardiff. It was fantastic and we were dancing on the seats - does that qualify me as a go-go chick??
.Before they started Ray Davies came out front with an acoustic guitar (and a raincoat?? on) and solo entertained the audience. It was a magic night from a classic outfit.
Thanks Alex - for the memory. I think the 40th anniversary is of You Really Got Me.
Aww Sappho & TE you are most welcome!
I loved the Kinks too, I also like Ray Davies' later stuff.
R Dean Taylor (Ghost in my house) - wasn't he the first white guy to record on Motown?
And the Small Faces - didn't they do Itchicoo Park - god, that evokes memories!
One think - all these young people poo poo the old stuff - but isn't it amazing how so many recent recordings have 'old stuff' sampled in - or just badly covered?
Hugs, Alex x x
And btw Sappho - it is wonderful to see you posting again - even if only occasionally.
I loved the Kinks too, I also like Ray Davies' later stuff.
R Dean Taylor (Ghost in my house) - wasn't he the first white guy to record on Motown?
And the Small Faces - didn't they do Itchicoo Park - god, that evokes memories!
One think - all these young people poo poo the old stuff - but isn't it amazing how so many recent recordings have 'old stuff' sampled in - or just badly covered?
Hugs, Alex x x
And btw Sappho - it is wonderful to see you posting again - even if only occasionally.
Ray Davies!! I am tempted out from my poet's lair to pay homage to a master song-writer. If anyone represented the 'joi-de-vivre' of late 60s/early 70s Britain (and I was there) it is he. 'Waterloo Sunset' is an enduring masterpiece. 'Autumn Almanac', 'Death of a Clown', 'A Well Respected Man', ...all excellent. A later offering, 'Come Dancing' is one of my enduring favourites.
It seems seems strange now that in this short period of time I saw ' The Corries', 'Johnny Cash', 'Kinks', 'Fairport Convention', 'Halle Orchestra'... how diverse can you get. But their music will live forever...
A.
It seems seems strange now that in this short period of time I saw ' The Corries', 'Johnny Cash', 'Kinks', 'Fairport Convention', 'Halle Orchestra'... how diverse can you get. But their music will live forever...
A.
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Quote by Alexandra
Of the Kinks!!!!
Anyone else old enought to know and love Ray Davies & the Kinks!
I can remember as I kid thinking how saucy 'Lola' was!
I still haven't figured it out:
"I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola."
Does he mean Lola is also glad I'm a man, or does he mean Lola and I are both men and I'm glad about that?
It's been bugging me most of my life. I suspect it was supposed to.
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love the kinks!
"waterloo sunset" is one of the best songs ever! and "see my friends" is 60's psychedelia at it's best. was lucky enough to see ray davies play a few years back. doesn't seem to have lost so much 40 years on! pure quality! am i right in thinking he had some kind of breakdown, or was that the brother. the fine line of genius and madness?
and ello agricola good to see you! ;-)
neil x x x ;-)
"waterloo sunset" is one of the best songs ever! and "see my friends" is 60's psychedelia at it's best. was lucky enough to see ray davies play a few years back. doesn't seem to have lost so much 40 years on! pure quality! am i right in thinking he had some kind of breakdown, or was that the brother. the fine line of genius and madness?
and ello agricola good to see you! ;-)
neil x x x ;-)
Sex God
I'm a little young for these, but I do recognise them when they come on the radio. Ohhh and MrFC has enlightened me to many more that I do like.
But hey Sappho !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MODS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you see Quadraphina?I thought Mods were cooool...............
But hey Sappho !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MODS!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did you see Quadraphina?I thought Mods were cooool...............
Sex God
Bugger, bugger, bugger! Why am I so late on this thread? 
Ray Davies is indeed (in my humble opinion) a poetic genius.
) though, years later, I did play keyboards one evening for Roger Daltrey. Does that count? 
Will - getting all nostalgic
Why am I so late on this thread? Ray Davies is indeed (in my humble opinion) a poetic genius.
Quote by Ice PieMmmmmm, a delicious ambiguity isn't it? I have always been quite certain that it was a deliberate device of Ray Davies to put it in such ambiguous terms. Lola is clearly a transvestite and so there is the sumptuous uncertainty of a guy fancying a girl who he knows is really another guy. Quite brilliant and also very daring for its day. The 60s were an extremely important time for music in general. I was too young to be involved (
"I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola."
Does he mean Lola is also glad I'm a man, or does he mean Lola and I are both men and I'm glad about that?
) though, years later, I did play keyboards one evening for Roger Daltrey. Does that count? Will - getting all nostalgic
I once sold Pete Quaife a TR4 in 1965 or 66. Not much of claim to fame it's true. I am a Ray Davies and Kinks fan through and through as well, though actually for the anoraks amongst you "Lola" is a 70's single not a 60's one.
He did a turn for Jools Holland's Christmas Album, (I think it was the last one), a great song about the changes in London streets, "Yours Truly, confused, N10"
He did a turn for Jools Holland's Christmas Album, (I think it was the last one), a great song about the changes in London streets, "Yours Truly, confused, N10"
Sex God
Ray Davies is the uncle to one of my distant cousins, somewhere along the line lol
