Can you picture your high school chorus getting down with The Kinks ' greatest hits? Well, neither can I. But something close is about to happen: Kinks frontman Ray Davies has teamed up with the Crouch Festival Choir on an album called The Kinks Choral Collection . The record, which has been out since June in the U.K., but won't reach the U.S. until November 10, features Davies' new arrangements of songs including "You Really Got Me," "All Day and All of the Night," and six cuts from my very own favorite Kinks album, [...]
Never a household name but you'll have heard Bobby's work on the drums for sure, a prolific session musician he recorded with numerous 60's bands and artists including The Animals, Dusty Springfield, Them and one of my all-time favourite bands The Kinks , according to Ray Davies when his brother Dave played the opening chords of "You Really Got Me Now" Bobby " forgot the complicated introduction he had planned, and just thumped one beat on the snare drum with as much power as he could muster.” [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Drummer Bobby Graham , who played on an estimated 15,000 albums and 107 Top 50 Hits, 13 of which reached No. 1, died Monday as a result of a four-month battle with stomach cancer. He was 69. Graham began his career in the late '50s and his session resume reads like a who's-who in classic rock. He worked with Dusty Springfield , Joe Cocker , Jimmy Page , Marianne Faithful , Tom Jones , the Animals , [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive These days, a band lasting for twenty-five years seems ludicrous. But it is indeed what Yo La Tengo have accomplished this year, a feat that isn't lost on them, either. "There's always times you never know what people will think of what you'll do and what the consequences of that are," guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan tells Spinner. "There was a time years ago when our booking agent told me that we got to a point that we [...]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive These days, a band lasting for twenty-five years seems ludicrous. But it is indeed what Yo La Tengo have accomplished this year, a feat that isn't lost on them, either. "There's always times you never know what people will think of what you'll do and what the consequences of that are," guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan tells Spinner. "There was a time years ago when our booking agent told me that we got to a point that we [...]
Bobcat Goldthwait, escritor y director de World's Greatest Dad (se estrena el 21 de agosto) le platicó al periodista Devin Faraci, que entre otros proyectos, hará un musical. El musical estará basado en Schoolboys In Disgrace , disco de los Kinks , lanzado en 1975. Al parecer, Ray Davies ha dado luz verde al musical y Goldthwait ya trabaja en storyboards. La historia podría resultar interesante, pues aunque Schoolboys In Disgrace no es por mucho el álbum más comercial de los Kinks [...]
Festival chic, baby... 1. Whilst Neil Young may have rocked the Pyramid's free world, Ray Davies may well be the best songsmith of the pre-Albarn generation... 2. Coxon's certainly the unsung hero of Blur . Coffee and TV was absolutely splendid. 3. Vodka & Skittles is perhaps the best alcoholic concoction since fermentation began. 4. Photographers are ignorant, photo pits insufferable. And disposable Lomography cameras aren't ideal for festivals... 5. There's no such thing as a VIP [...]
Completing the Ray Davies Electric Proms posts, here's a link to download a video recording of the show, the quality ain't great but the audio's okay so it's worth a try, it's in DivX format. If you missed it before the full audio rip of the show is here . [...]
The emotional impact of a certain alleged cardiac arrest takes a fair bit of Friday to sink in, although wellies don’t have anywhere near the same trouble. With groundsheets buried in gloop, Mr. Hudson & his soulful Library are right up against it on The Other Stage. That it’s still sheeting down come eleven raises the question of whether it’s Hudson or his affiliation with Mr. West that’s attracted such a colossal crowd. Kanye doesn’t show, despite lurking about backstage for the most part of the day, although Hudson delivers an awe-inspiring down-tempo set filled to bursting point [...]
Festival chic, baby... 1. Whilst Neil Young may have rocked the Pyramid's free world, Ray Davies may well be the best songsmith of the pre-Albarn generation... 2. Coxon's certainly the unsung hero of Blur . Coffee and TV was absolutely splendid. 3. Vodka & Skittles is perhaps the best alcoholic concoction since fermentation began. 4. Photographers are ignorant, photo pits insufferable. And disposable Lomography cameras aren't ideal for festivals... 5. There's no such thing as a VIP [...]
Recently discussing the life and times of The Kinks in interview with The Independent , Ray Davies said the following when asked if that much rumored reunion was still possibility: "No, but I will continue to play with ex band members like [Kinks drummer] Mick Avory from time to time. With Dave, a lot of it is psychological. I'll guide him in, and coerce and nurture him, and when the time is right I suppose I'll even shout at him again. I'm an Alex Ferguson-type motivator - I'm not a great producer like [...]
Here's a new tidbit to our post about the Boston journalist trying to get the Kinks reunited in our lifetime. Sadly, it may not happen, says Ray Davies on a parkbench in Highgate, North London to The UK's Independent reporter James McNair . "So a Kinks reunion is a possibility? "No, but I will continue to play with ex band members like [Kinks drummer] Mick Avory from time to time. With Dave, a lot of it is psychological. I'll guide him in, and coerce and nurture [...]
Image From Here Dearest Readers, I am suffering from a mental block these days. There sitting beside me is a stack of CD's - all new music. But for some strange reason, I can't get myself engaged with them to write about them. Part of the problem is I am still playing catch-up from the period that this blog was dormant (half of '07 and all of '08). There are so many excellent albums that I missed during that time period and quite frankly I don't know where to start. Do [...]
The Sonics weren’t pioneers so much as cavemen—the first humans to discover tools, fire and the absolute rudiments of chemistry. Their original ‘60s songs still sound wild and feral today, and their debut Here Are The Sonics! devours most of the million punk rock records that timidly followed it. This will be their first Los Angeles-area show ever. This interview by Dan Collins.
Rocking Out and Having Fun I cannot imagine a more optimistic tune. No matter how hard eighties rock and roll production tried, it couldn't kill "Better Things" - taken from The Kinks brilliant eighties entry Give The People What They Want . The superficial sheen and sickly sick drum sound aided by its evil Michelob beer chorused guitar tone don't stand a chance against Ray Davies brilliant songwriting evidenced by decades of classic song after classic song. I take Davies in a heatbeat [...]
Last May, Boston Globe staff writer Geoff Edgers decided he was going to try and reunite the brilliant but (in his opinion) under-appreciated band, the Kinks . He decided to make a documentary about the quest and along the way scored choice encounters with fellow Kinks fans named Paul McCartney , Sting , Zooey Deschanel , Paul Weller , Brian Wilson , Robyn Hitchcock and Clive Davis. Of course, he also headed to London to search out the original [...]
As requested here's the full audio rip from the BBC Electric Proms concert performed at The Roundhouse Camden on 28th Oct 2007, the full set list is: Everybody Else Where Have All The Good Times Gone Til' The End of The Day [...]
Yeah, I know I should happy, it's Good Friday and the weekend is here. But, I just can't get myself to be happy. It's that damn Black Dog always, always nipping at my heels. Plus, I have a lot of stress on me right now, especially with Mom being sick and all. I understand the implications of Good Friday and Easter Sunday, since I grew up as a good Catholic boy. And, quite frankly, I do believe but my Faith is not that strong these days. I have been trying and it is a slow growth process. Sometimes, [...]
MP3: Southeast Engine - Black Gold What if Ray Davies had come of age attending a black Baptist church in middle America? Well, he might have made an album like From the Forest to the Sea , the latest from Athens, Ohio’s Southeast Engine on Misra Records . Informed by concept albums like Davies’ Kinks klassic Arthur and shaped by his own less-than-conventional religious upbringing, SEE’s Adam Remnant has concocted the most ambitious, and perhaps the most beautiful, of his band’s four albums. The songs [...]
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