"He used to really get on my tits."

March 7, 2015 7:08 AM

Sibling Rivalry Made The Kinks [SLYT]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome (9 comments total)

That was so sweet and sad.
posted by Room 641-A at 7:29 AM on March 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

This was very nice; the public so rarely gets to hear Dave's side of the story. I don't think he gets near enough credit for influencing future generations of guitarists and he is a much better songwriter than he is usually given credit for-- if he was in any other band that didn't have Ray as the frontman and principal song writer, people would be talking about the immense talents of both Davies brothers almost co-equally. To draw a comparison to their British Invasion contemporaries, Dave is the George Harrison to Ray's Lennon-McCartney. Pretty damn good in his own right, yet always overshadowed by the guy next to him.
posted by KingEdRa at 8:43 AM on March 7, 2015 [3 favorites]

Huh, I had no idea that they stayed together as a band until the mid-nineties. I had thought that they'd broken up in the eighties.
posted by octothorpe at 9:05 AM on March 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Imaginations Real Dave played everything on that album.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 9:50 AM on March 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

They weren't very good the night I saw them (in June 1970), but I think a strong argument can be made that "You Really Got Me" – propelled by Dave's guitar – is the definitive 3-minute rock song of the 1960s.
posted by LeLiLo at 11:25 AM on March 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

Wait, there's a MUFF Winwood? That's incredible.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 11:56 AM on March 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Muff Winwood produced a few seminal records including All The Young Dudes and Sultans of Swing.
posted by octothorpe at 2:38 PM on March 7, 2015 [1 favorite]

Thanks for that, joseph conrad is fully awesome. The first concert I went to see was the Kinks, with the Pretenders opening. Being in 1981, I don't really remember it very clearly anymore, but both bands were great. I spent the end of last year being rather obsessed with the pure pop genius that is Shangri-La.
posted by talking leaf at 8:47 PM on March 7, 2015 [2 favorites]

...the pure pop genius that is Shangri-La.

Thank you for suggesting that.
posted by ovvl at 7:07 PM on March 9, 2015