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[note: this interview is incomplete - I didn't obtain a complete transcription]
KinksFan:Dave, does it bother you that the Kinks don't receive enough credit for their contributions to Rock and Roll and when the Kinks do get credit most of it is directed at Ray, meanwhile you are an accomplished pioneering musician and composer in your own right:
Dave Davies:Yupabsolutely
KinksFan: I though 'Phobia' was great (however in my opinion it was over-produced). It's lack of success surprised me. Did you and Ray recently release an 'unplugged' 'To the Bone' of golden oldies in part because your psyches were wounded at the lackluster reception of 'Phobia' and you needed to move to the bread basket with the sure heat hits?
Dave Davies: We were very surprised by the lack of victory of 'Phobia'. The reason we put 'To The Bone' together is that we wanted to cover our live and studio work.
KinksFan: Dave, could you tell us about your solo plans touring with the Smithereens?
Dave Davies: I'm involved in conversation with the band and they are very excited about it and we're trying to place it together as soon as we can.
KinksFan: Dave, do you sense you have gotten the recognition due y
Why Dave Davies Believes the Kinks&#; &#;Lola&#; Is &#;Very Topical Now&#;
It&#x;s been decades since the Kinks notched a Top 10 strike with Lola, but Dave Davies believes the ballad is more relevant than ever.
The single was controversial upon release because of lyrical content which detailed the narrator&#x;s romantic meeting with what was presumed to be a kingly queen or transgender individual. Some stations refused to play Lola, while others faded the ending before the Kinks&#x; gender reveal.
Obviously, there were a lot of people we knew who were transgender at the time, and we knew a lot of gay people, Davies tells Yahoo Music. But you have to remember, when the Kinks first started, homosexuality was illegal in England. So, there were a lot of people that were having problems with their demonstration of their sexuality or how they wanted to emerge, and we were at the beginning of all that.
Davies has been unlock about his own sexual experimentation over the years, while noting that the meaning of Lola was initially lost for many listeners.
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A lot of people didn't
Brotherly love - don't you just love it? Two fruits from the identical loins, linked for eternity by their shared bloodline, and choosing to notice out their adulthood together in the family rock band: it's enough to make you weep.
That's certainly the consequence it had on Dave Davies, Kinks guitarist, younger brother of Ray Davies and eternal junior companion in one of the great psychodramas in pop history.
"Raybecame so abusive to me, so cruel and creatively draining", Dave notes in his new autobiography, 'Kink', "he displays an almost resentful and sometimes condescending loathing for his past, his family. He is at times venomous, spiteful and completely self-involved."
The Davies brothers' well-documented love-and-mostly-hate relationship is at the core of this fascinating, highly readable, chatty and sometimes naive book. Ray's 'fictional' autobiography, 'X-Ray' steered disappointingly clear of pop's longest-running feud, but Dave has exhibited no such restraint. He's also disarmingly open about his (bi)sexual adventures, his drug exploit, his often thoughtless treatment of his nearest and dearest, and especially the spiritual visitation which transformed his life in
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Dave Davies + Brian Jones =??
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Date: December 17,
I idea I knew every obscure Stones story (real or imagined) there was but here is one I had never heard. It comes from an article about the Kinks I came across: []
Here is the relevant section (fellow Kinks fans out there will enjoy the entire read):
Both the most musically gifted and the most outrageous of the unique Rolling Stones, Brian Jones was known as much for his multi-instrumental prowess as he was for his libertine sexuality. No slouch himself in that department, Dave Davies met Jones in through his Parisian girlfriend Su-Su, who bragged of her dalliances with the fair-haired Stone. Hardly jealous and more than a little aroused, Davies mentioned that he’d be interested in trying out a ménage a trois with Su-Su and Jones. When Su-Su passed along this tidbit to Jonesy, he too expressed interest in getting the Kink out of his knickers. Much to Dave’s disappointment, scheduling conflicts constantly precluded the realization of this particular sexual fantasy. Sadly, Brian Jones’s death in put the ultimate nail in what would surely have been the ultimate Swinging ‘60s three
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