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Post by Guest In Black on Jun 8, 2007 7:14:23 GMT -5
The July 2007 issue of Uncut magazine features (on page 29) a half-page article on the Kinks and the Clissold Arms.
There are quotes from Dave re his and Ray's connections with the pub, from both before and after they became famous.
The article says Ray disagrees with Dave re the first song he wrote - Dave says it was 'South' (which later became 'Tired Of Waiting') and that they performed it at the Clissold when Ray was 17, Dave 14 but Ray says different.
Dave also talks of fans visiting the pub to take photos and about fans organising the memorabilia display there.
The reporter mentions his own visit to the pub in 2004, after interviewing Ray, and writes of the new owners' plans to get rid of the memorabilia but the Kinks coming together in opposition to this, leading to an international petition which forced a change of plan.
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Post by rose on Jun 8, 2007 8:56:55 GMT -5
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Post by uncleson on Jun 8, 2007 12:08:46 GMT -5
Kinkdom Forever!
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Post by Smiley on Jun 8, 2007 20:44:51 GMT -5
Hey GIB.. Do you think you could post the link?
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Post by Guest In Black on Jun 9, 2007 1:53:13 GMT -5
Sorry, all there is online is this here;
www.uncut.co.uk/magazine/
FEATURES
YOU HAD TO BE THERE - The Kinks’ gestation at The Clissold Arms, Fortis Green...
I didn't buy the mag (it's £4.20), just sneaked a very quick look (as the shopkeeper has a habit of telling people that it's not a library and that the mags are for buying, not for reading) but I will try and sneak a few longer looks in larger shops and get all the new Dave quotes memorised and typed up for y'all.
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Post by rose on Jun 9, 2007 6:34:30 GMT -5
thanks a bunch...
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Post by Guest on Jun 14, 2007 13:00:41 GMT -5
Anybody posted this yet? Dave teaching Bill Oddie a thing or two on the recent BBC show, Play It Again.
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Post by Smiley on Jun 14, 2007 17:35:57 GMT -5
Anybody posted this yet? Dave teaching Bill Oddie a thing or two on the recent BBC show, Play It Again. THIS IS GREAT! DAVE LOOKS and SOUNDS GREAT! Thanks! ;D
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Post by blamo on Jun 15, 2007 5:54:03 GMT -5
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Post by Smiley on Jun 15, 2007 22:26:59 GMT -5
Sorry, all there is online is this here;
www.uncut.co.uk/magazine/
FEATURES
YOU HAD TO BE THERE - The Kinks’ gestation at The Clissold Arms, Fortis Green...
I didn't buy the mag (it's £4.20), just sneaked a very quick look (as the shopkeeper has a habit of telling people that it's not a library and that the mags are for buying, not for reading) but I will try and sneak a few longer looks in larger shops and get all the new Dave quotes memorised and typed up for y'all. I'll send ya the FIVER -- buy it!!! ;D
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Post by rose on Jun 16, 2007 1:54:37 GMT -5
Not familiar with these chaps, but there's enough of a RAY/KINKS reference, that I think I'll search this out From the LA TIMES:Art Brut "It's a Bit Complicated" (Downtown) Art Brut's strength is poking fun Listening to the second album (due June 19) from these London cutups is like spending a draining day with a most eccentric friend. This fellow is needy and exasperating, witty and intense, paranoid and charming. He can be manipulative, but usually he's simply hapless, constitutionally incapable of coping with adulthood. Despite his self-inflicted humiliations, he never loses his appetite for more experiences, even if they're likely to bring further humiliation. This is the grand character created by Art Brut's singer Eddie Argos, who shapes him as a Di*kensian deadbeat with a bratty street inflection. He could be related to the chap we remember lazing on a sunny afternoon, and in fact there is a lot of Ray Davies in Argos' satirical scenarios and a lot of Kinks in Art Brut's hooky rock. There's also some of the neurotic insecurity of "Modern Romance"-vintage Albert Brooks. "It's a Bit Complicated" begins where Art Brut's debut, "Bang Bang Rock and Roll," often dwelt, with an awkward sexual encounter, this one finding the man torn between the business at hand and turning up the volume on the stereo. Later, he's tormented by curiosity about the prowess of his lover's old boyfriends. On top of all that he's a music geek, quoting the Temptations and Ike and Tina, escaping from the world into his headphones. The album's one sincere, heartfelt moment is his beautifully detailed memory of exchanging homemade cassettes with a friend, and trying to decode the messages in the selection of songs. But mostly it's slapstick and social sketches, perfectly complemented by Art Brut's music — a spiky, guitar-centric sound that's bright and catchy (especially on the giddy chorus of "Direct Hit") but never out to upstage the star. As good as much of the new British rock can be, it is experiencing a creeping seriousness these days. "It's a Bit Complicated" is a welcome corrective. — Richard Cromelin
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Post by Smiley on Jun 28, 2007 8:15:34 GMT -5
HARP MAGAZINE harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=5705Nice Piccie DAVE ;D Dave Davies: Kinked By Elliot Stephen Cohen “My mom used to say, ‘If my aunt had balls, she’d have been my uncle,’” laughs Dave Davies. The erstwhile Kinks guitarist is responding to brother’s Ray’s recent proclamation that perhaps his better-looking kid brother should have been the band’s frontman. “Maybe the whole dynamic between us would have been different,” says Dave. “A lot of problems we’ve had [were] because of his huge ego.” These days, though, he’s more concerned with regaining his health than dwelling on the Kinks’ stormy past. A near-fatal stroke in June 2004 at London’s BBC radio studios temporarily paralyzed his right side and put the still boyish-looking 60-year-old’s musical career on hold. “I’m discovering that the more I do, the more I can do,” he says, of his improving medical condition. “It’s like making a sculpture out of stone. Every day you have to chip away a little more, but at least the next day you’ve got less to do.” While he eventually regained the abilities of walking and talking, he still has difficulty singing and playing guitar simultaneously. However, on his recent album Fractured Mindz (Meta/Koch), Davies, with some assistance from partner-manager Kate Bourbonn, performed all of the intricate instrumental and vocal parts. On the album’s opening rocker “Free Me,” Davies welds a familiar “Tired of Waiting For You” guitar riff to lyrics expressing his rage against the many societal ills that torment him, from the Internet to “maxed out credit cards” to “commerce gone mad.” He saves his strongest barbs for George Bush—with lines like, “What kind of man can take us to war/He’s rotten to the core.” As for future plans, Davies is itching to get back onstage. To the never-ending barrage of questions about a Kinks reunion, he replies, almost matter-of-factly, “Part of me thinks it would be really cool if it was done for the right reasons. But I feel I want to keep moving in the direction I’m going. If it means the Kinks can do something as well, that’s fine.” Despite both experiencing recent brushes with mortality (Ray was shot by a mugger in January ’04), the Davies brothers’ outward public relationship shows little signs of mellowing. However, one day last year, when he was apparently feeling somewhat loving toward Ray, Dave candidly told this writer, “All the perceived tension between us was really born out of love. Family members can be absolutely terrible to each other at times. I think people have always made a lot more out of the emotional problems than [the problems] we’ve actually had as musicians.” First printed in June 2007
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Post by Smiley on Jun 29, 2007 2:09:15 GMT -5
It has been confirmed by THREE very reliable sources in KinKdom; Dave Emlen, Neil Ottenstein and Olga, that this is a spoof! The Kinks: The Kinks Kristmas EP Harp Magazine December 2005"You can go fook yourself with a cricket bat, you bleedin' toss-pot!" Thus begins "Waterloo Christmas," the lead track on this little-heard 1966 EP. The record captures one of the more combustible stretches in the long-running sibling feud between the brothers Davies. Just as entertaining/disturbing is "Merry Christmas, Big Brother," a jaunty little number in which Ray recounts finding a huge, beautifully wrapped present under the Davies' tree addressed to him from Dave when they were kids. As the wide-eyed Ray tears open the box his excitement turns to horror when he realizes it contains his now deceased pet parakeet, Clive. But don't feel too bad for Ray--he gets his licks in on "The Most Loathsome Elf," the story of "sad little David," one of Santa's helpers who's "such a tiresome prat" that he's stripped of his clothing and thrown into a snow drift. I'm just happy I don't have to try to find it on e-bay
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Post by Guest on Jul 4, 2007 2:20:04 GMT -5
Anybody posted this yet? Dave teaching Bill Oddie a thing or two on the recent BBC show, Play It Again. And an older clip of young Dave talking about speaker slashing;
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Post by Smiley on Jul 6, 2007 23:58:36 GMT -5
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