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Post by TomT on Apr 21, 2007 23:01:04 GMT -5
;D Thanks! Nice read Frank.
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Post by franklima on Apr 21, 2007 23:07:34 GMT -5
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Post by franklima on Jul 13, 2008 9:07:32 GMT -5
TRY THIS TOM It was around 1972 when I came up with the idea, and the plates first flew at a Kinks show. I don't recall the exact show, although Ray mentioned he believed it was at the Capitol Theatre in Passiac. I had thought it might have been the Felt Forum in NYC. This was shortly after I started running The KinKs Appreciation Society that had originally been run by Gene Davidson out of Mansfield Ohio. Annyway, my original idea of the plates was not really as a way to get Ray and The Kinks to play requests, it was just a way to welcome the band on stage in the NY area with a burst of, like, fanfare. We brought the plates and confetti, and as soon as the lights went out and people started rushing the stage (as they did at the NY shows), we just wanted to add to the excitement and party carnival-like atmosphere. Little did we know we’d become the most important part of it back then. It got a lot of press during reviews of the shows and totally turned Kinks shows in this area into spectacles that few other shows could compare to. Back then it was not just a few plates that got thrown -- it was literally hundreds that were tossed high up into the air, as Ray bounced on stage in a frenzy to either “Till The End of the Day,” “Top of the Pops,” or “Victoria,” the 3 staples of Kinks openers back then. It was a magical moment during those openings at Kinks shows. It was pure chaos up at the front of those shows! The best was saved for later in the show, when we snuck the beers in and when Ray would do “Alcohol” – when Ray would get to the part "at some Salvation Army mission, it's very sad," beer would be flying and gushing between the audience and Ray, courtesy of me and the KPS fan club that I brought up front with me. The origin of writing the songs on the plates was that if I'm going to use the plates like large confetti, I might as well write something on them. I began writing every Kinks song I could think of on the plates, not just ones I wanted him to play. We also wrote funny things and notes on the plates for Ray and the band to read -- I've seen Ray pick up a plate and just laugh at times (I think that was one that said " SHUT UP FRANK"!!! or “Frank is a Krank and he lives for your music!” For the newbies
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