Post by franklima on Jul 12, 2009 12:57:18 GMT -5
Kinks mailing list Digest, Number 3286
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Topics:
Please help Chuck! ["Olga Ruocco" <olga.ruocco@kps.which.net>]
To Frank [Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>]
To Frank and his family [Bob Dudek <bdudek120@kps.comcast.net>]
Harry Rag on the radio... in French!!! [pmamolou@kps.comcast.net]
DJ Ray song list, Shadows of the [Paul Brucker <hapgator@kps.sbcglobal.net>]
Choral album [quavid@kps.btopenworld.com]
Waterloo Sunset in London 2012 [Tracy Noonan <tracynoonan@kps.yahoo.com>]
Kast Off Kinks UK mini-tour ["Geoff Lewis" <geoff.lewis22@kps.virgin.net>]
ABKCO and the Kinks [<ckocher@kps.stny.rr.com>]
photo adverts [Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>]
Vintage ads from American Mag...National Lampo [Jerry <jerzykb@kps.aol.com>]
Starstruck [Mark <crudeostentation@kps.peoplepc.com>]
album concerts [Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>]
Around The Dial [Marktnyc@kps.aol.com]
Nick Cave / Madness / Waterloo sunset covers [quavid@kps.btopenworld.com]
Young Fresh Fellows ["john mulvey" <mulvey33@kps.comcast.net>]
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:45:11 +0100
From: "Olga Ruocco" <olga.ruocco@kps.which.net>
Subject: Please help Chuck!
This is a last desperate kall...kan you tape and DVD hoarders have a look in
your kollektions and see if you have Ray appearing on Brit TV Pebble Mill at
One on December 9th 1982 - he performed WRM and Celluloid Heroes. Actually
this is before the era of DVDs, but someone must have it somewhere.
Chuck has asked for various bits on here before, but he really would like to
start his kollektion of Ray klips with this one. He promises a kopy of the
komplete oeuvre to anyone who helps (and there have been a lot of helpers so
far!!!)....
If you let me know, I will pass the info onto Chuck.
Thanks
Olga
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:06:41 -0700
From: Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>
Subject: To Frank
Frank!
I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's passing on. That being said, I'll
try to avoid cliches here but will say that she raised a good son with you
and deserves praise for that and I'm sure much more. I never knew her but I
do know that the women of this world keep our families together while doing
a balancing act with their personal lives and seldom fail to impress me with
their kind spirits, wise souls and hard work. I'm sure your mom is in this
category.
Best to you,
Robert
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:49:35 -0400
From: Bob Dudek <bdudek120@kps.comcast.net>
Subject: To Frank and his family
sympathy and peaceful wishes to you all from a friend .
Bob
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:23:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: pmamolou@kps.comcast.net
Subject: Harry Rag on the radio... in French!!!
OMG!!
We are in Montreal Canada.A A We have been listening to a very eclectic
radio station 102.3 which (I now know)A broadcasts in seven different
languages: French, English, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Creole, and Chinese!
So I hear the intro to a song I know I recognize and out of my speakers
comes "Harry Rag" IN FRENCH!!!
I don't know if I've ever heard this song on the radio before AT ALL!!
Can anyone fill me in on the French version??A A I don't think it was a
litteral translation.A I wish I spoke french!!!
WOW!!!
Paul
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:09:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Brucker <hapgator@kps.sbcglobal.net>
Subject: DJ Ray song list, Shadows of the Knight, Turquoise
Kinksters: Two items --
Can someone post what songs Ray spun as DJ on his gig at the British radio
station. The station bars people from outside the U.K. to "listen again" on
its archives. Am quite interested in what bands inspire or entertain Ray.
Can someone step up and list the songs -- and the songs Ray will play the
other Sundays on that station in July.
Also, I saw a July 5th celebration oldies show in Mount Prospect, IL, where
I live and where a legend from the 60s went to high school -- the singer for
the Shadows of the Knight, a garage band extraordinaire which had a hit with
"Gloria" around the same time as Van Morrison's Them. At any rate, hearing
this guy was a major disappointment. Other than "Gloria" which he did at
the end of his set, there were no Shadows of the Knight songs, but lots of
sappy oldies that, OK, would have been meaningful if done by the original
artists, but come on -- "Daydream Believer," and soft tunes by the Eagles,
Neil Diamond and others, from a guy who was a punk prototype. Oh, he also
did "All Day and All of the Night." Thank God the Kinks have not nosedived
to such a level. Did I mention his act was not really a band. It was
basically a karaoke act. Sure there was a guitarist who played along with a
canned pre-recording that included drums and bass. But, that was
it. Fortunately, the next act, Instant Karma, a John Lennon tribute band
was very good -- that is, the singer does sound like John, looks a bit like
John and puts on a good show.
Meanwhile, I put something out a few weeks ago about the band Turquoise,
which the Davies' brothers took under their wing in the 60s and mentored.
I've only heard two songs by that band and they sounded great. Apparently
the band lived in the same neighborhood as the Davies. Does anybody have any
stories about them?
Paul in Chicagoooland
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:35:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: quavid@kps.btopenworld.com
Subject: Choral album
"They were singing popular pub songs to externalize their feelings of loss;
I wanted to hear angels singing unearthly chords of unimaginable beauty ..."
- X-Ray: the unauthorised autobiography (p38 of the UK Penguin edition)
As I've said before: play it loud - it deserves it. And skip the first two
tracks; start with 'You really got me' - it's brilliant, and probably
nothing like you were expecting but the guitar the riff's still in there
too. If I have one basic criticism of the Kinks Choral Album - and I do -
it is that it is not a fuller more developed choral work. I want more
basses and baritones opening up full blast. I love that intro, a muted but
building excitement, to 'All day and all of the night', even if it is
probably the most contentious of the pieces discussed so far on this digest.
Indeed, one of the first responses here on the KPS bemoaned the album's
resemblance to an ancient and horrendously saccharine UK TV (or radio?) show
(or was it both?)'Sing something simple'. That's a really low blow but I
acknowledge where it's coming from on 'Days' and 'Waterloo sunset', which is
why I say skip them initially. The choir is just decorous backing vocals on
these two really, adding not a lot to the songs; the arrangements are not
adventurous. I wouldn't have minded a few other male solo voices weaving in
and out of the mix either, which might have really freaked a few of you out.
'Victoria' is fine, rounded out a bit, some nice swirling organ too, and
'See my friends' weaves a handsome harmonic web, each listen revealing
something else. Here we get the interesting twentieth century harmonies ...
not exactly dissonance but historically disturbing when they were first
deployed.
'Celluloid heroes' is quite a re-working that works. There has always been
compassion there, but here is less irony, more pathos. 'Shangri-La' is fine
but nothing can really compete with the original, can it? As a song
'Working men's cafe' stands up beautifully in the company of all the golden
oldies, already in its evolution enhanced, dignified. The 'Village Green'
suite is a triumph, a major reworking. The tone somehow subtly changed
these decades on, for instance 'Big Sky' less Old Testament, more Church of
England cathedral choirs. And what the choir does to the 'Johnny Thunder'
intro is wondrous, none of its magnificence lost. There's some lovely
piano, almost verbatim from the original, decorating the suite throughout
and some neat sharing of the lead lines between Ray and the choir with the
lyrics of VGPS. And then the outro of ADAAOTN, already mentioned.
Fascinating, at times thrilling, I hear more with each listening. With the
musical 'Come dancing', the acoustic sets, this ... who amongst his
contemporaries is still growing?
Hallelujah (with apologies to ol' Len)
DaveQ (atheist of this parish, known to enjoy a bit of opera)
www.geocities.com/quavid@btopenworld.com/
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracy Noonan <tracynoonan@kps.yahoo.com>
Subject: Waterloo Sunset in London 2012
Thanks to everyone who has already written to the Olympic committee
requesting they have the KINKS play WATERLOO SUNSET at the opening or
closing ceremony in 2012. I was especially encouraged by their latest
auto-response.
"This year, we will begin to put together plans for the major ceremonies in
2012".
That's gRAYt timing! Please EVERYONE, send your KINKS request to them again
and again from ALL your different eddresses to this link:
www.london2012.com/contact-us.php
Those of you close to the KINKS, PLEASE encourage the boys to get back
together for this ONE SONG!!!! We know a tour is asking too much, so we
humbly request this one last song that we all can enjoy LIVE together.
Thanks again and again,
tRAcY
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:27:35 +0100
From: "Geoff Lewis" <geoff.lewis22@kps.virgin.net>
Subject: Kast Off Kinks UK mini-tour
The Kast Off Kinks have announced an 8-gig mini-tour in January and February
2010. It includes dates in the West Midlands, South West England and South
Wales.
Details on the Kast Off Kinks website : kastoffkinks.co.uk
There are also two new gigs in Kent in October 2009, which will feature John
Dalton on bass.
The Avory-Clarke-Dalton-Gibbons line-up performed for the first time on
Saturday at the excellent Music At The Crossroads Festival in Hook Norton,
to great acclaim. Nobby had claimed not to have known the two Phobia tracks,
"Still Searching" and "Somebody Stole My Car" - he must have been practising
hard then.
It was great to see John Gosling join the band on stage for a couple of
songs. Guest drummer, when Mick sang "Well Respected Man", was John Coghlan
of Status Quo.
I am sure Olga will give a full report
- Geoff
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:16:16 -0400
From: <ckocher@kps.stny.rr.com>
Subject: ABKCO and the Kinks
Allen Klein's death brings up a question that the Kinks experts can answer:
What Kinks songs, if any, does ABKCO have control over? There was
mention of it in several U.K. obits for Klein, but with the focus on the
Beatles and the Stones (rightly so), details on the Kinks were lacking.
Thanks for any insight.
Chris
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:11:56 -0700
From: Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>
Subject: photo adverts
Chuck Harter sent in aged photo adverts for "Showbiz," "Great Lost Kinks
Album" and "Muswell" from print mags....and the one from Warner Bros. caught
my eye. For a decade I worked with the record collector and radio comedy
show talent "Dr. Demento," and before that, he wrote the liner notes for WB
on many compilations, including, I do believe, that one. I know he also
wrote the liner notes for the Kollections "Loss Leaders," which consisted of
one single from dozens of groups, including the Kinks, on two-record sets.
They are hard to find now....
robert
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:48:28 -0400
From: Jerry <jerzykb@kps.aol.com>
Subject: Vintage ads from American Mag...National Lampoon
>>Vintage ad for Muswell Hillbillies...from the March 1972 issue of
>>American Mag...National Lampoon
>>http://www.kindakinks.net/neil/images/muswellh.jpg
Great ad! Brings back great memories of when music was intelligent.
Could you imagine such an ad for an album today?
Jerry
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark <crudeostentation@kps.peoplepc.com>
Subject: Starstruck
If no one has yet informed Dan The Fan, please let him know that
"Starstruck" WAS released as a single here in America and, while it
didn't do well in the national charts, it was Top 20 here in the
Wilkes-Barre area and, from what I've heard, was also a big seller in
San Francisco.
Best Wishes,
Mark
[This can be seen at
www.kindakinks.net/charts.html
- Neil]
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:20:56 -0700
From: Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>
Subject: album concerts
Andrew Poulsen wrote: "After reading the possibility of Ray performing
some albums in their entirety with such names as Muswell Hillbillies and
Soap Opera thrown around, I have reached one conclusion. I will sell my
house to get to those shows."
I would too, Andrew! I'll sell you mine....but, after you paid the bank what
it is currently worth, I'd still owe $200,000!! Cool! I'm "Lawsuit
proof," as they say, and certainly "too big to fail"!
Okay, here's a story that'll hopefully mollify you. When I was a young
buck, about 13, I went to a friend's house and he gave me, for keeps, the
album "You Really Got me." I'd heard the song and was aware of the Brits
doing American song covers, which make up much of the album, but these Kinks
guys really did get to me with their odd way of putting songs together, and
I was hooked. The guitar rocked hard, the drums/bass kept up and the singer
sang good enough. No changes there. They kicked it up a notch, and so did
my friend when he brought me into his parent's room, where there was a bed
with a lamp above in the ceiling. He climbed up on the bed, unscrewed the
lightbulb, licked his finger, put a penny on the tip of it and stuck it in
the light bulb fixture, throwing him across the room in a blinding flash of
light! Very cool. We laughed our butts off. Who says American teens
live wasted lives! Who says you can't have good fun without drugs?! Not
this wastrel.
Robert
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:53:09 EDT
From: Marktnyc@kps.aol.com
Subject: Around The Dial
A documentary DVD came out last year called "AIRPLAY -- The Rise And Fall
of Rock & Roll Radio" and Around The Dial is played throughout AND over the
closing credits, but the song itself is not credited.
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:44:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: quavid@kps.btopenworld.com
Subject: Nick Cave / Madness / Waterloo sunset covers
Early Nick Cave should come with a health warning but he's definitely worth
exploring. Once practically a professional junky, there's a lot of scary
noise and a very dark side. Having said that he's written a couple of
novels and is responsible for Kylie Minogue's finest musical moment - 'Where
the wild roses grow' on his fine album of murder ballads. He's a powerful
lyricist, responsible for one of the great opening lines - the song 'Into my
arms' is a thing of beauty:
"I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms"
His last year's CD, 'Dig Lazarus dig' was one of my real faves and the vid
for the title track is a hoot - just put that into YouTube and I'd like to
think you'll not be disappointed. It's a tremendous guitar noise album, and
no-one else could have written a song like 'We call upon the author to
explain'.
Also well worth your attention is the new Madness album, which is, for want
of a better word, a concept album about growing up and living in London.
'NW5' is the name of one of the songs; it's the postal district of Kentish
town, literally just down the road from the Boston pub, home of the annual
OKFC bashes. The album is called 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate' and it's a
real grower, full of, um, good vibes. It's tunes from this I find myself
humming unconsciously of late. Tremendous Glastonbury performance too.
There has been talk of Ray recording with other people of late. I'd love to
hear Ray with Madness, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind either; they recorded
a respectable 'Lola' a few years back. Suggs, one of the main vocalists has
recently been praising 'Waterloo sunset' to the skies as his the perfect
song. And someone here of late has suggested no-one's done a decent version
of said song. Check out Barb Jungr; she's actually done it twice.
Cheerybye
DaveQ
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:22:05 -0700
From: "john mulvey" <mulvey33@kps.comcast.net>
Subject: Young Fresh Fellows
I was privileged to see the Young Fresh Fellows reunion at Dante's in
Portland a couple of weeks ago. (They were great!! GREAT!!)
Someone has graciously posted a video from that very evening featuring the
spirited tail-end of the Fellows' classic "Taco Wagon" and their lovely
cover of "Picture Book." (Here:
-John
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Please help Chuck! ["Olga Ruocco" <olga.ruocco@kps.which.net>]
To Frank [Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>]
To Frank and his family [Bob Dudek <bdudek120@kps.comcast.net>]
Harry Rag on the radio... in French!!! [pmamolou@kps.comcast.net]
DJ Ray song list, Shadows of the [Paul Brucker <hapgator@kps.sbcglobal.net>]
Choral album [quavid@kps.btopenworld.com]
Waterloo Sunset in London 2012 [Tracy Noonan <tracynoonan@kps.yahoo.com>]
Kast Off Kinks UK mini-tour ["Geoff Lewis" <geoff.lewis22@kps.virgin.net>]
ABKCO and the Kinks [<ckocher@kps.stny.rr.com>]
photo adverts [Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>]
Vintage ads from American Mag...National Lampo [Jerry <jerzykb@kps.aol.com>]
Starstruck [Mark <crudeostentation@kps.peoplepc.com>]
album concerts [Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>]
Around The Dial [Marktnyc@kps.aol.com]
Nick Cave / Madness / Waterloo sunset covers [quavid@kps.btopenworld.com]
Young Fresh Fellows ["john mulvey" <mulvey33@kps.comcast.net>]
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:45:11 +0100
From: "Olga Ruocco" <olga.ruocco@kps.which.net>
Subject: Please help Chuck!
This is a last desperate kall...kan you tape and DVD hoarders have a look in
your kollektions and see if you have Ray appearing on Brit TV Pebble Mill at
One on December 9th 1982 - he performed WRM and Celluloid Heroes. Actually
this is before the era of DVDs, but someone must have it somewhere.
Chuck has asked for various bits on here before, but he really would like to
start his kollektion of Ray klips with this one. He promises a kopy of the
komplete oeuvre to anyone who helps (and there have been a lot of helpers so
far!!!)....
If you let me know, I will pass the info onto Chuck.
Thanks
Olga
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:06:41 -0700
From: Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>
Subject: To Frank
Frank!
I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's passing on. That being said, I'll
try to avoid cliches here but will say that she raised a good son with you
and deserves praise for that and I'm sure much more. I never knew her but I
do know that the women of this world keep our families together while doing
a balancing act with their personal lives and seldom fail to impress me with
their kind spirits, wise souls and hard work. I'm sure your mom is in this
category.
Best to you,
Robert
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:49:35 -0400
From: Bob Dudek <bdudek120@kps.comcast.net>
Subject: To Frank and his family
sympathy and peaceful wishes to you all from a friend .
Bob
------------------------------
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 00:23:04 +0000 (UTC)
From: pmamolou@kps.comcast.net
Subject: Harry Rag on the radio... in French!!!
OMG!!
We are in Montreal Canada.A A We have been listening to a very eclectic
radio station 102.3 which (I now know)A broadcasts in seven different
languages: French, English, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Creole, and Chinese!
So I hear the intro to a song I know I recognize and out of my speakers
comes "Harry Rag" IN FRENCH!!!
I don't know if I've ever heard this song on the radio before AT ALL!!
Can anyone fill me in on the French version??A A I don't think it was a
litteral translation.A I wish I spoke french!!!
WOW!!!
Paul
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:09:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul Brucker <hapgator@kps.sbcglobal.net>
Subject: DJ Ray song list, Shadows of the Knight, Turquoise
Kinksters: Two items --
Can someone post what songs Ray spun as DJ on his gig at the British radio
station. The station bars people from outside the U.K. to "listen again" on
its archives. Am quite interested in what bands inspire or entertain Ray.
Can someone step up and list the songs -- and the songs Ray will play the
other Sundays on that station in July.
Also, I saw a July 5th celebration oldies show in Mount Prospect, IL, where
I live and where a legend from the 60s went to high school -- the singer for
the Shadows of the Knight, a garage band extraordinaire which had a hit with
"Gloria" around the same time as Van Morrison's Them. At any rate, hearing
this guy was a major disappointment. Other than "Gloria" which he did at
the end of his set, there were no Shadows of the Knight songs, but lots of
sappy oldies that, OK, would have been meaningful if done by the original
artists, but come on -- "Daydream Believer," and soft tunes by the Eagles,
Neil Diamond and others, from a guy who was a punk prototype. Oh, he also
did "All Day and All of the Night." Thank God the Kinks have not nosedived
to such a level. Did I mention his act was not really a band. It was
basically a karaoke act. Sure there was a guitarist who played along with a
canned pre-recording that included drums and bass. But, that was
it. Fortunately, the next act, Instant Karma, a John Lennon tribute band
was very good -- that is, the singer does sound like John, looks a bit like
John and puts on a good show.
Meanwhile, I put something out a few weeks ago about the band Turquoise,
which the Davies' brothers took under their wing in the 60s and mentored.
I've only heard two songs by that band and they sounded great. Apparently
the band lived in the same neighborhood as the Davies. Does anybody have any
stories about them?
Paul in Chicagoooland
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 22:35:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: quavid@kps.btopenworld.com
Subject: Choral album
"They were singing popular pub songs to externalize their feelings of loss;
I wanted to hear angels singing unearthly chords of unimaginable beauty ..."
- X-Ray: the unauthorised autobiography (p38 of the UK Penguin edition)
As I've said before: play it loud - it deserves it. And skip the first two
tracks; start with 'You really got me' - it's brilliant, and probably
nothing like you were expecting but the guitar the riff's still in there
too. If I have one basic criticism of the Kinks Choral Album - and I do -
it is that it is not a fuller more developed choral work. I want more
basses and baritones opening up full blast. I love that intro, a muted but
building excitement, to 'All day and all of the night', even if it is
probably the most contentious of the pieces discussed so far on this digest.
Indeed, one of the first responses here on the KPS bemoaned the album's
resemblance to an ancient and horrendously saccharine UK TV (or radio?) show
(or was it both?)'Sing something simple'. That's a really low blow but I
acknowledge where it's coming from on 'Days' and 'Waterloo sunset', which is
why I say skip them initially. The choir is just decorous backing vocals on
these two really, adding not a lot to the songs; the arrangements are not
adventurous. I wouldn't have minded a few other male solo voices weaving in
and out of the mix either, which might have really freaked a few of you out.
'Victoria' is fine, rounded out a bit, some nice swirling organ too, and
'See my friends' weaves a handsome harmonic web, each listen revealing
something else. Here we get the interesting twentieth century harmonies ...
not exactly dissonance but historically disturbing when they were first
deployed.
'Celluloid heroes' is quite a re-working that works. There has always been
compassion there, but here is less irony, more pathos. 'Shangri-La' is fine
but nothing can really compete with the original, can it? As a song
'Working men's cafe' stands up beautifully in the company of all the golden
oldies, already in its evolution enhanced, dignified. The 'Village Green'
suite is a triumph, a major reworking. The tone somehow subtly changed
these decades on, for instance 'Big Sky' less Old Testament, more Church of
England cathedral choirs. And what the choir does to the 'Johnny Thunder'
intro is wondrous, none of its magnificence lost. There's some lovely
piano, almost verbatim from the original, decorating the suite throughout
and some neat sharing of the lead lines between Ray and the choir with the
lyrics of VGPS. And then the outro of ADAAOTN, already mentioned.
Fascinating, at times thrilling, I hear more with each listening. With the
musical 'Come dancing', the acoustic sets, this ... who amongst his
contemporaries is still growing?
Hallelujah (with apologies to ol' Len)
DaveQ (atheist of this parish, known to enjoy a bit of opera)
www.geocities.com/quavid@btopenworld.com/
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tracy Noonan <tracynoonan@kps.yahoo.com>
Subject: Waterloo Sunset in London 2012
Thanks to everyone who has already written to the Olympic committee
requesting they have the KINKS play WATERLOO SUNSET at the opening or
closing ceremony in 2012. I was especially encouraged by their latest
auto-response.
"This year, we will begin to put together plans for the major ceremonies in
2012".
That's gRAYt timing! Please EVERYONE, send your KINKS request to them again
and again from ALL your different eddresses to this link:
www.london2012.com/contact-us.php
Those of you close to the KINKS, PLEASE encourage the boys to get back
together for this ONE SONG!!!! We know a tour is asking too much, so we
humbly request this one last song that we all can enjoy LIVE together.
Thanks again and again,
tRAcY
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:27:35 +0100
From: "Geoff Lewis" <geoff.lewis22@kps.virgin.net>
Subject: Kast Off Kinks UK mini-tour
The Kast Off Kinks have announced an 8-gig mini-tour in January and February
2010. It includes dates in the West Midlands, South West England and South
Wales.
Details on the Kast Off Kinks website : kastoffkinks.co.uk
There are also two new gigs in Kent in October 2009, which will feature John
Dalton on bass.
The Avory-Clarke-Dalton-Gibbons line-up performed for the first time on
Saturday at the excellent Music At The Crossroads Festival in Hook Norton,
to great acclaim. Nobby had claimed not to have known the two Phobia tracks,
"Still Searching" and "Somebody Stole My Car" - he must have been practising
hard then.
It was great to see John Gosling join the band on stage for a couple of
songs. Guest drummer, when Mick sang "Well Respected Man", was John Coghlan
of Status Quo.
I am sure Olga will give a full report
- Geoff
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:16:16 -0400
From: <ckocher@kps.stny.rr.com>
Subject: ABKCO and the Kinks
Allen Klein's death brings up a question that the Kinks experts can answer:
What Kinks songs, if any, does ABKCO have control over? There was
mention of it in several U.K. obits for Klein, but with the focus on the
Beatles and the Stones (rightly so), details on the Kinks were lacking.
Thanks for any insight.
Chris
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:11:56 -0700
From: Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>
Subject: photo adverts
Chuck Harter sent in aged photo adverts for "Showbiz," "Great Lost Kinks
Album" and "Muswell" from print mags....and the one from Warner Bros. caught
my eye. For a decade I worked with the record collector and radio comedy
show talent "Dr. Demento," and before that, he wrote the liner notes for WB
on many compilations, including, I do believe, that one. I know he also
wrote the liner notes for the Kollections "Loss Leaders," which consisted of
one single from dozens of groups, including the Kinks, on two-record sets.
They are hard to find now....
robert
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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:48:28 -0400
From: Jerry <jerzykb@kps.aol.com>
Subject: Vintage ads from American Mag...National Lampoon
>>Vintage ad for Muswell Hillbillies...from the March 1972 issue of
>>American Mag...National Lampoon
>>http://www.kindakinks.net/neil/images/muswellh.jpg
Great ad! Brings back great memories of when music was intelligent.
Could you imagine such an ad for an album today?
Jerry
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mark <crudeostentation@kps.peoplepc.com>
Subject: Starstruck
If no one has yet informed Dan The Fan, please let him know that
"Starstruck" WAS released as a single here in America and, while it
didn't do well in the national charts, it was Top 20 here in the
Wilkes-Barre area and, from what I've heard, was also a big seller in
San Francisco.
Best Wishes,
Mark
[This can be seen at
www.kindakinks.net/charts.html
- Neil]
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:20:56 -0700
From: Robert Young <young.robertf@kps.gmail.com>
Subject: album concerts
Andrew Poulsen wrote: "After reading the possibility of Ray performing
some albums in their entirety with such names as Muswell Hillbillies and
Soap Opera thrown around, I have reached one conclusion. I will sell my
house to get to those shows."
I would too, Andrew! I'll sell you mine....but, after you paid the bank what
it is currently worth, I'd still owe $200,000!! Cool! I'm "Lawsuit
proof," as they say, and certainly "too big to fail"!
Okay, here's a story that'll hopefully mollify you. When I was a young
buck, about 13, I went to a friend's house and he gave me, for keeps, the
album "You Really Got me." I'd heard the song and was aware of the Brits
doing American song covers, which make up much of the album, but these Kinks
guys really did get to me with their odd way of putting songs together, and
I was hooked. The guitar rocked hard, the drums/bass kept up and the singer
sang good enough. No changes there. They kicked it up a notch, and so did
my friend when he brought me into his parent's room, where there was a bed
with a lamp above in the ceiling. He climbed up on the bed, unscrewed the
lightbulb, licked his finger, put a penny on the tip of it and stuck it in
the light bulb fixture, throwing him across the room in a blinding flash of
light! Very cool. We laughed our butts off. Who says American teens
live wasted lives! Who says you can't have good fun without drugs?! Not
this wastrel.
Robert
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:53:09 EDT
From: Marktnyc@kps.aol.com
Subject: Around The Dial
A documentary DVD came out last year called "AIRPLAY -- The Rise And Fall
of Rock & Roll Radio" and Around The Dial is played throughout AND over the
closing credits, but the song itself is not credited.
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 19:44:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: quavid@kps.btopenworld.com
Subject: Nick Cave / Madness / Waterloo sunset covers
Early Nick Cave should come with a health warning but he's definitely worth
exploring. Once practically a professional junky, there's a lot of scary
noise and a very dark side. Having said that he's written a couple of
novels and is responsible for Kylie Minogue's finest musical moment - 'Where
the wild roses grow' on his fine album of murder ballads. He's a powerful
lyricist, responsible for one of the great opening lines - the song 'Into my
arms' is a thing of beauty:
"I don't believe in an interventionist God
But I know, darling, that you do
But if I did I would kneel down and ask Him
Not to intervene when it came to you
Not to touch a hair on your head
To leave you as you are
And if He felt He had to direct you
Then direct you into my arms"
His last year's CD, 'Dig Lazarus dig' was one of my real faves and the vid
for the title track is a hoot - just put that into YouTube and I'd like to
think you'll not be disappointed. It's a tremendous guitar noise album, and
no-one else could have written a song like 'We call upon the author to
explain'.
Also well worth your attention is the new Madness album, which is, for want
of a better word, a concept album about growing up and living in London.
'NW5' is the name of one of the songs; it's the postal district of Kentish
town, literally just down the road from the Boston pub, home of the annual
OKFC bashes. The album is called 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate' and it's a
real grower, full of, um, good vibes. It's tunes from this I find myself
humming unconsciously of late. Tremendous Glastonbury performance too.
There has been talk of Ray recording with other people of late. I'd love to
hear Ray with Madness, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind either; they recorded
a respectable 'Lola' a few years back. Suggs, one of the main vocalists has
recently been praising 'Waterloo sunset' to the skies as his the perfect
song. And someone here of late has suggested no-one's done a decent version
of said song. Check out Barb Jungr; she's actually done it twice.
Cheerybye
DaveQ
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Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:22:05 -0700
From: "john mulvey" <mulvey33@kps.comcast.net>
Subject: Young Fresh Fellows
I was privileged to see the Young Fresh Fellows reunion at Dante's in
Portland a couple of weeks ago. (They were great!! GREAT!!)
Someone has graciously posted a video from that very evening featuring the
spirited tail-end of the Fellows' classic "Taco Wagon" and their lovely
cover of "Picture Book." (Here:
-John
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