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- from the rest and all the others
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one point in the set you talked about the Kinks and said that the
band as a working unit stopped back in 1996. Do you have any ideas
why the group stopped then?
Just my opinion is… I feel that Ray and Dave had been
together all those years in a goldfish bowl, you know. They both
needed to get away from it and be themselves. Well, when Ray
started it he said "Look, I am going to do an one-man-show
and I don't know how long." He didn't say the Kinks are
finished. He said: "I'm gonna go out, me on acoustic guitar,
sing, tell the story of the band, tell the story of my life."
http://www.kinks.de/news/news_e/021202.html
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| The story of The Kinks is not for the
faint-hearted: nervous breakdowns, resignations, punch-ups, heads
used for footballs and guitars wielded as weapons, drug abuse,
glasses without lenses, food fights, alien sightings, in-yer-face
spitting and mental torture -- oh, and some of the most
imspirational, influential and downright enjoyable music of the
last five decades.
From Dave Davies's metal-inventing riffs on early hits 'You
Really Got Me' and 'All Day And All Of The Night' to big brother
Ray's songwriting genius on 'Waterloo Sunset', 'Lola' and 'Dedicated
Follower Of Fashion', The Kinks have been one of the most creative,
most volatile and longest-running bands to emerge from the '60s,
ahead of even The Beatles with their inventive productions and
"kinky" fashion sense, and eclipsing the Stones on
musical talent. With the likes of Blur, Paul Weller, Pulp and Van
Halen taking their music to new generations, and their capacity
for humour, anarchy and storytelling alive and well in songs like
Wheatus's 'Teenage Dirtbag', The Kinks are as relevant today as
ever.
http://kinks.it.rit.edu/books/book-marthuds.html
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| Pete Quaife Sept. 12th |
Quaife on a reunion
"He joked (typically English) about his thoughts on a reunion
of the original band: He's a dialysis patient, Dave Davies has had
a stroke, and Ray Davies was shot in the leg. So Mick Avory ought
to be careful, because he's probably next! However, the Kinks are
indeed the only band of the 60s which could reform completely with
its original members. That they haven't depends on outside factors..."
http://www.kinks.de/news/news_e/180904.html
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