{"id":11536,"date":"2023-11-17T04:45:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/the-kinks-was-a-constant-state-of-screaming-and-shouting-and-loving-each-other-music-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T04:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T23:15:34","slug":"the-kinks-was-a-constant-state-of-screaming-and-shouting-and-loving-each-other-music-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/the-kinks-was-a-constant-state-of-screaming-and-shouting-and-loving-each-other-music-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kinks was a constant state of screaming and shouting and loving each other | Music | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Classics like Waterloo Sunset, Lola and Dedicated Follower Of Fashion introduced character studies into pop music, paving the way for later chroniclers of everyday British life like The Jam, Madness and Blur. Alongside Ray, younger brother Dave\u2019s incendiary guitar riffs influenced generations of musicians, with peers including Pete Townshend and even the great Jimi Hendrix wowed by his exhilarating playing.<\/p>\n

Dave\u2019s classic riff on The Kinks\u2019 first hit, You Really Got Me, in 1964 is generally credited as inventing distortion in rock music, paving the way for heavy metal.<\/p>\n

The Davies brothers\u2019 feuds, which lasted until The Kinks split in 1996, were legendary. Forget Liam and Noel Gallagher, Ray and Dave were rock\u2019s first brawling brothers \u2013 and they continued to scrap, with Ray \u00adinfamously stamping on Dave\u2019s 50th birthday cake in 1997.<\/p>\n

But the brothers have mellowed towards each other in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Don’t miss… <\/strong> Kinks\u2019 Dave Davies lays bare his feud: ‘My brother Ray\u2019s a vampire’ <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And now they want to remind the world of The Kinks\u2019 greatness by reuniting on stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe spoke the other day and we\u2019re meeting up in a couple of weeks,\u201d Dave tells the Daily Express. \u201cWe\u2019ll try to get back on stage. I won\u2019t tell you what it is until it\u2019s ready, but I want us to talk about doing something based on our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s news Kinks fans have been longing for, with the Davies brothers\u2019 only previous reunion coming when Ray joined Dave onstage at the guitarist\u2019s solo concert at \u00adintimate London club Islington Assembly Hall in 2015 to perform You Really Got Me.<\/p>\n

Dave speaks fondly of his brother these days, admitting it\u2019s only in later in life that he\u2019s come to fully appreciate the magic of their work together.<\/p>\n

He smiles: \u201cI look forward to it whenever I see Ray and we talk about stuff, because Ray has got such a way with words.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That brotherly love is a far cry from The Kinks\u2019 heyday, as Dave, 76, admits: \u201cI hated it a lot of times when I was working with Ray, because I\u2019d think, \u2018Oh, f***, how do I get away from this madness?\u2019 And it was madness, being in The Kinks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, nearly 60 years after helping \u00adto revolutionise music, Dave is proud of the part The Kinks played in mixing his incendiary guitars with Ray\u2019s incisive lyrics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t know what we were doing,\u201d believes Dave, three years Ray\u2019s junior.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kinks was a constant state of screaming and shouting at each other and loving each other too. Because we didn\u2019t know what we were doing, our quest was always, \u2018What are we going to do now?\u2019 That\u2019s the path we followed, reviewing \u00adeverything we did along the way. We were rough kids who were learning how to express ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The youngest two of eight siblings, Ray and Dave had six older sisters.<\/p>\n

    Along with their mum Annie, Dave credits the Davies family women for inspiring the brothers into creating music. He recalls: \u201cMy sisters were such strong characters. In those days, women were barely allowed to go to the toilet without permission. But if my sisters wanted to do something, they\u2019d do it. They knew all about expressing themselves, which is a crucial part of music.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt was mum who taught me how to \u00admanifest my creativity. I was an angry kid, who had so much rage. Mum taught me all about my feelings, which I expressed through music. If I hadn\u2019t done that, I\u2019d have ended up in a straitjacket \u2013 or worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

    That rage played a vital part in changing rock history.<\/p>\n

    Aged just 16, Dave created the sound of You Really Got Me by taking a razorblade to his guitar amp after a row \u00adwith his girlfriend. He explains: \u201cAfter this terrible row, I thought I was going to slash my wrists with the razorblade. I was being very \u00adtheatrical. Instead, I looked at the amp and thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to take it all out on this.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    \u201cI started slashing at \u00adthe amp, not knowing what \u00adI was doing. I was really shocked afterwards that it still worked. The raggedy sound it now made was fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Ray agreed, as did bassist Pete Quaife, who died in 2010, and drummer Mick Avory. Unaware that it was exactly what young music fans were desperate to hear, The Kinks\u2019 studio engineers refused to record the amp\u2019s raw noise. \u201cIt went against everything they were taught about recording,\u201d laughs Dave. \u201cThey hated that sound, and our record company wasn\u2019t keen either. But we told them, if they didn\u2019t record it the way we wanted then the band would split up.\u201d<\/p>\n

    You Really Got Me promptly became \u00ad\u00adthe first of the band\u2019s three No 1 singles, \u00adfollowed by Tired Of Waiting For You and Sunny Afternoon. Dave enthuses: \u201cYoung people wanted that rough sound. I was 16, I couldn\u2019t articulate how I felt about my girlfriend. I wanted to both hug her \u00adand scream at her, and that\u2019s \u00adhow You Really Got Me sounds. We were a very primordial band, in a way.\u201d<\/p>\n

    That primitive nature was part of the band\u2019s arguments. Dave\u2019s fights with Mick Avory were often even more severe than his scraps with Ray.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    \u201cThe Kinks\u2019 fights have been blown up out of proportion over the years,\u201d Dave insists. \u201cMe and Mick wanted to kill each other \u2013 but I love him too. Ray and I were so different. We still are. When you look back, you see how those differences complemented each other.<\/p>\n

    \u201cYou sometimes need things to go wrong before they go right. It didn\u2019t always work, but when it did? Boom, we had something.\u201d<\/p>\n

    The Kinks were prolific, releasing 24 albums over the course of their career.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s ironic that The Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur, which failed to chart on their release in the late 1960s, are now generally regarded as the band\u2019s finest albums. \u201cWe were always experimenting,\u201d says Dave. \u201cNot all of those experiments worked or were understood. Village Green was an important album.<\/p>\n

    \u201cIt could have been our last album, and it felt like the end when we were making it. But it became a beginning. I love it when something new grows out of what you think is the end. That\u2019s like nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The guitarist chuckles at sounding like a hippy, but the kid who was full of rage has matured into a gentle soul. He happily shows off pictures on his phone of his black-and-white rescue cat, Jolene, noting: \u201cCertain animals know what\u2019s going on a lot more than people. Cats are healers.\u201d<\/p>\n

    In a lilac paisley-patterned scarf, with \u00adhis shoulder-length silver hair mostly \u00adhidden under a purple beanie, Dave \u00adlooks bohemian.<\/p>\n

    He travels a lot with his girlfriend of 11 years, singer\/photographer Rebecca G Wilson. The father-of-eight also emphasises how his children \u201cconstantly teach \u00adme, reminding me of love and that kindness is so important\u201d.<\/p>\n

    But Dave is equally still thrilled at the impact of The Kinks\u2019 early wild days, \u00adgrinning: \u201cWhen I saw girls dancing to our music and screaming at us, I thought, \u2018We must be alright.\u2019 Those fans were learning how to express themselves, like we were in the band. It was wonderful to be a part of a generational experiment that worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Dave is quick to praise the part his older brother\u2019s lyrics played in The Kinks\u2019 success, stating: \u201cRay was able to take anything \u00adpeople said \u2013 even me telling him, \u2018Shut the hell up!\u2019 \u2013 and write it down in a way \u00adthat made you think, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s clever.\u2019 \u00ad
    Ray shaped cultural advances through \u00adour music.\u201d<\/p>\n

    Being banned from the US for four years between 1965-69 \u2013 mostly due to cutting shows short in a financial row with promoters \u2013 meant The Kinks didn\u2019t achieve the global success of their contemporaries.<\/p>\n

    A glut of cheap compilations in their later years also tarnished their legacy.<\/p>\n

    Thankfully, successful West End musical Sunny Afternoon, which ran from 2014 for two years, and new two-part Best Of compilation The Journey have reminded a new generation of fans of The Kinks\u2019 magic.<\/p>\n

    It opens the way for that potential 60th-anniversary reunion.<\/p>\n

    \u201cInside, I still feel 15,\u201d adds Dave. \u201cI still don\u2019t really know what I\u2019m doing. But music has taught me more about the world than I\u2019d ever thought possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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