Nicely interviewed, so glad he sat down to do this. RD proves that genuine' artistic endeavour wends its way'.. like a river, through personal and daily life..enriched by and sometimes even endured by the artist but here now, voila! RD has a timeless body of work...
I have always loved but also have been vexed by Ray's music. His song "Shangri La" as well as Gary Brooker's "A Salty Dog" played a big part in my musical self education. I listened to a few tunes by Davy Graham (I had never heard of him) and could immediately hear the influence he had on Davies' vocals. I also realized that Van Morrison's vocal stylings on "She Moved Through the Fair" seem to owe a lot to Graham's solo guitar version of the traditional song. ...so thanks for a fascinating documentary and for the serendipitous discovery of Davy Graham.
Dave was mimicking Ray on the piano for You really got me. Dave talks about it on another video on youtube. But either way, it took the group to make the song, obviously. The guitar is just a part.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Kinks live but Pete Quaiffe always stood so far apart that he ruined our photos (no magic phones back then). The only chance I had to see Davy Graham was in Nottingham but he didn’t turn up. A massive disappointment. These interviews bring back some great memories, thank you.
Nothing in the world......... is one of my favorite Kinks song. I could never work out the rhythmic pattern. I see he plays it inE. I thought it was in G. Maybe we can work it out
Wow...way to take credit for the guitar sound on you really got me...I love ray...but not the same story he told on his last tour...i guess it depends how he and dave are getting along at the time.
Quit watching at 5:26 when the interviewer confessed his musical ignorance. WTF are you in the same room? Also the constantly panning camera -- what's the matter with people that they can't just concentrate on the subject?
But Ray is not honest because out of jealousy he doesn’t mention the Beatles and it is the Beatles precisely who took the blues or rockn’roll format and made it evolve: the chords of Please please me ( slightly reminiscent of You really got me), the chords of From me to you, and so on. It is one of the Beatles’ most important contribution to the history of music. Ray, beloved how he is, doesn’t give to Caesar what is dueto Caesar
paul rawes no he is not. First he didn’t have tha ambition to break barriers, second he didn’t invent like McCartney did chord sequences that have been covered ever since, he didn’t write anything approaching Strawberry Fields Forever. But you are of course entitled to,prefer him, but not to say he is better
@@jean-marieboucherit4716 Lyrics wise Kinks are much, much better than Beatles, I think that noody can dispute on that. At music level I don't want to start an argument but a couple of remarks I do have. First of all neither Beatles nor Stones has succedeed in releasing overnight a hit single which has really changed and shaken the rock genre. The kinks succeeded in doing that with "you really got me" in 1964. That was a change in paradigm and it is not by chance that punk movement has paid tribute to kinks but not to beatles or stones. Secondly the Beatles greatly benefitted of the full support of EMI and Gerge Martin in order to create amazing sounds. The Kinks on the other hand have been cursed by lousy management and poor company support since day one. Finally it is difficult to judge the impact which the ban imposed to the Kinks had on their career, but of couse it was relevant
nicola gianaroli well I don’t agree, however much I like the Kinks. Although Ray Davies is an excellent story teller he never reaches the poetic heights of say Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows or the eccentricity and inventiveness of Come Together. Secondly the Beatles changed the world many times over with their singles and Lps. They were the driving force of music in the 60s. Furthermore one had to wait for 1969 for a really good LP by the Kinks , Arthur. And again either Paul McCartney or John Lennon are much better singers than Ray or Dave. Concerning the underhanded comment about George Martin: the best teams get the best coaches. Finally Ray Davies relies really heavy handedly on the descending bass lines ( Get Back in the line,Sunny afternoon, Shangrila and many others ). And re-finally: Ray Davies is very much about nostalgia whereas the Beatles look to the past with a more positive outlook. ( By the way I really don’t like it when you say « nobody can dispute that ». Either you are not thinking when writing this or you are a musical fascist. Democracy is when you can dispute anything, so please, stop writing things like this.)
This old brits have no idea what blues music was. It was terrible and not popular. it was rejected by North americans. The kinks only played rock music. Just because they playish som,e riffs found in blues songs/copy does not change that their songs were only rock songs. In fact they were copying Beatles music. Fast and furious beats. music is about tones of voice. Rock is exciting tones and blues is slow depressing tones. blues music has no relevance to British rock accomplishment in the 60;s. Its just dumb to connect.
Robert Byers - Strange then that Clapton, Page, Beck, Richards et. al. also rave about how much the blues inspired them, and that they covered so many blues songs and pioneered the big sub-genre called "blues-rock". Fast Beatles-y pop ( "She Loves You" etc.) is just one strand of early British rock, and even that traces its way back to blues music via American R'n'B and early rock+roll (Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard et. al.). And the blues isn't just sad... it's passionate and raw. To me that's at least as important a connection as the musical structure...
