Too right! A year ago I knew only the famous Sunny afternoon.. lola, autumn almanac, days etc which are still awesome of course, but slowly I am discovering these great 70s unknown gems, so many undervalued songs which how the hell did not chart I cannot explain....
1:44 - 1:46 that little section of Dave's guitar solo, I just love that. He's so underrated as a lead guitarist. I know people know he's a great guitarist, but mention of him alongside "known great guitarists" seems not often.
WOW what an awesome version.......where have all these cool video's been hiding all these years?Thank God for You Tube!!!!!!!!!!!! God Save the Kinks in 2009!!!!!!!!!!
Actually, I see the "Sleepwalker" album as the beginning of a phase in which Ray ceased composing "Rock Operas" in favor of simply writing great pop/rock songs again. The trend continued on "Misfits", "Low Budget", "Give The People What They Want", and "State of Confusion".
No, he said he was his favorite rock 'n' roll songwriter. Think about what you are saying, or putting words in the mouths of, before posting. Did you really think that Townshend would have thought that Ray Davies is greater than Beethoven? C'mon, man.
I've seen 'em all. The Who. The Stones. Macca. Levon Helm. Gregg Allman. Cheap Trick. Aerosmith.... The Kinks show I was privileged to be in the audience of (of?) back at the Avalon in Boston Spring "93 was by far the greatest rock show I have ever seen in me life. I had the good fortune to meet Ray at Heathrow airport in London shortly after I saw the Kinks in Boston. I was (how do you Brits say?) GOBSMACKED!!!! God Save the KInks.
@@sommerioslo seen them in new brighton around the same time promoting the phobia album, ray was in full swing giving it loads and an old lady got out of her seat and hovelled to the toilet and the look on rays face as if to say ' oh f*** what are we doing here'
I love OGWT videos, pure rock and musical genius on display with nearly every band. And this vid is great, we even get a Bob Harris bonus appearance!! :)
Ray Davies is and was the only talent in the Kinks. The rest of the guys were and always are very replaceable. Dave Davies only gets respect cos he's been riding Ray's coattails since day one.
Mick Avory is one of the best drummers to ever play; Dave wasn't only an absolutely brilliant guitarist and innovator, but also a great vocalist and songwriter himself; Pete was a great bass player and will forever be missed. I don't know about anyone but the original four apart from John Gosling (who wasn't the best of all time but still good), but the original 4 were all absolutely amazing in their own right, even if you don't like them (and if you don't that's fine, I really don't give a shit that's not the point of this comment) I don't see how anyone could see them as riding off of Ray, that's complete rubbish. Sorry if this comment came off a bit rude btw, I'm just trying to share my opinion as did you, I'm not trying to make you mad or start a worthless chat argument with someone I don't even know, just want a conversation.
