{"id":70503,"date":"2023-11-16T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geels.net\/?p=70503"},"modified":"2023-11-16T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:08:00","slug":"the-kinks-was-a-constant-state-of-screaming-and-shouting-and-loving-each-othe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geels.net\/beauty\/the-kinks-was-a-constant-state-of-screaming-and-shouting-and-loving-each-othe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kinks was a constant state of screaming and shouting and loving each othe…"},"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

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

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

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