Blues De Luxe: What Would Nicky Hopkins Do? (Part 6)

Posted by Lance Davis - September 16, 2018 - Beatles, Billie Davis, Easybeats, Elton John, Giles, Giles & Fripp, Jackie Lomax, Jeff Beck, Kinks, Nicky Hopkins, Paul Jones, Ray Davies, Roger Cook, Rolling Stones, The Who, WWNHD

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The day after Nicky died (September 6, 1994), Ian McLagan and his wife Kim were shopping in Austin and stopped to have a drink in Nicky’s honor. They chose a weirdly appropriate bar, with church pews as benches and coffins for tables, and ordered a round of beers. They were amazed when, without them lifting […]

Remembering July 14-15, 1973

Posted by Lance Davis - July 15, 2018 - Clarence White, Everly Brothers, Kinks, Ray Davies

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When reviewing the worst days in music history, why not start at February 3, 1959? Of course, that’s the day Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in an Iowa plane crash. If you know this date, it isn’t because you’ve been going through a Holly phase and were doing online research. […]

Mr. Pleasant: What Would Nicky Hopkins Do? (Part 5)

Posted by Lance Davis - July 6, 2018 - Andrew Loog Oldham, Brian Jones, Dave Davies, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Keith Emerson, Keith Richards, Kinks, Mick Jagger, Nicky Hopkins, P.P. Arnold, Ray Davies, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, WWNHD, Yardbirds

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“From about ’67 to ’68 it was really machine-like. I didn’t even know whom I was working for half the time. Anthony Newley was at one session, Sammy Davis Jr. was at another, maybe those two were for a movie soundtrack or maybe they were singles. I don’t know. I don’t even know if they […]

Get Kinked: One For The Road

Posted by Lance Davis - December 2, 2014 - Dave Davies, Kinks, Ray Davies, Replacements, Wilco

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Link to One For The Road video & annotated setlist below Back on July 4th, I annotated The Kinks‘ BBC-TV appearance from January 24, 1973. (Check out God Save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety.) That show bookended the band’s golden age that I’d say began with the transcendent “Waterloo Sunset” single (released May 1967) and […]

God Save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety

Posted by Lance Davis - July 4, 2014 - Dave Davies, Kinks, Ray Davies

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“I don’t like the hassling, silly things in rock. I want to keep writing very English songs.” —Ray Davies, 1967 A few days ago I praised Phil and Dave Alvin as a two-man, American roots music preservation society, offering them up as a bizarro version of The Kinks. Granted, instead of preserving village greens, […]