The Adios Lounge
Search the site...
Home» Ray Davies

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
5

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 […]

Read More

Remembering July 14-15, 1973

Posted by Lance Davis - July 15, 2018 - Clarence White, Everly Brothers, Kinks, Ray Davies
0

  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. […]

Read More

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
1

“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 […]

Read More

Get Kinked: One For The Road

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

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 […]

Read More

God Save Donald Duck, Vaudeville and Variety

Posted by Lance Davis - July 4, 2014 - Dave Davies, Kinks, Ray Davies
0

  “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, […]

Read More
  • 1
  • 2

Get Socialized

Trending Topics

Merle Haggard David Bowie Sam Cooke Thelonious Monster Beastie Boys Beatles The Band Byrds Jay Farrar Clarence White Replacements Grand Champeen Doug Sahm Blasters Dexateens Maria McKee Minutemen Bob Forrest Sabrina Ellis Jimi Hendrix I love you Leilani Neil Young Alabama X Soul Asylum Uncle Tupelo Bob Dylan Gram Parsons Levon Helm Dave Alvin Kinks Los Angeles Superchunk Glossary Rolling Stones

Archives

(c) 2006-2014, Adios Lounge - Web Design by Runs With Pixels!, LLC