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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Reading about The Kinks |
| Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:18:06 -0600 |
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:13:16 -0600
From: "Brad Harvey" <billionbrads@att.net>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Subject: Reading about The Kinks
Message-ID: <000c01c4df8b$8faacc40$32f74c0c@computer>
Find a copy of Ray Davies' uniquely original autobiography X-RAY (subtitled
'The Unauthorized Autobiography') to help you fill in the blanks on Kinks
history.
I wouldn't recommend it as a history primer on the Kinks, although it's an
interesting read in and of itself. Ray Davies penned it as a highly
unorthodox "story within a story", in which a flunky from a faceless
corporation is asked by his bosses to write a biography of wizened eccentric
musician Raymond Douglas Davies. The unnamed protagonist befriends the sour
old geezer, and is thereby subjected to a lengthy series of monologues in
interview sessions within the decrepit bowels of Konk Studios. The text
drifts in and out of reality, and is about equal parts biographical
narrative and acerbic ruminations regarding the emotional damage wrought by
Davies upon those he loved, and vice-versa.
A more conventional (and, from what I've heard, more truthful) take on the
boys from Muswell Hill is Dave Davies' autobiography, *Kink*.
One thing that both books make clear, though, is that the real-life David
Watts is nothing like what you'd expect him to be based upon the song.
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 09:21:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Leonard <timleonard2004@yahoo.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: God save the Kinks
Message-ID: <20041211172144.30941.qmail@web52202.mail.yahoo.com>
Buy em all and your sure to go to heaven.
Hear, hear.
Gregory Sager
NPIMH: "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" by the Kinks
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