Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:13:16 -0600 From: "Brad Harvey" To: 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 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