Here I am on the right with my best pal and bandmate Blake from a 2015 mini-tour of Great Britain in Muswell Hill. Tried to pay a visit to the Archway Tavern (where they shot the cover of MH) but it was closed for renovation...Muswell Hillbillies....probably my fave...
I'm a huge Kinks fan, and I always wondered why they aren't one of the bands that have endured in popularity with younger musicians.
Do not consider myself a Kinks fan, but I grew up with their music and I would say that their lyrics always were a few notches up from what a lot of other bands were coming up with at the time! Still love to listen to most of their songs!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
Hate to break it to you Hans but you're a Kinks fan! It's ok, you're among friends.
The Kinks were one of my favorite groups in the '60s. Would listen to their early hard driving tunes like Beautiful Delilah, So Mystifying, Too Much Monkey Business, & Got Love If You Want It over & over again. But for me, the band's high water mark was "Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)," released in October 1969, with all songs written by Ray Davies & one of the best 'concept' albums ever, imho.
....... and I would like to add that Dave Davies was one of the people that I considered to ask to do the foreword for 'The Guild Guitar Book'. He simply was one of very few guitar players using Guild guitars during the mid-'60s and who made them sound really different than most of the folks who were playing Guild electrics before that.
I tried to get in touch with him at the time, but there were too many barriers that all had to do with people protecting Dave's privacy, which I respect, so I just gave up. In the end I'm really happy with Zal Yanovsky and Richie Havens who were also on my (small) list and who were somewhat easier to approach.
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
Well, there is Volume 2. Maybe you can try again. :C)....... and I would like to add that Dave Davies was one of the people that I considered to ask to do the foreword for 'The Guild Guitar Book'. He simply was one of very few guitar players using Guild guitars during the mid-'60s and who made them sound really different than most of the folks who were playing Guild electrics before that.
I tried to get in touch with him at the time, but there were too many barriers that all had to do with people protecting Dave's privacy, which I respect, so I just gave up.
Are you related to Billy Eilish?I've never heard Van Halen version of You Really Got Me
KINKS were big here - and still played on some radio stations.
Are you related to Billy Eilish?
Here ya go!
It's the song that launched Van Halen here in the States.I've never heard this either and i may leave it a little longer![]()