These heavy, fuzztone riffs launched a thousand garage bands. The Kinks were a highly influential British Invasion band, and the true ancestors of punk -- and they did it with style. The Beatles may have been more creative, the Stones more bluesy, but the Kinks were a crack little outfit that blasted riffs like nobody else. They changed over the years, and created little baroque masterpieces of English life, but I prefer the early angry years. Ray Davies was something of a genius. I always expected him to grow up to be Vincent Price, but maybe it was just the Edwardian outfit. At any rate, dig this clip from Shindig, in 1965!
For Kinks 101, from the Onion, click here.
2 comments:
I love the Kinks. Do you remember the Hullaballoo TV show?
Sure I remember, TomasT. That was a strange show with all the go go dancers and big sets. They should bring that back to cable -- and Shindig, too.
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