Any Roxy Music or Kinks fans, just asking [Archive]

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-23-2009, 12:11pm

I have banging around with Rod Stewert ,Roxy Music and Kinks lately, go figure:disbelief::disbelief::disbelief:

Wesley

Mar-23-2009, 12:29pm

Yeah I was - and I guess I still am - a Roxy Music fan. They really pushed the envelope in their day. As for the Kinks - the first LP I ever bought was the Kinks Greatest Hits. I'm still waiting for a box set to be released.

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-23-2009, 12:37pm

Jim MacDaniel

Mar-23-2009, 1:05pm

Totally loved Roxy Music, especially Avalon, but haven't thought to try them on mando -- until your post. ;)

eestimando

Mar-23-2009, 1:06pm

Yeah, Roxy Music... There are songs that can "change the life". "Dance Away", "Oh Yeah", "More than this", "Street life" and of course "Avalon". The last on proves, that a brilliant thing can be so simple. By the way, it can easily played on mandolin. Bryan Ferry is such an elegant and cool person among rock musicians. And he has a very original voice and phrasing.

lespaul_79

Mar-23-2009, 1:15pm

Love the KINKS!!!!!!!!!!! Most underated band. Every song on Lola Vs. Powerman and the Money Go Round is classic. EVery time you listen to it you hear something different. Great witty honest songwriting with the KInks.

Arthur is a great album. Victoria is such a unknown rocking gem. Mando pickers download this song...... No mando, but totally fun and rocking.

Waterloo Sunset is beautiful.

Such a great band.

Roxy and Rod don't know too much about.

But I'd love to play in a band that did Victoria and Waterloo Sunset.

eadg145

Mar-23-2009, 1:34pm

What a strange coincidence! I've had "Avalon" playing in my head for the last few days. When I got in the car this morning, I queued up "Slave To Love" on the iPod.

Must be some kind of enharmonic convergence going on. ;)

Love The Kinks, too.

cheers,

David

jasona

Mar-23-2009, 1:57pm

Was just listening to "For Your Pleasure" a week or so ago. Huge Roxy fan. I can't imagine its easy to translate to mando however. What tunes are you working on Rick?

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-23-2009, 2:09pm

Was just listening to "For Your Pleasure" a week or so ago. Huge Roxy fan. I can't imagine its easy to translate to mando however. What tunes are you working on Rick?

Just jammin' on 2 HB

man dough nollij

Mar-23-2009, 2:16pm

Big Roxy Music fan. Never had any use for the Kinks, and I absolutely can't stand Rod Stewart, for even a second. Ugh.

onassis

Mar-23-2009, 2:20pm

I'm not much on Roxy Music (something about Briab Ferry, maybe?), but I have a real special place in my heart for Rod and The Kinks. Lola vs Powerman and the Money-go-round is possibly the finest concept album I know. 6-8 mos. ago I had an obsession with "Every Picture Tells A Story", set about learning it on guitar, then realized how idiotic the lyrics are. Onle the Rod could sing that with a straight face. Still, that song rocks my world. Recently got a 2-disc Faces anthology.

JEStanek

Mar-23-2009, 2:42pm

I'm a Musswell Hillbilly. Love the Kinks. I think it would be fun to play mandolin on Alcohol with a jug band.

Jamie

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-23-2009, 3:32pm

I'm a Musswell Hillbilly. Love the Kinks. I think it would be fun to play mandolin on Alcohol with a jug band.

Jamie

Everybodys a dreamer.....

mandozilla

Mar-23-2009, 6:01pm

The Kinks? H**L yes :grin:...fom the beginning :cool:...I saw them in a club down in old Soho...:))

:mandosmiley:

Jill McAuley

Mar-23-2009, 11:57pm

When I was a little kid, before I got into punk, I was way into The Kinks and The Who. I still remember reading an interview with Dave Davies in some guitar magazine where he was talking about all the great guitars he'd found in American pawn shops whenever they were on tour there.

Cheers,
Jill

Eddie Sheehy

Mar-24-2009, 11:18am

Yes!

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-24-2009, 11:48am

When I was a little kid, before I got into punk, I was way into The Kinks and The Who.

Cheers,
Jill

When I toured Europe with The Cramps in 81, their favorite band was The Kinks.:whistling:

Mandodrummer

Mar-24-2009, 12:00pm

Huge Kinks fan here. I've seen them 4 times and one Davies solo tour -- Such classic tunes.
The band I played in back in the day covered a lot of Kinks and Cramps tunes. we also did "Love is the Drug" by Roxy Music.

JEStanek

Mar-24-2009, 12:07pm

Have you guys read the article on Ray Davies in the current issue of the Fretboard Journal (http://www.fretboardjournal.com/current_issue/index.html)? Good stuff...

Jamie

Mike Bromley

Mar-24-2009, 12:14pm

I'm a Musswell Hillbilly. Love the Kinks. I think it would be fun to play mandolin on Alcohol with a jug band.

Jamie

"Tea knows no segregation, no class nor pedigree..."

That one is crying for hillbillyization as well. Has a great big fat meaty backbeat.

jefflester

Mar-24-2009, 12:16pm

Never into Roxy, but a big Kinks fan. "Face to Face" and "Something Else" are my two favorite albums. I saw them a couple of times back in their arena days around 1981 and then saw Ray once when he was doing his Storyteller/X-Ray show in '95 or so.

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-24-2009, 12:31pm

Have you guys read the article on Ray Davies in the current issue of the Fretboard Journal (http://www.fretboardjournal.com/current_issue/index.html)? Good stuff...

Jamie

That was the best issue so far.

Dragonflyeye

Mar-24-2009, 12:52pm

I love Roxy. Their "More Than This" has been all over the tube lately, in a commercial for . . something. (How effective is that, if I can't remember the product?) Maybe that's why they're on folks' minds. Think I'll try a bit of Avalon.

I love Rod's Gasoline Alley (w/Jeff Beck?), and Every Picture, but nothing after he went ultra-blond, especially his recent forays into standards. Love the songs, but not him singing them.

The Kinks - great band, but never hooked me.

Santiago

Mar-24-2009, 12:54pm

I don't know if Roxy's "Both Ends Burning" would sound like much on Mandolin, but I might try it. Roxy was a great band, and Avalon was a great album. I'm not as big of a kinks fan. I think Ray Davies was/is more of a folk singer with backup team than a band leader (band sometimes included Jimmy Page in the studio). That said, some of his songs are pretty darned good.

mandopete

Mar-25-2009, 11:40am

When I toured Europe with The Cramps in 81, their favorite band was The Kinks.

On a side note I just heard that Lux Interior recently passed away.

Another Roxy fan here - especially the early stuff with Eno.

What's her name - Virginia Plain!

mandocrucian

Mar-25-2009, 12:00pm

Ever hear of a midwest (rock) band from the 70's called The Leopards?

They did 2 or 3 LPs on their own "Moon" label. Dennis Pash, the singer, played mando and guitar (50/50), and was a vocal dead ringer for Ray Davies. Sonically, it was early Kinks ("Sunny Afternoon", "Dedicated Follower of Fashion", "Dead End Street era) with a mando, and all original Daviesque material.

The LPs are now $150+ collectors items and really hard to find. (One of my record collecting pals back in FL had their Kansas City Slickers LP, which is why I've known about 'em since the late 70's.)

Niles H.

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-25-2009, 12:21pm

On a side note I just heard that Lux Interior recently passed away.

Another Roxy fan here - especially the early stuff with Eno.

What's her name - Virginia Plain!

Back in 1979 i was Lighting Director of The Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. In Dec. 1979 Ultravox played seven gigs and I did lights. One night the entire band asked if I would bring them and two friends to a place were they could eat and have a meeting. Those two were Brian Eno and David Byrne.We went up to The Rainbow Bar and Grill ( the then rock star hang out) for pizza, it was a dinner and night I woluld never forget.:)

mandopete

Mar-25-2009, 8:35pm

Back in 1979 i was Lighting Director of The Whiskey a Go Go on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. In Dec. 1979 Ultravox played seven gigs and I did lights.

Was that when Midge Ure was in the band - I think I was at that gig.

Okay, funny story time. I went to see the Talking Heads at the Roxy on the strip and that same night tickets went on sale for Peter Gabriel. So like any good fanboy I got in line right after the Heads show with the intention of waiting overnight for tickets. Well, abot 2:00AM David and Tina come walking out and ask "What's everybody hanging out for?" and we told him "Tickets for Peter Gabriel!". He sort of shrugged and walked away.

Oh, L.A. in the late 70's...

GTG

Mar-25-2009, 11:24pm

I guess I'm a younger fan than some of you folks, but man, there was no better coming of age band for me than the Kinks.

There's a soft spot in my heart thinking back to my early teenage years, falling asleep to 'Rock and roll fantasy' and other tunes. Kind of corny, but so true at the time...

"Dan is a fan and he lives for our music, it's the only thing that gets him by...
...and when he feels the world is closing in he turns the stereo way up high. He just spends his life living in a rock and roll fantasy..."

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-25-2009, 11:38pm

Was that when Midge Ure was in the band - I think I was at that gig. Oh, L.A. in the late 70's...

Yep, Midge Ure was the singer

Mike Snyder

Mar-25-2009, 11:51pm

Loved the Kinks and the Fugs. Had Lola on 8 track. Worn out and gone long ago. Davies is a songwriter genius.

Rick Schmidlin

Mar-27-2009, 5:12pm

I loved the Fugs when up in NJ and heard on the FM and then bought thier first LP. Also I produced a film called The Third Mind and Ed Saunders was in it, great guy. Had lunch with him at The Whitney Museum with Alan Ginsberg,Michael Mc Clure,Diane DiPrima and Gregory Corso.

Dragonflyeye

Mar-30-2009, 9:28am

All this talk of Roxy, and was watching a movie on video called "Breakfast on Pluto" with dear husband the other night, and who should appear in a bit part (an unattractive character) but Brian Ferry!

Tone Monster, that sounds like some lunch!

I got to chat for 10-15 minutes yrs ago to David Byrne, who was waiting in the lobby of the Walker Art Center to go on at a "new music" festival in Mpls. Brian Eno was on stage at the time. Ah, the old days.

Wesley

Apr-01-2009, 9:34am

Perhaps it was just a rumor but I read that Brian Ferry screen tested for the role of James Bond. Who knows? He looks good in a tux - but can he act?