RE: Page albums also didn't he do something with The Kinks??

["Tim Druck" <drucktim5538@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Except for one thing - as JR pointed out in private - Dave Davies played
lead guitar, and Ray was the rhythm guitarist, singer, producer,
majordomo, et. al.  Otherwise the point remains the same - if you ask
me, neither of them played that riff.  Oddly enough, and shamelessly
enough, Dave's website has the riff we're talking about playing on his
homepage.  Just add "and/or Dave" everywhere it says Ray, and everything
else is as accurate as my knowledge can make it.


TimD

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From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
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Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:53 PM
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Subject: RE: Page albums also didn't he do something with The Kinks??

Well put!!

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Sent: March 9, 2005 5:57 PM
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Subject: RE: Page albums also didn't he do something with The Kinks??


The story is this - it has been rumored (almost since the session
itself) that Jimmy played the trademark fuzztone chords to the Kinks'
one major hit, "You Really Got Me," in the studio through a fuzz box
invented by a friend of his whose name escapes me.  If it's true, Jimmy
invented progressive rock, and if possible deserves even more credit
than he gets for innovation in the early days of rock.  
        Of course, as can be expected, Ray Davies adamantly claims that
Jimmy Page did not play on the record, and offers the rather insulting
explanation that Jimmy was in the studio at the time and may have joined
in on tambourine.  Jimmy, suitably insulted by that inference, says that
he never played tambourine on any record, and for his part doesn't
remember if he played on it or not, due to the thousands of sessions and
the decades since he played on them.  Jimmy's statement keeps intact the
session player's code of silence, and is rather gracious considering the
gratuitous insult of being called a tambourine player.  
        If it had been me, I'd have said, "Yeah, I played it because Ray
couldn't play six open chords in a row over and over without effing it
up.  Oh, and tell him I said shove his tambourine up his ass."  When it
comes down to it, the song sounds like Pagey, and if he didn't play it,
well, he should have.  Ray Davies can't hold Pagey's jock, whether he
played on the track or not.

TimD

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From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michael O. Shannon
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Page albums also didn't he do something with The Kinks??


Nah the Kinks were a great british invasion band of the
60's right up there with Beatles, Stones and Who.  They
had a resurgence in the 80's with hits like Come Dancing
and Destroyer so maybe that's where you got the 80's band
thing from.  They finally disbanded around 1996 I believe.
Jimmy was supposed to have done the session man thing on
some of their early stuff but just minor stuff I think...