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

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He breaks into "You Really Got Me" nicely enough
8-31-71 ;)

--- Tim Druck <drucktim5538@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Steve Thomson
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:53 PM
> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Page albums also didn't he do something
> with The Kinks??
> 
> Well put!!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx]On Behalf
> Of Tim Druck
> Sent: March 9, 2005 5:57 PM
> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Michael O. Shannon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:09 PM
> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> 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...
> 
> 
> 


                
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