So I met Ray Davies of The Kinks today...

[robot gigante]

Great story, Jules.

Love the Kinks, fantastic band.

[Jules]

Originally Posted by preben

Jules, how about a Garlic & Shots, London, UK pre-summer or summer meet-up? It's been a while. Can anybody think of a good excuse?

Sure.. perhaps around an audio show..?

[studio1117]

Man the Kinks are so incredible. I got a "foreign" album called "a golden hour of the kinks" That thing changed my life. The Kinks can always pull out certain feelings with the music.
I'm still trying to convince my band mates to let us open the show with Shangri-la. I love the idea of finishing a rocking song like that and having the audience just stare at us. They also wouldn't let me do the Who's "a quick one while he's away" either so I"m not holding onto any hopes.
Man, Ray Davies. I must admit I never ever get star struck when meeting people, I never ask for autographs etc. I just do the sessions and get on with it, but I must admit the 2 people who could excite me meeting them would be McCartney and Ray Davies. Anybody who can write his own unauthorized biography is one cool cat. And his voice...awesome.
I'm an art lover....come to daddy

[Anselmo]

Originally Posted by Randall

Where's my GS pen? If it doesn't work you just tell em it has invisible ink

that´s a classic!

[Jonathan Starr]

Cool story, Jules.

Ray Davies has been about my fave songwriter since I first saw the Kinks perform around '68.

Used to cover "Apeman" in both a Ska and a Calypso band I played bass in. I would love to meet him.

[Sigma]

Jules isn't it funny when ya work for years in the studio with famous people all the time and are not phased [pun only partly intended]..then you meet a musical hero and you get flushed..

same thing happend to me and keith richards..i felt like a azz , personally.. my dago olive skin got that red meeting him

[Jules]

Ha! I felt a little nervous purely because I wasn't really supposed to be there, (I was tagging along on someone else's meeting) and was suddenly face to face with the boss!

I've been in a club at a table next to Keith Richards's table and I totally fell apart.. So I totally know what you mean..

[Sigma]

Originally Posted by Randall

I think my favorite story about meeting one of my "Hero's" would be the time I was sitting in the restaurant at the Philly airport having dinner... There's a cat sitting a few tables from me and it seemed like I had met him or knew him from somewhere... and then it hit me "I'll be damned if you ain't Smokin' Joe Frazier" I proclaim... Joe invited me to move over to his table.. We had dinner, a couple drinks.. very cool and gracious guy... He picked up the tab ..


Now, about that pen...

coool !

Smokin joe fraaaaaaaaaaizer....[philadalephia's own]

check out the pic of his arch nemisis during training for one of their EPIC fights...we took that at his training camp in the poconos when were were working with the band you might recognize in the ring





fan boys ....whoda thunk!

[Sigma]

Originally Posted by Jules

Ha! I felt a little nervous purely because I wasn't really supposed to be there, (I was tagging along on someone else's meeting) and was suddenly face to face with the boss!

I've been in a club at a table next to Keith Richards's table and I totally fell apart.. So I totally know what you mean..

ya my fiend was doing FOH and he goes come here and races me around a few corners..to the green room where the band was jammin before the show..TOTALLY unprepard ...and he tells keith i worked with billy preston and keith jsut comes up and starts bs'g about music...i was like a ******..i think if i was prepared it would have been different but i totally lost any "cool" i had..

i guess you were thrown for a loop too

i love the kinks..unfortunately the only time i saw them live was during the kinks/king crimson tour in the US

[PRobb]

Originally Posted by Sigma

coool !

Smokin joe fraaaaaaaaaaizer....[philadalephia's own]

check out the pic of his arch nemisis during training for one of their EPIC fights...we took that at his training camp in the poconos when were were working with the band you might recognize in the ring





fan boys ....whoda thunk!

Here he is again with another band you might recognize

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/attac...1&d=1210947965

[Sigma]

Originally Posted by PRobb

Here he is again with another band you might recognize

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/attac...1&d=1210947965

[TornadoTed]

I have the upmost respect for Ray Davies and The Kinks.

I went to Glastonbury in 93 or 94 or something like that and they played there. Unfortunately The Orb were on the other stage with a monster light show and it was the 50th anniversary of LSD so The Orb was packed.

Anyway I wasn't really into it so I went to watch The kinks, there was hardly anyone there. It was like they were first band of the day, someone fairly unknown instead of legends, last band on Saturday night!

They would have been well within their rights to be pissed off, go through the motions and leave as soon as they could. Just the opposite happened, they ended up playing an hour over their set, having a laugh and were even taking requests from the audience, their stuff, covers, whatever!

It was one of the best shows I've ever seen, total pro's.

[russrags]

I met Ray Davies a few months ago at my favorite Mexican resturant in Nashville.

My wife and I grabed a number on a busy Friday night and were waiting for a table. I wasn't paying that much attention, but a couple others came in right after us and did the same thing taking a seat right across from me. Still it didn't regiser with me for a few minutes, but then I knew it ... and asked "your Ray Davies" ... he got kinda shy and hung his head and looked up and smiled and said "yea." There was an open seat right next to mine and he came over and joined me and we sat there talking for about 30 minutes. My wife and I had just seen a biography on the Kinks on TV and we were talking about it. I asked him if he was in town doing a show, and he said "no, I'm here doing some recording." This was in Steve Earls old Studio which is just down the street from my house. By this time he knew I was an Engineer and that I had a Studio too ... he got all excited and I swear he's indicated that he'd like to come over and check it out ... maybe I should have done it???, but I kept telling him, "man this one's just in my house." What a nice guy though, he said he misses tape. I heard a few of the new tracks on XM Radio already, pretty darn good and so will be the memory of meeting Ray Davies.

Russ
Nashville
"In Order To Predict The Future ... Create It"

[PRobb]

Originally Posted by studio1117

I'm an art lover....come to daddy

Not one of there better known works, but that song just kills me. Brilliant.

[Wiggy Neve Slut]

Originally Posted by preben

Jules, how about a Garlic & Shots pre-summer or summer meet-up? It's been a while. Can anybody think of a good excuse?

Immediately!!!!!

sounds like a great idea... and I have not been back there since I attended the dinner/drinks in 04... scary long time!

But lets do it...