Before you comment something stupid like 'PAGE DIDN'T PLAY THE GUITAT SOLO IN YOU REALLY GOT ME ARGGH ARGH ARGH!!' ... make sure to watch the ENTIRE VIDEO (specifically 5:35)
America doesn't hate the Kinks in fact in the early 80's they were selling out arenas. However, their late 70's/early 80's Arista successful comeback material is absent from Classic Rock radio and has been absent for three decades.
I watched the video. The channel host didn't research the allegations. That's embarrassing. I remember an article in a guitar magazine discussion(circa early 90's) on who played the solo on "You Really Got Me". Readers commented that Dave Davies could never play the solo exactly like the recording, While Page and Townsend were in the studio at the time of the YRGM recording according to studio logs. It seems to me that either Page or Townsend are covering as a professional/fellow Brit courtesy for Dave Davies not able to recreate the solo in their monumental song@@puncturedbicycle7264
So many untruths, what was the point of mentioning Jimmy Page, what a wally this guy is, subscribe to you. No thanks, get things accurately first, doesn't he know The Kinks broke America again in late 70s and eighties, hated, l don't think so.
Page played accoustic on YRGM because Ray wanted to concentrate on his vocals. He was a "Studio hanger-on," according to Ray, who said concerning Page's claims of having played lead on YRGM, "I don't give a shit how many spells he puts on me, Dave played that solo!"
They werent in the same league as Beatles the Who and Rolling Stones.Tough to compete with them and like he said when they were barred from USA for years most of america just didnt know them.
@@brianmorecombe2726 If not for the ban, they would have been the same as the Rolling Stones. Given a choice, I'd pick he Kinks over the Who, if I was drunk and had to choose.
Oh brother. America didn’t and doesn’t hate the Kinks. They had a fight with the musicians union. The Kinks are one of the top five bands to ever come out of the UK. Thats saying something.
Lol they ARE brothers and that's how brothers act. All bands fight. Doesn't matter who you are.....BTW- Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on YRGM LP 3 songs. It's Dave Davies on lead. Page DID play on YRGM on LARRY PAGE ORCHESTRA " Kinky Music" LP. God Save The Kinks. Nice presentation.
as a fresh out of vietnam junior college attending veteran in aptos, california (73 to 75) i discovered the lyrical creativity and mind blowing sound of the kinks....i still have the hour and a half casettee of them that i put together in the early 80s....this american has always truly loved their sound....
Actually the U.K. hates the Kinks... The albums haven't charted in England since 1968.... While in the USA gold certications for "Low Budget" and "Give The People What They Want".
@@brianmorecombe2726 Looked up the certifications and it is true the Kinks were a big selling singles band on the U K. And stopped selling albums after 1968.Just making a point that is a contradiction of the title of this link.
Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on You really Got Me because Ray Davies wanted to concentrate on getting the vocals as good as possible. James David Dupre is absolutely right about the gtr break being by Dave Davies - his style of playing is very much his own. The record was produced by Sheldon Talmy who also produced My Generation for The Who.
I wondered about that statement. The guitar solo in "You really got me" doesn't sound like Jimmy Page at all. He certainly could have played the rhythm guitar part as could most technically competent guitarists.
Big fan of The Kinks. I’ve read a few different versions of why they were banned from the US. Your’s is as good as any. I heard that their managers were totally incompetent. It was a common thing during the early 60’s for rich “Oxbridge” young men to get jobs managing musical acts. A lot of them were incompetent idiots who had wealth and connections and were young, so they worked for the music industry, squeezing as much money out of the acts as possible. Anyway, when they got to the states these idiots were in over their heads, plus the band was rowdy and party animals. They eventually deserted the band and left them stranded. There was lots of confusion, bad scheduling and bad behavior as a result. Ray said, what happened probably wasn’t any worse then any other band during the time, they just didn’t have anybody to smooth things over when stuff happened.
That and both Ray and Dave have said that they felt the ban was a little political that the KinKs were just big enough to show they meant business but weren't the money draw of the Beatles and Stones and their behaviors were a good excuse.
WATERLOO SUNSET'S IS ONE FANTASTIC SONG FROM THE PEN OF RAY DAVIES A GENIUS, AND LEGEND THE KINK'S A MASSIVE, GREAT BAND UP THERE WITH THE VERY BEST BANDS.
Data that anyone can investigate and corroborate: J. Page did NOT participate in the recording of "You Really Got Me". At this point it would be good that the more people know the truth. He did participate in a couple of tracks from the Kinks' first album. But I'm afraid that this was not only recorded months after "YRGM"... it is precisely thanks to the success of this mythical single that the Kinks were granted the possibility of recording a 'full length' album. And this is due to the first agreement between Pye Records and the band, which was for three singles... and the possibility of a long play afterwards, only if at least one of those singles was a reasonable success... and after two resounding failures, "You Really Got Me" was the one that saved the dishes at the last minute. PS: As a detail, the first recording of "YRGM" was a disaster, since it was produced by its management following the directives of the record company, which only wanted them to sound like Mersey Sound (Beatle sound). The Kinks were forced to self-produce a second express recording in an independent studio, with the sole prerogative that their own producer didn't even find out... And this resulted in the version we all know, and that would mark a before and after not only for the Kinks' career, but would be the kickoff for the use of distortion, Hard Rock, and proto-Punk.
I read somewhere that in order to get the ban lifted, Ray had to send formal letters of apology to Betty Kaye and the AFM. If that was all he had to do, why didn't he do it sooner than 1969? Would they have even been willing to listen if he'd tried to reverse the ban shortly after 1965?
I've never heard a definitive reason for the ban before, usually books indicate it wasn't clear why it happened -- or how long it would be. What source did you find this, out of curiosity? Ray probably would have found his way to make a "Waterloo Sunset" in my opinion. Even the Stones and Beatles, without bans, ended up adding songs about English life by '66 and '67, and favoring musichall to R&B, at least briefly. Though that might have been because Ray started singing in an English accent first! Who knows?
@@brt5273 i commented before the video was over, but yes i watched it all the way through. then i realized i had fallen for your ploy to get comments and create traffic on your video.
Sham 69 about 10 years later, a punk band were barred from the USA probably because of the Sex Pistols.Sham 69 wrote a song about it appearing on the B side to the single Hurry Up Harry.
Actually The Who were "banned" from Australia - The Prime Minister sent them a letter after their '68 tour and told them not to return to Australia - It really affected Mooney so much so, he hated ALL Australians from them on.
Dave Davies played the guitar riff. American did not hate the kinks.The DOORS were sued and lost their case with the Kinks. This might be behind the musicians case .
Here in Argentina we love The kinks! to me is the best band by far of all times. You can not event compare Beatles with The kinks. The Beatles only played 2 years in live, their las show was in 1965, only 2 years after their creation as a band. The Kinks played until the 90 improving and making one song better that one. You can compare Kinks with the Stones. Beatles should be compare with the Grassroots. The Kinks is to much for the Beatles.
Nice video! It's pronounced "Davis" not "Davees," though at this point I hear that both Ray and Dave have given up on it. There's a current comedian on British TV called "Alan Davies" who also pronounces it "Davis".
I saw the Kinks in '78 at the Greek theater in Los Angeles. The writer who reviewed the show stated that there is absolutely nothing like a Kinks concert. Hyperbole? Maybe, regardless if Ray had told the audience to stand on their heads I'm quite certain they would have done so.
Nice video but misleading. False actually. Of course this ban really hurt the band when the momentum of the British Invasion should have propelled The Kinks to superstardom in the US but the truth is....later in the 70s America saved the Kinks. Actually, before this even, Lola was a huge hit in America in 70. Later, when their career was floundering constant touring supporting their concept theatrical albums kept the band going IN AMERICA. The Kinks had huge success selling albums in America starting with Low Budget...Gold record in America,.....Give the People What They Want.....Gold in America....Come Dancing.....top 6 hit IN AMERICA. The Kinks were playing stadiums and arenas in the United States while they were largely ignored in the UK after Lola. The question is: Why did the UK ignore such a precious national treasure after Lola vs. the Powerman and the Money go Round? Just listen to the live album One for the Road to hear how much America loved this band. Sheesh!
you failed to mention that van Halen fid a fsntastic bover of you hot me now by the kinks on yheir first Album Van Halen. with a wonderful riff by eddie van halen as the introduction!
I thought it was kind of uncool to be deceptive about the Jimmy Page guitar solo. Plus what I don't understand is obviously the kinks weren't really banned because I grew up listening to Lola and the destroyer and those songs on give the people what they really want so I know they weren't really banned. What happened?
The Kinks vendieron mucho mas en América que en su Reino Unido. O sea no creo que tenga nada contra ellos. Ray Davies en los setenta prefirió sacar antes sus albumnes antes en norte América que en su propio país.
By a few accounts, Ray Davies was bit of tosser. The Angels were supporting them on an America tour in the early 80's. Because they were getting better crowd response than The Kinks, Ray made sure that their sound and lights were lowered and Doc was not supposed to go past certain points on the stage. Well they couldn't give two sh!ts and ignored him anyway. They eventually got kicked off that tour. Years later The Angels were on a plane when they spotted Ray up the front. They got the stewardess to bring him a cup of lemons courtesy of The Angels. Poor Ray 😂🤣
I think the Kinks were banned because they were better than most other bands. I think it was dirty pool. Mick Avery says it's because he busted up holiday Inn rooms.
The British invasion was the direct result of the conditions in the states at the time, rock had gotten softer since the buddy holly plane crash,folk got big, then there was the JFK assassination and young people needed something different and new...
Lamped is a word unknown and certainly unused in America though I get it must mean punched. I'm putting in my list with Queue and Pram and Stately home and Play Yard (playground). Is Betty Kaye alive and has she ever been interviewed about this incident? Is that her real name? 3:59 seems to me it was Betty who caused the "antics"! Try not the Teamsters and see what happens!
@@MusicMongoose And it wasn't the Dick Cavett Show it was Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is". And no I don't believe you knew who played the solo. If you did you wouldn't have said what you did. Do your research before doing video's on topics you have no knowledge of.
Why dont you just say why they were banned from america and get to the point instead of dragging the video out by adding all none relevant information....we dont want their life story just the facts
The Kinks had a few good songs but they fizzled out really fast. Their 1968 album was basically a collection of songs that copied songs by others. "Johnny Thunder" copies "Green Tambourine" which was released in 1967, "Big Sky" copies "1906" by West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band which was released in early 1967, and "Last of the Steam Powered Train" copies "CC Rider, and so forth. The album is a ripoff of numerous songs that came before Nov. 1968. I'm not sorry for bursting your bubble but The Kinks were not a very good band and Ray Davies turned out to be a bitter and envious song writer (which the YT channel "Yesterday's papers" has also brought out).
Bullshit dud, there,s nothing in those songs u bring up here that reminds the least of Ray's songs, Ray is a fantastic songwriter and have made an huge influence on hard rockers to come..ask Van Halen, Metallica and thousands of others in business.
well, Pete Townsend has said “The Kinks were much more quintessentially English. I always think that Ray Davies should be one day, be Poet Laureate. You know, he invented a new kind of poetry. A new kind of language for Pop writing, which I think, influenced me from the very, very beginning. (It was) very strange that I should be so directly influenced because it was from sideways. We were moving foward together. But I was very influenced by him.” That has to count for something, no?
@@ked1224 I find the lyrics of Kinks' songs rather silly and juvenile (though certainly not all of their songs). The Who are extremely overrated. I used to have TOMMY on vinyl back in 1971 (when I was able to afford buying it) but I threw it out - it was silly and a feeble attempt at a "concept album" (though I did like "I'm Free" and "Go To The Mirror"). I can reccomend great concept albums from that time period but not "Tommy". "Who's Next" is the only decent thing they have done. But that is just my opinion (which is based upon listening to tens of thousands of songs on the radio and elsewhere since the 1950's and then music mining by listening to songs prior to the 1950's and also learning three instruments).
WTF? Are you serious? Do you really think "Big Sky" copies "1906"? Why? Just because there's someone talking over a completely different music? Maybe you think West Coast Pop Art invented TALKING... Lol I'm sorry for bursting your bubble, but talking over music was invented long before that. CC Rider's riff has nothing to do with "Last of the Steam Powered Train" Why would that be a copy? Just because... it's a fast song? "Johnny Thunder's melody has absolutely nothing to do with "Green Tambourine". Do you know what COPYING really means? This is not even a matter of subjective opinion. They are objectively different melodies, and this is obvious.
YOU DO REALIZE RAY AND DAVE HAVE THE SAME LAST NAME BECAUSE THEY ARE BROTHERS. JIMMY PAGE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KINKS YOU REALLY GOT ME. WOW YOU ARE FILLED WITH LIES AND FALSE RESEARCH.
@@MusicMongoose i do apologize I wrote that before you stated that you knew. I'm just a huge fan of the Brothers Davies and it is sad that in so many the "jimmy Page" bs seems to always come up. I get sarcasm yes, but again when I wrote that you had just stated it and I jumped the gun. My sincerest apologies and it was a good video on my favorite band. Thank you for that. It does seem you know your Kinks and researched well for this video. Even the story of Mick with the cymbal nearly taking off Dave's head was well told As one of the 2 said in their auto-bio... "the Beatles talked about it, the Stones looked the part, but with the KinKs the people really though the revolution could happen because they were so naturally anti-establishment. (which sadly didn't help their career as a band). Not just one of the most under rated but one of the most self destructive whenever they started to taste fame.
Before you comment something stupid like 'PAGE DIDN'T PLAY THE GUITAT SOLO IN YOU REALLY GOT ME ARGGH ARGH ARGH!!' ... make sure to watch the ENTIRE VIDEO (specifically 5:35)
AND RAY and DAVE WERE BROTHRS!!
This American loves the Kinks. For about 50 years now. So happy I got to see them live twice.
New generation loves them too. 😎
Seen them four times, the best was the "Preservation" tour!
@@AlanBrown-yg7rl Aug 81 with the Ramones and Phobia tour in 93 were equally awesome. I regret missing many opportunities to see The Kinks in Chicago.
This 22 year old American loves them too and has never heard a songwriter like Ray Davies
The kinks were my first concert in 1983 & I totally agree with you
America doesn't hate the Kinks in fact in the early 80's they were selling out arenas. However, their late 70's/early 80's Arista successful comeback material is absent from Classic Rock radio and has been absent for three decades.
Jimmy Page himself said it was Dave Davies who played the solo on You Really Got Me.
The guy who make the video is ridiculous!!
I heard Pete Townsend played the solo on "You Really Got Me". Townsend was a studio musician before he formed The Who
This speaker is a fact less nitwit.
Hmmm… looks like some didn’t watch the video in full. Embarrassing
I watched the video. The channel host didn't research the allegations. That's embarrassing. I remember an article in a guitar magazine discussion(circa early 90's) on who played the solo on "You Really Got Me". Readers commented that Dave Davies could never play the solo exactly like the recording, While Page and Townsend were in the studio at the time of the YRGM recording according to studio logs. It seems to me that either Page or Townsend are covering as a professional/fellow Brit courtesy for Dave Davies not able to recreate the solo in their monumental song@@puncturedbicycle7264
I don't know about other Americans, but THIS American LOVES The Kinks/Ray Davies and have done for decades
Me a fan since 64
Page wanted to play the solo on YRGM, saying he could do it better, but it's recognizable as Dave's signature raucous style on the solo.
So many untruths, what was the point of mentioning Jimmy Page, what a wally this guy is, subscribe to you. No thanks, get things accurately first, doesn't he know The Kinks broke America again in late 70s and eighties, hated, l don't think so.
Page played accoustic on YRGM because Ray wanted to concentrate on his vocals. He was a "Studio hanger-on," according to Ray, who said concerning Page's claims of having played lead on YRGM, "I don't give a shit how many spells he puts on me, Dave played that solo!"
I liked the Kinks. I think everybody liked the Kinks.
America doesn't hate The Kinks. They sold lots of albums here.
They werent in the same league as Beatles the Who and Rolling Stones.Tough to compete with them and like he said when they were barred from USA for years most of america just didnt know them.
@@brianmorecombe2726 If not for the ban, they would have been the same as the Rolling Stones. Given a choice, I'd pick he Kinks over the Who, if I was drunk and had to choose.
@@brianmorecombe2726disagree
Kinks lover from the USA here!
I'm a yank who hates pancakes and loves the Kinks.
"Held in custardy". Funny line.
Oh brother. America didn’t and doesn’t hate the Kinks. They had a fight with the musicians union.
The Kinks are one of the top five bands to ever come out of the UK.
Thats saying something.
I love The Kinks. My favorite song will always be '20th Century Man'
Live 20th Century great also
"Muswell Hillbillies" is brilliant, beginning to end!
Banned from America touring, Ray wrote some of the best albums of the Kinks : Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola vs Powerman...
Ray and Dave were brothers!!
Sarcasm not detected 🤣
No, they were adopted separately from different orphanages
Lol they ARE brothers and that's how brothers act. All bands fight. Doesn't matter who you are.....BTW- Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on YRGM LP 3 songs. It's Dave Davies on lead. Page DID play on YRGM on LARRY PAGE ORCHESTRA " Kinky Music" LP. God Save The Kinks. Nice presentation.
@@MusicMongooseSarcasm!??Are you serious??
No one hates the kinks. Great pionneer band
as a fresh out of vietnam junior college attending veteran in aptos, california (73 to 75) i discovered the lyrical creativity and mind blowing sound of the kinks....i still have the hour and a half casettee of them that i put together in the early 80s....this american has always truly loved their sound....
100% Americans. 100% Love The Kinks.
love the kinks. so original, original sound.
Actually the U.K. hates the Kinks... The albums haven't charted in England since 1968.... While in the USA gold certications for "Low Budget" and "Give The People What They Want".
You on drugs? The Kinks were an English band and got their popularity here first so where you got UK hates the Kinks from effing mystifies me.
@@brianmorecombe2726 Looked up the certifications and it is true the Kinks were a big selling singles band on the U K. And stopped selling albums after 1968.Just making a point that is a contradiction of the title of this link.
Yeah, the U.K. hates the Kinks. That's why Ray is now "Sir Ray."
@@AlanBrown-yg7rl The Kinks frontman was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on March 16, 2017. The Beatles were in 1965... So what took so long?
@@ilj1259 Wasn't Ray Knighted by Prince Charles?
Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on You really Got Me because Ray Davies wanted to concentrate on getting the vocals as good as possible. James David Dupre is absolutely right about the gtr break being by Dave Davies - his style of playing is very much his own. The record was produced by Sheldon Talmy who also produced My Generation for The Who.
I wondered about that statement. The guitar solo in "You really got me" doesn't sound like Jimmy Page at all. He certainly could have played the rhythm guitar part as could most technically competent guitarists.
@@wrobinson1702The guy who make the video is dumb...!Not even know that were brothers...
I used to jam to Ape Man. I still hum it all the time. Haven't heard it in a decade or longer.
I don't hate the Kinks. I'm sad that Ray and Dave spent the better part of their lives being angry at each other. Deprived the fans of great music.
I WILL BOOK THE KINKS FOR U.S. TOUR! $ AMERICA LOVES THE BROTHERS!
I was about to listen to that song just to verify, after knowing, it wasn't Jimmy on lead. Yep, "you really got me" on that one.
Big fan of The Kinks. I’ve read a few different versions of why they were banned from the US. Your’s is as good as any.
I heard that their managers were totally incompetent.
It was a common thing during the early 60’s for rich “Oxbridge” young men to get jobs managing musical acts. A lot of them were incompetent idiots who had wealth and connections and were young, so they worked for the music industry, squeezing as much money out of the acts as possible. Anyway, when they got to the states these idiots were in over their heads, plus the band was rowdy and party animals. They eventually deserted the band and left them stranded. There was lots of confusion, bad scheduling and bad behavior as a result.
Ray said, what happened probably wasn’t any worse then any other band during the time, they just didn’t have anybody to smooth things over when stuff happened.
That and both Ray and Dave have said that they felt the ban was a little political that the KinKs were just big enough to show they meant business but weren't the money draw of the Beatles and Stones and their behaviors were a good excuse.
DAVE DAVIES PLAYED THE SOLO TO YRGM, AND THE KINKS WERE BIG IN AMERICA BEFORE THE BAN AND AFTER THE BAN. JIMMY PAGE NEVER PLAYED ANY GUITAR ON YRGM.
Bobby Graham played drums on YRGMN. He forgot the intro, so hit hit the snare hard to kick start
Waterloo Sunset; one of the best songs ever written!
WATERLOO SUNSET'S IS ONE FANTASTIC SONG FROM THE PEN OF RAY DAVIES A GENIUS, AND LEGEND THE KINK'S A MASSIVE, GREAT BAND UP THERE WITH THE VERY BEST BANDS.
Just a great band always and forever
Data that anyone can investigate and corroborate: J. Page did NOT participate in the recording of "You Really Got Me". At this point it would be good that the more people know the truth. He did participate in a couple of tracks from the Kinks' first album. But I'm afraid that this was not only recorded months after "YRGM"... it is precisely thanks to the success of this mythical single that the Kinks were granted the possibility of recording a 'full length' album. And this is due to the first agreement between Pye Records and the band, which was for three singles... and the possibility of a long play afterwards, only if at least one of those singles was a reasonable success... and after two resounding failures, "You Really Got Me" was the one that saved the dishes at the last minute.
PS: As a detail, the first recording of "YRGM" was a disaster, since it was produced by its management following the directives of the record company, which only wanted them to sound like Mersey Sound (Beatle sound). The Kinks were forced to self-produce a second express recording in an independent studio, with the sole prerogative that their own producer didn't even find out... And this resulted in the version we all know, and that would mark a before and after not only for the Kinks' career, but would be the kickoff for the use of distortion, Hard Rock, and proto-Punk.
I read somewhere that in order to get the ban lifted, Ray had to send formal letters of apology to Betty Kaye and the AFM. If that was all he had to do, why didn't he do it sooner than 1969? Would they have even been willing to listen if he'd tried to reverse the ban shortly after 1965?
I've never heard a definitive reason for the ban before, usually books indicate it wasn't clear why it happened -- or how long it would be. What source did you find this, out of curiosity? Ray probably would have found his way to make a "Waterloo Sunset" in my opinion. Even the Stones and Beatles, without bans, ended up adding songs about English life by '66 and '67, and favoring musichall to R&B, at least briefly. Though that might have been because Ray started singing in an English accent first! Who knows?
Well Ray and Dave Davies just happen to be Brothers lol
WRONG! dave davies played LEAD guitar; jimmy page played the rhythm guitar.
And were brothers!(Coinsidence the second name)!!What a jerk!
Do you typically not watch TH-cam vids all the way to the end or is this a special occassion?
@@brt5273 i commented before the video was over, but yes i watched it all the way through. then i realized i had fallen for your ploy to get comments and create traffic on your video.
Sham 69 about 10 years later, a punk band were barred from the USA probably because of the Sex Pistols.Sham 69 wrote a song about it appearing on the B side to the single Hurry Up Harry.
My Kinks record collection is right next to my Beatles and Stones collection. They are among my top favorite bands of all.
I'm a huge fan of The Kinks. I start out each day by listening to You Really Got Me. My favourite song by The Kinks is I've Got That Feeling.
The Kinks Rock wow music Wow ❤ talent one of the best groups in music history cheers to the Kinks I'm a big Fan
Actually The Who were "banned" from Australia - The Prime Minister sent them a letter after their '68 tour and told them not to return to Australia - It really affected Mooney so much so, he hated ALL Australians from them on.
Dave Davies played the guitar riff. American did not hate the kinks.The DOORS were sued and lost their case with the Kinks.
This might be behind the musicians case .
Here in Argentina we love The kinks! to me is the best band by far of all times. You can not event compare Beatles with The kinks. The Beatles only played 2 years in live, their las show was in 1965, only 2 years after their creation as a band. The Kinks played until the 90 improving and making one song better that one. You can compare Kinks with the Stones. Beatles should be compare with the Grassroots. The Kinks is to much for the Beatles.
Nice video! It's pronounced "Davis" not "Davees," though at this point I hear that both Ray and Dave have given up on it. There's a current comedian on British TV called "Alan Davies" who also pronounces it "Davis".
I read that each brother pronounces it differently … so who knows 🤣
Nice??The man didn't know that were brothers
I saw the Kinks in '78 at the Greek theater in Los Angeles. The writer who reviewed the show stated that there is absolutely nothing like a Kinks concert. Hyperbole? Maybe, regardless if Ray had told the audience to stand on their heads I'm quite certain they would have done so.
Nice video but misleading. False actually. Of course this ban really hurt the band when the momentum of the British Invasion should have propelled The Kinks to superstardom in the US but the truth is....later in the 70s America saved the Kinks. Actually, before this even, Lola was a huge hit in America in 70. Later, when their career was floundering constant touring supporting their concept theatrical albums kept the band going IN AMERICA. The Kinks had huge success selling albums in America starting with Low Budget...Gold record in America,.....Give the People What They Want.....Gold in America....Come Dancing.....top 6 hit IN AMERICA. The Kinks were playing stadiums and arenas in the United States while they were largely ignored in the UK after Lola. The question is: Why did the UK ignore such a precious national treasure after Lola vs. the Powerman and the Money go Round? Just listen to the live album One for the Road to hear how much America loved this band. Sheesh!
you failed to mention that van Halen fid a fsntastic bover of you hot me now by the kinks on yheir first Album Van Halen. with a wonderful riff by eddie van halen as the introduction!
Why show half The Who at 1:35?
They didn't miss the Dick Cavett show. Dick Cavett was still a college student in 1965.
Who says? I'm an American.
Page did not play the solo - It was Dave!
Dave played that solo, yeah i guess you got me with that bullshit..
I thought it was kind of uncool to be deceptive about the Jimmy Page guitar solo. Plus what I don't understand is obviously the kinks weren't really banned because I grew up listening to Lola and the destroyer and those songs on give the people what they really want so I know they weren't really banned. What happened?
I saw the Kinks at the old Richfield (Ohio) Coliseum in 1981.Great show and the place was packed though probably not sold out
I probably saw the Kinks in Nee York and MY area 6 times in the 70’s
Jimmy Page was trying to be a producer at Pye in those days, and was hanging out in the control room. Did not play.
1)But they are brothers... don't you know it???!!!2)Page never did the solo,3)Why you make a video without knowing the facts...???
Do you typically not watch TH-cam vids all the way to the end or is this a special occassion?
@@brt5273 I wrote it before the end...but maybe you are special occasion because only my comment surprised you...Greetings from Greece
I think everyone loves the Kinks. They were awesome, imaginary man is a fantastic documentary. God save the KinKs!
Brit folks never understood how none of their groups was anything other than a drop in the ocean compared to the King.
I'm glad you straightened up that bullshit about jimmy page, that goddamn liar got a lot of mileage out of that line of bullshit.
what an awfull woman. they had karens back them too.
Wankers ain't they
Weren’t The Who banned from an entire continent: Australia?
The Kinks vendieron mucho mas en América que en su Reino Unido. O sea no creo que tenga nada contra ellos. Ray Davies en los setenta prefirió sacar antes sus albumnes antes en norte América que en su propio país.
Page did not play the lead guitar
The best song the kinks wrote about this episode was get back in the line .
By a few accounts, Ray Davies was bit of tosser.
The Angels were supporting them on an America tour in the early 80's. Because they were getting better crowd response than The Kinks, Ray made sure that their sound and lights were lowered and Doc was not supposed to go past certain points on the stage. Well they couldn't give two sh!ts and ignored him anyway. They eventually got kicked off that tour.
Years later The Angels were on a plane when they spotted Ray up the front. They got the stewardess to bring him a cup of lemons courtesy of The Angels. Poor Ray 😂🤣
Dave invented the power chord! More like music weasel
I have ALWAYS loved The Kinks.
Dave Davies played the solo.
"Have a cuppa-tea".
I think the Kinks were banned because they were better than most other bands. I think it was dirty pool. Mick Avery says it's because he busted up holiday Inn rooms.
incorrect photo, otherwise good
The British invasion was the direct result of the conditions in the states at the time, rock had gotten softer since the buddy holly plane crash,folk got big, then there was the JFK assassination and young people needed something different and new...
Their surname is pronounced Davis, not Davees.
Being banned in the US is a reference not much have on their belt 😁
Dave davies played the solo.
sounds like crappy management
Who spotted the intentional error in the video? 😉😉 (5:35)
The man is a Lola..la la la Lola!!
So…short answer: they F..ed up! 😂
Lamped is a word unknown and certainly unused in America though I get it must mean punched. I'm putting in my list with Queue and Pram and Stately home and Play Yard (playground). Is Betty Kaye alive and has she ever been interviewed about this incident? Is that her real name? 3:59 seems to me it was Betty who caused the "antics"! Try not the Teamsters and see what happens!
Christ, Jimmie Page DID NOT play the solo on You Really Got Me. Seriously? You don't know that?
5:35
@@MusicMongoose And it wasn't the Dick Cavett Show it was Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is". And no I don't believe you knew who played the solo. If you did you wouldn't have said what you did. Do your research before doing video's on topics you have no knowledge of.
OH RUBBISH‼️❤️KINKS❤️💯
The who were banned from Australia.
Dude, get your facts straight. Jimmy Page did not play on You Really Got Me. Or any other Kinks music.
Do you typically not watch TH-cam vids all the way to the end or is this a special occassion?
I watched it to the end. Why say it all, then retract it. Lame@@brt5273
Why dont you just say why they were banned from america and get to the point instead of dragging the video out by adding all none relevant information....we dont want their life story just the facts
same name by coincidence huh??
FUN FACT: Jimmy Page didn't play on YRGM! That makes the rest of your story suspect. Amateur.
Watch the video at 5:35
'Promosm' 🌹
Yeah ughh Eddie Van Halen did that solo not Jimmy Page ….duh
i did not like your face near my screen..................
Get your facts straight before you make videos.
what a ghastly video
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The Kinks had a few good songs but they fizzled out really fast. Their 1968 album was basically a collection of songs that copied songs by others.
"Johnny Thunder" copies "Green Tambourine" which was released in 1967, "Big Sky" copies "1906" by West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band which was released in early 1967, and "Last of the Steam Powered Train" copies "CC Rider, and so forth. The album is a ripoff of numerous songs that came before Nov. 1968. I'm not sorry for bursting your bubble but The Kinks were not a very good band and Ray Davies turned out to be a bitter and envious song writer (which the YT channel "Yesterday's papers" has also brought out).
Bullshit dud, there,s nothing in those songs u bring up here that reminds the least of Ray's songs, Ray is a fantastic songwriter and have made an huge influence on hard rockers to come..ask Van Halen, Metallica and thousands of others in business.
@@johan2949 Denial is NOT a rier in Egypt.
Smarten up!
well, Pete Townsend has said “The Kinks were much more quintessentially English. I always think that Ray Davies should be one day, be Poet Laureate. You know, he invented a new kind of poetry. A new kind of language for Pop writing, which I think, influenced me from the very, very beginning. (It was) very strange that I should be so directly influenced because it was from sideways. We were moving foward together. But I was very influenced by him.”
That has to count for something, no?
@@ked1224 I find the lyrics of Kinks' songs rather silly and juvenile (though certainly not all of their songs).
The Who are extremely overrated. I used to have TOMMY on vinyl back in 1971 (when I was able to afford buying it) but I threw it out - it was silly and a feeble attempt at a "concept album" (though I did like "I'm Free" and "Go To The Mirror"). I can reccomend great concept albums from that time period but not "Tommy".
"Who's Next" is the only decent thing they have done. But that is just my opinion (which is based upon listening to tens of thousands of songs on the radio and elsewhere since the 1950's and then music mining by listening to songs prior to the 1950's and also learning three instruments).
WTF? Are you serious? Do you really think "Big Sky" copies "1906"? Why? Just because there's someone talking over a completely different music? Maybe you think West Coast Pop Art invented TALKING... Lol I'm sorry for bursting your bubble, but talking over music was invented long before that.
CC Rider's riff has nothing to do with "Last of the Steam Powered Train" Why would that be a copy? Just because... it's a fast song?
"Johnny Thunder's melody has absolutely nothing to do with "Green Tambourine".
Do you know what COPYING really means?
This is not even a matter of subjective opinion. They are objectively different melodies, and this is obvious.
YOU DO REALIZE RAY AND DAVE HAVE THE SAME LAST NAME BECAUSE THEY ARE BROTHERS.
JIMMY PAGE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE KINKS YOU REALLY GOT ME.
WOW YOU ARE FILLED WITH LIES AND FALSE RESEARCH.
Hi there. Please watch the video at 5:35
And... do you understand 'sarcasm' ?
@@MusicMongoose i do apologize I wrote that before you stated that you knew. I'm just a huge fan of the Brothers Davies and it is sad that in so many the "jimmy Page" bs seems to always come up.
I get sarcasm yes, but again when I wrote that you had just stated it and I jumped the gun.
My sincerest apologies and it was a good video on my favorite band. Thank you for that.
It does seem you know your Kinks and researched well for this video.
Even the story of Mick with the cymbal nearly taking off Dave's head was well told
As one of the 2 said in their auto-bio... "the Beatles talked about it, the Stones looked the part, but with the KinKs the people really though the revolution could happen because they were so naturally anti-establishment. (which sadly didn't help their career as a band).
Not just one of the most under rated but one of the most self destructive whenever they started to taste fame.
Eat Scheiss, Puffter!
Ray and Dave Davis are brothers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Davies