If it wasn't for the kinks there would be no punk rock...it's amazing how under-rated this band is in comparison with the other British invasion bands of the 60's. The kinks kick so much ass thanks for posting!!
according to an interview with Dave Davies, he could not find the sound he wanted, so he hooked stuff up differently (I don't know tech speak) and then slashed the speakers to get that bad-ass sound. There WAS NO equipment back then that had that sound Genius!
I was 15 years-old and it was love at first Dave Davies guitar riff!! The Kinks have been one of my favorite bands for the past 60 years! I still listen to them on Alexa at my now ripe old age of 75! BTW...not showing Dave during his lead guitar riff is mind boggling.
Everyone show some love to Mick Avory, please. The man really knew how to make some awesome noise with those drums. This is a really non-traditional mix (at least from what I can hear), and I like how the bass is at the forefront. Wouldn't have worked if this was the only version of the song available, but as it happens this is a nice change.
I bought the Kinks album when it was first released in 1964. This was an exciting time for music. The Beatles had played on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the British Invasion had started. We were also listening to the Dave Clark 5.
this is so much better than a much later version of The Kinks in concert i have seen, with Ray Davies leaping round the stage doing Mick Jagger-like "girrations" all over the place -this early black and white performance just so right, as he keeps his head pretty still, giving maximum play to the lyrics. I think it was the great actor Steve McQueen who said about acting on the big screen, "don't move your head too much" meaning it can detract from the text
I totally agree CJurasin. In the 60's & 70s, the island of Great Britain was the home to a majority of Rock-in-Rolls Greatest Bands ! Unbelievable talent emerged from a county devastated by two world wars. (Quite Impressive) !
@ernests212 I'm British, acknowledge that the best bands come from this side of the Atlantic and my teeth are fucking fantastic. Like this song in fact!!
The Kinks were great.From 1964 to 1967 they had several hits in a row and afterwards, went into a hitless periods till Lola appeared in 1970. From the seventies on, they became more of a cult band. Great respect from critics, no chart entries, doing whatever the genius of Ray Davies dictated: Nowadays Davies is considered a living legend and he deserves it. But people know more of his sixities songs than of his brilliant seventies material.
This footage was from an early BBC2 programme called the beat room from 1964. If you look closely around the one minute thirty mark you will see Cilla Black who topped the UK charts twice in 1964 and went on to have a long and successful career in both music and TV
I must protest in the honor and favor of the King of Rock AND Roll. Chuck Berrys Johnny B Goode, the first hard rock song. With that said, this is rock and roll as it should be.
Back in 1965 and '66 most everyone was listening to Motown. All I wanted was rock. Most thought if you listened to rock you didn't fit. Remember beehive hairdos? Check out some 60s yearbooks. Girls dressed more like cows than girls. In 1965 my buddy and I died our hair. First almost orange, then purple black. We never did fit in.
lol when I first heard this song I thought it was from at least the 70's...I mean these guys are pretty awesome for creating this sound while everyone else was still playing their Rock n Roll in '64
an awesome song, but it's so heavy! compare this to Waterloo Sunset, and you'd think they were done by completely different bands! i'm glad there's out there who appreciates the kinks for who they were and have shared that passion on youtube.
19 fucking 64? I love the Beatles, but they weren't doing anything that sounded like this in 1964. This song never ceases to amaze me how contemporary it sounds. I'm sure most ppl think this song is from the 70s. I guess we would have to define "punk", is it flipping off the status quo? Doing it "my way"? Then I guess Frank Sinatra would be the first punk.
Ray's playing an Epiphone! How cool is that? Maybe that was part of the rawness of TKs tone? Dunno, but my first axe was an Epi and I loved it. It was stolen.
@postmortem72 it was actually session man Bobby Graham who played drums on the studio version of this song, as well as "All Day and All of the Night." Apparently this is fact; unlike the debate over whether Jimmy Page played on this, LOL.
@Biiiermaschine - I am going to see Ray Davies tonight (Nov 15, 2011) at a place just outside of Washington, DC - The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD. I'll let ya know how it went.
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Massively underrated group. Still love listening to them
Not underrated, huge at the time.
@@johnmc3862 And for a long time after that!
If it wasn't for the kinks there would be no punk rock...it's amazing how under-rated this band is in comparison with the other British invasion bands of the 60's. The kinks kick so much ass thanks for posting!!
this song is soooo far ahead of its time, hard to believe something like this was out in 1964 when music had just started becoming electric.
My teen years ... and totally still getting groovy with their LP's ... I'm a Toronto born gal ...
according to an interview with Dave Davies, he could not find the sound he wanted, so he hooked stuff up differently (I don't know tech speak) and then slashed the speakers to get that bad-ass sound. There WAS NO equipment back then that had that sound
Genius!
He's got British teeth, Baby!
Rockin'then, rockin now! Fantastic for a tango.
Dave Davies is God Father of the RIFF. Can't imagine making music with my brother. Thank you to The Kinks
this is why the 60's was the best decade in history. That and LSD
this is probably one of the fucking coolest performances i've ever seen
The Kings of Rock and Roll.
The Kinks rock...........I can remember this all like it was yesterday, lol. Showing my age!!!
I was 15 years-old and it was love at first Dave Davies guitar riff!! The Kinks have been one of my favorite bands for the past 60 years! I still listen to them on Alexa at my now ripe old age of 75! BTW...not showing Dave during his lead guitar riff is mind boggling.
Casey and his count down Man i miss those days
Best Musik of The 60er !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hand made Musik ,with out Midifills
and Computer.
60er are forever
The great band that never got there due, they were true pioneers of rock !!!
How hard it was to have a favorite song in those years!!!!
I love these old clips. You can see the passion for music!
Everyone show some love to Mick Avory, please. The man really knew how to make some awesome noise with those drums.
This is a really non-traditional mix (at least from what I can hear), and I like how the bass is at the forefront. Wouldn't have worked if this was the only version of the song available, but as it happens this is a nice change.
because digital heros never feel any pain
and digital heros never really die
I bought the Kinks album when it was first released in 1964. This was an exciting time for music. The Beatles had played on The Ed Sullivan Show, and the British Invasion had started. We were also listening to the Dave Clark 5.
this song is the start of what is now know as metal and hard rock, the main riff got everyone starting to play more heavier riffs \m/,
the best band in the world !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is so much better than a much later version of The Kinks in concert i have seen, with Ray Davies leaping round the stage doing Mick Jagger-like "girrations" all over the place
-this early black and white performance just so right, as he keeps his head pretty still, giving maximum play to the lyrics. I think it was the great actor Steve McQueen who said about acting on the big screen,
"don't move your head too much" meaning it can detract from the text
I totally agree CJurasin. In the 60's & 70s, the island of Great Britain was the home to a majority of Rock-in-Rolls Greatest Bands ! Unbelievable talent emerged from a county devastated by two world wars. (Quite Impressive) !
Great song, great lyrics and awesome riff. The Davies boys were brilliant!
rock n' roll en todo su esplendor! grandes los kinks
I don't care if these video's have lip sync or not, I am just happy to see them!! Thank you!
GENIUS!
RIP Peter Alexander Greenlaw Quaife. You'll be dearly missed.
The kinks in one guitar hero or rockband! Just ROCK!
thanks for posting this one.
Props to the dancing chef 😎
I'm just now realizing how much this song owes to the Isley Brothers- Shout
Cream is the first hard rock band ever in my opinion
Remember, this is 1964. Beatles, Stones, sure. Be sure and include Kinks with the originators..🙂
If that solo could be translated into words i would want it put on my tombstone. First one i ever learned.
@ernests212 I'm British, acknowledge that the best bands come from this side of the Atlantic and my teeth are fucking fantastic. Like this song in fact!!
Sexy tune - ahead of its time!
BOOOOOM!
great song, brings back memorie's ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
The Kinks were great.From 1964 to 1967 they had several hits in a row and afterwards, went into a hitless periods till Lola appeared in 1970. From the seventies on, they became more of a cult band. Great respect from critics, no chart entries, doing whatever the genius of Ray Davies dictated: Nowadays Davies is considered a living legend and he deserves it. But people know more of his sixities songs than of his brilliant seventies material.
They had a ton of hits after 1966; in the UK. They were banned from America from 1966 to 1970; that wrecked them in America.
Live and raw! Love it!
Помню в юности у меня была 45-ка кинксов - затерли до дыр. Классная группа!
This footage was from an early BBC2 programme called the beat room from 1964. If you look closely around the one minute thirty mark you will see Cilla Black who topped the UK charts twice in 1964 and went on to have a long and successful career in both music and TV
I must protest in the honor and favor of the King of Rock AND Roll. Chuck Berrys Johnny B Goode, the first hard rock song.
With that said, this is rock and roll as it should be.
That’s just RocknRoll it’s not heavy at all.
I agree its a really good song
Way ahead of their time. Brilliant.
*LOVE* this song!
Back in 1965 and '66 most everyone was listening to Motown. All I wanted was rock. Most thought if you listened to rock you didn't fit. Remember beehive hairdos? Check out some 60s yearbooks. Girls dressed more like cows than girls. In 1965 my buddy and I died our hair. First almost orange, then purple black. We never did fit in.
Awesome!! No lyrics about women being disparaging names and killing police officers, and it is still great music.
Great..60s 70s always the best..
i love how he starts out looking nervous but then he gets into it and has fun with the song.
So so good.
lol when I first heard this song I thought it was from at least the 70's...I mean these guys are pretty awesome for creating this sound while everyone else was still playing their Rock n Roll in '64
You can have moments of genius interspersed within schlock. I don't deny that Lennon did.
This song introduced power chording into rock. That is, the riff is made of entire chords rather than single notes.
nothing can beat this !
The Kinks are so underrated.
Ray Davies is a true musical genius.
classic!!!!!
brilliant dancing from the crowd!
great song¡¡¡¡
good song
The Kinks are great Pure Energy
I remember this one too n
an awesome song, but it's so heavy! compare this to Waterloo Sunset, and you'd think they were done by completely different bands! i'm glad there's out there who appreciates the kinks for who they were and have shared that passion on youtube.
"I want a goddamn concerted effort to come out of a record that isn't a fucking uptempo record every time I do a goddamn death dedication!"
The Kings Of Brit-Pop
It would. There still was blues rock in those times . And blues rock is the real hard rock starter. Just take a look at Cream and the The Yardbirds.
God Save The Kinks!
I believe this is the live recording from BBC2`s Beat Club from 1964 brilliant guitar solo from D.D he never bettered it
Pete Quaife...great punk ending! RIP Pete
The Internet... The song maybe not hard rock, but it got into the making of hard rock.
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that dude in chef hat ..... epic ....
Give it to me. And give it to me good.
I LIKE HIS VOICE
Live... so rare!!!!!! So good!!
99 percent of the stuff you see is sync crap
damn that's so proto every fucking hard rock style from punk to metal.
You're right--it was back in 1964 when Davies did this.
Absolutamente genial....
yeah they still are awesome!
no I'm not from england, lived there but from sweden originally
Kacy Kasim runs the planet earth.
THE GIRL NEXT TO HIM IS EPIC LOL
Holy crap... the guy at the beginning is Casey Kasem, the original Shaggy from "Scooby Doo"!
1.24 loving the chef :p
Ray! :)
@kornandfoofighters Hes not high or anything. His name was Pete Quaife,he passed away a month ago
19 fucking 64? I love the Beatles, but they weren't doing anything that sounded like this in 1964. This song never ceases to amaze me how contemporary it sounds. I'm sure most ppl think this song is from the 70s. I guess we would have to define "punk", is it flipping off the status quo? Doing it "my way"? Then I guess Frank Sinatra would be the first punk.
You Really Got Me No
XD even the chefs rockin'
The Bass Player looks like he's so FUCKING LOADED!!!
What gives that guitar that awesome sound? You never ever hear a sound like that anymore. Ever. What is it?
Ray's playing an Epiphone! How cool is that? Maybe that was part of the rawness of TKs tone? Dunno, but my first axe was an Epi and I loved it. It was stolen.
WTF is up with the Chef at 1:26 hahahahaha. Epic! Rock n Roll kicks ass!
@postmortem72 it was actually session man Bobby Graham who played drums on the studio version of this song, as well as "All Day and All of the Night." Apparently this is fact; unlike the debate over whether Jimmy Page played on this, LOL.
The Who and The Kinks own the Beatles
They we're better than the Rolling Stones, the Rolling Stones we're at their best when they had Mick Taylor
pure rock'n roll
buenísimo los chicos malos de liverpool
ray davies looks like he wants to rock out soooo much harder, like he does in the later live versions
@Biiiermaschine - I am going to see Ray Davies tonight (Nov 15, 2011) at a place just outside of Washington, DC - The Fillmore, Silver Spring, MD. I'll let ya know how it went.
1:20 the baking dance revolution