Dave Davies

David Russell Gordon Davies ( born February 3, 1947 in London, England) is the lead guitarist and co-founder of the English rock band The Kinks. He is the younger brother of the Kinks' songwriter Ray Davies, with whom he established a love-hate relationship that was partially acted out in songs and on stage.

However Legendary is a stage brawl of 1965 between Dave Davies and drummer Mick Avory in Cardiff ( Wales), in consequence of which Davies had to answer for assault.

Davies also tried his hand as a solo musician. With Death of a clown and Susannah 's Still Alive him get into the 1960s, two singles chart success. His other solo releases were indeed unsuccessful, after the end of the band in the 1990s, Davies earned with his new young band, however, a committed fan base. He put on his own hits as well as songs from his brother, which he played regularly since 1997 on tour in the United States. In 2001, he also appeared in Germany, Austria and the UK.

The first three solo albums Davies played the beginning of the 1980s a. After the end of the Kinks and with the publication of his autobiography Kink different career retrospectives appeared in Europe and the U.S. because of the contract situation with the title Unfinished Business (1999 ) each on two CDs. In addition, in 2000 there appeared a live CD Rock Bottom and 2002, the first studio album after 1983 with the title bug. In 2007, Davies released his album Fractured Mindz, which he initially sold through the Internet, but then also appeared with two bonus tracks on Koch Records in the USA.

With different women Davies has eight children. Like his brother Ray Dave Davies is considered difficult character. In his book Kink he outed himself as bisexual. In 2004 he suffered a stroke. In February 2010 he released the DVD Mystical Journey. A planned U.S. tour for the promotion of his DVD was canceled on medical advice. In June 2013, the album I Will Be Me appeared

Equipment

Dave Davies got his first guitar, a semi-acoustic Harmony Meteor, with fourteen years. This guitar can be heard on the first hit of the Kinks, You Really Got Me. In the early years he played mostly beside the also semi-acoustic Guild Starfire, and a Gibson Flying V, which he had acquired the mid-1960s in the United States after his Guild was lost after a flight. In I'm Not like Everybody Else (1966 ) was a 12-string Fender Electric XII used. In the seventies he played amplified Stratocaster and Telecaster models. End of the seventies came the guitars Gibson added, in particular the models Artisan and L5S. In the eighties and nineties, in turn, the Telecaster was his main guitar.

The influential distorted sound of his guitar on You Really Got Me Dave Davies produced by sliced ​​the speaker cone of his Elpico - guitar amp with a razor blade and needles stuck into it. The guitar signal was then passed on to a Vox AC30. Around the year 1967 around Davies moved to Hiwatt amplifiers, a few years later he established a Fender Twin Reverb. End of the seventies he used primarily Peavey amplifiers, which he later combined with amplifiers of the company Gallien Krueger.

Discography

  • Dave Davies ( AFL1 - 3603 ) ( 1980)
  • Glamour (1981 )
  • Chosen People (1983 )
  • Purusha and the Spiritual Planet (1998)
  • Fortis Green ( 1999)
  • Fragile (2001)
  • Bug ( 2002)
  • Fractured Mindz (2007)
  • I Will Be Me (2013 )

Live and Compilations

  • Bugged ... Live! (2002)
  • Transformation - Live at The Alex Theatre (2003, published by Meta Media )
  • Transformation - Live at The Alex Theatre (2005, published by AngelAir Records)
  • Kinked (7 March 2006 )
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