You Really Shot Me
Ray Davies has recovered from a gunshot to his thigh, but he's still stressed about his first solo album and tour. He decries what he perceives as a lack of English songwriters in The Guardian:
"The songs I really like writing are small plays,"he says. "Even back to Waterloo Sunset. There's a plot with two people, and a bit of a sub-plot, this guy is on his own, something has happened, maybe his girlfriend has left him, and he sees two people together and says 'Wouldn't it be nice to be like them' ... that's what that song's about. And that's the good thing about songwriting - you're the composer, the artist, the film director, the publisher, everything." He goes on to complain that there are not enough English songwriters - "they are writing to sell records in America" - and claims that what he writes is folk songs. "I went to art school, went to theatre school, and neither route was right for me. I'm an outsider, a renegade artist not suited to the fine arts. I make my own art."
Check out his official website for tour dates, though they are all in England. Also, someone please tell him that ".info" is lame.
Posted at 1:49 PM
Maybe all the other raydavies websites were already taken by porn stars?
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don't see what you mean about '.info' being lame? but if you really think so, then you probably should tell him yourself..:-)
shoot the guys probably in his 60's & amazing he even has a website...
interesting comment that "they are writing to sell records in America", ain't that the truth...
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Headline = painful!
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look out for CYHSYturneddown.info
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I'm glad you hipsters think that someone getting shot in your moronic country is funny. Perhaps instead of telling him about how lame (like he reads this) .info is, you could point him to where the Strokes are recoring and send him over to give them a hand. The song that you reference in your headline is a gazillion times better than the crap Strokes nonsense you've linked lately.
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so much rage... calm down, people. listen to some music or something.
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the rage is in what was posted.
peter is right in what he said.
Strokes are just a function of hype & lack any real substance.
Ray Davies is a music icon & deserves utmost respect.
the hipster generation will piss on anything that is not 'hyped', or not 'cool', or too 'old', or anything with 'value/substance'.
this is why the hipster generation will never know a band as great as the Kinks.
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Best. Headline. Ever.
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God Save the Kinks!
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peter, somebody... ditto on both your comments. Right on! I especially agree with somebody's sentiments about hipsters.
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