Kinda Kinks

Release info: Produced by: Shel Talmy Release date: 11 Aug, 1965 Record label & catalog #: Reprise RS 6173 Country: USA Format: 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM Release type: Regular release Description/Notes: simulated stereo

Tracks:

Side 1
1. Look For Me Baby		simulated stereo (2:13), recorded 16, 17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
2. Got My Feet On The Ground		simulated stereo (2:13), recorded 15-17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
3. Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl		simulated stereo (2:42), recorded 16, 17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
4. Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight		simulated stereo (1:58), recorded 16, 17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
5. Set Me Free		simulated stereo (2:10), recorded 14 Apr, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 1), London
Side 2
1. Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy		simulated stereo (2:14), recorded 22 Dec, 1964 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
2. Dancing In The Street		simulated stereo (2:18), recorded 15-17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
3. Don't Ever Change		simulated stereo (2:22), recorded Dec 1964 at IBC Studios, London
4. So Long		simulated stereo (2:08), recorded 15-17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
5. You Shouldn't Be Sad		simulated stereo (1:59), recorded 16, 17 Feb, 1965 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London
6. Something Better Beginning		simulated stereo (2:23), recorded 22 Dec 1964 at Pye Studios (No. 2), London

Liner Notes:

EAVESDROPPING / THE KINKS

Ray Davies

I'm a collection of loose ends. I don't want to be a pop star. I think that this is just a part of my life which will come to an end.

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You see that girl over there. I was at Hornsey Art School with her. I haven't seen her for years. Small world -- I wonder what she's doing here.

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I did quite well in the school boxing championships, until I came up against the School's Champion of Great Britain. I hit him three times and hurt my hands. He knocked me out in the first round.

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My first job -- drafting -- lasted about six weeks. I gave it up because I didn't like drawing straight lines. After that I tried commercial art. The first day of my new job my employer gave me some toilet paper to do a design on. Really though! I explained that with a job of this kind I would need two afternoons a week off to practice soccer. I thought it was important to have a hobby. The boss didn't.

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Playing and singing my own music is very important to me. I think if I thought I could not improve musically. I'd give it all up and become a tramp. The idea of tramping around the country with a healthy bank balance in time of difficulty appeals to me.

Dave Davies

When Mick came to audition for The Kinks and saw me, he couldn't believe it. I was wearing a plastic rain coat buttoned to the neck, moccasins, and I had shoulder-length hair.

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I recently attended a high society party where I knew many of the people from the old days when we played deb parties. I got a Iot of snubs that night.

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Sometimes I look through the old pics when my hair was really long and think, "How could I do it?" My sister Gwen wore slacks once when she came to see us. We look a Iot alike anyway, and some guy mistook her for me and asked for an autograph. You should've seen his face when she spoke.

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Once I wrote a letter explaining that because of the mastoid in my ear I wouId have to go to the hospital every Friday for a check up. I could never see the sense of attending lessons I disliked.

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I play one classical record. It's a Bach LP of organ music. It's an eerie record, but it has a curiously relaxing effect on me.

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The only thing about Mick is that he insists on being last. We have a great competition in the morning to see who is last dressed. It's generally afternoon before I give up.

Mick Avory

Gene Pitney once told me, "You're the quietest spoken illiterate I have ever met."

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I was a terrible Boy Scout. I used to go down to the club to play pool . They had a skiffle group there and one evening the drummer was sick and they asked me to play. Tapping away on that old snare drum balanced on a chair was the beginning.

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At school there was this character who'd keep repeating, "That's not the way to carry on, Avory,"' and clumping me round the ear to each syllable. Worst of all the giant Welsh gym master who jumped off the top of wall bars and endangered your limbs. He threw medicine balls at me.

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I never was a garbage man. Too proud!

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When I go to a club, it's always the off night. When we go through Customs, it's always me they pick on to turn inside out. I buy a new car with a radio because the one in the old one isn't working and when I get the car home, the radio in that one doesn't work.

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It uas a pretty good scene, man.

Peter Quaife

As a teenager, I was part of a gang called "The Mussies." We had a feud with the Finchley boys, which developed into a grand-scale punch-up one evening at their local dance hall. I was posted as a Iook-out at the door, and when the Law arrived, I disappeared under a parked car. I was lucky. I got away. But many of the gang were sent to approved schools. That cured me of being a delinquent.

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When I first began playing in local groups at the Athenaeum, I wouldn't have said "boo" to a goose. Now I talk for hours to people. Doing interviews brings you out of yourself.

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In the early days we didn't really have a name for the group. It depended on who secured the booking. If Ray got the date, the group was The Ray Davies Band." If I got it, "The Pete Quaife Band."

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We used to put up with a lot of "the dear, sweet boy has long hair'' types. For a while we were a source of great amusement to these people. A novelty to be tolerated. It's nice to be really appreciated at last.

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I do have one other problem. My kid brother, Dave. Last week, I arrived home to find he'd been selling my shirts to fans as souvenirs. He'll end up just like me -- only richer.

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