Dave Davies - Live at the Bottom Line
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Artist: Dave DaviesEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2000-06-27
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
- I Need You
- She's Got Everything
- Beautiful Delilah
- Creeping Jean
- Good To See Yer!
- Look Through Any Doorway
- Love Me Till The Sunshines
- Tired Of Waiting
- The Kiss (Spoken Interlude)
- Milk Cow Blues
- Imaginations Real
- Dave's Got His Reading Glasses (Spoken Interlude)
- Wicked Annabella
- Picture Book
- Death Of A Clown
- All The KINKS Songs (Spoken Interlude)
- Too Much On My Mind
- Strangers
- Psycho Lounge
- One Night With You
- Living On A Thin Line
- All Day And All Of The Night
- Encore (Interlude)
- Money
- David Watts
- I'm Not Like Everybody Else
- You Really Got Me
Music reviews of Live at the Bottom Line
Music Review: A Rave Up
Rating: 5 Stars
If you've ever wondered what the Kinks could have sounded like live, the answer is in this cd. Dave Davies smashes all live Kinks albums to pieces, and rebuilds their music with this one-off live album from 1997 recorded with a small band at the Bottom Line in NYC. What an accomplishment this album is.
Dave Davies has taken 27 songs and re-expressed them in his own inimitable way. Singing at the top of the register, still expressing his rousing emotions, he simply shines on this album. His vocals blister through "All Day and All of the Night" like the song was written for him. He takes Ray's melodies and just smashes them at you in his own style, hard, rocking, butt-kicking, guitar slinging, rock 'n roll. The concert is an event, and by the time you finish listening to this gem, you'll feel as if you were actually at the concert. Dave simply smokes! To hear him put a new twist on "David Watts," "Tired of Waiting," and "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" is simply exquisite. It seems, almost eerily, as those the songs were being performed the way they were supposed to have been performed.
I've long been a fan of the Kinks. They were, in fact, my favorite of the British Invasion bands of the mid-sixties. During their three decade run, I've always felt that Dave Davies was slighted as a band member and obviously over-shadowed by his older brother, Ray. Likewise, having seen the Kinks several times in concert, I always left the concert happy that I'd once again seen the Kinks, but often felt as though it wasn't what it should have been. What was missing was Dave. He was there, of course, but he was in the background playing his licks and singing his occasional song. What Dave has always needed his own band. He's a front man, an obvious rock and roll enthusiast, and , in my opinion Dave Davies has become one of the most singular of all guitar players. Playing lead guitar on over thirty Kinks' albums, Dave has had to come up with hundreds of different hooks to play along with Ray's melodies. Some of his craftsmanship comes roaring to the surface in this live album at the Bottom Line in NYC. What was lacking in those early Kinks shows that I saw in the 70's and 80s was Dave Davies. Instead, what we had was Ray Davies going through the motions, giving us what we wanted, but only he was giving it in a rah-rah performance, as opposed to the guts and glory given by Dave Davies in his Bottom Line performance.
Rock On, Dave!
Description of Live at the Bottom Line
Kinks guitarist recorded live at The Bottom Line. 27 tracks, including many Kinks hits. 2001.If main songwriter Ray Davies was the brains of the Kinks, brother/guitarist Dave was its heart and soul. The younger Davies arguably invented heavy metal with his metallic, bar-chord-crunch guitar style and his brashness fueled the band's energetic live shows. This lively 1997 club show reinforces those notions, as Dave plows through 27 songs with a pace worthy of the Ramones. Smart enough not to let his tumultuous, decades-long rivalry with brother Ray get in the way of his taste, the younger Davies fills fully half of the set list with versions of his older brother's songs, be they familiar ("She's Got Everything," "All Day and All the Night," "You Really Got Me"), cult faves ("David Watts," "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"), or obscurities ("Look Through Any Doorway"). A handful of vintage covers pay homage to Davies's own musical roots, while his own songs stand in gutsy contrast to his elder brother's often ornate constructions, delivered in a voice that's reedier, but instantly familiar. Gritty, humorous and heartfelt, this live recording pays tribute to one of rock's most influential, if consistently underappreciated, talents. --Jerry McCulley
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