The Kinks Vs Van Halen: Battle Finally Commences

[VHscraps]

That's contradictory to what he said on one of those rock countdown shows on VH-1
He said he liked VH's version better than theirs!

Yup - both he and Ray Davies have said very complimentary things about VH's version. Dave Davies is - to use an expression EVH would understand - 'a bit of a loose cannon'. My guesses as to how we read this are:

(i) that the journo didn't quite get Dave Davies' English sarcasm - and he is a sarky git.
(ii) Dave Davies does interview with journalist, gets reminded that he never gets credit for the Kinks (RAY DAVIES gets all the credit for the Kinks), and ends up generally pissed off about anyone getting credit for his riff.

Re- what some folks are saying about other Kinks' covers - I thought they did a great version of 'Where Have All the Good Times Gone' - better than the original, and better than some others I've heard (e.g. Bowie). Dave manages to wrest something you'd have to say is melodic out of a very un-melodic vocal line (on the original Kinks version).

[fryingdutchman]

The Davies brothers make the Van Halen brothers look musically relevant these days...and that's saying something.

[Ruprecht]

the haleners version is a lot louder than the kinks vesion, so haleners guitars where newer and louder than kinks guitars, cheap one from 60's / listen to the record and hear the difference

[DlocRoth]

They should have done All day and all of the Night instead of Where Have All the Good Times Gone.

Ray should cash the checks and be grateful.

Agree they would have tore that song to shreds....

But I bet they didnt do it because that and YRGM sound almost identical.

[Diamondjimi]

The Kinks:Dave Davies Slams VAN HALEN..............ungrateful BASTARD!

DAVE DAVIES Slams VAN HALEN's THE KINKS Cover - Aug. 2, 2010
The Pulse of Radio reports: Over 30 years since VAN HALEN broke the Top 40 with their high-octane cover of THE KINKS' "You Really Got Me" — THE KINKS' Dave Davies says he's got a problem with it. Davies, who is recovering after being sidelined by a 2004 stroke, took a poke at VAN HALEN, telling Classic Rock, "There's the thing: good art isn't always about having the comfiest technique. I shouldn't encourage him, but I'm sure Eddie Van Halen played better when he was drunk. But it must be a good record if people like it. VAN HALEN's version was very Middle America. It was like, 'Hey man, look at me with my tight trousers! Here's our version of 'You Really Got Me'!"

Davies says that THE KINKS actually came to resent the cover version that was featured on VAN HALEN's 1978 self-titled debut. "We got pissed off though, when we played America," he said. "THE KINKS had an album out called 'Low Budget' and we ended up touring and playing stadiums. Some kid came up to me after one of the gigs and said: 'I like your cover of VAN HALEN's 'You Really Got Me'. You have to smile sometimes."

Dave Davies, who has always battled his brother Ray Davies for attention and control of THE KINKS says that he's responsible for the band's signature sound on "You Really Got Me" which propelled them to fame. "It wouldn't have been a record without, in all modesty, I think it wouldn't have been a record without that guitar sound on it, so it's like it paved the way for our whole career," he said.

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Christ, what a bitter old fuck. Bet he enjoyed the fuckin monthly royalty cheques.
I mean is there really any cuntparasin....


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[Little Texan]

Van Halen took that song and made it their own, and The Kinks version just pales in comparison. The old man is just jealous that the VH version smokes their version and that the song is identified as a VH song.

[hambon4lif]

[B][I] DAVE DAVIES Slams VAN HALEN's THE KINKS Cover - Aug. 2, 2010
The Pulse of Radio reports: Over 30 years since VAN HALEN broke the Top 40 with their high-octane cover of THE KINKS' "You Really Got Me" — THE KINKS' Dave Davies says he's got a problem with it. Davies, who is recovering after being sidelined by a 2004 stroke, took a poke at VAN HALEN, telling Classic Rock, "There's the thing: good art isn't always about having the comfiest technique. I shouldn't encourage him, but I'm sure Eddie Van Halen played better when he was drunk. But it must be a good record if people like it. VAN HALEN's version was very Middle America. It was like, 'Hey man, look at me with my tight trousers! Here's our version of 'You Really Got Me'!"

Davies says that THE KINKS actually came to resent the cover version that was featured on VAN HALEN's 1978 self-titled debut. "We got pissed off though, when we played America," he said. "THE KINKS had an album out called 'Low Budget' and we ended up touring and playing stadiums. Some kid came up to me after one of the gigs and said: 'I like your cover of VAN HALEN's 'You Really Got Me'. You have to smile sometimes."

Where's the argument? Edward does play better when he's drunk! He's uninhibited that way! He becomes a total hack when everyone around make the fatal mistake of trying to dry him out.
I say leave him the fuck alone,and let him do whatever he's gotta do to get in the frame of mind to crank out some killer tunes! If people keep trying to intervene and change him......nobody will EVER hear any new Van Halen music. Just mind your own fucking business and let him do his thing!

As far as Dave Davies bitter staement? That's a testimony of total ownage. I don't think anyone in the last two generations even know who the fucking Kinks are anyways.

If anyone wants new music from Eddie, they really have to pull their nose out of his asshole and back the fuck off! The six-pack wasn't created by everyone crawling all up into his business!

[FORD]

And let's not forget, the Davies brothers got paid for this one too....

I heard they were gonna do a cover of Lola on the second Van Danniels album, but then Cherone got fired

[hambon4lif]

FUCK the 12-step bullshit! Ed's a timid dude.....when he cuts loose, he creates magic!

I say "Let It Be"......

here's Eddie......IN THE ZONE!

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[chefcraig]

Sorry my friend, but this is a DUPLICATE THREAD

[Big Troubles]

I like the Kinks version, not better, but equally good.

VH took that song and made it a killer cover tune! VH is the only band I know of that can take a good/mediocre song and crank it up and make it their own.

[Big Troubles]

FUCK the 12-step bullshit! Ed's a timid dude.....when he cuts loose, he creates magic!

I say "Let It Be"......

here's Eddie......IN THE ZONE!



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May fav Eddie solo EVER! (altho I hav2 admit LWAN is pretty damn good as well- Same with '94)

Give the man more booze!

[FORD]

Sorry my friend, but this is a DUPLICATE THREAD

And now, it's a merged thread.

[Hardrock69]

One thing I like about the Kinks version is the drum sound. It has that loud chika-boom sound like you hear on the original version of Dancing In The Streets by Martha And the Vandellas.