That Time Dave Davies Invented Heavy Metal
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Did you know that one band from the British Invasion played a pivotal role in the birth of heavy metal? In this video, we'll explore how The Kinks' groundbreaking sound on 'You Really Got Me' changed the course of rock history. Stay tuned to find out how Dave Davies created that sound in this clip from VH1's Metal Evolution S01E01.
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My dad always spoke highly of The Kinks and their influence upon the sound and progression of the rock and metal sound. I have a lot to thank him for. He left the world in May, but I have several thousand albums of music to remember him by ❤️
I hope you have a quality turntable, to play them on. 😁✌🖖
@@zapa1pnt I will soon, I'm getting his insane stereo separates and speakers, all quality makes 😃
My deepest condolences to you on the loss of your Dear Dad!
My dad told me The Kinks were the loudest concert he had ever been to. That's saying something because he'd seen Zep, Floyd, Yes, Boston, Aerosmith, etc.
@@yargnad WOW! That is a lot! I've seen Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd so that tells me quite a bit about The Kinks.✌️
Barry Wom of the Rutles tried the very same thing on his drum heads. It didn't produce the sound they were looking for.
That's why he found the girl of his dreams in the arms of some Scotsman from Hull
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The drummer eventually had a ‘breakthrough’ 😂
I have yet to make such a breakthrough but "I'm Living In Hope"
Sounded like Cheese and Onions 😂.
I'm 70 years old now and remember the first time I heard "You Really Got Me" on my elementary school playground. I went home and begged my folks for an electric guitar and some Beatle boots. Well, I got both and life was never the same!
Beatle wigs to they had them everywhere. Kinks were different then any band out there . Remember going to your friends house after school and borrowing 45s and they wanted them back you would give them another record 😂😂😂
Pretty nice of your folks to do that, I hope you thanked them.
@@roybatty3989 I played music professionally for many years and a lot of my love of music came from my Dad. He played guitar and loved real country music and bluegrass. I thanked him many times. :)
I can relate to that.
I hope you're still rockin' on my brother! 71 here, and I still practice 4 hrs/day.
I will never forget the first time I heard the Kinks and bought one of their records. It was different than anything else on the market at the time. One of my friends came over and listened to it and said " I can't believe your mom and dad let you buy this record". It was an awesome sound and it is really timeless. The kinks were way ahead of their time.
It’s not evil. It is gritty. Dave did a wonderful thing.
Parents called it "evil". Rock was the LGBTQ+ of the 50's and 60's.
@econecoff1725 😂no it wasn't!
Don’t tell the youth they like evil more than the more lame gritty
@rustinpeace770 no it wasn't!! Just stop. 😂 the lgbtqrst crap.
@@unclewalt1 Winner of the most useless comment of the day right here. Congratulations
He was an early user of distortion, I'm not sure I'd say he "invented heavy metal". That might be a little exaggerated. Distortion was used on guitar as far back as the late 40s early 50s.
He invented doom
Metal. 😂
@@Helo_rides_for_commies That's funny. He invented slicing his speakers with a razor blade, and, sure contributed a little bit to hard rock and maybe pre-metal.
@@jimbrewster6483 and Punk Rock
Link Wrays 'Rumble' was the first distorted guitar music to have an impact. It influenced people like Jimmy Page and Pete Townshend and is still heard frequently in adverts and movies today.
Ted Nugent was all ready doing it. Back then. Jim McCarty as well. Detroit Grit
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@@markwilliams5606 Rumble was released in 1958 and the Amboy Dukes didn't start until 1963.
I agree Ruble had a distorted guitar, and actually there were several recordings with distorted guitar, including How Many More Years. However, Really Got Me was the first rock power-chord in my opinion.
Rumble is the most important guitar riff in rock history. People always underestimate the impact it truly had.
The Kinks, even down to their name,are one of the best bands that has ever existed.
Agree. I'm British, and old, and was around to witness it happening. The Beatles and the Stones were giants but to my ear the Kinks were better.
@@myoldmateThe Kinks were great but not better, wise up lad!
@@johnmc3862all these bloody Beatles-Nazis, not accepting people have different tastes and preferences. Beatles by far the most overrated band, where would they be without their genius producer George Martin and Brian Epstein, the perfect PR manager to elevate their careers into God like stardom.
@@johnmc3862 the kinks were much better. they made fun interesting music. and lots of it for decades. the stones copied american music styles and the Beatles were only around for 10 years. kinks much better
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The Kinks were better. They just weren’t bigger because they didn’t sell out.
They were banned from touring in the US because they wouldn’t join the musicians union and Davis punched out a union rep. That’s why their songs were refocused to British culture like Sunny Afternoon and Waterloo Station.
The Who and the Stones are big _business_
Mick Jagger is a businessman (he literally went to business school). Thats why he got rid of Brian Jones when he became a liability. That’s why the Stones turned away from psychedelia and refocused on blues based rock and roll. Thats why they attracted Ronnie Wood to be Jones’s replacement. Thats why they stayed together and continue to tour and produce records.
And like McDonalds and General Motors just because they sell a lot doesn’t mean they are the best.
What an awesome story. My entire life has been so full of synthesizers and guitar pedals and sound mixers and all this technology, that I never even gave a second thought to the sound of the guitar on this track, as unique as I know it was for its time. He was just being kind of destructive and following an experimental whim and it turned out to be a landmark moment in music that would affect the landscape of music forever. That's incredible.
The Kinks' 1964 self-titled album was the first album that I flogged to death and needed replacing with another. Every track is a winner. I just loved that raw gutsy sound.
My dad was in a band called 'the talismen'. They opened for the kinks at one time.
What I wouldn't do to have been there
You were, in a way
Have gay sex with a pig?
MASTERS OF WAR !
@@sicks6six lol. Yep!
You were the glint in your father's eyes ;)
Everything about the Kinks was just perfect. The sound, the look, especially the time.
RIGHT!!! The problem for the Kinks was that they were always about 10 years ahead of their time. Had they only been 5 years they'd have sold more records.
I love the Kinks.
Dave hated Ray
@@5stringking Did Dave or Ray tell you that?
And the gig might well end with a good old punch up fight too.
Thanks to Dave, we have the distortion we enjoy today
Wrong it all started with Link Wrays , Rumble.
Because 🤘🏽METAL!
Wrong, Junior (Lester) Barnard - Fat Boy Rag 1946 used modified pick up position, stressed valve amps.
@@tomhowe1510 Great, just wonder if anyone can keep that going. I'm sure there's lots of artists that have experimented, it's what people do.
@@tomhowe1510 Exactly, and Hendrix using a right hand Strat left handed. Lots of experimentation out there.
Love me some kinks. All the way to "give thepeople what they want". They need more recognition these days to me.
You love me? Awww
@@Kgio-2112: Oh, you're bad. 🤣🤣 😁✌🖖
Link Wray butchered his speakers to get a fuzzy tone back in 1958. He probably wasn’t the first to do so.
I believe it was Howlin’ Wolf, who actually first discovered that distorted guitar sound before the kinks. I think he basically had a broken amplifier speaker, and that’s all he could afford at the time.
Link Wray also punctured his cones with a pencil. Rumble from '58 is the only instrumental to be banned.
I had thought Frank Zappa pioneered speaker distortion. I didn't realize that Howlin Wolf was probably his inspiration.
The first proper “Heavy” song I ever heard … gripped from the start I was 10 and I’m only 40 now those chops and sound changed my world 🤘🤘🎸… The Kinks are my favourite band. So many great tracks
RYGM came out in 1964, If you are 40 now and heard YRGM at 10, that was 1993. I kinda think you might have heard something a bit heavy prior to that.
@@acetechnical6574I was just thinking the same thing. I'm pretty sure I heard Metallica as my introduction to heavy music. Maybe Pantera.
While we can't carbon date the first use of distortion many have said Link Wray may be a contender on his song Rumble.
My understanding is that Rumble also used the damaged speaker cone to achieve its sound. Distortion in the modern sense is achieved by increasing the gain stage of the amp so that the signal starts clipping. That effect was known for years, but was considered an undesirable result by early electric guitarist in styles such as jazz.
@@gabbleratchet1890 Thing is, Link deliberately poked holes in the tweeter of his Premier amp - it wasn't by accident. Sure enough, before that, blues and even western swing guitarists pushed the volume of their amps to distortion, but Link was doing something different and much more radical (in 1957!).
I remember hearing Dave Davies' manic guitar solos back in the '60s. There was nothing else like it, and they blew me away. Still listen to them today.
This song really does sound 10-15 years before it's time.
Definitely not.
Paul McCartney recently said that a recording that blew him away back then was when he heard YOU REALLY GOT ME -- it was groundbreaking
It was only three bar cords with a bit of feedback.
@@daveglover6115 I read somewhere that Jimmy Page was freaking out in the control room during Dave's solo. Whether he was impressed or not with it, it didn't say.
Really? I've always think of that song as so so. Very stucked in its time.
McCartney was asked if he remembered hearing something that struck him as unlike anything he had heard before. McCartney immediately says "Kinks". He says the Beatles loved this guitar riff. And Leonard Berstein used this song in one of his Young People's Concerts to point out what "mode" the music is in. He also called it a "barbaric" song - in a good way.
@@marshja56 That was a really good question from Rick Rubin - i have never heard any other interviewer ask Paul that question and I loved his response - it shows how revolutionary YOU REALLY GOT ME by The Kinks was.
I never had a deep appreciation for Dave Davies's guitar work until 1981's "Give the People What They Want." "Around the Dial." "Destroyer." "Yo Yo." He was completely unleashed on that album.
Dave Davies is one of my musical heroes along with all the Kinks. I discovered them from the music they were doing in the 80's first with Give The People What They Want and a few years later with State Of Confusion. Then I started to go backwards listening to their earlier stuff and no matter which direction I went it was all amazing. Personal favorite is Do It Again
I will always always remember Dave in character with the pencil thin moustache and slicked back hair. They have left an indelible mark on so many people over so many years.
I am so thankful we had The Kinks!
What about 'In-a-Gadda da Vida', Iron Butterfly?
Was it sooner or later than Kinks?
@@josega6338later
Much later
@@charliebures4032 U R Right, The Kinks 'You really got me' is 1964; Iron Butterfly 'In-a-gadda-da-vida' is 1968.
Blessings +
Same here! Waterloo Sunset might be the finest pop song ever written.
"You Really Got Me" -The Kinks (1964): first Proto-Punk song.
The first Proto-Metal song is another masterpiece: "All Day And All Of The Night" -The Kinks (1964)
No! The beatles invented all!!
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@@andrespalacios1122 it's true.
Not punk
Most stuff done by Frank Zappa even before the Beatles.
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Thank you Dave for this amazing sound , it definitely turned the music into a distinct sound and direction!
Link Wray was actually the guy who invented the speaker cutting distortion trick.
wray
@@bepitan good catch!
Yes Link Wray was the first story I heard of cutting the speaker too
The missing link?
This was something Roy Buchanan also did
@2:07 in his second year working at the club, Glenn heard many bands. But this one was different. He lifted his head from the prep table at the peculiar sound that traveled from his ears to his feet, leading him uncontrollably to the Dancefloor.
I too was wondering what the hell the dude on the dancefloor was doing in a chef's hat.
I was fortunate to meet David years ago. What a fine gentleman and a guitar slinger for the ages. Rock On Mr. Davies!! 🎸
Yeah, the sound was alluring, but it was the music that made it all happen. That first riff, sound and all was great and when the drums come in it turns into a monster. It all works together, but the band has to be there and the song has to be worth listening to.
I absolutely love the Kinks. Rock pioneers, any way you look at them!
you got it, the SONG has to be worth listening to! much forgotten in these current times (21st century)
yeah but it wasn't them on the record - it was studio musicians - the record company demanded this because they financed the record and it's production - Jimmy Page was the main guitar player -
but it doesn't matter - Clapton and Cream were a year before
them - just sayin - the year is clearly printed on the album
@@davidrice3337 Urban myth. It was Dave not Jimmy.
@@noseeyou I read (or saw an interview) where it said that Jimmy was in the control room while Dave was doing his solo. It also said Jimmy was freaking out, but it didn't say whether he thought the solo was good or bad.
@@SuperNevile There's lots of first hand accounts available to counter the myths.
Louie Louie's solo by The Kingsmen was right up there too. and don't forget "Rumble" by link Wray, also done with a guitar amp speakers pokes with holes.
Kinks: We Are The Village Green Preservation Society is up there as one of the best album ever recorded.
Couldn't agree more. It's beautiful England transcribed to vinyl, before the whole world turned to custard.
Even the Chef was getting down lol. Love the Kinks❤
The " KINKS " quite under appreciated in the world of Rock & Roll but I like em'. One of if not the First great British invasion bands. Thx. Mates. ✌️👍
Not really seeing how they are under appreciated. In the realm of rock and roll they are considered pioneers.
Distortion has become so intertwined with rock and roll that it's hard to imagine what it was like before, it opened so many doors for experimentation and sub genres. The Kinks were the goat rock band.
In one of the first rock bands I was in back in the late 1960's, our bass player cut the woofer in his amp. He got a really cool "Spirit In The Sky" fuzz effect. The problem was, after playing a number of shows at high volume settings, the fuzz got more and more pronounced as his slits elongated from the vibration until finally, the woofer failed and had to be replaced.
Yeah, those splits only grow
That's the thing, when you're the Kinks, you can get a new amp whenever. But when you're barely scraping by...
the snare hit on the intro is still so perfect timed it like a call to action, get outta that chair
YES! Now that you have mentioned it, I will always think of this when I hear it, you are absolutely right!
@@bietelesq.796 everyone who ever picked up a guitar since will've played this, it really was a legend bluesprint
Ray Davies wrote 99% of the Kinks songs in an unbelievable quality. Also very fine lyrics too. He is easily masterclass level with Lennon/McCartney and others in the 60s - 80s. CONGRATS.
in his prime his lyrics : funniest in rock.
Ray with his genius lyrics and Dave with his genius music, what a great combo.
Possibly my fav song of all time, you have to acknowledge the song Rocket 88s use of distortion by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats in Sun Studios version 1957. The guitar solo clearly distorts as Ike Turner's amp had fallen out of a truck the previous night. If your ever in Memphis and you love rock music, it is the sacred church for its genesis.
I believe Sam Phillips repaired the speaker cone with tape. The tour of Sun studio is FANTASTIC! I almost passed it up.That repair caused distortion, and at least in the states, that recorded song is credited as the first rock song because of the guitar’s distorted sound.
@@luvyesmusici4886 And it's a fantastic song too. The vocal delivery is eerily prescient of what's to come.
link wray also intentionally mangled his amp well before the kinks
This is absolutely not true. The first Rock & Roll song with distorted guitar was Ike Turner's "Rocket 88". On the way to recording this song, the guitar amp fell over in his car and popped a hole in the speaker. They only had one guitar amp so that's what you hear on the recording. That was 1951
Love the Davies brothers. Why they've been mostly ignored except Come Dancing and You Really Got Me. They were a stadium act in the early '80s. Lots of hits that never get played.
Lo-la, lolololo-a
All day and all of the night, Lola, Waterloo Sunset, Days, Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Apeman, Sunny Afternoon, and so many others 😁
Sleepwalker, Well Respected Man, Supersonic Rocket Ship, Victoria, Destroyer
Hats off to Dave Davies for being so influential. But anyone who thinks he "invented" gritty guitar sounds never heard Maybelline by Chuck Berry. And Chuck wasn't the first, either.
Blues guitarists in the 50s were well aware that they could overdrive their amps and get a stinging or sweet tone. Proper distortion (not damaging the speaker cone) was a well known effect of too much gain in tube amplification. It’s just that people viewed it as something to avoid at first
When Hendrix got his Marshal amps in the US, the tech appologized for the amps distorting so much !!
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The Metal Community would like to thank him for aiding us in our fight for what is right in the chill of the night.
About 3 years before "You Really Got Me" was released, "Don't Worry" by Marty Robbins featured one of the first instances of guitar distortion. A channel in the mixing board went bad during recording and they finished the song. Robbins didn't like the sound but they wound up releasing it with the distorted sound.
The sound was reverse engineered to produce one of the first guitar pedals.
Dave did exactly what
Link Wray
did, some, 6 years prior
(ripping up/slicing up speaker cones to help enhance distortion.).
See: "Rumble" [1958]
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One of my very 1st LPs at 12 yrs of age from Columbia House Record Club. 2 years later armed with Dad's ES 125 we started our band. Bass player made a strobe light out of a fan. We thought we were fab.
We did that too! 😅
Intro to "All Day and All of the Night" is the beginning of heavy rock.
Many artists hit this point simultaneously. It wasnt just Davies. It happened asa result of the development of the genre at that moment in time.
@hetosprod. It is debated . Johnny Burnette allegedly got the sound when the tube amps slipped in the amplifier and they used it for TrainKept A Rollin . As far as thrash and punk is concerned , I thought Paul McCartney invented it on Helter Skelter .
That distortion sound is the sound of the 60s
Dave Davis a great, greater and one of the greatest musician in his time.
When Davies says he didn’t know why he cut the speaker the way he did, I couldn’t help but think of Link Wray who I know predated The Kinks by at least a few years in doing the same thing. But to say Link Wray was the originator I think would be a stretch too because there were loads of musicians looking for a way to sound gritty and raw at that time. I just feel lucky that The Kinks, Link Wray, and whoever else did do what they did to make such memorable and timeless music.
I heard Roy Buchanan used razor bade to slice his. I also read the Kinks early studio stuff the leads were session guys like Page. Dave sure did it live though.
Link Wray 'Rumble' was recorded in 1957, and it was very influential rightaway: also on guys like Jimmy Page, who played on countless sessions - including Kinks records. So Davies may have heard this story from Page. And yeah guitarists wanted to sound gritty but to do that, Link was the first one to deliberately modify an amp, by poking a pencil through the tweeter (!) of his Premier.
There must be loads of bands with crap equipment….what did a “who” guitar sound like after it was axed ?
A description of the HEAVY METAL sound.
The most impressive thing about Led Zeppelin is the Bonham-John Paul Jones heavy sound that envelops the elegant metallic screeches of Page's guitar in dialogue with Plant's raucous, heartfelt vocals.
Zeppelin was something else.
The British Invasion bands grew up in the 50s with American music, not just the early 60s. And guitar distortion was used before the Kinks.
The assertion that rock and roll 'crossed the Atlantic from America to England in the 1960s' is hilarious.
He liked his guitar highly slung. What a racket for 65, i was 11 and learning to play drums,my parents were wonderful 1st drum kit£20 second £350. A huge amount in 66.
Don’t forget Bo Diddley, and Marty Robbins with some advanced effects. The Kinks though, really went the other way with the garage sound distortion.
I first heard “All Day and All of the Night” when I was kid back in 1984. When I looked at the year it came out and it said 1964, I knew I was listening to the groundbreakers of Punk and Metal. Song stands up, even today!
I have heard others describe Dave's invention of this sound as an accident. Ridiculous! Obviously, he didn't "accidentally" slash his guitar amp's speaker cone with a razor blade.
he must have read about Link Wray doing it first
In other interviews he has said he did it after a row with a girlfriend 😊
@@darrellpetersen133 It is possible for two people in different parts of the world to come up with the same idea without one knowing of the other, especially in the 50s/60s.
@@SuperNevile Dave Davies also claims to have been abducted by aliens. I have a hard time taking him seriously. Per Jimmy Page, "Rumble" was on London jukeboxes in the late 50s. Most British guitarists acknowledge his influence. I love Davies guitar playing, but he appears to be trying to take credit for something he knows (especially by now) isn't true.
as a Kyuss & Slayer fan, I totally respect what the Kinks did with their distorted but tremendous sound that helped pave the way for metal in all its form and sub-genres. Brilliant.
A band way ahead of their time - this song is still modern today, A bit like the white stripes 👌
When I was young, I always thought their distinctive guitar sound came from the Vox AC30. Maybe that amp wasn't available yet. Slashing the speaker cone would certainly introduce distortion!! Brilliant!
So he created distortion not Heavy Metal. Most forms of Rock music and some Pop music uses it.. I think Stepenwolf were a lot closer to metal than the Kinks.
Also the British Invasion was more like the mid 60s not early 60s. Beatles didn't even come to the US til 1964, the beginning of the British Invasion
On the song "Rocket 88" by Ike Turner's Delta Rhythm Kings (credited on the records as Jackie Brentston and the Delta Cats) guitarist Willie Kizart played a distorted guitar part caused by a damaged amplifier.That was in 1951. Link Wray also sliced up his speaker cone to get that sound for "Rumble."
Neil young was also experimenting with this new sound in the 60’s as well. Definitely the start of heavy metal
"Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand" definitely helped pave the way to making more long, harsh sounding songs
Its Steppenwolf "Born to be Wild" They had a lyric "Heavy Metal Thunder" which is credited as the inspiration for naming the genre heavy metal. As far as the actual sound of heavy metal, that is Black Sabbath. The kinks are in the same room though.
Love Dave to bits and always will; amused by how camp Glenn Hughes is.
'64 l just turned teen ie 13. l saw and heard the whole thing incl Animals, Stones, Beatles, Doors Janis etc on Ed Sullivan LIVE Sunday nite
And now you see rock bands using a Metal Zone boss pedal into a clean cheap amp to play this riff.
Evil times. It occurs to me, that cheap amps are built for the single purpose to drown all inspiration. Very few exceptions out there.
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Clutch, has a song called Red Alert (Boss Metal Zone)
I wish Metal Evolution was available to watch on one of the 50 streaming services I have. It was one of the best multi-episode documentaries I've seen! Sam Dunn does a hell of a job.
Leon theramin invented the theramin. Led Zeppelin used it . Invented in the 1920s.😮
2:10 even the chef couldn’t help it 😂😂
Love the guitar in this song it’s so sick
I absolutely love Dave Davies Guitar Playing. The Kinks Album 'One for the road' has some incredible guitar playing (the Outro on 'Lola' is roaring through my brain at this moment).
Will jimmy page played it on the record 😮
I trace heavy metal back to the Yardbirds not the Kinks. Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page rocked it hard.
Very true comment...Jeff Beck referred to heavy on his late 60s album Truth and Beck Ola..a road which Jimmy followed
Blue cheer
I can recall a band playing at my school, circa 1966 and the bass player berating the guitar player for having a ripped cone on his speaker cabinet. "your amp sounds like crap" was what I heard from 30 feet away, during a song break. Little did he know, that was the thing to do for the raspy tone! BTW, the band was quite good, as I remember.... considering they did Rascals covers.
Link Wray did it first
With any invention the first one on it often unfortunately doesn't end up as the best known. Hell, the Ventures were using an actual fuzz box in 1962 on the song 2000 pound Bee. Rocket 88 and Train Kept a Rollin both had a good deal of amp distortion back in the early 1950s. Goree Carter (song: Rock Awhile) was playing Chuck Berry riffs in 1949 years before Berry. Lots of great early distorted guitar sounds, the Kinks were certainly one of them but hardly the first. Same kind of deal with the "first" solid body electric guitar. Many claim Les Paul invented it with the log but Appleton was earlier and even presented his guitar to Gibson but was put off by them. It seems that there is always somebody earlier that you don't know about until you dig deeper. Link Wray was certainly an inspiration to many '60s guitarists looking for some gritty guitar sounds and deserves mention.
@7171jay,
Did you know, that black singers were not allowed to play their music in the USA; not before some white guy did first!
The Rolling Stones often used this legal thievery. Same with theese Chuck Berry riffs been played even before him. I'm really unsure whether it is stolen, or it was help, that they could finally play their own stuff too.
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@@MichaelWinter-ss6lx You have your history on this quite wrong. Black artists certainly had much difficulty reaching a white audience but it wasn't as simple and strange as you are making this out to be. White musicians certainly borrowed heavily or one could even say had actually stolen from black musicians. Most white radio stations early on would not play black artists and distribution of black (known as race music) was limited. As to your very incorrect take on the Rolling Stones... although they did record some songs previously written and recorded by black artists were in actuality one of the biggest promoters of those black blues musicians who inspired them to play. Many white kids in England and the U.S. learned about black because of the Rolling Stones and what they did for many of these great black musicians.
One of the most iconic tracks in the History of Rock, no doubt about that....One of the songs that kick started my passion for 60s Rock growing up in the 70s
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If you’ve never heard the song self destroyer( paranoia) by the kinks, you’ve missed out
Link Wray did it first.
With any invention the first one on it often unfortunately doesn't end up as the best known. Hell, the Ventures were using an actual fuzz box in 1962 on the song 2000 pound Bee. Rocket 88 and Train Kept a Rollin both had a good deal of amp distortion back in the early 1950s. Goree Carter (song: Rock Awhile) was playing Chuck Berry riffs in 1949 years before Berry. Lots of great early distorted guitar sounds, the Kinks were certainly one of them but hardly the first. Same kind of deal with the "first" solid body electric guitar. Many claim Les Paul invented it with the log but Appleton was earlier and even presented his guitar to Gibson but was put off by them. It seems that there is always somebody earlier that you don't know about until you dig deeper. Link Wray was certainly an inspiration to many '60s guitarists looking for some gritty guitar sounds and deserves mention.
Thanks for the history lesson...
@7171jay,
That was Les Paul, at Gibson, whom they send away and then searched for, after Fender made a fortune.
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It's pretty interesting from a technical standpoint what he was doing there. All the early amps were relatively low powered affairs that would distort at anything above a reasonable volume, but we're talking "breakup" levels of distortion without any real "grit" or "fizzyness". Cutting slots or punching holes in the speaker cone was a really primitive way to add that sound acoustically. There was another earlier example of someone accidentally getting his tone because of a hole in the speaker cone, I think "Rocket 88" by Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston, though it was more of a fuzz, since the overall gain was lower. It was Jim Marshall who took it to the next level. His first offering, the JTM-45, was a step in the right direction, but it was really the JMP 100 Superlead that he put out in 1968 that started the thirst for higher and higher gain to create the definitive tube distortion sound.
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70 yr old boomer here. No Beatles or Brit invasion when every week was a year long and new songs filled the top ten every week, Beatles, Kinks,Herman, Moodys, DC5 the BEST era to live in real time. Still play guitar better and faster than ever, just got a Tony Iommi Gibson SG, and I multitrack all instruments on Logic and Garagebend because of the Beatles on Ed. Kinks were the FIRST "riff" band - You Really, All Day, I Need You, Who'll Be the Next In Line, Tire Of Waiting..on and on all legendary RIFFS. Dave - wicked underrated pioneer...first time you saw a Flying V on US TV, too generally speaking. 👀 🎸
You really got me , possibly the number one rock song of all time , but my pick for number one is? , white rabbit .
Mine is Time... From DSOTM... Or maybe One Of These Days... Although The Nile Song is great too...
But yes, White Rabbit, My Generation, Sunny Afternoon, Pinball Wizard, Dead End Street, all great song from great British bands. Oops, sorry for Jefferson Airplane :).
(List is too long, I had to keep a narrow "selection", but don't forget Elvis neither, he had the spirit and paved the way).
Who was Oliver knight ?
Great age for a musician. So many new things to discover back then
the only problem is that black american guitarists where slashing their speakers in 1949 so come on dave tell the truth now lol
I love the Kinks but please consider the 1951 classic Rocket “88” by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats. This amp was even more distorted.
Jimmy Page played the guitar solo
A six year old video with about ten comments pops up in my recommended and one of the ten comments is an hour old! Yes, I believe it was Jimmy Page.
Unless you believe Mick Avory, who was there at the session (obviously) and says that he didn’t. But god speed to you, internet commentator 🫡
Jimmy Page likes to exaggerate about the songs he played on. Just like Carol Kay does…
Kinks producer Shel Talmy said it was Dave.
I started drum lessons in 62 and was hyper into new music.Ten years old and we never stopped.....Stones now on tour w/ a new album in 2024! The Kink's Greatest Hits (65) was the first LP I ever bought (lots of 45s of course)
Heavy metal was so innocent and totally different in 1964 and much more fun! There was no singing about Satan, no cookie monster vocals, no blast beats, no chugging riffs, and no headbanging BS!
Heavy metal didn't exist in 1964 bud
@@urmumsbapsYes, it did with the Kinks.
Blue cheer metal kinks proto punk
@@Duck_Dodgers The Kinks were on a metal documentary.
Oh boy, I also saw something in a dumb magazin, its gotta be the ultimate truth.
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In my humble opinion, "You Really Got Me" is the perfect rock and roll song. Quick, gritty, catchy, and EVERYBODY LOVES IT. (And it's really just a love song)
I love the way Glenn Hughes put it, "The first dirty guitar I ever heard was the Kinks." The kinks were just before my time. In 1973 I was thirteen years old and me and my brother loved Grand Funk Railroad who were being called "acid rock". I couldn't see how music could get more powerful than Grand Funk Railroad but then we discovered Led Zeppelin.
Black Sabbath was way heavier than either, but less elegant of course.
Steppenwolf was the first band to coin the term Heavy Metal in the song Born to Be Wild. This is closer to Punk than Metal.
Its always been a mystery to me how the Kinks could go from pop tunes like Lazy Sunday Afternoon and Dedicated Follower Of Fashion to All Day And All Of The Night and You Really Got Me with their classic heavy riffs. His involvement in these songs has always been denied but Jimmy Page was a session guitarist working with the Kinks at the time.
It was the other way around; they went from "proto-heavy rock" to "lyrical/satirical folk" over the course of the mid to late sixties. They needed YRGM, and ADAAOTN, to launch their career in a crowded field. Believe me, when those records came out, they really sounded different.
He changed the path of rock and looked absolutely gorgeous to boot!😘
I’ve often said exactly that, that the kinks invented heavy metal way back in’64 with “you really got me”, I had all their records at that time, couldn’t wait for them to be released
I really wish people would stop saying that musicians who were not metal musicians at all, in the 60's and 70's (like Blue Oyster Cult and Jimi Hendrix), "invented metal." The true metal genre didn't start until the early 80's. Stop diluting genres to include everything until genres have no meaning anymore. That's even more obnoxious than when music journalists keep dividing up genres into new genres until each sub-genre has like 2 bands in it.
This might be the first "heavy metal" song that was popular, but it wasn't the first song to use distortion effects in recording. Marty Robbins recorded Don't Worry About Me in 1961 and that is considered the first use of true distortion effects for guitar. If you listen to it you will know, but it's the solo and the end of the song that has the distortion on guitar...check it out!
A worthwhile footnote: there’s a piano going “plink plink plink” starting in the middle of the second verse. The gentleman playing it: one Jon Lord, who a few years later became a founding member of one of the most influential heavy bands ever: DEEP PURPLE
One of my younger brothers grew up listening to speed metal in the 80's but years later he seemed to know a lot about the bands I grew up with in the 60's-70's, so I asked him how he knew so much. He told me he used to go into my room when I was away, put my headphones on and listen to my CD's of The Kinks, Jeff beck, Clapton, etc. He liked the old rockers better than the speed metal bands.
Christopher Walken as Dave Davies - brilliant as always.