2010/12/30

It Was a Kinky Xmas time!

It was December of 1984. The Kinks had just played a blazing XRT Show (the “State of Confusion” tour, if memory serves) and Tom Marker and I went backstage at the UIC Pavilion to enlist the voice of lead singer Ray Davies for our annual Christmas radio special. Our friend Hudson captured the encounter on his high quality portable reel-to-reel tape recorder (look it up) and it sounded like this:

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It was the Word of Mouth times, maybe not a masterpiece BUT a very special record to me, was 16 and it's been my first Kinks record... Because David Watts cover of course and I Loved Do it again




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