Dave Davies

   
Artist: Dave Davies

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Album That Never Was

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 22


   
 Rock Bottom: Live at the Bottom Line

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 27

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Although he took a largely low-level role to his brother Ray in the Kinks, Dave's fierce guitar work and husky only effective background (and occasional lead) vocals were key elements of the band's appeal. Dave besides from time to time wrote songs for the Kinks that showed him to be a author of considerable science and card, if non up to the like degree as Ray. In the former '60s, Dave made some solo singles that met with decisive success in Britain, although they were unknown in the U.S. "Last of a Clown" (besides included on the Kinks' Something Else LP) made number three on the British charts in 1967, and the followup, "Susannah's Still Alive," besides did jolly well.


Dave began to think making a solo album, but after a couple other solo singles flopped, he seemed to lose heart and abandoned his plans (some unreleased solo tracks from this catamenia turned up on the apart Kinks moonshine Respectable Luck Charm). In the 1980s, Dave lastly began a solo life history in businesslike, releasing a series of mainstream rock 'n' roll albums and versatile collections of demos and outtakes that establish short critical or commercial acclaim, earlier his wreak was neatly summarized on Unfinished Business: Dave Davies Kronikles 1963-1998. The hard-rocking Bug from 2002 was his first album of raw material in virtually 20 days. Davies suffered a major stroke in 2004 and used composing and picture as therapy during the protracted recovery period that followed. The new song "Graven image in My Brain" was elysian by the fortuity and appeared on the 2006 compilation Kinked. In 2007 Davies released his first base full-length post-stroke studio apartment album, Fractured Mindz, on the Koch label.





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