tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post5638807236098770142..comments2024-03-28T05:28:26.494-04:00Comments on Start Making Sense: Ray Davies concertDaniel Shavirohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710628584922961682noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-8019592651901959022008-04-16T08:29:00.000-04:002008-04-16T08:29:00.000-04:00I also thought it was a wonderful show. However, I...I also thought it was a wonderful show. However, I don't share many people's disdain for his 70's and 80's work. While not everything was wonderful, and some of it a tad bit pandering, I am quite fond of many tracks from those eras. Some of the tracks show a craft and dexterity with the language of musical emotions that is beyond, or at least equal, to many of the songs Davies wrote in the 60's. <BR/><BR/>You'll find many of The Kinks later tracks in my regular rotation... "Missing Persons" "Good Day" "Do It Again" "Now and Then" "Looney Balloon" "Scattered" "Phobia" (yes, phobia) "How Are You" "Think Visual" "Not Far Away" "Voices in the Dark" "Where Oh Where Is Love?" "Brother" "Jukebox Music,"... They're all wonderful songs in my opinion, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-115974300088730932008-04-10T01:14:00.000-04:002008-04-10T01:14:00.000-04:00great show...was hoping he'd play picture book but...great show...was hoping he'd play picture book but i enjoyed the songs, even the newer ones i didn't know. i had only seen ray once before, during an abbreviated acoustic set a few years back at the tibet house benefit at carnegie, so it was exciting for me to see him rock out with a full band and electric guitars. <BR/><BR/>i'm early 30s and i felt a bit young at the show. $70+ tickets will do that.<BR/><BR/>i'm not sure if i'd categorize his call & response routine with the crowd as needy, i think he's just trying to entertain and it's a guaranteed way to get the audience going.J$https://www.blogger.com/profile/07526309129182495617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9208928.post-12157139562895962342008-04-09T19:34:00.000-04:002008-04-09T19:34:00.000-04:00A wonderful concert. Hadn't been at one for two or...A wonderful concert. Hadn't been at one for two or three decades....but seeing that name on the marquee I couldn't miss it.<BR/><BR/>And I'm so glad I didn't. I echo most of your comments. I loved how he seemed to finish a song, only to encourage a sing along to go back into the song. A neediness, perhaps, but one that was so welcome to me.<BR/><BR/>I've been a little down lately, suffering somewhat from bad health and growing older. But seeing Davies was better than Zoloft, Celebrex, or holistic mumbo-jumbo.<BR/><BR/>It was Chicken Soup for my soul. I still have all the albums, even English versions. Sitting there, or by the end, standing, singing in my tone-deaf glory, along with my wife, it made me not only nostalgic, but optimistic. Biased slightly to early stuff (no problem for me) he threw in the obvious, but thank god I could hear "Waterloo Sunset" once again. Tearing up, I haven't felt this happy in years.<BR/><BR/>best regards,<BR/><BR/>Billy GoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com