Pete Quaife - original KINKS bassist - has died . ( my title )

The Telegraph ^ | June 25 , 2010

[sushiman]

Pete Quaife, who died on June 24 aged 66, was a founder member of The Kinks and played bass guitar on their biggest hits, including You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night and Dedicated Follower of Fashion; in the early 1970s he abandoned the music scene to make his living as a graphic artist.

[sushiman]

You are a dog lover , too ??? We have a lot in common ! Best from Japan ...

[Frantzie]

Oh God this one really hurts. Pete and Mick Avory were saints and martyrs to put up with the endless battles between the Davies brothers aka moody Ray and manic Dave. So sad.

I wished that they might one day have had a reunion concert in London. The Kinks were really before my era but meant more to me than The Beatles, Stones or Who combined.

[Frantzie]

Oh God this one really hurts. Pete and Mick Avory were saints and martyrs to put up with the endless battles between the Davies brothers aka moody Ray and manic Dave. So sad.

I wished that they might one day have had a reunion concert in London. The Kinks were really before my era but meant more to me than The Beatles, Stones or Who combined.

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Here You Go:

http://www.myspace.com/maryloukirshon

My Birthday is in October, so you have for months on me!

No Problem, Lady Bass players who can SING are rare! Hee Hee!

Especially when they ride harleys.

:-)

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Not only do I love dogs, I love SUSHI too! LOL!

My favorite is hamachi and toro.

One of my TOP students, who is in a jazz trio now, did a brief stint with a Retro “British Invasion” Band, doing songs by the Kinks, The Animals, etc.

They did very well here in Ft Lauderdale.

It is terrific, energetic, optimistic, positive, music. Maybe not the words all the time, but the chords, the beats, the progressions, the melodies, the energy, Everything.

I like Beethoven, Bach and Mozart too.

[Frantzie]

Something so special about The Kinks. One of my fondest memories was traveling alone in London after a sleepless night in the city. I had to find a bus out of the city to outer London to find a proper hotel to get some sleep. I thought I was going to pass out.

I was miserable on the bus until the bus driver’s radio play Autumn Almanac. I was transformed - I was in heaven with Ray, Dave, Pete and Mick.

RIP Pete.

[sushiman]

More coincidences ! Sushi for one , and I love hamachi !

One more , my uncle George - who passed away in 1995 - once ran a very sucessful deli/restaurant down on Commercial Blvd in Fort Lauderdale .

[Frantzie]

Reading Dave’s words brought tears. For all of Dave’s over the top flamboyance - he is a good soul.

I read the one biography. The Beatles were corporate in their suits but they were stunned and so was the world when You Really Got Me when to #1 by a little band from London with a very young guitarist playing a solo and guitar work that shocked people.

When you lose the really good guys who were quiet about their trade like George Harrison, Rick Wright of Pink Floyd and now Pete Quaife it makes it harder to take.

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I know where that is!

I am a bit north of there.

I am studying now to be a luthier. I have already fixed up some old guitars and either sold them, or given them to needy kids.

And my students are forever breaking theirs one way or another.

[sushiman]

” Reading Dave’s words brought tears “

Choked me up as well ...Obviously heartfelt and sincere ...God Bless The Kinks ( sic ! ) !

[sushiman]

I’d love to meet you ! I think we’d get on famously !

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We Would! A Bass Player ALWAYS needs a DRUMMER! LOL!

A FReeper Drummer is even Better, because then we would never fight about politics!

[My Favorite Headache]

Thanks for posting that. He was a good man.

[bleach]

Wow. Rise & Fall, Preservation Society, Lola/Money-go-round and Muswell are must have albums. Waterloo Sunset is gorgeous for it harmonies and wistfulness. I’m sad as there was some talk of a reunion if Dave fully recovered from his stroke and he and Ray could put up with each other.

Damn...

[a fool in paradise]

RnR PING

[dfwgator]

Twentieth Century Man

This is the age of machinery,
A mechanical nightmare,
The wonderful world of technology,
Napalm, hydrogen bombs, biological warfare,

This is the twentieth century,
But too much aggravation
It’s the age of insanity,
What has become of the green pleasant fields of Jerusalem.

Ain’t got no ambition, I’m just disillusioned
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.
My mama said she can’t understand me
She can’t see my motivation
Just give me some security,
I’m a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century.

You keep all your smart modern writers
Give me William Shakespeare
You keep all your smart modern painters
I’ll take Rembrandt, Titian, Da Vinci and Gainsborough,

Girl we gotta get out of here
We gotta find a solution
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t want to die here.

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in grey
Got no privacy, got no liberty
Cos the twentieth century people
Took it all away from me.

Don’t wanna get myself shot down
By some trigger happy policeman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna die here.

My mama says she can’t understand me
She can’t see my motivation
Ain’t got no security,
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.

This is the twentieth century
But too much aggravation
This is the edge of insanity
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here.

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WOW! Those lyrics work for THIS Century TOO! Thank You for posting those, dfwgator!