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This is why The Kinks were banned from the United States
Far Out ^ | 2/28/20 | Joe Traysom

Posted on 12/23/2023 9:00:15 AM PST by DallasBiff

The Kinks found themselves on the receiving end of a four-year ban from touring in the States sanctioned by the American Federation of Musicians. The banning severely hampered the band’s career across the pond as once they were allowed to tour again tastes had drastically changed

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: immigration; music; thejinks; thekinks
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Oh my, the Kinks were banned, from the US, would they be welcomed now, like the new Brandon voters?
1 posted on 12/23/2023 9:00:15 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff
One of the best songs EVER: The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset."


2 posted on 12/23/2023 9:10:15 AM PST by Cinnamontea
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To: DallasBiff

Loved the Kinks.

Enjoyed their 1980 “One for the Road” tour. Saw them at Curtis Hixon Hall in Tampa.


3 posted on 12/23/2023 9:14:07 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: DallasBiff
Father Christmas - the Kinks, (1977)

https://youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk?si=aJvL_ycjzE8lskbY

4 posted on 12/23/2023 9:15:44 AM PST by GaltAdonis
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Played the heck out of that “One For The Road” live album.


5 posted on 12/23/2023 9:15:45 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff
I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by bureaucracy
Controlled by civil servants
And people dressed in gray
Got no privacy
Got no liberty
'cause the 20th Century people
Took it all away from me.


Not bad stuff.
6 posted on 12/23/2023 9:16:09 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Underrated band they were fantastic.

Waterloo Sunset, Lola, Stop Your Sobbing, Sunny Afternoon, the list goes on ….


7 posted on 12/23/2023 9:18:33 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: DallasBiff

The tour was a chaotic one, to say the least, poor ticket sales at the start of the tour left promoter Betty Kaye unable to pay the Kinks in cash, as she had originally promised. This understandably pissed the band off immeasurably. So, in retaliation, they delivered a shortened set in at their Reno show and put the near-empty Sacramento crowd to the sword with them having to comically sit through an extended version of ‘You Really Got Me’ for most of the concert.

Things then got even worse when the band decided they would cancel their San Francisco show if they weren’t going to get paid in advance. It was the last straw for the promoter and it saw Kaye fire back by filing a formal complaint with the American Federation of Musicians. The union had the power to withhold work permits for British musicians if they misbehaved on stage or refused to perform without good reason. That’s exactly what would happen.


from the article


8 posted on 12/23/2023 9:19:17 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Celluloid Heroes is my favorite


9 posted on 12/23/2023 9:19:45 AM PST by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: 38special

This is Captain America calling
Help me now I’m falling


10 posted on 12/23/2023 9:21:09 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Col Frank Slade
Waterloo Sunset, Lola, Stop Your Sobbing, Sunny Afternoon, the list goes on ….

My mother made my big brother return "Lola" to the store. He had other stuff that was about as bad, but the Kinks enunciate well enough that my mother could make out the lyrics.
11 posted on 12/23/2023 9:21:52 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: newfreep

A song that is appropriate for today...

Low Budget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwJBtDOat_k


12 posted on 12/23/2023 9:22:09 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Muswell Hillbillies was a true masterpiece. The album reflects Ray Davies’ reaction to living through the socialization of Britain. I can relate to the album more today than fifty years ago when I first bought it.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kpYk1KS6WZC9kwcOHTsWVStQq6xeZ3Q0o&si=FENCfHeDf5XbBk3-


13 posted on 12/23/2023 9:26:29 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: dfwgator

For me, their are best individual album, in other words not a compilation, is Muswell Hillbillies.

Though there are probably about five that could be considered their best


14 posted on 12/23/2023 9:26:45 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: PeterPrinciple

thx


15 posted on 12/23/2023 9:28:33 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Dr. Sivana

That whole album was brilliant. I’m livin’ the Acute Schizophrenia Blues.

https://youtu.be/Idab67Pj-F0?si=mJUoUkTgHnZPTeLX


16 posted on 12/23/2023 9:31:50 AM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: DallasBiff

The Low Budget album is fantastic. Ray Davies is a brilliant song writer. Black Messiah on the Misfits Album is worth a listen.


17 posted on 12/23/2023 9:32:21 AM PST by JimDaniels1867 (Gun Control: Better to have and not need than to need and not have)
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To: All

Livin on a Thin Line


18 posted on 12/23/2023 9:34:30 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: hardspunned

One of the great lines of all time in “Oklahoma USA”:

“All life we work, but work is a bore./ If life’s for livin’, then what’s livin’ for?”


19 posted on 12/23/2023 9:34:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: musicman

BTTT!!!


20 posted on 12/23/2023 9:35:10 AM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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