Ray Davies See My Friends Interview

[tennis11ish]

"The real star was my brother..." God bless ya, Ray and God Save the Kinks!

[irene1ization]

What an awesome guy! So humble. I love him!!

[elinrees]

LEGEND! And he's singing with only the best. MUMFORD AND SONS

[kevinocooldaddy]

I can't believe he put Bon Jovi on this. They are a farking joke of a band, just pure cheese-ball crap. I thought Ray had better taste then that

[organaphus]

@kevinocooldaddy At least there are still good artists on-Jackson Browne's good, and it doesn't get better than Frank Black. Don't get Paloma Faith though...

[Freakster1970]

Thanks for your input, your insight and your enlightened conversation davz1992.

[Sasse90]

All respect to Ray Davies, a legend. Enough said.

[moxie96]

I wonder if that poppy pin he's sporting is an vintage one made of bakelite?

[ofdarknessandlight]

@moxie96 don't know what you're on about but you have to buy them new, not recycle them!

[aaaiiiyyy]

An artist may not have been satisfied with the result no matter how much we think a song is a classic. But I find it very hard to believe that he wasn't pleased with any of these songs when they first recorded them. I find this project pointless, other than the reason I first mentioned.

[Freakster1970]

Living in the past is someone who can't write a good new song and looks back to old great ones.

[dalexwats]

@Freakster1970 Most successful songwriters have a career span of only a few golden years--it's really hard to keep it up. But Ray is the exception--he's been doing it for almost 50 years and he's still writing superior songs. Have a listen to his recent critically-acclaimed solo albums.....

[niall29]

@dalexwats Ah here dude, more like 29 years. 3 top 10 albums in the UK and not one in the States and more or less irrelevant since the mid 70's....and im very fond of Ray with or without the Kinks. Rose tinted glasses there my friend!

[dalexwats]

@niall29 From 1964 (YRGM) to...let's say, Imaginary Man (2009) is 45 years. And he's still writing songs that other artists want to record and perform. Irrelevant to whom? The great unwashed? What do they know? Who cares about sales? Listen to Animal, To The Bone, All She Wrote, The Morphine Song etc. etc. The general public is a fickle mistress-- no one cared about Vermeer for hundreds of years; Mozart was a "minor artist" ; Van Gogh never knew.... As Ray once wrote, "Time Will Tell".

[Freakster1970]

First he ruined these classic songs wih a choir. Ive just heard this new album and it's awful ! He should have let these classics RIP.

[fanangy]

@Freakster1970 don't live in the past they're his songs and he knows what he's doing

[davz1992]

@Freakster1970 fuck off

[adicakes]

@davz199 r u ray davies?

[jcr4runner]

Great interview! I wish it could have gone on for an hour. I like when he says he was never a rock star. Ray reminds me of Buddy Holly in a way: singer/songwriter/musician/pro­ducer (of which Holly was the first to do all four). But neither one of them looked like Elvis or the Beatles on stage.

[tennis11ish]

@jcr4runner - and thank God, no plane crash!

[TheShepster80]

THUMBS UP IF YOU WATCHED THIS CLIP BECAUSE METALLICA FEATURED ON IT!!!!