K I N K S - Live in Offenbach Germany 1965/1966

[historyguyish]

I dig Daves "blues voice" There's some great bands from this German date, like the sorrows ("Take A Heart" etc Really good amps meine freunden! Audio is auch zehr gut my brothers. Open collar shirts and Shindig style dancing is really hip!

[ambidexy]

Cool to see these folks dancing in my old hometown so long ago! But some of these comments here are just inane beyond words. There are Nazis there??? I'd rather think not... Krauts? What a nice designation as well... Just goes to show you that racists and xenophobes are still alive and kicking after the brown plague referred to above got taken care of...

[ducklave]

krauts? You sick bastard! Enjoy the D.Bros.

[KISKIRIKOSKORO]

WATH IS THE NAME OF THE ONE SONG?

[darkmossie633]

krauts look as if they are marching, not dancing to this great music

[TheEternalSpirit1]

@darkmossie633

are you stupid?

[reaperpro]

This is brilliant! Thanks for posting! I wonder what those amps are? Anyway, fantastic performance for this genius group!

[harvey1954]

The Kinks on Beat Beat Beat. Playing "Till the End of the Day", "I'm A Lover Not A Fighter" and "You Really Got Me".

[jammmon]

oh man that must have been full of nazis

[raindogred]

@jammmon the war ended in 1945 - this was like 2o years later so most of these people would have only been between the age of 1-5 yo when the war ended - junior nazis. I like your cunning observation...

[sakucherrry]

WHY must I be a teenager in 2010 . . .

[JRGrange25]

Best band of the 60s? for me a toss up between these and The Beatles, well for me is edging towards The Kinks.

[TheSonicmule]

looks like a few young lads was gonna get to some moshin. i saw a pit startin to form

[ktel60]

Great proto punk

[snicky58]

Straight to Favorites! What a find -- thanks for uploading this!!

[Jovolution]

Kinks-RuleZ

Dave and Ray!

[murderyourdrugs]

If anyone was wondering, they're playing through Klemt Echolette Showstar amplifiers, made in Germany.

[ThemanfromZambodia]

Thank You very much for answering a question that has bothered me for months. I knew those were not Selmer, WEM or Vox gear.

[valerock667]

is strange to see all this young guys and thinkin' that they were born in the middle of world war 2, in germany where there was hitler, nazism etc...when they were 5 years old there were bombs in berlin and and jews were executed in the streets..

[1ndi64]

valerock > «when they were 5 years old there were bombs in berlin» That's right... but you don't have to go as far back as WW II. Just look at what Israel is doing to the Palestinians today... think about how many innocent Iraqi civilians were killed by the US Army... I'm not sure whether the world has learned much in the last 60 years.

[valerock667]

i know that.. i don't sppose to say that the world had learned something from holocaust etc...i only say that's fantastic that people that had lived in a terrible period such as WW2 could find the forces to hold on and even have fun!

[crapple009]

@1ndi64 Uh, let's all get back to the fabness of the Kinks in the meanwhile and enjoy this magic RnR moment, eh?

[valerock667]

that's music!

[0213kay]

great video !

love it ;)

[ryantunks]

I got rabbit SPUNK in me!

[robertlaberge]

"Till the end of the day" is followed by

"Lover, not a fighter" at 2:17 and

"You really got me" at 4:20

Fantastic stuff!

[cassettepat]

this looks like the best gig ever

[boneypart]

the crowd doesnt suck! it was 1965! what do you think people looked like in '65? kinda like that! jeez.....

[pissugly]

i wish i was born in this generation

[hansjalv]

They had it all. Nothing left for us.

[valerock667]

me to!!!

[SunnBurn]

One of the early KinKs' gems. Great bass line kicks in (courtesy of Peter Quaife) for the finale.

[MattHatter]

3:29, that dude is freakin' great! LOL!

[1ndi64]

so is his lass!

[77doriella]

Brilliant stuff. Influenced so many Mr Townshend included.

[walala00]

what´s the name of first song?

[PeterVonRock]

"Till the End of the Day"

[walala00]

thanks a lot !

[obbor4]

Wow! This is some of the best early live footage I've seen from any of those great British groups. Clean and crisp, the band sounds great, even the crowd shots are discriptive of the time. I can't believe how many gems are on the net care of those great German tv rock shows. We had idiots erasing early tapes of our shows in the States. I'm glad others throughout the world have been better guardians of theirs.

[AnalAssassin666]

finally done w/ my homework ne1 4 chat? c

[ryantunks]

the greatest band in the world!

[tacako1930]

love it !!

[0213kay]

hi !!

long time no see !

[fink94]

Wow! excellent sound!

[iagobroxado]

wow.. a footage of black guy dancing to rock in the 1960's pre-hippie europe! That must be more rare than hen's teeth.

[HandShock]

Ahhh, well last summer I was listening to a BBC show called the Pre-Led Zeppelin Jimmy Page Sessions. And it was claimed he played on 'You Really Got Me' - From listening to the solo here - makes you wonder.

BTW, I too would of absolutly freaked-out man if I had been there. These were one of my 60's heroes.

[soavebullion]

According to Hammer of the gods Page was all over many an mid sixties guitar session, including the main riff from you really got me.

[yaz08]

BS. There are few things in rock as recognizable as a Dave Davies guitar solo. Try listening to All Day and All of the Night, I Need You, Don't Ever Let Me Go, She's Got Everything, Everybody's a Star, You Can't Stop the Music, etc., etc. Did Jimmy Page play on all of those, too, through the years. Page played rhythm guitar on some tracks of the Kinks first album. Never lead. Everyone who was involved in Kinks recordings including their producer and other session musicians say it was Dave.

[twoslices]

Nope. That was Dave Davies on that not Jimmy Page.

[zerominusminus]

I'm with yaz08 and twoslices. This is ALL Dave Davies. Dave is so creative, just phenomenal. Page might have borrowed from some of this but this is so distinctively Dave Davies with so many different twists and turns. I can't think of many who even resemble him.

[Franzko787]

Ray has also said it was Dave. Dave was very cool, flamboyant and incredibly young. Ray really loved the blues but on the second song it shows Dave was the one who could sing the blues. ;-)

Great stuff. Very clean sound too.

[jmedia1]

G.R.E.A.T!

[MOTOPAC]

1) Till The End Of The Day

2) I'm A Lover Not A Fighter - (Dave vocal)

3) You Really Got Me

[cupcakechagrin]

amazing!!! i think i would have lost my mind if i was one of those kids!

don't they know that they are in the presence of the great and powerful KINKS.

[PAULLONDEN]

Yeahhh C C, those crazy Germans knew how to make a Popshow, check out the Sorrows

there too !

[RobinofSactown]

+ Wow- it seems the Germans invented dancing to rock! So many vids from the era show a dead audience in suits and pageboys staring blankly at the band- like the bouncy crowd!

[Mollweidekadet]

Smashin' footage.

[tallyrulz]

do you have a part 2 ???

[tallyrulz]

wow! never seen a video for I'm a lover not a fighter before; thank you!

[Beatnikella]

TOP MAD FOR IT! I love this song! One of the greatest song! And one of the hottest man: RAY-please marry me...hehehe

But Dave has got a strange voice...but cute!

[robertlaberge]

The Kinks perform with great panache

Till the end of the day, Lover but not a fighter (sung by Dave) and You really got me.

[beatbands1966]

was this show really 2 years long ?

[beatbands1966]

very very freakin cool. thank you for making my day

[mikekadas]

Rock group formed in London: Brothers Ray (vocals, guitar) and Dave (guitar) Davies, Pete Quaife (bass) and Mick Avory (drums). Jon Dalton replaced Quaife in 1969. Andy Pyle replaced Dalton in 1976. Jim Rodford of (of Argent) replaced Pyle in 1978. Ian Gibbons (keyboard) joined in 1979. Group inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. mikekadas at myspace

[sorbus49]

It`s Only now The True Impact of Ray Davies Empathic Lyrics are fully recognised. His Body of Work is A Cultural Treasure thank Goodness He Has Returned to Britain He Sang The Soundtrack of Our Life`s Movie for Lots of us and for this we thank him Thank You for Sharing This allowing and others to discover This Man`s Genius