THE KINKS "See my friends"

Here's an other one from the Kinks performing "See my Friends".
Enjoy...

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Music

Tags:

• see
• my
• friends
• the
• kinks
• rock
• pop
• 1960s
• ray
• davies
• guitar

[hapawes1]

Copied "ticket to ride"?  I dunno about that. Different tempo and chords.

[gillesbertacco]

More likely the other way ´round? Interesting question though...never noticed.

[cottageorgan]

Deceptively simple, deceptively strange...Big influence on John Lennon at the time. One chord verse. The Kinks are the most underrated band of the 1960's, like some B-division Who or something. Not in my world. Ray constantly pushed the boundaries of the pop song format. All their 1960's albums are classics and a few of their early 1970's. Massive influence on American garage and punk. Timeless, ageless and effin brilliant.

[MMAPEAL]

The first Indian influenced record on the scene-the Beatles and the Stones were behind the mark on this one--they scrambled to buy sitars, when in fact Dave Davies created the sitar sound with a regular guitar and some ingenious tricks

[aquariussouldier]

Nice and loud. What a beautiful track. Takes me back there <3

[zaphodtrillian]

Davies was the only talented artist of this era who could make social commentary about the British class system and emerge with any long term cred. Lennon did not have the gumption or the ability

[theedirtybeatsmusic]

Whew -- *love* this tune. We always end our live set with it: it's an ideal platform from which to launch a shimmering, full-on psychedelic workout (search THEE DIRTYBEATS see my friends)

[TheColts99]

I love the kinks my top 5 favorite kink sonfs are

1.Waterloo Sunset

2.Dead End Street

3.You Really Got Me

4.Lola

5.See My Friends

Awsome Video!

[tsartodd]

no disrespect to the Beatles, the Stones, or the Who ... but the Kinks are my favorite Brit Invasion band.

XD

[jaht3z]

@pretorious700 Not pure blues. I would say R&B, rockabilly and skiffle were more influential than the pure blues influence, which came on a little later and was taken up by the 'heavier' bands.

The mod scene was was an early rave analog - modern euro fashioned, amphetamine influenced, and dance oriented, and the blues really didn't suit that scene as well as did R&B.

[BreezesofConey]

@ToolsnFire Does it really effing matter? The song's character is totally different as is the underlying theme. Can't compare this in any way to Beatles in my opinion. How many other songs out there recycle the same series of notes or chords, does that mean they are stealing? Hardly, there are only so many musical arrangements before one uses a similar one. This does not sound like a copy of Ticket To Ride and the true would be said if the other way around, that song after this one.

[biswajit1978]

I will vote for anything european (british if you say ) rather than anything fucking american.

[keddw]

@pretorious700 The Kinks aren't a Blues band, are they? As for the Blues itself, it is a fusion too.