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Dave Davies talks to Britsound, June 2009

Dave Davies

Full interview with Gillian Lomax

David Russell Gordon Davies is an English rock musician (singer and lead guitarist), most well known for his membership with the English rock band The Kinks. In 2003, Davies was ranked 88th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

He founded The Kinks with Pete Quaife in 1963. His brother Ray, who became the best-known member of the band, joined soon after. The quartet was formed when drummer Mick Avory joined. Davies had a turbulent relationship with Avory, one of the reasons behind the latter's departure from the band in the mid 1980s, although the two had been roommates in the mid 1960s.

The group disbanded in 1996, but Davies continued to have a steady musical career as a performer and songwriter until a hypertension-induced stroke in 2004 sidelined him.

In January 2007 Davies released Fractured Mindz, his first album of all new material in nearly five years. It was also his first new studio effort since his stroke in the summer of 2004 besides the track "God In my Brain" (which was recorded and released on the compilation album Kinked in January 2006).

Davies is also releasing a new DVD later this year called Dave Davies Kronikles Mystical Journey which is now available at his website.

Britsound's Gillian Lomax interviewed Dave Davies...

Links:

http://www.davedavies.com