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Bean
Still Hangin' At The Mailbox
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 Posted - August 01 2006 : 06:50:19 AM
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Today August 1, 2006 is the 11 year anniversary of the last KinKs show here in the U.S. which took place in Westbury, Long Island, NY. ( not counting the Rock Hall of Fame appearance the following month ) - I can remember the late night after show that took place in the Irish Pub in NYC later that night where the entire band, Ray and his wife at the time Pat, and Dave and Kate, Rafaela, Freaky Frank and myself all partied to the wee hours of the morning. That was when Ray first told us about his plans for his solo show originally to be called " 20th Century Man " before it changed to " Storyteller " later on. Memories of that night were Dave playing Soungarden's Black Hole Sun over and over onthe juke box and playing air guitar to it, while his girlfreind Kate kept playing Patsy Cline's Crazy every alternating song. That night we sat at th table with Dave while Ray, Pat, Ian, Jim, and Bob were behind us at the bar if I remember correctly. But things got fuzzy that night very quickly, since...
I can also remember that night that Dave got a few of us so wasted on Remi Martin we barely could stand up. I can vaugley remember staggering out on to the streets of NYC with Dave, Kate, and Jim Rodford. Ray had long left earlier. Two years later when Dave started his first solo tour and I saw him for the first time since that night ( at the Bottom Line ) his first words were to me were along the lines of how did you ever make it home that night? Since I first started seeing my first of hundreds of kinks shows back in October 0f 1969, it has been a way of life for me and this is the longest I have gone since then without a kinks show. It's very sad, I miss the Kinks, I miss seeing Ray and Dave on the same stage. I love them both beyond comprehension even to myself. I want Dave to be well first and more than anything but I also want one last chance to see The Band that changed my life forever. Day's I'll remember all my life. God Save the kInks...
FranK
PS. today is also the birthday of Jerry Garcia let us not forget him. And in 8 days it will also be the 11th anniversary of his passing.
" There is a road, no simple highway,
Between the dawn and the dark of night,
And if you go no one may follow,
That path is for your steps alone.
But if you fall you fall alone,
If you should stand then who's to guide you?
If I knew the way I would take you home."
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" No one can penetrate me,
They only see what's in their own fancy, always ".R.D.D.
"I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show,
A fantasy world of celluloid villains and heroes,
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die."...R.D. Davies
They're gonna try and make me change my way of living,
But they'll never make me something that I'm not.
They're trying to build a computerised community,
But they'll never make a zombie out of me. R.D. Davies
coz I'm a Montvale Hillbilly Boy...
Yours Truely Konfused 07645
" I bring thunder, lightning and rain
For those who administer injustice and pain
Comfort the weak and feed the poor
Truly, truly trust your heart "
David Russell Gordon Davies
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11 years ago today - KinKs Last and Gerry Garcia
