{"id":488137,"date":"2019-07-18T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=860550"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:24:36","slug":"flashback-ray-and-dave-davies-reunite-in-2015-for-only-post-breakup-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-ray-and-dave-davies-reunite-in-2015-for-only-post-breakup-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Ray and Dave Davies Reunite in 2015 For Only Post-Breakup Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long-suffering Kinks fans were given yet another jolt of hope earlier this week Dave Davies<\/a> told Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that the he\u2019s been recording music with his brother Ray along with original Kinks drummer Mick Avory. \u201cThe songs are really just in demo form now,\u201d says Dave. \u201cBut good demos. Ray is still dissecting various other material we might use. The intention is to get the work out, but it\u2019s not a done deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group has been completely inactive since they quietly broke up in 1996 a couple of years after their last album, To The Bone.<\/em> In the summer of 2004 \u2014 just months after Ray was shot by a mugger in New Orleans \u2014 Dave suffered a stroke. The brothers were largely estranged by that point, but the medical crisis briefly brought them together. \u201cI know this sounds a bit mean,\u201d Davies told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2013.<\/a> \u201cBut I think he secretly enjoyed seeing me completely incapacitated.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that same interview, Dave compared Ray to the evil Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars.<\/em> \u201cHe\u2019s [actually] much worse,\u201d the guitarist said. \u201cBut I have to thank him, because if he wasn\u2019t so fucking horrible to me, I wouldn\u2019t have understood more about life. When he was a real cunt to me all those years ago I took up astrology so I could understand why people behave like that \u2026 It\u2019s like that old clich\u00e9 \u2014 you can choose your friends but you\u2019re stuck with your family. I think we were thrown together to try and teach each other something, and hopefully help some people that listen to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite all this, the brothers have been teasing a reunion for years. One major sticking, point however, has been the participation of original drummer Mick Avory. \u201cI hope we don\u2019t bring him back,\u201d Dave said in 2013. \u201cI love him, but it\u2019s water under the bridge. We need new people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ray is close to Avory and has always insisted that he be a part of any new Kinks project. \u201cI had a drink with Mick last week, and I asked, \u2018What happened to you guys?\u2019\u201d Ray told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2014.<\/a> \u201cThey shared a house in the 1960s. I think some things went on there that created a rivalry. It\u2019s like a bad Harold Pinter play.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout that whole time, Ray and Dave toured in separate camps, both playing sets very heavy on Kinks classics. The only time they came together for even a single song was December 18th, 2015 at London\u2019s Islington Assembly Hall. It was a Dave Davies show and at the end he shocked the audience by bringing out Ray for \u201cYou Really Got Me.\u201d Check out video of the big moment right here.<\/p>\n

Hopes were high that it would lead to a new album or tour, but it\u2019s nearly four years later and we\u2019re still waiting. Ray hasn\u2019t gone on any sort of tour in the past four years and now that both brothers are in their mid-70s, it\u2019s possible they\u2019ve simply waited too long. (Hey Gallagher brothers, let this be a cautionary tale. You don\u2019t have forever.) But the mere fact that Ray, Dave and Mick Avory are able to sit down together and record anything should give fans at least a small degree of hope that the last chapter of the Kinks sage hasn\u2019t been written.<\/p>\n

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Long-suffering Kinks fans were given yet another jolt of hope earlier this week Dave Davies told Rolling Stone that the he\u2019s been recording music with his brother Ray along with original Kinks drummer Mick Avory. \u201cThe songs are really just in demo form now,\u201d says Dave. \u201cBut good demos. Ray is still dissecting various other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 21:11:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}