Kinks 1980 in Chicago, one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen. Get back together guys!

Wow, Dave sounds like he’s a right contrary old git. Pop a viagra and reclaim the rock’n roll dude!

I saw Ray’s “Storytellers” thing and I saw Dave Davies a few years back (before the stroke) live. Both were great – but I have to agree with Dave that a reunion at this late date would be more painful than anything- it really is time to move on. Sometimes you just cant go home again.

at this stage, they really should both lighten up and try getting along.

before the days of think video
how can youtop muswell hillbilly’s and the two [preservations

Cleavland opry 1975

dave is correct, and that’s not all – ringo wrote john’s songs.

no wonder i’m afraid to leave my apartment!

Some things are best left, remembered and replayed[on disc] as they were.

Wow! the Davies brothers being bitchy! These two ought to do a reality show together. NOT!

Come on, you ol’ crank. Let’s go out and play some tunes!

Please just do it! I’ll chip in $10.

It’s getting tough to watch these rock icons get older.. when they’re gone all we’ll have left is crap……… Rock is Dead

Judging by the way Dave Davies looked and sounded at the UK hall Of Fame, I highly doubt he can still throw down well enough to make it through a reunion gig….

I Love the Kinks! Have all their albums except Great Lost Kinks Album because “it’s lost on Reprise”. They were great in their day. I just wish Ray and Dave could see fit to releasing all the stuff languishing in the vaults at Konk Studios, films and music. What’s the point of archiving material that will never see the light of day. As we loyal Kinks fans always say “Long Live The Kinks!”

I love “KINKS” too, baby!

Ray is one of the best songwriters ever… Love the Kinks !!!!!

What??? I guess I’ve really been out of the loop for too long. Brutaltimes writes Ringo wrote John’s songs. What??

Saw Kinks in Illinois ‘66 great show-a riot broke out after the show.
what is this about Ringo wrote John’s songs???

If Dave doesn’t want to do it, so be it. Clearly, there is no Kinks without both Ray and Dave. But if they have any doubts, there are millions of us out here who “got” the Kinks. We could live with the music we’ve got, but if the rest of us geezers could see them live one more time…

Waterloo Sunset is one of the best songs ever, even if Charlie Watts wrote it.

I’m not sure how well Dave can play or sing after the stroke. Ray’s recent solo stuff has been forgettable, I guess- ’cause I forgot it. The Kinks were one of the top 5 greatest bands of all time. They should get together and jam, Dave can write another “Where Pigs Fly”- maybe the rest can get a whole album out of it. The hour is getting late, boys. Music or no music- be nice. Before it’s too late.

Man, the Davies brothers should just bury the hatchet and do another tour, with Mick Avory on drums and Pete Quaife, if his health, allows, on bass. I would love to see a full-blown Kinks reunion. If Quaife can’t do it, get the guy who played with them in the 1980s, or the one one in the early 1970s, but you have to have AT LEAST Dave, Ray and Mick in the lineup, for sure.

I saw the Kinks perform four times in Philadelphia and own all their music. I think they are one of the top bands that ever played, but sadly to say, if they got back together and toured, they would never be able to capture the magic of years past ,and in no way will their music compare in quality to the songs of yesterday.

Saw Davies and his band last night at Orpheum in Boston. Much better energy than last time around, very good riffs, and reached deep into the Kinks catalgue for some gems in a show that lasted over 2 1/2 hours with a brief 15 minute intermission. Funny note, someone chucked a beer onstage early in the show and it spashed about 3 feet from Davies. His reaction? Started singing a few lines from “Demon Alcohol”. He takes it all in stride.

A Kinks reunion would be larger than life, something i always dreamed of!

Saw the Kinks 29 times and it just aint enough. New music(?) sucks. Ray didn’t write songs, he wrote anthems. Dave invented hard rock. Best night ever was in AC when we were in 2nd row and Ray let us sing a line from “Low Budget” and then said “you sing good!”

If the guys don’t tour at least make a album its easier to make albums than make tours. If they are not in good order do you want them to lip sync . I am for a concert but if the guys are not able to do it physical why make noise instead of music. Ray and the rest can put down their tracks like the Beatles did for the WHite album they record their parts and a George Martin type will blend it together.

Let’s all put our differences aside and make some real money…..enough of this “LOW BUDGET” crap…..do it once more for me!!!!!Ray,Dave, Mick and Pete…thats the only way it willever be the original “KINKS”. Like they said before….”Do It Again”…..

Never saw the Kinks together, but have seen both of the Davies brothers solo acts. Schoolboys in Disgrace is my all time favorite album. Please reunite fellas!!!

Saw the Kinks live 37 times over the years. (I worked for a ticketing agency.) The greatest! Agree with other posters they should get together in the studio! They never got the full credit they deserve for their music and how it influenced rock-n-roll. Love ya, Ray and Dave!

“Life is very short, and there’s no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it’s a crime,
So I will ask you once again…”

C’mon Dave! You have always been recognized by true Kinks fans as a great guitarist and when you did your solo tours, showed that you could sing lead vocals very well! Please, if you’re feelin’ okay, and I pray you are, come back to us with Ray, Mick and Pete, and let’s rock again.
“I see the lines across your face,
Time has gone, and nothing ever can replace,
Those great, SO great,
Young and Innocent Days..” (Except for a reunion tour of one of the greatest rock bands of all time, and that inludes the Beatles, Stones and The Who!).

Do it while you still can! In these times of war and economic stress, we need The Kinks more than ever. Do it for yourselves, for us, and for the world! Kink fans and The Kinks will NEVER BE LIKE LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE! Let us all raise a glass and once again drink to Dave “Death of a Clown” Davies! Hope Dave’s better, cause I know Ray, Mick and Pete are in to it. “Yesterday’s gone, and that’s a fact, now there’s No More Looking Back…gotta be strong..”
God Still Saves The Kinks!

There IS something to be said about seeing our old rock heroes age, however, if we are fortunate to live, we ALL age along with them. In the words of the aging, losing his excellent voice Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull, who is talented enough to make up for it by being able to SING and play the flute at the same time, with one leg behind his back, “You’re never too old to Rock and Roll, when you’re too young to die!” Both Ray and Dave can STILL rock, and I would rather see and hear most any of the great classic rockers still alive, than most current, aside from a few, bands/musicians who put out irrelevant lyrics and music that will never stand up FOREVER as those of The Kinks as a band or even their solo material STILL does.

“If you use a dream
To change a mind,
Then imaginations real.
Think with your heart,
And you will see,
Imaginations real..”

As Ray used to say in concert, during the later days, “Rock bands come, and rock bands go, but Rock and Roll is gonna go on forever…All Day And All of the Night!!!! And cheers to Neil Young, who’s still “Rockin’ in the Free World,” even though “the king is gone but not forgotten…Hey hey, my my – Rock and Roll will NEVER die…”

The Kinks OLD lyrics and music are as much or more relevant NOW than when the material first came out. That is how much ahead of the times they were. And, they are capable of making NEW music that would blow these wanna-be’s off the stage and charts, if promoted better than when they had to deal with Robert, Grenville, Larry and “The Moneygoround!” Hoping that we all find “Better Things” for the New Year. Now what better way to express such a thought?

Happy Trails!

Preservation Mike

Maybe I should have never posted that note on Dave’s site, because his entire comment on the KinKs reunion was a response directly to me. I love both Ray and Dave, they and the KinKs mean more to me than anyone will ever know. To some it’s just jukebox music to me it’s a whole lot more. All I want for them is to be happy and healthy and I only want a kinks reunion or even a Dave and Ray union if they both really want it and for the right reason, it’s got to be for the music, and I really mean the music, not just a re-hash of their hits. The Kinks, their music and everything it has and still does mean is too important for them to go out on that note. god save the kinks and all their fans who have supported them through the years. They remain sekond to none.

Sounds awesome. But so did the led-zep ruinion rumors. If they squable they squable. But the fans should mean more to them than petty differences.

REUNITE KINKS. 2009

Your music gets me through the day;Got a bug in my brain called luv for you. It goes through my head and keeps me sane, happy and satisfied; always and ever

I think a Kinks reunion would be awesome. I hope they can pull it off! However, I also know that having a stroke can take the wind out of your sails as well! So if it does not happen it would be understandable.

I agree with Trance – not worth it for the Davies brothers to try and keep the Kinks franchise on artificial repirator. But…

When is the junior Davies going to write another soundtrack for another Carpenter thriller? Come to think of it, when’s Carpenter gonna make another movie?!?

Wow! I love the Kinks please reunite!! I think that they really started hitting their stride with Preservation Act 2. Second Hand Car Spiv is like my favourite song of all time! Later on came the masterfull Low Budget! If they reunite I’m not sure they can top their last album Phobia. They really rocked out on that one. God save the kinks.

Well I know I wont be the most popular person saying this, but I actually hope the Kinks never reunite. Don’t get me wrong – they were a good group. But it wasn’t until I heard Dave Davies’ solo work (1981’s Glamour and the new Fractured Mindz) that I really started to understand what GREAT music could be. Maybe its because I too am a follower of the occult, maybe because I believe in the stories of his alien abduction, but there’s something about God In My Brain that really speaks to me in the deepest way. God help the Kinks. God save Dave

Well I know I wont be the most popular person saying this, but I actually hope the Kinks never reunite. Don’t get me wrong – they were a good group. But it wasn’t until I heard Dave Davies’ solo work (1981’s Glamour and the new Fractured Mindz) that I really started to understand what GREAT music could be. Maybe its because I too am a follower of the occult, maybe because I believe in the stories of his alien abduction, but there’s something about God In My Brain that really speaks to me in the deepest way. God help the Kinks. God save Dave Davies

just wish i could hear them do waterloo sunset and then at the end note i die! but man i die happy!