Van Halen famously covered two songs by The Kinks, reports Guitar Player: “You Really Got Me” – the hard-rockers’ hit 1978 debut single – and “Where Have All the Good Times Gone,“ which appeared on their 1982 album, Diver Down.
To be clear, Dave Davies appreciates that he and his brother Ray had an impact on rock and, particularly, rock guitarists.
“It’s always very flattering for people to copy you, but it’s only music, isn’t it? It is an important vehicle, but we shouldn’t take it too seriously,” Davies told Guitar Player in their March 1990 issue. “We’ve been copied more than a lot of people would care to admit. Ray’s music has impressed upon and influenced a lot of people in many different ways, but that’s good.”
But, with that said, Davies wasn’t much of a fan of Van Halen’s take on The Kinks’ classic.
“When I first heard Van Halen’s version of ‘You Really Got Me,’ I laughed,” he said. “It just seemed so exaggerated. It really misses the point of the whole meaning of the song: four working-class guys, struggling to do something different. In the original record, you can sense that in its energy, the roughness. It’s very impure. The Van Halen thing; it’s very accomplished and flashy, but what does it mean?”
In the same interview, Davies also addressed claims that Jimmy Page had played the electric guitar solos on those early Kinks sides.
Read the full report at guitarplayer.com.
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To be clear, Dave Davies appreciates that he and his brother Ray had an impact on rock and, particularly, rock guitarists.
“It’s always very flattering for people to copy you, but it’s only music, isn’t it? It is an important vehicle, but we shouldn’t take it too seriously,” Davies told Guitar Player in their March 1990 issue. “We’ve been copied more than a lot of people would care to admit. Ray’s music has impressed upon and influenced a lot of people in many different ways, but that’s good.”
But, with that said, Davies wasn’t much of a fan of Van Halen’s take on The Kinks’ classic.
“When I first heard Van Halen’s version of ‘You Really Got Me,’ I laughed,” he said. “It just seemed so exaggerated. It really misses the point of the whole meaning of the song: four working-class guys, struggling to do something different. In the original record, you can sense that in its energy, the roughness. It’s very impure. The Van Halen thing; it’s very accomplished and flashy, but what does it mean?”
In the same interview, Davies also addressed claims that Jimmy Page had played the electric guitar solos on those early Kinks sides.
Read the full report at guitarplayer.com.
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