DAVE DAVIES
''I WILL BE ME''
JUNE 4 2013
64:17
1. Little Green Amp /4:34
2. Livin' in the Past /4:45
3. The Healing Boy /5:19
4. Midnight in L.A. /5:13
5. In the Mainframe /4:19
6. Energy Fields /5:23
7. When I First Saw You /3:32
8. The Actress /3:59
9. Erotic Neurotic /3:48
10. You Can Break My Heart /6:01
11. Walker Through the World /5:59
12. Remember the Future /5:42
13. Cote Du Rhone (I Will Be Me) /5:43
Scott Barnes/Bass
Matt Bennett/Drums
Oli Brown/Guest Artist, Guitar
Azaria Byrne/Vocals
Chris #2/Bass, Vocals
Jak Coleman/Guitar
Tom Currier/Bass, Piano
Dave Davies/Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Dennis Davison/Maracas, Organ
Wesley Doyle/Guitar
Jurgen Engler/Bass
James Freemantle/Bass
Teddy Freese/Drums
Geri X/Guest Artist, Vocals
Karen Grotberg/Harpsichord, Piano, Vocals
Chris Head/Guitar
Joey Horgen/Guitar
Simon Jackson/Guitar
Kara Jayne/Bass
Steve Kille/Drums
Jon Lamont/Drums
Mark Laughlin/Drums
Jonathan Lea/Guitar (Electric), Sitar (Electric)
Chris Lietz/Drums
Gary Louris/Guitar (Electric), Vocals
Jordan McDonald/Drums
Sarah McLeod/Guitar
Tim O'Reagan/Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Mark Olson/Vocals
Marc Perlman/Bass
Wayne Proctor/Drums
Justin Sane/Guitar, Vocals
Ty Segall/Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Jason Simon/Guitar
Chris Spedding/Guest Artist, Guitar
Pat Thetic/Drums
Jon Tufnell/Vocals
Bruce Tyner/Guest Artist, Pedal Steel Guitar
John Wesley/Guest Artist, Guitar
Yura Zeleznik/Guest Artist, Violin
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
His second album since suffering a major stroke in 2004, I Will Be Me finds Dave Davies in a defiant state of mind but that doesn't prevent him from indulging in a little bit of nostalgia. These rose-tinted reflections arrive early on, as the album opens with "Little Green Amp," a gnarly little rocker that twists several Kinks songs together -- primarily "All Day and All Of the Night," but it can't help bring to mind "Destroyer" as well -- and the subsequent "Livin' in the Past" mines a similar heavy territory. Things get a little gentler from there, as he turns inward on "The Healing Boy" and gets romantic with "When I First Saw You," which only signals how much ground Davies covers here. Generally, he's unafraid to make some noise, and that cacophony is an odd pairing with his deeply held beliefs in the mystical and UFOs, creating a tension that isn't dissonant as much as it is idiosyncratic. Sometimes, Davies' blend of hard rock and healing doesn't quite jibe -- it can lose form and drift or it can hammer its points home too hard -- but there's a dogged individuality to his mission that's appealing even when the music itself is not. This is who he is at age 66 and he is unafraid, even proud, to be who he is.
BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger
Although he took a largely subordinate role to his brother Ray in the Kinks, Dave's fierce guitar work and hoarse but effective background (and occasional lead) vocals were key elements of the band's appeal. Dave also occasionally wrote songs for the Kinks that showed him to be a writer of considerable skill and wit, if not up to the same level as Ray. In the late '60s, Dave made some solo singles that met with critical success in Britain, although they were unknown in the U.S. "Death of a Clown" (also included on the Kinks' Something Else LP) made number three on the British charts in 1967, and the follow-up, "Susannah's Still Alive," also did fairly well.
Dave began to consider making a solo album, but after a couple other solo singles flopped, he seemed to lose heart and abandoned his plans (some unreleased solo tracks from this period turned up on the obscure Kinks bootleg Good Luck Charm). In the 1980s, Dave finally began a solo career in earnest, releasing a series of mainstream rock albums and various collections of demos and outtakes that found little critical or commercial acclaim, before his work was neatly summarized on Unfinished Business: Dave Davies Kronikles 1963-1998. The hard-rocking Bug from 2002 was his first album of new material in nearly 20 years. Davies suffered a major stroke in 2004 and used composing and painting as therapy during the lengthy recovery period that followed. The new song "God in My Brain" was inspired by the stroke and appeared on the 2006 compilation Kinked. In 2007 Davies released his first full-length post-stroke studio album, Fractured Mindz, on the Koch label.
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''I WILL BE ME''
JUNE 4 2013
64:17
1. Little Green Amp /4:34
2. Livin' in the Past /4:45
3. The Healing Boy /5:19
4. Midnight in L.A. /5:13
5. In the Mainframe /4:19
6. Energy Fields /5:23
7. When I First Saw You /3:32
8. The Actress /3:59
9. Erotic Neurotic /3:48
10. You Can Break My Heart /6:01
11. Walker Through the World /5:59
12. Remember the Future /5:42
13. Cote Du Rhone (I Will Be Me) /5:43
Scott Barnes/Bass
Matt Bennett/Drums
Oli Brown/Guest Artist, Guitar
Azaria Byrne/Vocals
Chris #2/Bass, Vocals
Jak Coleman/Guitar
Tom Currier/Bass, Piano
Dave Davies/Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Dennis Davison/Maracas, Organ
Wesley Doyle/Guitar
Jurgen Engler/Bass
James Freemantle/Bass
Teddy Freese/Drums
Geri X/Guest Artist, Vocals
Karen Grotberg/Harpsichord, Piano, Vocals
Chris Head/Guitar
Joey Horgen/Guitar
Simon Jackson/Guitar
Kara Jayne/Bass
Steve Kille/Drums
Jon Lamont/Drums
Mark Laughlin/Drums
Jonathan Lea/Guitar (Electric), Sitar (Electric)
Chris Lietz/Drums
Gary Louris/Guitar (Electric), Vocals
Jordan McDonald/Drums
Sarah McLeod/Guitar
Tim O'Reagan/Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Mark Olson/Vocals
Marc Perlman/Bass
Wayne Proctor/Drums
Justin Sane/Guitar, Vocals
Ty Segall/Guest Artist, Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Jason Simon/Guitar
Chris Spedding/Guest Artist, Guitar
Pat Thetic/Drums
Jon Tufnell/Vocals
Bruce Tyner/Guest Artist, Pedal Steel Guitar
John Wesley/Guest Artist, Guitar
Yura Zeleznik/Guest Artist, Violin
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
His second album since suffering a major stroke in 2004, I Will Be Me finds Dave Davies in a defiant state of mind but that doesn't prevent him from indulging in a little bit of nostalgia. These rose-tinted reflections arrive early on, as the album opens with "Little Green Amp," a gnarly little rocker that twists several Kinks songs together -- primarily "All Day and All Of the Night," but it can't help bring to mind "Destroyer" as well -- and the subsequent "Livin' in the Past" mines a similar heavy territory. Things get a little gentler from there, as he turns inward on "The Healing Boy" and gets romantic with "When I First Saw You," which only signals how much ground Davies covers here. Generally, he's unafraid to make some noise, and that cacophony is an odd pairing with his deeply held beliefs in the mystical and UFOs, creating a tension that isn't dissonant as much as it is idiosyncratic. Sometimes, Davies' blend of hard rock and healing doesn't quite jibe -- it can lose form and drift or it can hammer its points home too hard -- but there's a dogged individuality to his mission that's appealing even when the music itself is not. This is who he is at age 66 and he is unafraid, even proud, to be who he is.
BIOGRAPHY
by Richie Unterberger
Although he took a largely subordinate role to his brother Ray in the Kinks, Dave's fierce guitar work and hoarse but effective background (and occasional lead) vocals were key elements of the band's appeal. Dave also occasionally wrote songs for the Kinks that showed him to be a writer of considerable skill and wit, if not up to the same level as Ray. In the late '60s, Dave made some solo singles that met with critical success in Britain, although they were unknown in the U.S. "Death of a Clown" (also included on the Kinks' Something Else LP) made number three on the British charts in 1967, and the follow-up, "Susannah's Still Alive," also did fairly well.
Dave began to consider making a solo album, but after a couple other solo singles flopped, he seemed to lose heart and abandoned his plans (some unreleased solo tracks from this period turned up on the obscure Kinks bootleg Good Luck Charm). In the 1980s, Dave finally began a solo career in earnest, releasing a series of mainstream rock albums and various collections of demos and outtakes that found little critical or commercial acclaim, before his work was neatly summarized on Unfinished Business: Dave Davies Kronikles 1963-1998. The hard-rocking Bug from 2002 was his first album of new material in nearly 20 years. Davies suffered a major stroke in 2004 and used composing and painting as therapy during the lengthy recovery period that followed. The new song "God in My Brain" was inspired by the stroke and appeared on the 2006 compilation Kinked. In 2007 Davies released his first full-length post-stroke studio album, Fractured Mindz, on the Koch label.
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