Fuck Jimmy Page! That's right, you heard me.
Being a long-suffering, ridiculously avid Kinks fan (I even like Soap Opera, for God's sake!), something's been stuck in my proverbial craw for some time now. It has always been rumored (no, insisted upon!) by "rock historians" that Jimmy Page played the famous solos on the Kinks' singles "You Really Got Me" and All Day and All of The Night." Now, I'm not here to defend Dave's guitar prowess, at least not in this stage of his career (you will notice that, though he does play the solo proficiently, Dave does blow quite a few chords along the way. To be fair, Jimmy Page did contribute quite a few rhythm guitar tracks to Kinks classics, and this may be the reason). I am here to give credit where credit is due. This bit of film, in my opinion, proves that Davies himself played both solos (can you tell the two solos apart? I thought so). The prevailing attitude has always been, for some reason, that the solos were far too complex for Dave Davies to have played them. I totally disagree. Though they sound fantastic, they are NOT by any means difficult to play. To my mind, it's just one more thing for Jimmy Page to steal. Perhaps his mistook Dave for Willie Dixon or Jake Holmes? But that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
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