Welcome to MusicDayz

The world's largest online archive of date-sorted music facts, bringing day-by-day facts instantly to your fingertips.
Find out what happened on your or your friends' Birthday, Wedding Day, Anniversary or just discover fun facts in musical areas that particularly interest you.
Please take a look around.

Fact #125258

When:

Short story:

The Kinks record See My Friends and Wait Til The Summer Comes Along, for Pye Records in London, England, UK.

Full article:

Dave Davies (guitarist, The Kinks] : It was a bit ethereal. Even before The Kinks, Ray and I listened to so much different music: country and western, Hank Williams, Lonnie Donegan, Marty Wilde, The Ventures, Big Bill Broonzy and all the blues people. We'd hear a Hawaiian guitar and wouldn't know what it was, so we'd kind of fake it.

Or a sitar, we'd fake it, and See My Friends is actually played on a de-tuned 12-string guitar which gives it that kind of Indian flavour. That's what made recording so much fun. We didn't get in special instruments until we got into the brass thing a bit later on. And that comes from growing up listening to trad bands.
(Source : not known)