Fact #125258
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Short story:
The Kinks record See My Friends and Wait Til The Summer Comes Along, for Pye Records in London, England, UK.
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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.
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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.
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