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That stand looks safe...

They were a cool band.

"That stand looks safe..."

That's exactly what I thought when I saw that!

Are the EMP's just out of the camera lens?

Shouldn't the thread have been called "Kool Kinks KodaKromes?"

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Great pics, thanks! I sing lead on my band's cover of the Kinks' "All Day & All of the Night," (while playing a Rick bass, naturally), so I enjoyed those shots. Good band, great songs of different eras (All Day & All of the Night, Lola, Come Dancing, etc.). Thanks again for posting those.

Howdy,

The Kinks were SO Kool! Ray's voice is under-rated, too. So many catchy numbers: "Where have all the good times gone?", "Come on now" "Til the End of the Day" and of course the usual suspects aka greatest hits.
There's a generation or two of young guitarists who've never seen/heard the British Invasion. The appeal of Rickenbackers may well be lost on at the majority of them. Sad.

Larry

Someone said Ray and or Dave both had Rics, perhaps 12s, back in the day. Some of the records sure sound like it. I guess there are no pics though, huh? I wonder how they know then.

Glenn: I'm a long-time Kinks fan, but I've never seen a picture of Ray or Dave with Rickenbacker 6 or 12-string guitars. In the 1960's, Ray often played a Framus acoustic 12-string fitted with a sound hole pick-up. I've also seen photos and video of Dave playing Vox 12-strings. One was an electric acoustic jumbo and the other was a Phantom.

They also used Guild Starfires if I'm not mistaken. Don't know if they ever used a 12-string version, though. Most of the photos I've seen show Dave with a Starfire IV.

Thanks for the info. At some point, somewhere on here, someone was pretty sure they had Rick 12s. Perhaps this is because of the sound on some early recordings as there are no photos? From what I remember, Voxs had a pretty crummy quality rep. So I can't imagine many played 'em in the studio.

Dave with a Starfire IV? The Starfire IV was a double cutaway guitar; Dave had the Single cut Starfire III in any pics I've seen of him with a Guild.

Don: You're right. Dave's prized Guild was a Starfire III. When it was lost or damaged enroute to NYC in 1965, he bought his famous Gibson Vee as a replacement. He also played a sunburst Epiphone Casino at live shows in 1964-1965.