Dave Davies Had A Stroke

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Dave Davies, co-founder of the Kinks, partially paralysed by stroke
LONDON (AP) — Dave Davies, one of the founding members of British rock group the Kinks, has been partially paralysed by a stroke he suffered in June, his spokesman said.
Spokesman Alan Robinson said Davies, 57, would have to spend at least another month in the hospital but that doctors were confident that with physiotherapy he would recover.
“He is paralysed on the right-hand side of his body but he retains some feeling and he can still hold a guitar plectrum,” Robinson said Monday. “These small things mean ... a lot. They’re small but very important.”
Davies, who founded the Kinks in the early 1960s with his brother Ray, collapsed June 30 while promoting his new solo album, Bug.
One of the best of the guitar-driven bands of the 1960s British Invasion, the Kinks had a string of hits including You Really Got Me, All Day and All of the Night, Dedicated Follower of Fashion and Lola.
Ray Davies, 60, the band’s chief singer and songwriter, was shot in the leg by a thief who snatched his girlfriend’s bag as the pair walked in New Orleans in January.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

get well soon, dave.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck, this is grim. Godspeed the recovery because, well, he's not like everybody else.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

57's too young.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

[i]was shot in the leg by a thief[/i]

I thought he was stabbed?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

at least the prognosis is good.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

No, he was shot. I remember someone asking if Dave had an alibi at the time of the incident.

x-post

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ray davies Of The Kinks Shot In New Orleans

Ray Davies of the Kinks SHOT IN NEW ORLEANS!

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck that's sad.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's all drink to the stroke of a clown...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Currently watching Julien Temple's Kinkdom Come documentary about Dave Davies. This one is worth tracking down...

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 5 August 2011 05:52 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

new solo album next week

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 19:31 (thirteen years ago)

...so has anyone heard it?

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 11:24 (thirteen years ago)

He's playing at the City Winery today or tomorrow. No cover, I think.

― Roddenberry Beret (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 12:12 (thirteen years ago)

5-7:30. I don't know when he starts playing. Don't think I can go myself.

― Roddenberry Beret (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 13:20 (thirteen years ago)

yes, in a lot behind the club apparently? Starts at 5:30 allegedly, I will likely go as it's 3 blocks from me.

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 14:27 (thirteen years ago)

Enjoy. Definitely not making it. Will listen to "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" instead.

― Roddenberry Beret (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:19 (thirteen years ago)

Once I get started I go to town.

― Roddenberry Beret (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:23 (thirteen years ago)

Man, lot's of cover versions of that tune out there.

― Roddenberry Beret (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 21:37 (thirteen years ago)

One of my fb friends posted that he did "Young and Innocent Days" !!

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 23:07 (thirteen years ago)

He also did "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" twice. I think intentionally.

This was one of those well-nice-to-see-yer-still-alive shows.

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

Intentionally to make me feel guilty for not going. Especially since I knew I would have to leave early and I figured I would be waiting in vain for it, but instead he played it at the beginning of the show and the end of show so that both the earlier arrivals and the latecomers could hear it.

― Roddenberry Beret (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:21 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

I love Dave Davies (and he had the coolest outfits) and I just learned that he will be playing nearby in November. I should go, right?

― special beet service (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 02:08 (twelve years ago)

Yes, if you don't want to be like everybody else.

― I Am the Cosimo Code (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 02:33 (twelve years ago)

But I'm not like everybody else.

― special beet service (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 02:36 (twelve years ago)

We should all hope to age as comfortably as Dave Davies
http://www.biography.com/imported/images/Biography/Images/Profiles/D/Dave-Davies-20929715-1-402.jpg

Also, outfits:
http://images.dangerousminds.net/uploads/images/dave_davies_kinkdom_come.jpg

― special beet service (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 02:43 (twelve years ago)

Since the Kinks, in whatever form, are unlikely to reunite, yeah, go see Dave (although I've heard his backing bands leave a little to be desired...but who cares, it's Dave playing "Young and Innocent Days").

― punt cased (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 02:51 (twelve years ago)

Yeah that sounds great. So great!

― special beet service (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 September 2013 03:00 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

Thank you 13,000 followers on twitter! Love Dave pic.twitter.com/vCGO9pezOM
— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) April 30, 2018

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:54 (eight years ago)

http://www.nme.com/news/music/the-kinks-dave-davies-ufo-experiences-2028689

― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 20:21 (eight years ago)

omg i thought he died
phew

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:11 (eight years ago)

lol every time a random old ilm thread gets revived now i predict either "RIP" or "yay new Alfred Soto blog post"

― brimstead, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:15 (eight years ago)

yea especially given the original title here

― frogbs, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 21:19 (eight years ago)

lol, I have similar thoughts

― Abbatari Teenage Riot (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 02:37 (eight years ago)

Heard that he is not well and this tour has been bleak

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 03:35 (eight years ago)

three years pass...

Back on the sauce

I’m not sure if this is an appropriate tweet but In the sixties some of the models shaved their minges. I always thought it was a turn off I always liked women to look ‘au naturel’
— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) December 2, 2021

― Alba, Friday, 3 December 2021 08:38 (four years ago)

omg i thought he died
phew

^^^^^^^^^^

― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 3 December 2021 09:17 (four years ago)

christ that tweet is so embarrassing
get a grip dave!!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 December 2021 14:43 (four years ago)

Sir this is a Wendy’s etc.

― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 3 December 2021 14:50 (four years ago)

I never heard the term "minges" before. Still learning something new everyday!

― birdistheword, Friday, 3 December 2021 15:11 (four years ago)

I hope Karl Minges has a good sense of humor. (He popped up when I looked it up on Google.)

― birdistheword, Friday, 3 December 2021 15:13 (four years ago)

For some reason, this makes me think of John Mendelssohn's shock at Ray's choice of underpants circa 1969.

― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 December 2021 15:40 (four years ago)

‘au naturel’ is such a pleasant term!

― meisenfek, Friday, 3 December 2021 15:41 (four years ago)

'minge' is such an unpleasant term

― When Smeato Met Moaty (Tom D.), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:42 (four years ago)

bottom line: he should not be tweeting about this
no one wants to know dave davies' opinion sbout this

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:51 (four years ago)

otm

― Goofy the Grifter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:53 (four years ago)

why are you kinkshaming

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:59 (four years ago)

Front bottom line - to be precise

― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 3 December 2021 16:00 (four years ago)

he really was "having a stroke"

― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 3 December 2021 16:18 (four years ago)

Jesus
Irl lol @ kink shaming tho

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 December 2021 16:34 (four years ago)

why are you kinkshaming

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, December 3, 2021 3:59 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Front bottom line - to be precise

― Luna Schlosser, Friday, December 3, 2021 4:00 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

he really was "having a stroke"

― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, December 3, 2021 4:18 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

3 up

― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Friday, 3 December 2021 16:42 (four years ago)

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