Saturday, December 17, 2011

The Kinks Dream

I had a dream I was a band member of the Kinks during the 1970s. Sometimes I was Ray Davies and sometimes I was Dave Davies and sometimes I was an anonymous keyboard player (Nicky Hopkins?) who took marching orders from Ray but not Dave. I was never Mick Avory or Pete Quaife. We seemed to be singing "See My Friend" and stuff from Muswell Hillbillies a lot. We were also chimney sweeps and sang and danced like the chimney sweeps in Mary Poppins but the chimney sweeps of Mary Poppins were like a rival gang across town. One day, I was singing a Kinks song in a green field that looked like classic English countryside and it was very windy. Someone held their hand out to me and when I took it, I woke up.

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