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The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Dave Davies (The KInks)| The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan

Billy Corgan

Music, Arts, Performing Arts

4.6731 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Billy Corgan sits down with Dave Davies, the pioneering guitarist/co-founder of The Kinks and one of the architects of distorted hard rock. From the raw explosion of “You Really Got Me” to the emotional genius of Ray Davies, Dave reflects on growing up poor in postwar England, discovering Little Richard and blues music, surviving fame in the ‘60s, and helping create one of the most influential bands in rock history. 

The episode dives into brotherhood, creativity, spirituality, and the magic behind songs like “Waterloo Sunset,” “See My Friends,” and “I’m Not Like Everybody Else.” Dave opens up about his spiritual awakening, the band’s chaotic early years, his relationship with Ray, and why love, not fame or success, is ultimately what matters. There are also incredible stories about Eddie Van Halen, British Invasion chaos, guitar experimentation, and the creation of some of rock’s most enduring records

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0:00.0

You know, the kinks is a... a nickname of a boy and a white-and-white... that the people shouldn't even be in the band. Maybe that's part of it. That's not what I'm after. I mean, it was so spontaneous that we didn't realize what we'd been doing. But the thing is, is when you look at your brother's writing, there's been no other writer ever like him. If you're honest, it was magical forever.

0:28.0

Yeah.

0:29.0

Unless you could write anything.

0:32.2

I get the sense as a fan, there's all we only love.

0:35.9

I'm just getting emotional, thinking of him.

0:40.0

I know you know the mythology of who played the solo and you really got me.

0:44.0

You know? Well, I'm cool, sorry to. Who was the wildest? Well, I'm lost. Dave Davies, thank you for being on my podcast. It's great. I'm very privileged to be here. Thank you. So here we are. It's 30th Street guitar, yes. It's friends of yours, right? Yeah, they're great. Here in New York. Guitar, but as soon as I walked in, I wanted to spend money. Yes, but it do, far. Okay, so here's the secret nerd question. We'll start here. Do you still have your 60s flying beat? No. No, I don't keep my soul. Really? Are you not sentimental? Because if I get sentimental, I get too attached. I get it. And that's not for poverty. I call it. And that's not. So I'm terrible. I don't want to get rid of anything. That's terrible. I want your flying V2. You know what I mean? It's like it's not enough for me to have my guitars I want your guitars too. Yeah, you can Got less we'll find it. Okay Correct me if I'm wrong Last time you played with your brother Ray 2015 last time you did the solo concert was 2018 Approximately now close enough. Yeah, and the last official King show was 1996 and Oslo. Oh, you dropped your mic. You're such you're still a rock and roller You seem I'm a dying is it working? Yeah. Oh, wow. It's it's relaxed It's like cable access like maybe one step up Thank you for being on my cable access show. Okay. This is an unfair question, but looking back over so much music and so many concerts and is there something that you do feel pride? Do you feel like I would have done it differently? Is there a way you can sort of sum up? Oh, and that's impossible. You can't sum up 30 years, 60 years. 60 years. So yes, you can't sum up that money years. Yeah, play. Yeah. It's too crazy. Right. And there's too much stuff because you think of one thing and then you think, well hang on there for some,

3:06.2

something else. Too much stuff. Yeah, I'm sure you have that experience where people come up and say, I saw you here and this thing happened and it's like, you know you were there, but you have no memory of it. Because you've done so much, it's hard to remember it all. You can't remember what you're playing.

3:27.3

We can't remember.

3:28.3

On the V. it because you've done so much it's hard to remember it all. I'm saying it's you can't remember what you play.

3:27.0

We can't remember.

3:28.0

On the V. On the V.

3:30.7

On the V.

3:31.7

Oh, on the V.

3:32.7

It was hard.

3:33.7

It definitely could solve the play on it anyway.

3:37.6

Was it?

3:38.6

Yeah, I thought it was fun though.

3:40.6

But you looked fantastic playing it.

3:42.3

Yeah.

3:43.3

And you know with guitar looking good is half the battle. Yeah, okay

3:47.6

Uh

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