Dave Davies

On Dave's official site, Dave says about this amp in an excerpt from 'Kink' - An Autobiography by Dave Davies © 1996 "Ironically, it was that sound, which we used on 'You Really Got Me,' that got the Kinks our first hit."

Dave Davies with his 1959 Gibson Flying V, circa 1967. According to Dave's official site, the guitar had a "slightly different shape from the Flying V because it was in fact a prototype V."

Dave further discusses the guitar in this interview for Gibson:

'It was either late ’65 or early ’66. We were starting our first American tour, and we went to L.A. to do either the “Hullabaloo” TV show, or “Shindig!” In those days you just carried one suitcase and one guitar. We arrived at LAX and the luggage came, but there was no guitar. I had a Gretsch at the time and the airline had lost it. We were in a bit of a panic, so we left the airport and went to the first thrift shop we could find. I saw this funny-shaped box in the corner. The proprietor said, 'Oh, you don’t want that one. It’s an old thing.' I said, 'Let me look, let me see.' He opened it up and there was this lovely, strange, space-age looking guitar in there. I fell in love with it straightaway. He said he wanted 200 bucks for it, and I told him, 'Okay.' Later I found out it was a 1959 Flying V—the model referred to as the Futurist, I believe. While we were in the TV studio, I was looking through the monitors, watching myself with that guitar. I thought it looked really cool. I kept that guitar up until the early ‘90s, till around 1993.'"

According to this website, this Harmony Meteor is Dave Davies' first guitar, used on "You really got me".

In this live performance on "Shindig!" by The Kinks, Dave Davies is seen playing his 1964 Epiphone Casino in sunburst. According to his official website (www.davedavies.com), this was his second ever electric guitar. It was also heavily used on the 1965 LP "Kinda Kinks".

Dave Davies used a 1960s Guild Starfire IV, according to Guitar Geek's rig diagram.

In this television performance of Sunny Afternoon Dave Davies is seen using his Guild Starfire III. The guitar is visible at the start and end of the clip. Dave is also shown playing the guitar on the cover of the Kinks’ LP The Kink Kontroversy.

He mentions this amp on his website, saying "I plugged the Elpico loudspeaker's output leads into the input of the AC 30, in effect using the smaller amp as kind of a pre-amp."

In this performance of "All Day and All of the Night", Dave plays a Gretsch Jet Firebird that can be seen from the beginning of the clip.

Dave Davies recorded and performed songs like "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" and "Hold My Hand" with his 1965 Fender Electric XII. The photograph is from his performance on German television in 1969 according to Dave's official site.

According to Dave's official site, he played a 1954 Fender Strat. Dave says about this guitar "I used this alot during the Everybody's In Showbiz and Preservation live shows period around 1972-74."

According to this interview for Premier Guitar, Dave Davies used a Peavey Decade amp to record the song "Little Green Amp."

"'Did you use the little green amp on that track?'

'No, I used a little old Peavey Decade—a solid-state amp.'"

Dave Davies used a Gibson Nighthawk while recording the album "Rippin' up time," according to this interview for Gibson:

"I actually used just one electric guitar—the Gibson Nighthawk...It takes me a while to get used to new things, but when I started to play it—started to live with it for a while—I really loved it. I can get great sustain out of the pickups. It’s very bright, but I’m able to get that muddy, sort of bluesy tone as well. I think it’s truly an underrated guitar."

Dave Davies played a Fender Elite Telecaster with the Kinks during the '80s and '90s.

In this 1965 photograph, Dave Davies is seen with a Vox Phantom XII with a whammy bar.

In this photograph from Top of the Pops in 1964, Dave Davies plays a Vox Phantom V.

In an article by Chris Kies for Premier Guitar, it's noted that Dave Davies of The Kinks used a 1977 Gibson Les Paul Artisan in the early 1980s.

He’s played hundreds of makes and models, but Davies was first best known for playing a Gibson Flying V. In early ‘60s “pop” circles, the V was a rare spot and his embracing of Gibson’s radical design was hugely influential, even if he only bought the V because another guitar (originally destined for The Beatles’ George Harrison) he’d just acquired got stolen in transit to the U.S.A. Davies has also played many Les Pauls (Standards, Deluxes, P-90 Goldtops, Artisans) and L-5 and L-6 models too.

He’s played hundreds of makes and models, but Davies was first best known for playing a Gibson Flying V. In early ‘60s “pop” circles, the V was a rare spot and his embracing of Gibson’s radical design was hugely influential, even if he only bought the V because another guitar (originally destined for The Beatles’ George Harrison) he’d just acquired got stolen in transit to the U.S.A. Davies has also played many Les Pauls (Standards, Deluxes, P-90 Goldtops, Artisans) and L-5 and L-6 models too.

He’s played hundreds of makes and models, but Davies was first best known for playing a Gibson Flying V. In early ‘60s “pop” circles, the V was a rare spot and his embracing of Gibson’s radical design was hugely influential, even if he only bought the V because another guitar (originally destined for The Beatles’ George Harrison) he’d just acquired got stolen in transit to the U.S.A. Davies has also played many Les Pauls (Standards, Deluxes, P-90 Goldtops, Artisans) and L-5 and L-6 models too.

Dave Davies is seen using his 1952 Fender Telecaster on the "Julie Felix Show", 1969. According to Dave's official site, he "used (it) on some of the Preservation recordings and used on Hard Way from Schoolboys In Disgrace and on Stormy Sky from the Sleepwalker album".

Dave Davies can be seen playing a natural finished acoustic Fender Malibu in the promotional video for his debute solo single "Death of a Clown" in 1967. The song was later featured on The Kinks' album "Something Else by The Kinks".

Either Dave shared this guitar with his brother Ray Davies, or they both had similar ones, since Ray often was seen performing and recording with a Fender Malibu.

In this photograph from Top of the Pops in 1967, Dave is posing with a Vox Folk Twelve Electric. He can be seen playing this guitar in the same show: Autumn Almanac.

He’s played hundreds of makes and models, but Davies was first best known for playing a Gibson Flying V. In early ‘60s “pop” circles, the V was a rare spot and his embracing of Gibson’s radical design was hugely influential, even if he only bought the V because another guitar (originally destined for The Beatles’ George Harrison) he’d just acquired got stolen in transit to the U.S.A. Davies has also played many Les Pauls (Standards, Deluxes, P-90 Goldtops, Artisans) and L-5 and L-6 models too.

He’s played hundreds of makes and models, but Davies was first best known for playing a Gibson Flying V. In early ‘60s “pop” circles, the V was a rare spot and his embracing of Gibson’s radical design was hugely influential, even if he only bought the V because another guitar (originally destined for The Beatles’ George Harrison) he’d just acquired got stolen in transit to the U.S.A. Davies has also played many Les Pauls (Standards, Deluxes, P-90 Goldtops, Artisans) and L-5 and L-6 models too.

Live, Dave leans on a Gibson Songwriter Deluxe EC cutaway acoustic. “It’s beautiful to use on stage. It handles really well.”

Dave Davies was photographed on stage in the late 1970s utilizing two Peavey Mace 160 Watt RMS 2x12" Tube Valve Guitar Amplifiers, as evidenced by a sourced image. This visual documentation serves as a clear indication of his preference for this specific model of amplifier during that era.

Dave Davies playing a Gibson SG Custom in a natural finish at a concert. Date unknown.