Ray Davies
UK singer/songwriter, member of The Kinks
Ray Davies' Gear
Ray Davies frequently played a Fender Telecaster during The Kinks' performances and recordings throughout the 1960s, as evidenced by a user-uploaded image on Guim.
Here is a photo of Ray playing his Les Paul Jr in the 90s.
In the provided photo, Ray Davies is seen playing an Ovation 1771LX Standard Balladeer, featuring a Green Burst finish.
Ray Davies is seen playing a Fender Kingman SCE Acoustic Electric Guitar backstage in a 1966 photo, as shared on Tumblr.
In this picture you can see Ray playing a Fender Stratocaster
In this image, Ray Davies can be seen playing a Gibson Victory guitar.
Ray is pictured here with a Gibson Melody Maker. He was pictured numerous times performing with this model in the 1970s and 1980s.
In this picture, we can see Ray Davies playing on a Gibson Les Paul Standard (maybe in silverburst finish ?)
In this lip-synced performance of "All Day and All of the Night", Ray Davies plays a Gibson J-160E, which can be seen at 11:06 and 12:20.
"As the sun began to set Davies performed his classic Waterloo Sunset with electric piano, looking straight across at Waterloo Bridge and singing into an AKG C5 microphone.
Davies’ live sound engineer for the last decade, Tristan Mallett, always equipped with AKG mics — from humble solo performances such as this to a major rock event."
Throughout the 60s Ray Davies used a Vox AC30 as you can see behind him in this video
In this quote from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Versus_Powerman_and_the_Moneygoround,_Part_One Ray Davies says "I remember going into a music store on Shaftesbury Avenue in London when we were about to make 'Lola'. I said, 'I want to get a really good guitar sound on this record. I want a Martin.' And in the corner they had this old 1938 dobro [resonator guitar, in this case a National Steel] that I bought for £150. I put them together on 'Lola' which is what makes that clangy sound: the combination of the Martin and the dobro with heavy compression."
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