FRF '99 Green Stage No kinks [1999.7.31 17:05] The only artist at the festival to have worked professionally in the 60s, Ray Davies performed an partly acoustic solo set (helped out on various guitars by Pete Matheson) under partly cloudy skies in the middle of the day. Most of the audience opted to chill out on the grass, but there were a few up front to receive the cynical benedictions of Uncle Ray. Dressed in a cool white summer suit, Davies opened with a version of "Lola," probably one of the most effortless singalongs in the history of rock, a supposition borne out by the vocal cords of the small but game crowd. They seemed to understand his prickly sentiments. When Davies sang "I don't wanna die here!" at the end of "20th Century Man" the crowd cheered in assention. "Are you all individuals here?" he asked a little oddly before ripping through a passionate version of "I'm Not Like Everybody Else." However irrelevant he has become to most young people today, Davies was still in fine voice and proved to be one of the strongest singers at the festival so far. He asked for more singalongs, but the crowd didn't seem to get the joke: how individual are you if you sing along with everybody else on a song titled "I'm not like everybody else"? Davies wisely played his hits by the Kinks, which he referred to as "a great band" but in the past tense: a blues version of "Sunny Afternoon," "Well-respected Man," a very fast "Dedicated Follower of Fashion," and a slightly slower version of "You Really Got Me." He finished with "All Day and All of the Night," which he modestly named one of the most influential rock songs of all time, and then a sparkling version of "Waterloo Sunset," which would have been perfect if the sun had actually been setting. But it was still hot as hell. 1999.7.31 Reported by Phil 無断転載を禁じます。 They may not be reproduced in any form whatsoever.

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