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... by Joanne Corsano ... joanne@picturelake.com

Band Personnel: Dave Davies, lead vocals, lead guitar - Jim Laspesa, drums and backing vocals - David Jenkins, bass and backing vocals - David Nolte, guitar, keyboards, harmonica, backing vocals

Till The End of The Day - I Need You - She's Got Everything - Susannah's Still Alive - I'm a King Bee - Creeping Jean - Hold My Hand - Milk Cow Blues - Tired of Waiting For You - I'm Not Like Everybody Else - Unfinished Business - Wicked Annabella - Picture Book - Strangers - Love Gets You - This Man He Weeps Tonight - Death of a Clown - Fortis Green - Living on a Thin Line - Money - David Watts - All Day and All of the Night - You're Lookin' Fine - You Really Got Me

This koncert review and others from Dave Davies' solo tours starting in 1997 were originally published in the Kinks Preservation Society internet mailing list digest. This digest is archived at Dave Emlen's Unofficial Kinks Web Site, under the link labeled Kinks Fans ... KPS Mailing List. I have made some edits for context.

My friend and I took the train to Wilmington, DE where we were picked up at the station (been a few mornings since I've been in Delaware) by the other half of the Raving Dave Fan Kollective, my dear friends Leslie and Fritz from Ann Arbor, MI who had just completed a 13 hour drive to see the object of their admiration. After arriving at the venue, we quickly assimilated another member, the charming Lisa from (where the heck was it?), Pennsylvania, who realized right away that resistance was futile.

Not your average venue, the amazing Big Kahuna. It was different, let's put it that way. The band set up on a barge in the river, separated from the area where the fans would stand by a substantial gap. It's the only rock concert I've ever been to that was tide-dependent. When we first went out on the deck facing the barge, the barge was so high in the water I couldn't even see Dave-Formerly-Known-As-Jim's drum kit. After waiting around till 10:30 for the show to start, passing out insect repellent to the rest of the crowd, the tide had gone out and the barge had dropped at least 8 feet, and I could even see the floor of the stage from my preferred standing spot in front of Dave, just to his left. We were five meters away from Dave across this moat, separated from the murky water only by a flimsy cord fence. I thought Frank Lima was going to wind up in the river. I would have had to dive in after him - but if Dave was singing a song I liked, I might have had to let Frank sink. (Let's see, does Dave do a song I don't like? Honestly, I'm not crazy about "Picture Book," but Dave himself enjoys the "scooby-dooby-doo's" a real lot.)

This show was a bit less intimate, with much of the crowd (regulars at this venue) unconcerned with who they were seeing, and also with the 15 foot gap across the moat, but what it lacked in intimacy the Raving Dave Fan Kollective made up in energy. Standing is the ONLY WAY to see a Dave show. The four of us, along with many other enthusiastic fans, bopped and boogied all night, raised our glasses of ice water to the death of a clown, grabbed our sides at imaginary bullets during "Unfinished Business," held hands and swayed during "Hold My Hand" (it is my belief that this was started by superfan Kate Hunter), pointed right back at Dave during "You're Lookin' Fine," raised solemn index fingers during "Strangers," weeped with joy during "This Man He Weeps Tonight," and generally did not behave ourselves during the 1 hr. 30 minute set.

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