FOR KINKS GUITARIST Dave Davies, revisiting the seminal British band’s 1971 album Muswell Hillbillies and 1972’s Everybody’s in Show-Biz with his brother — vocalist/guitarist Ray Davies — for a recently released pair of box sets was a tiring yet eye-opening endeavor. “I’ve never subjected myself to so much Kinks music in such a short space of time,” he says. “It made me realize how hard we worked. I couldn’t do it like that now. Touring schedules are really hard work.”
The process also gave him a chance to revisit the start of the band’s most experimental era of music making. In the early Seventies, the Kinks were going on months-long stretches of touring the globe and enjoying immense popularity off hits such as “You Really Got Me,” “Lola,” “Apeman” and “Sunny Afternoon.” That time on the road inspired the band to look into new genres of music, and when it came time to record, they
