Ray Davies Concert Disrupted by Security
- Posted on Nov 20th 2009 11:30AM by Robin Milling
- Comments (5)
An old Kinks tradition of throwing paper plates onto the stage with song requests written on them was thwarted by security at Ray Davies' Choral Collection concert at Town Hall on Thursday. The overzealous goons rushed to the front row thinking the worst, even trying to evict an innocent petite plate-throwing fan from the first row. Davies had to pause the show to assure the guards he was perfectly safe, deciding to risk a paper cut to continue the age-old Kinks custom. Despite the disruption Davies' stellar band, featuring guitarist Bill Shanley, former Kinks keyboardist Ian Gibbons and the 34-member Dessoff Chamber Choir, met standing ovations for rousing renditions of 'You Really Got Me', 'All Day And All of The Night,' 'Celluloid Heroes' and 'Waterloo Sunset.' Check out a video of Davies performing 'Waterloo Sunset' after the jump.
Reader Comments(1 of 1)
Mike Millerat 11-20-2009
I was at the show as well. They were't "overzealous goons." They were just security guys make sure no one got hurt. They were actually very nice guys. I talked to a few of them during the intermission, as well as before and after the show. AND, Ray didn't have "pause the show" either. After the song was finished, he just said something like, "it's ok, it's just paper. If it was china, then I'd be worried." He continued on to the next song. So, whoever wrote this "review" should get his or her facts straight and stop using hyperbole to take cheap shots and security people doing their jobs effectively.
Juliaat 11-21-2009
Well, I stood right next to one of the girls who was throwing the plates.
The problem wasn't that the security guards tried to prevent the plates from being thrown. However, they tried to eject two girls for throwing plates, while there were plenty others, male and female, throwing them. That's when things got a little emotional and fans stood up to the security guards and Ray had to calm everybody down.
So, quite frankly, the security team did over-react.
Obviously, someone talked to them afterwards. The security team was much friendlier the second night, once they knew what the paper plate throwing was all about.
Frank Limaat 11-21-2009
As the originator of the paper plate tradition which I started at a kinks show at the capitol theatre in Passaic, New Jersey in 1971 I beleive it was, I explained everything to the security people there and the next night all they told people just be careful with the plates...once they found out what was going on they were okay, believe me I have seen much much worse security guards at shows so all in all these guys at town hall were okay but at first they were just doing their job as they were trained to do, that being if someone throws somehthing at the artist on stage they are ejected. KinKs and Ray fans are and will always be the greatest fans in all the land in Rock & Roll, and like Ray and the kinks they are not like everybody else. God save them all !
Salat 11-21-2009
Frank,
You are now the second famous guy I've heard of who from their own lips started something...
The first guy was the Fios guy who came to my door, saw I had a Yankee shirt on and told me HE started the clapping at 2 stikes at Yankee Stadium Befpre Yankee Pitcher strikes out an opposing batter.
How lucky can I get??? Now I find out that YOU started the pap[er plates throwing at a Kinks concert. WOW!!!
I AM SO IMPRESSED, or is it just another guy trying to blow Smoke upour Butts?
REGINAat 11-22-2009
RAY WAS EVER THE PERFECTIONIST IN EVERY ASPECT, THE LAST OF TRUE MUSICAL GENIUS. HE WAS CORDIAL, WARM, FRIENDLY, HUMOROUS. A GENTLEMEN WITH GRACE, STYLE & PANACHE NOT SEEN IN TODAY'S CELEBRITIES. HE EVEN SAID "WHEN I'M GONE, THAT'S ALL THERE IS." HE PLAYED HIS SOLO WORK & LOTS OF KINKS TUNES: APEMAN, VICTORIA, SUNNY AFTERNOON, YOU REALLY GOT ME, ALL DAY & ALL OF THE NIGHT, VILLAGE GREEN, LOLA, LOW BUDGET, CELLULOID HEROES TO NAME A FEW; RAY EVEN TEASED US WITH FATHER CHRISTMAS BUT HE SAID IT WAS TOO EARLY FOR THAT! I HAVE LOVED HIS VOICE SINCE 1975 ♥