Rocking My Life Away

When I was a teenager I had a dream about Ray Davies. He was walking by himself Rosetta Stone language along Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, where I lived at the time, and I went up and started speaking with him. It was one of those dreams that was both incredible and perfectly ordinary. Nobody sprouted wings and flew above the city. Nobody transformed into a monster or anything else. Instead, Davies was simply friendly and gracious. He invited me to join him at a coffeeshop, and he talked to me about songwriting, and about writing in general.Walking up to Ray Davies and starting a conversation is nothing I ever would have done as a kid in real life -- even today, after having done hundreds, maybe even thousands, of interviews, I still find it hard to introduce myself to a musician I admire. Living in the Village when I was growing up, I used to see musicians on the street fairly often -- several times a week, for example Rosetta Stone Spanish V3, I would pass Frank Zappa on his way to rehearse at the Garrick Theater (which was also on Bleecker Street) as I walked home from high school. Apart from maybe nodding hello, I never said anything.I can see now that the dream meant many different things, particularly about my desire to become a writer and my having no idea about how you were supposed to go about doing that. But its significant that its Ray Davies in the dream -- not Mick Jagger, not John Lennon, not even Pete Townshend. Thats because even back in the Sixties when the Kinks could compete with the Beatles or the Stones on the charts -- and were far better known than the Who -- they still seemed approachable. They never seemed like gods, though Im sure that many times they longed for the Olympian stature of their rock rivals.These thoughts are Cheap Rosetta Stone French occasioned by the release of This Is Where I Belong: The Songs of Ray Davies and the Kinks, an extremely appealing album on which artists like Fountains of Wayne, Steve Forbert, Jonathan Richman, Queens of the Stone Age, Fastball and Ron Sexsmith pay tribute to one of their heroes.

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