The Kinks’ Dave Davies reacts to “horrible” AI cover of the band
The creator later took the song down
The Kinks’ Dave Davies has reacted to what he’s described as a “fukin horrible” AI cover of one of the band’s songs.
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The “new original track”, which was uploaded back in January and called ‘Hop Skip Jump’, has now been removed – but not before Davies had seen it.
Davies posted to X/Twitter: “What the fuk is this??? This Kinks AI cover is like horror show sounds fukin horrible.”
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill also commented on Davies’ post, writing “you will be happy to know when I clicked on this it said ‘video unavailable’. (Still curious what The Kinks AI would sound like though),” to which Davies replied: “this one was s***”.
Later, the original creator of the clip apologised and posted a video of his band doing a cover of The Kinks’ ‘Living On A Thin Line’.Back in June, Davies hit out after spotting his Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame trophy being put up for auction on eBay.
Davies was more approving of this and wrote back: “I really like your cover”.
The original four members of The Kinks – Dave, his brother Ray, bassist Pete Quaife and drummer Mick Avory – were inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990, reuniting for the first time in many years.
However, guitarist Davies noticed the award was up for auction for USD$12,500 (£9,860) and took to X/Twitter to share his feelings on seeing the listing, saying the award had been listed “without my consent”.
“I lost track of my award years ago and didn’t know where it was,” he wrote. “If the person bought it at a storage unit it may have been [around] the time of my 2004 stroke when I was incapacitated in [the] UK”.
Davies suffered a stroke in 2004 on June 30, staying in hospital for two months; the stroke forced him to relearn the guitar afterwards. He went on to record a full album called ‘Fractured Mindz’, releasing it in 2007, going on to make a full recovery.
Continuing on social media, Davies added: “I’m grateful to have made a full record from my stroke but it’s a shame that I wasn’t contacted. I’m assuming this is what happened. This auction makes me very sad.”
