The Kinks’ Dave Davies has blasted an AI cowl of the band.
Dave Davies branded the AI Kinks music ‘horrible’
Thankfully for him, the YouTube clip of the music claiming to be a “new unique music” known as ‘Hop Skip Bounce!’ has since been deleted.
Reacting to the video that was uploaded again in January, the group’s horrified guitarist posted to X: “What the f** is that this??? This Kinks AI cowl is like horror present sounds f**in horrible.”
‘Star Wars’ actor Mark Hamill commented to say it had been taken down.
He wrote: “You can be glad to know once I clicked on this it stated “video unavailable”. (Nonetheless curious what The Kinks AI would sound like although).”
The 77-year-old musician just lately took to his X account to share his shock that his Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame trophy up on the market on eBay “with out his consent”.
The marble plaque from the ‘You Actually Received Me’ group’s 1990 induction was listed on the re-sale website for $12,500 (£9,860).
Dave – who was joined by brother Ray, Pete Quaife and Mick Avory within the influential sixties group – insisted he had no thought how he misplaced the award however believes it might have been on the time of his stroke in 2004, as he was “incapacitated”.
He started a sequence of updates: “Relating to ebay itemizing for my RRHOF award statue has been made with out my consent. I misplaced observe of my award years in the past and didn’t know the place it was. If the particular person purchased it at a storage unit it could have been and the time of my 2004 stroke once I was incapacitated in UK … I’m grateful to have made a full report from my stroke nevertheless it’s a disgrace that I wasn’t contacted. I’m assuming that is what occurred. (sic)”
Dave contacted the vendor and hoped to return to an settlement, so he did not must fork out $12,000 to get his prize again.
He added: “We’ve written to the vendor and are ready to listen to again. I don’t wish to must pay 12 grand to get my very own award again. However perhaps we are able to work one thing out extra affordable.”
Requested the way it acquired in another person’s fingers, he replied: “I don’t know besides that it acquired misplaced once I was taken ailing from my stroke many years in the past.”
The proprietor of Colony Data in New York was the vendor and stated he would come to an settlement with Dave.
He wrote: “comply with me and shoot me a message on X we’ll work it out (sic)”
And it appears they did because the itemizing was eliminated.