Dave Davies on seeing The Kinks’ Corridor Of Fame trophy on the market on eBay Guitar Contact
The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies has voiced his frustration with seeing his Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame trophy up for public sale on eBay.
The English band, that includes the unique members Dave Davies, his brother Ray, bassist Pete Quaife, and drummer Mick Avory, had been inducted into the Corridor of Fame in 1990.
In accordance with Davies, the award had been listed “with out my consent”: “I misplaced observe of my award years in the past and didn’t know the place it was,” he defined. “If the particular person purchased it at a storage unit it might have been [around] the time of my 2004 stroke once I was incapacitated in [the] UK.”
In 2004, Davies suffered a stroke on 30 June and spent two months within the hospital. He needed to relearn how one can play the guitar after the incident. Regardless of this, he managed to file a full album titled Fractured Mindz, which was launched in 2007, and ultimately made a full restoration.
The musician added on X, “I’m grateful to have made a full file from my stroke but it surely’s a disgrace that I wasn’t contacted. I’m assuming that is what occurred. This public sale makes me very unhappy.”
I don’t know besides that it obtained misplaced once I was taken sick from my stroke a long time in the past https://t.co/QWtcSCcX9O
— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) June 20, 2024
Fortunately, a decision appears to be like to be so as, for Davies has shared that he’d “written to the vendor and are ready to listen to again. I don’t need to must pay 12 grand to get my very own award again. However perhaps we are able to work one thing out extra affordable.”
Colony Information, the sellers of the merchandise, have additionally reached out to Dave on X/Twitter, encouraging him to message them, to which Dave replied, “Okay thanks.”
Okay thanks https://t.co/v2sScO7ncD
— Dave Davies (@davedavieskinks) June 20, 2024
The eBay itemizing has been taken down on the time of writing.