{"id":2802,"date":"2010-06-24T23:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:50:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-17T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T13:37:40","slug":"kinks-bassist-pete-quaife-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kinks-bassist-pete-quaife-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinks Bassist Pete Quaife Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZBV6bAsInx4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Townsman Al<\/strong> just passed along the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/17386\/121429\" target=\"_blank\">sad news of Kinks bassist <strong>Pete Quaife<\/strong> dying at 66 years of age<\/a>. Although it&#8217;s hard to gauge how much magic Quaife contributed to a band led by control-freak Ray Davies, his departure from the band in 1969 marked the beginning of the end of <em>The Golden Age of The Kinks<\/em>. The band would make a couple more fine albums with replacement <strong>John Dalton<\/strong>, but Dalton&#8217;s Look never melded near as well as Quaife&#8217;s did with the Davies brothers and Mick Avory.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how late in his Kinks kareer this 1969 clip dates?<br \/>\nS5DibWsJW9Y]<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Al just passed along the sad news of Kinks bassist Pete Quaife dying at 66 years of age. Although it&#8217;s hard to gauge how much magic Quaife contributed to a band led by control-freak Ray Davies, his departure from the band in 1969 marked the beginning of the end of The Golden Age of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kinks-bassist-pete-quaife-dies\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}