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THE KINKS: A SAD KOMMENTARY
Behold The Kinks’ new konstituency.
Assuming that a healthy percentage of it carried falsified ID, the average age of the audience at this year’s Los Angeles Kinks concert might have been 20. But the average IQ must have been three or four times that.
Behold The Kinks’ new konstituency.
They littered the parking lot with shattered liquor bottles, did the members of this audience, and filled the restroom sinks with puke. Having apparently partied with all their might on the way to the Fabulous Forum, the home of the Los Angeles Lakers and Kings, a lot of them lay moaning and mumbling in the aisles once they finally got there.
The average age of the audience at this year’s Los Angeles Kinks concert having been 20 means that its average member wasn’t yet old enough for nursery school when ’‘You Really Got Me” came out, and was in about the third grade when “Lola” set a shocked world to trying to figure out whether its heroine were really its hero.