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@cee-dee wrote:

I dunno if I'm wierd (Just don't answer that 🙂 but I have these flashes of "inspiration". Out of the Blue, something comes to me and so it was with "Fancy". Part of the tune, the droning sound and the word "Fancy" flashed in to my mind so I just had to play it again.

 

It's the same with writing, I might get a bit stuck, (mental block?) then out of the Blue a flash of inspiration strikes and I can suddenly continue.

 

In times past I had asked on here if there was a Sitar used in "Fancy" and the opinions given was that it was an electric guitar used to make a sound similar to a Sitar. What do you think?

 

 

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I remember Face To Face, the first Kinks album I bought. The track 'Fancy' was another example of trying to incorporate an Indian 'Raga' sound to a track which they first used on the 'See My Friends' single a year or so earlier. Although Ray Davies has previously said that the song was influenced by some Indian fishermens' chants he heard on a stopover in Bombay, I didn't think it was a sitar that was used. I remember reading somewhere that the sound was achieved by slowing down the guitar track and running it through what was known as a phaser, I think the idea came from their American producer at the time Shel Talmy. He also produced several of The Who's early hits and also worked with David Bowie and The Easybeats.