The Kast Off Kinks The Kast Off Kinks The Kast Off Kinks are a band composed of former members of the band The Kinks. They mostly tour Europe and attend reunions for fans and for charity, such as the Leukemia Research Fund. They have put out one EP, "The Archway EP", in conjunction with The Kinks' fan club. Dalton and Gosling both retired from The Kast Off Kinks in 2008, but Dalton does still appear with the band. The first bassist for The Kinks, Peter Quaife, played at various shows with the band before his death in 2010. The Kinks' drummer from 1984 to
The Hard Way (The Kinks song) was "whipped" on stage at some performances of the song. At other performances, women on stage danced with canes. A live performance of "The Hard Way" was included on "One for the Road". In 1980, The Knack covered "The Hard Way" for their second album, "...But the Little Girls Understand" in 1980. "High Fidelity" called it the best song on the album and an "honest homage to the Kinks," but claimed that it is "still a pale replica of the original" that doesn't add anything new. In his scathing review of "...But the Little Girls Understand", Jim Sullivan of the