How Did You Discover Kaki?

Someone sent me 'Ingots' years ago. I was obsessed with that song for months. Still am a little I suppose

watching Later with Jools Holland

In my hotel room in Austin. She was on some news program and I was like ohh, Cool! But sadly I didn't have any means in Austin at the time to dig deeper and learn more so when I got home it remained in the back of my mind... Then I saw her on the Con dvd with Tegan and Sara and decided to type her name into my Zune marketplace to see if she had any of her own stuff and viola! Same thing with most bands I like now really. I find out about them or see a music video but forget about it to only come back to it a year later or something!

Mine was very similar to the above. I'm pretty sure Fate itself wanted me to fall in love with Kaki's music. A friend I used to have who I barely talked to then anyway talked to me online the day after he saw Kaki perform Close Your Eyes & You'll Burst Into Flames on Conan. He was very adamant that I listen to anything of hers, so I downloaded the only song I could find (at the time) which was Everybody Loves You. I really liked the song, but since I couldn't find anything else, her name fell away from my mind. Then, this year just days before the release of Dreaming of Revenge, Kaki's video for Pull Me Out Alive was on youtube's front page. I remembered her name and her amazing guitar skills and watched the video. I absolutely loved the song and was floored at the direction her musical career had evidently traversed since I first heard her. As quickly as I could, I got all 4 of her albums and listened to nothing else for weeks. And, I guess, I still barely listen to much else at times...

august rush. i loved those two songs she did, they made the whole movie. then i found out foo fighters ballad of the beconsfield mines was pretty much her too. then i got legs to make us longer... bam i was in love

I won a quiz on the dutch tv music program vrije geluiden. The question was: "How old was Kaki King when she started playing the guitar"
Two weeks later "Until we felt red" was in my postbox and since then we are hooked to her music.
Here are the video's of that particulair tv program.

this is one of my fave interviews ever that Budist hing is awesome and the best guitar player!!

I love the groovemaster videos! Their rendition of Yellowcake was excellent. It's so typical though, that the host is so focused on the technique. Kaki and Jan are like, the technique isn't the important/original. I feel like people get too distracted by the flashier techniques she uses sometimes. Although I guess it's whatever, though--I started listening to her stuff after seeing Playing w/Pink Noise on youtube, haha. I quickly found that I liked the rest of the album better though. End rant here.

Well I first started listening to Justin King and though his style was really awesome, then last year when I was on a plane coming back from holiday, Russell Howard was interviewing her on Virgin Radio I think it was.
He played a track of hers (I think it was bone chaos in the castle I cant remember) and I was like JESUS this woman is brilliant! as soon as I got home I managed to get hold of dreaming of revenge, and I was blown away by its awesomenesss
at first I thought she was related to Justin King haha but then after some research found out that she wasn't :3 so there started the Kaki obsession

Justin King....kind of annoys me. He has some cool tracks like Knock on Wood or whatever, but I don't think that they're on Kaki's level in terms of composition. Plus his band is...well, pretty bad--no offense! It's cool if you like him; I'm just sayin' he's not really my cup of tea.


Dreaming of Revenge is awesome.

Hey, i'm new to the forums.. been listening to king for a while now.. I heard her in my sleep pretty much... this local station plays ambient songs @ night time, & I used to sleep w/ the radio on. so i heard the song "doing the wrong thing" & I thought it was something i was playing in my dream, and so i woke up and immediately started putting down on guitar what i had just heard in my head (while still not knowing it was on the radio.)


I played this song called "give em hell, kid." at a couple places, and there was a fast variation i did which is pretty close to kaki's song, and a slow version that is accompanied by tapping the guitar... it wasn't til about 3 months later, they called me back & requested the kaki king cover.. ONE person asked for it, anyway... and of course @ the time, i never knew ii was playing a cover. i was simply playing a song i heard in my dream.. and that's how i discovered ms. king.

that's the best history I've read here

haha that's pretty impressive--i don't think i would've been able to come up w/ the tuning and everything after just having heard it once in my sleep


i love doing the wrong thing...one of my favorites

that's such an awesome story! haha

you HAVE to post a video playing it! it sounds awesome