“I left without a penny to my name. I was bitter for a while, but I’ve got a great legacy”: Though Pete Quaife gets credit for jumpstarting the Kinks bass chair, John Dalton and Jim Rodford pushed the band forward on many of their classic albums

English rock group The Kinks, from left, Ray Davies, Pete Quaife, Mick Avory and Dave Davies (playing a Vox Phantom XII 12 string guitar) perform on the pop music television show Thank Your Lucky Stars for ABC Television at Alpha Television Studios in Birmingham, England in 1965. The band members are all wearing matching red jackets and pink shirts.

From the powerful bass tone on 1964's You Really Got Me to their last album, 1993's Phobia, smart low-end was a key ingredient of the Kinks sound. And though Pete Quaife rightly gets credit for jumpstarting the bass chair on their first seven albums, John Dalton and Jim Rodford logged the most time with the legendary British band led by Ray and Dave Davies.

Dalton, who got the gig when Quaife broke his leg in a 1966 car accident, is known for basslines that are big, burly, and extroverted, like the former coal laborer himself.