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Tom Verlaine was a mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
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Tom Verlaine was a mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
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Tom Verlaine was a mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
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Tom Verlaine was a mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
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Tom Verlaine was a mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story.
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New York Public Library: The Archive of Tom Verlaine, Frontman of Television, Has Been Acquired By The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. “The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has acquired the archive of Tom Verlaine musician, poet, and New York celebrity, primarily known as the frontman for the influential band Television. The archive encompasses nearly every facet […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/13/new-york-public-library-the-archive-of-tom-verlaine-frontman-of-television-has-been-acquired-by-the-new-york-public-library-for-the-performing-arts/ -
𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 – 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻 (𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳)
Ma petite chronique sur le premier album de 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻... 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻, qui fête aujourd'hui ses 48 ans. Un de mes albums de chevet ❤️
𝗔̀ 𝗹𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗰𝗶 > https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1167-a72d-47de-811899296370#Television #MarqueeMoon #Punk #CBGb #TomVerlaine
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Television - Adventure
I still feel the same about this today as I did when it came out…it’s not quite Marquee Moon, and it certainly has a different, kind of mellower sound. And it’s a *little* more conventional.
But all that said, it’s a pretty great album, and certainly essential listening. And this new Rhino release is the best it’s sounded.
#nowplaying #vinyl #television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd #rock #newwave
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Tom Verlaine - The Wonder - 1990
#Music #AlbumSuggestions #NowPlaying #NowListening
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Week-end soundtrack
#IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra #JohnFrusciante #TomVerlaine #Cornelius #AlessandraNovaga #DaveBrown & #JasonKahn #StudioDiMusicaElettronicaDiTorino #MarkVernon #Squarepusher #NottingHillCarnivalSoundsystems #SimonFisherTurner #RobertAikiAubreyLowe #JayGlassDubs #StephenPastel #PeterMurphy #ByronWestbrook #TheFolkImplosion #Prefuse73 -
Week-end soundtrack
#IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra #JohnFrusciante #TomVerlaine #Cornelius #AlessandraNovaga #DaveBrown & #JasonKahn #StudioDiMusicaElettronicaDiTorino #MarkVernon #Squarepusher #NottingHillCarnivalSoundsystems #SimonFisherTurner #RobertAikiAubreyLowe #JayGlassDubs #StephenPastel #PeterMurphy #ByronWestbrook #TheFolkImplosion #Prefuse73 -
Week-end soundtrack
#IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra #JohnFrusciante #TomVerlaine #Cornelius #AlessandraNovaga #DaveBrown & #JasonKahn #StudioDiMusicaElettronicaDiTorino #MarkVernon #Squarepusher #NottingHillCarnivalSoundsystems #SimonFisherTurner #RobertAikiAubreyLowe #JayGlassDubs #StephenPastel #PeterMurphy #ByronWestbrook #TheFolkImplosion #Prefuse73 -
Remembering Tom Verlaine, frontman of the influential New York punk rock band Television, died in Manhattan a year ago today at the age of 73 after a short illness.
Rest in punk Tom
#punk #punks #punkrock #tomverlaine #television #RipTomVerlaine #history #punkrockhistory #otd -
Television - Marquee Moon
More a guitar album than a punk one, featuring two terrific guitarists - Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd (who would later be heavily featured on a number of Matthew Sweet albums), with great songs and lyrics.
In fact, so much of a guitar record, that they asked the supervising producer to rework the drum sound he carefully engineered to deemphasize them.
Anyway, a seminal NYC album from the late 70s...
#nowplaying #vinyl #punk #television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd
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1000 Day Album Challenge (#20) Television: The Blow-Up (1982) [20.01.24]
let me take you to the empty place in my fire engine…
The Blow-Up was recorded live at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York in March of 1978. it was released in 1982 by ROIR (Reachout International Records) available only on cassette. at the time ROIR was a cassette-only label. scanning their discography (https://www.discogs.com/label/18316-ROIR?sort=year&sort_order=asc), my count is that I owned five of their releases. I do believe this was my most cherished.
Television was a mainstay of the mid- to late-70s CBGBs scene that was ground zero to the creation of punk rock. they never achieved the mainstream success and cultural cache of Talking Heads, Ramones, Blondie, or Patti Smith. still they were the first from the scene to play the legendary club. they were kinda the advance team. in 1974, they were also the first to release a record, the single Little Johnny Jewel which extended over both sides of their Ork Records release. and then somehow, they were among the last to release an album, Marquee Moon (1977).
this tape is about the joy of rock guitar. which I guess in some respects makes it no different than the rest of Television’s limited output. first up is The Blow-Up which is a renamed cover of 13th Floor Elevators’ Fire Engine. just before Tom Verlaine begins singing you can hear someone in the crowd identify the song as Fire Engine. it seems obvious to me, from this song alone that this is a band in search of transcendence powered by a driving rock beat. the weaving interplay of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s guitars blows me away.
there are a couple of more covers to mention. I never would have thought of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door as a guitar song until Television showed me how limited my imagination was. I am realizing, perhaps for the first time, as I listen to his that their version is a Cortez The Killer for the punk rock generation. someone just shouted “go boy! go!” hey, that’s what I was thinking.
the tape concludes with a galvanic version of The Stones’ Satisfaction. John Piccarella and Robert Christgau wrote in the liner notes, “And Lloyd, always constrained by the necessity of getting his solos and rhythm riffs just right in the studio, goes nuts here--what he wanted to express on `Satisfaction' was so beyond his chops that he would regularly unwind his bottom E string, twist it behind the neck, and tense the guitar like an archer's bow, producing the unearthly noises preserved for posterity on this cassette.”
you may ask why is a punk rock band covering all of these sixties’ classics? unlike the later starting British punk scene which had the sense that they were destroying or leaving behind what had come before, the New York scene had a stronger sense of history. they viewed themselves as part of a continuum. think of Patti Smith’s gender-bending transformation of Them’s Gloria or Land in which she completely reimagined the classic, Land of a Thousand Dances. shit the Ramones and Blondie were grounded in sixties AM radio classic pop.
there is a particular standout here that is quite forward-looking. the near 15 minute version of Little Johnny Jewel is definitive. if this doesn’t do it for you then there really is no reason for you to checkout the rest of their music. it’s not for you.
as the song nears the halfway point it seems like it is coming to an end. the idea that they can take this interpretation further seems preposterous. in a near whisper, Tom Verlaine says/sings, “then he loses his senses” and we are off. it’s like a whole new song. having listened to this countless times I found myself in an excited state of anticipation as the midpoint change of pace approached.
Tom Verlaine’s performance here, by itself makes him one of my favorite guitarists ever. I truly am breathless as I listen and type. wow! I feel like the term lifechanging does not capture the hyperbole for which I’m searching. maybe on the next listen the right word(s) will find me.
#1000DayAlbumChallange #Television #TheBlowUp #TomVerlaine #13thFloorElevators #FireEngine #BobDylan #KnockinOnHeavensDoor #RollingStones #Satisfaction #LittleJohnnyJewel #CBGBs
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1000 Day Album Challenge (#20) Television: The Blow-Up (1982) [20.01.24]
let me take you to the empty place in my fire engine…
The Blow-Up was recorded live at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York in March of 1978. it was released in 1982 by ROIR (Reachout International Records) available only on cassette. at the time ROIR was a cassette-only label. scanning their discography (https://www.discogs.com/label/18316-ROIR?sort=year&sort_order=asc), my count is that I owned five of their releases. I do believe this was my most cherished.
Television was a mainstay of the mid- to late-70s CBGBs scene that was ground zero to the creation of punk rock. they never achieved the mainstream success and cultural cache of Talking Heads, Ramones, Blondie, or Patti Smith. still they were the first from the scene to play the legendary club. they were kinda the advance team. in 1974, they were also the first to release a record, the single Little Johnny Jewel which extended over both sides of their Ork Records release. and then somehow, they were among the last to release an album, Marquee Moon (1977).
this tape is about the joy of rock guitar. which I guess in some respects makes it no different than the rest of Television’s limited output. first up is The Blow-Up which is a renamed cover of 13th Floor Elevators’ Fire Engine. just before Tom Verlaine begins singing you can hear someone in the crowd identify the song as Fire Engine. it seems obvious to me, from this song alone that this is a band in search of transcendence powered by a driving rock beat. the weaving interplay of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s guitars blows me away.
there are a couple of more covers to mention. I never would have thought of Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door as a guitar song until Television showed me how limited my imagination was. I am realizing, perhaps for the first time, as I listen to his that their version is a Cortez The Killer for the punk rock generation. someone just shouted “go boy! go!” hey, that’s what I was thinking.
the tape concludes with a galvanic version of The Stones’ Satisfaction. John Piccarella and Robert Christgau wrote in the liner notes, “And Lloyd, always constrained by the necessity of getting his solos and rhythm riffs just right in the studio, goes nuts here--what he wanted to express on `Satisfaction' was so beyond his chops that he would regularly unwind his bottom E string, twist it behind the neck, and tense the guitar like an archer's bow, producing the unearthly noises preserved for posterity on this cassette.”
you may ask why is a punk rock band covering all of these sixties’ classics? unlike the later starting British punk scene which had the sense that they were destroying or leaving behind what had come before, the New York scene had a stronger sense of history. they viewed themselves as part of a continuum. think of Patti Smith’s gender-bending transformation of Them’s Gloria or Land in which she completely reimagined the classic, Land of a Thousand Dances. shit the Ramones and Blondie were grounded in sixties AM radio classic pop.
there is a particular standout here that is quite forward-looking. the near 15 minute version of Little Johnny Jewel is definitive. if this doesn’t do it for you then there really is no reason for you to checkout the rest of their music. it’s not for you.
as the song nears the halfway point it seems like it is coming to an end. the idea that they can take this interpretation further seems preposterous. in a near whisper, Tom Verlaine says/sings, “then he loses his senses” and we are off. it’s like a whole new song. having listened to this countless times I found myself in an excited state of anticipation as the midpoint change of pace approached.
Tom Verlaine’s performance here, by itself makes him one of my favorite guitarists ever. I truly am breathless as I listen and type. wow! I feel like the term lifechanging does not capture the hyperbole for which I’m searching. maybe on the next listen the right word(s) will find me.
#1000DayAlbumChallange #Television #TheBlowUp #TomVerlaine #13thFloorElevators #FireEngine #BobDylan #KnockinOnHeavensDoor #RollingStones #Satisfaction #LittleJohnnyJewel #CBGBs
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NYC punk legend Ivan Julian on making rock ’n’ roll history with Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the passing of Tom Verlaine, crafting his new solo album after battling cancer and more.
https://tidal.com/magazine/article/ivan-julian/1-89688
#music #punk #newyorkpunk #IvanJulian #RichardHell #TheVoidoids #TomVerlaine
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NYC punk legend Ivan Julian on making rock ’n’ roll history with Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the passing of Tom Verlaine, crafting his new solo album after battling cancer and more.
https://tidal.com/magazine/article/ivan-julian/1-89688
#music #punk #newyorkpunk #IvanJulian #RichardHell #TheVoidoids #TomVerlaine
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NYC punk legend Ivan Julian on making rock ’n’ roll history with Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the passing of Tom Verlaine, crafting his new solo album after battling cancer and more.
https://tidal.com/magazine/article/ivan-julian/1-89688
#music #punk #newyorkpunk #IvanJulian #RichardHell #TheVoidoids #TomVerlaine
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NYC punk legend Ivan Julian on making rock ’n’ roll history with Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the passing of Tom Verlaine, crafting his new solo album after battling cancer and more.
https://tidal.com/magazine/article/ivan-julian/1-89688
#music #punk #newyorkpunk #IvanJulian #RichardHell #TheVoidoids #TomVerlaine
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NYC punk legend Ivan Julian on making rock ’n’ roll history with Richard Hell & the Voidoids, the passing of Tom Verlaine, crafting his new solo album after battling cancer and more.
https://tidal.com/magazine/article/ivan-julian/1-89688
#music #punk #newyorkpunk #IvanJulian #RichardHell #TheVoidoids #TomVerlaine
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Here's my updated weekly #playlist 25 #songs of old favourites & newly discovered music.
#ThemeTunePopQuiz songs ft singers born in Scotland from #ACDC #DireStraits & #TalkingHeads plus artists with poetic pseudonyms #PeteShelley #BobDylan & #TomVerlaine
Blue songs by #ElvisCostello #LloydCole #LeonardCohen & #MilesDavis
Classics by #Pixies & #Beck + new stuff from #Jungle #BigThief & #Blur & finishing with a #tunetuesday by #PaulMcCartney
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1BvEGl6XgnFsHxMCi45REZ?si=z3cWRTzkS52Ut5_49rrj_A
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#30DaySongChallenge Day 22 A song that moves you forward.
Hmmm. Not sure how much this differs from a song to drive to, a song I never get tired of, a song that needs to be played loud, a song from my preteen years, and a song from the 70s.
That said, I'm sharing this rocker for today's prompt even though Television's Ain't That Nothing is a multi-category banger...
#TomVerlaine #FredSmith #BillyFicca #RichardLloyd #LiveMusicIsBetter
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#NowPlaying #AmListening Television - Live at the Old Waldorf 1978.
https://open.spotify.com/album/1opV5kRas2Bpv7YhP70xGx?si=r6uO2IuwTee8hl9Jk1zinA
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I was a teenager when this was released, and the title track was shown on TV. I wandered around Basingstoke the next day looking for the album, and Boots the Chemist had a copy. I must have listened to it many hundreds of times, great playing, Tom Verlaine’s singing, amazing. Still a firm favourite. #nowPlaying #70smusic #cbgbs #TomVerlaine
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celebrate #BobDylan's 82nd with 3 hours of bobscurities & dylanological pleasures on last night's frow show on @WFMU. hear dylan interpreted by ryan sawyer, #PattiSmith (with #TomVerlaine), tuli kupferberg, martin short, the byrds, #WillieNelson, #Devo, #NeilYoung, #TonyRice, georgia & ira from #YoLaTengo, #JohnnyCash, #HarryBelafonte, #TomJones, #StapleSingers, plus bob with the dead, nanci griffith, trisha yearwood, richard thompson, doug sahm, & piles more. https://bit.ly/45E5sie
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celebrate #BobDylan's 82nd with 3 hours of bobscurities & dylanological pleasures on last night's frow show on @WFMU. hear dylan interpreted by ryan sawyer, #PattiSmith (with #TomVerlaine), tuli kupferberg, martin short, the byrds, #WillieNelson, #Devo, #NeilYoung, #TonyRice, georgia & ira from #YoLaTengo, #JohnnyCash, #HarryBelafonte, #TomJones, #StapleSingers, plus bob with the dead, nanci griffith, trisha yearwood, richard thompson, doug sahm, & piles more. https://bit.ly/45E5sie
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celebrate #BobDylan's 82nd with 3 hours of bobscurities & dylanological pleasures on last night's frow show on @WFMU. hear dylan interpreted by ryan sawyer, #PattiSmith (with #TomVerlaine), tuli kupferberg, martin short, the byrds, #WillieNelson, #Devo, #NeilYoung, #TonyRice, georgia & ira from #YoLaTengo, #JohnnyCash, #HarryBelafonte, #TomJones, #StapleSingers, plus bob with the dead, nanci griffith, trisha yearwood, richard thompson, doug sahm, & piles more. https://bit.ly/45E5sie
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celebrate #BobDylan's 82nd with 3 hours of bobscurities & dylanological pleasures on last night's frow show on @WFMU. hear dylan interpreted by ryan sawyer, #PattiSmith (with #TomVerlaine), tuli kupferberg, martin short, the byrds, #WillieNelson, #Devo, #NeilYoung, #TonyRice, georgia & ira from #YoLaTengo, #JohnnyCash, #HarryBelafonte, #TomJones, #StapleSingers, plus bob with the dead, nanci griffith, trisha yearwood, richard thompson, doug sahm, & piles more. https://bit.ly/45E5sie
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celebrate #BobDylan's 82nd with 3 hours of bobscurities & dylanological pleasures on last night's frow show on @WFMU. hear dylan interpreted by ryan sawyer, #PattiSmith (with #TomVerlaine), tuli kupferberg, martin short, the byrds, #WillieNelson, #Devo, #NeilYoung, #TonyRice, georgia & ira from #YoLaTengo, #JohnnyCash, #HarryBelafonte, #TomJones, #StapleSingers, plus bob with the dead, nanci griffith, trisha yearwood, richard thompson, doug sahm, & piles more. https://bit.ly/45E5sie
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Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #ChaimTopol #JimDurkin #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans #JerrySamuels #Tongo #EricAlanLivingston #RobinLumley #JosuaMadsen #JuniorEnglish #RIP #obits #music 1/
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Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #ChaimTopol #JimDurkin #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans #JerrySamuels #Tongo #EricAlanLivingston #RobinLumley #JosuaMadsen #MusicOfMastodon #RIP #obits #music 1/
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Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #ChaimTopol #JimDurkin #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans #JerrySamuels #Tongo #EricAlanLivingston #RobinLumley #JosuaMadsen #JuniorEnglish #RIP #obits #music 1/
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Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans
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Includes: #JeffBeck #MichaelRhodes #ChuckJackson #GaryRossington #WayneShorter #CarlosGarnett #DavidLindley #GlenSpotLockett #SteveMackey #HueyPianoSmith #TrugoytheDove #BarrettStrong #BurtBacharach #GordyHarmon #CJHarris #GeraldFried #LisaMariePresley #RobbieBachman #AlanRankine #GangstaBoo #TomVerlaine #VanConner #DavidCrosby #MarcelAmont #RobertBlake #VictorEvans
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Interesting article about the great Tom Verlaine of Television, (by Dean Wareham of Luna). Television started as a punk band (with Richard Hell on bass), then turned into...what? Post-punk? Art rock? Dean says Tom's biggest influences were "Jeff Beck... and John Cippollina, maybe even Jerry Garcia...." There's not much that makes me happier than hearing indie-punk guys professing their admiration for Jerry.
#JerryGarcia
#tomverlaine
#gratefuldead
#marqueemoonhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/31/encounters-with-tom-verlaine/
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Dear friends,
I'm going through files of #photos with the intent to lighten the load. Most have been discarded. I found a small set of images of Tom Verlaine and the band. I think it's post Television. I found a contact sheet, and will hopefully find the negs.
ESM#tomverlaine #music #musician #guitar #guitarist #songwriter #singer #punkrock
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Here’s #PlaylisterC60’s #8th video
It’s @grahamward68’s video about the now sadly gone #tomverlaine
I HAVE to confess, I don’t know as much about #Verlaine’s work as I should: this could possibly be an education …
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Interesting article about the great Tom Verlaine of Television, (by Dean Wareham of Luna). Television started as a punk band (with Richard Hell on bass), then turned into...what? Post-punk? Art rock? Dean says Tom's biggest influences were "Jeff Beck... and John Cippollina, maybe even Jerry Garcia...." There's not much that makes me happier than hearing indie-punk guys professing their admiration for Jerry.
#JerryGarcia
#tomverlaine
#gratefuldead
#marqueemoonhttps://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/31/encounters-with-tom-verlaine/
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Nick Kent's 1977 review of #MarqueeMoon holds up beautifully...
#MelodyMaker #OrWasItNME #Television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd #BillyFicca #FredSmith #NickKent -
Nick Kent's 1977 review of #MarqueeMoon holds up beautifully...
#MelodyMaker #OrWasItNME #Television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd #BillyFicca #FredSmith #NickKent -
Nick Kent's 1977 review of #MarqueeMoon holds up beautifully...
#MelodyMaker #OrWasItNME #Television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd #BillyFicca #FredSmith #NickKent -
Nick Kent's 1977 review of #MarqueeMoon holds up beautifully...
#MelodyMaker #OrWasItNME #Television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd #BillyFicca #FredSmith #NickKent -
Nick Kent's 1977 review of #MarqueeMoon holds up beautifully...
#MelodyMaker #OrWasItNME #Television #TomVerlaine #RichardLloyd #BillyFicca #FredSmith #NickKent -
Listen to Michele K-Tel on @bffdotfm, this week with an ALLSORTS salute to the (one and only) Mr. Tom Verlaine, whom Patti Smith once said, “plays guitar with angular inverted passion like a thousand bluebirds screaming.” 🎸💥 #TomVerlaine #AllSorts #MicheleKTel #BffdotFM https://bff.fm/broadcasts/35032
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Very well written tribute to Tom Verlaine in today's Guardian by the great Chris Forsyth. Worth a minute or two of your time
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The dean, Robert Christgau, on the glory of "Marquee Moon," from "Going Into the City."
#xgau #RobertChristgau #TomVerlaine #television https://robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lookback-tom-verlaine
