@@georgeadams5390 Why are you conflating glibness with intelligence? Verlaine was notoriously reticent and ill at ease where making pronouncements about his craft - and the whole CBGB mythology - was concerned, too. Should we prepare ourselves for a similarly idiotic, reductionist assessment of HIS legacy next? We’re all on the edge of our seats…
Don't get me wrong Television is great, really great. Bands like Blondie,Talking Heads, Ramones etc.But when I was younger I loved ( and still do) Richard Hell and the Voidoids. I just related to his music more as a young man than some of the other bands of that era. "Let me out of here."
Blank Generation, at the time, blew it all wide open for me. They were the defining moment of the punk movement, of which I participated in as a teenager looking for something to identify with that was part of my generation, that being a blank one.
Hell at least for dangerous stunts. Like walking down the street or sharing an intense scene with AL Pachino, Mr. Hell could be his stunt double 🤔 facts Steven Segal used a stunt double for walking down the street, you can't this stuff up. 🤔
Its weird how todays 20 year olds that like Richard Hells music are mostly middle upper class kids romanticising his era, whereas during his days with the Voidoids his fans were alienated mostly working class kids who. He's popular today with hipsters in New York who are exactly the type who wouldn't have got him in the 70s.
@@obscuredestinies His background wasn't affluent and his father died when he was a child. His mother taught at a university, not a route to riches even then. Struggling middle class, maybe.
The CBGB crowd was a total mix, but there were certainly a whole lot of hipsters involved in it, including some very wealthy art scene types. NYC punk was never a working class thing.
A pre-existing audience? If the Velvets were created for a pre-existing audience, then they failed miserably. Songs about drugs, prostitution, drag queens and homosexuality did not have a big market in the mid to late 60s. I don’t think you could be more wrong.
@@joshbaino3087 I saw Lou Reed with my dad at some little club in new York he still had the underground thing going on you think David Bowie or Mick jagger would be at that club nah they had diva status unlike Lou Reed who was singing pale blue eyes etc...
Who wants two intellectuals playing punk music? The Sex Pistols broke the rules and created a new generation. Hell is a loser with no band and nothing going for him. You lost Hell you drug fucked moron
@zaradragonia9863 the Sex Pistols were an inception of Richard Hell. It's well-documented dear. Essentially no New York Dolls no Ricard Hell equals no Srx Pistols, These are fact not biased opinions. Respect the man and his short but brilliant legacy. Hell most well-established musicians in jolly old England 🇬🇧 acknowledge. And just like Hell the Pistol were also a lightning-in-a-bottle phenomenon that finally blew its tires out in all fuking places San Francisco California. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂 😄 😆 🤣 😉 😀 😂 😄
i love him and his writing, esp the short stories but come on! "Umm, ahh, um, ahh, um, then ahm." Kind of annoying and distracting to hear him jabber on
To be fair Lou was a massive contrarian so you never know if he was just saying that lol but I don’t hear a lot of influence from those British bands into their music so I don’t know for sure
@baphometfathom5348 Lu Lu was actually their contemporary s, and he didn't really view them with such awe. Remember Lou Reed is old School. He was really close friends with none other than Dion from Dion and the Wanderers.
I can't think of anyone who was in as many truly great bands as Richard Hell. Television. The Heartbreakers. The Voidoids. He had the hat trick!
What a visionary, he changed the world of music more than most know.
Richard Hell is a smart, interesting person and we do not get many chances to hear from him. Thank you for posting this interview.
Umm......uh......ummm....uh.......... smart....ummm...... interesting
@@georgeadams5390 Why are you conflating glibness with intelligence?
Verlaine was notoriously reticent and ill at ease where making pronouncements about his craft - and the whole CBGB mythology - was concerned, too.
Should we prepare ourselves for a similarly idiotic, reductionist assessment of HIS legacy next?
We’re all on the edge of our seats…
@georgeadams5390 Yeah that's how a lot of people talk. That's like making fun of a great writer for poor handwriting. Go fuck a cactus
Don't get me wrong Television is great, really great. Bands like Blondie,Talking Heads, Ramones etc.But when I was younger I loved ( and still do) Richard Hell and the Voidoids. I just related to his music more as a young man than some of the other bands of that era. "Let me out of here."
He is really sweet reliable ....hes never wavered from his stance.
Richard Hell is a genius and a treasure. Stop whining about the way he talks and read one of his books.
Super smart dude! love him👊🏻😎💙read his book!!!!
Which one? There's like 9
Dicky Heck!
I like Richard's books too!
Blank Generation, at the time, blew it all wide open for me. They were the defining moment of the punk movement, of which I participated in as a teenager looking for something to identify with that was part of my generation, that being a blank one.
Took me some time to understand that was Richard Hell talking… I first wondered who that guy could well be.
Just finished reading the new book, Richard. Not bad.
ommmmm.
If only Richard and Tom Verlaine would write their autobiographies and tour.
What is his accent though I read he started in Kentucky then Delaware then ny I don't hear any of those accents lol
Richard Hell has. It's good, too.
Well Tommy Boy just passed away to the Great Beyond.
Richard has written his autobiography. It's called "I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp".
Like some other people here, I want to know what happened to his luxuriant drawl. Did someone step on his larynx?
ummm this is how people really, uhh talk, in a uhhh real life, so uhhh get over it.
Pretty interesting isn’t it hehe
When did my beautiful Richard become Ray Romano?
Only kind of kidding...I hope it isn't neurological (the verbal things).
Lol. A brain disorder that turns people into Ray Romano.
Former chad
Hell at least for dangerous stunts. Like walking down the street or sharing an intense scene with AL Pachino, Mr. Hell could be his stunt double 🤔 facts Steven Segal used a stunt double for walking down the street, you can't this stuff up. 🤔
Being that he was a junkie, I'm surprised he cleaned up so well and is still alive.
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That would make this video like 30 sec long
Does anyone know the provenance of this interview? Like who is giving it and when? Is it made specifically for this channel?
hellverlaine cbgb documentary
Is there a Tom Verlaine segment too?
It was made for the history of the origins of Gangsta Rap, and how Richard Hell was the Godfather that spawned it all.
I was saying let me out of here before I was even born it's such a gamble when you get a face.
My absolute favourite opening to a song!
If you think you can win 🏆, Come on Man! I was a Green Beret In Vietnam 🇻🇳 Written by Douglas Colvin and sung by Jeffrey Hyman
Its weird how todays 20 year olds that like Richard Hells music are mostly middle upper class kids romanticising his era, whereas during his days with the Voidoids his fans were alienated mostly working class kids who. He's popular today with hipsters in New York who are exactly the type who wouldn't have got him in the 70s.
Richard Hell came from an affluent background and went to a private school. Don't assume!
@Parker that's why John Lydon is punk and The Clash never was 😉
@@obscuredestinies His background wasn't affluent and his father died when he was a child. His mother taught at a university, not a route to riches even then. Struggling middle class, maybe.
The CBGB crowd was a total mix, but there were certainly a whole lot of hipsters involved in it, including some very wealthy art scene types. NYC punk was never a working class thing.
I have respect for this man, but of course the Velvets were targeted to a pre-existing audience. I don't think Warhol glommed onto them by accident.
A pre-existing audience? If the Velvets were created for a pre-existing audience, then they failed miserably. Songs about drugs, prostitution, drag queens and homosexuality did not have a big market in the mid to late 60s. I don’t think you could be more wrong.
@@djikopgot thats the nature of capitalism, there are always new markets to expand and plunder
A pre-existing audience, yes, but not necessarily a commercial one
@@djikopgot I didn't know he liked VU not surprising though, I wondered if he ever got with Nico they would've had some tall skinny kids lol
@@joshbaino3087 I saw Lou Reed with my dad at some little club in new York he still had the underground thing going on you think David Bowie or Mick jagger would be at that club nah they had diva status unlike Lou Reed who was singing pale blue eyes etc...
I couldn't listen to this because of the 756 "erm" and "umm".
Wow. what does this have to do with Richard Hell?
+baghead777 Lmao, that is Richard hell.
yungbenz I don't think so...
I know so.
yungbenz This was so long ago.. I don't remember...
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The uhms and uhs is because for him is too much to say about the VU in such short time.
I belong to the umm blank generation and umm I can umm take it or umm leave it each time!
Television buries Richard hell musically, but Richard Hell buries Tom Verlaine intellectually. I just wish Richard was a smoother speaker.
Who wants two intellectuals playing punk music? The Sex Pistols broke the rules and created a new generation. Hell is a loser with no band and nothing going for him. You lost Hell you drug fucked moron
I like the way he speaks. Too bad he wasn't a smoother bass player.
@zaradragonia9863 the Sex Pistols were an inception of Richard Hell. It's well-documented dear. Essentially no New York Dolls no Ricard Hell equals no Srx Pistols, These are fact not biased opinions. Respect the man and his short but brilliant legacy. Hell most well-established musicians in jolly old England 🇬🇧 acknowledge. And just like Hell the Pistol were also a lightning-in-a-bottle phenomenon that finally blew its tires out in all fuking places San Francisco California. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂 😄 😆 🤣 😉 😀 😂 😄
I disagree. Robert Quines guitar work is unbelievably creative
They both put out close to the same number of albums in their time despite Television being much more musically active during their time
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I liked Richard Lloyds interview better.
I liked 👍 ♥️ ❤️ 💕 💖 Richard Milhuas Nixons interviews better.
Richard Lloyd is a good musician but he's so insufferably bitter about everything
i love him and his writing, esp the short stories but come on! "Umm, ahh, um, ahh, um, then ahm." Kind of annoying and distracting to hear him jabber on
At least he’s not Bernard
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Uhm, uhm, uhm, wish he’d get back on junk. He was a lot more, uhm, uhm, uhm … interesting.
Your evil, that s what say about Robert Downey Jr
Go fuck yourself. That's the type of shit someone says who's never seen the effects that hard drugs have on people
this guy writes books? He's flailing.
Good books without all the ums haha
I hope you're right
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Sounds like early stage Alzheimers....he`s really incoherent.
Lou Reed hated the beatles
To be fair Lou was a massive contrarian so you never know if he was just saying that lol but I don’t hear a lot of influence from those British bands into their music so I don’t know for sure
Iggy, is it really you?
@baphometfathom5348 Lu Lu was actually their contemporary s, and he didn't really view them with such awe. Remember Lou Reed is old School. He was really close friends with none other than Dion from Dion and the Wanderers.
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Richard went from Hell to become a Tibetan monk Um Um. Remember Allen Ginsburg when being harassed by cops 👮♂️, he use to Um them away.