Saw him round about this time. Great live improviser. This band would have been Jay Dee Daugherty (Patti Smith’s drummer), Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip (who’s now taken Richard Lloyd’s place in Television).
Saw this band in Palo Alto during this tour; driving back up to San Francisco I was in such an utter music daze I got pulled over on Hiway 280 for going 40.
What a great song! That driving rhythm. That guitar, singing, soaring and lyrical. What a guitar player Tom Verlaine is... recently put together a 70s Underground playlist on iTunes and discovered the brilliant studio version of this... it goes right to the top of the playlist, right above Big Star, Stooges, Patto, Nick Drake, Dwight Twilley & Joy Division... oh what could've been, breakin' in my heart!
My all-time favorite TV tune! This is certainly more ragged than the lp. version, but wonderful to hear it for the first time! Nice to have a "rimbaud" post this too! All we need now is Baudelaire!
In my band, once we figured out a song, we always played it the same way. It was great and we were comfortable doing that. In Richard Lloyd's autobiography, he states the same. He worked all his solos out to perfection and he never changed them. Quicksilver Messenger Service, the first great Rock Guitar Duo, had Gary Duncan, who loved to improvise on live performances, also had John Cippolina who was more like Richard Lloyd in that he never strayed from his interpretations. I miss hearing Ricky Wilson.
My Guatemalan look-alike marched up the rear like Richard Gere's gerbil. I had a parsnip that I was saving for later but I had to give it up 'cause I was Anabaptist or Catabaptist, Mennonite or something.
I was introduced to Tv same weeks I was introduced to Heroin . I know the later's not cool but for some reason for me, they just gelled. And for a few short years b4 the drugs started kickin my ass... I felt on top of the world and had a great soundtrack.
Well a Cadillac, it pulled out of the graveyard; pulled up to me, all they said, get in, get in. Then the Cadillac, it puttered back into the graveyard and me I got out again - like that?
*"The curvature of the Earth, making allowances for refraction, is about 229.5 feet for twenty miles. Therefore a ship 200 feet high would be completely out of sight at a distance of twenty miles, assuming the eye to be near the level of the sea." ~ Fr. pps. 132-3 of **_Why Do Some Shoes Squeak? And 568 Other Popular Questions Answered_** by George W. Stimpson (1984)*
*_DIARY OF A CONSTIPATED MAN_** - Thursday, 20 Nov. 2014 @ **3:19** P.M. : I failed in this afternoon's attempt at a meaningful bowel movement. Tomorrow is another day. Friday: Everyone around me is enjoying bountiful bowel movements! “I know what I want for Christmas.” I told the waitress at Taco Bell. “A burrito with extra cheese?” She guessed. “Sure,” I said, “as long as it's part of a bountiful bowel movement!”*
*LISA & HER SISTER LINDA ~ Lisa loved her life, her life-saving tactics. She played the life-saving games that meant so much to people struggling to breathe. 1 day, while Lisa was washing undies in the bird bath, Linda exorcised 7 of her inalienable rights in the attic. Unexpectedly an uninvited man appeared on the porch wearing nothing. “Who are you?” Lisa demanded to know. The man stood his ground, struggling to breathe. “Oh my God!” Linda exclaimed as she removed her clothing. “This man needs immediate first-aid attention to his 3 thunder zones!”*
In 1982, a bootleg so someone is hiding a tape recorder. I think they should have allowed it the way the Dead did, I think he could have built on that, but they didn’t permit taping.
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This is so wonderful. I got to see him many times in Manhattan in the 80's and he was always great.
One of the best guitarists ever, and a great rock n roll classic, to boot!
My favorite guitar player, maybe.
What a great version! Verlaine really on form here
Tom had a penchant for going into long creative not to be reproduced guitar jams which was wonderful. Nobody does that now, sad to say.
TV was the most remarkable display of psychedelic/jazz/punk fused that is ever likely to be. A quintessential artist of an epoch.
Saw him round about this time. Great live improviser. This band would have been Jay Dee Daugherty (Patti Smith’s drummer), Fred Smith and Jimmy Rip (who’s now taken Richard Lloyd’s place in Television).
Saw this band in Palo Alto during this tour; driving back up to San Francisco I was in such an utter music daze I got pulled over on Hiway 280 for going 40.
What a great song! That driving rhythm. That guitar, singing, soaring and lyrical. What a guitar player Tom Verlaine is... recently put together a 70s Underground playlist on iTunes and discovered the brilliant studio version of this... it goes right to the top of the playlist, right above Big Star, Stooges, Patto, Nick Drake, Dwight Twilley & Joy Division... oh what could've been, breakin' in my heart!
Best version I've ever heard online. Inarguably better than the studio version which is awesome in and of itself.
😾 "Mona said it's all so bad, walking home from Stalingrad." -- Tom Verlaine
My all-time favorite TV tune! This is certainly more ragged than the lp. version, but wonderful to hear it for the first time! Nice to have a "rimbaud" post this too! All we need now is Baudelaire!
Haha -- there'll be one lurking.
In my band, once we figured out a song, we always played it the same way. It was great and we were comfortable doing that. In Richard Lloyd's autobiography, he states the same. He worked all his solos out to perfection and he never changed them.
Quicksilver Messenger Service, the first great Rock Guitar Duo, had Gary Duncan, who loved to improvise on live performances, also had John Cippolina who was more like Richard Lloyd in that he never strayed from his interpretations. I miss hearing Ricky Wilson.
RW's integrity is breathtaking
11 minutes of bliss
The evolution of Mr Verlaines solo is an experience to be experienced...!
Outstanding 😎‼️🔥🎸
This is Live at Toad’s Place, New Haven, May 26, 1982
Electric rock guitar surrealism.
That brings me back.
Wow!
Awesome!:)
My Guatemalan look-alike marched up the rear like Richard Gere's
gerbil. I had a parsnip that I was saving for later but I had to give it
up 'cause I was Anabaptist or Catabaptist, Mennonite or something.
RIPTV
I was introduced to Tv same weeks I was introduced to Heroin . I know the later's not cool but for some reason for me, they just gelled. And for a few short years b4 the drugs started kickin my ass... I felt on top of the world and had a great soundtrack.
Well a Cadillac, it pulled out of the graveyard; pulled up to me, all they said, get in, get in. Then the Cadillac, it puttered back into the graveyard and me I got out again - like that?
*"The curvature of the Earth, making allowances for refraction, is about 229.5 feet for twenty miles. Therefore a ship 200 feet high would be completely out of sight at a distance of twenty miles, assuming the eye to be near the level of the sea." ~ Fr. pps. 132-3 of **_Why Do Some Shoes Squeak? And 568 Other Popular Questions Answered_** by George W. Stimpson (1984)*
*_DIARY OF A CONSTIPATED MAN_** - Thursday, 20 Nov. 2014 @ **3:19** P.M. : I failed in this afternoon's attempt at a meaningful bowel movement. Tomorrow is another day. Friday: Everyone around me is enjoying bountiful bowel movements! “I know what I want for Christmas.” I told the waitress at Taco Bell. “A burrito with extra cheese?” She guessed. “Sure,” I said, “as long as it's part of a bountiful bowel movement!”*
What was this recorded on, a sock?
*LISA & HER SISTER LINDA ~ Lisa loved her life, her life-saving tactics. She played the life-saving games that meant so much to people struggling to breathe. 1 day, while Lisa was washing undies in the bird bath, Linda exorcised 7 of her inalienable rights in the attic. Unexpectedly an uninvited man appeared on the porch wearing nothing. “Who are you?” Lisa demanded to know. The man stood his ground, struggling to breathe. “Oh my God!” Linda exclaimed as she removed her clothing. “This man needs immediate first-aid attention to his 3 thunder zones!”*
hmm... ok...
Not good.
In 1982, a bootleg so someone is hiding a tape recorder. I think they should have allowed it the way the Dead did, I think he could have built on that, but they didn’t permit taping.