Tom Verlaine is a great performer and more : he is quite an icone of the rock though he does very nice and sweet things in solo ; he really is charismatic and enigmatic too ; I love Tom
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Well I like how he uses "space" in his playing (I'm not sure if this is the same "space" that you're talking aobut...). The absence of notes is equally as important as the presence of notes.
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Fer Sherr....Verlaine was a BIG influence on Cline....Saw Wilco in Austin last year, and was thinking, "Well, since I'll probably never get to actually see Verlaine himself, this ain't a half-bad student presentation.."
Definitely; Jeff Tweedy has been forthcoming in his admiration for both Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. Listen to "Sky Blue Sky"; you can hear the Television influence in the guitar work. Couldn't go wrong for me - one of my favourites influenced by another favourite! Verlaine's a genius; love Tweedy too :)
On the studio original version of Bomb he softly said at the beginning “Hail Mary full of grace” ; the beginning of the prayer Hail Mary. He has surely been touched by God with his great talent.
A most unusual performance for Tom Verlaine in that he is unabashedly expressing his vulnerability and inner turmoil..It is also fascinating to observe his uncannily expressive face , that is if he felt like revealing..
If Edvard Munch’s The Scream could actually make a sound it might approximate the tone Verlaine gets on his guitar in the video. Like Hendrix, he had the ability to wrest sounds and emotions from the guitar that were unique to his creative vision
I am a painter and I was trying to describe to someone yesterday how I can almost see his music as much as hear it, that it seems constructed using design principles and that part of that is space. He’s my all time favorite because of this.
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Verlaine remains a sort of casualty, coming out of scrap-yard New York City punk, if you will, only to develop a certain fluency that doomed him later on. Years later I saw him w/ Televison at the American Music Club in San Francisco and...better understood how we had all been chaeted.
Interesting, it looks like Verlaine was playing through a Mesa Boogie in this performance (1:27). I'd love to know the story behind that black Jazzmaster ... if you look at 1:46, you can see that the covers were painted black and had started to show the white plastic underneath.
I also noticed this - disgraceful and shameless - almost spoiled the whole experience for me - How could Tom even concentrate on his guitar playing with the bass player wearing those pathetic trousers - What a rotter!!!
I remember watching (and video taping) this as it was broadcast and thinking his backing band were awesome. It's taken me 33 years to discover the backing band are from Scotland. And yes, I remember those trousers. I actually only really dig this and the 12" version of Marquee Moon.
I love Tom's guitar playing because it's slightly off but not in the same way that a lot of punk guitar players play. Tom strays from the typical crazy punk rock guitar playing, it's more bluesy and shit
I think that's true for a number of his and Television's live performances. This 'Bomb' sure knocks spots off the album version; and the other day I was watching (yet another) live version of Marquee Moon in which he threw in a whole bunch of lovely figures that were new to the song. And not just Tom: I recall when they came to play Auckland a few years ago, during 'Prove It' Billy Ficca played every unconventional part of his drum kit -- legs, feet, everything! Clever guy.
@dinnerbucket9 I don't really think he has been "cheated." Yes, he didn't get a lot of financial backing and promotional support from record companies, but his music is not really mainstream so one wouldn't expect much more. I think he's highly revered today both by musicians and listeners (of punk/post-punk music). He gets way more attention than Lloyd or other interesting guitarists from the punk and post-punk scene.
I wont waste one second bashing Wilco [ even though I sort of hated Hotel Mediocrity] but, really, the distance is light years and the chain of influences just dont begin to connect. Verlaine has gone without recording contracts precisely because he is so outside, without even wanting to live there.
No one plays guitar like Verlaine, with the emphasis on like...there are more technically proficient players but as far as I know he has no imitators worth naming. It's so delightfully 'off' and singular.
Kind of agree, but check out the electric Richard Thompson. He goes off every way of playing guitar like Tom does. And he plays acoustic well, too! Try Can't Win by RT
Yikes. Verlaine created a 'space' [ I know, I know] that was entirely his own and ultimately left him obscure and unsigned. That said, one more comparison to the Wilco sound and I am reaching for my revolver. [ With apologies to Mission of Burma].
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Now, molloyx...I said that Verlaine was a big influence on NILS CLINE....I didn't say he was a big influence on WILCO. Yeah, there's a Big Difference....
Ruderocker.... Oh, I wasn't insulting Nils in any way.......I was just pointing out the very noticeable similarities. (I mean, Cline was even playing a Fender Jaguar, as well.......It's not like I accused Cline of ripping off Nils Lofgren's NAME or something, eh?) Now, just what did you mean by "selective"? I really don't get the use of that phrase....
@dogsquadindia But Tom never lost his hair. And, Songs and other Things, his last album, was great! The Earth Is In The Sky is easily one of his best songs. He is especially inspired and driven on this live performance of Bomb. God bless Tom Verlaine!
Let's remember, our national forests are our heritage. So explore, camp and leave only foot prints and then hack as many trees as you can with a hatchet.
Leaning back on this toilet, praying for a miracle, eating a gold fish while controlling the more eager of ready broads is an age-old wish as it's a gynecological lost cause to warm a menopausally-cold dish 7 December 1980 Yoko & John Lennon celebrate Pearl Harbor Day with sushi, foot-long Coney Island hot dogs & Uncle Tetsu's soufflé My bum hurts & I'm harboring rabid resentment for Tom Ridge as I look for a bad woman to subdue in a headlock & throw off a bridge Bob Mitchum said: "Stick with me & you'll be farting through silk" to his fiancée whose huge milkers were lactating extra-creamy milk At night she labored with an intensive hypnagogically-hypnical jerk that allopaths attributed to a restless leg syndrome, obstetrical quirk to be cut out by a gamma x-rayed scalpel dirtier than a septical dirk
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This is everything I loved about his playing and performing. What a wonderful character he was.
Rest in Peace Tom Verlaine.
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Mind blowing! ~RIP~
For some reason, these geniuses will absolutely eschew the mainstream. Verlaine could have written million-seller pop songs in his sleep.
DAVID BOWIE covered one of t v songs
@@kevinjoseph517 it was Kingdom Come in Scary Monsters
Modern lovers , Pablo Picasso.@@kevinjoseph517
Tom Verlaine is a great performer and more : he is quite an icone of the rock though he does very nice and sweet things in solo ; he really is charismatic and enigmatic too ; I love Tom
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i don;t think i've ever seen him play with this much chutzpah. this is incredible..
He took what Lou Reed did and improved upon it very, very well. What a groove! 🕺👯💃
Without the cynicism or decadence. And with more musicianship
Best guitarist of all time
absolutely
Not while Jeff Beck's about he's not.
Great player and an original.
@@garymorgan3314 ironically, tragically, tom verlaine only had about a week to exist in a world without jeff beck. :(
He's up there w Hendrix
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❤ My favorite guitar. And a hell of a writer.
truly visionary, especially the USB-charging ports (two!!) on his guitar
Those are volume and tone rollers for the rhythm circuit of that guitar. 💀
😂😢rip
Verlaine and the guys from Love and Money in great form.
Well I like how he uses "space" in his playing (I'm not sure if this is the same "space" that you're talking aobut...). The absence of notes is equally as important as the presence of notes.
Rest in Peace Tom.
Well lucky you! If I had a time machine, thats exactly when and where I would live :)
tom veralines guitar sounds metallic and bad-ass!
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Because it is!!!
Fer Sherr....Verlaine was a BIG influence on Cline....Saw Wilco in Austin last year, and was thinking, "Well, since I'll probably never get to actually see Verlaine himself, this ain't a half-bad student presentation.."
Definitely; Jeff Tweedy has been forthcoming in his admiration for both Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. Listen to "Sky Blue Sky"; you can hear the Television influence in the guitar work. Couldn't go wrong for me - one of my favourites influenced by another favourite! Verlaine's a genius; love Tweedy too :)
Who's Jeff tweedy? This is the real deal
Splendida chitarra...
Love the attack in his clever playing, loved him since 'Marquee Moon' the first of the New York scene stuff I got of that time.
This is freaking awesome.
On the studio original version of Bomb he softly said at the beginning “Hail Mary full of grace” ; the beginning of the prayer Hail Mary. He has surely been touched by God with his great talent.
And the feminine principle , necessary for such a masculine theme.
This guy can PLAY!
Rest easy Tom
This is about ten times better than the studio version. I love this and I can barely listen to the original.
I love guitar bands!
A most unusual performance for Tom Verlaine in that he is unabashedly expressing his vulnerability and inner turmoil..It is also fascinating to observe his uncannily expressive face , that is if he felt like revealing..
Ya, his laugh in the song and overall seeming-weirdness just freaks me out. So different. Was he a tortured soul?
Great, sounds much better live than on record, i should so very much like to see some more from those period.
Television (original lineup supporting Marquee Moon in the 70's was the all time best rock concert I've been to, any genre or setting..
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If Edvard Munch’s The Scream could actually make a sound it might approximate the tone Verlaine gets on his guitar in the video. Like Hendrix, he had the ability to wrest sounds and emotions from the guitar that were unique to his creative vision
I am a painter and I was trying to describe to someone yesterday how I can almost see his music as much as hear it, that it seems constructed using design principles and that part of that is space. He’s my all time favorite because of this.
@@karenstinnett I am a plumber
@@wertnevis7319I work in a toll booth and like to think of myself as the Tom Verlaine of toll roads.
FAB !!!!!!!!
Thought this song was weird when I bought Flashlight. But I keep coming back.
Great song
Incredible!
this guy bright
wow.
Wow! Not listened to anything by Tom for years. Why?
Badass! as usual!
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Verlaine remains a sort of casualty, coming out of scrap-yard New York City punk, if you will, only to develop a certain fluency that doomed him later on. Years later I saw him w/ Televison at the American Music Club in San Francisco and...better understood how we had all been chaeted.
Great guitar sound...some of it reminds me oddly of Nels Cline's work with Wilco.
Turn it up. Ya ya
Thanks for posting.
Not oddly, Cline was openly worshipful of Tv
Interesting, it looks like Verlaine was playing through a Mesa Boogie in this performance (1:27).
I'd love to know the story behind that black Jazzmaster ... if you look at 1:46, you can see that the covers were painted black and had started to show the white plastic underneath.
I hope they had a band meeting about the bass player's pants after this...
I also noticed this - disgraceful and shameless - almost spoiled the whole experience for me - How could Tom even concentrate on his guitar playing with the bass player wearing those pathetic trousers - What a rotter!!!
I remember watching (and video taping) this as it was broadcast and thinking his backing band were awesome. It's taken me 33 years to discover the backing band are from Scotland. And yes, I remember those trousers. I actually only really dig this and the 12" version of Marquee Moon.
And his Nik Kershaw moves
Its from "Flashlight".
okayyy thanks
Never got any credit for his guitar playing, as unique as Neil Young AND Robert Fripp.
I love Tom's guitar playing because it's slightly off but not in the same way that a lot of punk guitar players play. Tom strays from the typical crazy punk rock guitar playing, it's more bluesy and shit
Jazzy
I saw this as a kid when it was first broadcast - I thought I was pretty "cool" back then, but I didn't understand this at all. Now though... WOW. :)
I remember it too - The Tube on Friday evening....
God you're young. He was my upstairs neighbour on 23d Street
@@dogsquadindia Any stories?
this versions alot better than the studio
I think that's true for a number of his and Television's live performances. This 'Bomb' sure knocks spots off the album version; and the other day I was watching (yet another) live version of Marquee Moon in which he threw in a whole bunch of lovely figures that were new to the song. And not just Tom: I recall when they came to play Auckland a few years ago, during 'Prove It' Billy Ficca played every unconventional part of his drum kit -- legs, feet, everything! Clever guy.
Well.....point taken.
@dinnerbucket9
I don't really think he has been "cheated." Yes, he didn't get a lot of financial backing and promotional support from record companies, but his music is not really mainstream so one wouldn't expect much more. I think he's highly revered today both by musicians and listeners (of punk/post-punk music). He gets way more attention than Lloyd or other interesting guitarists from the punk and post-punk scene.
I wont waste one second bashing Wilco [ even though I sort of hated Hotel Mediocrity] but, really, the distance is light years and the chain of influences just dont begin to connect. Verlaine has gone without recording contracts precisely because he is so outside, without even wanting to live there.
No one plays guitar like Verlaine, with the emphasis on like...there are more technically proficient players but as far as I know he has no imitators worth naming. It's so delightfully 'off' and singular.
Kind of agree, but check out the electric Richard Thompson. He goes off every way of playing guitar like Tom does. And he plays acoustic well, too! Try Can't Win by RT
Gary Arce from Yawning Man is KINDA similar but yeah not the same thing for sure.
Nels Cline from Wilco--virtuoso and edgy as fuck!
+molloyxx1 Would have to check the chronology but his playing style and sound is very similar to the late great Robert Quine
Indeed, Mr Steviedan, now I will have to go chase down some of his stuff. Thanks
Can someone explain the lyrics?
What kind of PU's is he using on that Jazzmaster?
Well... If i never hear this again it will be tooo soon.
WTF
Yikes.
Verlaine created a 'space' [ I know, I know] that was entirely his own and ultimately left him obscure and unsigned. That said, one more comparison to the Wilco sound and I am reaching for my revolver. [ With apologies to Mission of Burma].
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They weren't unsigned. He had to ask Elektra to drop them. They were always signed somewhere 🎸
I'm sure many people have been influenced by him.
I post this every time
How exactly is Verlaine a casualty?
Now, molloyx...I said that Verlaine was a big influence on NILS CLINE....I didn't say he was a big influence on WILCO.
Yeah, there's a Big Difference....
does anyone know what album this is from?
Flash Light
This is, essentially, the shit.
Ruderocker....
Oh, I wasn't insulting Nils in any way.......I was just pointing out the very noticeable similarities. (I mean, Cline was even playing a Fender Jaguar, as well.......It's not like I accused Cline of ripping off Nils Lofgren's NAME or something, eh?)
Now, just what did you mean by "selective"? I really don't get the use of that phrase....
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God he was hot when he had hair
@dogsquadindia
But Tom never lost his hair. And, Songs and other Things, his last album, was great! The Earth Is In The Sky is easily one of his best songs.
He is especially inspired and driven on this live performance of Bomb. God bless Tom Verlaine!
Let's remember, our national forests are our heritage. So explore, camp and
leave only foot prints and then hack as many trees as you can with a hatchet.
a.k.a Robert Fripp?
It is reported that sometime in the 1970s Fripp asked if he could join Television. Imagine, Verlaine, Lloyd and Fripp together! Verlaine said no.
I dunno it rhymed.
Leaning back on this toilet, praying for a miracle, eating a gold fish
while controlling the more eager of ready broads is an age-old wish
as it's a gynecological lost cause to warm a menopausally-cold dish
7 December 1980 Yoko & John Lennon celebrate Pearl Harbor Day
with sushi, foot-long Coney Island hot dogs & Uncle Tetsu's soufflé
My bum hurts & I'm harboring rabid resentment for Tom Ridge as I
look for a bad woman to subdue in a headlock & throw off a bridge
Bob Mitchum said: "Stick with me & you'll be farting through silk"
to his fiancée whose huge milkers were lactating extra-creamy milk
At night she labored with an intensive hypnagogically-hypnical jerk
that allopaths attributed to a restless leg syndrome, obstetrical quirk
to be cut out by a gamma x-rayed scalpel dirtier than a septical dirk
Can't stand guitar solos... with a few exceptions... ;)
ah you Boomers and your reflective selective consciousness.
I've heard him play really well, but this stuff stinks...No wonder nobody bought it...Ever read the words?...Nonsense.
are you trying to be funny?