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The Outpost Cafe / Tom Verlaine ...
« on: January 29, 2023, 08:06:49 AM »
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/29/tom-verlaine-television-perfectionist-guitar-genius-always-kept-punk-guessing
His band Television had their Andy Warhol 15-minutes of fame when the English music press gushed over them in 1977 upon the release of their debut Marquee Moon. (Being an item with Patti Smith for a while also helped.)
To my ears they were extremely NYCish, you could hear the Velvet Underground influence, but at the same time you hear a whole lot of Tom Verlaine's music in The Pretenders (especially in Chrissie Hynde's singing) and The Strokes, also in REM. Not so much fathers of Punk (Television were known for keeping their guitars undistorted), but fathers of Indie Rock.
Verlaine's naive, yet questing and sometimes daring guitar playing defied convention (there's two lead guitarists on the album, the one stumbling on more bum notes is Verlaine
) and the whole album had the feeling of an elegy that just drew you in.
His band Television had their Andy Warhol 15-minutes of fame when the English music press gushed over them in 1977 upon the release of their debut Marquee Moon. (Being an item with Patti Smith for a while also helped.)
To my ears they were extremely NYCish, you could hear the Velvet Underground influence, but at the same time you hear a whole lot of Tom Verlaine's music in The Pretenders (especially in Chrissie Hynde's singing) and The Strokes, also in REM. Not so much fathers of Punk (Television were known for keeping their guitars undistorted), but fathers of Indie Rock.
Verlaine's naive, yet questing and sometimes daring guitar playing defied convention (there's two lead guitarists on the album, the one stumbling on more bum notes is Verlaine
) and the whole album had the feeling of an elegy that just drew you in.
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