Tom Verlaine RIP

[HenryJames 66133]

Great guitar band unlike anything else at the time.

[HenryJames 66133]

 

[HenryJames 66133]

 

[HenryJames 66133]

[G650 14268]

Saw this earlier on gear page. RIP to a real one.

[Reynolds Woodcock 4783]

Damn, RIP. Great band

[TexPx 2323]

Bummer. Saw Television open for Peter Gabriel on his first solo tour. Row 4 at Dallas Convention Center Theatre.

Seeing Robert Fripp, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd on the same night was pretty cool.

[jimmyjazz 45991]

Well, shit.

[Celery Man 20973]

Goddamn.

back in the days I was playing with my old band, our producer told us to go listen to Marquee Moon as homework. It’s still one of the few albums I actually have downloaded on my phone, one of my main “heads down working” albums. High ratio of influence to fame.

[Gil Bang 25980]

sounds like I better check it out, because I have no fucking idea about any of this.

[HenryJames 66133]

 

[Topper13 3375]

73 years young, getting old sucks. 

 

[Macanudo 12996]

1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

Affected, Flea.

[4th&Five 41565]

 

[cafe society 2872]

On 1/28/2023 at 6:00 PM, TexPx said:

Bummer. Saw Television open for Peter Gabriel on his first solo tour. Row 4 at Dallas Convention Center Theatre.

Seeing Robert Fripp, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd on the same night was pretty cool.

Christ, what a dream line up.  Congrats on being there.  I grew up in Fort Worth, I should have been there.

[cafe society 2872]

Television was a gateway band, so skilled, innovative and raw at the same time.  As a musician, if you weren't affected by them, go home.

[NOMAAA 1696]

getting old does in fact suck.

[Chad Fuck 17688]

13 hours ago, cafe society said:

Television was a gateway band, so skilled, innovative and raw at the same time.  As a musician, if you weren't affected by them, go home.

This.  They were like a late 70s VU.  You couldn't hear Marquee Moon and not have some little bit of musical ear worm enter your consciousness and exit through your guitar.  Huge loss.  

[TexPx 2323]

Christ, what a dream line up.  Congrats on being there.  I grew up in Fort Worth, I should have been there.

Yeah it was a helluva show. Fripp was using the pseudonym “Dusty Rhodes” at the time. After two encores we were still screaming for more. The came back out and Gabriel said they hadn’t learned anymore songs and wanted to know if they could repeat something. So the did.

18 years later I saw Richard Lloyd again. This time at the Caravan of Dreams with Matthew Sweet on his “Girlfriend” tour. He was incredible and seemed to be having the time of his life.

[stc 1462]

still amazed how many people have never heard of television, even people who are pretty into music. marquee moon is one of my go to recommendations when people are looking for something interesting. 

[Celery Man 20973]

5 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

This.  They were like a late 70s VU.  You couldn't hear Marquee Moon and not have some little bit of musical ear worm enter your consciousness and exit through your guitar.  Huge loss.  

exactly the comparison I was thinking of with velvet underground