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Kennady Quille :
02/01/2023 03:03 AM
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John Richards :
01/30/2023 07:02 AM
Good Morning and welcome to the Monday edition of the Morning Show with John!
Rest in Peace Television's Tom Verlaine, who died this weekend at 73 after a brief illness. From Pitchfork, Verlaine’s work with Television is punctuated by their landmark 1977 debut album Marquee Moon, regularly hailed as one of the best albums of the 1970s, Their intricate, airy compositions embodied the experimental wing of Manhattan’s fabled CBGB scene in the late ‘70s. He went on to release several solo vocal and instrumental albums as Tom Verlaine and as part of a duo interpreting silent films.
https://pitchfork.com/news/televisions-tom-verlaine-dies-at-73/
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Reeves :
01/29/2023 05:02 AM
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Morgan :
01/28/2023 02:14 PM
Running 9:58, this is Television's magnum opus, renown for the inventive interplay between guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. It's the title track to their 1977 debut album, but the song was years in the making. It started as an acoustic ballad Verlaine put together; the band started playing it in 1974 when they were regulars at the club CBGB in New York City (Television was the first to emerge from that club, which later provided a home base for Blondie, the Ramones and the Talking Heads). They honed the song through live performance and diligent rehearsal, so when they recorded the album in 1976, they had perfected it. The entire album was recorded and mixed in just three weeks.
When the Marquee Moon album was released in February 1977, the title track was clearly the standout, but not something that could garner radio play in America. It was also a tough sell because the band wasn't known outside of New York, and it didn't adhere to a particular genre: "pop" doesn't do justice to the song's complexity, and it's far from "punk."
https://bit.ly/3i37BfA
Television - "Marquee Moon [pt.1]" (Live in Brazil, 2005):
https://youtu.be/sDRIpopYxj8
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Cheryl Waters :
01/03/2023 10:29 AM
That was Tom Verlaine as a guest on guitar in the previous song by Luna.
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Running 9:58, this is Television's magnum opus, renown for the inventive interplay between guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd.
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Richard Lloyd said of this song: "It's like a mini-symphony. Towards the end of the song, Tom gets a long solo, and he would often meander through parts of it, but we had it structured.
I do the song on my own as well, and it's really quite structured: There's a part that's loud and there's a part that's soft, and there's a build-up, then there's a climb - there's actually three sets of climbs - then there's what we call the 'birdies,' and then another section and then the verse comes back in. So it was pretty well structured after that period of time of aching to look for proper parts for it. And there's a great deal of syncopation going on in it with the drums coming in sounding backwards and my part that trills off the one. It's not easy to learn."
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