Re: (TV) Beware of Sales Pitches

[Jeffrey Germaine <jpg55@attbi.com>]

Excellent observations.
R. Thompson is a far far different personality than T.V.
R.T. is the complete artist. He also has a very clever sense of humor.
I know that he is very committed to his fans. I have never gotten that sense
from T.V. in the over twenty-five years of following him.
The only thing I have always wondered about T.V. is what does he do with all
his time? His body of work is small and he really doesn't tour very much.
When I first met him I sensed he was completely detached and insecure.  I
suppose that first impressions are sometimes right.
There is an old saying that says the older you get the harder you have to
work because the less time there is. With R.T. I see a passionate artist who
is out in the midst of the world  and is aware of time.  With Verlaine I see
a man who is completely removed from the world and out of time.


> From: Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 01:50:20 +0100
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Beware of Sales Pitches
> 
> In message <20030603205059.96194.qmail@web11006.mail.yahoo.com>, Philip
> P. Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> writes
>> Besides, how's this for ironic: Television released a live album this year,
>> entitled LIVE AT THE ACADEMY NYC (taken from a 1992 show). You could buy this
>> CD at their 2003 gigs. Since then, you can't buy it anywhere - even if you
>> try
>> to contact the email address listed on the CD - *except* from the one store
>> in
>> NYC that is also the single biggest source of 'commercial' Television
>> bootlegs.
> 
> You know, I was just thinking, wouldn't it all just be so much easier if
> we just transferred all this admiration we have to a "proper" band - ie
> one which wanted to succeed rather than one which is 'led' by someone
> who, for whatever reason, seems determined to be as big a commercial
> failure as possible?
> 
> That Richard Thompson, now, there's a Gent. Just looking at the back of
> Mock Tudor and there's a list of URLs where you can, hey!, find out more
> about the music and its creator(s). Novel idea. You can find out where
> to buy his work - you can actually buy it! And, you see, reading in the
> recent Mojo about the tensions which tore apart RT's personal and
> creative partnership with his wife, and which informed and directed both
> their work, is actually far more interesting than wondering why Tom V.
> and Mike Carlucci don't talk to each other. It's their business and
> anyway it's boring. I mean, who cares, you know?  Tom Verlaine has a
> manager to look after his interests, he doesn't need us.
> 
> My son is just going through a huge Nirvana phase and, with all the
> hormonal angst of a 14-year-old, he sees Cobain as a tragic figure,
> rather than a rather sad, self-obsessed and immature fuck-up. Which is
> fine for a 14-year-old but we should all be old enough to get past the
> "Poor Tom" crap and just get pissed off at the complete disdain and
> indifference with which our favourite band seems to regard its fans.
> 
> Ms "X"  - this is not an attack on you - but you mentioned: "It was Tom
> who first asked me to post under an anonymous name, back in 1998". I
> mean, if this is true, how sad is that? Why? If the guy posted to this
> list or the Yahoo Group and said, "Stop sending out fucking copies of my
> live work!" then I might seriously consider it. As it is, I couldn't
> give a fuck what he thinks about it, any more than he appears to give a
> fuck about anything much other than silly games, self-pity and treading
> his own lonely, weary, circular road. What a waste of an incredible
> talent - there was a time when Verlaine could have been huge and he
> settled for being Small. If only I didn't love 'Dreamtime' so much... if
> only Marquee Moon wasn't a work of art... if only, you know..?
> 
> 
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