(TV) NY Times reviews OLD WALDORF disc

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

>From the December 5, 2003 "Arts" section:

TELEVISION: "Live at the Old Waldorf San Francisco, 6/28/78"
(Rhino Handmade/Elektra). Television, the band that put CBGB on
the map in the mid-1970's, was less a punk band than what would
now be called a jam band. But it was a New York jam band, barbed
and dark and deliberately astringent. Its late-1970's studio
albums were showcases for Tom Verlaine's songs and were
constrained by the length of the LP. Now that Television's first
albums have been reissued, this live set reveals what was
missing: the constant, peripatetic interplay of Mr. Verlaine and
Richard Lloyd on guitar and the dynamics of a rhythm section
that brought jazz subtlety to basic, two-chord rock. The sound
is pristine, illuminating each quietly picked harmonic or
distorted squall from a band whose improvisations were
tightrope-walking marathons.   JON PARELES



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