RE: Yikes! / RE: Q on '(I Thought) You Wanted To Know' [?!!?] / RE: (TV) More TV-related cover versions

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

Thanks Phil.  All very interesting.  I have the dBs compilation cd.

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From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Phil
Obbard
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 9:27 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: Yikes! / RE: Q on '(I Thought) You Wanted To Know' [?!!?] / RE:
(TV) More TV-related cover versions

See this interview with Stamey and Holsapple where Stamey addresses the top
ic of "(I Thought) You Wanted to Know":

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/
2009/06/01/qa-with-peter-holsapple-chris-stamey/


Was there a great 
plan that preceded the formation of the dB?s?
I had recorded a so
lo record for my label of Richard Lloyd singing a song of his, ?I T
hought You Wanted To Know.? When Television?s A&R person, t
he legendary Karin Berg, kindly pointed out that he was signed to Elektra a
nd this was thus illegal to release, I redid the vocal myself (with Richard
?s blessing) and made up the ?and the dB?s?
 part?couldn?t afford to waste all that expensive recording
 time. Will and Gene had moved to NYC to play with me, and we did a quick b
-Side, ?If And When.? We took the dB?s as the name 
of the beginning band because of that single, played as a trio for a few mo
nths, then sent a passenger pigeon to Memphis to reclaim Peter into the fol
d. No great plan went into any of this, I think we were just happy to be pa
rt of the exciting CBGB-based music explosion, where the rules seemed to be
 shifting and anything seemed possible.


Phil



On Thursday
, March 6, 2014 9:14 AM, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
"(I T
hought) You Wanted to Know" actually plays a role in Television's 1978
br
eakup. Lloyd had written, recorded, and produced the track almost single

-handedly, but couldn't release it as a solo single because of his existing

contract with Elektra as part of Television. So he had Chris Stamey re-r
ec
ord the vocals. The dB's didn't really exist yet -- Peter Holsapple wa
sn't 
even a member of the band -- so for the b-side Stamey got Will Rigb
y and an
d Gene Holder to record his own composition, "If And When". (The
 dB's debut
LP wouldn't appear for 3 more years).

That's also why
"(I Thought) 
You Wanted to Know" has not yet, to date, appeared 
on any dB's compilatio
n, but "If And When" has. That being said, it does
 sound like as much of a 
dB's song (songwriting-wise) as anything they d
id themselves.

I wonder
how things might have played out for the dB'
s if Lloyd hadn't offered the 
song to Stamey, or if Lloyd had just kept 
it for ALCHEMY a year later.


--Phil





On Wednesday, 
March 5, 2014 11:12 PM, Leo Casey <Le
oCasey@comcast.net> wrote:

I f
eel like an idiot!

It's on an albu
m I own: "The Cover Doesn't Matte
r".  I should have checked
The Wonder 
before I wrote my previous 
post.

Leo
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