Re: (TV) old but new

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 12:17 PM -0500 2/13/01, Pontrelli, Paul Jay wrote:
> For list members, regulars and lurkers, when did you first start listening
> to Television?

1983.  My older sister had a teacher who was getting rid of all his 
punk/new wave albums as part of a religious conversion, and he gave 
them to her for free.  I'd read some _Musician_ items on Tom, and 
when I saw _Adventure_ in the stack (not MM, curiously), I snagged 
it.  By the end of the first bar of the solo in "Foxhole," my life 
had changed. _Dreamtime_ and _WFTF_ followed, and I went outward from 
there.

The stack also contained the first four Elvis Costello discs, the 
first four Ramones, first three Talking Heads, some great 
samplers...man.  What a gift.

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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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