(TV) Re: Alejandro Escavedo

["MICHAEL CARLUCCI" <subterraneannyc@mindspring.com>]

    I had heard froma friend living in Austin that Alejandro would very
often play with Ronnie Lane(of Small Faces/Faces fame) in whatever club
would have them. Does anyone have any recordings of the two together. I was
fortunate enough to catch Alejandro's Orchestra which was both original
and inspiring. Why a label hasn't figured out how to market this guy is
beyond me. Talk about a waste of talent. Though I'm sure there are 1,000
stories like his. Anyway, tapes of these two anyone? M T C

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>From: Noah Lopez <noahl@U.Arizona.EDU>
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) LAUGHNER
>Date: Fri, Jan 14, 2000, 2:21 PM
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>Alejandro Escovedo is a personal favorite, especially if
>playing with his orchestra. He's got a great stage presence
>that matches up well with his great emotional music. I see
>him whenever I can.
>
>Noah
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>On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 jpg@sirius.com wrote:
>
>> Say anyone seen Richard Buckner and Alejandro Escovedo?
>> They're playing next week in San Francisco. Any comments, ideas, etc.?
>> 
>> MICHAEL CARLUCCI wrote:
>> 
>> >     Good Morning One & All,
>> >
>> >     I spoke to one of New York's finest regarding Peter. Apparently he had a
>> > real fixation with Patti, Verlaine, and Hell. And always felt he was the
>> > perfect
>> > guitarist for those people. So much so that he was actually rude and
>> > abrasive to
>> > Lenny, Ivan J., and Bob Quine. They were holding his position. According to
>> > my
>> > source he was a wannabee but couldntbee. He turned off everyone that he
>> > encountered,
>> > especially "rival" guitarists. None of these people could (at the time)
>> > understand
>> > why he was being rude to them. Sure genius comes in all shapes, sizes, and
>> > colors, but
>> > this is just pure megalomania. One LP's worth of material(again, in my own
>> > opinion) hardly
>> > constitutes "genius". I'd like to hear a follow up LP. Even in the case of
>> > Richard Hell,
>> > he made a classic piece of vinyl. One that will surely go down in the
>> > history books for
>> > many years to come. However, I can't say that Destiny Street even comes
>> > close to the power
>> > that Blank Generation has. Now someone like Lou Reed has at least 4 LP's
>> > under his belt to prove
>> > that he had the stuff that legends are made of. Bob Dylan made Bringing It
>> > All Back Home,
>> > Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde On Blonde all in a year and a half. For
>> > those contributions
>> > alone he owes me or anyone else anything. I need more proof of Peter
>> > Laughner's "genius"
>> > to be able to accept the term. I'm not trying to stir anything up here, just
>> > voicing an
>> > opinion. Thanks for the space. M T C
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