Re: (TV) Verlaine & Junkyards

["Michael Carlucci" <michael@recordsnyc.com>]

    Which explains why Tom visits the flea markets on the weekends.
Without fail you'll see him at the 6th Avenue Market. Lots of neat stuff to
be found there as well as lots o' junk. But then you know the old saying
about one man's junk... M T C

> From: "Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@volpe.dot.gov>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:20:57 -0400
> To: "'tv@obbard.com'" <tv@obbard.com>
> Subject: RE: (TV) Verlaine & Junkyards
> 
> There's a couple of Verlaine songs that touch upon junkyards---'Lindi Lu' is
> one, and I've always thought that 1982's 'Clear It Away' was another ("Oh what
> a beautiful trap!") although the junkyard imagery in the latter song may be a
> metaphor for something else.
> 
> Verlaine in a 1982 interview said:  "I saw an interesting junkyard from a
> train about a month ago.  From the window of a train it had this look to it.
> I always like junkyards.  All this metal piled up-they're filled with pathos,
> those places.  Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard."
> 
> Still true of a lot of music in 2000!
> 
> Leo
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM [SMTP:bedwellm@WellsFargo.COM]
>> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2000 11:56 AM
>> To: tv@obbard.com
>> Subject: (TV) Favorite Moment
>> 
>> I was listening to "Linda-Lu" off of "Cover" last night. I have heard that
>> song a hundred times. It is still a revelation to hear that arpeggio that
>> comes right before the line "I'm gonna' live in a shack at the junkyard..."
>> 
>> Beautiful tone.
>> 
>> Micah Bedwell
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@mac.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:30 PM
>> To: tv@obbard.com
>> Subject: RE: (TV) Saxohone
>> 
>> 
>> At 7:46 PM -0400 6/8/00, Casey, Leo J wrote:
>>> 
>>> Speaking of saxophone playing, we know that Lena Lovich is credited
>>> with playing sax on Words From The Front's ('Day on The Mountain' I
>>> believe) , but I can never hear any saxophone playing on this record
>>> at all.  Is it buried amongst the effects of 'Day on The Mountain'
>>> ---can anyone hear any sax on any of this album's songs?
>>> 
>> 
>> I always thought it was the source of the tremelo blurt on "Days on
>> the Mountain."  Supposedly she does backing vocals on "Waterloo," but
>> I can't call them to mind at the moment.
>> 
>> Anyone besides me who was _Blank Generation Revisited_ (book of
>> photos, came out in '97) wonder who that might be at the Ritz in '84,
>> playing the Jazzmaster next to a high-kicking Lene Lovich in one of
>> George du Bose's photos?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Maurice Rickard
>> http://mauricerickard.com/
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