(TV) More TV guitar info/data

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@volpe.dot.gov>]

Granted this source is 7+ years old---Guitar Player (January 1993):
R"ichard Lloyd still plays the same '61 Stratocaster with jumbo frets that he played on Marquee Moon and Adventure, although he takes a '62 reissue Strat and Tele on the road. On the new album's "Rhyme", he played a rare black f-hole Gretsch. Lloyd tends a stable of vintage Fender amps, including a '50 Deluxe, a '52 Pro, a '55 Tremolux, and a '56 Princeton. He also uses a '59 Ampeg Jet, a Vibraverb reissue, and a '65 Supro. Live, he relies on Vox AC30s: "You can change the current wherever you are without a transformer, so they're good the world over, and they have a nice high-end bite." Save for a few dinosaur pedals, Lloyd avoids effects, citing the dangers of "processors that make your guitar sound like Velveeta." And though he's a diehard fan of amp distortion, he admits, "I'm always fighting to get a combination that won't really distort the tonality of the guitar, but will just give you the edge you're looking for."
Tom Verlaine cracks up when I pop the gear question: "I'm gonna make up really great lies for you," he howls. "Fuzztones and Marshalls!" Actually, Tom is a longtime Fender Jazzmaster player: "They're really problematic tuning-wise, but they were the cheapest guitars in the '70s, so I'm used to them." Stray cats include a Stratocaster, a Harmony 12-string, a Vox with built-in fuzz, vibrator and tuner, a "Kay thing", an Al Caiola Epiphone, and a Monkees Gretsch.
In concert, Verlaine plays through either Fender Super Reverbs (also used on Marquee Moon) or Vox AC30s, but for Television he went with a Valvotronics tube amp made by the group's amp technician Robert Darby, although Super Reverbs, an Ampeg Jet, and a Silvertone amp all made their way into the mix. For effects, he brought his usual "trunkload of total garbage stuff", which includes Echoplexes used as preamps, "just to goose it up." Verlaine's full-bodied tone starts with the strings: What began as a way to keep his Jazzmaster in tune has become a wide proposition-.015s or .014s on the top to .054s down low."
	Leo

PS While looking for this info I once again saw the following:  "Tom Verlaine has a prediction. This week, as he prepares for the release of his first album with the band Television in 14 years, Verlaine feels sure of one thing. 'he record will fail, exactly like the others did,' he says."  Source: New York Magazine (October 1992)

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> Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com> wrote:
> ...
> > when I saw him last fall he played a modded Fender Strat (non-stock 
> > pickups) and a Tele (which he didn't actually play)--no Jazzmaster in 
> > sight. (On reflection, they might not have been his guitars: he 
> > borrowed the amp, so he might have borrowed the guitars as well...)
> 
> One of the folks on the Test Patters disk (sorry, I don't remember
> who!) was an interesting story about loaning a Tele to Tom for the
> show, and being snubbed when he asks Tom to sign it!  So any or all
> of this gear may have been borrowed, and is probably not representative
> of his preferred gear.
> 
> When I saw Television in '92, Tom played a Jazzmaster all evening, and
> spent a lot of time tuning it!
> 
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