Re: (TV) MM Vinyl v. CD; and Lester Bangs

[HeathBiter@aol.com]

One thing that is interesting about the CD vs. vinyl on MM, is that the song 
Marquee Moon fades out on the vinlyl, whereas on the CD the song continues 
for another minute and a half and concludes.  

I haven't really read much music writing by Cameron Crowe, but I know that 
the glory days of Creem were really the high point of rock journalism.  In 
his new book,  Richard Meltzer reflects on Lester Bangs, and includes a few 
paragraphs on LB and Television.  Bangs didn't like Television.  He admitted 
that everybody he knew constantly raved about what an amazing band they were, 
but he just didn't get it.  They reminded him of the Grateful Dead.  He also 
had some problems with Verlaine.  Something along the lines of thinking that 
Verlaine was conceited and full of himself, and even though they'd met 
several times, Verlaine always pretended to not know him.  They'd be standing 
next to each other and Verlaine would pretend not to see him.  At one point, 
an antagonistic Bangs approached Verlaine on the street and asked if Tom knew 
who he was.  Apparently Verlaine answered "Yeah, yeah.  You're Lester."

By the way, I thought Jerry Maguire was a hunk of shit, but some of my rock 
friends went to a preview of Almost Famous and said it was awesome.

Heath 
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