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Maybe I have been sending e-mails to the wrong adress, so the list may not have received the e-mail I sent last week about the article in Variety about Richard Lloyd.  If you did, I am sorry to re-send the same thing.  But there was an article in Variety, which was picked up by Reuters and posted as an Yahoo! Entertainment headline last Friday. Here is the article:

Friday December 1 4:23 AM ET
Richard Lloyd preps fans for new album 

Richard Lloyd (Manitoba's; 99 capacity; free)

By David Sprague

NEW YORK (Variety) - When folks spin tales about the early days of New York's punk scene, Television guitarist Richard Lloyd often gets short shrift -- even though his searing, angular solos were as important to the sound of his band as the contributions of ostensible front man Tom Verlaine.

While Lloyd's musical presence has been shadowy in recent years, he's put together a striking new album called ``The Cover Doesn't Matter'' (due for a January release on the Upsetter label) and has mounted an increasingly incendiary series of shows in New York, culminating in this once-a-week residency.

Taking his cue from the back-to-the-roots vibe of this tiny club -- which makes CBGB, the room in which Television played its first shows, look palatial -- Lloyd peeled away the years with remarkable ease, tearing through 90 minutes of material in ecstatic mode. Abetted by a trio that balanced steadiness and willingness to follow their leader up sheer sonic precipices, Lloyd segued masterfully from addled romanticism (''She Loves to Fly'') to hammer-down rock jams (a raucous cover of ``Hey Joe'').

Whatever the surrounding mood may have been, however, Lloyd remained seemingly impervious, unskeining solo after nail-biting solo in that familiarly sinewy, piercingly trebly tone. He's adopted a tone that's fuller and more bluesy than the arid sound of his early playing -- best evidenced in the woozy ``Submarine'' and the harsh ``Cortege'' (both of which appear on the new disc).

The presence of rhythm guitarist Bibi Farber (whose rich constructs could have served as leads in their own right in a lesser band) allowed Lloyd the luxury of paying more attention to his vocals -- previously a weak link in his repertoire. These days, his reedy voice, while hardly virtuosic, has taken on added depth, which was particularly evident on the hypnotic ``Raising the Serpent. ``

Lloyd continues his residency at Manitoba's through December. Television is rumored to be reforming for a one-off festival appearance in Britain in the spring.

Presented inhouse. Band: Richard Lloyd, Bibi Farber, Peter Stuart, Chris Butler. Reviewed Nov. 28, 2000. Also performing Dec. 6, 14 and 20.

Reuters/Variety REUTERS 

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