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RE: (TV) amps/Lennon

Marque Mooners, 

I would like to cast another(?)lonely absentee ballot for the wonders of tube amps.  They couldn't be as bad as some people have made them out to be ----otherwise our heroes, Television, wouldn't have continually used them. 

peaking of heroes, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that today is the 20th university of another of my heroes, John Lennon.  

To quote today's Boston Globe:  "Lennon's sarcastic wit tempered Paul Mc Cartney's sugary melodies, his lyrics probing themes of utopia, pacifism, self-doubt, and discovery that perfectly matched the times.  ... Lennon was also no stranger to self-promotion.  He called his marathon bed-in at the Amersterdam Hilton in 1969 'an advertisement for peace.'  But unlike Nike running shoes or Blue Meanie beach towels, that's something the world can never get enough of."

	Leo

PS:  Does anyone know if Verlaine or other members of Television ever met Lennon---even briefly? (Ms Secret X can you reveal anything on this?)  The 1988 biography "No Direction Home" says that Dylan met/hung-out with Patti Smith and Verlaine for several nights in the early to mid 1970s when Verlaine was romantically involved with Patti.  This was around the same time Lennon was fighting deportation from NYC by the Nixon administration.





-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@mac.com]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 1:24 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) amps


I swear by the Kalamazoo Model Two - ~5 watts with tremelo.  (It's 
the amp on my tribute track.)  There seemed to have been a brief ebay 
mania for them which drove the price up, but I think it's thankfully 
receded.   But yeah, small amps are great--especially small tube amps.

-- 
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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