Re: (TV) City Lights & Tom Verlaine

[eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>]

hey, in meltzer's defense (not that he'd care): he never
really thought too highly of BOC...they were pals of his (or
more accurately, sandy pearlman & murray krugman were SUNY
stonybrook pals of his) & he sometimes wrote absurdist words
(his descriptor) for their tunes...(tho "burnin for you" was
his, which provides him w/ a nifty lil royalty check every
yr).
meltzer's an idealist's idealist...he's so cynical, he's
almost pure.
& at times he writes like a motherfucker.


Brian Young wrote:
> 
> I love City Lights and go there often.  I recently picked up the Lester
> Bangs bio and the Meltzer "A whore just like the rest" there.  (Side note:
> I wanted to see what the fuss was about Meltzer, and I thought this book
> REALLY sucked royally- and then I hear from this list that he preferred BOC
> to the great NY music of the time and I thought "what a complete idiot").
> 
> I was surprised Verlaine even subconsciously would make the "bigger is
> better" argument after seeing his pictures from the mid-'70's.  His arms
> look so skinny that I could put my hand around them. Does Tom have a macho
> aspect to his personality?
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