(TV) Thanks Leo & Brian

["Steve Lippincott" <stevelip@email.msn.com>]

Thanks Leo & Brian for typing up & posting the Boston Phoenix and Musician
articles. A lot of fun to read.  Love that line: "The songs hang in the air
like the smell of cordite at the scene of a murder" by Milo Miles.  In the
Chip Stern article, I was very interested that Tom loved Roland Kirk (I'm a
big fan also). Puzzled by Tom's remark: "Well, "Days" is just "Mr.
Tambourine Man" played backwards, but I don't hear the Byrds as being
country".  Hmm, guess he hasn't heard the Byrds' "Sweethearts At the Rodeo"
album. Or "A Satisfied Mind"  (Turn, Turn, Turn) or "Time Between" (Younger
Than Yesterday). But I can understand why Tom would have gotten his back up
about Chip's need to slot Verlaine into "the same quasi-country space of
Byrds, Band," etc or pegging him as having the "perspective of a small-town
boy come to the big city". Personally, I've always thought of Television as
being a city band.  Just because Tom sang about "Red Leaves" doesn't make
him pastoral. I mean, they do have trees in Manhattan!

On the issue of "off topic" postings (that seems to have made some people to
leave the list): I wasn't around for the discussion of Ken Burn's jazz (or
whatever caused people to leave the group), but I find other recent off
topics (like about Perrett and the Only Ones) very interesting.  When you
get 110 TV fans together, you're going to have some shared musical tastes.
Hearing about other perspectives and about other bands makes for interesting
discussion.   Its certainly why I'm here.  Though, if we spent the next 6
weeks talking about why Barry Manilow is the anti-christ I might have cause
to unsubscribe!!

Steve
n.p. Mr. Tambourine Man (backwards)

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