Re: (TV) Double Exposure vs. ...

["Dennis" <dend@nyc.rr.com>]

I'm not sure proficient is the word to use to describe Richard's playing.
But it certainly was interesting.
I'm definitely a Fred Smith fan, as anyone that has heard me play can tell
you, but I'm also a Richard Hell fan.
Fred has told me he liked what Hell had done also. The band certainly
tightened up with Fred playing bass though.


> Richard Hell was too that proficient. Cool and thudding. Quine insists he
is
> the shit. And I agree, listening to the Voidoids. Also the way they play
> Marquee Moon has a totally more primitive feel on Double Exposure,
compared
> to Fred Smith's version. Fred Smith is definitely the man for Tom
Verlaine's
> muse, but that's not saying that Richard Hell isn't an interesting player.
> Different animal. Very funky and awkard, Richard was. Listen to the EP
> version of Another World. Very proficient, I'd say. I'm listening to it
> right now and it f-ing rocks. It's like Television playing 70's era
Stones.
> Also I think the two boots are the same versions.
>
> Scott (US)
>
>
>
> > From: "Brian Young" <raggedglory57@hotmail.com>
> > Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:55:24 -0800
> > To: tv@obbard.com
> > Subject: (TV) Double Exposure vs. ...
> >
> > I am making a copy of the boot Double Exposure for a person on the
Captain
> > Beefheart list, and as I was listening to the first side, the Studio
"1974"
> > cuts do not sound like my other bootleg "Television with Bryan Eno" at
all.
> > The mix is way different, with the bass way more prominent and clear,
and
> > the versions don't even sound identical.  Does anyone have both of these
> > boots, and have you done a comparison.  And no way is that Richard Hell
on
> > bass.  He was never that proficient.
> >
> > I may have gotten Double Exposure from someone on this list.  The filler
on
> > this tape is a 1987 interview with Verlaine that starts out with 30
seconds
> > of French.  There are also 2 Flashlight  outtakes, "Smoother than Jones"
and
> > "Caveman/Flashlight".
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