Re: (TV) Now Playing

[Micah Bedwell <noahbrtn@yahoo.com>]

Really? I definetly hear two different artistic
tempermnets here. Thompson's playing seems to always
seek some kind of catharsis. While Verlaine's playing
intends to sustain a certain "dreaminess."

I know that's a very shallow intrepation. 

Yours on the fly.

Micah
--- campbell stevenson
<campbell.stevenson@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> rick wrote
>  There are times when
> > RT sounds a bunch like Verlaine to me (parts of
> the live "Calvary Cross"),
> > although Thompson was obviously out on record long
> before Television.
> >
> > Thoughts from the list?
> >
> >
> I borrowed the Thompson 3CD anthology (Watching the
> Shadows?? pls correct me
> if that's wrong) a few years back, and it had a
> wonderful Fairports song,
> very long, very atmospheric, called 'A Sailor's
> Life'. To me it sounded like
> a blueprint for MM, extraordinary guitar work,
> recorded in 1970. And on the
> live Calvary Cross, Thompson's style is so like
> Verlaine's that it's
> uncanny. (Opinion only ­ I don't play guitar, so
> someone might enlighten me
> on whether their technique is actually similar, as
> well as the sound.)
> 
> np The Soft Boys, Underwater Moonlight. (Saw them
> last week ­ mostly
> excellent but with a horrible twin guitar Thin
> Lizzy/Wishbone Ash workout as
> the final encore. They did a fine version of
> 'Astronomy Domine' though.)
> 
> 
> campbell
> --------------
> To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
> To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with
> message "unsubscribe tv"


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
--------------
To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"