RE: (TV) VU's "Foggy Notion" as origin of TV's "Breakin'...."!/Bo wie+Verla ine+Vaughn

["Eric Veillette" <ericgv@hotmail.com>]

Richard L told me:

Television, while at first managed by Terry Ork, was sorta dubbed "the new 
velvet underground", and thats the kind of thing [ork] was after, having 
been part of the Factory entourage and all. [not verbatim]

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I found the 'foggy notion' comment interesting because the first time i 
heard 'foggy notion' [about a year ago] i thought "wow, that *really* sounds 
like television."


> >Most of us are aware how Television used to remove the batteries from Lou
> Red's cassette when he came to see
> >Television at CBGBs to prevent him from stealing songs (one writer even
> claimed Verlaine would also deliberately >mumble/mangle the lyrics of
> Television songs when Reed was in the audience).
>
>
> I wasn't aware of that.  That's a great story!  There's a well-known 
> picture
> of Verlaine standing next to Reed, laughing.  Did Verlaine and Reed know
> each other well?  Was Reed a Television fan?  Is Verlaine a Reed fan?  
> Along
> time ago, I used to hear that Verlaine was influenced by the Velvet
> Underground, but I haven't heard anything about that in a while.  Nor have 
> I
> ever read anything from Verlaine saying that he listened to/liked the VU.
> Anyone know?
>
> Cameron.
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