(TV) RE: Beatles Influence on Television

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Eric V. wrote Fri pm:  
> ...i don't think one would be making too large & overgeneralized a statement when claiming
that anybody who meant anything in rock & roll from 70-76 was in some way shape or form, inspired or
directly influenced by reed/velvets.

Philip O. wrote back:
> Really? I think you're underestimating the pervasive quality of sixties pop in
the music you like. You might not listen to the Beatles regularly - I don't any
longer - but you can bet the groups you named (Dylan aside) got crucial
inspiration from them or from the bands they spawned. 

>  I'd argue that Television was more influence[d] by
sixties pop records taken to their logical conclusion than by the VU. This
belief is reinforced not only by their choice of covers but also by Verlaine's
comment in FROM THE VELVETS TO THE VOIDOIDS about buying a box full of 60s
singles, listening to Byrds and Kinks singles, and realizing that the rhythm
guitar parts generate the excitement in the music. 

>I'm not saying for an instant that the influence of the VU/Dylan/Stones wasn't
vital to loads of bands that followed, Television included, only that it's
extraordinarily difficult to remove the influence of the Beatles from those
three groups/performers to begin with.
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I'm not really disagreeing with either of you------just that in that 1987 (Sept./Oct.) Option Magazine interview (the one that used to be on the now defunct "Rivethead"/Unofficial Television web-site) TV talked at length about how he wasn't that big a fan of the Beatles and how why he instead preferred the Stones or the pop hits of Petulia Clark to the Beatles.   Which doesn't mean he wasn't influenced by the Beatles.   

(By the way, I can't find an electronic copy of this Option interview by Maria V. Montgomery ("Tom Verlaine on Music, Books, Films and ....." anywhere on the internet---anyone know where it resides or have an electronic copy?)

	Leo
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