(TV) Tom's Influences

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Tom's musical cake was baked and frosted long before the Beatles or VU
existed. He grew up listeniing to 1950's AM radio as well as to
classical and jazz records. The songs that Tom gets most sentimental
about now, when they're played on the weekend oldies show in NYC,
include those with Steve Cropper, Duane Eddy, Glen Campbell, Ernie K.
Doe, Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra, Gene Pitney. (Gene was pre-Stones,
contributed to a Stones session in 1964. Tom loves Pitney's "Twenty Four
Hours From Tulsa" and the song about Heaven and Hell.) Tom even
remembers Doo Wop fondly. Hendrix was a later influence. Tom also
studied Mike Bloomfield on an album called "East West", and John
Cipollina on the album "Ouicksilver Messenger Service" (but he quit
mentioning that soon after critics dubbed Television the Dead of the
east coast).
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