Re: (TV) Tom's Influences

[Ken Thompsen <joseph-k@swbell.net>]

on 7/31/01 3:57 AM, secretX@webtv.net at secretX@webtv.net wrote:

> 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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Did he ever listen to Robert Johnson?...He reminds me of him in some ways
too.
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