(TV) Verlaine's Lack of Generosity?

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

From: Brian Young 
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:04 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) TV Old Interview in 
Boston Rock Magazine

>I hadn't seen it before. Tom seemed 
>to take almost total credit for the 
>guitar arrangements, and his lack of
>generosity (or is it a lack 
>graciousness, or modesty?) took me aback. 

Brian,

I respectfully disagree.  I think you're 
being unfair. Whether you believe 
Verlaine or not on the subject of 
arrangements/creativity/authorship  
on Television songs (albeit "Days" 
and a few on 1992's "Television" esp.
'Rhyme' (and I--for better or worse---
may be one of the few on MM list who 
believes him), TV has several times made 
similar statements, e.g., Rolling Stone, 
3/20/80, 'Tom Verlaine:  Looking for Life':  
"Verlaine who wrote and arranged most of 
Television's songs left the band because 
he wanted to play with other musicians.  
'It wasn't like working with someone with 
real give-and-take," he says.  *I did sixty
to ninety percent of all the arranging 
on the songs, so a lot of it was showing 
people parts to play. Todd Rundgren
used to say, It's so much faster to do it 
yourself---why show someone else how to do 
it? ' "
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Maybe Tom's lying or exaggerating each time
---I don't think so.  I also believe that 
Richard played fantastically on the 
Television records, however, at least on 
the first two it's Tom's baby and Tom's 
arrangements.  

Furthermore, MsSecretX said on MM list last
Spring:

>At all of the 1992 Television shows that I saw, 
>Tom gave Richard the spotlight literally. I was 
>with Tina Weymouth at one show and she said
>Tom used to do that at CBGB shows. When the 
>spotlight is on Tom, he steps back, unless
>he's at the microphone.  

There's a supreme irony here:  Not only did 
Tom bend over backwards to give Richard 
the spotlight during the 1st reunion tour, 
but Tom did it again on the second 
reunion tour in Europe and possibly in the 
States for all we know. 

 
	Leo 
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