RE: (TV) Press Coverage / Latest RS

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

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From: Andy Ferguson 
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:48 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Press Coverage

>Television have some great coverage in the new special edition of Q in UK .
>Its a punk special and features a full page on the band ( nothing we didn't
>know already ) a good selection of photos ( which I hadn't seen before ) and
>a 5 star review of MM in the 'essential albums' section .
>Can type out the text tomorrow for anyone interested who cannot get a copy .

When I bought the issue of Rolling Stone (below) last night at the 
supermarket, the cashier noticed the Ozzy Osbourne first-family on 
the cover and tried to engage me in a conversation about Ozzy.  

Being in a foul mood from the pouring rain, I muttered that Ozzy 
& family were not why I was buying the mag---it was to possess RS's 
fabulous 8"x5" wedding photo of ZZ Top on page 10.  

	Leo

From: Rolling Stone, May 9, 2002, page 25 

"TELEVISION INCITE GUITAR-GEEK ORGY
Irving Plaza
March 19th and 20th, 2002
New York"

Television were one of the greatest rock & roll bands ever coughed 
up: mystical guitar boys who dressed up like punks and sang like 
poets while exploring the mind-expanding properties of the ten-minute 
Fender Jazzmaster solo. For their first New York shows in almost ten 
years -- the same week that their old CBGB confreres in the Ramones 
and Talking Heads entered into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- the 
veterans sounded surprisingly loose. They reached back into their 
Seventies catalog, tossing off obscure bootleg faves like "O Mi Amore."
They radically revamped such classics as "Marquee Moon."  And, of course, 
they took forever tuning up between songs.  "We haven't changed," guitar 
guru Tom Verlaine said apologetically during one marathon tuning session.  
"The time between the songs is longer than the songs."

Although both shows followed similar set lists, Television improvised 
different versions of the same songs:  the first night offered a much 
trippier "Marquee Moon," while the second night's "Little Johnny Jewel" 
was one for the record books.  As a lead guitarist, Verlaine hasn't lost a 
stroke.  (So why hasn't he made a proper solo album in fifteen years?  Just 
wondering.)  Amazingly, neither has drummer Billy Ficca, whose rolling-thunder 
interplay with the guitarists was fantastic both nights, as Richard Lloyd's 
Strat breathed fire into such nuggets as "See No Evil", "Venus", and 
"1880 or So."  With Verlaine jokingly introduced himself as film-noir tough 
guy Richard Widmark, this reunion was as playful and generous as any 
Television fan could have hoped: an orgy for guitar geeks.  ---Rob Sheffield

[A 2"x2", medium-shot (from knees to top of head), color photo of Verlaine 
playing guitar while singing into microphone follows.  
Photo's caption reads,  "Ten-minute man: Television's Tom Verlaine."]
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