Re: (TV) review

[Jeffrey Germaine <jpg55@attbi.com>]

Ditto. I was a both shows. I agree the second show was tighter.

> From: "Radio Ethiopia" <radioethiopia@wildmail.com>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:35:30 -0700
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: Re: (TV) review
> 
> Hi folks... I was at both SF shows and this
> review is such a bunch of bull it doesn't even
> deserve comment.
> 
> I think this person either a: wasn't even there
> or b: excessively high on drugs, drunk or both.
> 
> Admittedly the second show was much better than
> the first but the first was excellant, too.
> 
> Below, please find a reveiw I posted to another,
> interested list.
> 
> RE*fs
> 
> 
> 
> **********************************************
> 
> Fabulous, stupendous, sublime, transcendent,
> immaculate, wonderful, virtuoso, words fail me!!!
> 
> Tom, Richard, Fred and Billy's performance last
> night (7-27-02) at the Great American Music Hall
> in San Francisco was the best musical event,
> sans Patti, I've seen in years. The show last
> week was good too, but last night was
> intergalactic!
> 
> I don't know where these boys have been hiding
> the past few years, but, wherever it is, they
> haven't been resting on their laurels. I am
> reminded of when I went to hear Roxy Music in
> Vancouver last summer and thought, these guys
> were never this good 25 years ago!
> 
> And so it is with Television.  As good as they
> were back in the day of the birth of punk and
> new wave, these guys have evolved so much that
> it makes me proud to be an old geezer! They
> burned down the house with old favorites, "Venus
> de Milo" and "Marquee Moon" among them, as well
> as some new material, too.  Does this portend a
> new Television album to come?  We can only hope.
> 
> These guys have got to be one of the best
> American Rock-n-Roll bands EVER and they are so
> overlooked in the popular culture that it's mind
> boggling. Even some friends of mine who should
> know better, when I told them I was going to
> hear Television, said "Who?" Well, so much the
> better for the rest of us I guess 'cause the
> Great American Music Hall, though SOLD OUT for
> both shows, is the perfect small venue to hear
> great RnR. Maybe about three or four hundred
> folks, tops.
> 
> Richard Lloyd's guitar playing in particular was
> just too much; I went into ecstatic overdrive on
> several occasions - that man can play!  I'm
> surprised he hasn't been scooped up by some
> major big money band in the intervening years.
> As much as Tom is the creative soul of
> Television, Richard seems to be the real musical
> maestro.
> 
> It was inspiring too, to see all four original
> band members with no one dead from a fucking
> stupid heroin overdose, cocaine heart-attack or
> worse. They all looked hale and happy and played
> with high energy and great creative inspiration.
> 
> What a treat! Just what I needed! If they play
> your town, don't miss out, run - don't walk, to
> the ticket outlet.
> 
> RE*fs
> 
> 
> 
> ---- Begin Original Message ----
> 
> From: Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>
> Sent: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:54:31 -0400
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) review
> 
> 
> At 9:49 AM -0700 8/15/02, Jay wrote:
>> Certainly wasn't my experience in NYC earlier
> this
>> year.
>> --- "Dever, Paul (ELS)" <P.Dever@elsevier.com>
> wrote:
>>> 
>> http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.01.02
> /allshookdown-0231.html
> 
> And for that matter, I don't recall her saying
> *which* of the two
> shows she went to.  List members who went to
> both SF shows seemed to
> think that while the first was good, the second
> was really something.
> -- 
> Maurice Rickard
> http://mauricerickard.com/
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