Re: (TV) Got my Academy CD!

["Dennis D" <dend@nyc.rr.com>]

Wow, a lot faster than anticipated, maybe they realized the mistake and sent
it airmail. Fred does a lot of CD mastering at home on his PC I'm sure he
worked on this one.
If you are talking about who I think you are, fuck that guy! When he was
researching one of his books, he contacted a friend of mine who had a huge
collection of CBGB's era bands. Most of the recordings were supplied by
another friend of mine named Peter. Anyway this author contacted my friend
and had a list of shows he wanted, my friend said he can listen to any of
them but he wasn't getting copies. This "author" went out of his way to dis
my friend in the foreward to one of his books. As I said before, fuck that
guy. Besides I heard he's not a very nice person, which is probably another
reason he didn't get any copies, he was too demanding. My taper friend
pretty much lets me have any shows I want but in general is not big on
trading (there is not much out there that he wants anyway)
and feels that if people wanted this stuff they would have taped it
themselves. Of course he formed that opinion many years ago when it was
still easy to see Television playing around town.
I made some live Television and live Ween CD's for Chris Frantz and Tina
Weymouth who I had the extreme pleasure of meeting backstage at the New
Orleans Ween show.
Oh I told Fred about the person that asked why is this band ripping off the
White Stripes when they heard Television and he got a good laugh out of it,
made me tell the story like 5 times to various friends that came by the bar
that he was playing at lastnight.


> I got my Academy CD today! Thanks so much Dennis, I really appreciate
> the effort you put into distributing this.
> It's a great feeling to hear a new official release from Television
> again, albeit one I've already heard. The packaging is good quality.
> The sound fidelity is very good, if a little trebly. Interestingly many
> of the bootlegs from the first reunion tour are also trebly.
> There's no hiss to speak of, its either been cleaned up, or more likely
> recorded on a portable DAT recorder.
> I can hear audience chatter all the way through, so I'm sure its an
> audience recording, not a soundboard.
> I know a certain journalist (who wrote contentious books on the NY scene
> & Bob Dylan) recorded this show on DAT. Some of his recordings have
> found their way into the hands of  bootleggers to become "commercial"
> bootlegs (at least I think so). I wonder if this is his recording? If so
> it would be sweet irony for Television, bootlegging the bootlegger!
> Top marks to Television for finally releasing a good quality live show.
> Lets hope they release more.
> -Howard
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