Re: (TV) Tom Thompson mystery solved

["Andy Ferguson" <afne04343@blueyonder.co.uk>]

OK , Saturday night bravado maybe , but 
I think 'secret x' IS Tom , this is why the information is so accurate .
There . I said it :-)
Andy

http://www.thecheesemakers.co.uk
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <secretX@webtv.net>

> Verlaine tried to clear this up in 2002 in his liner notes to the
> Collector's Choice release of Tom Verlaine. He wrote: "We rehearsed Last
> Night with electric twelve-string guitarist Mark Abel and his friend
> drummer Tom Thompson, and got a good version in about an hour...We also
> cut a quick version of Grip of Love..."
>  
> Tom wanted to make this clear because on this list Mike Carlucci once
> said Tom didn't want to credit Billy for playing drums on those tracks
> so he changed Billy's name to that of a fictional character, "Tom
> Thompson". This insinuation angered Tom, as did other statements Mike
> made, including one about Robert Mapplethorpe which Tom cleared up in an
> NPR interview. (The one good thing about false accusations against Tom
> is that they bring him out of his shell to write clarifying liner notes
> and do interviews!)
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