Re: (TV) Tom Thompson mystery solved

[Jeffrey Germaine <jpg55@attbi.com>]

Or a very good and devoted groupie.

> From: "Andy Ferguson" <afne04343@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 22:11:28 +0100
> To: <tv@obbard.com>
> Subject: Re: (TV) Tom Thompson mystery solved
> 
> 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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