Re: (TV) Wilco - Richard Lloyd connection

[dwmarin@optonline.net]

Funny this topic comes up - for the past month I've been listening to their "bonus" song from iTunes called KICKING TELEVISION....I strongly suggest it's worth the $.99!  Sounds like a cross between Mission of Burma and TV

I've been meaning to ask if anyone knew of any Wilco and TV/Verlain connections 

PS - haven't heard the rest of the new CD...just this one song.

dave marin

PS - Hi Steve!


----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Rovner <serovner@mindspring.com>
Date: Sunday, August 15, 2004 11:16 pm
Subject: (TV) Wilco - Richard Lloyd connection

> I just finished reading "Wilco: Learning How To Die" by Greg Kot 
> (pretty good book, although it's not great).  Wilco has always 
> been a favorite of mine.  Near the end of the book, I ran across 
> the paragraph below:
> 
> "For his thirty-fourth birthday in 2001, Sue Miller's gift to her 
> husband was a guitar lesson from Richard Lloyd of New York new-
> wavers Television.  In the midst of the 1970's CBGB scene, the 
> dueling guitars of Lloyd and Tom Verlaine evoked '60s psychedelic 
> and progressive bands more than any of their punk-era peers.  
> Tweedy adored the band, and the way Lloyd's skewed harmonics 
> opened up the fretboard in particular.  In three hours, he filled 
> up a notebook with new possibilities after Lloyd showed up with a 
> guitar at the Wilco loft."
> 
> I never would have thought that Jeff Tweedy and Wilco could be 
> influenced by Television, but there you go.....
> 
> - Steve
> 
> 
> Steve Rovner
> serovner@mindspring.com
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