Re: (TV) Del Amitri

[Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 13:50:15 -0700 (PDT)
Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com> wrote:

> i thought lloyd played the guitar on days????

As I recall (and I'm to lazy to go look it up on my ser

On the Wonder website ( http://www.marquee.demon.co.uk/imr.htm ), there's
a reprint of an article by Jim Farber that was published in International
Musician and Recording World in September 1980 called "Tom Verlaine - The 
Last Romantic Guitar Hero".  An excerpt:

"On Television's second album, one of the most stunning guitar riffs is 
on 'Days'. It features Verlaine's warmest work, plus a passionate vocal 
with the key lyric 'days be more than all we have', to the realm of the
spiritual. The captivating main riff in the song has a strange origin. 
"I had read that Wagner would write something and then write it out backwards.
He'd have violins play the main theme backwards. I thought that was interesting.
And I always liked The Byrds so I asked Lloyd if he could play 'Mr. Tambourine
Man' backwards. We took that and changed it a little bit and that became
'Days'."


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