Live cd of Miller Tale / Fortune / RE: (TV) Days on the Mountain. ..

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

My understanding was that Verlaine basically gave carte blanch to Clinton Heylin to 
pick some live show for the double cd, "The Miller's Tale".  So Verlaine didn't have 
anything to do with the Live-part of the cd (although I'm sure he decided which of the 
studio tracks were included on the other).  Philip and Cliff McLenehan would know the details.  

Verlaine's absence or lack of input shouldn't be too surprising.  Although TV is a musical 
perfectionist this trait sometimes seems to extend only to a project that he's engaged in at 
that moment.  It wouldn't be too far-fetched to say that he probably never even listened to the 
live recording on "The Miller's Tale" before the cds were made.  It's a situation similar to how 
he probably never listened to the Collectors' Choice re-issue of the wrong master/mix of his 1st 
solo album, before it was "pressed" into cds, even though he wrote the liner notes!  (Although in 
his defense CC may never have sent him a test-"pressing". 

Regarding the song "Days On The Mountain", I always thought Tom could have made a small 
fortune by selling some of his songs for tv commercials (ala Led Zeppelin "Rock and Roll" 
for Cadillac).  

Imagine a Tide detergent commercial in which a harried mother tells the camera (as her young 
family frolics on the side of a verdant hill), that she never has to worry anymore about her 
kids' clothes since she switched to Tide---while in the background we hear Tom's music and keyboard 
trill.. "Yeah those days on the mountain I remember so well. Our clothes? Our clothes always clean."

	Leo

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From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com]On Behalf Of Rex
Broome
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 1:22 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Days on the Mountain...

>To me, the first biggest shock on the "Miller's Tale" live disc was that that song was ever played live.  The second was 
>that it was done with a drum machine.  The third was that Tom actually replicated a lyric that I'd always taken for a vocal mistake on the recorded version... the bit where he says. "Our clothes..."  pause pause pause... keyboard trill... "Our clothes..."  Every other verse has the vocal starting after the keyboard trill, so I thought he'd just jumped the gun, caught the mistake, and restarted where he was supposed to (and left the mistake on the recording, which sounds kind of demo-ish anyhow).  But apparently it was an "artistic choice", or at least ret-conned to sound that way in a live setting.
-Rex
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