Re: (TV) Concert "Intro" = a Didjeridu

["dave eisenstadt" <eisenstadt@adelphia.net>]

right on there, mike.
i, too, have noticed through the years, the occassional anti-hippy screed,
shot or remark - and puzzled over it.

Skipping the dead -- and I am a certifiable card-carrying deadhead, it's
occurred to me many many times that Verlaine and TV draw a fair amount from
duane-era allman bros. obviously, there's the two lead guitars, not duelling
but accompanying (which the dead didn't have). there's the
pretty-notes-through-cacaphony style and the way the longer songs especially
use the guitars to build to a crescendo, then have this atmospheric stuff.
i've wondered many times whether the abb song "dreams" influenced marquee
moon cause there are stylistic and substantive similarities. both songs, to
me anyway, are about a journey of one sort or another, get to their
destinations on double leads and evoke the hilltop in one case, the name in
lights stuff in the other with a bit of mind-and-string bending.
in some sense, if you cross abb with the velvets you come up with something
like TV. add in dash of elevators and you're almost there.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Ehritz" <mikeez@earthlink.net>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) Concert "Intro" = a Didjeridu


> On 2/4/05 8:29 AM, "Rex Broome" <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Why are hippies held in such disdain by this group? I mean Television
> >>> has more in common with the psychedelic jambands than they do with any
> >>> Punk or New Wave band.
> >
>
> >
> > TV may have more in common with some of the real original "hippie"
> > bands (Airplane, Elevators etc.) but very little with the modern
> > definition of a "jamband" (Phish etc.)... but maybe that's just me.
> >
> > -Rex
> > --------------
>
> I agree with that. I believe the difference between old and new school
> jambands are that for the former, the song came first and was a portal for
> musical improvisation. There was a passion for the art of song writing.
> Being a huge Deadhead, I have tried very hard in the past to "get" Phish,
> thinking I would find a new source of tunes. Unfortunately, because one
must
> get through the endless noodling and banal lyrics to get to the good
parts,
> it's ultimately unlistenable. Plus it never ROCKS.
>
> Mike
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