(TV) Fw: Television, Lucas/Cooder, etc. (NMC)

["Glenn Cooper" <glenncooper@austarnet.com.au>]

>From the Miles Davis list ...


Aric writes:


damn. now i have to find this. i saw richard lloyd (and television) in Paris
a couple of weeks ago.
Television is fave band o' mine and Lloyd a favorite guitarist. Lloyd was
simply stunning, He gets better every time I see him. Verlaine was a bigger
jerk than ever and Billy Ficca tore it up. It would've been a really
memorable show if Verlaine had given a whit.



I'm on the same wavelength with TV. Once I went to see Matthew Sweet in
Boulder and the guitarist just blew me away - turned out it was Lloyd. I
knew he was on the records (as was Robert Quine here and there), but didn't
know he toured with the guy. And yeah, that rhythm section is way underrated
 They're fantastic. I know Verlaine is widely noted to be a jerk, but in
what way exactly? I understand that he wants "his" music his way, and that
can rub strong personalities the wrong way (but the results! oh man...), but
how did it impact negatively on this show? And this may go against the grain
 but I prefer Verlaine as a soloist - a really unique voice on gtr, whereas
Lloyd, talented though he is, strikes me as something more of a journeyman,
a jack of all trades. But I haven't listened to anything he's done in a
while and only heard his solo records once or twice tops, so maybe I'm just
way off base.

<<I can't say enough good things about that Gary Lucas disk. those of you
who're ry cooder fans or band fans (you know who you are) find this disk
(chinese pop songs of the mid 20th century). It's really special.>>

Funny that you'd put Cooder and the Band, who I see as pretty far from Lucas
 thing (based on his records that I'm familiar with), in this comparison.
But again, I haven't heard the disc in question. I bring it up only to point
out that both Cooder and Lucas were one-time Captain Beefheart sidemen as
well. Took things in very different directions, but I guess they were both
drawn to him for similar reasons maybe.

Patrick M. Brown
nervenet@aol.com
N.P. Van Morrison "St. Dominic's Preview" (The title cut has been lodged in
my head for days now and listening a couple times daily hasn't taken it out.
Better than having "Strutter" stuck in my head like last week, though.)
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