Re: (TV) Cash Covering Verlaine/ Verlaine on WFMU

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

On 1/9/06, Russ Van Rooy <russvr@pop.nwnexus.com> wrote:
>
> I'm listening to the archive of it right now and it's "out of this
> world". Verlaine said *something like* "none of this stuff has had any
> influence on me as a guitarist..." Yeah, whatever you say, Tom. As for
> Johnny Cash, I would be surprised really if hadn't heard of Verlaine.


I dunno.  His stepdaughter Carlene Carter had some New Wave connections, but
there was some bad blood between them, at least for a while.  I mean, I'd be
surprised if Johnny never heard the name Tom Verlaine, but I'd also be
surprised if he would've been able to recognize Television if he heard 'em.

Robert Plant is apparently another story.


> He's covered Trent Reznor . I love Cash's version of Hurt.


I hate it... to me it's one of the rare missteps on those Rick Rubin LP's.
But I don't like Nine Inch Nails anyway (really facile and unsophisticated
in the lyrical department, IMHO), so the song was, to me, beneath Johnny.
Now that version of "Mercy Seat" is killer, though.

-Rex
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