Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd Interview - Chart Attack

["Joe Thornton" <joe.thornton@gmx.net>]

Yes, great answers from Richard. Particularly charming is "we use a slide 
rule to decide when to play..." I actually found my old slide rule the other 
day and was loath to throw it out. Must show it to kids; they won't believe 
we actually used such things.

Odd that Rocket From The Tombs gets no mention.

Odd also that Richard gives us the solecism "And if he'd have managed us, 
maybe we would have vomited on the queen." Yes, I'm being pedantic, but does 
anyone agree that that error has become much more common in recent years?

I'm looking forward to Richard's new album, and I'm prepared to be patient. 
Just one little thing -- I hope he takes his time over the lyrics. Run them 
by Tom Verlaine at least. Or Keith... I know this is very irreverent of me, 
but the only weakness of "The Cover Doesn't Matter" (apart from the 
sleevenotes) was lack of tightness in the lyrics, and, occasionally, the way 
he sang them. I quite like his voice, but he doesn't always use it in a way 
that matches the song (IMHO).

I know, a lot of people would say the same about Tom.

--JoeT

Keith wrote:
> In message <44F69A3A.5080800@madasafish.com>, Graham Urquhart 
> <gurquhart@madasafish.com> writes
> > Interview (of sorts) with Richard
>
> "ChartAttack: Where would you say that Television fits in the musical 
> spectrum, and has it changed in the past 30 years?
> Richard Lloyd: Ultraviolet, infrared. There are 40 octaves of radiation, 
> of which light is only one. Way down below is the auditory spectrum, and 
> way below that is heat, and way below that is absolute zero. So all we 
> have are these three little windows. All we get are seven at the top and 
> seven in the middle and then heat. Very musical answer, Richard."
>
> This is the perfect answer to such a question.
>
> "Why did Television break up from 1978 to 1992 and then from 1993 until 
> recently?
> We follow the Thoreau cycle, the solar eclipse cycle. The Thoreau cycle is 
> an 18-year cycle and the sun spot cycle is 11 years, and we have this sort 
> of timetable that we work on that's a conglomeration of that where we use 
> a slide rule to decide when to play and to talk about making a new 
> record."
>
> This is even better.




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