Re: (TV) First recorded Television moment

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

First time was hearing Marquee Moon in the incongruous setting of the
Alan Freeman show.  Brits of a certain age will be familiar with Freeman
as the purveyor of a radio show which would feature the likes of Yes,
ELP, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, Steve Hillage etc.   My own
burgeoning tastes revolved around Bowie, Mott the Hoople, Alex Harvey,
Roxy and Queen ! but i used to enjoy listening to the Freeman show,
wallowing in the bath on a Saturday afternoon after playing football for
the school in the morning.  In the context of this show MM sounded
utterly alien and poetic and yet it was hardly a three minute pop song
either.  I remember getting the odd snatches of the lyrics and the
guitars were like nothing i'd ever heard.  It was just a radically
'different' soundworld from anything i'd heard up to that point. Its
easy to be romantic about imperfect memory but there was definitely a
sense of something utterly unique - even transcendental - about 'that
sound' that remains to this day every time i hear it...

Graham

BlackMonk wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ" <russvr@gmail.com>
> To: <tv@obbard.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: (TV) First recorded Television moment
>
>
> > I heard about Television before I heard any of their records. I  
> > believe I
> > read about them in Rollingstone first ( I think they compared Verlaine's
> > playing to Neil Young so I took immediate notice), then I read about 
> > them in
> > Pete Frames "Rock and Roll Family Trees" where the possibly 
> > apocryphal story
> > of their break-up was related, where Verlaine supposedly  stated that
> > Television broke up on a full moon, just like Moby Grape.(I already 
> > liked
> > Moby Grape)I was hooked at that point. I had to hear this band. So I 
> > bought
> > "Adventure" and heard "The Fire" .The rest is history. This was all 
> > in 1979.
> > I was still in high school. Somewhat later I got Marquee Moon. I think
> > coming to Television by way of Adventure is sort of interesting - it's a
> > very left handed experience.
>
> It seems a few of us started with Adventure. I first heard them when I 
> borrowed a copy of Adventure from the town's library.  The standout 
> cuts for me were Glory and Foxhole, and I liked most of the others. I 
> think I wasn't sure what to make of the longer tracks at the time, 
> though. After that, I got Dreamtime and The Blow Up, both of which I 
> liked a lot. (Dreamtime is still one of my all-time favorite albums. 
> Somewhere along the way, I heard "Alchemy" on the radio and thought it 
> was pretty good. That might even be before I'd heard Adventure. Over 
> the next few years, I got most of Verlaine's solo albums and Alchemy.
>
> Still don't have Marquee Moon, though. By this time, I'm afraid it 
> would be a disappointment, since I'm familiar with most of the album 
> from live versions of the songs. --------------
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