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Re: (TV) The Go-Betweens and CBGBs



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--- Joe Thornton <joe.thornton@gmx.net> wrote:

> About Grant McLennan... I also found these New York
> reminiscences by Janie 
> Heath, Robert Vickers' wife:
> www.mrbellersneighborhood.com/story.php?storyid=1976
> 
> 
> And of course there's a lot about Grant in the blog
> written by Steve Kilbey 
> of The Church (I must check out their Jack Frost
> collaboration albums):
> http://stevekilbey.blogspot.com/
> 
> Kilbey also has anecdotes about Tom Verlaine there.
> I particularly like 
> this:
> 
> ... to stamp your own sound on an instrument
> have ya ever sat down n banged around on a piano?
> can you imagine how much time n love
> one has to invest to have yer own style n sound
> that people can pick instantly?
> the day i met tom verlaine in 1988
> he walked in my room
> picked up an acoustic guitar
> played 2 notes
> n i could hear it was him immediately
> his relationship with the guitar
> was totally unlike anybody else i'd ever seen
> and i seen a few...
> 
> --JoeT
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