Re: (TV) Naming / Deliberate?

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

This place has become a drama den the last 2
months...I wonder who started this shitstorm?

Oh yea...that would be me!


--- Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:

> I don't want to sound like an apologist for Tom, or
> have people think 
> 
> I 'm trying to create a shit-storm, BUT--- I think
> way,way too much has  
> 
> Been made of (and assumed about) his not referring
> to Richard by name.
> 
>  
> 
> I don't believe it was deliberate.  In fact, it's
> quite possible 
> 
> Verlaine assumed that the majority of people at the
> free 
> 
> concert were not there to see Television, or were
> not very familiar 
> 
> with who made up the band Television, or cared not a
> wit who its band 
> 
> members were  so he just referred to the missing
> member as "Our guitarist".
> 
>  
> 
> Don't you think that Verlaine would know he would
> come across as a 
> 
> horrible person if he had *deliberately* omitted
> referring to Richard 
> 
> by his name?  Don't you think to omit someone's name
> on purpose would be a 
> 
> little too obvious?
> 
>  
> 
> Moreover, what possibly could be his motive for
> omitting Richard's 
> 
> Name?  TV has always bent over backwards to give
> Richard the spotlight 
> 
> and take the majority of the solos during the
> 1992-93 tour and 2001-2006 
> 
> shows, and had never publicly said anything bad
> about him.  
> 
>  
> 
> Albeit they've never been bosom buddies.
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