Re: (TV) Call Mr Lloyd

["Rex Broome" <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

Wow, this is cool.  Can't wait to listen.

If there are any tapes of the shows from Tom's last solo tour, we can
probably even add "Persia" with Ripp instead of Lloyd, for comparison.

-Rex

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:03 PM, earcandy_archive <
earcandy_archive@comcast.net> wrote:

> It was 7 years ago that I first heard Tom Verlaine say:
> "This here's a newie....goes like this"
>
> And now that an album may be nearing completion (according to Jimmy Rip s
> recent blog posting), perhaps some of those  newies  have made their way
> to
> the studio.
>
> Now, I'm one of those fans that feels Television just isn't Television
> without Richard Lloyd.  But I ll certainly buy the album, and no doubt
> thoroughly enjoy it, even while thinking of it as a Tom Verlaine Band solo
> album.
>
> However, I thought it worthwhile to compile the better sounding versions
> of
> the new songs as they've been played over the last few years, as a way to
> enjoy the songs with Lloyd's interaction. No telling, of course,  if any
> or
> all of these songs even made into the studio along with Mr Rip.  I have my
> doubts that "Swell" would be included, for instance....as it always seemed
> like just a "tune-up" song in concert before segueing into "1880 or So".
> I've also put on a few "jamming" tracks as bonus tracks, just for grins.
>
> I m asking fellow TV fans to help choose the track sequencing, as they
> think
> it should be if this was the real album.  Keep in mind that these are
> audience lo-fi tracks; there is audience talking, and certainly won t be
> the
> sonic pleasure that the album will be.  But, it serves possibly as a
> souvenir of how they sounded when Richard was still involved.
>
> Available as either a compressed  rar  file or a winzip file (whichever is
> your preference).  Unpack the files using winrar or winzip respectively.
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/98857388/tv_newies_comp_mp3s.rar
>
> http://rapidshare.com/files/98855236/tv_newies_comp_mp3s.zip
>
> (just choose the  free  download, rather than  premium  and then you have
> to
> wait a few seconds before you can download).
>
> "Call Mr. Lloyd"
>
> 01 The Sea (London 2002-06-19)
> 02 Balloon (Washington DC 2003-03-24)
> 03 Rise & Fall ( London 2005-06-21)
> (called "Kinks Song" on setlist included with recording)
> 04 Persia (London 2004-06-23)
> 05 I Could Sleep All Day ("Squaggle") (Washington DC 2003-03-24)
> 06 Stax (Hamburg 2004-06-18)
> 07 Frustration (London 2005-06-21) called "Shirley Song" on setlist)
> 08 Flower Spasm (London 2005-06-21
>
> bonus trax:
> 09 Stockhausen Pysche Jam (London 2004-06-23)
> 10 Swells (San Francisco GAMH 2002-07-22)
> 11 Bowie Medley (London 2002-06-18)
> (an imrove with Verlaine singing snippets of Bowie lyrics/song titles, for
> Bowie hosted Meltdown)
> 12. Love Theme From Piranha (London 2002-06-18)
> (a jam played while drums were being fixed...this is what Verlaine calls
> it
> at the end of this brief improv)
> 13. "Hits On TV" (London 2002-06-19) (a medley of TV son
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