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Re: (TV) Baloon / "Black Postcards" Revisited / Steve Albini

I didn't read this, although I want to. But I did read Gary Valentine's NEW YORK ROCKER a few months ago and came away with a similar impression.

I think when you're 18-25, riding around in cramped vans, staying out late, having few/any personal possessions, living hand-to-mouth, etc., seem like not a big deal, or perhaps even a bonus (no curfew! all the beer I want! I can talk to girls at any hour of the day! etc), but by the time one hits 30 things like having a clean change of clothes and being able to afford a new set of tires without busting the month's budget look more and more attractive.

--Phil




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From: grntg <grntg@yahoo.com>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:03:15 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Baloon / "Black Postcards" Revisited / Steve Albini

Just finished this book last night.  I enjoyed the book and it is something that reminds me of why I never want to play in a band again. I enjoyed recording with a band (ussually on some crappy four track in one of our parent's basement) but hated playing the odd live gig but playing night after noght on tour sounds like a descent into hell, be it the riding in cramped quarters with the same people day after day, dealing with the weirdos night after night that make their way backstage, crappy motels (or worse, crashing at strangers houses) and what do these guys do for money once they go into semi-retirment?  

Overall, I found it to be a good depressing read and as Leo mentioned, aptly titled.

greg
--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net>
> Subject: (TV) Baloon / "Black Postcards" Revisited / Steve Albini
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Received: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 2:40 PM
> Obviously my joke about Television's
> cd-release party went over like a 
> lead baloon...pretty lame. (smile).  [Hey, isn't
> 'Baloon' a Television song?] 
> So, for penance I'm typing up some quotes from Dean
> Wareham's (of Luna) new memoir.
> 
>  Russ wrote:
> >No mention of Verlaine seems like a big oversight, am I
> right?
> 
> Yeah given that T.V. played on more than 1 track and
> contributed the monster solo on "23
> Minutes In Brussels", I was a little taken aback.  
> Moreover, he does mention VU's Sterling Morrisson's guitar
> solo on another Luna album.
> 
> Pure speculation: But maybe Wareham was actually being nice
> by *not* mentioning Tom.  
> Maybe T.V.'s behavior was bizarre, or/and Wareham was
> disapponted when T.V. failed to live up
> to his unrealistic guitar-hero image he had of him?  
> 
> >I had heard , maybe it was a review, that this book was
> 
> > Wareham obviously score settling. Did you get that
> feeling? 
> 
> Definitely.  The very first paragraph of the book is a
>


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