(TV) Leave Hell out please, and de-emphasize the punk-rock NYC scene, concentrate on the 331/3 rpm album itself

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

> 1970s. The author relied heavily on the papers Hell sold to 
> NYU a few years ago; 
> I believe this will be the first Television-related book to 
> make use of that 
> archive. Should be interesting!

I guess my serious concern is that a book on the album Marquee Moon should really have nothing
in it at all about Richard Hell.  He didn't play one note on it, nor write any of its songs.
He was gone by late March - early April 1975 from Television.

If this author uses Hell's archives as filler at the expense of an analysis of the album itself
he will be a lazy &!!!*$#@%! 

Also:  Television 1976-78 were not a punk-rock band, and the album Marquee Moon had/has nothing
to do with punk-rock,  So, if the author spends a lot of time looking back at the punk-rock
scene in NYC he will have missed the boat (made out of ocean). (Yeah I know.... Television
shared the bill with punk-rock bands ... so what.)

I'm sure I'll get a lot of disagreement on the above, but the onus is on you to prove that
Verlaine's songs, lyrics, melodies, ideas, guitar solos!!, and song-lengths have anything to
with punk-rock.  Maybe if someone asked me on a warm Tuesday in February underneath a marquee
moon on Cornelia Street I might say 'See No Evil'  is somewhat in the punk-rock vein given its
very fast tempo, but even 'See No Evil' 's lyrics are poetic/impressionistic  ...'romantic'
even.

Leo

SEE NO EVIL (Verlaine)

What I want 
I want NOW 
and it's a whole lot more 
than 'anyhow' 
I want to fly 
fly a fountain 
I want to jump jump jump 
jump a mountain 

l understand all... I SEE NO... 
destructive urges... I SEE NO... 
It seems so perfect... I SEE NOO... 
I SEE... I SEE NO... I SEE NO EVIL 

I get ideas 
I get a notion 
I want a nice little boat 
made out of ocean.
I get your point. 
You're so sharp. 
Getting good reactions 
with your ''BeBo'' talk. 

Don't say unconscious 
No don't say doom. 
If you got to say it 
let me leave this room 
Cuz what I want 
I want now 
and it's a whole lot more 
than 'anyhow.' 

I'm runnin wild with the one i love 
I see no evil 
I'm runnin wild with the one-eyed ones 
I see no evil 
Pull down the future with the one you love 
Pull down the future 
--------------
To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"