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Re: Quite a Statement / RE: (TV) OT: Luna & Dean Wareham



 Well Leo, with list activity being at pretty much a ten-year high I just
thought I'd throw a cat in amongst the pigeons with that statement and see if
we can crash the server... :-)

 I'll go further and say that I think that taken as a whole Luna's recorded
output is superior to Television AND the Velvet Underground, by virtue of
there being so much more of it, most of at least an arguably good standard.
There are few bigger fans of Verlaine/Lloyd than I (and I'm wagering they're
all on this list) but for all the heights they reached it's a crying pity that
there's so damn little of it.  Whenever I have old friends over for drinks on
a rainy night they all groan "not again" whenever I put on Marquee Moon.  It's
the Stairway to Heaven of 70s NYC punk. Great, yes. But played out. But my
friends will all grin and nod like idiots when a Luna album cut like Sideshow
by the Seashore comes on. I truly believe that Wareham and Sean Eden are
criminally underappreciated as guitar players.
Dean seems to be a polarizing figure with many and the haters will all point
to his obvious influences and say he ripped them off (Television, the Velvets,
the Feelies) or used them to lend some sort of legitimacy of illusion of some
sort of NY legacy to his band by having the likes of T.V. and Sterling
Morrison play on Luna records.  They may have a point. But I do know that I
have only wept in near ecstasy at one band's concerts and it wasn't
Television.






-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net>
To: tv <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 3:11 pm
Subject: Quite a Statement / RE: (TV) OT: Luna & Dean Wareham


>imho Wareham is a genius songwriter and he and
> Sean Eden in Luna
> are every bit the guitar playing equals of Verlaine/Lloyd,
> with a discography
> that dwarfs theirs.

You've really thrown down the gauntlet there Andrew.
I'm glad it's your humble opinion because I think your nuts : >)
(despite the fact that I'm a big Luna fan).

Leo
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