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

[Murray Ramone <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

I saw galaxie 500 and wasnt blown away by them, and the recordings never did
much for me either, but every time I saw Luna they were great and consistently
great on album. Which in a way reduces them in comparison to Television,
because you sort of take them for granted and its harder to compare individual
albums. I met Dean and Britta via a mutual friend when they were doing the
warhol thing at carnegie hall (the real one, in Dunfermline) and Dean was good
company

> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: Quite a Statement / RE: (TV) OT: Luna & Dean Wareham
> From: andrewmfc@aol.com
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:55:16 -0400
>
>  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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