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

["Scott Simpson" <ssimpson@nyc.rr.com>]

Funny story.

I saw them at the Knitting Factory and recorded a great show.  Wife really
liked it for the covers  spec. Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste.  So did hear
it a lot.  They also did Ceremony which is fantastic.

Later, recording them front and center table at CB's and they break into
Don't Let.  I rise, eyes rolled back and start mouthing the lyrics.

Friends at the table said Dean got a real kick out of watching me.  I
remember nothing.



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From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Murray
Ramone
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:57 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: RE: Quite a Statement / RE: (TV) OT: Luna & Dean Wareham

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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