Full of it / RE: (TV) Sour Grapes / Alternate Ver of Television's Founding?

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

OK that's it you've gone too far you're full of shit Rex.

Lloyd has always been and always will be a one-trick pony  ... not Verlaine!
Lloyd's solos on the Television boots 1992-2005 are exactly the same
night-in-and-night-out from city to fuckin' city.  

Also, I have always loved 'Swells'.

Richard is his own worst enemy.

Rex wrote:
>Okay, that's very well-laid out.  Maybe it will help me to clarify what I
>meant by "versatile", because you've definitely identified a whole lot of
>specific direction's Tom has explored there, and it is pretty diverse.
 >However, at every turn his variations on these styles sounds totally
>Verlaine-like.  There are specific licks on, say, "At 4AM" which sound
>very, very "country" in the context of that song, but if they showed up on
>an "actual" country song, I'm pretty sure I'd say, whoa, who let Tom
>Verlaine in there with all these Nashville cats?

>I guess I think of it like this:  if I were doing, say, a film soundtrack
>and needed to hire session players for scenes calling for various feels or
>styles, and I was lucky enough to have his number, I would call Richard in
>to do the roadhouse blues stuff, the crazy slide stuff on the incidental
>music, or whatever... just about any lead guitar idiom, I'd be sure he
>could nail it and then some.  Whereas I would only call Tom if I wanted
>some guitar that sounded just like Tom Verlaine.

>(That said, if I was directing the film, I would just plain hire Tom to
>score it, and let him do whatever the hell he wanted.  It irks me that
>nobody has done this yet... I wonder if Tom has turned down a lot of
>offers.
 >I have no doubt that his existing instrumentals have been used as
>temporary tracks in the editing phase of many, many films.)
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