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

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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