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Re: (TV) MM fadeout / digital fadeout?



Hey D, Yeah, I too recall that Tom quote you mention about the song MM
originally having 20 (?) verses (20's the # I seem to  recall) 

Tom said he
did the extra verses version when he played solo electric at Reno Sweeney's
briefly before Television. Maybe in place of playing a long solo, he sang all
those added verses instead. 
Wish there was a tape of that around!


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Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2012 6:49:18 AM
Subject: Re: (TV)
MM fadeout / digital fadeout?

Personally, I like the 'idea' that they would
do a fade-out on the song ending
on purpose.  I remember reading in one Tom
interview that originally it was
even a much longer song.  I can't remember
exactly, he said it had something
like 30 verses to it.  Maybe he was joking,
idk.  But w/ the fade-out I like
the idea that it could possibly go on and on.
Does anyone know which is the longest (recorded) live version that they ever
did of it...maybe Leo?

D.

--- On Tue, 4/3/12, Bob Beatty
<bobjb2002@yahoo.ca> wrote:

From: Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca>
Subject:
Re: (TV) MM fadeout / digital fadeout?
To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 5:28 AM

The first version I ever knew was the
viinyl fade-out one, & I agree with
those saying they thought it sounded
deliberately done to fit the song, as if
to suggest the song's starting over
again instead of ending. It was
surprising
to later read a Tom interview where
he said they had to fade the song early
so
it would fit on the album, 'cause
I'd always thought they'd done it
deliberately for a different reason. Maybe
they did do it also partly 'cause
they thought it sounded good with the fade
out, as some commenter suggested
here. But Television played the song live
regularly for years before Marquee
Moon was recorded, always with a definite,
even flashy ending with an impact,
onstage. One might even say the ending was
an important part of the song to
complete  the "epic" in the stage version.
Plus an earlier studio version was
recorded (Eno demos) with no fade-out. And
the fade-out recording did have a
definite ending as recorded in the studio,
as we
learned when the CD came out. So, the fade-out version can't very well
be
considered the original, truer, or  more authentic version of the song.
It's
more like the fade-out was an aberration of the song that happened to
sound
pretty good! I don't have a strong preference for one over the other,
but
it's
interesting having the two versions, I  like both, &  agree both
should be
made available on CD releases.



----- Original Message -----
From:
Phil
Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
Cc:
Sent:
Monday, April 2, 2012 1:23:47 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) MM fadeout / digital
fadeout?

I had hoped they would include the "fadeout" version on the MM CD
vinyl
replica disk a few years back. I haven't heard it, but to the best of my
knowledge, this version has never made it to CD...

Of course, there are
people like me who first heard "Marquee Moon" in the CD era -- the "uncut"
ending has always sounded right, but I can see the appeal of the early
fade...
--Phil



________________________________
From: Keith Allison
<keith@thewonder.co.uk>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: (TV) MM fadeout / digital fadeout?

On 31/03/2012 23:09, Leo
Casey wrote:
> I'm trying to remember, but haven't checked my collection or
the Wonder
> Discography:  Keith or Philip (or someone else) might know:
doesn't there
> exist a cd-version of the fadeout version of MM? (Vinyl
transfers don't
> count.)
Not as far as I know, Leo

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