RE: (TV) It's Mr. Hell On The Line

[Murray Ramone <murrayramone@hotmail.com>]

http://thetalkhouse.com/forum/view/dean-wareham-richard-hell

heres dean from luna/etcs take on the book - verlaine played on a couple of
luna tracks

> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:24:26 +1100
> From: glennwaynecooper@gmail.com
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) It's Mr. Hell On The Line
>
> My copy also arrived yesterday and I'm already 1/3 of the way through.
> I'm up to about 1970.
>
> No way would I ever think Richard  would write a book as a "revenge" on
> anyone.
> Flawed as he may be (along with the rest of us) I don't think it's in his
> character to spend 6 years of his life obsessing over something that
> happened
> 35 or 40 years ago.
>
> I loved this line from early on in the book: "I think I peaked as a human
> being in the sixth grade."
>
> Glenn C.
>
>
>
> On 21/03/2013 6:36 AM, leif joley wrote:
> > Got my copy today. It's printed on very rough paper, with an edge on the
pages
> > that reminds me of some books from my childhood that one had to cut up
with a
> > knife to be able to read. I rushed to read the already talked-about
epilogue
> > -- and was highly surprised that Hell in fact expresses unconditional love
for
> > his former band-mate and friend. Actually, it seems like Hell thinks that
he
> > and Verlaine are sort of divided soul-mates. I assume that there are
juicier
> > parts elsewhere in the book, but given that pretty much have been written
> > about this book as kind of a revenge on Verlaine, I'd say it's a bit
> > surprising that it does ends on that peculiar tone.
> >
> > Leif J, Sweden
> >
> >> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:03:07 +0000
> >> From: keith@thewonder.co.uk
> >> To: tv@obbard.com
> >> Subject: Re: (TV) It's Mr. Hell On The Line
> >>
> >> On 20/03/2013 12:36, Dave wrote:
> >>> "The split with Mr. Verlaine was ugly. We read about Mr. Verlaine
fs
> >>> 
gcoldness and egotism
h and about what Mr. Hell calls his 
gglobally
> > sour
h
> >>> demeanor. One of the final straws, Mr. Hell reports, was when Mr.
> > Verlaine
> >>> 
gtold me not to move around onstage while he sang.
h"
> >> Gosh, maybe Mr Lloyd was right all the time - who'd have thought..?
> >>
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