Re: (TV) old interview w/ Tom

[Glenn Cooper <glennwaynecooper@gmail.com>]

I remember someone posting a little piece of fiction on here about
that song, the punchline being "Call Mr Lee". It was very amusing, not
to mention clever. I wish I could remember it!

Glenn C.


On 3/30/13, postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Their 3rd album, I always tend to think of as a Tom solo album...but played
> by Television.
>
> And as for "Calling Mr. Lee", I remember when reading the archives that
> Tom's former gf on here interpreted that song as Tom calling up her Dad who
> was Lee or Leo...sthg like that. haha  But then she thought 'every' song
> that he'd ever written was somehow about her which I found amusing.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 3/29/13, Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>> From: Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca>
>> Subject: Re: (TV) old interview w/ Tom
>> To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
>> Date: Friday, March 29, 2013, 11:20 AM
>> Thanks for the Tom interview link,
>> Deb.
>> I enjoyed the part  re. who different
>> people thought  Mr. Lee  in "Calling Mr. Lee" was,
>> & what Tom says it actually
>> refers to.
>> It's interesting Tom was  "trying to get away from the
>> past", even
>> wanting to change the band's name for the third Television
>> album, but the
>> record co. didn't want any name change. In Lloyd's YT
>> interview, he describes
>> the third album as "Televsion-Lite". They could have
>> re-named the band that! I
>> have to agree with Lloyd's assessment. I found the third
>> album a
>> disappointment. It didn't sound so much like the Television
>> I'd known & loved,
>> but perhaps more like a Tom solo album, a second rate one at
>> that, imo.
>> ________________________________
>>  From: postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
>> To: tv@obbard.com
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 7:58:57 AM
>> Subject: Re: (TV)
>> old interview w/ Tom
>>
>> Hey, while looking for sthg else I came across this old
>> interview w/ Tom and I hadn't seen it before and thought
>> maybe others might
>> enjoy it too.
>> http://articles.mcall.com/1992-11-28/entertainment/2884609_1_tom-verlaine-cbg
>> b-lee-harvey-oswald
>>
>> Actually I was trying to find where Tom's talked about
>> never really relating to the whole hippie thing.
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