Re: (TV) Not so familiar Verlaine favourites

[Glenn Cooper <glennwaynecooper@gmail.com>]

Bob, I dare say it's the same interview re being asked about Sailor's Life
and his other comments re Thompson's Fender -- if only I could
remember WHICH interview it was!!

Funny that you should mention Mazzy Star -- I just got into her lately,
after hearing "Into Dust" on an episode of Californication. Some really
good melancholy stuff. I don't recall Tom ever saying he was into Mazzy,
though. Of course, he may well have, but it's news to me. :)

Glenn C.

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I'll corroborate what Amilcar says re. Richard Thompson, as I
> recall the
> interview where Tom commented on Richard Thompson, saying he
> liked his Fender
> sound but didn't like Thompson's playing style. I tried
>  to locate the article
> today to cite it, but couldn't find it easily. Of
>  course,  there's lots more
> going on with Fairport Convention than just
> Thompson's guitar that Tom could
> like.
>
> I'd not heard  the excellent "A Sailor's Life" before. Thanks to Glen
> for the YT link. I might not have noticed similarities to M.M. without them
> being pointed out.
> I hear echoes of the song Marquee Moon in a number of Sonic
> Youth songs, "Rain on Tin" being just one. And Thurston has described
> Television as being "elemental" to SY's sound, by which I guess he means
> there's an element of Television influence.
>
> Tom supposedly named Mazzy Star
> as a band he likes. Knowing I'm a Mazzy Star fan, Deb once pointed out a
> post
> to me from the MM List archives from some years back she noticed where
> someone
> had posted that Tom "likes Joy Division & Mazzy Star." I'd read  an
> interview
> where Tom said He likes "Joy Division's stuff with that singer, before he
> took
> the cure". So I knew that was accurate, but the Mazzy Star reference was
> new.
> Does anyone else here recall Tom citing Mazzy Star as fave band, I wonder?
> If
> it's true, I'll guess Tom might like the band for similar reasons he said
> he
> likes The Pretenders, i.e.'cause Chrissie Hynde's "a good singer" &
> "there's a
> melodic gift there".  Maybe Tom thinks, as I do, Mazzy's singer, Hope
> Sandoval, has a rare talent for writing & delivering emotive melodies.
> Perhaps
> Tom's a McGarrigle Sisters fan for similar reasons.
> -Bob
> ________________________________
>  From: amilcar amarante
> <amilcaramarante2002@yahoo.com.ar>
> To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
> Sent:
> Sunday, April 21, 2013 4:20:48 PM
> Subject: Re: (TV) Not so familiar Verlaine
>  favourites
>
>
> he even said once that he didn4t like Thompson4s playing ,only
> his "Fender "
> sound ...
> i remenber because i like Thompson a lot...
>
>
>
> AMILCAR
> AMARANTE
> http://temper.bandcamp.com
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> De:
> Glenn
> Cooper <glennwaynecooper@gmail.com>
> Para: tv@obbard.com
> Enviado:
> domingo, 21
> de abril de 2013 18:29
> Asunto: Re: (TV) Not so familiar Verlaine
> favourites
> Well, of course there are similarities between Fairport's "A
> Sailor's Life"
> and "Marquee Moon". Tom was once asked if the former had been
> an influence
> on
> the construction of that song and he replied, No, that he
> hadn't heard
> that
> song at the time of MM's composition.
>
> A Sailor's Life
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrGtFxtWXU
>
> It is a masterpiece.
>
> Glenn C.
> On
> 22/04/2013 6:40 AM, leif joley wrote:
> > I was "late at the ball", as we say
> in
> Swedish, and didn't buy me any Nick
> > Drake records until today. So now I'm
> here with the 4 LP box, which comes with
> > a big booklet. And the first
> paragraph in it goes like this:
> >
> > "After a punk rock concert in New York ...
> English producer John Wood goes
> > backstage. There he is introduced to Tom
> Verlaine... To Wood's surprise,
> > Verlaine knows all about him. 'I've admired
> your records for a long time',
> > says the gaunt blond guitarist, then names
> the performers he likes: the
> > McGarrigle Sisters, John Martyn, the Fairport
> Convention. 'But you know', says
> > Verlaine, 'the very best of all is Nick
> Drake.'"
> >
> > Perhaps this conversation did took place once upon a time, and
> perhaps it was
> > just out of courtesy Verlaine said what he said. But has he
> *ever* said
> > anything like this elsewhere? A bunch of folk-rockers and
> singer-songwriters
> > as favourites? The McGarrigle Sisters?! John Martyn? Even
> Nick Drake? I'd say
> > that there's similarities between Verlaine's Fender
> playing and Richard
> > Thompson's, but the song-writing style is quite
> different. Anyway -- a bit
> > interesting to see some other possible influences
> mentioned than Coltrane and
> > Ayler and the other the usual suspects.
> >
> > Leif
> J, Sweden
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