Re: (TV) TV last night ( warning : long post )

[Dave <dwmarin@gmail.com>]

I did a double take when I saw The Fire listed here.  Weren't we just saying on the List a few months ago they've never played this live?  Very cool.

Amilcar-thanks for the detailed post.



On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Wish I had been there, sounds like a great show. Thanks for the write-up
> Amilcar.
> 
> "The Fire"! Can't wait to hear it live.
> 
> --Phil
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> From: amilcar amarante
> <amilcaramarante2002@yahoo.com.ar>
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 12:47
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> Subject: (TV) TV last night  ( warning : long post  )
> 
> 
> last night i
> finally got to see Television ...and it was even better than i
> tought it would
> be ! 
> after a long trip ,my two brothers ,my gf ,a friend and
> i arrived pretty
> early to the venue ,it `s a really nice place ,i think it
> holds about a
> thousand people ,perhaps more,and it was pretty full ,we were
> front row ,just
> a tad to the left ,right in line with Tom`s amp ...
> it
> surprised me to hear
> the bells recording at the intro ,just like in Tom's
> eigthies tours ,the crowd
> went nuts when the courtains opened , singing and
> shouting endlessly ,and
> really pissing me off ...
> 
> the band seemed to me in
> high spirits ,Tom smiling
> shyly and seeming amused by the people reaction
> ...it feels 100% Television
> ,as oposed to being Tom`s band ...i saw every
> aspect of the band magnified and
> enriched ...Fred anchoring the band solidly
> ,with groove ,timing and
> delivering all the classic arrangments fluidly ...
> Billy played a lot the side
> of the floor tom and answering every guitar
> excursion with enigmatic fills ...
> Jimmy duplicated all of Richard`s signature
> lines easily ,and took solos in
> "1880" ,"psychotic reaction" and even the
> Lloyd one in "m.moon " note for note
> ,the new stuff was all very busy two
> guitars stuff ,being local , Jimmy asked
> the people to sing the chorus in the
> new one "shabby chubby chunka "(????) 
> ,but he fucked it somehow ,singing in
> the wrong places ,you have to see Fred
> faces ...that was a really odd tune
> ,the other new one came out a lot better
> ,it has a dueling guitars thing
> going on ,pretty cool ...
> from the start Tom
> played at the top of his game ,he
> is in total control of his instrument ,and
> his level of emotion ,expresiveness
> i think is something very few musicians
> can achieve ,Coltrane ,Miles ,the
> electric Richard Thompson came to mind
> ...his solos were fully formed
> ,song-like ,not meandaring nonstop playing ,i
> think he only played a wrong
> note in " Glory " ,the rest was precise and
> engaging ,by the way he looked
> pretty engaged too ...the slide in "persia "
> was no bullshit ,easterny
> micro-tonalism ...
> the combination of the sitar like
> phrasing ,with the
> cello-like vibrato and the sheer electricity of his
> Danelectro pickups trough
> the AC-30 Vox was EXPLOSIVE ...even when he ventured
> in weird noises beyond
> notes ,he came back with total musical sense ..he did
> ALL his moves ,the
> swelling notes ,the high harmonics ,i especially liked when
> he sustained an
> open string against fretted ones (sorry for the guitar
> nerd-ism ) with total
> control ,i swear he played better than on records ,and
> really focused ...
> he
> singed mostly in an a low volume with much of his weird
> ,odd moments ,and
> improvised lyrics ... he was making funny faces almost like
> a little child ..
> he only used a pedal ,besides the tuner, a distortion unit
> made here for Jimmy
> by Sabbadius FX ,only to boost solos a little ...
> Rip used
> his usual rig ,the
> blonde strat trough the Singletone head and cabinet ,i only
> heared a effect in
> "persia" ,an eerie slapback delay ,he broke his treble E
> string during that
> ...
> Fred bass is a miss-matched parts Fender ,not so great
> looking...
> 
> the
> setlist :
> 1-intro-prove it
> 2-1880 or so
> 3-the fire
> 4-glory
> 5-ljj
> 6-shabby
> chubby chunka (????)
> 7-persia
> 8-venus
> 9-a new one ???????
> 10-the sea
> 11-marquee moon
> 12-psychotic reaction (encore )
> 
> the ending was
> somehow
> chaotic and akward ,after "psychotic r " ,jimmy was trying to convince
> Tom to
> do "Satisfaction" ,but he didn`t want to play no more ,so he reached
> for the
> bass amp and and sunk every knob to zero with a single stroke ,i think
> it was
> an unnecessary gesture ,he retired to the side of the stage colliding
> with
> Billy ,who was coming to the front to do a formal good bye to the
> audience
> ,somehow Fred got caught in the middle of that ,with his bass still
> around
> his neck ... finally Billy got to the mike and said a few words
> ,visibly
> touched ...the courtains closed but the people can`t leave
> ,hopelessly yelling
> for another ...
> as you can see it was a big deal to me
> ,goose bumps ,teary
> eyes and all ....
> 
> we took a lot of photos ,and more
> important ,recorded it
> all ! ...i`ll let you know when i`ll have it ready for
> you guys !
> 
> 
> AMILCAR
> AMARANTE
> http://temper.bandcamp.com 
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