(TV) another interview

[Glenn Cooper <glennwaynecooper@gmail.com>]

Well, this one didn't cope so well with the translation. Tom, now, 
apparently plays the viola ... lol

Glenn C.


http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/escenarios/Entrevista-Tom-Verlaine_0_904709570.html

Towards the end of the 1990s, Patti Smith - recently celebrated in 
Argentina by confession fan of father Francisco after meeting him at a 
hearing in the Plaza of San Pedro - put you words interpretive style of 
Tom Verlaine, honcho television and once his boyfriend (this took part 
in the first two albums of the singer-songwriter bucolic, in addition to 
having signed next to it the book of poetry The Night), through the 
following sentence: "When he plays viola, seems that a thousand of blue 
birds were shouting". That happened while the American architect took 
forward a piece dedicated to the films both his country and Europe, 
called Music & Film, later redefined next to his partner in the 
band, Jimmy Rip, titled Music for Experimental Film (2007), showing its 
status as musical icon of the avant-garde. While history is persisted in 
not giving the reason.

While in 2003, Rolling Stone ranked Tom Verlaine in post 56 in its list 
of the 100 best guitarists of all time, in the inventory of 2011 even it 
appeared. And there is no better metaphor that is to represent the 
career of an artist who has been discussed between become in charge of 
his terrible invention or deny it until the consummation with any traces 
that it binds together her. On the other side of the computer, from New 
York, is the leader of Television. Connects via Skype, to talk about the 
debut of his band in Buenos Aires, April 23 at the Vorterix Theatre, but 
prefer not to turn on the camera. Apologize for the delay, as it has 
just been lifted. Perhaps that is the reason why feels the ambivalence 
in its humor. "Never asked me what it was like to make rock at my age. 
Nor do I consider myself an artist of the stick", says the author of 63 
years. "Invented me a cult musician image or something so that I do not 
agree. I am nothing more than a worker do you understand? "."

The story is as well. In 1977, after having recorded a demo produced by 
Brian Eno, who bore no fruit, followed by the simple Little Johnny Jewel 
(1975), appeared for sale Marquee Moon, the first album by Television, 
which earned him the band of pioneering punk label, therefore, in 
addition to registering the rawness and the minimalism of the tandem of 
guitars made by Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloydthe Quartet outlined his 
musical countenance after transforming the legendary CBGB in his base of 
operations. "It was a training camp, it was great. There could show your 
mistakes against the audience,"recalls the artist born in New Jersey 
with the name of Thomas Miller. "When we started playing there, we knew 
that it was a horrible place. We were around three years acting until 
suddenly our bassist, Richard Hell, before the popularity that we had 
and their desire to be famous, decided to leave us, what found me super, 
because we could replace it with a musician akin to what I wanted to do: 
Fred Smith. That we polished".

Although he was part of the seminal New York punk generation, which also 
was The Ramones or Talking Heads, Television was the freaky of the 
troupe since its sound feast aimed towards the experimentation of the 
art rock and offered a lavish prose, but, at the same time, he argued 
the outburst of punk. Just listen 10 minutes and 40 seconds of the 
subject (average 9:54 in the vinyl) that gives title to the premihre of 
the combined LP to understand the back of that sound. "Years passed, and 
people still believe that we are a group of punk or something as well," 
explains Verlaine, become weary. "We have nothing to do with that." The 
funny thing is that, as happened to bands such as Blondie and Pixies, 
the Quartet, in which drummer figure Billy Fica, success found him not 
in United States, where his opera prima (the cover is illustrated with a 
photo of Robert Mapplethorpe) was a commercial failure, but in England, 
any iconoclastic proposal that received with joy and country in which 
punk had exploded in 1977.

The following year, Television released their second album, Adventures, 
which, even though it is a little more devious than his predecessor, was 
equally effective in the United Kingdom. However, differences in 
artistic prospects for its members, along with Lloyd drug abuse, 
resulted in the separation of the group. But in 1992, the set returned 
to punts with a self-titled work that went unnoticed, but which has 
strengthened the cult by the Quartet. While in 2001, Verlaine and CIA 
met to participate in the festival All Tomorrow's Parties in England, 
the relaunch of Marquee Moon in 2003, on CD, and it includes alternate 
versions of the songs on the LP, an instrumental and Little Johnny 
Jewel, provoked the rereading of the legacy of the group in times of 
indie. "Was a joke when I said that all those bands that s"
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