Re: (TV) 2nd Best Verlaine Interview Ever [in Australia!]

[Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>]

That's a truly great interview.  And yet more Bunnymen mentions...


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks Leif. I know we'd covered the Bowie story re: "Kingdom Come" before
> (related by Tony Visconti to me in an email c. 1995) but didn't know Tom's
> version. Interesting if his guitar part is possibly buried under there!
>
> --Phil
>
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> On Sunday, October 27, 2013 10:01 AM, leif joley <leifjoley@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Phil, I believe that both issues have been covered before. That Verlaine
> never got any money from the compilation/live disc has been discussed sever
> al times when he was asked about his relationship with record companies,
> and this seems to be THE worst experience he's had over the years. Most rec
> ently, we got to read about it in that (I think) two part interview spect
> acle a year ago or so, that one some of us on the list tried to make sens
> e of.
>
> About the Bowie session, my recollection is that Bowie thought it would b
> e a good idea to bring in Verlaine to play on "Kingdom Come", as he had c
> omposed it. Then Verlaine became happy as a child to be in a big, expensi
> ve studio with plenty of recording time, and wanted to try all the equipm
> ent. As he fooled around with amps and guitars, Bowie became tired of it
> all, threw him out and hired Robert Fripp instead.
>
> Although, as a curious addition to this: I also remember a Swedish newspa
> per interview from the 80's where Verlaine implied that his guitar playing
> on the cover version was indeed present, but that it was buried under Fri
> pp's.
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