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RE: (TV) The man who recorded the original "Arrow" boot says:
Was his name Dan. I believe I know who he is.
But thanks, I had no idea the Arrow boot was the Roslyn show.
Scott Simpson
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Subject: (TV) The man who recorded the original "Arrow" boot says:
I moved to New York in the spring of 1977, following a weekend jaunt which
included a trip to CBGB for a first taste of live Television.
Returning to Ohio, I spent a trial night in an apartment at The Plaza in
Cleveland recently vacated by an aspiring Contortion. As I surveyed the
frozen parking lot next morning to make sure my Studebaker was still there,
I decided that if I was going to move someplace scary and bleak, I might as
well think big. But by the time I got back to Manhattan, Richard Lloyd was
in rehab in preparation for Television's European debut, so almost a year
passed before I got the chance for a recharge.
When show day finally came I hid my Nakamichi 550 in the bottom of a
crumpled bag of thrift store shirts and set out for Long Island, where the
expected fireworks ensued. A couple of years later a friend with a mail
order record business (another big Television fan) suggested a bootleg of
the big night. Most of them went to an exporter he worked with, but I would
visit Bleecker Bob in the West Village a couple of times a week to sell to
this notorious cheapskate, a pitiful few copies at a time. Although it was a
steady seller in his shop, he refused to tie up his working capital. He
always complained about the cover, too.
At some point, Neil Cooper of ROIR decided to make a play for the cassette
masters, advising my partner in crime that he intended to reissue with or
without our cooperation. We eventually gave in, surprising Verlaine with a
modest royalty payment the next time he came around to unload dispensables
from his record collection - like the L'Intrepide Bavon Marie Marie LP I
took home. Whenever our little project is mentioned, there's always a
disclaimer that the original vinyl boot sounds better than the Blow Up
reissue. Well, we tried. Disc mastering was done at an upper crust Hollywood
establishment when Lindsey Buckingham had finally run out of coke and gone
home for the day, the metal stampers came from Europadisk, the first
high-end facility of its kind in the US. I also rejected test pressings from
three boroughs plants before I found one in outer Jersey that could handle
grooves narrowed by the twenty-five minutes per side running time. It was
only as I was preparing this post that I discovered The Blow Up omits Poor
Circulation, Arrow's rarest gem.
television
arrow (bootleg)
double exposure f-85 (1980)
01 Fire Engine 4.19
02 Poor Circulation 5.31
03 Little Johnny Jewel 14.44
04 Knockin' On Heaven's Door 8.07
05 Prove It 5.20
06 Friction 4.58
07 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 7.11
and:
Mitali du Monde said...
Being that "mail order" dealer
referred to here, I can verify that the author (who was always an extremely
tasteful gentleman,and though we're out of touch,one of the persons in my
life I will always have a warm spot for) took exceptional effort to asure a
quality release. We were proud when Tom Verlaine wanted to "legitimize" the
recording, and it was mainly done for the love of the music. The "master"
was sold for a very nominal fee to ROIR, and indeed,several royalty payments
were made directly to the artist.(I embarassingly refused a 20% "tip" Tom
offered me, and some of my mail order customers got a unique bonus when
Verlaine defaced the covers of the Italian "Eno demos" LPs I had by writing
legends such as "the info about these recordings is pure bull.." on each and
every cover!) And I still listen to a Bavon Marie Marie LP I also got when
purchasing one of Tom's collections!!
found here:
http://luckypsychichut.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/television-arrow-bootleg.html
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