Re: (TV) The man who recorded the original "Arrow" boot says:

[Bob Beatty <bobjb2002@yahoo.ca>]

I think that Arrow boot taper 
likely sold me a cassette of that sh
ow back In '78 or '79 along with a 
few other Television shows I mail-ord
ered.  As Dennis says, he was a mail-order tape seller. I recall at that 
time Trouser Press music mag was not a bad source for finding mail order ta
pe traders/sellers as the mag printed 
their ads. One of the Television c
assettes I got via a seller's Trouser 
Press ad was a 1978 show at My Fat
her's Place, Roslyn, NY. My memory is 
the guy said in his catalogue/list
 that it was his own recording. I 
can't say I have a clear memory of his
 name 35 years on, or if it might 
have been "Acker", "Crackers", or "Dan
." Of Television shows/recordings I got via mail order in the '70s on boots
 cassettes, 10 or 12 maybe, that "My Father's Place" one was my fave. Great
 performance, plus the audio quality was better than most.


When "Th
e Blow Up" came out on cassette, I noticed it was the same show as I knew a
s the My Father's Place gig. I was disappointed it omitted "Poor 
Circula
tion" though (which the taper explains about on the piece he 
wrote that 
Keith kindly posted) which was on the tape I already had. 
Plus the audio
 quality was poorer on the official release. I never owned the "Arrow" viny
l version that's supposed to sound better than the 
cassette (no surprise
 there), or the CD of "The Blow Up". 


There's an old Tom interview 
somewhere where he says the ROIR CD of "The Blow 
Up" that came out later
 after the cassette was "completely illegal."  
I'm guessing the casset
te was maybe authorized but not the CD (-?). Nice of the Arrow L.P. bootleg
ger to actually see to it that Tom received some royalties from it.

Ag
reed, it would be nice if Mr. Acker, or who ever the taper is, would make a
n audio file from his master tape to share.
 

Robert Christgau & J
ohn Piccarella wrote the liner notes for "The Blow Up" cassette which I'm l
ooking at now.
I've often found  Christgau's writing style & attitude i
rritating & 
hard to appreciate, but enjoyed these notes, which have thei
r moments. But who knows, maybe the best observations in them are Piccarell
a's, not Christgau's!

I've scanned the front & back of the cassette in
sert for The Blow Up In case anyone who doesn't have them wants to read the
m, here:
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/Bobjb2002/TheBlowUpinse
rtfront_zpscd961fe5.jpg
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac239/Bobjb200
2/TheBlowUpinsertback_zps1faa03ce.jpg
Or tinyurl versions of the same lin
ks, as MM/TV list emails sometimes fail to have long URLs fully highlighted
 :
http://tinyurl.com/n3tmeop
http://tinyurl.com/ma6jd42

-Bob




On Monday, February 24, 2014 7:05:20 AM, Steve Rovner <serovner@mi
ndspring.com> wrote:
 

Keith,

Does he still have cassettes?  
Or a first generation copy?  Would be nice to get copies!

-----Origi
nal Message-----
>From: Dennis D <dend@nyc.rr.com>
>Sent: Feb 23, 2014 
9:33 PM
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) The man who recorded the 
original "Arrow" boot says:
>
>There was a taper back in the day that d
id a lot of mail order stuff under 
>the name of Charles R Ackers a/k/a C
rackers.
>I always though he recorded that show. I had a copy of it well 
before it was 
>released as a bootleg. I can't remember Crackers real nam
e though,
>I haven't seen him since like 1980.
>
>Subject: RE: (TV) T
he 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
>212 795 2846
>
>
>
-----Original Message-----
>From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@ob
bard.com] On Behalf Of Keith
>Allison
>Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 
4:21 PM
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: (TV) The man who recorded the orig
inal "Arrow" boot says:
>
>
>I moved to New York in the spring of 197
7, following a weekend jaunt which
>included a trip to CBGB for a first t
aste of live Television.
>Returning to Ohio, I spent a trial night in an 
apartment at The Plaza in
>Cleveland recently vacated by an aspiring Cont
ortion. As I surveyed the
>frozen parking lot next morning to make sure m
y Studebaker was still there,
>I decided that if I was going to move some
place 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 Televis
ion's European debut, so almost a year
>passed before I got the chance fo
r a recharge.
>When show day finally came I hid my Nakamichi 550 in the b
ottom of a
>crumpled bag of thrift store shirts and set out for Long Isla
nd, where the
>expected fireworks ensued. A couple of years later a frien
d with a mail
>order record business (another big Television fan) suggest
ed a bootleg of
>the big night. Most of them went to an exporter he worke
d with, but I would
>visit Bleecker Bob in the West Village a couple of t
imes a week to sell to
>this notorious cheapskate, a pitiful few copies a
t 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.
>A
t 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 w
ith a
>modest royalty payment the next time he came around to unload disp
ensables
>from his record collection - like the L'Intrepide Bavon Marie M
arie LP I
>took home. Whenever our little project is mentioned, there's a
lways a
>disclaimer that the original vinyl boot sounds better than the B
low Up
>reissue. Well, we tried. Disc mastering was done at an upper crus
t 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 tes
t pressings from
>three boroughs plants before I found one in outer Jerse
y 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 discovere
d The Blow Up omits Poor
>Circulation, Arrow's rarest gem.
>
>televis
ion
>arrow (bootleg)
>double exposure f-85 (1980)
>
>01 Fire Engine
 4.19
>02 Poor Circulation 5.31
>03 Little Johnny Jewel 14.44
>04 Kno
ckin' 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 Mond
e said...
>Being that "mail order" dealer
>referred to here, I can veri
fy that the author (who was always an extremely
>tasteful gentleman,and t
hough we're out of touch,one of the persons in my
>life I will always hav
e a warm spot for) took exceptional effort to asure a
>quality release. W
e 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 ma
de directly to the artist.(I embarassingly refused a 20% "tip" Tom
>offer
ed me, and some of my mail order customers got a unique bonus when
>Verla
ine defaced the covers of the Italian "Eno demos" LPs I had by writing
>l
egends 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 w
hen
>purchasing one of Tom's collections!!
>
>
>found here:
>http
://luckypsychichut.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/television-arrow-bootleg.html
>

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