Joe wrote:
>Unfortunately I cannot find the interview Paloma
did with Tom. It was up on YouTube for a while.
My memory of her interview was that she was a ‘force
of nature’ and asked Tom quite long (winded?) questions. He was taken aback and
very introverted .... almost overwhelmed, albeit he did stand his ground
when she asked [discussed] the poet Paul Verlaine.
I put her interview of Tom by Ms Paloma on
Zippyshare last night for anyone who wants to download it.
In fact, I uploaded the entire high quality DVD
“ ‘The Stolen Files_7’, Tom Verlaine, September 25, 1984, Live On ‘La Edad de Oro’,
tv-Broadcast, TVE2, Estudio-2, Prado del Rey, Madrid, Spain (Concert And tv-Interview3)—From The Purloined
Original Master tv-Broadcast Tapes—Best
Quality Version—DVD5”
[much better than YouTube’s version] to my account on ZippyShare.com [no
password needed to download].
Most people may already have an earlier [but inferior]
version of this concert that was Tree-d on Carried Away (CA) many moons ago.
The concert was included as Part of the CA DVD entitled, “Television/Tom
Verlaine, ‘Trying To Tell A Vision’, Video Anthology – Volume II, From The Years 1984, 1986, 1987, 1992, And
2002—DVD2”,
but the CA version is missing the Interview itself.
Here are the links to show/DVD (if you just want the
interview, it’s link #14, (15:15 ) ). Since Zippyshare has
a limit of 200 MB per upload, the files of the DVD were broken up into fourteen
zipped (.rar) chunks of 200MB each (The links won’t do anything if you just
double-click on them; you need to copy & paste each one using your internet
browser or paste them to the Google Search page. Leo
1)
http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/srzcUFW1/file.html
2)
http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/es48bla6/file.html
3)
http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/PilOuxZ3/file.html
4)
http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/Y5wOygt7/file.html
5)
http://www45.zippyshare.com/v/tuaOKDXU/file.html
6)
http://www37.zippyshare.com/v/C5549Pr0/file.html
7)
http://www41.zippyshare.com/v/JdbRILaA/file.html
8) http://www13.zippyshare.com/v/NzWFlaVz/file.html
9)
http://www40.zippyshare.com/v/JMRdaibd/file.html
10)
http://www50.zippyshare.com/v/F3oezza0/file.html
11) http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/nOwodIyP/file.html
12) http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/iIJ3Hzbt/file.html
13) http://www106.zippyshare.com/v/dGHAWZqS/file.html
14) http://www22.zippyshare.com/v/U5Riu7s0/file.html
Paloma Chamorro died yesterday at
the age of 68. She was a fascinating woman, hugely popular and influential,
always ready to challenge the powers that be. You might remember her articulate
introduction of Tom Verlaine's gig in Madrid
in 1984, televised live:
You can see the whole concert here:
Unfortunately I cannot find the
interview Paloma did with Tom. It was up on YouTube for a while. Tom said,
among other things, that he was suffering from "the world's worst
cold". But he played a great gig anyway.
For a few years in the 1980s
Paloma presented the weekly live music programme La Edad De Oro (Golden
Age), and it was a golden age in many ways for Spain. One never-to-be-repeated
concert could serve as a summary and perhaps pinnacle of the age: One night in
May 1985 The Smiths played a gig in a park in Madrid.
It was free, staged by the City Hall, and televised live. Nothing fancy, just
the four-man band, a simple light system, and so on. But the crowd! There were
about 300,000 there, some say more!