#tom verlaine

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Paul Simon and Television in CBGB's

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tom verlaine and patti smith at stevie wonder’s party, nyc, 1974

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Marquee Moons: 50 Ways of Hearing a Tom Verlaine Solo

Film critic/fellow Television fanatic Ty Burr eased his election depression by working on a very special project: "Taking the guitar solos from 50 different bootleg versions of 'Marquee Moon,' the proto-punk rock classic recorded by Tom Verlaine and/or his band Television over the course of 45 years into one monumental six-and-a-half-hour super-mix."

A stunt, yes — but more than a stunt! Sure, it'll take a little commitment to make it all the way through Marquee Moons, but that commitment pays off. As I listened, there were times when I felt like I was losing my mind, the darkness doubling, tripling, quadrupling ... but the experience was primarily pleasurable. Those first four years with Television are fascinating to hear in this fashion, as Verlaine's technique somehow catches up with his imagination — ideas finding form, dreams twisting themselves into reality. And after Television? Well, Tom just lets those dreams run wild.

The whole shebang is on YouTube, but I encourage you to go read Ty's insightful write-up via his e-newsletter (and subscribe!).

"And how about this? – the theory I wanted to test turned out to be true," he writes. "In 45 years of playing this song, in hundreds of venues and dozens of towns, Tom Verlaine never repeated an idea. Not once. You might hear the same notes, but played with radically different energy and attitude, or a riff would transform from concert to concert like a living thing, or sometimes he would reinvent the whole damn song or concept of what a solo even meant from the ground up. It was as though every time he played 'Marquee Moon' he was finding a new old book on the outdoor stands at the Strand, riffling its pages and lighting a smoke and wondering what endless worlds it could possibly contain."

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Tom Verlaine, December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023.

Godlis, Television at E. 9th Street and First Avenue, 1977.

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Television at CBGBs 1974.

By Bob Gruen.

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Tom Verlaine - The Hawk (2002)

While recently reading an article about the late Kris Kristofferson , it mentioned this cover version - it just seemed like an interesting combination, and it is.

The dreams that possess you Can blossom and bless you Or run you insane

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Television, 1977

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Tom Verlaine has left us. This is the song Marquee Moon, by Tom's band Television. I remember the first time I played it.

I'd never heard anything like it. But I was certain that it mattered.

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Just some of the many musicians we lost in 2023

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Farewell, Tom

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CLASSIC ROCK BOOKMARKERS PART 17: GUITARISTS

ALL THE PARTS

PART 18 is going to be about the third most voted category:

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Tom Verlaine in 1983 by Deborah Feingold

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