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Tom Verlaine - RIP
CafcWest
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Fantastic, clever guitarist. Television front man. Love Marquee Moon - one of my favourite albums of the 70’s. RIP.
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F*ck me, no!
Love Marquee Moon, still play it. I was lucky enough to see them play the album at Shepards Bush Empire.
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An extremely talented front man, who was hugely influential during the late 70s. Marquee Moon is a fabulous debut album and I too still listen to it regularly. I saw them play once back in the day...
I bought tickets last year (June) to see The Go-Gos, supporting Billy Idol, but that got delayed and Go-Gos couldn't do the new dates last October. I would have cashed in the tickets, but Television were announced as the new support. I was very excited to see them again after all these years... Then they pulled out close to the date due to illness, so I got my money back...
RIP great man. You will be sorely missed.0 -
Is it just us three that appreciated the man?1
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One of my heroes too, and Marquee Moon is one of the all time great albums. Little Johnny Jewel I love as well.Always regretted not having seen them play live.RIP Tom.0
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Well, the Cadillac
It pulled out of the graveyard
Pulled up to me
All they said, "Get in, get in"
Then the Cadillac
It puttered back into the graveyard
Me, I got out again.
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RIP. I was too young to have heard them when they came out, but when I discovered Television in the mid 80s I could hear that so many of the bands I liked had taken an awful lot from Verlaine - particularly the likes of Josef K and the Go Betweens. Massively influential as a lyricist as well. As one comment I read said, he changed how a virtuoso guitarist was seen, no longer just about blues-driven solos, but a more jazz-influenced approach.1
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Legend.0
