Richard Lloyd didn’t set out to write a rock & roll memoir. While his debut book, Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB’s and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist, rarely skimps on […]
Category: Television
Let Me Take You To The Empty Place: An Incomplete Story of Peter Laughner and Television (Slight Return)
Cleveland guitarist/singer/songwriter/scenemaker Peter Laughner , best known for co-founding Rocket From The Tombs and Pere Ubu, died at far too young an age in 1977. But he managed to pack an astonishing amount of activity into his […]
Television :: Piccadilly Inn – Cleveland, July 25, 1975
One hell of a night in Cleveland. Television played its first out-of-town shows deep in the heart of Ohio in the summer of ’75. The opening band was Rocket From The Tombs, a band that […]
Television :: Live @ The Whisky A Go-Go, Los Angeles 1977
As one of the quintessential NYC punk bands, it’s a bit hard to picture Television on the Sunset Strip. One can imagine Tom Verlaine squinting vampire-like in the sunlight, scowling at the bronze-skinned Angelenos, dreaming of […]
L’Aventure :: Television’s Adventure Reimagined
If you missed this in June…. Last year Aquarium Drunkard released RAM On L.A. — a local music compilation featuring eleven Los Angeles artists each covering a track off Paul McCartney’s 1971 LP, RAM . Today we’re following that […]
Television :: Adventure
I was never quite sure what to make of people’s outright indifference towards, or ignorance of, Television’s sophomore album Adventure . Here you have a legendary band’s follow-up to an unquestionable masterpiece debut ( Marquee Moon ), and the […]
When I See The Glory, I Ain’t Gotta Worry
Over the course of the past two weeks I’ve been celebrating Television’s 30th anniversary on my SIRIUS show. Both times I’ve selected the track “Glory” off the Adventure album as it is all too often overshadowed by […]