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Re: (TV) City Lights & Tom Verlaine

This is all so odd, so coincidental.My band The Infiktors played at a
showcase of Boston bands one weekend at CBGB's in '77 or '78 & we were
approached by these guys Sandy Pearlman & Murray Krugman. They told us
we were "great" & that they'd like to do something with us, gave us a
card & asked us to get in touch. Guess what, nothing ever came of it.
We had this kind of stuff happening all the time to us. Ace Freyley
saw us in Boston & set up an appointment with Joe Aucoin, Kiss' manager
& steven Tyler took me down to NY to meet with their managers at that
time Leiber/Krebbs. We used to call these people our "managers of the
day". When I think back on it, how much time could they possibly have
left over to deal with us after thay finished dealing with these major
"talents" (their bread & butter) and dealing with the massive amounts of problems they were causing for themselves all the time? It was "welcome to the hotel seville" that was our theme song. 
Lee



From: SCOTT ALDRICH <scott.aldrich@worldnet.att.net>
Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Subject: Re: (TV) City Lights & Tom Verlaine
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 14:32:21 -0500

Hey, in BOC's defense (not that they'd care), they're a pretty under-rated
proto-metal band that rate pretty well with Motorhead or other early metal
bands. And just to be perverse, when I first heard Marquee Moon,
particularly side two (Elevation, Prove It, et al) I thought there was a
kind of BOC feel (like the sinewy guitars of Don't Fear The Reaper) which
I'm sure wasn't intentional but they were in the air in that era.  BOC
always felt kind of Doors-y to me, and Television definitely had that
Elektra Records, "The End" kind of feel. Allen Lanier had also just produced 
their demo for Arista.

> From: eric s gregory <esgregory@uswest.net>
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:44:17 -0800
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) City Lights & Tom Verlaine
>
> hey, in meltzer's defense (not that he'd care): he never
> really thought too highly of BOC...they were pals of his (or
> more accurately, sandy pearlman & murray krugman were SUNY
> stonybrook pals of his) & he sometimes wrote absurdist words
> (his descriptor) for their tunes...(tho "burnin for you" was
> his, which provides him w/ a nifty lil royalty check every
> yr).
> meltzer's an idealist's idealist...he's so cynical, he's
> almost pure.
> & at times he writes like a motherfucker.
>
>
> Brian Young wrote:
>>
>> I love City Lights and go there often.  I recently picked up the Lester
>> Bangs bio and the Meltzer "A whore just like the rest" there. (Side note: >> I wanted to see what the fuss was about Meltzer, and I thought this book >> REALLY sucked royally- and then I hear from this list that he preferred BOC >> to the great NY music of the time and I thought "what a complete idiot"). 
>>
>> I was surprised Verlaine even subconsciously would make the "bigger is
>> better" argument after seeing his pictures from the mid-'70's. His arms >> look so skinny that I could put my hand around them. Does Tom have a macho 
>> aspect to his personality?
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