RE: (TV) Verlaine & Junkyards

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@volpe.dot.gov>]

There's a couple of Verlaine songs that touch upon junkyards---'Lindi Lu' is one, and I've always thought that 1982's 'Clear It Away' was another ("Oh what  a beautiful trap!") although the junkyard imagery in the latter song may be a metaphor for something else.

Verlaine in a 1982 interview said:  "I saw an interesting junkyard from a train about a month ago.  From the window of a train it had this look to it.  I always like junkyards.  All this metal piled up-they're filled with pathos, those places.  Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard."   

Still true of a lot of music in 2000!

	Leo


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> I was listening to "Linda-Lu" off of "Cover" last night. I have heard that
> song a hundred times. It is still a revelation to hear that arpeggio that
> comes right before the line "I'm gonna' live in a shack at the junkyard..."
> 
> Beautiful tone.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maurice Rickard [mailto:maurice@mac.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 5:30 PM
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> Subject: RE: (TV) Saxohone
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> 
> At 7:46 PM -0400 6/8/00, Casey, Leo J wrote:
> >
> >Speaking of saxophone playing, we know that Lena Lovich is credited 
> >with playing sax on Words From The Front's ('Day on The Mountain' I 
> >believe) , but I can never hear any saxophone playing on this record 
> >at all.  Is it buried amongst the effects of 'Day on The Mountain' 
> >---can anyone hear any sax on any of this album's songs?
> >
> 
> I always thought it was the source of the tremelo blurt on "Days on 
> the Mountain."  Supposedly she does backing vocals on "Waterloo," but 
> I can't call them to mind at the moment.
> 
> Anyone besides me who was _Blank Generation Revisited_ (book of 
> photos, came out in '97) wonder who that might be at the Ritz in '84, 
> playing the Jazzmaster next to a high-kicking Lene Lovich in one of 
> George du Bose's photos?
> 
> -- 
> Maurice Rickard
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