Re: (TV) The 60s

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In a message dated 7/28/01 5:42:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
keith@marquee.demon.co.uk writes:

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 >
 >Isn't this a Television list? I'd argue that Television was more influence 
by
 >sixties pop records taken to their logical conclusion than by the VU. 
 
 Absolutely correct! There's a lot more Beatles/Stones in Richards's
 playing than VU, for example. In fact, in one of the recent interviews
 on "Matters", someone asks what he's listening to at the moment and
 it's... "Revolver"
 
 I have absolutely no factual basis for saying this but I would have
 guessed that, back in '75, Verlaine and Lloyd regarded Lou Reed as,
 maybe, an equal, rather than a master of anything (especially when he
 was stumbling around in a daze trying to record their gigs on a little
 tape recorder which, he claimed, didn't have any batteries in it).
 
 I don't want to get back into a "Lou Reed - what a shit!" argument but
 Cale's "What's Welsh for Zen" has some things to say about Reed which
 would suggest that he's a deeply unpleasant, mean-spirited little man
 who was incredibly offensive, for example, to Mo Tucker.
 
 Yesterday, we were listening to "Coney Island Baby" - what a poor piece
 of crap it is, too. Then we listened to "Blue Mask" and it was, of
 course, sublime. There you go, that's old Lou for you.
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 Keith Allison >>
Id have  to say that back in that time period, from my conversatons with 
LLoyd And Verlaine back then, he was not considered something so good--and 
that was really indicative of the whole scene--at least in terms of his work 
of the time--obviously Patti Smith dug his old stuff and did Pale Blue 
Eyes--but I dont believe (Verlaine particularly) were fans of his seventies 
work--And when he (Reed) did a club show with Cale, Ronson, Patti, David 
Byrne, etc etc.  No one from television was there---
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