RE: (TV) Profound Television epiphany of the year (for me, at lea st)

["Dever, Paul (ELS)" <P.Dever@elsevier.com>]

it's off topic, but there's also a great
story in there somewhere about how
the stooges' TV EYE got it's name. 

--paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip P. Obbard [mailto:pobbard@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 9:29 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Profound Television epiphany of the year (for me, at
> least)
> 
> 
> I think there's a story recounted by Richard Hell (in VELVETS 
> TO THE VOIDOIDS
> or PLEASE KILL ME) about how he and Tom came up with the name 
> for the band.
> Hell and Verlaine wrote a slew of names down individually and 
> then shared them
> with each other. 'Television' was a throwaway Hell entry that 
> Tom liked a lot.
> Hell said he only realized later why.
> 
> --Philip
> 
> --- Michael Lee Lim <mllim@itsa.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> > OK, I'm sure all you die-hard Television fanatics have 
> figured this one
> > out decades ago, but I just came upon this revelation a few 
> days ago...if
> > at least one person on this list appreciates it, I will 
> feel justified:
> > 
> > Tom Verlaine = T.V. = Television
> 
> 
> 
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