RE: (TV) new songs

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

for whoever was looking for television 
references in print (Keith?) . . .

Lester Bangs, in an essay about either 
the Voidoids or the Clash, postulates 
that the way Richard Hell performs, solid 
as oak, moving about the stage like a dervish, 
and narrowly missing collision after 
collision with his guitarists should
explain why Tom Verlaine wanted to kick 
Hell out of Television.

Another essay, this one about the late 
Peter Laughner, has Bangs shouting out the 
window at Peter, cursing him for trying to kill 
himself by immitating Lou Reed and Tom 
Verlaine, who are--as everybody knows--2 of 
the biggest assholes on the scene . . .

The essys are collected in "Psychotic Reactions 
and Carburetor Dung." 

RIP Lester Bangs, Peter Laughner, etc . . .

--Paul



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip P. Obbard [mailto:pobbard@yahoo.com]

> I remember reading in FROM THE VELVETS TO THE VOIDOIDS that during the
> few days in 1975 when Richard semi-quit (over his unhappiness with
> "Little Johnny Jewel" being chosen as the debut single)
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