Re: Re: (TV) review

["Radio Ethiopia" <radioethiopia@wildmail.com>]

Hi folks... I was at both SF shows and this 
review is such a bunch of bull it doesn't even 
deserve comment.

I think this person either a: wasn't even there 
or b: excessively high on drugs, drunk or both.

Admittedly the second show was much better than 
the first but the first was excellant, too.

Below, please find a reveiw I posted to another, 
interested list.

RE*fs



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Fabulous, stupendous, sublime, transcendent, 
immaculate, wonderful, virtuoso, words fail me!!!

Tom, Richard, Fred and Billy's performance last 
night (7-27-02) at the Great American Music Hall 
in San Francisco was the best musical event, 
sans Patti, I've seen in years. The show last 
week was good too, but last night was 
intergalactic!

I don't know where these boys have been hiding 
the past few years, but, wherever it is, they 
haven't been resting on their laurels. I am 
reminded of when I went to hear Roxy Music in 
Vancouver last summer and thought, these guys 
were never this good 25 years ago!

And so it is with Television.  As good as they 
were back in the day of the birth of punk and 
new wave, these guys have evolved so much that 
it makes me proud to be an old geezer! They 
burned down the house with old favorites, "Venus 
de Milo" and "Marquee Moon" among them, as well 
as some new material, too.  Does this portend a 
new Television album to come?  We can only hope.

These guys have got to be one of the best 
American Rock-n-Roll bands EVER and they are so 
overlooked in the popular culture that it's mind 
boggling. Even some friends of mine who should 
know better, when I told them I was going to 
hear Television, said "Who?" Well, so much the 
better for the rest of us I guess 'cause the 
Great American Music Hall, though SOLD OUT for 
both shows, is the perfect small venue to hear 
great RnR. Maybe about three or four hundred 
folks, tops.

Richard Lloyd's guitar playing in particular was 
just too much; I went into ecstatic overdrive on 
several occasions - that man can play!  I'm 
surprised he hasn't been scooped up by some 
major big money band in the intervening years. 
As much as Tom is the creative soul of 
Television, Richard seems to be the real musical 
maestro.

It was inspiring too, to see all four original 
band members with no one dead from a fucking 
stupid heroin overdose, cocaine heart-attack or 
worse. They all looked hale and happy and played 
with high energy and great creative inspiration.

What a treat! Just what I needed! If they play 
your town, don't miss out, run - don't walk, to 
the ticket outlet.

RE*fs



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From: Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>
Sent: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:54:31 -0400
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) review


At 9:49 AM -0700 8/15/02, Jay wrote:
>Certainly wasn't my experience in NYC earlier 
this
>year.
>--- "Dever, Paul (ELS)" <P.Dever@elsevier.com> 
wrote:
>>
>http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/08.01.02
/allshookdown-0231.html

And for that matter, I don't recall her saying 
*which* of the two 
shows she went to.  List members who went to 
both SF shows seemed to 
think that while the first was good, the second 
was really something.
-- 
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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