(TV) Tom Thompson mystery solved

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

This just came in to my guest book:

"This is Mark Abel, who played 12-string on "Last Night" on Tom 
Verlaine's first solo LP. I also mixed live sound for Television nearly 
exclusively from late 1976 until their breakup, and also did a lot of 
informal playing with all four members.
I'd like to lay to rest your assertion that Tom Thompson, who played 
drums on "Last Night," might have in fact been Billy Ficca. Not so. Tom 
was the drummer in Architecture, my unrecorded New York band of the late 
'70s and early '80s. Thompson and I played on a three-song demo that 
Verlaine recorded at Blue Rock Studios prior to the full album. "Last 
Night" was recorded at that session, along with a version of "Grip of 
Love" and another folk-rockish song whose name I don't remember."

(Got that one wrong, then!)
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