Philip,You made me Google for Lester, and I came up with an unpublished article for Punk he wrote in '76. Here is an excerpt that mentions Television:
Nobody gives a shit about me or Lisa Robinson or Danny Fields (even though he got prime staging in a >French rock magazine which is really what all of us and all our scene(s) amount to like in France >they still have FLAMIN' GROOVIE fan clubs and maybe always will so just hang out enough at >NYC/CBGB's/Max's if you lick history and you too can become an automatic legend 'cross the pond >they're so starved, it's easier than new York, and all you have to do to be loved by the chi chi rock >crowd in NY is be cutely out of it Ramones, who are a lot better than what sometimes surrounds >them like bathtub rings or stalking slow no contract yet but the weight of history on your shoulders >like Television, who are OK but shit, if it was expected of YOU that you gotta go to some fucking rock >club and stand there awestruck or at least applauding or at least not saying, "What?" you might get >a little resentful too What I'm trying to work up the nerve to say (!!!!) is that going to see >Television at CBGB's at least is like being in church, and it's particularly uncomfortable stalling in the >lead pew because it hurts to tell such a nice guy as Tom Verlaine that the "improvisations" of his band >sound like the fucking Grateful Dead, latemodern-exploratory Pink Floyd even the Duane Allman >Brothers et. al. was just a bunch of cats who didn't know how to improvise playing scales basically if >you wanna get right down to it. In other words fuck 'em, if you don't like Television or anybody else >it doesn't make any fucking difference, if I don't like X Band it doesn't matter, all that really matters as >I am beginning to discern in this N.Y. rock scene is who you please and if you're on the inside of this >grand invisible sacred circle of the Cult Figures who have been deigned worthy of transmission to the >outside world by the media connections because connections is exactly what they are so gonna hit it >up every night of the week if them folks like you &/or your band then you got a hell of a lot easier >road to the national venue than some other nobody.
Cheers, Brian
From: "Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com To: tv@obbard.com Subject: (TV) Richard Hell on Lester Bangs in the Village Voice Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:27:40 -0700 (PDT)Richard Hell has a semi-review of the new Lester Bands anthology in this week'sVillage Voice. You can read it here: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0333/hell.php --Philip __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -------------- To post: Mail tv@obbard.com To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"
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