(TV) television live videos/dvd's / Wilmington

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

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From: Murray Ramone 
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:24 AM
To: Television-group@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Television-group] television live videos/dvd's
>I think there was a couple of songs recorded 
>for mtv at the time of the 3rd album, I'm pretty 
>sure I've got 2 of them on tape somewhere, call 
>mr lee was one of them

There's a least one video (and maybe more) of TV 
without Television.

To promote the "Flashlight" album in 1986, TV and 
Virgin records[?](or was it Polygram? -----whatever) 
created a very nice video for the song "Town Called 
Walker".

Now although this song is interesting because it is 
purported to be a thinly disguised criticism of the 
narrow-mindedness of Wilmington (Delaware), the town 
TV spent almost all of his years before moving to NYC, 
it's never been one of my favorites because I find 
its melody/guitar playing rather pedestrian.

However, the video is quite good; it was very different 
from the typical stuff that MTV featured at the time 
(e.g., half naked young women, covered in whip cream 
trying to knock each other off of a log [Duran Duran?]). 

The TV video has him singing (mouthing) the lyrics as he 
walks dressed in black with beret through the back 
alleys and rubble a some town.  There's a woman dressed 
like a ballerina always walking a little ahead of him 
(some of you will happy to know it's not Ms Secret X).  

	Leo
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