RE: (TV) Pink Floyd?? / Handle with Care / Surprise?

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

>On further investigation, the tape I have is
>Television covering FRAGILE (Yes), not PF. My 
>mistake.

Just drank a venti black coffee so bear with me.  

Television never had a version/cover of Yes---
---for obvious reasons, e.g., Yes were Television's 
freakin' antipode! :>)

Moreover, to continue to belabor the obvious, Yes's 
version of "Fragile", and Verlaine's version on 
Dreamtime, have no relation to one another. 

When TV played this song during his 1981 
East Coast/College Tour, I always got a laugh out 
of seeing the amps/crates on stage that had "Fragile" 
stenciled all over them in bright white. (Maybe I \
was suffering from having listened to 'Dreamtime' 
twice a day back then). 

About a week before TV was going to play at 
Hampshire College, my girlfriend who was teaching 
was very worried that only a few students might attend, 
so she put up posters all over the campus with info, 
TV's picture, and at the bottom the phrase "I've got 
to face what's never there.",  or "Oh no I guess it 
is my fate to live a life I can't communicate."    

I've always been puzzled by a reviewer, who said that 
**except for "Fragile"** the songs on Dreamtime will be 
of no surprise to anyone who's familar with "Last Night" 
or "The Dream's Dream."

Where exactly would this 'surprise' come from? Surely, 
there were songs on TV's 1st solo album that would've 
made the relatively more rock-ish "Fragile" not a 
surprise (and there are other Dreamtime songs that 
'rock-out' as well).  Anyone have any idea what he means? 
[Not a rhetorical question]

I find it hard to believe TV listened to much Pink 
Floyd, given his love for people like the Kinks, 
Yardbirds, Coltrane, or garage bands on the album 
"Nuggets".

OTOH, sometimes when I listen to the studio, watery 
version of the "Dream's Dream", I hear a strong similarity 
(influence by Waters?) to stuff on Dark Side of the 
Moon.

	Leo 
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