(TV) David Byrne on Television

[Luis Salinas <lsalinas1@austin.rr.com>]

Davidbyrne.com OCTOBER 2, 2004 - by David Byrne

CLASS OF '78 REUNION IN NYC

Went to see Patti Smith and Television with Eno, who had just arrived 
form London for
some talks. He was a bit jet-lagged so left early.

Television was always one of my favorites and they're as eccentric as 
ever. Tom Verlaine
doesn't use a tuner - between songs he crouches and we can all here the 
plunk-plunk of
strings being tuned. I suspect he feels his ears are better than a 
machine, and maybe he's
right. Many in the audience have never heard of Television, as their 
"breakup" came rapidly
and their reunions have been short lived... they sort of didn't align 
themselves with any
movement either, and to my ears they are almost a jazz act, with the 
amazing dueling
improvisations from Verlaine and Lloyd.

Backstage afterwards Patti sat slumped on a sofa, talking to family. It 
was an intense show,
she still mixes poetry with ecstatic rock rave-ups and now has added 
slides and
psychedelic visuals of Gandhi and other icons.

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