Re: (TV) Concert "Intro" = a Didjeridu

[Mike Ehritz <mikeez@earthlink.net>]

On 2/3/05 4:33 PM, "Rex Broome" <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:

>> To confirm my suspicion, I just plopped in the Georgetown U videotape from
>> that tour - and sure enough the "intro" is a DIDERIDU recording.
>> 
>> Am I the only one to find this kinda interesting, or am I 12 years late in
>> that realization!?
> 
> I remember that, and although I knew it was a digiridoo at the time, I
> never though much about it... not a very Television-y thing, is it?
> Maybe it was just the most consistent blare of white noise available
> to cover up for all the tuning...

I thought it was very Televisionary since TV did call his 2nd album
Dreamtime.
> 
> On a trip out to Joshua Tree, my companions and I found a camping spot
> and I was left there to squat and make sure no one else grabbed it
> while the rest of the group assembled elsewhere.  It was the dead of
> night and I was by myself in the desert with astonishingly clear skies
> above me and silence around me.  I saw many shooting stars and almost
> as many coyotes while I waited.  And after about forty-five minutes, I
> heard, in the distance... a digiridoo.  Of course it was probably some
> lame hippie doing bong hits off of the thing and pretending to be all
> "tribal" or something (it wasn't being played especially well), but it
> was still kind of a cool experience.
> 
> -Rex

Why are hippies held in such disdain by this group? I mean Television has
more in common with the psychedelic jambands than they do with any Punk or
New Wave band.

Mike
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