(TV) Easy: "It's just how they're played .. and where they're put."

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

Short Excerpt from 60-Minute September 1982, "Dreamtime" 

Promo-Interview of Verlaine by NYC DJ Meg Griffith: 

 

Meg Griffith ( as "The Blue Robe" plays in the background):  

Sometimes .. actually most of the time in your songs, at the same time I
hear 

chaos I hear harmony, like one's underneath and one's on top, or vice-versa.


Is that like ah .. is that like a conscious effort, or do you ever feel like
your 

schizophrenic?

 

TV:  I think that's like how you were asking me about [my musical] 

background before.  That might be having grown up listening to 

supermarket records of symphonies and jazz.   (Pause)  See to me 

my stuff sounds so easy . none of the songs have more than six 

chords .. you know.  

 

Meg:  Right.  

 

TV:  It's just the way it's arranged.

 

Meg:  Yeah.  . it's textured.

 

TV:  Yeah. . the way the parts lock together . it's unusual.  I guess it's
unusual.  

I feel funny saying it's unusual cause to me it just sounds like the way  to
do it.  

But like when I was auditioning guitar players, a lot of guys had a really
tough time.  

And .. and actually one guy said, "Are you crazy?".  I said, "No it's very 

simple.  Chink! Chink! Chink!." ... and they just shook their heads and
stared 

at the floor.  Like a lot of these new songs have just three chords. 

 

Meg: Right.      

 

TV:  Particularly on the new album . most of them have four chords I think.


It's just .  it's just how they're played . and where they're put.  
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