Re: (TV) Wistful in Northampton: Losin' Grip Pt. 2

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

leo, you need to lay off the sauce for a while

--- "Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov> wrote:

> A couple of days ago, I went to visit a friend in
> Northampton/Amherst about
> 120 miles 
> west of Boston; Northampton's a big college & artist
> town. A fair number of
> musicians 
> formerly based in NYC have moved there in the last
> 10 years or so.   
> 
> I have fond memories of seeing a show from
> Verlaine's 1981/Dreamtime tour at
> nearby 
> Hampshire College. 
> 
> (I mentioned this particular show in a MM post
> several years ago, but want
> to try to 
> establish my July 2005 state of mind for what's at
> the tail-end of this
> e-mail.) 
> 
> In 1981 the band played in a campus space that was
> ordinarily used for
> photography 
> exhibits; small---maybe 30 'by 45' [?], with a
> ceiling that must have been
> only 9 feet high. 
> They had to play in one of the corners on a
> temporary dais about a foot
> high; there only 
> about 80 people (probably 95% of whom were Hampshire
> students).
> 
> Despite the room's smallness, the sound was almost
> perfect, and the audience
> loved the 
> show ---probably in my top three Verlaine shows of
> all time--and not just
> because I was 
> standing with my girlfriend a yard from the 'stage'.
>  Downside:  pretty
> tricky to tape the 
> show when they're playing 3 feet away from your coat
> pockets.  In a parallel
> universe 
> where Television are as popular as Christina
> Aguilera, there exists a live
> recording of this 
> show. Howard, I want you to transport yourself there
> and retrieve it. 
> 
> The room's power failed in the middle of a very
> extended version of "Down On
> The Farm", 
> but when it came back on about 10 minutes later, the
> band after returning to
> the stage 
> impressively picked up in the exact place they had
> left off! 
> 
> Anyways----so what's my point?  
> I was reminiscing 2 days ago about this show with my
> friend as we were in
> one of 
> Northampton's used cd/vinyl stores that had lots of
> great stuff.  My friend
> tapped me on 
> the shoulder and pointed out that one of the 3 vinyl
> albums prominently
> displayed on the 
> wall behind the cash register was TV's eponymous
> solo record. 
> 
> Then we went into Dynamite Records, and I noticed
> they had a collection of
> buttons of 
> many bands; one of them caught my eye. On it was a
> reproduction of the same
> photo 
> of Television that's on the front of some versions
> of the cd, "The Blow Up"
> (the one where 
> TV's wearing a funky vest).  So I bought it for 89
> cents. 
> 
> Why?  Because I just had to liberate it from those
> other buttons in the
> store----all of which 
> were considerably larger in size.  The circular
> Television button was about
> the size of a quarter 
> (no exaggeration).  Given that the other bands'
> buttons had diameters that
> were about 4 times 
> longer, this meant that they were 16 times greater
> in area!  It was just one
> more metaphor for 
> the band's relative obscurity; a couple of times
> during my long drive back
> to Boston I thought 
> about how even buttons of Television get no respect!
>  :>)
> 
> 	Leo
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You know Spider, you're a fuckin' mumbling, stuttering little fuck. You know that?


































		
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