Re: (TV) New Q & A from Richard

[Russ <russvr@gmail.com>]

On the "bonus" release of MM ( you know from a few years ago ) there is an
alternate cut of Friction that clearly uses a lot of reverb on, I think,
Verlaine's guitar. Since reverb is usually a setting on one's amp (eg fender
twin reverb ) maybe that's not considered an effect...?
I, myself, am a great fan of reverb. It seems to me that Television has
always used at least a little reverb, maybe I'm wrong.
Russ

On Feb 5, 2008 11:18 AM, andy fekete <andy.fekete@gmail.com> wrote:

> Keith, this is an extremely cool letter from Richard.
>
> I've often heard that Verlaine and Lloyd eschewed effects on MM, and
> Lloyd apparently continues in kind on Sufi Monkey.  But I wonder
> whether or not they might have experimented with effects on stage.
> I've often detected what sounds to me like bit of reverb, and possibly
> even some overdrive, especially in Verlaine's live recordings from the
> 80s (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZYdVNflsA);  then again,
> what I am hearing could just as easily be the result of hall acoustics
> and scorching tubes.
>
> Are there any interviews wherein Lloyd or Verlaine discuss the setups they
> use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy Fekete, Amps Do Furnish A Room
>
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>
> On Feb 5, 2008 3:42 AM, Keith Allison <keith@thewonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > Just about to add this to the site and thought this would be of interest
> > to all you plank spankers:
> >
> >     Hi Richard,
> >
> >     What is the deal with that white or blonde Telecaster shown in the
> >     liner notes to the Marquee Moon reissue?  Looks like it's missing
> >     the pickguard and it had the neck pickup routed for a humbucker at
> >     some point (but it looks like it has another Tele bridge pickup or
> >     something shoehorned in there).  Anyway it looks super dirty and
> >     really cool.  What ever happened to it?
> >
> >     Also, I was wondering how some of the tracks on Marquee Moon were
> >     recorded or processed.  On Venus in particular, one of the guitar
> >     parts sounds kind of like it's doubled or lightly chorused, but that
> >     doesn't seem like a "Television" thing to do.  Every note seems to
> >     decay differently.  Maybe it's just a really short reverb?  Anyway
> >     it sounds great.
> >
> >
> > Dear Rob,
> >
> > Thank you for writing.  When I was in Los Angeles during the early 70s I
> > bought a Sunburst custom telly -- at the time I could not afford a
> > Stratocaster.  When I got back to New York and we formed Television that
> > was my main guitar.  I couldn't stand the Sunburst so I sanded it down
> > to natural wood and painted it different colors -- pink at one point,
> > black at another and so on.  One of the pickups broke and it ended up
> > having only one pickup -- I can't remember what kind but I only used the
> > one pickup from then on.  It was jerryrigged but I didn't care.  Then I
> > got my 1961 Stratocaster and eventually I sold the telecaster for
> > practically nothing.  If I had it now it would be worth quite a bit, but
> > that's the way it goes.  Both that telecaster and the Stratocaster are
> > on our first record.
> >
> > Tom Verlaine kept talking about making a "live" sounding record.  I felt
> > as if the record should have qualities which could only be accomplished
> > in the studio.  I have always been able to play the same thing exactly
> > over and over, whereas Tom (aside from the rhythm parts) could not play
> > exactly the same phraseology in his solos.  When Andy Johns began
> > recording us I suggested that I could double my parts -- I got this idea
> > from both the Phil Spector productions and also from the Beatles.  I
> > thought that this doubling of certain of my rhythm parts and of my lead
> > solos would lend some additional credibility and phenomena to the
> > record.  Andy was quite surprised that I had this skill and Tom enjoyed
> > the subtle chorusing which was much more pleasant than any kind of
> > chorus effect.  We used no effects whatsoever on Marquee Moon -- just
> > guitars into amplifiers.
> >
> > All of the doubling on the record including the solo to Elevation are
> > mine.  In fact, one of the songs I cowrote for the record, "Guiding
> > Light" has eight tracks in certain places of me doing the same part.
> >
> > I hope that answers your question.  There is as far as I know, no
> > artificial reverb on the record, and no chorusing whatsoever.  In one of
> > my solos we wanted to use a revolving speaker but it was too expensive
> > to rent those things they use with the organs, so Andy Johns swung a
> > microphone like a lasso while I played -- it's very subtle, but it did
> > the trick.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Richard Lloyd
> >
> >
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