Re: (TV) Call Mr Lloyd

["andy fekete" <andy.fekete@gmail.com>]

Another great source of Television with Ripp instead of Lloyd is their
Summerstage 2007 performance in Central Park.

They did a fine version of "Persia", as I recall.

-A

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, this is cool.  Can't wait to listen.
>
>  If there are any tapes of the shows from Tom's last solo tour, we can
>  probably even add "Persia" with Ripp instead of Lloyd, for comparison.
>
>  -Rex
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:03 PM, earcandy_archive <
>  earcandy_archive@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>  > It was 7 years ago that I first heard Tom Verlaine say:
>  > "This here's a newie....goes like this"
>  >
>  > And now that an album may be nearing completion (according to Jimmy Rip s
>  > recent blog posting), perhaps some of those  newies  have made their way
>  > to
>  > the studio.
>  >
>  > Now, I'm one of those fans that feels Television just isn't Television
>  > without Richard Lloyd.  But I ll certainly buy the album, and no doubt
>  > thoroughly enjoy it, even while thinking of it as a Tom Verlaine Band solo
>  > album.
>  >
>  > However, I thought it worthwhile to compile the better sounding versions
>  > of
>  > the new songs as they've been played over the last few years, as a way to
>  > enjoy the songs with Lloyd's interaction. No telling, of course,  if any
>  > or
>  > all of these songs even made into the studio along with Mr Rip.  I have my
>  > doubts that "Swell" would be included, for instance....as it always seemed
>  > like just a "tune-up" song in concert before segueing into "1880 or So".
>  > I've also put on a few "jamming" tracks as bonus tracks, just for grins.
>  >
>  > I m asking fellow TV fans to help choose the track sequencing, as they
>  > think
>  > it should be if this was the real album.  Keep in mind that these are
>  > audience lo-fi tracks; there is audience talking, and certainly won t be
>  > the
>  > sonic pleasure that the album will be.  But, it serves possibly as a
>  > souvenir of how they sounded when Richard was still involved.
>  >
>  > Available as either a compressed  rar  file or a winzip file (whichever is
>  > your preference).  Unpack the files using winrar or winzip respectively.
>  >
>  > http://rapidshare.com/files/98857388/tv_newies_comp_mp3s.rar
>  >
>  > http://rapidshare.com/files/98855236/tv_newies_comp_mp3s.zip
>  >
>  > (just choose the  free  download, rather than  premium  and then you have
>  > to
>  > wait a few seconds before you can download).
>  >
>  > "Call Mr. Lloyd"
>  >
>  > 01 The Sea (London 2002-06-19)
>  > 02 Balloon (Washington DC 2003-03-24)
>  > 03 Rise & Fall ( London 2005-06-21)
>  > (called "Kinks Song" on setlist included with recording)
>  > 04 Persia (London 2004-06-23)
>  > 05 I Could Sleep All Day ("Squaggle") (Washington DC 2003-03-24)
>  > 06 Stax (Hamburg 2004-06-18)
>  > 07 Frustration (London 2005-06-21) called "Shirley Song" on setlist)
>  > 08 Flower Spasm (London 2005-06-21
>  >
>  > bonus trax:
>  > 09 Stockhausen Pysche Jam (London 2004-06-23)
>  > 10 Swells (San Francisco GAMH 2002-07-22)
>  > 11 Bowie Medley (London 2002-06-18)
>  > (an imrove with Verlaine singing snippets of Bowie lyrics/song titles, for
>  > Bowie hosted Meltdown)
>  > 12. Love Theme From Piranha (London 2002-06-18)
>  > (a jam played while drums were being fixed...this is what Verlaine calls
>  > it
>  > at the end of this brief improv)
>  > 13. "Hits On TV" (London 2002-06-19) (a medley of TV son
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