(TV) OT - Did YMO make a splash in NY 1979?

["Joe Thornton" <joe.thornton@gmx.net>]

Just came across this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt3Rvf1bt6g

 

Yellow Magic Orchestra, New York, 1979. Wondering if any of you, or any
members of Television, were there... Were people impressed, influenced...?
It's a bit of a leap from CBGBs.

 

I like to compare their LA performance of the same tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mlq9eiFgrs

 

Here's yet another recording of them, sound only; this time at the Bottom
Line:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8u6CXV_WiA

 

The guitarist is Kazumi Watanabe. The tightness of the band, the suppressed
excitement, and the soloing (Watanabe, and Sakamoto on synth) are
remarkable.

 

--JoeT
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