(TV) Gang of Four/Television/Dr Feelgood

[Graham Urquhart <gurquhart@madasafish.com>]

Article in Independent today about Gang of Four who I'm looking forward 
to seeing tomorrow night. A few mentions of Television in the article. 
Also intrigued to see Dr Feelgood cited as an influence but on 
reflection makes eminent sense:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/andy-gill-meets-andy-gill-1789194.html

Also a little bit of Google digging produced this interview with Andy 
Gill which also mentions Television:

http://www.furious.com/perfect/gangoffour.html

.............."Q: What did you think of the New York scene at that time?
It was a good vibe there.  You'd be at CBGB's and Joey Ramone would be 
propped up at one end of the bar and down the other end of the bar, 
there'd be John Cale.   It was great really.  It was an exciting time. 
Q: What was it about that scene that intrigued you? ...I don't think 
they were particularly an influence.   We were aware of all of that when 
we starting writing stuff.  That first Television album was great and so 
was the first Talking Heads record.   There's a shared interest in 
avoiding the rock-guitar clichi for sure.  If you think of the first 
crop of punk stuff, it was all just tedious guitars cranked up through 
Marshalls.  In the wake of the Damned and the Sex Pistols, it was heavy 
metal but faster and not as well played.  Certainly Gang of Four, 
Television and Talking Heads weren't interested in going down that road 
at all.  So there was a kind of sparseness about the guitar stuff, it 
was more staccato with space around it.   That's something that those 
bands have in common.  Where we diverge is (in) the funky side of things 
in the sense that Television and Talking Heads (early on) weren't in 
that area.  Gang of Four was from the get-go. "

Witness the genius guitar of Andy Gill here:

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

And you can never get enough of Wilko Johnson:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIya16hk-2sd

Cheers

Graham



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