Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd's "lost" first single c. 1978

[Per Rosén <per@ronz.org>]

Just downloaded Lodestones. The King of Pop is not dead. Please, come back. 
Everything's forgiven.
/Per

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From: "Phil Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>
To: "Marquee Moon Mailing List" <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 5:27 PM
Subject: (TV) Richard Lloyd's "lost" first single c. 1978


> I never knew his first solo single might have been "I Thought You Wanted to
> Know", way back in 1978. I found this in a Q&A with Chris Stamey from 
> 2009:
> Was there a great plan that preceded the formation of the dBbs?
> I had
> recorded a solo record for my  label of Richard Lloyd singing a song of
> his,
> bI Thought You Wanted To  Know.b When Televisionbs A&R person, the
> legendary Karin Berg,  kindly pointed out that he was signed to Elektra 
> and
> this
> was thus  illegal to release, I redid the vocal myself (with Richardbs
> blessing)
> and made up the band the dBbsb partbcouldnbt afford to
> waste all that  expensive
> recording time. Will and Gene had moved to NYC to
> play with  me, and we did a
> quick b-Side, bIf And When.b We took the
> dBbs as the  name of the beginning band
> because of that single, played as a
> trio for a  few months, then sent a
> passenger pigeon to Memphis to reclaim
> Peter  into the fold. No great plan went
> into any of this, I think we were
> just  happy to be part of the exciting
> CBGB-based music explosion, where the
> rules seemed to be shifting and anything
> seemed possible.
> http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/06/01/qa-with-peter-holsapple-chris-stamey/
> --Phil
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