Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd's Facebook Comments on The New Television Track

[Steve Rovner <serovner@mindspring.com>]

Now that I've thought about it a little more, I agree with your comment about letting the music speak for yourself.  Over the past week as I've been pulling together everything for The Big One, I've been listening to a bunch of Richard's shows that were recently sent to me, and I really enjoyed them.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Rex Broome <rexbroome@gmail.com>
>Sent: Jun 4, 2011 5:08 PM
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) Richard Lloyd's Facebook Comments on The New  Television Track
>
>On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Steve Rovner <serovner@mindspring.com>wrote:
>
>> I should have clarified my comment.  Posting something like that in public
>> could definitely be seen as not cool.  I'm used to Richard speaking his mind
>> in a blunt manner.  I admire him because ever since he left Television he
>> has been extremely productive with albums, etc.  Richard's comment about
>> Tom's noodling echoes the comments I made when I saw the youtube video of
>> Tom performing not so long ago at some place in Brooklyn.  The guy is
>> completely wasting his talent, in my view (which I know not everyone on this
>> list agrees with).
>>
>
>I actually do pretty much agree with that.  Which is why, if I were
>Richard-- and I most emphatically am not!-- and I was proud of the track I'd
>contributed to the compilation and thought my former bandmates' stuff was
>embarrassingly weak, I'd just hype the album and let the tracks speak for
>themselves.  Then you might hear a lot of comments like, "Richard's the only
>former Television guy producing any noteworthy work", instead of "The bitter
>infighting between former Television members escalates".
>
>Richard's comments when he split with the band were pretty decent (if a
>little disingenuous in places); he didn't sugarcoat anything, but he didn't
>really slag anyone at length.  I mean,  he's obviously no fan of Tom's and
>that's fine, but somehow it's a lot more palatable when he expresses it in a
>more general way... somehow the specific slagging of these recordings sounds
>more bitter and petty (the lyrics bit in, and dragging the rhythm section
>into it in particular).
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