Putdown / RE: (TV) Re: TV/the Grateful Dead of Punk

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

Re:  "I'd think the band would have preferred a reference to the Velvet Underground
instead...."

Obviously.
Don't take this the wrong way Deb, but I think your missing the the boat (i.e., context) of
'The Grateful Dead' of Punk' .
It was said by Television's detractors and was meant as an absolute putdown of the band ... in
reference to some songs' long guitar solos.
  o

"He did what we all do.  
He went about his dull routine 
as if all the days in the world 
were still to come".
 

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> From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On 
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:35 AM
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> Subject: (TV) Re: TV/the Grateful Dead of Punk
> 
> I'm sure that it irked the band to be referred to as the 
> 'Grateful Dead of
> Punk'...as I'd think the band would have preferred a 
> reference to the Velvet
> Underground instead, well w/ "Sister Ray" on "White 
> Light/White Heat" going on
> for 17:27mins, so this wasn't exactly new for the NY scene.  
> And I don't think
> the VU ever got compared in such a way.  Just sayin'...
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