Re: (TV) Re: Lee Renaldo on Television

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You're welcome, glad that you liked it.

--- On Mon, 2/4/13, Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: (TV) Re: Lee Renaldo on Television
> To: "tv@obbard.com" <tv@obbard.com>
> Date: Monday, February 4, 2013, 5:52 AM
> This is great, thanks for posting!
> 
> --Phil
> 
> 
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> From: postitnote <postitnote@sbcglobal.net>
> To: tv@obbard.com 
> Sent: Monday,
> February 4, 2013 2:33 AM
> Subject: (TV) Re: Lee Renaldo on Television
>  
> This
> was Lee Renaldo (Sonic Youth) listing his musical
> influences.  This is what he
> had to say about Television:
> 
> Television: Marquee Moon
> 
> Here, you've got the
> dawn of the punk movement-- stripping music back to the
> essentials. At the
> time, that was very important to my re-involvement with
> music, which had
> gotten so bombastic, serving larger audiences and scenes and
> big stadium
> concerts. When I was in the first years of university, I
> fell in more with the
> visual arts crowd because it was more interesting than where
> music was. But
> then these NYC punk bands brought things back to small clubs
> and basic
> musicianship. It revitalized and redefined what music could
> be, taking it out
> of the "big time/factory/money machine" and to the people in
> dank places like
> CBGB or Max's.
> 
> Television also played really great songs that were
> sometimes
> quite challenging. Television, the Dead, the Beatles: These
> were groups where
> you could feel that if any one stem dropped out, the records
> would not be what
> they were. It was about collective participation. I did
> music for this Todd
> Haynes film about Bob Dylan a few years ago called I'm Not
> There; we put
> together a small band, and it included [Television's] Tom
> Verlaine. Playing
> with him was a real blast of an experience.
> 
> The first time I heard Marquee
> Moon, I was in college in Binghamton, New York, and we'd
> been listening to
> some of the other records from that period, probably Talking
> Heads and Patti
> Smith. I'd seen both of those groups play around, but I
> heard Television were
> really the band from that period. It wasn't the Voidoids or
> the Ramones-- it
> was Television that could flex this incredible musical
> muscle while having
> great songs and punk poise.
> 
> I spent a lot of time in the cinema lecture hall
> at school, and it had a great sound system. A couple of
> other guys-- all of
> whom I would go on to play music with to one degree or
> another-- and myself
> got ahold of Marquee Moon and put it on the big
> Altec-Lansing speakers and sat
> in this empty theater. We were staring at a white screen,
> listening to the
> record, almost in the dark. It was an incredible way to
> experience that
> record: quite loud, quite clear. It knocked us all out.
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