Re: (TV) Interesting blog post from Richard Lloyd

[Jesse Hochstadt <jesseh58@yahoo.com>]

Really enjoyed that Lloyd post. On a related note, I recently came across a series of posts of excellent footage of various bands at CBs, Hurrah, etc. during the late '70s/early '80s. Here's one of Richard H. and the Voidoids doing "Love Comes in Spurts": http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/nightclubbing-richard-hell-and-the-voidoids/. The accompanying text includes the following:

'Sex Pistols impresario Malcolm McLaren purportedly looked at a poster
 of Television in 1974, pointed at Richard and said, bI want to start a 
band that looks like him.b


'With his chopped hair and ripped-up shirt, Hell looked like nobody 
else. And with his kinetic, jangly stage presence and slinky bass, he 
sounded like nobody else. bRichard had some charisma you canbt buy in a 
store and apply to yourself like a cream,b recalled Television 
guitarist, Richard Lloyd. bHe had bit,b the inimitable bit,b the 
mysterious bit.b His loopy bass lines were cartoonish in their 
wonderment; he was fantastic.b'

There's also one of the band doing a cover of bGame of Loveb by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders: http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/nightclubbing-richard-hell-and-the-voidoids-1979/.


The entire series of "Nightclubbing" posts can be found here: http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/category/nightclubbing/. I haven't had a chance to listen to it all, but it includes folks like Pylon, the Raybeats, John Cale, the Dead Boys, Iggy, and more, as well as various lesser-known/less-long-lived acts.

- Jesse

P.S. It's possible that I actually came upon these posts because someone posted something here recently. Apologies if that's the case - the old memory ain't what it used to be (at least if my memory of what it used to be is correct).




----- Original Message -----
> From: Howard Webb <howard@howardwebb.com>
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Cc: 
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 10:57 PM
> Subject: (TV) Interesting blog post from Richard Lloyd
> 
> Richard Lloyd has posted a very interesting piece on his blog:
> 
> 
> 
> http://solasishock.blogspot.com/2013/05/punk-chaos-to-couture-exhibit-at-met
> .html
> 
> 
> 
> He discusses Richard Hell's book, early Television, fashion and, well read
> it for yourself...
> --------------
> To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
> To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe 
> tv"
--------------
To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"