Television.....

[PorkyPrimeCut]

I never realized Tom Verlaine played a Jazzmaster. Great band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDrLzeAM ... ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw80nob1 ... ed&search=

[jetset]

Hell Yeah, I was at the '93 DC show.  Wonder if there's a complete video of it somewhere?  I hear he's playing strats more these days. 

Here's our version of "Friction":
http://www.thejennifers.com/The_Jennife ... iction.mp3

-J

[Maggieo]

Hell Yeah, I was at the '93 DC show.  Wonder if there's a complete video of it somewhere?  I hear he's playing strats more these days. 

Here's our version of "Friction":
http://www.thejennifers.com/The_Jennife ... iction.mp3

-J

He plays a frankenguitar- it's a binding and dots JM neck, bolted to an unfinished Warmouth (I think) body, loaded with dano-style lipstick pickups.

[mezcalhead]

I never realized Tom Verlaine played a Jazzmaster.

Really? For many, Tom Verlaine typifies the best in Jazzmaster-wielding post-punk. IMHO he really plays to the strengths of the instrument.

There's a funny quote in an interview somewhere, when he's asked about string gauges. He says that going up a gauge gave him a better sound and feel .. then after a while the rush wore off and left him craving more so he went up another gauge, then another .. "We're on .15s now and climbing".

[PorkyPrimeCut]

The only person I ever noticed (before I joined this site!) who played a Jazzmaster around that time was Elvis Costello. I was fairly young back then. I only started to recognize them in my mid / late teens when I started  listening to Spacemen 3, Dinosaur Jr. & Sonic Youth.

Any info & images of Television era musicians with Jazzmasters & Jaguars would go down a treat.

[Maggieo]

I never realized Tom Verlaine played a Jazzmaster.

Really? For many, Tom Verlaine typifies the best in Jazzmaster-wielding post-punk. IMHO he really plays to the strengths of the instrument.

Tom Verlaine is THE reason I play a Jazzmaster.  No Tom, no Jazzmaster.  I've wanted one since I saw photos of him and Television, back in the 80's.

[mezcalhead]

A handful of Television pics from around the web:










Their other guitarist, Richard Lloyd, has some very interesting lessons and views on the art of guitar on his website.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Funny. Back in the early 90's in England we had bands such as The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses & Inspiral Carpets who spawned a hundred copycat bands (happens a lot doesn't it?)
One band was actually called The Tom Verlaines. They were shit!! Took me 5 years to find out who he was!!

[mezcalhead]

There is or was an NZ band called the Verlaines who are/were pretty good, in that jangly naive Bats-like kinda way.

They didn't sound much like Television and I suspect they were actually named after the French poet:

[Maggieo]

There is or was an NZ band called the Verlaines who are/were pretty good, in that jangly naive Bats-like kinda way.

They didn't sound much like Television and I suspect they were actually named after the French poet:

From whom Tom Miller nicked his stage name!

[mezcalhead]

Ah .. it all comes full circle.