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[Intro]
[Personnel] [early years] [Marquee Moon] [My Fathers Place] [Adventure] [Television]
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WHAT's NEW
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What's new on this web page?

If you see the date changing on this page, without an announcement in this section, it is probably something like fixing minor coding problems, spelling errors, minor layout changes, new page on this site (so I changed bottom index), ... Any major changes to this page, will be announced here.

July 18, 2005. I just noticed that the ezBoard message board that I had set up for this web site had been deleted. Since restoration of the deleted conference is only available to subscribers to their service, and since the activity was relatively light, I not planning on looking for another message board. If you do think a message board is worth while, or you have a message board that you like, let me know and I may promote it here. As always you can contact me here.

December 6, 2004. Thanks to Four Men With Beards Records for re-issuing Marquee Moon on vinyl. Thanks to Four Men With Beards Records and Michael Layne Heath for allowing me to include the liner notes from the vinyl re-issue on my web site.

November 24, 2004. I just picked up my copy of Television's Adventure extended re-issue. Three tracks not previously on CD, two alternate versions, and a completely new songAdventure, written for, and recorded, but not released on the original album.

November 13, 2004. I just picked up my copy of Television's Marquee Moon extended re-issue. Five tracks not previously on CD, and the original long version of the song Marquee Moon.

April 28, 2001. I applied to join the Television web ring. The web ring code is locate in my Other Television Links section.

March 10, 2001. It looks like I may have been premature in moving to a new web hosting site. I just found out that whenever Tripod.com is having hardware or software problems with their servers, they put up a message for the webmaster that their site is in violation of terms, and the web site has been deleted (instead of a message about system problems and try again later). Anyway, I believed Tripod.com when they said they deleted my account, so I will be moving, and making chromeoxide.com my new home on the web.

March 10, 2001. As long as I am moving my entire site, I decided to make a few changes to the layout of the individual pages, and the web site in general, including (but not limited to) I removed the counter, and moved the listings of mirror sites to the bottom of the page, ...

March 6, 2001. Sometime between March 1 to March 5, 2001 Tripod deleted my account/web site. The last stats Tripod gave me were 9,000+ visitors per month. Since my site is so popular, I have decided to keep it going, in spite of this major setback. But rather than trying to build up another free web site, and possibly deal with this problem again, I decided go with CommandLine.net to host the new chromeoxide.com.

October 31, 2000. The new Chrome Oxide Music Collectors Pages Message Board is provided by EZBoard.

May 1, 2000. I started working on this page.

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TELEVISION
INTRO:
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Television was started in New York in late 1973 by Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, Richard Lloyd and Billy Ficca. It featured the dual guitar jams of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, and the singing and songs of Tom Verlaine. Verlaine, Hell and Ficca had tried to start a band in 1971 (Neon Boys), but they only lasted a few weeks. That version of the band never played any live shows (although they did record some demo tapes).

In late 1975 Richard Hell left to join Johnny Thunders Heartbreakers, and later to do his own music. He was replaced by Fred Smith (of Blondie, not of the MC5s). In late 1978 the band broke up. They later reformed in 1992 to record an album, support it with a tour, and break up again.

Television only recorded 2 albums their first time around. And while they were good, those albums didn't completely capture their live performances, which included some nice guitar jamming. The studio albums only contained original songs, but the live shows included covers of songs by 13th Floor Elevators, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, ...

Comments and corrections would be appreciated.

And of course, any audio-video-print additions to my collection would be appreciated.

I am also interested in getting wider exposure for this site. So links from your site to mine would be appreciated. And if you know of any sites that allow/encourage submission, I would also appreciate knowing about them as well.

Do you have any articles, books, albums, tapes, CDs, ... on this band that you would like reviewed and / or integrated into this page?

Do you have any other band that you would like to see a page for on this site?

Please send to:

Chrome Oxide
P.O.Box 8106
Mission Hills, CA 91346-8106

Chrome Oxide

Thanks to Four Men With Beards Records for re-issuing Marquee Moon on vinyl. Thanks to Four Men With Beards Records and Michael Layne Heath for allowing me to include the liner notes from the vinyl re-issue on my web site.

 

MARQUEE MOON by Television - liner notes for 2002 vinyl reissue on Four Men With Beards Records, SF/Oakland (RuntDistribution.com)

For some of us on this side of the Millennium, it's hard to conceive of a world without MARQUEE MOON being part of it.   Like so many other things taken for granted in the present day, its myriad charms seem to have always been here, waiting to be sampled and savored by adventurous music fans worldwide.   Hard to believe that in the spring of 1977, as an eighteen year old living in an obscure suburban American town, in love with the stirrings of what some folks called the New Wave from London and New York and out there, the imminent release of Television's debut album was a Very Big Deal.

Indeed, the appearance of MARQUEE MOON was the culmination of a steadily growing clamor with its roots in those first tentative sets Television played before five welfare cases and a dog at CBGB's three years previous.   In that time, they had acquired an almost mythological reputation, abetted by the occasional awed mention in the pages of magazines like CREEM, when lucky even accompanied by photos.   Tom Verlaine and his cohorts, looking pale, alien and mysterious, were a stark contrast to the glam and excess found on seemingly every other page.

Then came the independent release - perhaps inspired by the success of fellow artsy urbanite Patti Smith's "Hey Joe" single, on which Verlaine contributed guitar; an equally clairvoyant move in any case - of their "Little Johnny Jewel" 45, which added a further level of mystique to the band.

Despite its technical flaws, you don't forget too soon the first time you hear "Johnny Jewel".   The dry twitch of the guitars.   The self-assured, new-suit strut of Billy Ficca's drums.   But most of all, the clipped, drawling mewl of young Tom Miller from Delaware, staking his unique claim on rock and roll circa 1976.

So it came to pass (or at least, once upon a time) that the members of Television would hole up in an anonymous NYC recording studio with Rolling Stones vet Andy Johns.   Johns had been personally chosen by Verlaine for his restraint as an engineer, primarily his work on that elegantly negotiated comedown off the Main Street madness of '72 that was GOAT'S HEAD SOUP.   Proceedings were reportedly rather uneventful, despite some initial crossed signals - the band's collective insistence on a drum sound that was more Tony Williams and less John Bonham, for example.  

And in spring of '77, here was MARQUEE MOON, a New York noise as every bit different from the Ramones' bubble-gum bombast as it was to Patti's sensual, Rock-and-Rimbaud fury or to Blondie's girl-group noir.   Yet, in its comparatively understated way, MARQUEE MOON had every bit as much impact as its more aggressive counterparts - it was more a soft bomb in time-release form, that, given repeated exposures, would come to blow impressionable music-heads wide open.

Not everyone got it, of course.   The most common insult hurled by the more didactic element of the underground rock crowd was that Television was 'the punk rock Grateful Dead'.   Understandable but not entirely fair, for the simple reason that Television's take on the then languishing Guitar-Jam concept was not only more song-oriented, but far edgier (albeit disciplined), leaner and meaner in its execution than their supposed West Coast antecedents.   If anyone out there could claim precedence, in fact, a more pertinent line could and should be drawn to the likes of Cipollina and Quicksilver, or even that other guitar slinger with a funny voice and a dreamy line in lyrics, Neil Young.   (At the time of MM's release, of course, these were one's closest reference points.   In time, others would become apparent - Richard Thompson and British folk-rock, Mike Bloomfield, Bernard Herrmann, surf music even).   Also, by that time Garcia's playing had degenerated into such endless, insufferable noodling that one wondered why his famous nickname wasn't Captain Ramen.  

With Verlaine, there was a method to the meandering; no matter how wayward or off-the-plot they could get, his solo flights always offered an implicit plea to the listener: 'stick with me here now, because there is a point to all this...' Then you had Verlaine's public and stage persona - inscrutably romantic, slyly absurd - an infinitely more appealing combo than the benign platitudes of beardy-weirdy Garcia.

Put country simple, the average guitar-loving music fan of the era had three paths avalable: being tied for the umpteenth time to the whipping post by the ghosts of Les Freres Allman; hearing Uncle John's Band ramble through their transitive nightfall of whatever-the-hell; or getting too 'too-too' on the road untaken, with Tom and his merry mob.   Kid, the choice was obvious.

(On the obverse side of the debate, consider some of those who did 'get it' on either side of the Big Pond.   Julian Cope and Ian McCulloch up in Liverpool, for instance, or Vic Godard's Subway Sect crew down in the Smoke.   A young gangly chap named Thurston in rural Connecticut.   Peter Laughner and Crocus Behemoth's brain-on-fire Cleveland contingent.   Out on the West Coast, Steve Wynn and the brothers Roback.   Even relative vets like Pete Townshend, Bruce Cockburn, Bob Fripp and Peter Gabriel - who took Television on as support act for his first solo US tour, to mostly bemused, sometimes hostile response - found time to extend due respect.   Then there was this Edge kid from Dublin.)

One cannot forget, however, that Television's ultimate worth was the sum of its parts, and Verlaine merely one-fourth of what made them special.   Tom's feral, anything-but-linear approach to the guitar found its perfect complement in the more traditional, yet equally pithy attack of his Strat-wielding Sancho Panza, Richard Lloyd. Hey, every generation needs its guitar heroes - and though while lacking perhaps the front or firepower of the Johnnys and Joneses of the era, Tom and Richard were intellectually and viscerally engaging in a way their flashier contemporaries couldn't touch.   It remains even now a mystery that, as players, Verlaine and Lloyd are not held in as high esteem as those over whom people still speak in hushed whispers, this far past the Sixties.   And holding it all together, the incomparable glue of a rhythm section that was Fred Smith and Billy Ficca, whose sense of subtlety and precision one was more accustomed to hearing within the realm of jazz than the rabble of rock.

So here is MARQUEE MOON, reconstituted in its original medium, and it's like touching base with an old friend.   The immediate favorites still draw smiles, send chills up the spine and even the occasional raised fist in the air.   Indeed, it is amazing that, as an initial mission statement to the pop music world at large, MM is every bit the equivalent of any stellar debut by any other great rock band to come down the pike, New York New Wave associations be damned for now and evermore.   The tumbling, pulsing, first-strike challenge of "See No Evil"; "Venus De Milo", which as a metaphor for bad love is one that surely Messrs.   Lynch and Gifford wish they had thought up first; "Friction" and its chilling reptilian transubstantiation of a Verlaine solo, channeling Reed and McGuinn deftly and concisely.   The eminently quotable "Prove It", how it begins as a giddy doo-wop thing before heading down some Lewis Carroll-sized rabbit holes.   The eternally awe-inspiring title cut, and its sprouting of improvisational wings that transport and astonish as sublimely on the thousandth hearing as it did on the first.

Then there are the rocking horse winners that, in retrospect, also make MM deservedly classic.   The one I keep coming back to all these years later is "Guiding Light", which anticipates the illusory romanticism of future Verlaine ballads like "Postcard From Waterloo", "Last Night" and "Without A Word" (the latter of which, strangely enough, has its roots in a song characteristic of Television's original lineup with Richard Hell - the far more frenetic, far less oblique "(Why You Gotta Be So) Hard On Love"). "Guiding Light" finds Verlaine casting his formidable gaze on the goings-on of any given evening in his Lower Manhattan of the mind, the music flashing like slow motion fireworks over the Bowery, his ravished, yearning vocal causing one to almost comprehend why one New York rockcrit dared to compare Verlaine to Smokey Robinson.

There was more to follow - adventure and alchemy, full moon split-ups and unexpected reunions, days on the mountain and in fields of fire - yet, even when accounting for the admittedly high-quality work from all involved parties, these eight songs are what started it all.   Mellow but edgy, aggressive but blissful, a study in contradictions from the band that single-handedly started the New York underground while coming to sound like nothing that came in its wake, it truly remains a distinct pleasure to have the chance, once and again, to bathe in the warm and cool aura of MARQUEE MOON.

Michael Layne Heath

Columbus Day, San Francisco

Year Two

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Personnel
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PERSONNEL: (as Neon Boys) a few weeks in 1971
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Hell - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

PERSONNEL: December 1973 to April 1975
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Richard Hell - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

PERSONNEL: May 1975 to August 1978
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Fred Smith - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums
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early years
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PERSONNEL: (as Neon Boys) a few weeks in 1971
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Hell - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

STUDIO SESSION: 1971 ? demos ?
(a5)    Love Comes In Spurts 3:02
(a5)    Don't Die 2:50
        That's All I Know

STUDIO SESSION: 1973 Shake (EP)
        Love Comes In Spurts
        That's All I Know

PERSONNEL: December 1973 to April 1975
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Richard Hell - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

LIVE SHOW: March 2, 1974 Townhouse Theatre, New York City, New York
(first live show)

STUDIO SESSION: 1975 ? Brian Eno demos ?
(Double Exposure - Neon 78 - vinyl)
(a6)    Prove It
(a6)    Friction
(a6)    Venus De Milo
(a6)    Double Exposure
(a6)    Marquee Moon

STUDIO SESSION: 1974 Fairland Studios, Hollywood, CA
(Television With Bryan Eno - Pentagram Records PE 10.006)
(some tracks are - 1974 Fairland Studios, Hollywood, CA)
(other tracks are ???)
(stereo)
(a7)    Prove It (long version)
(a7)    Friction
(a7)    Venus
(mono)
(a7)    Marquee Moon
(a7)    Obsession
(a7)(a5)High Voltage Pleasure

STUDIO SESSION: 1975
(a5)(a1)Little Johnny Jewel (part I)
(a5)(a1)Little Johnny Jewel (part II)

LIVE SHOW: March 1974 CBGB's, New York, NY
        Blank Generation

PERSONNEL: May 1975 to August 1978
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Fred Smith - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

LIVE SHOW: 1975 CBGB's
(Double Exposure - Neon 78 - vinyl)
(a6)    Fire Engine
(a6)    Blank Generation
(a6)    Double Exposure

LIVE SHOW: May 5, 1974 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 12, 1974 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 25, 1976 CBGB's, New York City, NY (p1)
LIVE SHOW: May 26, 1976 CBGB's, New York City, NY (p1) (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 27, 1976 CBGB's, New York City, NY (p1)

LIVE SHOW: June 5, 1974 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: June 5, 1974 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)

LIVE SHOW: January 17, 1975 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: January 18, 1975 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: January 19, 1975 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: January 24, 1975 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: January 25, 1975 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: January 26, 1975 CBGB's, New York, NY (w-b)

LIVE SHOW: December 31, 1976 Palladium, New York City, New York
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Marquee Moon
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PERSONNEL: May 1975 to August 1978
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Fred Smith - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

STUDIO SESSION: December 1976 Marquee Moon
(released February 1977)
(a1)    See No Evil
(a1)    Venus
(a1)    Friction
(a1)    Marquee Moon (long version)
(a1)    Elevation
(a1)    Guiding Light
(a1)    Prove It
(a1)    Torn Curtain
BONUS TRACKS:
(a5)(a1)Little Johnny Jewel (part I + II)
(a1)    See No Evil (alternate version)
(a1)    Friction (alternate version)
(a1)    Marquee Moon (alternate version)
(a1)    untitled instrumental (A Mi Amore)

LIVE SHOW: April 1977 to April 1978 - only played 3 live shows in the U.S.
LIVE SHOW: April 14, 1977 Whiskey, Hollywood, CA

LIVE SHOW: May 1977 - 8 shows - UK Tour
LIVE SHOW: May 20, 1977 Village Bowl, Bournemouth, England (w-b) (2 sets)
LIVE SHOW: May 22, 1977 Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland (w-b) (2 sets)
LIVE SHOW: May 23, 1977 City Hall, Newcastle, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 24, 1977 City Hall, Sheffield, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 26, 1977 Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 27, 1977 Odeon, Birmingham, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 28, 1977 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 29, 1977 Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 30, 1977 Top Rank, Plymouth, England (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: May 31, 1977 Colston Hall, Bristol, England (w-b)

LIVE SHOW: June 3, 1977 Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: June 5, 1977 Brussels, Belgium (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: June 7, 1977 Olympia, Paris, France (w-b)
LIVE SHOW: June 15, 1977 Daddy's Dance Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark (w-b)
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My Fathers Place
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PERSONNEL: May 1975 to August 1978
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Fred Smith - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

LIVE SHOW: March 1978, My Fathers Place, Rosyln, New York
(a4)    Fire Engine
(a4)    Prove It
(a4)    Foxhole
(a4)    ?
(a4)    I Don't Care
(a4)    Ain't That Nothing
(a4)    Little Johnny Jewel
(a4)    See No End
(a4)    Elevation
(a4)    Friction
(a4)    Knocking On Heaven's Door
(a4)    Marquee Moon
(a4)    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(a4)    Venus

LIVE SHOW: April 1978 - 7 shows - UK Tour
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Adventure
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PERSONNEL: May 1975 to August 1978
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Fred Smith - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

STUDIO SESSION: September 1977 - November 1977 Adventure
(released April 1978)
(a2)    Glory
(a2)    Days
(a2)    Foxhole
(a2)    Careful
(a2)    Carried Away
(a2)    The Fire
(a2)    Ain't That Nothin'
(a2)    The Dream's A Dream
BONUS TRACKS:
(a2)    Adventure
(a2)    Ain't That Nothin' (single version)
(a2)    Glory (early version)

LIVE SHOW(S): 1978
        The Blow-Up
        See No Evil
        Prove It
        Elevation
        I Don't Care
        Venus De Milo
        Foxhole
        Ain't That Nuthin'
        Knockin' On Heavens Door
        Little Johnny Jewel
        Friction
        Marquee Moon
        Satisfaction

LIVE SHOW: 1978 San Francisco, CA
(a8)    Glory
(a8)    Venus
(a8)    Foxhole
(a8)    Careful
(a8)    Ain't That Nothin'
(a8)    Friction
(a8)    Marquee Moon
(a8)    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(a8)    Little Johnny Jewel

LIVE SHOW: 1978 Portland Oregon (possibly-July 2, 1978 Earth Tavern, Portland, Oregon)
(a0)    The Dream's Dream
(a0)    Elevation
(a0)    Glory
(a0)    Foxhole
(a0)    Little Johnny Jewel
(a0)    Ain't That Nothin'
(a0)    Friction
(a0)    Marquee Moon
(a0)    Lori
(a0)    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(a0)    Fire Engine
(a0)    A Mi A Mo Re
(a0)    Adventure

LIVE SHOW: June 11, 1978 Bottom Line, New York (w-bl)
LIVE SHOW: June 29, 1978 Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA
        The Dream's Dream
        Venus
        Foxhole
        Careful
        Ain't That Nothin'
        Little Johnny Jewel
        Friction
        Marquee Moon
        (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

LIVE SHOW: July 2, 1978 Eastern Tavern, Portland, Oregon
LIVE SHOW: July 27, 1978 Bottom Line, New York (w-bl)
LIVE SHOW: July 28, 1978 Bottom Line, New York (w-bl)
LIVE SHOW: July 29, 1978 Bottom Line, New York (w-bl)

LIVE SHOW: August 28, 1978 Max's Kansas City, New York (p1)
LIVE SHOW: August 29, 1978 Max's Kansas City, New York (p1)
LIVE SHOW: August 30, 1978 Max's Kansas City, New York (p1)
LIVE SHOW: August 31, 1978 Max's Kansas City, New York (p1)

LIVE SHOW: September 1, 1978 Max's Kansas City, New York (p1)
LIVE SHOW: September 2, 1978 Max's Kansas City, New York (p1)

LIVE SHOW: August 1978 - 6 shows - Bottom Line, New York
(last shows before breakup)
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Television
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PERSONNEL: 1992
        Tom Verlaine - vocals, guitar
        Richard Lloyd - guitar
        Fred Smith - bass, vocals
        Billy Ficca - drums

STUDIO SESSION: September 1992 Television
        1880 Or So
        Shane, She Wrote This
        In World
        Call Mr. Lee
        Rhyme
        No Glamour For Willi
        Beauty Trip
        The Rocket
        This Fire
        Mars

LIVE SHOW: June 28, 1992 Roskilde

LIVE SHOW: March 16, 2002 All Tomorrow's Parties, Royce Hall, UCLA, Westwood, CA
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TELEVISION
PRINT MEDIA
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BOOKS AND PRINTED MATERIAL: (This is my reference library.) (I am interested in getting more.)

The Complete Rock Family Trees (Book 1 & 2)
Written, Researched, Drawn by Pete Frame
Published by Omnibus Press. Copyright 1983. 60 pages.

The Great Rock Discography (third edition) by M.C.Strong
Published by Omnibus Press. Copyright 1996. 950 pages. Hardbook (oversize).

(p1) The Art Of Rock - A Spectular Visual And Oral History
Writter: Paul D. Grushkin, Artworks Photographed by Jon Sievert
Published by Artabras. Copyright 1987. 516 pages. Hardback.

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TELEVISION
AUDIO MEDIA
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AUDIO COMPILATIONS: (This is my complete audio collection) (I am interested in getting more. Details and material.)

Commercial Releases

(a1) Marquee Moon

(a2) Adventure

(aa) The Blow-Up

(a3) Television

Other Material

(a4) My Fathers Place a live show from March 1978.

(a5) Television - Ghenos Recs Recs 002
This album is supposed to be some early Television studio tracks (Little Johnny Jewel (Part 1 & 2), That's All I Know Right Now), Neon Boys (Love Comes In Spurts, Don't Die), a Richard Hell 45, a couple of Television live tracks (Little Johnny Jewel, Friction) and a previously unreleased studio track (High Voltage Pressure)

(a6) Double Exposure - Neon 78 - vinyl
Side one is supposed to be demos. (Prove It, Friction, Venus, Double Exposure, Marquee Moon.) Side two is a 1975 CBGBs live show. (Fire Engine, Blank Generation, Double Exposure)

(a7) Television With Bryan Eno - Pentagram Records PE 10.006
This is supposed to be 6 demo tracks from 1974 Hollywood and elsewhere. But some of my reference books say the 1975 Brian Eno demos were the first recorded by any record label. So, how would a New York band manage to record demos in Hollywood without any major label involvement?

(a8) Live In San Francisco - Four Aces Records F.A.R.005 - CD

(a9) Arrow - F-85 - vinyl
This is a live show, date and location unknown. It is supposed to be good quality stereo. I don't have a copy, so I can't confirm or deny it. (Fire Engine, Poor Circulation, Johnny Jewel, Knockin On Heaven's Door, Prove It, Friction, (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction).

(a0) Live Portland Oregon 1978 - Archive Productions ARK001 - vinyl

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TELEVISION
VIDEO MEDIA
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VIDEO COMPILATIONS:
(I am always interested in expanding my collection.)

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OTHER RESOURCES (links)
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Do you have a Television related site? Do you want a link from this page? E-Mail me!

I am also interested in getting wider exposure for this site. So links from your site to mine would be appreciated. And if you know of any sites that allow/encourage submission, I would also appreciate knowing about them as well.

picture of Television
Television - title logo
This site owned by
Chrome Oxide
Previous Site List Sites Random Site Join Ring Next Site

Television Links links to official sites, fan sites, mailing list, ...

Richard Hell

The Phoenix Television Personality (Tom Verlaine)

BC Blog Critics Magazine Television - Science, Magic and Memory (review of band and albums: Adventure, Marquee Moon)

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TELEVISION
CLASSIFIEDs
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This is an experiment. I am listing various classified ads that might be of interest to browsers of this page.

Let me know what you think of this idea?

And if you do order something listed here, let them know you found out about it here.

Also, let me know how this worked out for you.

June 29, 2003.
MusicStack looks like a good source of used music items (LPs, CDs, posters, ...).
As always, let me know what you think.

4 Million Hard to Find CDs & LPs at MusicStack
December 10, 2002.
Back in October 1999 I put up links to CD-Now so that visitors could easily link to the related band pages and instantly see which items were still in print/available for purchase. CD-Now no longer has that option. For the moment I am putting in Amazon.com search boxes. Amazon.com doesn't easily allow for links to individual band pages in the same way that CD-Now used to. So, instead of me being able to create direct links, I have put up the Amazon.com search box instead. So you can still go to a page with the various bands products, buy you now need to go through a search box.

As always, let me know what you think.

April 22, 2002.
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