‘Rarely has rock music sounded and felt so transcendent’ … Tom Verlaine of Television performing at the Bottom Line, New York, June 1978.‘Rarely has rock music sounded and felt so transcendent’ … Tom Verlaine of Television performing at the Bottom Line, New York, June 1978.
The early records of bands such as U2 and REM are unfathomable without Verlaine’s influence – Television basically invented the Athens band’s IRS years in a single song, Days from 1978’s Adventure – and a whole slew of artists, including Patti Smith, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Church, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many more took Verlaine’s innovations to a wider audience.
Verlaine’s style was guitar playing beyond technique. You could call it virtuosic, but that would miss the point. To improvise at his level requires maximum presence. He would often incorporate long, odd intervals by hitting an open string and hammering on to another note much higher up the neck, or create rattling, dissonant timbres by strumming multiple strings extremely fast while dragging dissonant chords around the neck chromatically.
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not setting the bar very high. Disposable pop is not important. Most music is related to classical music, always has been.
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