![]() (This is not to discount the contributions of drummer Billy Ficca or bassist Fred Smith, who replaced Richard Hell in the lineup before Television began recording Hell would achieve his own notoriety with Richard Hell and the Voidoids.) Rather than a typical lead/rhythm setup, the two guitars traded rhythm and lead parts and riffs as every song needed– and sometimes that meant both playing lead or rhythm parts. ![]() While many other punk bands stayed anchored in tighter essentially-pop song structures or more traditional blues-rock phrasing, Television abandoned that completely and allowed Verlaine and Lloyd to go on rhythmic and melodic runs and unique phrasing unlike any of their peers, just as often trading off showpiece solos as complementing one another. Television came up in the same New York City mid-70s punk scene as so many great acts of its day, but one particular element distinguished them from their peers: The guitar virtuosity of Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd. The second, Adventure, was generally considered “solid.” The first, however, was regarded as an all-time, epochal album: That, of course, is 1977’s Marquee Moon. That was all I needed to hear, and figuring out where to start with Television was pretty easy: They only made two full-length albums in their initial run as a band. has cited Television and The Soft Boys as major influences on their work.” One day, a note I saw in the random trivia box piqued my attention: “R.E.M. When I was in college, one of the first ways I started discovering music I hadn’t heard before was by visiting AllMusic and looking for bands that influenced some of my favorites finding connections between, say, Big Star and a host of power-pop type bands that came afterward, like the dB’s, Game Theory, or Mitch Easter’s Let’s Active.
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