Richard Hell Part 1

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  • čas přidán 5. 03. 2013
  • Richard Hell is one of the founding fathers of Punk Music. Born Richard Meyers in Kentucky, after dropping out of school he moved to New York with literary ambitions. In 1972 he formed the band 'The Neon Boys' with his schoolfriend Tom Miller and drummer Billy Ficca. The following year the band became 'Television', with Meyers and Miller assuming the names Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine, and they recruited young guitarist Richard Lloyd.
    Television discovered the legendary CBGB, the club out of which American Punk music developed, in 1974. During his time in Television, Hell also developed a unique look, wearing battered and torn clothing, which was the key visual inspiration for the Sex Pistols. He left Television in 1975 and joined former New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan in 'The Heartbreakers' for a year, before forming his own band 'Richard Hell and The Voidoids'. After recording two albums, the band split, and Hell went into partial retirement, although since the late 1990s he's returned to writing.
    In this interview Hell discusses his various influences, Andy Warhol and pre-punk pioneers The Velvet Underground, watching The New York Dolls at Mercer Arts Centre, Television, CBGB, heroin, The Heartbreakers, The Voidoids, and the UK Punk scene.
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Komentáře • 99

  • @danielstoddart
    @danielstoddart Před 9 měsíci +6

    I can't think of anyone who was in as many truly great bands as Richard Hell. Television. The Heartbreakers. The Voidoids. He had the hat trick!

  • @bradkingsland6283
    @bradkingsland6283 Před 10 lety +18

    What a visionary, he changed the world of music more than most know.

  • @scottdavis0801
    @scottdavis0801 Před 10 lety +31

    Don't get me wrong Television is great, really great. Bands like Blondie,Talking Heads, Ramones etc.But when I was younger I loved ( and still do) Richard Hell and the Voidoids. I just related to his music more as a young man than some of the other bands of that era. "Let me out of here."

  • @ekolke
    @ekolke Před 11 lety +29

    Richard Hell is a smart, interesting person and we do not get many chances to hear from him. Thank you for posting this interview.

    • @georgeadams5390
      @georgeadams5390 Před 2 lety +1

      Umm......uh......ummm....uh.......... smart....ummm...... interesting

    • @chriscoughlin9289
      @chriscoughlin9289 Před rokem

      @@georgeadams5390 Why are you conflating glibness with intelligence?
      Verlaine was notoriously reticent and ill at ease where making pronouncements about his craft - and the whole CBGB mythology - was concerned, too.
      Should we prepare ourselves for a similarly idiotic, reductionist assessment of HIS legacy next?
      We’re all on the edge of our seats…

    • @michaelgraham9774
      @michaelgraham9774 Před 8 měsíci

      ​@georgeadams5390 Yeah that's how a lot of people talk. That's like making fun of a great writer for poor handwriting. Go fuck a cactus

  • @madaleine0n864
    @madaleine0n864 Před 5 lety +6

    He is really sweet reliable ....hes never wavered from his stance.

  • @dreadatthecontrols
    @dreadatthecontrols Před 8 měsíci +1

    Richard Hell is a genius and a treasure. Stop whining about the way he talks and read one of his books.

  • @stephenpasinella6725
    @stephenpasinella6725 Před rokem +1

    Super smart dude! love him👊🏻😎💙read his book!!!!

    • @galetinm
      @galetinm Před rokem

      Which one? There's like 9

  • @Rebecca-nw5su
    @Rebecca-nw5su Před 4 lety +9

    Dicky Heck!

  • @charleshall3372
    @charleshall3372 Před 4 měsíci

    I like Richard's books too!

  • @Larinho2
    @Larinho2 Před 11 lety +2

    Just finished reading the new book, Richard. Not bad.

  • @squeakystool
    @squeakystool Před 11 lety +6

    ommmmm.

  • @eliane2743
    @eliane2743 Před 10 měsíci

    Took me some time to understand that was Richard Hell talking… I first wondered who that guy could well be.

  • @jeffdawson2786
    @jeffdawson2786 Před 3 lety +4

    If only Richard and Tom Verlaine would write their autobiographies and tour.

    • @leahflower9924
      @leahflower9924 Před 2 lety

      What is his accent though I read he started in Kentucky then Delaware then ny I don't hear any of those accents lol

    • @Lola-AreaCode212
      @Lola-AreaCode212 Před 2 lety +1

      Richard Hell has. It's good, too.

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      Well Tommy Boy just passed away to the Great Beyond.

  • @johnm2558
    @johnm2558 Před 6 lety +19

    >Find: “uum”
    >Select all
    >Delete

  • @apolloc.vermouth5672
    @apolloc.vermouth5672 Před 8 lety +5

    Like some other people here, I want to know what happened to his luxuriant drawl. Did someone step on his larynx?

  • @goldtopgrandeur6935
    @goldtopgrandeur6935 Před 7 lety +15

    When did my beautiful Richard become Ray Romano?
    Only kind of kidding...I hope it isn't neurological (the verbal things).

    • @john807100
      @john807100 Před rokem

      Lol. A brain disorder that turns people into Ray Romano.

    • @nolagospeltracts8264
      @nolagospeltracts8264 Před rokem

      Former chad

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      Hell at least for dangerous stunts. Like walking down the street or sharing an intense scene with AL Pachino, Mr. Hell could be his stunt double 🤔 facts Steven Segal used a stunt double for walking down the street, you can't this stuff up. 🤔

    • @matthewensign9683
      @matthewensign9683 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Being that he was a junkie, I'm surprised he cleaned up so well and is still alive.

  • @hellverlaine
    @hellverlaine Před 7 lety +2

    Does anyone know the provenance of this interview? Like who is giving it and when? Is it made specifically for this channel?

    • @AmadOwns
      @AmadOwns Před 7 lety +1

      hellverlaine cbgb documentary

    • @BobbyGeneric145
      @BobbyGeneric145 Před 4 lety +1

      Is there a Tom Verlaine segment too?

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      It was made for the history of the origins of Gangsta Rap, and how Richard Hell was the Godfather that spawned it all.

  • @melvinwren
    @melvinwren Před 4 lety +20

    ummm this is how people really, uhh talk, in a uhhh real life, so uhhh get over it.

  • @JaraArtist
    @JaraArtist Před 7 lety +7

    Ttt ttt tt ttt tt today junior!

  • @iamthewalruscuckookachoo1372

    I was saying let me out of here before I was even born it's such a gamble when you get a face.

    • @MsTullerulle
      @MsTullerulle Před rokem

      My absolute favourite opening to a song!

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      If you think you can win 🏆, Come on Man! I was a Green Beret In Vietnam 🇻🇳 Written by Douglas Colvin and sung by Jeffrey Hyman

  • @patricketienne2579
    @patricketienne2579 Před rokem +1

    I couldn't listen to this because of the 756 "erm" and "umm".

  • @ItsFunToSayHello
    @ItsFunToSayHello Před 10 lety +6

    I have respect for this man, but of course the Velvets were targeted to a pre-existing audience. I don't think Warhol glommed onto them by accident.

    • @djikopgot
      @djikopgot Před 3 lety +4

      A pre-existing audience? If the Velvets were created for a pre-existing audience, then they failed miserably. Songs about drugs, prostitution, drag queens and homosexuality did not have a big market in the mid to late 60s. I don’t think you could be more wrong.

    • @TheIsaac41
      @TheIsaac41 Před 3 lety

      @@djikopgot thats the nature of capitalism, there are always new markets to expand and plunder

    • @joshbaino3087
      @joshbaino3087 Před 2 lety

      A pre-existing audience, yes, but not necessarily a commercial one

    • @leahflower9924
      @leahflower9924 Před 2 lety +1

      @@djikopgot I didn't know he liked VU not surprising though, I wondered if he ever got with Nico they would've had some tall skinny kids lol

    • @leahflower9924
      @leahflower9924 Před 2 lety

      @@joshbaino3087 I saw Lou Reed with my dad at some little club in new York he still had the underground thing going on you think David Bowie or Mick jagger would be at that club nah they had diva status unlike Lou Reed who was singing pale blue eyes etc...

  • @boogiechillen123
    @boogiechillen123 Před 10 lety +14

    Its weird how todays 20 year olds that like Richard Hells music are mostly middle upper class kids romanticising his era, whereas during his days with the Voidoids his fans were alienated mostly working class kids who. He's popular today with hipsters in New York who are exactly the type who wouldn't have got him in the 70s.

    • @obscuredestinies
      @obscuredestinies Před 7 lety +22

      Richard Hell came from an affluent background and went to a private school. Don't assume!

    • @fabienh3943
      @fabienh3943 Před 4 lety +1

      @Parker that's why John Lydon is punk and The Clash never was 😉

  • @Pravindaswani74
    @Pravindaswani74 Před 3 lety +2

    The uhms and uhs is because for him is too much to say about the VU in such short time.

  • @BobbyGeneric145
    @BobbyGeneric145 Před 4 lety +2

    I liked Richard Lloyds interview better.

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      I liked 👍 ♥️ ❤️ 💕 💖 Richard Milhuas Nixons interviews better.

    • @michaelgraham9774
      @michaelgraham9774 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Richard Lloyd is a good musician but he's so insufferably bitter about everything

  • @calstonjew
    @calstonjew Před 11 lety +8

    um

  • @baghead777
    @baghead777 Před 10 lety +1

    Wow. what does this have to do with Richard Hell?

  • @BadstreetMI
    @BadstreetMI Před 2 lety +4

    Television buries Richard hell musically, but Richard Hell buries Tom Verlaine intellectually. I just wish Richard was a smoother speaker.

    • @zaradragonia9863
      @zaradragonia9863 Před rokem

      Who wants two intellectuals playing punk music? The Sex Pistols broke the rules and created a new generation. Hell is a loser with no band and nothing going for him. You lost Hell you drug fucked moron

    • @steveshattah
      @steveshattah Před rokem

      I like the way he speaks. Too bad he wasn't a smoother bass player.

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem +1

      @zaradragonia9863 the Sex Pistols were an inception of Richard Hell. It's well-documented dear. Essentially no New York Dolls no Ricard Hell equals no Srx Pistols, These are fact not biased opinions. Respect the man and his short but brilliant legacy. Hell most well-established musicians in jolly old England 🇬🇧 acknowledge. And just like Hell the Pistol were also a lightning-in-a-bottle phenomenon that finally blew its tires out in all fuking places San Francisco California. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂 😄 😆 🤣 😉 😀 😂 😄

    • @reginaayat5390
      @reginaayat5390 Před 10 měsíci

      I disagree. Robert Quines guitar work is unbelievably creative

    • @michaelgraham9774
      @michaelgraham9774 Před 8 měsíci

      They both put out close to the same number of albums in their time despite Television being much more musically active during their time

  • @normandorough4359
    @normandorough4359 Před 6 lety +13

    Uh hum Uh um um um. Uhm

  • @danielcastllomarfull
    @danielcastllomarfull Před 6 lety +6

    ehhm aaaahmmm umm

  • @Thurston.Howell.the.3rd
    @Thurston.Howell.the.3rd Před 11 měsíci

    ummm ahh ummm ah umm I ah rock n roll

  • @barneez1
    @barneez1 Před 7 lety +13

    i love him and his writing, esp the short stories but come on! "Umm, ahh, um, ahh, um, then ahm." Kind of annoying and distracting to hear him jabber on

  • @AFaceintheCrowd01
    @AFaceintheCrowd01 Před rokem +2

    Uhm, uhm, uhm, wish he’d get back on junk. He was a lot more, uhm, uhm, uhm … interesting.

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      Your evil, that s what say about Robert Downey Jr

    • @michaelgraham9774
      @michaelgraham9774 Před 8 měsíci

      Go fuck yourself. That's the type of shit someone says who's never seen the effects that hard drugs have on people

  • @TheNeverposts
    @TheNeverposts Před 3 lety +3

    this guy writes books? He's flailing.

  • @TheMrmojo23
    @TheMrmojo23 Před 3 lety +1

    Lou Reed hated the beatles

    • @baphometfathom5348
      @baphometfathom5348 Před rokem

      To be fair Lou was a massive contrarian so you never know if he was just saying that lol but I don’t hear a lot of influence from those British bands into their music so I don’t know for sure

    • @nypete4458
      @nypete4458 Před rokem

      Iggy, is it really you?

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      @baphometfathom5348 Lu Lu was actually their contemporary s, and he didn't really view them with such awe. Remember Lou Reed is old School. He was really close friends with none other than Dion from Dion and the Wanderers.

  • @nathanwettstead8254
    @nathanwettstead8254 Před rokem +1

    ummmm

    • @altagraciaadames3483
      @altagraciaadames3483 Před rokem

      Richard went from Hell to become a Tibetan monk Um Um. Remember Allen Ginsburg when being harassed by cops 👮‍♂️, he use to Um them away.

  • @mjh5437
    @mjh5437 Před 3 lety +1

    Sounds like early stage Alzheimers....he`s really incoherent.