So many great Television songs, but the main riff is probably my favorite interwoven parts between Tom and Richard. The solos go without saying. Really sad that we lost Tom today.
I listen to this song at least 5 times a day since finding it, un freaking believable... I love the off time playing...dear God...heaven must be like this chaos!!
@@ericpeterson6766 Yep - absolutely. And here's the real crime - as I mentioned just previously here, I caught them in '77 on a bill at The Roxy with a newly solo Peter Gabriel. And this isn't meant as a knock on Peter Gabriel or the incredible quality of his solo debut, but signing them on as opener on that '77 tour almost felt like a disservice - It just wasn't their crowd the night that I saw them. Gabriel - with Robert Fripp, Steve Hunter and Tony Levin in his lineup - Holy Crap! - they just burned the house down. There's even a bootleg of that night that's been in circulation for years. In retrospect? Props to PG for recognizing Television's genius when he heard it - and giving them a platform. At least Long Beach had a radio station like KNAC that would give MM a fair hearing. Most towns on that tour probably didn't. But I remember walking out onto the Sunset Strip that night thinking they deserved better.
A valuable lesson for young indie bands today: Let a song breathe and unfold itself before you take it on the road. Television always developed their pieces with shimmering complimentary guitar patterns so that when they wanted to open up like this it always felt so joyous. It's as if the listener is hearing the musicians create from nothing. Sonic Youth, in all their glory, never sounded so sweet.
WOW! Only heard of this band a few years ago. Found this tonight Feb 23rd 2022. I am a big TYA Alvin Lee & Rory fan, 74 years old!. I am very impressed & had to watch to the end! Beautiful stuff!
i was living in philly about 10 years ago. i was in college and had just gotten into marquee moon HARD. and i went into this tiny music shop and was looking around and saw this album. i didnt even know they HAD an album from 1990. i asked the guy, "same television as marquee moon?" and he's all "yeah but that one sucks." he had marked it at like 2.99$, or something. i got it despite his feelings on it, and man it contains some of my all-time fav Television tunes.
@ Luke Cimino Really? I guess I'm a poor judge - after a 14 year wait it felt like the second coming to me. I caught them on a bill with Peter Gabriel -just post Genesis (Late '77???) at The Roxy and then they split barely a year later. Really disappointed me for a while. I couldn't get over the good fortune of seeing them pick up right where they left off all those years later. The best of that album - 1880 and Call Mr. Lee are every bit the worthy successors to MM and Adventure.
Power. Full. This is an excellent performance by the band, in their re-formed state and at the top of their game. I never get tired of the Tom Verlaine solo, which is a burner with creative flourishes. But the more I attend to the Richard Lloyd shorter solo that precedes Verlaine's, the more I appreciate it. And I really should acknowledge the drumming by Billy Ficca. He's steady, sharp, forceful and so supportive in his drumming here.
Richard's phrasing is just so perfect. I can only imagine how difficult it is to play a little ahead or behind the beat and still make it work. His ability to just drop in behind Tom's guitar is amazing.
Still remember the first time I heard that opening guitar line. So awesome what these guys did together. Saw the tour in 92 wish I could remember that as well. RIP Tom
Joe King - r+r hof is the worst thing to happen to music after Clearchannel, Sony, Geffen, disney...ughn, the list could take the whole page. Corporate Entertainment. Supplying compatible deliverables to the entertainment market. Has anyone ever had the balls to tell the HOF to please leave them alone? That industry boosterism is for appliance mfr.s and Tv/radio conventions and marketing profile is poison to art
I'm absolutely obsessed with Richard's tone here. I've watched this performance a good 100 times. Every pickup selector position is equally perfect. Maximum jangle and chime. His overdrive tone (TS-808 likely) is pinnacle. I bought one of these 1991 "Vintage" model AC30TBRs because of this video...also because it's John Parish's amp of choice. John's tones on Dance Hall at Louse Point have haunted me for 21 years, so those that read this and feel similarly about Richard's tone here might want check that record out :)
I’ve noticed when a lot of people cover Television on guitar they sometimes go for an ultra clean tone. A tiny bit of distortion makes all the difference in terms of the chime
@@MultiverseAndy hilarious. I just got amplitude and have been trying to reincarnate television through it without any luck. Starting to find out I need to get a vox amp again..
Television live in 1990 (I think) at Glastonbury. During a lull between songs someone shouted "Tom, are you German?". One of the strangest heckles I've ever heard. They were pretty good from memory...though it was a hazy summer all in all.
I saw TV in concert only twice always with Jimmy Ripp great but never rose to the heights of Television. I also saw RL in the 90's in a small club and he really cut loose blew my mind. I'm sad to hear of Tom's passing but I still have his records that contain the beautiful architecture he created over his lifetime. Condolences to family, friends, and fans. RIP.
I appreciate having this live performance available, and now there's another version of the same performance with sharper image and roughly equivalent sound posted on YT. In any case, this must stand as a testament toTelevision at its very best either live or on record. I consider both Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd to be among the greatest rock guitarists, and in this performance they're both at the absolute top of their game, though it's clear that Lloyd bows out after a relatively brief solo and defers to Verlaine for the showcase solo. The band is incredibly precise and forceful, then Verlaine soars with one of the most inventive and incendiary guitar solos ever recorded. It's impressive when a great band plays with such discipline and power at the same time in a live performance that expands upon the band's recorded version of the song. Breathtaking.
Tom's solo builds slowly, getting more and more intense, and if the band didn't have to stop as the credits rolled by, could have (should have) continued. The high standard of this level of playing was 'just another night at the office' for them. RIP.
They must be the no-frillsiest band in history. The ratio between frills and musical genius in Television has to be the most disparate in all of music.
Holy hell, Richard and Tom's guitar playing is just stellar. It reminds me of the playing of Robyn Hitchcock and Kim Rew in their excellent Soft Boys reunion album Nextdoorland -- particularly the song "Mr. Kennedy."
It cracks me up that Tom is playing all this stuff that you're supposed to use the whammy bar for, and he never touches it! And it's a nice change to see the whole band lock into a nice uptempo groove and just keep pushing the energy level the whole time. Not their usual style. And yes, Richard is playing really well here.
Cool...I hear a few riffs from "Fields of Fire," Richard Lloyd's guitar epic around 2:00 . Richard was/is an awesome guitarist. Check him out on Wikipedia. Richard is the guitarist in the purple shirt playing the blue Strat.
Yes, but I mean no disrespect to Richard Lloyd when I say the show-stealing solo is by Tom Verlaine. It's an incendiary guitar work, very creative and powerful. Lloyd seems to do a lively but somewhat modest solo and then turn over the stage to Verlaine for the fireworks to begin--spectacular. Whether Verlaine is also an arrogant jerk is for those who know him better than me, but on this stage and on this night, he was a guitar legend at the peak of his powers.
O rose of my heart, can't you see I don't belong to misery Though she speaks fine with subtle art Such misery clothes the rose of my heart In the fragrance sweet of the evening air I could leave this world quite without a care quite without a care A face that glows in a golden hue No-one in this world knows what they do I take my oath and I make my vow? For the tender things are upon me now? Now what I see in the long twilight A star falls down on a hill so white a hill so white [Solo] O rose of my heart, the vision dims The time is brief, now the shadow swims I buy for you a real fine hat Cause that's for you and that's where that's at Now what I see in the long twilight A star falls down on a hill so white [Solo]
why are people in general so behind the curve.....you could only hear these guy on college radio in their hayday!....its so true that .."the masses are always wrong"
One of the things I love about the 1992 album is how much they sound like the people they influenced with their earlier albums. To me, this sounds like something Thurston Moore would have written around the same time, but with Lawrence Hayward singing. It's like they're taking the baton back.
i saw this when it was broadcast 1992 they did 3 songs i had it on video, first time i heard lloyd cole and the commotions i knew they sounded were inspired by television.morphine were on this programme called "later with jools holland" the same year. also morrisey with his new rockabilly band and jonathan richmond
So many great Television songs, but the main riff is probably my favorite interwoven parts between Tom and Richard. The solos go without saying. Really sad that we lost Tom today.
Rest in Peace, Tom. Thanks for all the joy. We'll miss you.
This is the best Fender guitar commercial ever. These guys can really play.
Just want to give it up to Billy Ficca-such a fantastic drummer.
I've just came down from air guitar heaven. I hate when those solos end, you want them to go on forever.
Masterpiece. Chef d’œuvre. Very very important Band.
cheers from France ♥️
I listen to this song at least 5 times a day since finding it, un freaking believable... I love the off time playing...dear God...heaven must be like this chaos!!
One of the best and most ferocious guitar jams EVER!
Simply the best rock guitar playing I have ever heard - Tom AND Richard!
should have seen them in the late 70's at their best. the most amazing musical experience of my life
@@ericpeterson6766 lucky lucky man Eric. Missed them at Glastonbury. But saw them at Bristol a few years back 😊
@@ericpeterson6766 Yep - absolutely.
And here's the real crime - as I mentioned just previously here, I caught them in '77 on a bill at The Roxy with a newly solo Peter Gabriel.
And this isn't meant as a knock on Peter Gabriel or the incredible quality of his solo debut, but signing them on as opener on that '77 tour almost felt like a disservice - It just wasn't their crowd the night that I saw them. Gabriel - with Robert Fripp, Steve Hunter and Tony Levin in his lineup - Holy Crap! - they just burned the house down. There's even a bootleg of that night that's been in circulation for years.
In retrospect? Props to PG for recognizing Television's genius when he heard it - and giving them a platform. At least Long Beach had a radio station like KNAC that would give MM a fair hearing. Most towns on that tour probably didn't.
But I remember walking out onto the Sunset Strip that night thinking they deserved better.
No repeat, NO EFFECTS...😮
Sometimes you know you're privileged to watch something special.
Astonishing. surely one of the greatest rock guitar pairings of our time
THE guitar band of the ages....captured in all their glory
A valuable lesson for young indie bands today: Let a song breathe and unfold itself before you take it on the road. Television always developed their pieces with shimmering complimentary guitar patterns so that when they wanted to open up like this it always felt so joyous. It's as if the listener is hearing the musicians create from nothing. Sonic Youth, in all their glory, never sounded so sweet.
My god, what a beautiful performance. Both guitars, masterful Billy Ficca, Fred Smith all playing off one another
The two guitars complement each other in an extraordinary way and the music just floats through your soul like the air I breath...
1880? Man, they were even more ahead of their time than I thought.
Shazam🙃
RIP Tom.
WOW! Only heard of this band a few years ago. Found this tonight Feb 23rd 2022. I am a big TYA Alvin Lee & Rory fan, 74 years old!. I am very impressed & had to watch to the end! Beautiful stuff!
テレヴィジョンはドアーズと同じ様に、メンバー全員が格好良い。
こんな自信と確信に満ちた演奏を間近で見たらぶっ飛ぶだろう。
Love these comments, seeing Lloyd getting some props. Seen him live 5-6 times and he can really play like nobody else.
Rest easy, guitar maven poet ♥️
The 1992 s/t is An incredibly overlooked album
i was living in philly about 10 years ago. i was in college and had just gotten into marquee moon HARD. and i went into this tiny music shop and was looking around and saw this album. i didnt even know they HAD an album from 1990. i asked the guy, "same television as marquee moon?" and he's all "yeah but that one sucks." he had marked it at like 2.99$, or something. i got it despite his feelings on it, and man it contains some of my all-time fav Television tunes.
@@RyleeStrange a Television album just for 2.99? Youre a lucky guy man lol
@@RyleeStrange $2.99
@ Luke Cimino
Really? I guess I'm a poor judge - after a 14 year wait it felt like the second coming to me. I caught them on a bill with Peter Gabriel -just post Genesis (Late '77???) at The Roxy and then they split barely a year later. Really disappointed me for a while. I couldn't get over the good fortune of seeing them pick up right where they left off all those years later. The best of that album - 1880 and Call Mr. Lee are every bit the worthy successors to MM and Adventure.
Guitar heaven. Plus Billy and Fred holding down the fort. Sweet.
Just amazing. This is so beautifully intense that you expect the guitars to catch fire at any moment. One of the all time great live moments.
This is a great start to a great album. I wish they could've stuck it out long enough to record a few more together.
Power. Full. This is an excellent performance by the band, in their re-formed state and at the top of their game. I never get tired of the Tom Verlaine solo, which is a burner with creative flourishes. But the more I attend to the Richard Lloyd shorter solo that precedes Verlaine's, the more I appreciate it. And I really should acknowledge the drumming by Billy Ficca. He's steady, sharp, forceful and so supportive in his drumming here.
I dig this band for one reason.... the tension between the ninjas on geetar tom''s ego et all :)
Richard's phrasing is just so perfect. I can only imagine how difficult it is to play a little ahead or behind the beat and still make it work. His ability to just drop in behind Tom's guitar is amazing.
there's a reason for the ongoing intense nostalgia for that period of New York life. It was fantastic. Exhibit A.
I can leave this world, quite without care, rest in peace, Tom
These guys, and the Feelies, redefined guitar drone dynamics...listen if you dare!
......
OMFG Still the best two guitar band in history.....
A truly one of a kind band!
I come back to this every couple of months or so.
R.I.P Tom
Still remember the first time I heard that opening guitar line. So awesome what these guys did together. Saw the tour in 92 wish I could remember that as well. RIP Tom
Television deserves to be in the HOF, along with Fairport Convention and the 13th Floor Elevators. If the HOF wasn't about money they would be.
This is rock and roll. Not Billy Joel.
HOF is such a strange thing. everyone patting each other on the back. Television are too good for that shit.
Joe King - r+r hof is the worst thing to happen to music after Clearchannel, Sony, Geffen, disney...ughn, the list could take the whole page. Corporate Entertainment. Supplying compatible deliverables to the entertainment market. Has anyone ever had the balls to tell the HOF to please leave them alone? That industry boosterism is for appliance mfr.s and Tv/radio conventions and marketing profile is poison to art
Big Star too. But, yes, absolutely.
Agreed!
I love the fact that Richard plays a blinding solo and then Tom just goes even further out there...
Yes, you can see where Nels Cline gets his whole Wilco template from.
REST IN PEACE TOM
I got the lyrics written on a wall on my bedroom.. I love this song so much
This live may be their masterpiece just below Marquee Moon.
Richard Lloyd, Marty Wilson Piper, Peter Buck, Johnny Marr a few of my all time favourite guitarists
Excellent list!
Yes! And I would add Maurice Deebank too
You like the "chiming" sound. Me too!
my god.. these guys KILL it here. so good.
Unbelievably intense. The way the rhythm section speeds up and then starts thundering away behind Tom's solo is just jawdropping.
Rose of my heart...
I'm absolutely obsessed with Richard's tone here. I've watched this performance a good 100 times. Every pickup selector position is equally perfect. Maximum jangle and chime. His overdrive tone (TS-808 likely) is pinnacle.
I bought one of these 1991 "Vintage" model AC30TBRs because of this video...also because it's John Parish's amp of choice. John's tones on Dance Hall at Louse Point have haunted me for 21 years, so those that read this and feel similarly about Richard's tone here might want check that record out :)
luca lestrange, likewise good sir!
I’ve noticed when a lot of people cover Television on guitar they sometimes go for an ultra clean tone. A tiny bit of distortion makes all the difference in terms of the chime
Molten glass. I model it with an IK Amplitube 4
@@MultiverseAndy hilarious. I just got amplitude and have been trying to reincarnate television through it without any luck. Starting to find out I need to get a vox amp again..
Richard Lloyd is the man
I'm so happy to have stumbled upon this wonderful upload.
Television live in 1990 (I think) at Glastonbury. During a lull between songs someone shouted "Tom, are you German?". One of the strangest heckles I've ever heard. They were pretty good from memory...though it was a hazy summer all in all.
I saw TV in concert only twice always with Jimmy Ripp great but never rose to the heights of Television. I also saw RL in the 90's in a small club and he really cut loose blew my mind. I'm sad to hear of Tom's passing but I still have his records that contain the beautiful architecture he created over his lifetime. Condolences to family, friends, and fans. RIP.
I appreciate having this live performance available, and now there's another version of the same performance with sharper image and roughly equivalent sound posted on YT. In any case, this must stand as a testament toTelevision at its very best either live or on record. I consider both Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd to be among the greatest rock guitarists, and in this performance they're both at the absolute top of their game, though it's clear that Lloyd bows out after a relatively brief solo and defers to Verlaine for the showcase solo. The band is incredibly precise and forceful, then Verlaine soars with one of the most inventive and incendiary guitar solos ever recorded. It's impressive when a great band plays with such discipline and power at the same time in a live performance that expands upon the band's recorded version of the song. Breathtaking.
Tom's solo builds slowly, getting more and more intense, and if the band didn't have to stop as the credits rolled by, could have (should have) continued.
The high standard of this level of playing was 'just another night at the office' for them. RIP.
Tom is beautiful....
Holy schnikes!
These guys NAILED it!!
*slow clap*
RIP, TV❤
TELEVISION ARE MORE THAN JUST A SIMPLE 3 CHORD PUNK ROCK BAND, THEY ARE A TRULY ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE GARAGE ROCK BAND :)
They must be the no-frillsiest band in history. The ratio between frills and musical genius in Television has to be the most disparate in all of music.
enormes. geniales y brillantes
S
Man, Im a Echo/Bunnymen fan, and I knew they liked Television, but I never heard them properly. Wow, what a guitarist.
guitarists plural methinks. also love how billy ficca still has crazy hair.
Joey Levenson Thought the same thing just the other day after revisiting TV after a long hiatus
Quite sure Will Sergeant's obsession with Fender Jaguars began with Tom's Jag
Awesome
"A face that glows in a golden hue;
No-one in this world knows what they do..."
A lyric Dylan himself would be proud of
Holy hell, Richard and Tom's guitar playing is just stellar. It reminds me of the playing of Robyn Hitchcock and Kim Rew in their excellent Soft Boys reunion album Nextdoorland -- particularly the song "Mr. Kennedy."
Remarkable. So happy to see some more live television in all thier glory
These boys had Neu in their record collections for sure.
It cracks me up that Tom is playing all this stuff that you're supposed to use the whammy bar for, and he never touches it! And it's a nice change to see the whole band lock into a nice uptempo groove and just keep pushing the energy level the whole time. Not their usual style. And yes, Richard is playing really well here.
BEST BAND
richard lloyd's lead on this one. and tom verlaine's lead on this one. and the bass and drumming.
WOW , OW - It's so beautiful it hurts!
RIP TOM💜💜💜
AWESOME, when plectrum is changed - skates come off
Tom Verlaine's vibrato...
lets give some credit to Richard Lloyd
his tone on this one is fucking p e r f e c t
@@deem8j super strat tone!!!
I'm going to say I prefer Tom's playing and tone here...but that's just a personal preference. I'm a Jazzmaster fan.
@@AnthonyMonaghan same. but can't resist lloyd's tone either
I prefer Lloyd’s solo here; I find it more shapely.
Puts me in mind of the GLORY of QUICKSILVER - John & the guys, and MAN - FABULOUS
They definitely listened to Happy Trails.
BRILLIANT !
In the autobiographies of John Lydon and Steve Jones they both mention not having being enamoured to Television, their loss, imo.
Simply ahead of their time, at least for thirty years…
Sublime. Some brilliant comments here.
I don't think any band has nailed the dynamics of an electric band as well as them - still.
what an alchemy ! what luminous guitar sounds ! i think they took some risks to improvise solis on "the edge", but they are brilliant at every time !
super cancion, me dejo atonito
That lead playing/melody right there is as original as a style could ever be!!
In touch with his guitarical emotions right there....
so thankful this exists. one of my favorite things
Cool...I hear a few riffs from "Fields of Fire," Richard Lloyd's guitar epic around 2:00 . Richard was/is an awesome guitarist. Check him out on Wikipedia. Richard is the guitarist in the purple shirt playing the blue Strat.
Yes Richard is the MAN
loving toms snapback
Grandi immensi television
sonic youth - rather ripped (full album)
HAHA I love this, I think this is my favorite album by them!
So priveledged to have seen Television in London round this time. Needless to say, they were excellent
Masterpiece
Both Richard and Tom play amazing solos on this version. So sad that they will no longer play together!
So sad, it kind of makes me sad to watch this, but it is so so good.
because verlaine is an ego maniac and lloyd is screwed on royalties even though he's the better guitarist.
Yes, but I mean no disrespect to Richard Lloyd when I say the show-stealing solo is by Tom Verlaine. It's an incendiary guitar work, very creative and powerful. Lloyd seems to do a lively but somewhat modest solo and then turn over the stage to Verlaine for the fireworks to begin--spectacular. Whether Verlaine is also an arrogant jerk is for those who know him better than me, but on this stage and on this night, he was a guitar legend at the peak of his powers.
man verlaine is an asshole but he's clearly the superior guitarist
@@brownsugar0000 It's really a matter of taste -- it's too bad they cannot put egos aside -- both of them.
There a select few that can pull off a hoodi / hat in 1880 . mad respect
who gives a @#$#$@ we dont give a crap about gangs and thugs on this channel
The first three U2 records were just Television cover albums.
😂
¡De los mejores duelos de guitarra en la historia del rock! ¡Yei! Sublime.... 5-4
excelente
verlaine heavily channelling some r thompson here, through his own filter, of course
Sonic youth must have been heavily inspired. I can say television are just brilliant.
Rest in peace Tom, you were one fucking great guitarist.
Wow such a distinctive sound …..If there ever were two underrated guitarists ……
O rose of my heart, can't you see
I don't belong to misery
Though she speaks fine with subtle art
Such misery clothes the rose of my heart
In the fragrance sweet of the evening air
I could leave this world quite without a care
quite without a care
A face that glows in a golden hue
No-one in this world knows what they do
I take my oath and I make my vow?
For the tender things are upon me now?
Now what I see in the long twilight
A star falls down on a hill so white
a hill so white
[Solo]
O rose of my heart, the vision dims
The time is brief, now the shadow swims
I buy for you a real fine hat
Cause that's for you and that's where that's at
Now what I see in the long twilight
A star falls down on a hill so white
[Solo]
Ça, mon gamin, c'est de la guitare!
What an interplay!
why are people in general so behind the curve.....you could only hear these guy on college radio in their hayday!....its so true that .."the masses are always wrong"
Reminds me so much of David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights
One of the things I love about the 1992 album is how much they sound like the people they influenced with their earlier albums. To me, this sounds like something Thurston Moore would have written around the same time, but with Lawrence Hayward singing. It's like they're taking the baton back.
Much better then Thurstan guitar playing
@@andtheywillknowusbyourname5511 if Thurston could play in standard tuning
i saw this when it was broadcast 1992 they did 3 songs i had it on video, first time i heard lloyd cole and the commotions i knew they sounded were inspired by television.morphine were on this programme called "later with jools holland" the same year. also morrisey with his new rockabilly band and jonathan richmond
They move as one.
AWESOME, down to business with plectrum change....
Fantastic.
Awesome. Thanks for posting this.