Television's Tom Verlaine died at the age of 73 on Saturday. Paste's matt_mitchell48 pays tribute to the post-punk legend.
, but he was never the poster boy of the production team. Johns’ track record spoke for itself: He knew how to make a great guitar record. And thus,was able to outrun every other punk record from the late-1970s. Television wanted to make records that sounded like the Velvet Underground jamming with John Coltrane. Of course, that isn’t how the music turned out. Instead, it was something much more peculiar and alluring.
With Verlaine passing away last weekend, his genius is again at the forefront of the music world. I wish it was happening under better circumstances, but I also have loved seeing my Twitter timeline aglow with musicians remembering Verlaine warmly. The cultural impact of Television is immense. Without them, the Strokes wouldn’t exist; neither would Pavement. Nels Cline-era Wilco wouldn’t be a thing, and Sonic Youth likely wouldn’t have made “Teenage Riot,” one of the greatest guitar songs ever.
If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that sudden passings like this will continue. I, myself, have morbidly been considering how I might react when those times come. When our phones light up with the notifications announcing death.
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