Iconic singer-guitarist-downtown hero Tom Verlaine has died at age 73.
that “it was strictly for the sound” and not to associate himself with the French writer. "In retrospect, it would have been better to have picked ‘Johnson’ or something, since 30 years later, folks still ask about it!”
The pair quit Delaware together to move to New York City and formed a band that would, in time, become Television. They were one of the core bands associated with the legendary East Village club CBGB & OMFUG. The venue and that scene are often shorthand for punk rock, but that isn’t exactly how to best describe Television or even many of the other bands that got their start there, like Talking Heads, Blondie, or the Patti Smith Group.
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