Twenty-five years ago on the evening of March 31, 1974 the band Television took the stage at the NYC Bowery night club CBGB's for an extended residency that revolutionized the rock and roll universe! It was the actual birth date of the New Wave movement. This anti-glam, anti-big industry rock crusade incubated in New York with the likes of Patti Smith, The Ramones, Richard Hell, and The Dictators.
At the very least the Television residency at CBGB's brought enormous media focus to a simmering underground for a new kind of music the industry denied and hated.
Television, historically, became one of the great legendary bands of all time largely because of their seminal peer influences, their rich original eclectic passionate music, the clash of Tom Verlaine's guitar and surreal lyrics with Richard Lloyd's psychedelic guitar. [...more...]
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""Live they were the ultimate garage band with pretension. A post-humous tape-only compilation of live performances shows the bands rawer side. "" -Trouser Press Record Guide
""Television's debut at CBGB's was on March 31, 1974. It was the beginning [...]
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