Television - Fire Engine (Live 1978) video free download

FantabulousNoise

Don't neglect Tom Verlaine's solo output.

morfacto

this is the aesthetic of ghetto, the anti establishment rule, the conformity drop

Karin Anna Maria

great cover hehe Haven't actually heard the original

unfamous13

this cover FUCKING RULES.

Gaia So

One of the hottest songs of my 70s. I used to have this same recording on a vinyl bootleg. Thanks for posting.

marcol68

a gret band!

ignaciobunye

the greatest guitar based band to come out of new york in the seventies

Megajosh2

OH SHIT HE WAS PLAYING THE JUG RUN!

maida1982a

Fred Smith worked at a music store in the 40's after Television first broke up. I once asked him why he thought the band never got the success of Talking Heads or Blondie. He said simply that they didn't stay together long enough.

Hermesacat

Too bad Television,seen as 2nd to none among CBGB bands in mid-'70s,missed the commercial success of Blondie,Talking Heads,or even The Ramones. It might be partly Verlaine's singing voice wasn't radio-friendly.And,as Tom said, they played a lot of different notes on their guitars than most other rock players did (Tom suggested this might be 'cause he listened to jazz a lot in his youth) maybe sounding too different for wide appeal. On 1st UK tour,Television headlined&Blondie was warm-up act!

Hermesacat

ROIR co put out "The Blow Up" 1st as a cassette, then a CD,&were a shifty org.Tom said the CD version was issued illegally.Also,Tom never pretended the song was anything other than "Fire Engine", and sometimes intro-ed it onstage "an old 13th Floor Elevators number, Fire Engine",yet ROIR tried to hide the fact,by entitling the song "The Blow Up"(to evade copyright claims?).Tom said he couldn't hear the original's words clearly, so wrote his own (except for the 1st line)-also indiscernible!

superemposed

NYC punk bands seem to have something that others dont, great, great band television and Blonde.

desasterz

I love and respect the Edge, but he kinda copied Verlain in the early days... And Bono was influenced by Patty Smith's charisma... Maybe thats why I love their early stuff their like that great CBGB's artist partnership that never happened...

desasterz

Shame about Richard Hell. he came up with the name and a lot of the inspiration...

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