Television - Live '75 - Breakin' In My Heart - Cleveland (The Piccadilly Inn) +lyrics

[Bobjb999]

Anyone interested in old/rare mag. & music paper articles/interviews with Tom Verlaine & Television band mates Loyd, Hell, Ficca, & Smith should check the video description info. here. I've left a link here to a downloadable file of approx. 60 articles dating from '74 - '90 I collected from 1978 to 1990. Plus a link to scans of scarce poetry book "The Night", by Tom Verlaine & Patti Smith, published 1976.

[bobgure]

Television's encore of "Satisfaction" was sublime.

"Heaven's Door" was traumatic and dramatic.

oh, those guitar bird calls and whistles, chimes and deadly silence.....

[lloyd206]

You can barely hear the song, but the first solo is not Tom but me. --RL

[Bobjb999]

@lloyd206 Not sure I've figured out yet which solo you mean exactly.Of several Television. versions heard, this one, to my ears, sounds most inspired,. All the guitar parts played here work so well.A fave.Yr. comment "You can barely hear the song" reminds me: to upload it I re-recorded the song from the audio file of the show findable online,but should have recorded it at higher vol.,&so uploaded a louder version instead,'cause even with speakers cranked to max, it still doesn't sound very loud.

[discomadame]

OMG this is a gem. and the footag. thanks sooo much for posting!!!

[ezandycle]

Just as an aside, the opening act for Television this night was Rocket From The Tombs. As many of you may know, RFTT spun off Pere Ubu, the Dead Boys and a pre-crash-and -burn Peter Laughner. It was pretty much a mutual admiration society between the two bands, as I recall.

[lloyd206]

I LOVED playing "Breakin in my Heart". I was saddened that he did it on his first solo record, but he did have Ricky from the B52s play on it, so that's cool. Television's "Kingdom Come" and Tom's solo version are 2 completely different songs. Bowie covered it, and hired Tom to play on it, but Tom was so anal-retentive that David (Who had badly wanted to produce a record for us -- he did Iggy instead), that during the mixing of the tune they made tom's guitar disappear, buried in the mix...haha

[Bobjb999]

@lloyd206 So nice of you, Richard Lloyd, to add an informative&personal comment as someone from the band recorded here in '75 (sorry it took me a while to figure out it's you who wrote the lloyd206 comment).

I love your&Tom's playing here,& so in my description describe the guitar intro in this version of Breakin' In My Heart" as "sublime" -- as in chills up&down the spine!

Btw, "Television", 2011 may be a Ripp ,but without Richard Lloyd is not Television,imo.

--Accept no Substitute, folks!--

[Bobjb999]

@lloyd206 Someone emailed me a Tony Visconti quote,adding a "wrinkle" to your interesting Kingdom Come story: “We asked Tom if [he'd]...overdub..guitar[on Bowie’s Kingdom Come cover]..[He]asked if it would be okay to rent some...amps,[as if] he was...down on his luck...&didn’t own a guitar amp..David&I [watched] Tom...auditioning every guitar amp in NYC...30...Hours drifted...[We]left him still auditioning amps at 7 pm.I don’t think we ever used a note of his playing,if we even recorded him.”

[tony0000]

Always thought Breakin in My Heart off of Verlaine was the last great guitar solo by one of the last great guitarists. Thanks for posting this. A recording of historical value.

[linclink]

I believe that "The Grip Of Love" & "Red Leaves", also from that first album, were first Television songs, and might have been on the what would have been the full band follow up to "Adventure".

[Bobjb999]

@linclink You jogged my memory & you're correct Television did The Grip of Love live. I have a cassette tape somewhere of a '78 show where they did it. I didn't know Red Leaves was Television era though. I'll need to correct my description now, won't I?

[linclink]

@Bobjb999 "The Grip Of Love" I knew, but I actually cheated on "Red Leaves", checking the net & found that "Red Leaves" draws it's verses from "Adventure"- the title track from the criminally underrated 2nd album, that came out as a bonus track on some Rhino re-issue a few years back. Lots of other stuff lying around...there's a version of "O Mi Amore" from within the last ten years somewhere here on YT, and a handful of other tracks. We need a Televsion rarities Box Set!!

[linclink]

Actually "Kingdom Come" is also on this first eponymous Verlaine album from '79. Bowie covered it on "Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)", but "Breakin' In My Heart" is the total peak of that first album for me.

[Bobjb999]

@linclink But listen to Television's Kingdom Come vs. the Kingdom Come that appeared on Verlaine's 1st solo album. They're completely different songs, as Tom himself stated in a '79 interview. All they have in common is the title. Tom said he "didn't go along" with Bowie's version, which I guess is a polite way of saying he thought it sucked! I much prefer the Television K.C. Breakin' in My Heart's my fave too from that album.I wore out that cut on my vinyl LP, I played it so much!

[linclink]

@linclink Right you are. I haven't listened to old Television stuff in years!! A friend just posted some of your stuff on FB. These guys are on the top shelf of all music for me. I wish they'd just clear the vaults & release it all. If you want to hear some of the recent "newer" live stuff, intended for an album that may never come out...Google "Earcandy Archive Calling Mr. Lloyd" for some unreleased songs from the last 10-15 years, done as Television.