Television - Venus DeMilo

[RManFlint]

They sound great. I'd sit in smelly Port-a-Potty if I had to to hear Television do "Venus".

[blinkie7]

Two strats sound as thin as trace paper.

[drstevie]

a song i play over & over. this is a good version,years later,but,hey...Tom Verlaine is a god !!

[JackStraw65]

Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd - These guys were punk godfathers, psychedelic guitar madmen and romantic poets all at the same time. Nothing like them, before or since.

[GordonMorrice]

"I fell into the arms of Venus de Milo."

This has to be one of the most ingenius lyrics in all of music!

[saborranchero]

This song is a lot of fun to play. While learning it the other day I realized the genius it takes to write something this awesome.

[JackStraw65]

@saborranchero This is exactly what I am doing at this moment - suddenly haunted by this song this week after many years, right now figuring it out note for note on my acoustic guitar, and marveling at the composition of it.

[abluesman100]

venus de milo has no arms

[barracudatheband]

did you feel low? NAH! <333

[heroinchicsz0]

Saw them at CBGB's a million years ago with about 8 other people there. Rad guitar.

[sleepyerick]

good music! i love marquee moon!

[fkthsh]

Where are the jazzmasters? :(

[sonatonemaster]

And the modified telecasters and jaguars?

[dubcantgetrite]

one of the awesomest bands ever!

[jahnbon]

I bought "Little Johnny Jewel" at Golden Disc Records in 1976, and have been a fan of this band since then. They changed my life from the moment I heard them.

I was disappointed by Lloyd's absence on this day, but Jimmy did a great job.

Fred Smith is a prince of a man!

[TonyArrison]

I love Television, and for me this is a very sad site. I thought I might've been able to see them reasonably decent before they burnt out..ah well.

[TheGreatGallbo]

Well, you probably weren't at this show...

When Tom Verlaine was being screamed at to get off stage because of the park's noise cerfew.. he looked over his shoulder at the stage manager, gave a nic little smirk, and then went back to abusing his Stratocaster for the end of Marquee Moon.

It was faaantastic.  One of the best shows I have seen.. and I've gone to 80+ shows in my life

[pathammond]

@TonyArrison I don't get it? this is a perfect rendition of this song, albeit with low quality sound

[maxcharts]

@TonyArrison

Wanna see the real deal? Check out Fred Smith w/ the Revelons at Bowery Ballroom from last summer.That's the band that still has it.But for some reason they rarely do a show.

[Snett111]

How old are Television in this video ? 75 ?

[BrokebackObama]

You know, it's a pity this age illusion pervades human thought. Old, young, ages measured in double digits of circuits around the sun, it's all trivial next to the time it takes a rock to fall out of a cliff, or a galaxy to implode. So just enjoy now, dumbass.

[exatrax]

Bravo! Bravo BrokebackObama!

[RettAlexis]

relax man, he/she's just wondering.

[gogobionicgirl]

wow the sound is really good

im so jealous you went to this

[TheGreatGallbo]

Yeah, I'm really glad I went...

and not to make ya feel any worse about it..

but it was free, and Tom Verlaine blew my mind.

[envika]

what manner of bass is fred smith playing?

[windmills20]

who knows? maybe C Major Ionian?

[Leeperryvery]

marquee moon the best new york rock and roll music ever made the best album venus....its a very good song one of the greatest!

[johnnypululando]

esta es una de las siete maravillas del mundo,si.esta en el olimpo junto a bohemian rapsody y otras maravillas.viva television!!!!!

[netox777]

one of the best song of the story

[suedeheadsmiths]

what a fraud, I'd take Richie Lloyd over Tom Verlaine and this moron on stage with him

[linclink]

the "other guitarist" is Jimmy Ripp and he's amazing...I may prefer Richard Lloyd (but while Ripp didn't take the Lloyd role here, he has when he's played with Verlaine's solo bands)...I hope they do one more with Lloyd (this was supposed to be the farwell gig) as Lloyd has announced they are over on his official website...sigh...Blessings

[envika]

that gripp dude is a step down from richard lloyd though

[eczema1966]

" Why would any organizer want Television to leave the stage, that's one of the seven wonders of the world."

because Television is a great band, because it doesn't seem right to have a band that everybody talk about play at last in front of people who know shit about one of the best band in the world (with Pere Ubu). if only people have memory we may have another Television's album...

[rollagasper]

Why would any organizer want Television to leave the stage, that's one of the seven wonders of the world.

[WoundedKite]

You are absolutely correct, best band ever.

[karolkom]

pretty goog video, I apreciate the entireness of it

[TheGreatGallbo]

Thanks, I didn't tape too much from this show, but if I did I tried to be complete (Except for Marquee Moon... because I got shut down by the man)

[woodoven]

yeah the summerstage people sucked, television could have played for another hour before they got shut down. thanks for the videos tho!