Television - "Friction" / Amps Do Furnish A Room (Broad St)

ADFAR live @ Broad Street Cafe, Durham NC 3/30/2007

Amps Do Furnish A Room, a music collective from Chapel Hill, NC, selects an album each year for intense study. Our current obsession: "Marquee Moon", Television's seminal CBGB-era art-punk masterpiece.

Amps Do Furnish A Room is: Pete Gamble and Andras Fekete (guitars), Jamie McLendon (bass/vox), Ken Friedman (drums) and Jeff Hart (guitar/vox).

Visit us at:
http://www.ampsdofurnisharoom.com

Amps Do Furnish A Room is available for art openings, club appearances, fashion shows, dances, festivals, live film accompaniment, private parties and other events having panache, abandon, and stylish headwear. For more info, message this YouTube account.

Video by Matthew Fekete
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Z9O6uzGeQ
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[geoffnicholson999]

Love this

And also that this is surely the only band in the world with a name inspired by Anthony Powell.

[ampsdofurnisharoom]

"...this is surely the only band in the world with a name inspired by Anthony Powell..."

Lol - Geoff, you may be the very first person to catch the reference.

Yes, our name comes from "Books Do Furnish A Room", one of the later books (10th?) in Powell's series "Dance to the Music of Time".

It's also a reference to a cool independent bookstore of the same name in Durham NC that we hang out at. Google booksdofurnisharoom -- it'll be the first hit.

[geoffnicholson999]

Volume 12: "Hearing Secret Harmonies"

[ampsdofurnisharoom]

A Question of Upbringing A Buyer's Market The Acceptance World At Lady Molly's Casanova's Chinese Restaurant The Kindly Ones The Valley of Bones The Soldier's Art The Military Philosophers Books Do Furnish a Room Temporary Kings Hearing Secret Harmonies Wouldn't these would make great names for a series of songs or albums?

[windmills20]

nice cover. it's fun going up for the chromatics

[ampsdofurnisharoom]

"...it's fun going up for the chromatics"

Thanks. That is so true, especially during a dual solo like this one. With the volume "on 11" as we had it that night, it sounded like a goddamn cyclone in there.

You can find several YouTube videos that capture this performance from various angles (one from onstage, even). I often wonder what it would take to knit them together.

[ampsdofurnisharoom]

Thanks, RedxRainbow. We aim for faithful renderings of the original tunes (e.g. the original arrangements, using the same stripped-down sound Television used), though in a live setting we tend to get carried away with the solos. But we figure what the hell, Lloyd and Verlaine did too, so maybe that's ok. ;)

[negativeEclipse]

right on

[wildshovel]

Appreciate it, doctordupree -- very gratifying to know that people in the UK are checking us out.

We try to shoot for a note for note rendition of the LP, but inevitably things get out of hand... ;)

[ampsdofurnisharoom]

Thanks nununez. It's funny: every time we play this tune, it gets louder. Something about it... ;)