Television '74 - I'm Gonna Find You, rare (unreleased) song +lyrics

From a 1974 rehearsal when Richard Hell was in the band.

Check out this other equally fine, early, rare Television recording, also from '74, "Horizontal Ascension":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMSNmKV1sk
Some (e.g. me) think "Horizontal Ascension" surpasses "I'm Gonna Find You."

There are worthwhile early Television songs recorded that Richard Hell co-wrote & sings. It's too bad every time I try uploading any of them, they get spiked by a copyright infringement claim by "Richard Meyers" (Hell's real name).
A bootleg called "Poor Circulation", findable online, contains all these early, unreleased Television songs.

Jan. 2012 Update: For those interested in old/rare Television/Tom V. articles, here's a link to a file I uploaded of scans of approx. 60 articles/interviews (most contain interview content):
http://www.4shared.com/zip/yNdZURDR/Tom_Verlaine_Television_etc_Ar.html
I collected them between 1978 & 1990, & the articles date from '74 to '90. The Wonder fan site has an excellent articles collection (text files only), but many of my articles aren't yet available there. I finally got around to digitizing mine & making them available to other fans to download. Also, here's a link to a file of scans of my copy of book "The Night", a poetry book(let) by Tom Verlaine & Patti Smith, published 1976: http://www.4shared.com/zip/D30JguyX/the_night_tom_verlaine__patti_.html

Thanks again to the You Tuber Television fan who kindly transcribed these lyrics & supplied results to me. I pass them along here:

I'M GONNA FIND YOU (lyrics transcription)
Sometime I see you
with your shiny, dirty, black hair
and your clothes, your clothes, they just don't make no more
Well, it was, it was, hard to look at you
But it was quite clear
But how do I explain it
I say...? (can't make out)
But you know it's kinda like Romeo and Juliet
Well, you went away off somewhere
You went away somewhere
But, I'm a gonna tell ya
But, I'm a gonna tell ya
But, I'm a gonna tell you
I saved so much up to make this trip
You just turn out and give me the slip
I'm gonna check out of your little bathhouse
check....? (can't make out)
I've believe I gotta go to Paris (I think he starts naming different places in this section, but the guitars kinda drown out what he's saying)
Baby...go to downtown..?
...............to the poor house
??????
I gotta go down to the future
I gotta check outta the past
I gotta break through to a new dimension
I gotta.....?
I gotta.....?
I gotta go to Mississippi and New Orleans (sounds like, not sure)
I'm a gonna find you
I'm a gonna find you
Say, I'm a gonna find you
Some sweet day

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Television
• band
• Tom
• Verlaine
• Richard
• Hell
• Lloyd
• CBGB
• Poor
• Circulation

[tuffoctopus]

Can anyone direct me in finding a download of this?

[Bobjb999]

@tuffoctopus Re. a downloadable file of this:Unfortunately, the bootleg from which this comes, "Poor Circulation", was no longer findable online last I looked. The link for it was dead. I'd upload it, but a computer disaster wiped out all my music files & I don't have it myself anymore. An alternative might be to use free software like "Freecorder" that records any audio playing on your computer (e.g. this song) & creates an MP3 file of it.

[Bobjb999]

Anyone interested in old/rare mag. & music paper articles/interviews with Tom Verlaine & his 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.

[Allrightteam]

A 3rd rate Stones?

[Bobjb999]

@Allrightteam Let's see,if you dig up an old Stones' tape from their beginnings in '62, & compare it to Television`s beautifully played & produced album,Marquee Moon,you might think "The Stones, a 3rd rate Television?" Your perspective's skewed, dude. Anyway,this song doesn't even represent Television at their '74 best. "Horizontal Ascension" is superior, imo. For a band still learning to play in '74 (Verlaine later said the band didn't gel till '76), there's some nascent genius apparent here.

[lloyd206]

I wrote the music for the song. Wanted to do something in 6/4, like Otis Redding.... remember that the early television was not "earth music" - Ahmet Erdigan

[MrGrieves1000]

@Bobjb999 Well said. Anyone who believes mick jaggers more talented than tom verlaine is misinformed.

[sonicsteev]

hell yeah!

[yenyere121]

they were cool but a bit pretentious for their own good...that is what I remember of them..The New York dolls were more people friendly that television or the Talking Heads' these last two bands were always too self conscious, while playing an image of being "simple" ...they were not people friendly...

[jesuisarmenienne]

They looked sooo cool

[MrDaniyuca]

impecable!

clasico!!!!! ROCK AND ROLL !!!!!

[AlNaafiysh]

Oh brilliant. Still a diamond in the rough. They look so cute, Verlaine like he's never seen a comb and Lloyd with blond hair haha