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𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 First Ave., NYC | 1977

— David Godlis

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Love Comes In Spurts - The Neon Boys

1972

Pure, scrappy electricity.

A blast from the Neon Boys era — Richard Hell, Tom Verlaine, and Billy Ficca in their first tight, unruly formation.

“Love Comes in Spurts” already has that restless spark they’d carry into Television.

This 1972 demo predates the later Voidoids version (check out the live, definitive take in my reblog of Thee Headcoats’ version).

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Television performing at the Bottom Line club, New York City, 21st March 1977. L-R: Fred Smith, Billy Ficca, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd

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Billy Ficca *February 15, 1950

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Tom Verlaine Was a Mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story. - …

Tom Verlaine Was a Mystery. His Archives Reveal More of His Story. - …

Tom Verlaine’s archives go to the New York Public library for researchers to mine.

Meanwhile, here are Television’s pre-Marquee Moon 1974-75 demos, including those—“Marquee Moon,” “Venus,” “Friction,” “Prove It,” “Double Exposure”—recorded with Brian Eno and Island A&R man Richard Williams:

with more information on the genesis and demise of those demos here:

‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos

In search of the new, Richard Williams – then an A&R man at Island Records – captured early Television in an office block salsa studio. But

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