Tom Verlaine RIP

[Wolfmancatsup]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/...tial-guitarist-and-songwriter-dies-at-73.html

 

[Tony L]

Awful news. Marquee Moon is one of the finest albums of the 1970s IMO, a total game changer. I feel like I’ve known it forever. I bought the 12” singles Marquee Moon, Prove It and Foxhole as a school kid. RIP.

 

[Joolzdee]

This year is starting off as shit as last year finished.

 

[kjb]

That's just dreadful to hear. This feels for me the way slightly older pfm-ers must have felt about Jeff Beck. Marquee Moon , alongside Horses, was a seminal records for me - probably more so than anything else the punk/ new wave era produced.

Patti Smith once wrote that he played “ lead guitar with angular inverted passion like a thousand bluebirds screaming.” . That sounds about right.

RIP

 

[reefhead]

Shit! Marquee Moon my absolute touchstone album. What a loss.

 

[vince rocker]

Very sad news. I bought Marquee Moon as soon as it came out and saw Television around the same time. The album was perfect for me then, the wired psychedelia, speed and acid sound, and I've never stopped playing it since. RIP Tom.
@kjb love that quote from Patti.

 

[andrew d]

Marquee Moon is an absolute all time classic. RIP Tom Verlaine.

 

[Paul Mc]

Awful news. MM was a cultural defining line for nearly 50 years. Tom's playing was jazz-punk. Never repeated and never bettered. I love you Tom.

 

[BillT]

That's shit news.

 

[irons1965]

Gutted. RIP x

 

[Simon Dawson]

Bugger.

 

[Yank]

Seriously oh crap.

Marquee Moon has been "in rotation" here since 1977.

 

[iansr]

I bought MM entirely on the basis of the ecstatic NME review (Nick Kent ?). I didn’t regret it. Seminal stuff.

 

[Aethelist]

Sad news.

That guy played the guitar in such a way he made it sound like church bells ringing.

I was part of that church. He was one of a kind and a massive influence.

I'm in bits.

 

[Yank]

Don't overlook the self-titled Television album from 1992.

 

[irons1965]

Sad news.

That guy played the guitar in such a way he made it sound like church bells ringing.

I was part of that church. He was one of a kind and a massive influence.

I'm crying.

Beautiful.

 

[mrclick]

Another shock. Tom Verlaine, together with Television, was a guiding light in guitar based music, like the wonderful track of the same name from Marquee Moon. Now gone out and a loss.

 

[droodzilla]

Totally shit news.

I played Marquee Moon until the grooves turned to dust and grew to love Adventure almost as much.

His guitar playing - instantly recognisable - still fascinates me after all these years.

RIP Tom.

 

[lordsummit]

Shite news. Marquee Moon is simply one of my favourites. It’ll be getting a spin tomorrow. RIP Tom

 

[wezzywest]

Really shocked by this, I can remember buying Prove It 12inch Green Vinyl, then then Marque Moon afterwards. R.I.P.