Richard Lloyd, by way of credentials, was one of the guitarists on Television’s Marquee Moon (Tom Verlaine was the other), which is just about the best guitar album to come out of the original New York Cbgb’s scene. Lloyd, who’s 64, doesn’t gig much these days, but he does teach guitar. It’s punk rock at Champagne prices — a hundred bucks per hourlong lesson — but it’s something else, too. You take a guitar lesson because you want to learn to play. You take a guitar lesson from Richard Lloyd because you hope he’ll reveal whatever magic he used to conjure those magnificent, spiraling Marquee Moon solos.About a week after I scheduled time with Lloyd via the email address on his website, I took the train to his fifth-floor Inwood walk-up. (He isn’t the only name-brand, high-cred option available to New York’s aspiring guitar heroes.
- 12/16/2015
- by David Marchese
- Vulture
Who's responsible for turning Cbgb's into the petri dish that unleashed punk rock onto the world?
It's long been known that the idea didn't originate with the club's owner, Hilly Kristal, who died in 2007, a year after the famously dingy venue closed its doors. He named the club Cbgb-Omfug, short for Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers, and expected to feature those genres, not the noisy creations of a bunch of arty freaks.
A recent e-book by longtime tour manager Larry Butler gives Television singer and guitarist Tom Verlaine credit for making Cbgb's cool. Here's how music-industry veteran Bob Lefsetz paraphrased Butler's account yesterday in his popular newsletter, the Lefsetz Letter:
Hilly Kristal was an unwitting beneficiary of Tom Verlaine's inability to find anywhere to feature Television. Yup, Verlaine asked Hilly to play at Cbgb, a relatively dead bar, on a dead night,...
It's long been known that the idea didn't originate with the club's owner, Hilly Kristal, who died in 2007, a year after the famously dingy venue closed its doors. He named the club Cbgb-Omfug, short for Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music For Uplifting Gourmandizers, and expected to feature those genres, not the noisy creations of a bunch of arty freaks.
A recent e-book by longtime tour manager Larry Butler gives Television singer and guitarist Tom Verlaine credit for making Cbgb's cool. Here's how music-industry veteran Bob Lefsetz paraphrased Butler's account yesterday in his popular newsletter, the Lefsetz Letter:
Hilly Kristal was an unwitting beneficiary of Tom Verlaine's inability to find anywhere to feature Television. Yup, Verlaine asked Hilly to play at Cbgb, a relatively dead bar, on a dead night,...
- 7/16/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
“Peril of Jap Vice Trap.”
-Sensationalist People magazine headline following the disappearance of Lucie Blackman
In the summer of 2000, Lucie Blackman, a former British Airways flight attendant working illegally as a hostess in Roppongi, Tokyo, disappeared. Roughly a year later, a man named Joji Obara was brought to trial for her murder and the rape of several other women after police found numerous self-made tapes of an often-masked Obara having his way with clearly unconscious women of various ethnicities. The footage stretched so far back, there were even Betamax tapes.
The tale of Lucie’s disappearance, the eventual discovery of her body and the evil wiliness of the man who killed her is long and complicated and filled with more intriguing bit-players than an instalment of Kinji Fukasaku’s The Yakuza Papers. Journalist Richard Lloyd Parry, who worked in Tokyo and spent many years on the case (both on the...
-Sensationalist People magazine headline following the disappearance of Lucie Blackman
In the summer of 2000, Lucie Blackman, a former British Airways flight attendant working illegally as a hostess in Roppongi, Tokyo, disappeared. Roughly a year later, a man named Joji Obara was brought to trial for her murder and the rape of several other women after police found numerous self-made tapes of an often-masked Obara having his way with clearly unconscious women of various ethnicities. The footage stretched so far back, there were even Betamax tapes.
The tale of Lucie’s disappearance, the eventual discovery of her body and the evil wiliness of the man who killed her is long and complicated and filled with more intriguing bit-players than an instalment of Kinji Fukasaku’s The Yakuza Papers. Journalist Richard Lloyd Parry, who worked in Tokyo and spent many years on the case (both on the...
- 5/12/2012
- by Cameron Ashley
- Boomtron
“Who was it that turned me into this kind of woman?”
-Song from Gate of Flesh
Welcome to post-World War II Tokyo. The Occupied City. It’s a crime-fest. Aside from yakuza-run markets, gang wars, gambling, and seemingly everybody on the grift, prostitution is so utterly widespread, there’s even a governmental department named The Raa (Recreation and Amusement Association) specifically established to relieve the occupying troops of pent-up libidinal urges that could possibly be exorcised in even less wholesome ways. The ensuing fuckfest is prodigious. So prodigious that the moat around the Imperial Palace becomes “so clogged with used condoms” it has to be “cleaned out once a week with a big wire scoop.” 1
This is the world of the classic Gate of Flesh.
We open:
MPs drag a gaggle of women away, while other, luckier, women scream obscenities at their foreign occupiers. Thieves, looting from Us barracks, are shot in the back.
-Song from Gate of Flesh
Welcome to post-World War II Tokyo. The Occupied City. It’s a crime-fest. Aside from yakuza-run markets, gang wars, gambling, and seemingly everybody on the grift, prostitution is so utterly widespread, there’s even a governmental department named The Raa (Recreation and Amusement Association) specifically established to relieve the occupying troops of pent-up libidinal urges that could possibly be exorcised in even less wholesome ways. The ensuing fuckfest is prodigious. So prodigious that the moat around the Imperial Palace becomes “so clogged with used condoms” it has to be “cleaned out once a week with a big wire scoop.” 1
This is the world of the classic Gate of Flesh.
We open:
MPs drag a gaggle of women away, while other, luckier, women scream obscenities at their foreign occupiers. Thieves, looting from Us barracks, are shot in the back.
- 4/14/2012
- by Cameron Ashley
- Boomtron
Cut will save pre-booking cinema goers 70p per ticket, but pay-on-the-door customers face a price rise
Cineworld has become the first cinema chain to remove all booking fees for film goers who buy tickets online, but is raising the price for those who buy tickets at its cinemas.
The cut will save pre-booking cinema goers the 70p previously charged per ticket, to a maximum of £4.20 per booking. The company is also offering a 10% discount to those who register for MyCineworld, an online service which allows it to make personalised offers on the basis of the films you have watched.
But customers who prefer to buy their tickets on arrival at the cinema will pay 6% more.
Ticket prices vary according to the film, type of ticket and location of the cinema, but someone buying a ticket for John Carter in 3D in Wandsworth on Friday night will pay £11.98 instead of £11.30, while...
Cineworld has become the first cinema chain to remove all booking fees for film goers who buy tickets online, but is raising the price for those who buy tickets at its cinemas.
The cut will save pre-booking cinema goers the 70p previously charged per ticket, to a maximum of £4.20 per booking. The company is also offering a 10% discount to those who register for MyCineworld, an online service which allows it to make personalised offers on the basis of the films you have watched.
But customers who prefer to buy their tickets on arrival at the cinema will pay 6% more.
Ticket prices vary according to the film, type of ticket and location of the cinema, but someone buying a ticket for John Carter in 3D in Wandsworth on Friday night will pay £11.98 instead of £11.30, while...
- 3/16/2012
- by Jill Insley
- The Guardian - Film News
In 2003, the epochal proto-punk band Rocket From The Tombs reformed and laid down Rocket Redux, an album comprising proper studio versions of the group’s widely bootlegged 1974-75 repertoire. The problem is, many of those songs had long ago been cannibalized and owned by the two bands Rtff begat, Dead Boys and Pere Ubu, which makes Redux feel more like a tombstone than a rebirth. But Redux did serve a purpose: It spurred original members David Thomas, Cheetah Chrome, and Craig Bell (along with new recruits Steve Mehlman of Pere Ubu and Richard Lloyd of Television) to roll up ...
- 10/11/2011
- avclub.com
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