Television were one of the GREAT bands, and today’s news is incredibly sad. Tom Verlaine was an extraordinary light and his loss is huge. All 3 Television albums are fantastic, but Marquee Moon is a bona fide 5 star classic and hugely influential.
His many solo albums are great too; Flash Light being up there with the very best of Television.
I saw the band many times with, and later without, Richard Lloyd, and they were always extraordinary, with the well-known songs interspersed with 10-15 minute jams taking you places that it’s hard to describe - spacey, jazzy, oriental, but all held together with that unique and edgy Fender interplay. Fantastic rhythm section too.
Totally original, as cool as, and exhilarating. God bless Tom Verlaine.