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		Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller, 13 December 1949, in Morristown, New Jersey) [1] is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the frontman for the New York Rock band, Television.
		Tom Verlaine's poetic lyrics, coupled with his accomplished and original guitar playing, are highly influential and widely praised in the music media.
		Verlaine was in discussion with Jeff Buckley to produce his second album, before Buckley's accidental drowning in 1997.
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	Tom Verlaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller, 13 December 1949, in Morristown, New Jersey)[1] is a singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the frontman for the New York punk band, Television.
		Verlaine is often regarded as one of the most talented performers of the early punk rock era.
		Tom Verlaine's poetic lyrics, and his accomplished guitar technique playing were highly influential and widely praised in the music media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Verlaine (142 words)

	Memory . Daydreams . Lapses .: Trying to Tell A Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Verlaine is a rough-edged mix of contemporary scene observer and 19th-century mystic French poet, Paul Verlaine, whose visions of “drunken boats” suit his namesake very well.
		Verlaine says as little as possible - he doesn't speak to fill the silence - but after every sentence he flashes a signal, seeming to indicate that the interview should be taken as a joke.
		Verlaine’s reputation as a mystery man comes partly from the complexity of Television’s music (if you don’t like it, you’ll never understand him or the rest of the band) and partly because he admits that he’s a shy person.
	idioglossia.typepad.com /journal/2006/03/trying_to_tell_.html (2828 words)

	tom verlaine (important to patti smith) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Verlaine took advantage of the Smith connection Monday at the Viper Room, playing an exceedingly rare show of his own with the backing of two Smith bandmates, drummer Jay Dee Daugherty and bassist Tony Shanahan, and with occasional colleague Jimmy Rip on second guitar.
		Verlaine is a pure free agent these days, and he approached his show as someone with nothing to sell, no script to stick to, no agenda beyond stretching out.
		Like Smith, Verlaine brings a poetic sensibility to the rock aesthetic, but his is a more introspective, rarefied approach, and it inevitably leads to the moments when only his guitar-led instrumental explorations will capture the emotional essence he's after.
	www.oceanstar.com /patti/bio/verlaine.htm (1303 words)

	Intuitive Music » Blog Archive » Tom Verlaine - Warm and Cool
		Verlaine and his collaborators created the album mostly by improvisation and recorded the tracks with a minimum amount of rehearsal.
		Tom Verlaine borrows his name from the 19th century French symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, and nowhere in his 20-year catalog does Tom Verlaine’s music more closely follow his namesake’s poetic philosophy than on Warm and Cool.
		Unlike most of Verlaine’s work, Warm and Cool is entirely instrumental, with guitars often filling the traditional role of a voice in the melody.
	www.intuitivemusic.com /tom-verlaine-warm-and-cool (376 words)

	Music Preview: Television's leader Tom Verlaine turns it on again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Tom Verlaine still casts a long, dark shadow over the groundbreaking New York punk scene of the mid-'70s.
		Verlaine did soundtrack work on silent films and sat in with Patti Smith, but that was about it.
		Verlaine is notoriously elusive in interviews, but talking from his studio last week, he did open up a bit.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06159/696536-42.stm (1641 words)

	Thurston Moore + Tom Verlaine
		Merely calling Tom Verlaine and Thurston Moore “kindred spirits” is a bit of an understatement considering the staggering influence they’ve had on the way indie rockers have played guitar for the past 25 years.
		Between Marquee Moon, Verlaine’s 1977 debut with post-punk pioneers Television, and the numerous albums Moore has released with noise-rock legends Sonic Youth, it’s hard to think of two bodies of work that have had more of an impact on the way indie rock has sounded over the past 10 to 15 years.
		Verlaine: [Laughing hysterically] I went to England in 1976 and there was all this punk crap in the papers and I was walking with this girl and I said, “What is this punk crap?” Because I only knew garage music.
	harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4284 (1113 words)

	Tom Verlaine News
		Tom Verlaine and his band Television helped establish the punk rock music scene in the mid-1970s, influencing music for years to come with the records Marquee Moon and Adventure.
		Fourteen years ago, Tom Verlaine, artful guitar hero and founder of the seminal '70s art-punk band Television, released Warm and Cool, an album of understated, meditative instrumentals.
		Tom Verlaine Readies Two New Spring Releases Wednesday March 08, 2006 @ 07:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Tom Verlaine While Tom Verlaine will forever be remembered as an alternative rock god for his work with...
	www.topix.net /who/tom-verlaine (483 words)

	pseudopodium: Tom Verlaine
		I read where Verlaine and Hell were childhood pals who escaped from the orphanage together.
		It seems like a physical transformation is going on: a centaur with Verlaine's spindly upper body shoved on a Siegfried-sized bucking horse, or a guitar Little Mermaid (book not movie) who wished for a human voice and now feels knives in its throat every time it breathes.
		Hell yodels, Verlaine mimics the 13th Floor Elevators jug burble, and "Love Comes in Spurts" is quite a bit different from the Blank Generation song.
	www.pseudopodium.org /search.cgi?Tom+Verlaine (869 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Tom Verlaine: Warm and Cool
		The early '90s were rough for Tom Verlaine: Television's reunion album and tour were poorly received, and with grunge's rise, his seminal guitar work in Marquee Moon seemed on the verge of falling out of fashion.
		It would be easier to forgive Verlaine for giving the album a Guitar World polish if he delivered the proverbial goods; instead, he retreats from the articulate onslaughts of Television's heyday into more subdued territory.
		Verlaine cued us to his soft rock proclivities as early as "Guiding Light", so his drift toward more "polite" material isn't entirely inappropriate -- but when these ruminations are given the sheen of arena-packing two-hand tapping, we're left with an incongruous, forgettable album.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=113352501217924 (351 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Tom Verlaine
		Leader Tom Verlaine was the dreamer, playing sinuous guitar and singing in the strangled, intense voice of a young poet.
		Verlaine and Smith continue their subversive tryst with contemporary rock on The Wonder, concocting muscular, superficially routine arrangements in which familiar lines of wiggly guitar and other unsettling dramatics drift in and out of range.
		The surprisingly cozy tone of Verlaine's self-amused vocals put his mildly offbeat lyrics in an entirely new context; combined with the music's dynamic tension, mixed signals make The Wonder an intriguing, multifaceted experience.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=tom_verlaine (425 words)

	CMT.com : Tom Verlaine : Biography
		Tom Verlaine also carved out an acclaimed and eclectic solo career.
		After that, Verlaine renewed his working relationship with Patti Smith (he played on her first two albums), playing shows and recording new material with her sporadically for the next decade.
		Also in the mid-'90s, sessions as producer for Jeff Buckley were scrapped (although the material was later issued as Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk) and Television continued to be an on-again, off-again live venture.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/verlaine_tom/bio.jhtml (326 words)

	Tom Verlaine
		As was common in the punk/underground scene of the time, both musicians gave themselves new names: the former Tom Miller adopting "Verlaine" from Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, while Meyers took a less subtle approach and presented himself as Richard Hell.
		It was here that Verlaine made the acquaintance of painter-turned-poet-turned-singer Patti Smith, who was impressed enough to enlist the guitarist for her debut album Horses (1975) and several of her later projects.
		An opening slot on Peter Gabriel's first solo US tour helped somewhat to broaden their homeland audience (although their presence was less than appreciated by the bulk of Gabriel's fans), but no such assistance was needed on the band's first tour of Britain, where their shows easily sold out and were given rave reviews.
	www.nndb.com /people/871/000062685 (732 words)

	Television/Lloyd/Verlaine
		Verlaine's productivity was more consistent, and he continued to cut solo records all through the 80s, sticking with the band's original sound and usually collaborating with Fred Smith.
		But it's not really Verlaine's fault: the problem is the production, with a low-energy pop sound that just isn't their thing (and might have been the idea of co-producer John Jansen).
		Verlaine's voice is as geeky and annoying as ever, and there's even a toss-off instrumental ("The Blue Robe").
	www.warr.org /verlaine.html (2462 words)

	The Wonder - Tom Verlaine
		The absence of a lyric sheets suggests that there may be less ambiguity, the meaning may be clearer; Verlaine's lyrics have always gone beyond 'verse-chorus-verse' and there is a poetry in these songs beautifully matched by their musical settings.
		To say that one of Verlaine's songs is 'about' love is to read, in a sense, between the lines.
		Verlaine's guitars weave in and out of the songs, always interesting; it's the constant surprises, those lines and little flourishes that catch you off-guard and that couldn't be anyone else's.
	www.marquee.demon.co.uk /tomv.htm (692 words)

	Rolling Stone : Tom Verlaine Returns With "Songs"
		Songs, is a traditional rock album, with Verlaine's still-commanding croon swerving through his serpentine guitar licks, while Around is a natural follow-up to Warm and Cool, with its spare and improvisatory compositions.
		Verlaine plans to hit the road in mid-May to perform the new material.
		While Verlaine isn't all that interested in talking about the Seventies New York legends, he admits they still have fun playing together since reuniting for festivals and European shows.
	rollingstone.com /news/story/10147249/tom_verlaine_returns_with_songs (543 words)

	The History of Rock Music. Tom Verlaine: biography, discography, reviews, links
		Con i suoi dischi solisti Tom Verlaine ha confermato la propria statura di "auteur" del rock, intento a esprimere profonde emozioni interiori e a esplorare i mezzi armonici che meglio glielo consentono.
		Verlaine indulgeva in rock and roll nervosi come The Grip Of Love, Kingdom Come e soprattutto la tribale e dissonante Breaking In My Heart e il boogie rarefatto di Mr Bingo, ma si metteva in luce anche con ballate d'intensita` religiosa come Souvenir From A Dream e Flash Lightning.
		Tom Verlaine went on to become one of the most profound bards of the "blank generation", the antidote to the commercial sell-out of the new wave that was rapidly defusing the movement.
	www.scaruffi.com /vol4/verlaine.html (820 words)

	RegnYouth Archives » Blog Archive » Tom Verlaine - Songs & Other Things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For his first album of songs (as opposed to instrumentals) since 1990’s ‘The Wonder’, legendary Television guitarist Tom Verlaine brings to bear both his considerable instrumental prowess and his skill as a composer of otherworldly geek-rock.
		The moodier sound meshes well with Verlaine’s cryptic lyrical approach, and supports the deeper, less adenoidal turn his voice has taken over the years.
		Verlaine doesn’t need to prove anything at this point, so there are no over-the-top guitar-whiz histrionics, just forteen tracks worth of a master craftsman gorgeously applying the varied colors of his palette.
	www.regnyouth.com /?p=1616 (211 words)

	Tom Verlaine
		Tom Verlaine was the guitarist for Television, the first non-Country Blues or BlueGrass band to play at CBGB's[?], which opened the venue for new wave acts such as Blondie, and The Talking Heads and the entire NYC new wave and punk music scene.
		Guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd brought rock music to a new level with their guitar playing and lyrical content.
		The album, Marquee Moon (by Television) is often recommended for anybody who is interested in the serious study of guitar.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/to/Tom_Verlaine.html (83 words)

	Tom Verlaine (July.06 issue) - Stomp And Stammer
		Though you'd never call Tom Verlaine "missing in action," he's not the most prolific of guitar heroes.
		Verlaine, who lives not far away, grimaces at the changes and confesses, at one point, that the only reason he stays in New York is for its fine cross-section of ethnic food choices.
		Once he arrives, Verlaine grabs a chair and quickly orders a croissant, which he slowly deconstructs with evident pleasure.
	www.stompandstammer.com /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=558&Itemid=1 (448 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Tom Verlaine tickets, concerts and tour dates
		Famed for his trailblazing work as the singer and guitarist for the seminal New York punk band Television, Tom Verlaine also carved out an acclaimed and eclectic solo career.
		Born Thomas Miller in Wilmington, DE, in 1949, Verlaine (who borrowed his name from the French symbolist poet) was trained as...
		After that, Verlaine renewed his working relationship with Patti Smith (he played on her first two albums), playing shows and recording new material with her sporadically for the next decade.
	www.ticketmaster.ca /artist/736392?brand=none (575 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Tom Verlaine
		It's been nearly 15 years since Tom Verlaine's last album, but that doesn't mean the former Television frontman has been idle.
		Selections from the latter album made up the bulk of Verlaine's 90-minute show Friday at the Roxy, and the live setting did not change their skeletal, stitched-together quality.
		Verlaine's band seemed to have been instructed to stay out of the guitarist's way.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117930858.html?categoryid=34&cs=1&nid=2562 (407 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Tom Verlaine
		A pop boho and an ecstatic mensch, an exalted lead guitarist who loves to chunka-chunk that rhythm, Verlaine is a walking, cogitating rock and roll contradiction.
		But Ritchie Fliegler's Richard Lloyd simulations get the job done, and anyway, this is Verlaine's best batch of songs since Marquee Moon--two years' worth, ten in all if you count the one that goes "Hi-Fi." Elsewhere, Verlaine evokes the touchy ironies of urban love--passion and detachment, adoration and despair--with deftness and soul.
		Verlaine's ever-resourceful guitar has always been more richly endowed with mood and effect than with the hook riffs that make him a great rock-and-roller, and here for the first time things get too atmospheric.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist.php?id=1598&name=Tom+Verlaine (372 words)

	Tom Verlaine - Songs and Other Things & Around CD reviews
		Verlaine and Television were once the original house band for NYC's punk club CBGBs in the mid-'70s and, while largely ignored by the mainstream, would go onto influence bands such as The Strokes, Sonic Youth, Interpol and others with their two brilliant '70s albums - Marquee Moon and Adventure.
		One of the issues that naturally occurs when an influential artist emerges from his creative cave after such a long absence is that immense expectations arise, often leading to disappointment.
		Even when Verlaine, along former Television drummer Billy Ficca and bassist Patrick Derivaz, raise the bar somewhat, as on the snappier pop of "Wheel Broke" and the Caribbean-kissed "Meteor Beach," it's not enough to keep these songs from sounding like rough demos with a bit of potential.
	www.concertlivewire.com /verlainecd.htm (440 words)

	Tom Verlaine's Fender Rebellion
		Both of Tom Verlaine's new albums, the one he sings on and the one on which he lets his gi-tar do the talking, are vaguely identified in the liner notes as being produced "in and around New York" and "early in the new century."
		The late Bob Quine could be both a perfect punk and a perfect punk rocker because the intensity of his solos played out in bursts of approximately 9 seconds.
		Hipsters in and around New York were incredulous when, early in the eighth decade of the last century, word spread that Warner Bros had let the recently solo-careering Verlaine spend upwards of $100k producing "Dreamtime," which may or may not be his greatest record.
	journals.aol.com /johnbuckley100/TulipFrenzyJohnBuckleysTop10List/entries/2006/05/02/tom-verlaines-fender-rebellion/424 (507 words)

	Tom Verlaine Live! Music for Film
		Legendary composer/guitarist Tom Verlaine (formerly of Television) makes his first Toronto appearance in several years with this exclusive program of music composed for an adventurous, smartly-selected program of avant-garde films from the 20s, and a rarely-seen commissioned short by Danish master Carl Theodor.
		Tom Verlaine’s band Television - a fixture of the downtown NYC scene of the mid-70s, and regulars at CBGBs - recorded only two LPs before splitting up in 1978, but their influence has far outstripped their productivity.
		Apart from Television, Verlaine has recorded eight solo albums, scored the feature film Love and a.45, and is widely regarded as one of the finest instrumentalists in rock music.
	www.imagesfestival.com /2004/programs/verlaine.php (566 words)

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