BROADCAST #18
AIR DATE: 04-29-08

Fanatics!!! Hello from New Zealand where the skies are blue and the sheep are many. The Australian shows were great and I am looking forward to getting back there soon. Now, what Engineer X and I have for you tonight is a killer set of a perfect album along with some great tracks to follow. We are going to listen to Television’s debut album Marquee Moon. Recorded in 1975, released in 1977 and produced by Verlaine and Andy Johns. Television’s lead guitar and vocalist, Tom Verlaine is not only one of the greatest musicians to come out of 1970’s New York music scene but an influence on bands and musicians all over the world. No one sounds like Verlaine. That being said, Television was a very solid band featuring the very accomplished Richard Lloyd on 2nd guitar and the considerable talents of Billy Ficca on drums and Fred Smith on bass. I saw Ficca play with Concrete Blonde once, he was great. Television followed up their MM album with a great album called Adventure that is perhaps not as iconic as their previous effort but absolutely worth checking out as are Verlaine’s first two solo albums Tom Verlaine and Dreamtime. As you Fanatics know, we have played Television and some of Verlaine’s solo efforts on our show before so some of these songs will be familiar to you, even to the few of you who are not familiar with this album. I think it’s safe to say that Marquee Moon is one of those album that at the very least, should be checked out at least once and in my opinion, should be in your ever growing arsenal of music. Remember, do not let a week go by where you do not have more music than the week before. There’s no going backwards here! Onwards! More! After we listen to Marquee Moon and the non-LP tracks Little Johnny Jewel Pts. 1&2, we go into a great 9 track mix of great New York music. All tracks are readily available except for the Stims track, which is taken off my single I bought from the band in 1979 or 1980 at a Cramps show at Irving Plaza in NYC. Great music from start to finish tonight, Fanatics! Next week’s show will be a great mix of music from all over the place as we like to do. Over the last few weeks, I have been accumulating some great local music out of Australia, bands that perhaps you have never heard of that I think you will be pleased with so get ready for that. I will leave this in the hands of Engineer X to induce the computer at Indie 103 to hurl tonight’s broadcast your way and hope for the best. Until next week, STAY FANATIC!!! --Henry

For you Fanatics who can’t live without hearing this show again or if the original broadcast time is too hard on your sleep cycle here’s the re-broadcast schedule: USA: Fridays: 0200 – 0400 hrs. PST / UK: Fridays: 1000 hrs. – 1200 hrs. / Continental Europe: Fridays 1100 hrs. – 1300 hrs./ Australia: Fridays 2100 hrs. – 2300 hrs.

E-Mail address for me: Henryontheradio@aol.com

01. Television - See No Evil / Marquee Moon
02. Television - Venus / Marquee Moon
03. Television - Friction / Marquee Moon
04. Television - Marquee Moon / Marquee Moon
05. Television - Elevation / Marquee Moon
06. Television - Guiding Light / Marquee Moon
07. Television - Prove It / Marquee Moon
08. Television - Torn Curtain / Marquee Moon
09. Television - Little Johnny Jewel Pts. 1&2 / Marquee Moon
10. Y Pants - Magnetic Attraction / Y Pants
11. Contortions - Dish It Out / No New York
12. Suicide – Girl / Suicide
13. Theoretical Girls - Nato / Theoretical Record
14. Mars - Helen Fordsdale / No New York
15. Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - Burning Rubber / No New York
16. The Ramones - Chain Saw / The Ramones
17. New York Dolls - Vietnamese Baby / New York Dolls
18. Stimulators - Loud Fast Rules / single