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Occupation (s) Musician, singer, songwriter. Instrument (s) Guitar, vocals, piano. Formerly of. Television, Neon Boys. Thomas Joseph Miller (December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023), known professionally as Tom Verlaine, was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the New York City rock band Television.
Apr 6, 2023 · Tom Verlaine, who died on January 28, 2023, had an approach to playing guitar that was never easy to describe. Post-punk, art rock, art punk, whatever; it was one of Verlaine’s great creative achievements that over three studio albums with Television, and a prolific solo career, he was able to unshackle his style from labels.
- Jonathan Horsley
Feb 1, 2023 · In Memoriam: Tom Verlaine (1949–2023) Tom Verlaine performs with Television at the Bottom Line in New York City on June 11, 1978. The fiery, incandescent, and visionary guitarist who died on January 28, 2023, helped spark a punk revolution—and then transcended the form entirely. Musicians feel and experience influence in many ways.
- Charles Saufley
Jan 29, 2023 · Redferns. Farewell to Tom Verlaine, for some of us the greatest American rock guitarist not named “Hendrix.”. Verlaine, who died Saturday at 73, could hit cosmic heights that no other guitar ...
Guitar Legends: Television’s Tom Verlaine & Richard Lloyd – the punk guitar heroes who weren’t punk at all They were tagged “punk” because of a time and place, but Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd’s guitar alchemy in Television was a lot more sophisticated than just rock ’n’ roll with a sneer at 99mph.
Jan 30, 2023 · Wherever you first encountered Tom Verlaine’s guitar—whether it was live, on the CBGB stage at the height of New York’s punk explosion, or years later, from a record bin or a college radio ...
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Dec 13, 2023 · “It’s not a Verlaine composition per se, but Tom’s extended guitar solo on Luna’s “23 Minutes In Brussels” really tells a story,” says that band’s Dean Wareham. “It made it a ...
