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Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn’t so easily categorized.web.archive.orghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8dN_R0jJk
Kingdom ComeProvided to YouTube by Rhino/ElektraKingdom Come · Tom VerlaineTom Verlaine℗ 1979 Elektra RecordsGuitar: Adey Wilson -Percussion: Allan SchwartzbergPiano: Br...YouTubeI don’t know many Verlaine stories but this one on Pushing Ahead of the Dame about Bowie’s cover of “Kingdom Come” on Scary Monsters has stuck with me since it was posted (there’s a similar story about Jimmy Page in the early 80s spending most of an invite on wah pedal battery fussing and not really laying anything down): everybody has off days.
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