Richard Lloyd in 2009 (more by Benjamin Lozovsky)

Back on June 12th, this message was posted to the Richard Lloyd Facebook Fan page:

I regret to inform you that the Richard Lloyd and Grand Strand June 2012 Tour has been cancelled. Richard's health has declined over the past week and on June 11 he was admitted to the hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Again I am sorry for the cancellation.

Team Lloyd

Thank you all for your kind get well wishes for Richard. Richard is still in the hospital but is feeling & looking much better. I've relayed all of your messages and he is very touched. Thanks again.

"When I saw Tom Verlaine play for the first time, I realized he had 'it,' and all my life I've looked to try and teach people 'it' and usually come away with great despair," Lloyd said. "You can teach harmony, but you can't teach melody. You can show someone the craftsmanship of songwriting, but they're the ones who have to put out the antenna and wait for the universe to send them a song.

"The actual creative process is not one over which human being have control. I always thought that; otherwise I wouldn't have picked Tom. I'm the one who made the decision and suggested to our first manager, Terry Ork, that he put Tom and I together as a guitar-playing team." [Richard Lloyd to the Daily Times]

Speaking of CBGB and Richard Lloyd, his old friend Patti Smith (who played the final show at the club with Lloyd in 2006) has a trio of end-of-year shows around the corner from CBGB, at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets are still available for all of them.

Patti, along with Jerry Seinfeld, Jackie Gleason, Woody Allen, Allen Ginsberg and 395 others, was just named one of the New York City 400 by the Museum of the City of New York. It's the "first-ever list of New York City's 400 ultimate movers and shakers since the city's founding in 1609".

A flyer for the Studio show and a pair of videos from Lloyd's show with the Sufi-Monkey Trio at LPR in September are below...

Continue reading "Television's Richard Lloyd playing The Studio, Patti Smith part of the New York City 400"

Former Television (current Rocket from the Tombs and frequent Matthew Sweet) guitarist Richard Lloyd and his band The Sufimonkeys will be touring this month [April] and next - dates below. The Sufimonkeys features Television drummer Billy Ficca and bassist Keith Hartel.

[As briefly mentioned before,] Parasol Records will be releasing a new album of Jimi Hendrix covers by Richard entitled The Jamie Neverts Story. Though the Hendrix covers CD won't be officially released until September 2009 Richard will have finished CDs available for purchase at these shows.

As mentioned above, Lloyd will be joined by Television member Billy Ficca. The two were scheduled to play together - AS TELEVISION - at Central Park Summerstage in 2007, but sadly, Lloyd missed that date which would have also been his last with the band. Television are recording a new album, but with Jimmy Ripp instead filling in on guitar (as he did that day at Summerstage).

Lloyd's connection to Hendrix (besides the cover album described above) is documented quite strangely (And without sources) in Lloyd's Wikipedia entry...

In his middle teens he met a scrawny black kid from Brooklyn named Velvert Turner who had the audacity to claim to know Jimi Hendrix. Lloyd was the only one of a group of friends who believed him on first sight and it turned out to be true; in fact, Jimi considered Velvert his "little brother", and took him on as his protégé, inviting him to various clubs and teaching him guitar from Jimi's apartment on W 12th St. As Velvert and Richard Lloyd were best friends, Velvert asked for permission to teach Lloyd what he was learning, and so Lloyd and Velvert began practicing together under the teaching auspice of Hendrix, and frequently attended his shows as well as those of other well-known acts such as Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart, The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead etc.

Continue reading "Television's Richard Lloyd - touring w/ Billy Ficca (Sufimonkeys dates), releasing Hendrix cover CD"

Memorabilia from some of punk rock's biggest acts and seminal moments -- including a scrawled flier for one of the Clash's first shows and publicity photos signed by the Sex Pistols -- is headed for a Nov. 24 Christie's auction.

The event, announced Tuesday, includes more than 120 records, photos and promotional pieces for such punk, garage rock and new wave legends as the Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, the Ramones, David Bowie, Blondie, the Cure and the Smiths.

The auction is Christie's first to focus on punk mementos, signaling the collectible status of a brash, anti-authoritarian rock movement that largely thumbed its nose at posterity.

"We understand that tastes change, tastes mature," said Christie's pop-culture chief Simeon Lipman. "Ten years ago, punk memorabilia probably wouldn't be something we'd be auctioning here. But now, people of a certain age have a certain ability to splurge on this material." [AP]

Bowery Poetry Club, Sep 7 2008

As part of the 2008 Howl Festival in NYC's East Village, a panel discussion on the topic 'Unrest in the 70s - US vs UK' at Bowery Poetry Club, directly opposite the old CBGB premises, brought together a number of punk veterans from both sides of the pond.

Panelists:
Richard Lloyd (Television)
Ari Up (Slits)
Cynthia Sley (Bush Tetras)
Judy Nylon (Snatch)
Walter Lure (Heartbreakers)
Arturo Vega (Ramones)
Steve Garvey (Buzzcocks)
Moderator: Mary Harron

Continue reading "Howl Festival Punk Panel 2008 (60 minute Punkcast video)"

Hüsker Dü

According to this totally random list I found, the 25 'Greatest Punk Rock Artists' are:

1. The Clash
2. MC5
3. The Ramones
4. The Sex Pistols
5. The Stooges
6. Dead Kennedys
7. Fugazi
8. Black Flag
9. The Misfits
10. Bad Brains
11. Minor Threat
12. Joy Division
13. The Buzzcocks
14. Husker Du
15. Bad Religion
16. Minutemen
17. The Damned
18. The Circle Jerks
19. X
20. Television
21. Stiff Little Fingers
22. Patti Smith
23. Green Day
24. Crass
25. Gang Of Four

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for tonight's 2nd Fleet Foxes show.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Grizzly Bear benefit show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Ratatat show at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for a Rasputina show at Hiro Ballroom on August 23rd, and for one at Paradise Rock Club in Boston that is 3 days earlier.

Tickets are on sale for a September 4th Delta Spirit show at Mercury Lounge.

Tickets are still on sale on for the Spoon show at Prospect Park.

Tickets are on sale for the Richard Lloyd show at Southpaw on July 23rd.

Tom Verlaine (and many friends) is playing Knitting Factory.

Free stuff listed in the free show calendar.

Thurston Moore in Battery Park - July 4, 2008 (more by Jason Bergman)

It's happening September 12th @ Knitting Factory in NYC and tickets are on sale!

Richard Reinhardt (a.k.a Richie Beau, Richie Ramone) (born August 11, 1957) is an American drummer best known for his work with the punk rock group the Ramones.

Before working with the Ramones he drummed with Velveteen, and is also reported to have drummed with Annie Golden's band The Shirts. He joined the Ramones on February 13, 1983, at a show at Utica, New York, after second drummer Marky Ramone was fired. He took part in the Subterranean Jungle tour of 1983, where he signed autographs as "Richie Beau", which was the name he went under whilst drumming with Velveteen. [Wikipedia]

Continue reading "Joey Ramone's 2008 birthday lineup, Richie Ramone's lawsuit "

DOWNLOAD: Tom Verlaine - From Her Fingers (MP3)

Sadly, Tom Verlaine announced that guitarist Richard Lloyd was (still) in the hospital. Jimmy Ripp filled in for him. (june 16, 2007)

I personally missed Dragons of Zynth, Apples in Stereo, and the rain. Read all about the show in the comments.

Richard Lloyd @ Knitting Factory, NYC - May 19, 2007 (CRED)

If you've been reading the comments in today's Television post, you probably heard something like this sad news posted on Richard's website:

Message from the webmaster, 1st June 2007:
I am sorry to report that Richard is currently unwell. He has been in hospital Intensive Care for 8 days with pneumonia as a primary medical problem. This has responded to treatment and he has shown some improvement and is now free of the breathing apparatus.

It's also worth pointing out (as it was also already in the comments), that this may be Richard's last Television show ever (well, it's about time! just kidding)...

Continue reading "RICHARD LLOYD - recently sick, but supposedly playing with TELEVISION (for the last time?)"

Television - Marquee Moon alt take

It really is summer. Summerstage kicks of the concert season tonight in Central Park (Friday June 15th) with Cassandra Wilson & Olu Dara. Then tomorrow is the show I've really been waiting for: TELEVISION w/ Apples in Stereo & Dragons of Zynth (3-7 pm). AND Sunday - also 3-7 - Tiken Jah Fakoly, Idan Raichel Project, and DJ Kadafi. All three shows are FREE.

Tickets are also on sale for Rufus Wainwright, Beastie Boys, The Levon Helm Band, The Black Crowes and others. There's also still some left for Decemberists/Land of Talk/Grizzly Bear.

Apples in Stereo are also playing Housing Works tonight.

Previously
* Summerstage 2007 Schedule now official
* Television DATE CHANGE + Apples in Stereo + Dragons of Zynth
* Television playing Summerstage! + Richard Lloyd Tour Dates