NYC-based art-rocking quartet Television left behind quite a legacy of classic proto-punk, most notably with their seminal Marquee Moon. Outside of their three-album discography, there are numerous bootlegs that exist, including recordings with punk legend Richard Hell. Among them is recently leaked Hell-sporting track "Horizontal Ascension."
Richard Hell describes his experience with the legendary band with the following statement:
I was in the band for a year... But the peak of my participation in it probably came at about three or four months... It sounds more like what the Neon Boys sounded like than like Marquee Moon-era Television. As great as the guitar playing is on Marquee Moon, the original band was more to the point. It's more like... it came at a time when music was really... boring, you know? It was a return to the values of the Kingsmen and the Sonics and Them and the Velvet Underground. It still had this really beautiful guitar talent -- ecstatic, explosive guitar -- going on as well as this lyrical quality, but it was more driving and crazed."
"Horizontal Ascension" can be streamed below courtesy of Dangerous Minds.
Richard Hell describes his experience with the legendary band with the following statement:
I was in the band for a year... But the peak of my participation in it probably came at about three or four months... It sounds more like what the Neon Boys sounded like than like Marquee Moon-era Television. As great as the guitar playing is on Marquee Moon, the original band was more to the point. It's more like... it came at a time when music was really... boring, you know? It was a return to the values of the Kingsmen and the Sonics and Them and the Velvet Underground. It still had this really beautiful guitar talent -- ecstatic, explosive guitar -- going on as well as this lyrical quality, but it was more driving and crazed."
"Horizontal Ascension" can be streamed below courtesy of Dangerous Minds.
