the new year...new light...new thoughts...watching my show on cable access...the band Television on this episode...their melodic sound is hypnotic...it entices the listener into a dream world...my brother and I went to their new year's eve show at the Bowery Ballroom...it was a frigid night but the show was excellent...the band is tight and hasn't lost a step over all these years...it was the first time I was seeing them and I was not disappointed...I use to listen to them back in my freshman year at Clark when Mike Michaud would invite me into his room to check them out...they were famous for having been one of the original bands at CBGB's...they part of the punk revolution that also featured The Radmones and The Patti Smith Group...punk was a return to back to the roots of the music...to strip back the artfice and return to rock back to its essence which was a raw throbbing sound which the punks felt rock had lost...death tot he hippies and all that bullshit...the scene it didn't last long...coming from such a nihilistic view how could it?...I didn't like it when it was happening back then...the music was too limiting for me...I preferred the more lyrical inventions of the Grateful Dead and Hot Tuna who I felt had a command of their instruments and music...it's funny but now I appreciate the punk music...I don't actively listen to it but when it comes on the radio I listen or when my brother plays it I enjoy it...it's about the new light...new ways of seeing....
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