Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's & Five Decades Of Rock & Roll--The Memoirs Of An Alchemical Guitarist (q)

by Richard Lloyd

Overview

Legendary Rock and Roll guitarist. Founding member of Television. Masterful storyteller. Richard Lloyd's acclaimed memoir is now presented in trade paperback format.

Written in Lloyd's inimitable, frequently humorous style, Everything is Combustible chronicles, through vignettes, Lloyd's colorful early life, starting in Pittsburgh and soon moving to New York City, and then details his teenage travels and encounters with music legends including Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Keith Moon.

Lloyd recounts the founding of Television, the band's rise alongside other bands and personalities in the 1970's New York music scene, and the legend-making of the unparalleled music venue CBGB. As the rock 'n' roll tales unfold, he accompanies them with insights into his approach to music and the electric guitar.

Lloyd's mid-career vignettes detail his solo years, including the backstory of critically praised records such as Alchemy and Field of Fire, his drug addiction and recovery, his 90s-era work, and touring adventures with artists such as Matthew Sweet, John Doe, and Robert Quine. Throughout the book is an undercurrent-Lloyd's continually evolving spiritual-philosophical approach to life, emerging from the conscious digestion of the highs and the lows-both ends of the same stick.

In Everything is Combustible, Richard Lloyd relates his life, both inner and outer, in the narrative style, digging beneath the events and revealing their meanings.

Everything is Combustible is a must-have for any fan of Television and the heyday of the New York rock music scene. It fills a void in the written record as the first complete account of the band, including the making of their records and touring, from a founding member of the band.

Considered a foundational band of alternative rock, Television's debut record, Marquee Moon, is widely viewed by critics and musicians as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. As one half of Television's unique guitar sound, and a legendary solo artist in his own right, Richard Lloyd's music has influenced a range of bands and artists from U2, Johnny Marr and Joy Division to R.E.M., Sonic Youth, Wilco and John Frusciante.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780997693782
Publisher:	Beech Hill Publishing Company, Inc
Publication date:	02/19/2019
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	178,494
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Richard Lloyd was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1951. He is a world renowned electric guitarist, songwriter, recording artist and a founding member of Television. As an author, Lloyd was a regular columnist with Guitar World Magazine - the "Alchemical Guitarist." As an autodidacte has developed extensive expertise in many scientific and religious areas, and believes in the alchemical rule: "one book opens another."

Table of Contents

Foreword xi

Prologue: Waiting for the Rollercoaster 1

1 Hello Pittsburgh 4

2 Something of My Birth 9

3 First Birthday Party 16

4 Richard Discovers Electricity and Other Experiments 20

5 "What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?" 23

6 Cough Syrup, Death, Hypnosis and an Early Psychedelic Experience 25

7 Turning Upside Down Inside and the Power of Silence 28

8 Catholic School, God and the Devil 33

9 The Intoxicated Cartoon 39

10 Junior High Heroin and Big Angel/Big Devil 43

11 Teenage Activity 47

12 The Whole World Is Sex 54

13 Valence 57

14 The Hypnosis and Slang Study Groups 61

15 Samantha 66

16 Raising the Ritalin Roof 69

17 Psychiatry Is Nuts 73

18 Richard Meets Velvert and Wakes Up Jimi 86

19 The Guitar Lesson without a Guitar and Black Roman Orgy 90

20 Buddy's Got a Gun 98

21 Hash Magic and Zeppelin Tales 102

22 Woodstock 110

23 Adventures at the Fillmore East 113

24 Montclair and the Reefer Gun 117

25 True Wish 123

26 Boston and John Lee Hooker 127

27 California 134

28 Keith Moon and the Sartorial Splendor 140

29 Richard Cromelin's House 144

30 Lotus to New Orleans and New York 146

31 Moving In with Terry Ork 150

32 Summer of the Superglued Dishes 154

33 The Wailers and the Art of Walking Out 160

34 Reno Sweeney's: Part One 162

35 Reno Sweeney's: Part Two 165

36 Television Rehearsing 171

37 Hilly on a Stepladder 179

38 Tom in the Middle and Island Records 183

39 Hell's Syringes 195

40 Management, Flash Forward to Meltdown and Television's First Single 197

41 The Laws and CBGB's 204

42 Hello Cleveland, This Is Not Earth Music 207

43 Richard Visits the National Council on Alcoholism 212

44 Judy 218

45 Growing Up 221

46 Sire and Elektra 225

47 Anita and Keith 228

48 Recording Marquee Moon 238

49 Peter Gabriel and the West Coast 246

50 Visits with Velvert 250

51 The Ice Kings of Rock 255

52 Television Takes Europe 257

53 New York, What a Place 262

54 Gills and Other Girls 268

55 Recording Adventure 275

56 Television Dissolve 279

57 The Hats, Atlanta and the B-52s 281

58 Dr. Steve and Various Overdoses 285

59 Alchemy and the Downward Spiral 294

60 Endocarditis and Bob Marley 302

61 Field of Fire: Part One 306

62 Field of Fire: Part Two 309

63 Matthew and the Little Kernels 314

64 The Coke Cat 320

65 John Doe and SXSW 327

66 Television Reunite 334

67 The Awakening of Kundalini 343

68 Leaving Television 348

69 Suffering 350

Part II Outtakes 356

Appendix A Meeting Mr. Gurdjieff 375

Appendix B The Depth of Wish 381

Appendix C Poems 390

Appendix D Discography 393