Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's & Five Decades Of Rock & Roll--The Memoirs Of An Alchemical Guitarist (q)
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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 |
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Publisher: | Beech Hill Publishing Company, Inc |
Publication date: | 02/19/2019 |
Pages: | 416 |
Sales rank: | 269,982 |
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