TELEVISION

Live At The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, 6/29/78

This title is no longer available from Rhino Handmade.

However, numbered copies from the original edition may be available at select retailers.

An individually numbered, limited edition of 5000 copies from Rhino Handmade.

Some bands make their mark from the stage. Others do their best work in the studio. Television must be experienced in both contexts. The jam band of punk, they massaged their songs to mesh with whatever vibrations coursed through a given concert hall on a given night. They performed faster and heavier on stage, adding rich overdrive to the crystalline tones heard on their first two studio albums, 1977's Marquee Moon and 1978's Adventure (both available in expanded, remastered editions from Rhino).  

This set was recorded during Television's sole U.S. headlining tour, to promote the Adventure album. They start with "The Dream's Dream," which sputters sparse avant flourishes before unleashing its mid-tempo procession of harmonic delights. Fred Smith's seething bass lines punch through with particular immediacy. A faithful reading of "Venus De Milo" follows, and then "Foxhole," a wound-tight rocker that simmers with punk stabs and nervy guitar workouts.  

Television then tackle two more Adventure tracks, the New York Dollsy "Careful" and "Ain't That Nothin'," the staccato single that here sports a slightly extended jam section. Their first single, "Little Johnny Jewel," gets an improvised spoken section in the middle, while "Friction" remains similar to the version on Marquee Moon. Next, that album's title track stretches out with a few extra minutes of soloing, falling just short of its 17-minute peak heard elsewhere on the tour. The band encores with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," a tense but otherwise reverent rendition of the Stones' classic that flies off in a freakish guitar solo before returning to a stomping, soulful finale.  

Released concurrently with Rhino's expanded and remastered editions of Marquee Moon and Adventure, this passionately performed, sonically rich live recording completes the picture of Television in their late-'70s prime.  

Live At The Old Waldorf, San Francisco, 6/29/78 is available as an individually numbered limited edition of 5,000 copies. 

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