Television
USA
Formed: 1973
Died: 01 January 1978
Genres: Pop/Rock
Styles: Punk/New Wave, Proto-Punk, Hard Rock, New York Punk, American Punk, Punk
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Television were one of the most creative bands to emerge from New York's punk scene of the mid-'70s, creating an influential new guitar vocabulary. While guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd liked to jam, they didn't follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation -- they removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angular rhythms and fluid leads, Television's music always went in unconventional directions, laying the groundwork for man...
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