Richard Hell Part 5
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- Richard Hell is one of the founding fathers of Punk Music. Born Richard Meyers in Kentucky, after dropping out of school he moved to New York with literary ambitions. In 1972 he formed the band 'The Neon Boys' with his schoolfriend Tom Miller and drummer Billy Ficca. The following year the band became 'Television', with Meyers and Miller assuming the names Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine, and they recruited young guitarist Richard Lloyd.
Television discovered the legendary CBGB, the club out of which American Punk music developed, in 1974. During his time in Television, Hell also developed a unique look, wearing battered and torn clothing, which was the key visual inspiration for the Sex Pistols. He left Television in 1975 and joined former New York Dolls Johnny Thunders and Jerry Nolan in 'The Heartbreakers' for a year, before forming his own band 'Richard Hell and The Voidoids'. After recording two albums, the band split, and Hell went into partial retirement, although since the late 1990s he's returned to writing.
In this interview Hell discusses his various influences, Andy Warhol and pre-punk pioneers The Velvet Underground, watching The New York Dolls at Mercer Arts Centre, Television, CBGB, heroin, The Heartbreakers, The Voidoids, and the UK Punk scene.
Ha... agreed. but you are on his turf. Good point though...
Another flub... he says that Tele was "the next step". He should have said "A next step", because the Dolls and Television were two separate camps, as he stated.
I was of the rock camp, so I hung out at Max's Kansas City. I didn't get into the art scene until much much later. I was branching over to Punk from Alice Cooper, Sabbath plus another vein, T-Rex and Bowie... all playing in my head, to name few bands that parlayed disenfranchisement into music.
And it was all 'live acts' that got me hooked ...for obvious reasons, because it wasn't mainstream. What a rush that was. Staggering back to Long Island at 5AM. White Castle stop to soak up some booze of course :-)
Richard Hell shouldn't be talking about the British music scene at all, he knows absolutely nothing about it that he didn't read in Creem or Rolling Stone.
Britain...Iceland...Estonia...his point was that the US is so big and divergent, not to mention sparsely populated, that it is difficult for music from one part of the country to get to and be accepted throughout.
Totally agree
What are you talking about, dude? He's making very general statements about rock and roll in England, the kind of general statements every person with minimal brains would do, and only in order to talk about the US by comparison. And, anyway, what the fuck do you know about what Richard Hell knows or doesn't know?
profound
Twat
Who cares about the N.Y. Dolls.....tell us about Television