In the '70s, the band Television towered over the New York punk scene, despite the fact that there was nothing very punk about their long, lyrical, unusually structured double-guitar rock songs, led by Tom Verlaine's beautifully fluid playing, plaintive voice and poetic lyrics.
You could say that Verlaine's guitar style is suited to film soundtracks, and in fact, his long-awaited return to Toronto is not to play with Television -- whose second reunion involves a European tour and eventually an album -- but to play live accompaniments to silent films at the Images Festival.
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