Richard Lloyd

Bob-Dubery

Richard Lloyd is one half of the great dual guitar attack of the band Television. A very fine player with a growing reputation as a high-level teacher and as a producer.

I have heard from a reliable source that Mr Lloyd is currently in Jo'burg producing an album for Jim Neverthink and has even been known to get up on various stages in Jo'burg.

Does anybody know anything about this? Lloyd is a remarkable player, and I'd really like to get a good look at him if he's gigging around Jo'burg.

Squonk

I would also like to see him.

Just seems like yesterday when I travelled from Florida to Johannesburg by train walked all the way to Hillbrow and to Hillbrow Record Library,( I think it was called then, the owner was a guy called Lenny who eventually started CD Warehouse) to buy Marquee Moon .
Circa 1977?

Was good stuff ?

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote: I would also like to see him.

Just seems like yesterday when I travelled from Florida to Johannesburg by train walked all the way to Hillbrow and to Hillbrow Record Library,( I think it was called then, the owner was a guy called Lenny who eventually started CD Warehouse) to buy Marquee Moon .
Circa 1977?

Was good stuff ?

I remember that shop. Lovely place. They masqueraded as a "library" to get around laws of the time which forbade trade on Sundays. In theory you could "borrow" a record on Sunday and return it the next day - but the small print made that pretty difficult ?

I love the contrasting styles on Marquee Moon. Lloyd was more technical and premeditated - trying to figure out interesting things in context of the structure of the song. He also played a lot of "rhythm parts", riffs and patterns that supported the song. Verlaine was technically the lesser of the two (which is not to say that he was a slouch) and also more adventurous and spontaneous.

Verlaine's solo on "Friction" is one of my all time fave solos.

The remastered, re-released Marquee Moon has comprehensive liner notes. One of the points therein is that the engineer could go to Lloyd and say "let's double track that part" and Lloyd would say "sure" and lay the same part down again perfectly. When they tried it with Verlaine his answer was along the lines of "well I don't even know what I just played".

I thought their best work together was on the "come back" album that Television recorded in the 80s. Simply titled "Television". Verlaine has his vocals better worked out, and there's some terrific playing from both of them.

Verlaine released a pair of albums a couple of years ago. One was mostly actual songs, the other was all instrumental. I need to dust those off.

Bob-Dubery

Turns out that Lloyd played a show with Jim Neversink in late February in Johannesburg.

It looks like he may be playing on the album that he is producing. "Jim Neversink" had his guitars in at McGibbons saying that whilst they were OK for him he needed the intonation to be as correct as it possibly could be because Richard Lloyd was going to be playing them.

My understanding is that he's still in town, but that any live appearances are likely to be spur of the moment.

Apparently large numbers of guitar players in this town are saying "Richard WHO?". Makes me feel old.

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I thought it might be of some interest that Mr Lloyd left South Africa under quite a heavy cloud - I have it on pretty good authority that he assaulted the (female) bass player from the Jim Neversink band and then punched Jim (Mike) himself. It's hard to say who was to blame for all of that, but things didn't end well at all.