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    Marquee Moon

    These bands achieved their initial notoriety while playing in the same place (an esophagus of a bar called CBGB, in lower Manhattan) and have been lumped together with other habitués of this joint as purveyors of "punk rock." In their self-consciousness and liberal open-mindedness, these bands ...

    1994 RS: Not Rated

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Television appeared at the same time and place as punk rock - in the mid-'70s at CBGB. But while the band's harsh attack and obvious affection for the Velvet Underground linked it to the rest of punk, Television's trademark chiming guitars and the tendency of lead guitarist (and main songwriter) Tom Verlaine and rhythm guitarist Richard Lloyd to spur each other on to long jams evoked such psychede...

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