(Editor's note: This concert was canceled on June 13.)
What's essential to know about the Redstone Room's June 14 headliner can be summed up succinctly: Richard Lloyd was one of the guitarists of Television, the seminal band whose 1977 Marquee Moon is widely considered a great debut, an unmistakable influence on post-punk and alternative rock, and a classic, period.
The All Music Guide calls it "a revolutionary album, but it's a subtle, understated revolution. Without question, it is a guitar-rock album - it's astonishing to hear the interplay between [singer/songwriter/guitarist] Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd - but it is a guitar-rock album unlike any other," composed entirely of "tense garage rockers that spiral into heady intellectual territory, which is achieved through the group's long, interweaving instrumental sections ... ."
But to reduce Lloyd to a member of Television - whose initial incarnation disbanded in 1978 after two sterling studio albums - is to diminish a more-than-respectable career as a performer and songwriter outside of that band, and to rob the world of a fascinating person.
