Guitarist Tom Verlaine, co-founder of band Television, dies at 73

American post punk band TELEVISION performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on Day 1 of Canadian Music Week on May 06, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. Pictured: TOM VERLAINE. Tom Verlaine, guitarist and co-founder of the seminal proto-punk band Television who influenced many bands while playing at ultra-cool downtown New York music venue CBGB alongside the Ramones, Patti Smith and Talking Heads, has died. He was 73.

"Tom Verlaine has passed over to the beyond that his guitar playing always hinted at. He was the best rock and roll guitarist of all time, and like Hendrix could dance from the spheres of the cosmos to garage rock. That takes a special greatness," Mike Scott of The Waterboys tweeted. "'Marquee Moon' has become something of a holy grail of independent rock in the years since. It has been a clear influence on such artists as Pavement, Sonic Youth, the Strokes and Jeff Buckley," Billboard magazine wrote in 2003.

American post punk band TELEVISION performed at the Phoenix Concert Theatre on Day 1 of Canadian Music Week on May 06, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. Pictured: FRED SMITH, BILLY FICCA, TOM VERLAINE, JIMMY RIP. "We wanted to strip everything down further, away from the showbiz theatricality of the glitter bands, and away from blues-iness and boogie," Television co-founder Richard Hell wrote in his autobiography, "I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp.

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