The Blow Up

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On the evening of March 31, 1974 the band Television took the stage at the NYC Bowery night club CBGB's for an extended residency that revolutionized the rock and roll universe! It was the actual birth date of the New Wave movement. This anti-glam, anti-big industry rock crusade incubated in New York with the likes of Patti Smith, The Ramones, Richard Hell, and The Dictators. At the very least the Television residency at CBGB's brought enormous media focus to a simmering underground for a new kind of music the industry denied and hated. Television, historically, became one of the great legendary bands of all time largely because of their seminal peer influences, their rich original eclectic passionate music, the clash of Tom Verlaine's guitar and surreal lyrics with Richard Lloyd's psychedelic guitar. The Television double cassette release of 1982 became one of ROIR's best-selling cassettes of all time. We are proud to bring it back, digitally remastered and re-edited in 1999, 25 years after Television's first CBGB residency performance. "The Blow-Up is Television's most fiery rock 'n roll, both the extended epics Marquee Moon and Little Johnny Jewel and the rockers, Fire Engine, profit from the raw trebley mix." –9's!!! Spin Record Guide "Live they were the ultimate garage band with pretension. A post-humous tape-only compilation of live performances shows the bands rawer side." –Trouser Press Record Guide "Television's debut at CBGB's was on March 31, 1974. It was the

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