Richard Lloyd’s three solo albums through the mid-’80s tended toward bluesy riffs, and though his licks continued to be highly regarded, he didn’t quite carry Verlaine’s following. In the late ’80s and early ’90s he performed with power popster Matthew Sweet, an avowed Television fan. Fred Smith played on both Lloyd’s and Verlaine’s solo records. Billy Ficca drummed for the new wave band The Waitresses and rejoined Verlaine in 1992 for his seventh solo release. That same year Television reunited as well, releasing a third album that, though it contained solid songs and was well received critically, didn’t reach the heights of their original incarnation and couldn’t possibly live up to the legendary status and influence the first two records had attained. The band played festival dates in the wake of the reunion record, then took another hiatus, this one eight years long, before returning to the festival circuit at 2001’s All Tomorrow’s Parties. Over the next half dozen years the band made occasional appearances. In 2004 they played shows in New York with Patti Smith to mark the 30th anniversary of their first co-headline at Max’s. They even toyed with recording another album before Lloyd left the band for good in 2007, replaced by guitarist Jimmy Rip, who had long supported Verlaine’s solo recordings and live sets.
When CBGB’s closed in the fall of 2006 — Hilly Kristal unable or unwilling to renegotiate his lease and the back-rent he owed the non-profit Bowery Residents’ Coalition — New York’s media outlets and many fans mourned, even those who hadn’t been into the club in decades. Television received requisite nods as founders in most accounts of the club’s history, though unlike other early CB’s performers — David Byrne, Patti Smith — Verlaine kept his distance from the closing drama. Hilly planned to take the club to Las Vegas, even the urinals, but instead his 2007 death left his family scrapping with one another over inheritance and the club’s lucrative trademark logo.
Patti Smith headlined the club’s final shows. Standing out front, amidst crowds, reporters, and paparazzi, she snapped her own photo of the famous awning. “I’m sentimental,” she told the Times, blaming the closing on “the new prosperity of our city.” She encouraged kids to go somewhere else — anywhere — to start scenes of their own: “CBGB’s is a state of mind.”314 As part of her three-hour final set, which would culminate in her reading the names of CBGB’s dead over the last strains of her song “Elegie,” Smith performed songs that invoked her history with the space, including “We Three,” which she’d originally written about her, Verlaine, and Lanier, and which refers to the club in the opening lines. She read the lyrics to “Marquee Moon” with Lloyd backing her on guitar. Recalling her first Television show in April 1974, she saluted the band for its role in establishing the scene. She’d been recording new music with Tom Verlaine the night before, she said, then added with a smile that “he reluctantly sends his love.”
314 Sisario (2006).
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