Television - Live '75 - Breakin' In My Heart - Cleveland (The Piccadilly Inn) +lyrics
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- "Breakin' In My Heart" never made it onto an official Television release but Tom recorded it on his first solo album "Tom Verlaine", 1979. Only a few Television songs ever made it onto Verlaine solo albums ("The Grip of Love" is another one - thanks go to You Tuber linclink for reminding of this factoid) although there were a lot of unreleased Television songs he could have potentially used. In a '79 interview Tom said that after Television's second album "Adventure" came out, he'd decided he'd put "Breakin' In My Heart" on the next album, whether it was a Television album or a solo one.
This was recorded at The Piccadilly Inn, Cleveland, July 25, 1975. Fred Smith had replaced Richard Hell on bass a few months earlier.
After the guitar intro on Breakin' in My Heart, an audience member is heard to say "Wow!" I concur. "Awesome" being too overused a word, how about "sublime" instead?
Except for a couple of lines & chorus almost all the words to this Television version are different than on Tom's solo recording of the song. I wanted to know what the lyrics here are. Many lines are hard to discern easily or at all, but here's a best effort to transcribe as much as I could, with headphones, equalizer, & repeated listenings - but no guarantee they're 100% correct.!
After listening to a couple of other Television live versions of "Breakin' in My Heart" (this is the best one I've heard so far. I've uploaded another example from a NYC show at "Mother's"), it seems Tom, on this song in particular, used to apparently improvise some lyrics on the spot, as the words are somewhat different each time.
He even seems to admit so here. Lyrics QUOTE: "I'm makin', & I'm makin' it up"!
BREAKIN' IN MY HEART (attempted lyrics transcription)
Thunder, thunder & lightnin'
When I first camped out I felt so sick
All the boys lit a fire just pretendin'
Ah, there was hot dogs, & there was songs
So I move off, off to the woods
I was tired of stories
And then in the woods, & onto the pine needles
A soft hiss, soft hiss
Soft hiss of the rain
All I could feel was the drizzle
I could feel the lightnin' shift the edges
It all reminded me of somethin'
It reminded me of somethin' that-
It gave me a memory of somethin' I'd never seen before
It made me want to laugh & throw myself up whole
And the edges shift
I say uh-oh
I knew I was gonna catch Hell tonight
That little crack split
Small cones, small cones chew up my legs
Small clouds beat on it
[ ? ] so I started, started to flick
Started to flick, flick, flick, flick, flick, flick...(etc.)
Started to flick, flick to start that fire
I hear the camp [?] boys [?] tellin' -
And these corny ghost stories
And I - I said "man, you know I'm through listenin! "
I said "man, stop breakin' in my heart! "
[ ? ? ? ]
Breakin' in my heart
[ ? ? ? ]
Breakin' in my heart
It may hum & get a buzz
It ain't breakin' in my heart
All the nights I improvise
And I'm breakin' in my heart
Laugh at the Horsehead [ ? ] undergrad, it goes
Breakin' in my heart
I say when you play it again, we'll do it again
Breakin' in my heart
This slow tryst kiss
Breakin' in my heart
I'm makin', & I'm makin' it up
It's always breakin' in my heart
And the fool, oh boy [ ? ]
Breakin' in my heart
All the lies, the drunken lies that go
Breakin' in my heart
I ain't so [sleepy?], I learn the ways
It's breakin' in my heart
Oh baby, no treasure without pleasure
Breakin' in my heart
Livin' far, far, far-
The kingdom's 'cross the road
Breakin' in my heart
[? ? ?]
Breakin' in my heart
[? ? ?]
Breakin' in my heart
All a-ga-ga, & the sixth time, was it
Breakin' in my heart
I'm not searchin', you know I ain't lookin' for this [time?]
Breakin' in my heart
I just pointed out a moment of gold!
Breakin' in my heart
Breakin' in my heart...(etc.)
I LOVED playing "Breakin in my Heart". I was saddened that he did it on his first solo record, but he did have Ricky from the B52s play on it, so that's cool. Television's "Kingdom Come" and Tom's solo version are 2 completely different songs. Bowie covered it, and hired Tom to play on it, but Tom was so anal-retentive that David (Who had badly wanted to produce a record for us -- he did Iggy instead), that during the mixing of the tune they made tom's guitar disappear, buried in the mix...haha
This post is a bit dated, but I LOVE this tune and a good bit of y’all’s other work. For what it’s worth, thanks for all the foot-taps and road trip bellowing over the years. Seems like yesterday, doesn’t it?
Ricky's sound is absolutely amazing.
I first heard this on Verlaine's solo album, and though I loved it, I thought, "Man, too bad Television didn't record this. It really cries out for twin screaming guitars."
RIP, Tom Verlaine. Thanks for everything.
Rest in peace Tom. Tonight the air has teeth
Ficca goes nuts here in the best way
I'm in love w Tom... Wishing it was 1978 again... Mourning my youth... 🥀
Boy oh boy Richard Lloyd absolutely murders the solos on this and I mean that in the best possible way.
What I find awesome about this track is Richard's haunting building solo to Tom's use of feedback as a damn near instrument in itself, in the intro. Nothing like it.
Just as an aside, the opening act for Television this night was Rocket From The Tombs. As many of you may know, RFTT spun off Pere Ubu, the Dead Boys and a pre-crash-and -burn Peter Laughner. It was pretty much a mutual admiration society between the two bands, as I recall.
Hey, this is a very boutique question but I worked at a spot near Cheetah Chrome's spot in Nashville and I have always wondered if Tom Verlaine came into my coffee shop around 2002?? Did Tom Verlaine ever come down to Nashville to jam with Cheetah Chrome? There was a guy who I thought was TV (I was especially obsessed with him around that time) who I joked around with...never got to see him play but I would like to believe I made a cup of coffee for him. I came here looking for videos from the tour they did with the Only Ones where he had the clear plexi guitar.
Billy Ficca really drives this version ☯️🕉🙀🐾
@lloyd206 So nice of you, Richard Lloyd, to add an informative&personal comment as someone from the band recorded here in '75 (sorry it took me a while to figure out it's you who wrote the lloyd206 comment).
I love your&Tom's playing here,& so in my description describe the guitar intro in this version of Breakin' In My Heart" as "sublime" -- as in chills up&down the spine!
Btw, "Television", 2011 may be a Ripp ,but without Richard Lloyd is not Television,imo.
--Accept no Substitute, folks!--
I'm not sure which is more correct to say: that it is necessary to have heard "Sister Ray" in order to do a song like this, or that hearing "Sister Ray" makes doing a song like this necessary. Either way, I think Television finds the same "place" here that the Velvet Underground found on "Sister Ray" and "What Goes On," and it's great.
Television's encore of "Satisfaction" was sublime.
"Heaven's Door" was traumatic and dramatic.
oh, those guitar bird calls and whistles, chimes and deadly silence.....
OMG this is a gem. and the footag. thanks sooo much for posting!!!
Yes, the 4shared link works last I checked (that was today). If some people have trouble with the link, I don't know why that would be.
@Bobjb999 "The Grip Of Love" I knew, but I actually cheated on "Red Leaves", checking the net & found that "Red Leaves" draws it's verses from "Adventure"- the title track from the criminally underrated 2nd album, that came out as a bonus track on some Rhino re-issue a few years back. Lots of other stuff lying around...there's a version of "O Mi Amore" from within the last ten years somewhere here on YT, and a handful of other tracks. We need a Televsion rarities Box Set!!
Uploader, thanks so much for posting and for your very informative notes and links.
Very nice audio on this recording.
Oh, those of us with ears can hear that Richard.
Very tough to get Linc to work but thank you for posting ☯️🕉🙀🐾 please post more television and 3 member early talking heads if you have any, they sounded completely different when they were a trio and I think that was when they were at their best I used to see them live all the time in 1975 through 1977 ☯️🕉🙀🐾 television on the other hand was much better once they got Fred Smith, are used to see them all the time also and they were a whole different band once the switched bass players
Always thought Breakin in My Heart off of Verlaine was the last great guitar solo by one of the last great guitarists. Thanks for posting this. A recording of historical value.
Tom plays rhythm throughout the entire song... all the lead work is me.
@@RichardLloyd1951 Hat's off to you. Brilliant work. Thanks for straightenning me out.
@@RichardLloyd1951 it's still a great solo by one of the greatest guitarists ever. I saw you more than a few times starting at My Father's Place on Long Island in '77 and you rock, dude.
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Richard Lloyd protege...
Actually "Kingdom Come" is also on this first eponymous Verlaine album from '79. Bowie covered it on "Scary Monsters (& Super Creeps)", but "Breakin' In My Heart" is the total peak of that first album for me.
You don't like Red Leaves?
I loved an interview where Fred Smith talked about recording the album version of this song and how he was not going to let Tom leave without getting the solo because he was worried the song would never get cut...
I have to say, if you haven't heard Dreamtime you need to buy it on Discogs or get Spotify or whatever people do these days. It is an absolutely flawless album.
Anyone interested in old/rare mag. & music paper articles/interviews with Tom Verlaine & Television band mates Lloyd, Hell, Ficca, & Smith should check the video description info. here. I've left a link here to a downloadable file of approx. 60 articles dating from '74 - '90 I collected from 1978 to 1990. Plus a link to scans of scarce poetry book "The Night", by Tom Verlaine & Patti Smith, published 1976.
Is there still a dl for these articles somewhere?
@linclink You jogged my memory & you're correct Television did The Grip of Love live. I have a cassette tape somewhere of a '78 show where they did it. I didn't know Red Leaves was Television era though. I'll need to correct my description now, won't I?
@lloyd206 Someone emailed me a Tony Visconti quote,adding a "wrinkle" to your interesting Kingdom Come story: “We asked Tom if [he'd]...overdub..guitar[on Bowie’s Kingdom Come cover]..[He]asked if it would be okay to rent some...amps,[as if] he was...down on his luck...&didn’t own a guitar amp..David&I [watched] Tom...auditioning every guitar amp in NYC...30...Hours drifted...[We]left him still auditioning amps at 7 pm.I don’t think we ever used a note of his playing,if we even recorded him.”
I believe that "The Grip Of Love" & "Red Leaves", also from that first album, were first Television songs, and might have been on the what would have been the full band follow up to "Adventure".
Yes, it's so fascinating to find Television bootlegs and discover "Hard on Love" is "So Said Laura" from Dreamtime and "Untitled Instrumental" is kind of also "So Said Laura"...
I feel like the Neon Boys EP and Dreamtime are miles beyond anything from it's time and since. I listen to Dreamtime and I imagine that album instead of Full Moon Fever or Nevermind being the blueprint for American rock and roll and it's a lot more exciting!!!
Hiya 'Hermesacat'-Mike here, I'm a Cleveland guy. This is great stuff. TERRIFIC sound for a '75 club show. I dunno why, but I have ZERO memory of this place, the Piccadilly. I just spent 45 minutes trying to even get an address to jog my memory. It's pretty much the same time I started expanding my interests and catching off-the-wall stuff (compared to previous interests.)
Do you know of any more material from this show?
Anyway, great stuff, thanks for putting it up.
Check my entire video description here (click where it says ''Show More''). You'll see I posted a link there to a downloadable audio file of this entire show where anyone interested can download it from. Btw, I know nothing about this venue, except that it's listed as the venue for this Television show.
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It was an amazing show.
@linclink But listen to Television's Kingdom Come vs. the Kingdom Come that appeared on Verlaine's 1st solo album. They're completely different songs, as Tom himself stated in a '79 interview. All they have in common is the title. Tom said he "didn't go along" with Bowie's version, which I guess is a polite way of saying he thought it sucked! I much prefer the Television K.C. Breakin' in My Heart's my fave too from that album.I wore out that cut on my vinyl LP, I played it so much!
All Velvet. So beyond!
I would wonder to guess that 10 years meandered their way for everyone to see. Then, all of a sudden Tom Miller's work is 'remarkable'! After all of these years, you Tom break my heart in such a wondrous way! Take all care.
See the video description here. I've recently added a link to an upload of a recording of this whole Piccadilly Inn show available at a file hosting site where anyone can freely download it. Also, if you go to my upload of Television's "I'm Gonna Find You" you'll find in the description a link to a downloadable file of other early unreleased Television songs from '74 & '75 recordings.
Very cool, thank you very much!
The album release had the late Ricky Wilson of the B-52's playing guitar on the track
correct. at the end of the boot of this show ya hear the band give shout outs to the openers RFTT. a band Mr Lloyd is now in.
Is the 4shared link still active? I don't want to sign up to a site for nothing.
Check out The Blue Aeroplanes version of Breakin'.....loads of live versions of it on RUclips......
Heh - I was in a band called the _Purple_ Aeroplanes!
Absolutely. That first Tom Verlaine album is patchy - the band are kind of clunky as they are on much Tom V solo stuff. However there are moments of brilliance, and Breakin' in My Heart is absolutely one of them. I grab every vinyl copy of this album I see because I've also worn out the grooves on a few copies playing B in my H. It really does just float away on some sort of cloud of rock music heaven this thing (the sort of thing I usually hate!). Thanks for your great posting.
batchainers baloney. It's genius. Red Leaves? Grip of Love. This song.
@lloyd206 Because it's more interesting.......
Don't click on the links! Malware!!!
Thanks for alerting. Something HAS changed at that 4shared site. I don't trust it anymore and will remove the links from my video description here.
i,ll have great company in hell