Fellow musicians pay tribute to Tom Verlaine, who died on Saturday after a brief illness, and was revered by generations of rock guitarists for his jaggedly inventive playing.
abc.net.au/news/tom-verlaine-innovative-guitarist-frontman-of-television-dead/101904314Tom Verlaine, the inventive guitarist, singer and co-founder of seminal New York proto-punk band Television has died aged 73.
Famous fans and fellow musicians paid tribute to Verlaine on social media, heaping praise on his innovative rock guitar playing."Tom Verlaine has passed over to the beyond that his guitar playing always hinted at," Mike Scott of The Waterboys tweeted. Increasing tension between Verlaine and fellow guitarist Richard Lloyd led Television to disband after its second album.
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