Links in comments...

Thanks to reader Dave Sez who has posted some interesting looking links in his comments today.
Check out his comments on The Ruts, Flux, Television, Richard Hell and Lew Lewis.
Just a reminder that comments are what makes the blogger's work worthwhile.
Update: Check back here regularly for further links from Dave.

Television- Marquee Moon 7” (1977)

Let’s put this into context- This 7” single is 32 years old.
I found it in a box of rubbish in 1986. I was literally going through somebody’s rubbish when I found it. It was naked- no sleeve.
So there’s a bit of surface noise. That’s an understatement.
There are millions of pristine versions of this music available out there in blogland.
It just made me think though- when you’re looking for a rare record for every copy that’s nestling comfortably in someone’s collection, armoured in a polythene sleeve, protected from dust and extremes of temperature, there are probably an equal number that were chucked out in the rubbish.
It emphasises the essentially ephemeral nature of pop music. I remember one kid who used a box of Elvis 78’s as airgun targets…

John Peel Show- Punk Rock Special December 10th 1976. Fixed Link.

…an injection of energy and crudity into a rock scene that’s been painfully smug and complacent … Peel on punk.
On December 10th 1976 John Peel devoted his show to the punk rock scene. Readers may well be familiar with the music featured, and the records that Peel plays here might be accessible, but this is a good listen for Peel’s observations on what punk was about and how it was revitalising music . The inclusion of tracks by American progenitors such as the New York Dolls supports the notion that creative movements are about evolution rather than revolution, despite what their champions would have you believe.

Peel intro.
The Damned - So Messed Up (Peel Session)
The Seeds - Pushing Too Hard
Iggy and the Stooges - Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Eddie and the Hotrods - Horseplay (Wearier of the Schmaltz)
The Damned - Neat Neat Neat (Peel Session)
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation (E.P. version)
Television - Little Johnny Jewel Pt. 1
Tuff Darts - Slash
Pere Ubu - Final Solution
The Damned - New Rose (Peel Session)
Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.
The Fast - Boys Will Be Boys
New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
The Saints - I'm Stranded
The Damned - Stab Your Back (Peel Session)
Shadows of Knight - Light Bulb Blues
Ramones - California Sun
Ramones - I Don't Want to Walk Around With You
Peel outro…

http://d01.megashares.com/dl/574PM2s/John Peel - Punk Rock Special -.rar

Television- Fairland Demo (1974)

Ok, these 5 tracks were recorded in 1974 before Richard Hell (nee Myers) fell foul of his boyhood buddy Tom Verlaine (nee Miller) and left Television. Hell, of course, went on to become one of punk's elder statesmen. Brian Eno at the controls.

Line up:
Tom Verlaine- guitar , vocals
Richard Hell- bass
Richard Lloyd- guitar
Billy Ficca- drums

Television- Double Exposure (1975)

Listening to so called independent music in the 1980’s there was no escaping from the influence of Television. It was so tempting to post a rip of their superb Marquee Moon LP of 1975, but that is still readily available, and I figured that regulars to Burning Aquarium deserved something just a little bit special. So what we have here is a 1975 demo, produced by the genius Brian Eno.
Island Records turned the band down on the 'strength' of this demo.
Line up:
Tom Verlaine- guitar , vocals
Fred Smith- bass
Richard Lloyd- guitar
Billy Ficca- drums.