Talk:Richard Lloyd (guitarist)

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Which Little Britain was Richard Lloyd in? I suspect that is was this one: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516112/ not the member of the popular music band Television.

The "Dillyfish" bit of trivia is inaccurate. He does have a son named Dylan though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.38.86 (talk) 04:55, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

There's no citation for the nicknames. references are needed or they should be removed. Affectionate names he uses for his kids won't matter in 10 years anyway.

"Velvert Turner who had the audacity to claim to know Jimi Hendrix." It's pretty clear this would have to be before Hendrix went to England. Hendrix was already a brilliant player but very far from famous, playing dirt-cheap venues like Cafe Wha? While I did hear people raving about 'this guy who plays with his teeth" there's nothing "audacious" about claiming to know hin at that point; it is very unlikely that Lloyd would have heard of him.

Lloyd has actually said he was the only person to believe Velvert's claim of knowing Hendrix(http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/08/03/television-guitarist-richard-lloyd-gets-philosphcal-on-demons-spiritual-cleansing-and-jimi-hendrix/), but the dates make that a very odd claim. It's more likely that Velvert said he knew a guy who played the guitar with his teeth or while holding it behind his back -- things Hendrix did during those early gigs, that many who heard about him found unbelievable.Bustter (talk) 17:25, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

I find much in the article -- and in Mr. Lloyd's recent interviews, wherein he claims ever more zelig-like appearances and influence at key events in rock music history -- to be highly unlikely (and also I find it curious how the tone, voice and details in this article and in Lloyd's recent interviews are so very similar). It's all hugely entertaining: I am especially enjoying the narrative's inventive efforts to position Mr. Lloyd as a Hendrix disciple 40 years after the fact.


 * Not so. I read an interview with Lloyd in Guitar Player in around 1987, in which he talked at length about being a teenage Hendrix fan and meeting the great man himself, so while I agree that this article shows every appearance of having had a certain amount of Lloydian authorship, he was talking at least 24 years ago about having sat at the feet of Hendrix. While I deplore the practice of subjects of WP articles contributing to articles about themselves, I am not going to be the first person to revert everything that bears the stamp of NPOV, on the grounds that I like Lloyd's stuff, am personally biased and anyway, it's not doing any harm. Then again, if anyone does see fit to cut this article down to more objective dimensions, I would not stand in the way of that. Lexo (talk) 23:31, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not sure he's saying he was a Hendrix disciple. It seems more like he is claiming that Hendrix was his own personal Magical negro

Try to remember to sign your talk page entries, like so: Bustter (talk) 19:15, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

The sequence of events given here for the formation of Televison (Lloyd sees Verlaine playing, starts Television with him, Ficca and Hell join later) is the one Lloyd has been giving in interviews, but since Verlaine, Hell, and Ficca had been together in the Neon Boys a few months earlier, I have my doubts. The Television Wikipedia page describes the formation of Television as Lloyd joining the other three. 4.173.201.10 (talk) 03:33, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree. This page is mostly just regurgitating Lloyd's autiobiography, and the idea that Ork assembled Verlaine, Lloyd, and Hell into a band and then added Ficca to this trio completely ignores the fact that Verlaine, Lloyd, and Ficca already had a band that even recorded a single: the Neon Boys. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobdc (talk • contribs) 15:43, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

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