A music business lawyer friend of mine said about the recent NARM (National Association of Record Manufacturers) Convention held in Miami: "It's a good thing I met Brian Epstein before I met these...underwear salesmen. If I hadn't, I'd be divorcing people today..."

Given the attitudes of much of the recording industry, no wonder it's taken so long for Television (the group) to get a recording contract. (And, as of this writing, I don't know which of the three major bidders won.) I suppose it's just a fact of life that the business is several steps behind the music. But in the past five years I've watched a lot of music being sold. Music being made with a passion, sense of originality rather than a "this will sell" attitude, is rare. That doesn't mean that when your average Southern boogie band gets together to do their next record they don't care about their music. I guess I just don't care all that much about their music. Obviously, there's a market for it. But concern with the market often prevents music that is new, different, and occasionally confusing to some, from being heard.