En plus d'une reprise du 13th Floor Elevators, l'article ci dessous retrace "des bribes du Sister Ray du Velvet Underground", Mitch Mitchell pour la batterie..., The Byrds, Ornette Coleman...
A mon avis, les influences de Tom Verlaine était surtout littéraires et poétiques, avec une fascination pour Arthur Rimbaud qu'il partageait avec Patti Smith (et Jim Morrison)
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"My brother was buying Motown records and I really liked the way they sounded. Then he got "All of the Day, And All of the Night" by the Kinks and "19th Nervous Breakdown" by the Rolling Stones, and those were the songs that really get me in terms of rock. It was a super kind of aggressive quality in those records- not a macho aggressiveness or any stupid stuff- just a real push, a real drive. I also loved the Byrds and Love. The Byrds just had such a sound. The Band did some nice things, too. Robbie Robertson is really a special guitarist. Cream and Hendrix were great; Cream just had such incredible energy; I tried to play some of the things off of Hendrix's records and I'd get so frustrated because I didn't realize they were overdubbing. There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so…it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like 'let's stay away from it because we might cry or something.'"
"Up until then, the guitar was a stupid instrument to me," recalled Miller, long after he had changed his name to Verlaine. "Those records made me think the guitar could be as good as jazz." The 16-year-old heard The Yardbirds, The Byrds and Mike Bloomfield's stinging leads on Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, records that, a decade later, would help shape Television, whose shortlist of covers included the Stones' 'Satisfaction', Dylan's 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door', as well as The Yardbirds-loving Count Fives' 'Psychotic Reaction' and the 13th Floor Elevators' 'Fire Engine'."
