Richard Lloyd, 1977 at the Whisky A Go Go - I didn't know it at the time, but I had the measles when I snapped that! I woke up a couple days later covered in spots. Back then, aside from their blistering performances as a band, and as stand-out individual musicians, one couldn't get a sense of what any of the members of Television were capable of. They were aloof, staring at the ceiling, their feet, their instruments, or gazing into space. Musically, no one could compare. When both Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd started making solo records, you realized that the difference in their styles and approaches to music is what gave the band both its friction and it unique style that blended the disparate styles of two distinct and stellar guitar players into a magical music combination. Richard Lloyd is a rock n roller, a ferocious defender of the riff and one of its best practitioners. You could hear it back in punk rock days when Television covered classic rock songs like t...