The original group was from New York City, influenced by The Velvet Underground and other pre-punk, post-garage acts of that era. At their first concert in 1970, the group destroyed 15 television sets onstage at Rutgers University. An early poster for Figures of Light described their show as “a rock ’n’ roll violence sonata.” They released their first and only single, “It’s Lame” (backed with “I Jes Wanna Go to Bed”) in 1972. They pressed only 100 copies of the 45.
It received little if any airplay outside of New York, and Figures of Light never got anywhere as big as The Velvets or the New York Dolls or even The Dictators. They broke up, smashing their last TV well before the great punk-rock scare of the late ’70s. http://steveterrell.blogspot.fr/2012/06/terrells-tuneup-figures-of-light-shine.html
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music_xplosion
The original group was from New York City, influenced by The Velvet Underground and other pre-punk, post-garage acts of that era. At their first concert in 1970, the group destroyed 15 television sets onstage at Rutgers University. An early poster for Figures of Light described their show as “a rock ’n’ roll violence sonata.” They released their first and only single, “It’s Lame” (backed with “I Jes Wanna Go to Bed”) in 1972. They pressed only 100 copies of the 45.
music_xplosion
It received little if any airplay outside of New York, and Figures of Light never got anywhere as big as The Velvets or the New York Dolls or even The Dictators. They broke up, smashing their last TV well before the great punk-rock scare of the late ’70s. http://steveterrell.blogspot.fr/2012/06/terrells-tuneup-figures-of-light-shine.html
sean1
Great jam. New to me. Thanks for the heads up
music_xplosion
@sean1 @ NEAT_NEAT_NEAT My pleasure :) Happy to share it!