I had one of his solo albums on cassette. Loved it and this was one of my favorite tracks. Well…this is a different version from the album I had but still, love it.
Brilliant guy, but completely fucking bugnuts. All that particular crew seem a bit mental in one way or another, really. I think Lloyd, Tom Verlaine and Patti Smith are enormously talented, but I get the impression I wouldn’t have been able to tolerate their particular brand of egomania back in 1970’s New York.
Still brilliant though :).
Will check it out, thanks. I came to Marquee Moon well after the fact. I absolutely love it. I love their Prog-Talking Heads sound.
But yeah, you get the impression there’s toys in the attic with that gang. They’re cool toys, but still.
The first time I heard Patti Smith take Gloria and open it with “Jesus died for someone’s since but not mine!!” I kinda suspected she had Catholic schoolgirl issues 
There’s that whole Rimbaud idolization thing, too. They all emerge from that, and it represents the voice of a young, but incredibly immature and dramatic teen genius seizing the day while loudly rejecting the orthodoxy. I is another. Yes, you can choose who you are. Please do so and move on.
Watching smart kids act out their repression issues gets…fatiguing after a while.
I’m merely pleased that, for once, a Cafe Society thread about such-and-such musician from such-and-such band isn’t followed by “…has died.”
All that reverb is kind of a deal killer for me, but I always loved what Lloyd and Verlaine had to say with a guitar in their hands, and this song is no exception, so thanks.
Ha! I love reverb, the more the better. Well, to a point I guess.
Saw him playing with Matthew Sweet around the time of Girlfriend or 100% Fun. Amazing.
Me too. Great concert.
Do you know how many times I tried to duplicate his and Tom Verlaine’s licks on Marquee Moon?
Of course you don’t. But the answer is a hell of a lot, and I was never very good at it. Great, imaginative playing from these guys.
Um…I’m going to make you feel like you’ve utterly wasted your life then. Sorry.
Here’s a ten year old playing Marquee Moon. And, apparently, playing both Tom’s part and Richard’s part. He starts out a little shaky before the rhythm section comes in, but after that, he is awesome:
Richard Lloyd's wife Shelia saw this video and posted it on Richard's Facebook.