Television :: Piccadilly Inn – Cleveland, July 25, 1975

One hell of a night in Cleveland. Television played its first out-of-town shows deep in the heart of Ohio in the summer of '75. The opening band was Rocket From The Tombs, a band that would soon splinter into Pere Ubu and Dead Boys (You can hear the RFTT set from this night on the the officially-released The Day the Earth Met Rocket From The Tombs). Television had been doing some splintering of late as well, having bid adieu to their original bassist / songwriter/ vocalist Richard Hell just a few months earlier. His replacement, Fred Smith . . .

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