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Remember TV Toy?

There once was a band from Morris County called TV Toy who took punk into prog. The original trio of Rob Barth, Steve Peer and Dreux Bassoul had a song they called “Weekend” that drove fans nuts when they opened for Talking Heads, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes, Bill Bruford and Jan Hammer. Recorded in Passaic County, it will be part of Rob Tannenbaum’s exhaustive CBGB:  A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986, a four-CD boxed set due January 30 on Cherry Red Records.

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