Richard Lloyd was the rhythm guitarist for New York punk legends
Television; he released the solo album Alchemy in 1979 and then dropped out of sight due to drug addiction, returning in 1985 cleaned up and with a new record,
Field of Fire. The follow-up, a live album recorded at CBGB's and titled
Real Time, appeared in 1987. Along with ex-
Voidoids guitarist
Robert Quine,
Lloyd next helped bring
Matthew Sweet to prominence on a series of albums starting with 1991's power pop classic
Girlfriend; after the follow-ups
Altered Beast and
100% Fun, both guitarists departed.
In addition to teaching,
Lloyd returned to his solo career, forming a backing band that included bassist
Peter Stuart and drummer
Chris Butler. A new studio album,
The Cover Doesn't Matter, was released in early 2001.
Lloyd revisited his second solo album,
Field of Fire, in 2005, completely redoing it, and the results were issued as 2007's
Field of Fire on Reaction/Parasol, which included both the original and redone versions of the album. The all-new
Radiant Monkey arrived that same year. In 2009
LLoyd completed work on the
Jamie Neverts Story, an ambitious collection of
Jimi Hendrix covers.
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Steve Huey, Rovi