Unlike most bands of the era, Television wore their everyday clothes when they performed. Hell’s filthy unkempt hair and generally disheveled appearance had already made an impression before he arrived one night at Punk mecca, CBGB, with a shredded tee-shirt held together by safety pins. Hell has long maintained that this garment wasn’t meant to be any kind of statement, but simply a way of holding his clothes together. This explanation has never really made much sense. Why didn’t he just wear another shirt? Photographer and friend, Bob Gruen has recently revealed more details. What Hell has been neglecting to mention is the fact that after a fight with his live-in-girlfriend, she had taken a razor blade to all of Hell’s clothes right before the show.