Can we discuss the awesomeness of Weymouth's bass line on the live "Born Under Punches."
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 29 November 2021 00:23 (two years ago) link
dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7N2tFb0X8
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 29 November 2021 06:38 (two years ago) link
That was absolutely insane!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, 29 November 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
dude. 📹
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR8jgFGmqvU
― Duck and Sally Can’t Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 05:50 (two years ago) link
I'm sure this has been discussed before but I wish that whole Rome show was available as an official release. Absolutely insane.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
The whole band are on FIRE. Belew is demonic.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Busta + Weymouth play the solo. I can't separate them.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 December 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
i used to figure the odds were pretty good that they were sitting on it for an eventual release, but i'm less certain now, feels like the moment may have passed
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:02 (two years ago) link
So Busta plays the solo. Cool.
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
iirc one of them was asked about releasing the rome show once but they said there was some rights issue that meant it wasn't a possibility? but i'm not certain about that
― ufo, Thursday, 2 December 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
practically in tears watching that video. incredible
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
They were/are all so great.
Tina, Busta, Scales? It's not like we need to be stingy about praise. It's not zero-sum.
― tone-loki (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
This show is from the same tour. More vivid color vs the washed out look of the Rome show. Think the music was better in Rome. Anyway in case you want another version...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQo1YK3I0BY
― that's not my post, Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
hell yeah
― skull. kneel. kneel. kneel. kneel. (Karl Malone), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:32 (two years ago) link
weird how little screen time Weymouth, Frantz and Harrison get - it's essentially Byrne, Belew, Jones, Scales, McDonald for 80% of the time. I love that old weirdo YouTube stabilising algorithm though.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
Well, I hear you Matt but I suspect the true fans know.
― tone-loki (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
I mean
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
I met somebody over the summer who was going to see David Byrne’s show on Broadway who told me Talking Heads was one of her favorite bands. I asked her if she had read Chris Frantz’s book and she said “Who?” /TrueStory
― Goofy the Grifter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 December 2021 00:53 (two years ago) link
ouch :(
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 3 December 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
anyway, that Rome show was the reason I got an external DVDRW hard drive in 2003 - because I couldn't save the torrented files to a CDR. absolutely essential.
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Friday, 3 December 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
Probably a bland/untutored comment but to go back to the original comments about Tina on that clip: I'm not used to seeing her play with a pick - is that a rare move or have I just not been paying attention?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 3 December 2021 07:37 (two years ago) link
she uses both techniques regularly, depending on the song
― ufo, Friday, 3 December 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link
Chris Frantz has even shared links to fans' YouTube uploads on his social media accounts. I'm certain he'd love to put it out officially on a DVD or something if he could.
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 December 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
there's a bunch of interviews from last year where frantz says he would love to be able to get the footage remastered & released. harrison has praised it a lot in interviews too
can't dig up anything corroborating my memory of there being some rights issue preventing it getting an official release but i would certainly assume they've looked into it in the past or are looking into it
― ufo, Friday, 3 December 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
weird how little screen time Weymouth, Frantz and Harrison get
True, although I didn't know Bernie Worrell was there until about 10 seconds from the end!
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 December 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Yeah true, I guess I was thinking along the lines of the actual band members, but were the whole crew considered to be “in the band” at this point? Would seem unusually democratic for Byrne.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 3 December 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
finally getting around to the Chris Frantz book and today i learned that the sonar-ping sounds on "take me to the river", which ive spent 30 years assuming were an Eno keyboard sound, are actually Frantz hitting some kind of woodblock w/reverb.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
burning down the house and once in a lifetime are good but the rest bores me!
― xzanfar, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
there are 3 other songs on the spotify top 5 for Talking Heads
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
xzanfar you should try "take me to the river", theres this cool 'ping' sound in the beginning that you might think is a keyboard but is actually a woodblock
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
the ping is only on the streaming version though, not the CD, and it depends on the stereo you have
#onethread
― my hands are always in my pockets or gesturing. (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
My friend and I like to talk about this late '70s/early '80s era of art-rock where it's sometimes impossible to tell the synths from the real instruments. Like, Peter Gabriel albums, sometimes it's a synth, sometimes it's a guitar, sometimes it's Gabriel yelling into a mic through a synth, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Yep, like the outro to "Once in a Lifetime" has like these insanely distorted warbles that probably started life as humble organ parts
― Mark Antonym (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I always thought they were distorted guitar power cords, but I'm pretty sure they're just overdriven organ.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link
and sometimes the synth yelled at Gabriel
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 December 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
the synth yelled at Gabriel
Sequel to "The Boy Looked at Johnny"?
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 15 December 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Lol
― Santa’s Got a Brand New Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 17 December 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
Franz book ended up being a letdown imho, but did offer some interesting tidbits I'd never heard before about ideas for Talking Heads projects that Frantz liked but which never materialized - thankfully, bc they largely sound terrible.
One is that apparently the idea of having Phil Spector(!) produce the third Talking Heads LP got as far as the meeting stage - and no farther, after Spector predictably acted like a lunatic at the first meeting. Would he have added a children's choir to "Heaven"? Sadly we'll never know.
Another scuppered idea which Frantz still seems steamed about is that apparently he was approached by Ken Kesey in the early 80s about Talking Heads doing an opera based on Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha"...? Frantz loved the idea but apparently it was nixed by the bad ogre David Byrne, and we have the Stop Making Sense movie instead. The mind reels at the alternate-universe possibilities...
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 20 December 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
i wonder if he felt like that would compete with his catherine wheel stuff from the same period?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
i can imagine how the hassles byrne was getting about appropriation & imperialism in the early 80s might dissuade him from taking on that particular subject matter at that moment in time
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
The new Spider-Man opens with "I Zimbra" playing over the opening credits, which I wasn't expecting
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 20 December 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
UH SPOILERS???
― class project pat (m bison), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
jk jk im not gonna watch that for a few years probably
You forgot to add #onethread there.
― Blue Suede Q*bert (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
Dadaist poetry finally makes it to the mainstream.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 20 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
you may ask yourself
where is that radioactive spider
― deez nuts roasting on an open fire (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
About the talking heads 5.1 downmixes that were going around a few years ago (and which are fucking fantastic)… does everyone else’s file of the first track on Naked have a jarring glitch on the very first brass note? Been trying to live with it but it really bugs me!
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yes! I made a fix, lemme see if I can dig it out.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:31 (two years ago) link
Oh yay yes please! Lol i knew it would be you who’d respond
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 26 March 2022 14:35 (two years ago) link