He’s now the only Head on the West Coast. He’s lived in Malibu for some years
― beamish13, Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
he tried to release an album under the moniker "The Only Head on the West Coast" but David Byrne sued.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:38 (three years ago) link
Voted for Fatima Mansions because I own it and adore it and had NO IDEA Jerry produced it! It's so un-Talking Heads, that's for sure.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
OAR ewww
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
would be fun to slip one absurd album into this list to see if fresh eyes could find it
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
would have made for a much better poll tbh
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
a new poll genre
1994 four Blues Traveler
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:43 (three years ago) link
who finds it?
1997 Whatever and Ever Amen Ben Folds Five
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
2007 Courage to Grow Rebelution
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
all of these pass
What was that artist you all got worked up about years ago, Denny Vertigo?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
Maybe even Denny Lethargy.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
LIGHTNING CRASHES,
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
1998 Hard to Swallow Vanilla Ice
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
responsible for an awful lot of dross from the 90's, Jesus. ugh.
― akm, Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
2002 An Awful Lot of Dross From the 90s Jesus. Ugh.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:39 (three years ago) link
It's like that one Spy cartoon of Dan Aykroyd's desk with his Accept Box overflowing with scripts alongside an empty Reject Box.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:47 (three years ago) link
He's the Rick Rubin of acts that want to be forgotten as quickly as possible.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
celebrity endorser of the iHome line of bluetooth speakers
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
sits on the control room couch, awake and engaged, during tracking sessions.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
was he a producer for hire or a Warners staff producer? Both?
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
Maybe he was following in the footsteps of John Cale, with less spectacular results.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
He probably forgot to wear a cape.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
This list is so "college rock" in the sense of what jewel boxes littered the most floors of dorm rooms, as opposed to what was played on college radio stations.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:30 (three years ago) link
Lol. Extra lol since I originally read that as "jeweled bones."
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:34 (three years ago) link
hugely otm. major 'back to campus FallFest' concert vibes
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:43 (three years ago) link
That Le Butcherettes album from last year is spectacular even if Jello Biafra shows up unwarranted in the first two minutes.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
B-b-but does Mojo Nixon show up at any time?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
It's cool how many of these are complete sentences
The Blind Leading the Naked Violent FemmesRemember Rusted RootLive On Kenny Wayne ShepherdI’d Rather Eat Glass Bijou PhillipsLove The Juliana TheoryHow I Go Kenny Wayne ShepherdBelieve The String Cheese Incident
oh I see someone above already kind of did this sorry
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link
oh, we remember all right
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
Mojo Nixon is everywhere and Mojo Nixon is in everybody out there
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
we had it all: cups, pudding pops, powder -- the complete jello biafra
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 20:56 (three years ago) link
the basic answer here is surely : none of the above.he is a producer for hire.you pay the fee, you get his name on the production credit.
― mark e, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs),
yeah, that's whom I had in mind
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:07 (three years ago) link
They probably paid him in promos.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
was Violent Femmes' college radio profile 1982-1991 as impressive as I imagine?
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
I imagine them as CMJ mainstays. I remember "American Music" and their Culture Club cover getting airplay as late as summer '91.
"American Music" is so corny and yet I really love it? Is that Jerry Harrison's doing somehow?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
Nope, that was Michael Beinhorn.
― 📺👁️ (peace, man), Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
man it's like he thought: "welp, i've helped make some of the coolest music of the 70s and 80s ... let's see if I can do the opposite from now on."
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 October 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Ha, exactly. It’s like he’s the anti-, um, the anti-, ... the anti-Jim Dickinson, maybe.
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 06:54 (three years ago) link
No, that doesn’t work
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 October 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
the anti-David Byrne
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 October 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
It's in line with a general phenomenon among people who make great art and then just want to chill and direct a Jack or record a 'Don't Drive Drunk' in their latter years.
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 October 2020 12:04 (three years ago) link
IHNTPTYP (I Have Nothing to Prove to You People) Syndrome
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 October 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link
I have nothing to offer as a producer so I only work with bands that are beyond help syndrome.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 October 2020 12:39 (three years ago) link
Little column A, little column B
― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 October 2020 12:45 (three years ago) link
he tried to release an album under the moniker "The Only Head on the West Coast" but David Byrne sued.He's the Rick Rubin of acts that want to be forgotten as quickly as possible.No Surfing, Just Shred
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Friday, 9 October 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
Regarding Jerry’s net worth, David Bowman’s mostly excellent but distractedly VERY anti-Weymouth opens with a description of him building a new home in Malibu.
― beamish13, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:38 (one year ago) link
Doesn't that book also say he earned "Monopoly Man money" from the albums he produced by Live (i.e. wheelbarrows of cash)?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 3 February 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah I think Jerry and Chris and Tina have generally done fine, cashflow-wise. If there were a neglected Head who was languishing in poverty and waiting for some restitution, maybe that would feel like a severe injustice.
As it stands, I can safely regard any extant core Talking Heads acrimony as arguments among millionaires.
If I were going to get morally exercised about anything, it would be the external magicians who made the excellent Stop Making Sense-era "extended" band so fucking awesome. Let us now sing the praises of: Lynn Mabry, Ednah Hole, Steve Scales, Bernie Worrell, Alex Weir.
If THOSE people haven't been sufficiently remunerated and praised, imma fight someone. I feel like Chris and Tina and Jerry will be fine.
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:31 (one year ago) link
sorry Ednah Holt
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Believe Bernie might have had bigger problems getting compensated for his P-Funk-related activities iirc.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
I hope Bernie is doing fine, of course. Dude is solid.
That said, my guess is he won't be writing a book in 20 years stewing about how David Byrne hogged his credits 40 years ago or whatever.
I am generous with my advocacy and with my sympathies. I feel like Byrne's contributions to the culture have been adequately recognized. I am generally optimistic that his bandmates will be generally okay (despite some understandable prickliness). Until I hear otherwise I will optimistically assume that their collaborators and sidepersons have gotten, or will get, their due.
p.s. I think we can all agree that the expanded Heads lineup was among the greatest supergroups ever, and that their work will be eternal. I love minimalist punky early Heads too, but the expanded Heads sound is among my favorite things ever.
Let us imagine that malevolent aliens showed up and demanded a reason why they should not obliterate or planet. Let us further imagine that they want to see a representative cultural product that encapsulates the best we have to offer. I would probably play them an Ella and Louis record first, and Stop Making Sense second.
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
Tina and Chris will plaything aliens Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
Will play for
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
Bernie Worrell died in 2016 my friends
― Pierre Delecto, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
At the same time, I have never interrupted a Jamaican yachting vacation to charter a plane to go back to New York so that I could go to a cocaine rehab session.
How Trump will begin his nomination speech in 2024.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
Volo Volo by Poi Dog Pondering is a great album. Never realized JH produced it.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Too coherent. Xpost
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
My high school bandmate is playing percussion on this tour ... I'm inclined to see it for that reason. He said the first leg in the fall was a blast.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Isn't the bassist from Belew's band? She's great.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 February 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
I had a friend who was in Poi Dog. Don't recall any JH stories, mostly the one about Nick Lowe buying them pints in a pub or him sleeping in and missing out on Prince's pancakes at Paisley Park.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
Re: Worrell, oops, my bad. Sorry. RIP.
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah, I seem to remember something about Jerry telling them he wished that David B would put the band back together.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 February 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link
julie slick? she wasn't with the band in the videos I saw from the tour last year but I don't know about this time.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 3 February 2023 18:10 (one year ago) link
Yeah, she's in the band now.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 February 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
I guarantee Bernie got fucked out of money by George Clinton
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 12 February 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link