Talking Heads- Classic or Dud?

I hope he brings out Rocky & Diesel and plays a 15-minute version

vincent tour was great!

Nice Niels!

The live YouTube clips from that tour ripped

Saw this in Portland a few days ago

One of the most memorable concerts I've ever attended, joyous and life-affirming at every possible moment

Byrne's voice is a marvel, he's singing better than ever

Lighting is unreal

Go see it

and a few lucky(?!) punters got to peep this while he was in town:

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2018/05/29/20188583/david-byrne-sang-a-prince-song-at-a-portland-karaoke-bar-over-the-weekend

One of the coolest shows I've seen in years.

Saw it last night and agree. ^^ Considering going back for a second time tomorrow night.

‪Full-on peak-80s conceptual concert, Stop Making Sense Pt. 2 and holding its own against the original, with pt. 1’s Robert Wilson influence replaced by Ivo Van Hove’s.‬

Does away with any traditional band-on-stage setup, instead being both carefully choreographed and playing all over a giant empty space with no grounded instruments.

I likened it to a neo-futurist drumline.

Friday tickets were going for $45 on StubHub, and tonight’s are $95-$400, so I think word has gotten out about how exceptional this is. On par with Stop Making Sense, United States Love — those 80s epics.

I'm in Chicago for work training thing tomorrow said fuck it and shelled out $150 for a ticket, orchestra pit seat looks like I'll be really close (printed face value is $125 doesn't feel too bad) got it from a local broker through Vivid Seats app which seemed to have better prices than Stub Hub but had to go pick it up physically at office

^^ good move imo, plz report back

I am a moron for not going to see this

My first thought after seeing it Friday was that if I had time I would have totally seen it again the next (two) nights.

goddamn, can attest nothing anyone has said is hyperbole.. maybe the most creative staging and choreography I've ever seen. band is just incredible. Byrne's voice and energy level is like the mid 80s, what a show!

You guys have convinced me to buy tickets to this show’s L.A. date!

do it!

really wish i'd heard all this praise before he came through the pnw!

*sees he's coming to dallas in....fuck thats a long time*

Ok, got tix for the SF show. The Oakland shows are already sold out.

Clay otm

well, he did announce the tour by calling it his most ambitious since SMS ...

ok you guys convinced me to get tickets to the forest hills stadium show. 35 years since we last saw him there!

Benjamin Clementine (of the Mercury Prize and Benjamin Clementine - I Tell A Fly (!!!!!) ) opened and baffled and/or failed to distract the Chicago audience.

There was no introduction, and I hadn't bought the Byrne tickets, so thought it was the first song or two of the Byrne show itself. And in a way threw the audience a "difficult" curveball (Tune-Yards may do the same when they open later shows).

Just missed his show here, fuck man

According to Andy Zax, the producer of Talking Heads' Once in a Lifetime box set, the band has an enormous cache of completed songs that Byrne is continuing
to withhold.

Does it say why he’s withholding them? (Like Lucille Bluth, does he “get off on being withholding”?)

I know that he would maybe know, but imo that seems unlikely. First, the band released their stuff at a pretty good clip, and it's not like those albums were bursting with material, even as contemporaries were eventually releasing double and triple albums. Even then, say it was an artistic decision to keep things short, there have been a couple of sets of reissues - Sand in the Vaseline and that Once in a Lifetime boxed set, plus that other boxed set - where unreleased songs might have popped up, but the bonus stuff was pretty scant or just sketches. Googling around, there seem to be maybe a couple of tracks they played live but never put on an album, but I'd be shocked if there were tons of unreleased things that were never played live, never put on a reissue, and escaped being bootlegged.

I've always wondered if Byrne and Bowie had any sort of relationship. Longtime New Yorkers, smart, friends of Eno, arty and erudite ... you'd think they'd be fast friends.

i asked zax about remain in light outtakes at some point and he said there really wasn't that much of releasable quality left over from those sessions (don't know about other albums). the bonus tracks that have come out are fantastic, but they're essentially jams, not completed songs.

JiC otm, I'd be very surprised if there were any fully realized unreleased tracks at all

I recently discovered that the version of "New Feeling" on the B-side of "Love Goes To A Building On Fire" is an earlier version with cool horns and other production touches! Not on YT or I would link it...

re: Byrne and Bowie.

Tina Weymouth made a dismissive remark in the David Bowman biography to the effect that people like them and Brian Eno live in
their own spheres and would be happiest if in near-total isolation with artists like each other for company

Didn't Byrne introduce Bowie at the latter's RnR Hall of Fame induction?

Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GeFtpjuXk0

Of course, Bowie wasn't there, was he? Madonna accepted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D8RLzOHk1Y

And Bowie was reckoned to be trying to sing like Byrne on D.J.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgPUxjQOk-w

My gf went with a friend night before last. She's not a particularly big fan of TH/Byrne but she raved about the show. And they even had nosebleed seats.

It was something. Weirdly comforting.

This interview is a tad indulgent, but has some gems in it:

https://www.gq.com/story/david-byrne-talking-heads-icon-profile

Including a link to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adUtlz0GcCg

A++++ cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkVC2p4gz1Y

Nosebleed seats were fine, because the whole stage was used and the sound was clear. Here was my view from Friday night (Auditorium Theater in Chicago):

http://i68.tinypic.com/2qisrcg.jpg

Yeah, she took some brief videos and it looked like the show was staged to be enjoyed from pretty much any distance. And is it just me, or has Byrne's voice remained magically unchanged for forty years?

did i already miss the nyc part of this tour? Y'all are waking me up here.

Seeing him in a month on a festival, guessing he won't be doing these exact shows in that setting. Still, psyched!

Been trying xyzal but th

did i already miss the nyc part of this tour? Y'all are waking me up here.

Ha, my unposted fragment of seasonal allergies post that went unfinished came along for the ride, sorry

I wish they were playing 'Totally Nude' instead of 'Blind.' Setlist looks awesome otherwise. I don't know much of his solo oeuvre. Is the material from the new album strong?

And is it just me, or has Byrne's voice remained magically unchanged for forty years?

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yeah it's kind of amazing, his voice doesn't really sound different than the 80s...

quite nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByTLLEdL8Og

New stuff was nothing special, was really all about the visuals imo.

Interesting essay: https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/angelique-kidjo-interview-myth-of-cultural-appropriation-covering-remain-in-light/

How do you all rate the new record? I haven’t really given it a full listen. Feel like I’m a completist at this point

It's nothing special.