Talking Heads: Naked poll

maybe he did get writing credit? i'm just checking the credits using spotify, and that track is the only one with a credit to "N-Jock"
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He's the other guitarist, I think.

There's a Cameroonian guitarist of that name. I seem to recall some funny David Byrne story about bringing in an African guitarist based in Paris for the sessions and finding out only too late that he had picked up the wrong African guitarist.

Anyway, there are like seven or eight guitars going on in that song, It's hard to know who does what.

Byrne plays the hard rhythm lines, Marr and Jock the fluttering things.

I don't know about this story, the bass line on the finished record seems to be outlining a definite chord progression...unless they re-recorded the bass and other instruments to the chord changes that Marr devised?
I'd have voted for "Blind", anyway. A friend of mine said that "Cool Water" was one of the great career-closing songs (if you don't count the handful of tracks that dribbled out over the next couple of years) for its apocalyptic tone, Talking Heads and the world ending at the same point.

I seem to recall some funny David Byrne story about bringing in an African guitarist based in Paris for the sessions and finding out only too late that he had picked up the wrong African guitarist.

Theres a story in the Chris Frantz book like that, about a day they were expecting a certain African guitarist at the studio and a messenger showed up for something and bluffed his way into the session by answering "yes" when they asked him if he was the guitar player. They start and the guy cant do the parts and suggests they rearrange the song to fit his playing. Eventually when the actual guitarist shows up he is too polite to step in bc he doesnt want to embarrass the guy and take gig away from another African. No info on what song it was or if any of it made it on the album or anything iirc.

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Sad that I missed this poll 11 1/2 years ago, but I would've voted for "Blind". One of my favourite Heads songs.

The anecdote's also in the liner notes to Sand in the Vaseline.

Yeah, that's where I saw it. Also where I first saw the picture just posted.

I spent 30 years wondering wtf David Byrne is holding in that photo and today I learned that it is the world's largest siamese pickle.

Oh! i always thought it was the tongue of some giant beast