I only blame him for shouting in an oscar the grouch voice "Who dat? Who dat? Now who dat tryin' to be bad? Your mother!" during an otherwise enjoyable performance.
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 3 February 2023 00:03 (one year ago) link
I found the jus'-folks tone of Frantz's memoir often irritating tbh.
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 February 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
A lot of people fit that description, as YMP says, including one other guy…hey wait!
― And Your Borad Can Zing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 February 2023 02:05 (one year ago) link
Byrne's solo catalog might be thoroughly mediocre, but he's released a dozen or so albums, a couple of them good, a couple great. And had plenty of other projects and collaborations and tours. And won an Oscar. And got nominated again this year. Even generously giving the scales a tip in favor of the first Tom Tom Club album, if Frantz had something to prove, he would have done so by now.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:23 (one year 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