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Stop making sense
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:54 pm
by tito
Talk about one funky concert DVD.
The Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense."
Anyone seen it? Got any favorite songs? Anything you don't like about it?
Personally I love the onstage energy the band creates. Sometimes. . .the props got pretty strange.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:36 am
by lshaia
That's a great video, one of my favorite concert videos. My favorite songs are "Once in a Lifetime" and "Burning Down the House", but they're all good. Well, the Talking Heads songs are good, I'm not crazy about the live version of "Genius of Love", although I like the studio version very much.
I saw them in Fall of 1982, the year before SMS was filmed; it was the same stage, backup singers, etc. It was one of the best concerts I've ever seen.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:13 am
by tito
You got to see them? Thats really cool! Were they as crazy as they are in the video? Was it a loud concert?
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:12 am
by wayang
I saw that particular tour as well...the Red Rocks show. The full moon came up directly behind the stage when they came on. They were as 'crazy' as in the video, and it wasn't too loud...I brought 2 liters of Long Island Ice Teas in Coke bottles (the preferred method for importing alcohol into the venue at that point in history)...I was there with two visiting Kiwi friends; we wound up distributing booze(etc.) to our immediate fellow audience members... Great show...so great, in fact, that when the video came out the following year, it became an instant favorite in McMurdo...we used to collect TV's from different 'hooches' and daisy-chain 'em around the room at the carpentry shop and show SMS with the soundtrack blaring through a P.A. system...Danceteria South!
By the way, boys will dance with boys when they're drunk enough...even 'good ol' boys'...everyone of us has ancestors who did...
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:42 am
by lshaia
Like Dane said, it was pretty much what you see in the video, with the exception that Tina Weymouth was about seven months pregnant. It wasn't Ramones loud, but it sounded good, and the whole band was obviously really into what they were doing, without any of the normal rock star type posing. I distinctly remember David Byrne running laps around the back risers at the end of the show. I saw them at the Assembly Hall in Champaign, Illinois, and the whole place was dancing. It was an incredibly fun experience.
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 7:47 am
by wayang
David Byrne is one of our finest cultural 'frostbacks'...
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:19 pm
by tito
Does anyone know what the status of the band members are now days?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:37 am
by atomic_punk
The last time I saw them was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, where they played "Burning Down the House".
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:19 am
by shamustwin
...counting their money?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:51 pm
by tito
. . .burning down the house?
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 1:57 pm
by scottpro1969
I saw David Byrne on Austin City Limits about a year ago. He's doing solo stuff. Some strange stuff, I might add.