Talking Heads live at The Kitchen (1976)
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- Talking Heads performing live at The Kitchen in NYC, March 13th 1976.
David Byrne on guitar and vocals, Chris Frantz on drums, Tina Weymouth on bass. This was before Jerry Harrison joined the band (and before they had any official releases).
This is one of the earliest video recordings of Talking Heads performing (possibly the earliest in such good quality and colour). There are a couple of clips already on TH-cam but this didn't seem to be on the site yet in full.
Some information on The Kitchen's website, including a press release about the event: archive.thekitc...
Setlist:
00:00 - Introduction/soundcheck
02:13 - The Girls Want To Be With the Girls (Featured on More Songs About Buildings and Food in 1978)
06:05 - Psycho Killer (Featured on Talking Heads: 77 in 1977, with different lyrics)
10:55 - I Feel It In My Heart (Featured on the deluxe version of Talking Heads: 77, with different lyrics)
15:28 - I Wish You Wouldn't Say That (Featured on the deluxe version of Talking Heads: 77)
18:15 - Information about the recording
19:00 - Stay Hungry (Featured on More Songs About Buildings and Food)
24:35 - I Want To Live (Featured on compilations such as Sand in the Vaseline, 1992 and Bonus Rarities & Outtakes, 2006)
29:48 - Tentative Decisions (Featured on Talking Heads: 77)
32:55 - No Compassion (assumed, video ends before song starts)
Unfortunately this is not the full performance, and it's suspected The Kitchen still has the second tape in their archives that isn't currently released - let's hope that changes in the future!
This type of thing is what I love about TH-cam. Stumbling across gems like this is so rewarding. I’m so grateful to whoever put this up. Thank you
I know. Bits of history that might be lost otherwise.
Amen! If it werent for the internet and TH-cam, many of us music lovers would never see this incredible footage! I spend every other day on TH-cam learning current events, history, and then nice videos like this to chill out to!
It’s amazing when you watch this and compare it to the “Stop Making Sense” performance that occurred just 7 or so odd years later. David definitely feels a lot more confident in that movie than he does here, though considering this was in the early years of the band, it makes sense.
David and the band were basically just babies/kids here-David was only 22 or 23 at the time of this performance, with Chris being 24 and Tina being 25. It’s so fascinating to watch this and see how young they were, and how early it was at the start of their careers, having no idea what the future would have in store for them.
And let me just say, for footage that is nearly 50 years old, holy shit is it in great condition.
Exactly - another perspective is 7 short years after this they made what is now considered by many, to be the greatest concert video ever made. This band if from another universe.
David was 23 almost 24, Chris 24 almost 25 and Tina 25.
When they asked Tina in ‘79 how things had changed after they hit it big. She said, “more sex and better drugs”.
One of the most creative and versatile groups of all time. love em.
Wow! What a find. I saw Talking Heads in 1977 at University of Michigan. A slightly larger venue, but not by much. “Psycho Killer” was practically a theme song in our dorm as we let the New Wave wash over us. This really takes me back. Thanks for posting it!
This is great. David almost seems like he's on the spectrum. I love how every instrument is out of tune, every song is the same tempo, odd silent periods to change his pedals and they are literally sharing a coke. Out of all of that you can see glimpses of genius.
David's actually talked in recent years about discovering how the autism spectrum applies to him, and how he's realised that being autistic has been a kind of "superpower" for him which has helped him view the world uniquely and creatively, it's quite inspirational
he is definitely on the spectrum....
On letterman he talked about hitting his head was how he feels when the music is hitting him...that dance he does was his physical manifestation of the music hitting him.....
Yeah. LSD and autism. What a mix.
@@RyanKudasik those 2 combined creates a creative flow state
This is gold. Absolute gold. It’s a kind of miracle that this footage survives.
1976 wasn't that long ago. I still remember the taste of the strawberry flavored red, white and blue rolling papers.
Nobody in America in those days was filming or preserving footage of obscure bands like this. And for it to survive in such quality! You’d have to be stoned not to marvel at it.
@@GastonBulbous you'd probably marvel at it more if you were stoned 🤣
It’s not a miracle, it’s The Kitchen! 😉 We’re lucky they were in New York playing at a venue run by great folks who archived all the marvelous underground culture that came through the door. The Kitchen is an institution.
David is the original anti-rockstar . Such a consistently interesting and multi talented artist he has been. He’s so shy until the music starts.❤️
I love T.H. And I say this with admiration as a 50 year old punk rocker musician. I especially appreciate the nerdy awkwardness of them preparing before each song. The green rugby shirt and dress pants are awesome!🎼✌️❤️
When I was younger, I never saw the appeal of TH. But I clicked on this mostly due to the date of the recording. I can really sense the true artist in this more than anything and can appreciate that a lot. He did it his way and it's incredible. And holy crap, Tina can bass.
Someone needs to acknowledge how incredible Tina Weymouth's bass playing is. She's one of a kind.
first thing I noticed on Psycho Killer
@@jfkesq totally. I'm sure you know she learned just so she could join the band. Byrne was pretty judgemental about her playing. My friend heard them for the first time and the first thing he said was, "it's all about their funky bass." I don't like playing into Byrne's band destroying ego, but it's also largely about his lyrics and showmanship, but yeah, her bass holds it down. I will say I'm surprised by how good the audio is for 76. She sounds stellar in this mx.
AMEN! Might have not got popular so fast without the psycho killer opening bassline..
I heard David Byrne told her to cut her hair becausr it made her eyes look bigger.
This here: th-cam.com/video/xYjUx26SF4s/w-d-xo.html I can hear the bass better. All bass lines taught to her by David. They play much better, David has an incredible feel for rhythm but is voice is still far underdeveloped, restrained.
Also, it is not only the occasional genius that flashes out there in the CBGB, one can clearly hear their potential. If I had heard this life in 1975 I would be fixed. This was new, punky, wavy and so incredible physical.
Does anyone know why they later played so little from their first two albums?
Best rabbit hole I’ve jumped into in a long while
Pioneering video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka founded The Kitchen in 1971, which was originally housed in the Mercer Arts Center in Soho. The Vasulkas were known for their early experiments in analog and digital processes, coupled with electronic sound. In their opening manifesto for The Kitchen they wrote, “This place was selected by Media God to perform an experiment on you, to challenge your brain and its perception,” firmly establishing The Kitchen as an open space for challenging new work by artists in all disciplines.
Oh MY GOD!!!! This is witnessing the birth of genius. Thank you for posting this: this is literally the evolution of genius art, do you have any idea of how historical this is? This is time travel.
Byrne is fully in the 4 axis of the Spectrum - always has been. Back then would have been just considereed weird/quirky/odd by the social standards of the day. Byrne's autism and Talking Heads are inseperable especially as he matured and evolved in the rare state of "advanced merging of artistic ability with the overlay of autism." The begining of the peak was captured with "The Name of the Band is Talking Heads" 1978. You know the rest of their story and it is a triumph on all levels for each member of the band - one) to have achieved musical singularity and greatness and two) to have done so, with a leader who percieves the world and their art differently than the rest of the each of the individual members and the "ensemble" that made up Talking Heads, culminating with Stop Making Sense, then and now.
Truly extraordinary! I've never seen or heard any footage without Jerry before, didn't realize they were even performing live without him, definitely feels like a "thinner" band for sure! You'd be hard-pressed in '76 to see Talking Heads as a potentially seminal band going into the 80s, but they were clearly ahead of their time.
Not a huge fan but something between these impoverished but likeable nerdy performances and their overproduced underground hit factory would work best for me. All of their hits are pretty good but they are nothing like The Replacements, talentwise.
@@oppothumbs1In all seriousness, "The Name of This Band band Is is The Talking Heads" might be the album that hits the spot for you. Disc 1 is a collection of the naive material but with some veneer of production. Disc 2 is live, somewhat later material, but still prior to "Burning Down the House", with Adrian Blew on guitar and an emphasis on hand drums.
@@MarsHalekGuitar I do like Burning Down the House and Psycho Killer the most. Also, Take me to the River and Life During Wartime.
amazing this thread is first to mention jerry... strange to break it all down. 'agree with "name of this band..." reply here. tops*
this footage is rock and roll GOLD .this is very very very interesting to see early years in such an ICONIC venue and with such history.
if your even a casual talking heads fan you must love this for the raw stripped down early vesrsions of songs that expanded later with the bigger band.. to be in this crowd would be so awesome .. just to sit and watch this with a drink in hand would be heaven. just my op
Saw them at A Space in Toronto. Sure it was the same winter. He had not mastered breath control and sometimes his voice would disappear. Don’t know if it was heaven but awfully good.
this is awful. i don;t know how they survived as a band. and i was clubbing then so i know how the scene was at the time. all i hear is some potential in byrne's voice but he's still awful
Awesome to see this here! Despite his insecurities cool to see David so conscious of doing a through mic. check! For 1976 & evidently shot on a camcorder the sound quality (coming off the board - in stereo) is actually quite good😘! Those that are considered affected by 'social disorders' often focus on things others may consider mundane. Why these individuals can bring something special to art, music and other endeavors that require intense focus. A young Tina Weymouth made me do a David Bowie double-take 😳..
Well, that was amazing...
The thing I love most about Talking Heads is that they are such real people !
And I loved they way that they grew from such humble beginnings and became an incredibly complex beast that changed music forever !
Thanks to all of you for being you 👍💜
They all came from privilege, David probably had the least but his father was still a professional engineer.
@@KS-ft7sy I was more referring to the fact that they didn't have big money, such as record companies turning into some ultra commercialised trash band.
They kept to their own style, which a rarity in the music industry
I guess you can’t be a real person if you grew up middle / upper middle class. 🤦♂️
It’s wild he went from this simplicity to the wildest of shows
Wow. Just came across this after watching Stop Making Sense on a big screen in my local park.
Despite being a mad TH fan I've never even heard the third song before.
Amazed to realise that many of the earliest songs didn't make it onto the first album
6:06 wonder what the crowd thought at the time hearing arguably their biggest hit with no real context. did they assume it would get as big as it did?
Seminal piece of music history David so shy and before he got his teeth fixed apparently. I read in Chris Frantz's bio that Chris provided the shirts the band would wear because he came from a preppy family with money. Tina of course, amazing and on point from Day One but she grew into one of the best rock bassists ever.
Chris keeps the band grounded while letting David float in the ether. Tina shines in each song during musical interludes. This is what a trio is supposed to sound like.
Chris is like. Very very solid
A trio is also supposed to sound like Cream, or Rush, or Taste, or the Jimi Hendrix Experience, or Green Day, or ZZ Top, or Motorhead, or.......
@@bean-spilleror Budgie, or Blue Cheer, or the Harmonikats, or....
@@BenDowdy Damn! Pulling the Harmonicats out of your hat is impressive! Add the James Gang, Kings X, Morphine, and Grand Funk to the list.
@@bean-spiller I'll add Beck, Bogert, and Appice, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, and the Jimmy Smith trio for good measure.
What a fabulous find, amazing quality recording! They really did have something about them even at this very early stage...
Wow this is a time capsule I’m itself. They were so ahead of the art. Modern for 1976
Chris Frantz was right; they were post-punk before punk was a thing.
And that was the disco gold age. They were awsome.
@@askl23 They were also post Neon Boys/Television - which, with all due respect, makes them post pre - punk.
Verlaine and Co. literally built the CB's stage that brought so many of these folks their now mythic status - including the Ramones
They are modern for 2024.
when they were friends... :(
This is FANTASTIC. Like a dream.
Thank you so so much
It’s what I love about TH-cam, finding gems like this. They were so raw back then but when you see what they achieved later you realise the seeds were there for all to see.
Crazy how these songs are just so good without keyboards and and backup singers
Great piece of musical history! Thanks.
This video looks rare and it looks like it's there first thing on stage, David trying to do his very best. Thanks for sharing. This need to be in a museum.
Wow ! Thanks so much for posting this. As the tape ends, David says "No Compassion" to Chris, so that tune must have followed Tentative Decisions. I read this show had two sets, other tunes people have mentioned are Artists Only and First Week/Last Week...Carefree (Chris on vibes for that tune). Hope you can find the other tapes ! :)
Oh, No Compassion!
Would love to see more footage from this, have been looking into it for a while but haven't found any signs that the rest of the footage was made public (yet)
Yes they did perform more, my guess is that the length of the videotape real was 30 minutes. The kitchen archive says they have more, it’s just never snuck out
So great to see them as the original trio - as they started out. Thanks for this great video. I grabbed it from here and will dub it to a CD.
I miss the organ though.
You welcome
What's a CD?
@@BooBooGlue1 A “CD” is a CIRCULAR DOWNLOADER which is an actual physical product that can convey recorded soundwaves when inserted into a machine that “reads” an imprinted code of ones and zeros. This was invented back in the dark ages of 1982 and later mass-marketed to most of the literate world. It has been eclipsed in recent years by vinyl record albums that are, ironically, in danger of being overtaken again by the aforementioned Circular Downloaders. Remember, the great artist Laurie Anderson once said…. “This is digital…” Peace out.
@@rickhager3288CD means Compact Disk bruh
Amazing how you can start out and hang in there and how great you become keep the faith
2 minutes 40 seconds in. Wow love how they're playing this. "Something are hard to describe " they got an energy less marchy and idk good sound. Very grateful for this thanks to whomever
Holy Cow. Just found this. I'm an oldster who loved the band when growing up and through the rest of my life. Thought I had caught all the older clip stuff. Apparently not! Thanks for uploading. Very much enjoyed.
im tired and stupid so for a second i thought they were going to be playing in just some random kitchen
Epic musical history!
in the year 1976 there was no cooler woman on the planet Earth than Tina Weymouth
I went through my teenage years like that.
Hormones,testosterone.You will get over it and then when you are 50 it all starts again.
*Stevie Nicks entered the chat, looked at Tina, nodded then slowly left the chat*
@@adderon coquettishly swinging her tambourine
My favorite band of all time.....truely genius !!! and what a great footage.....great....It was already saved as my favorites .
I like the shy, tentative way he performs Psycho Killer
It's his tentative decisions ;P
Wow, how good was that? Gained quality insight, Love this band for so long and into the future
This is a masterclass about how to play a pop bass. Go Tina!
Great share. Thanks! Chris Frantz never aged. Dig the alternate Psycho lyrics
Fascinating footage. 1976...? So ahead of their time.
whoever recorded and mixed this audio knew what the heck they were doing. The sound and panning is amazing.
@Alex Lewis yes - I can see that. We all can. I have not listened to this recently - but pretty sure it is live in stereo otherwise I would not have said panning. In any case - it sounds LIVE MIXED - perhaps live mixed to stereo. This is a thing done at live performances. The board op/producer was outstanding. If you want to argue to me that this was a bootleg by a grunt with a mono grade school tape recorder - sure advertise a tin ear. Yes - it is live - yes you are correct about that.
@Alex Lewis yeah dude - live IN STEREO - production handleled on a board mix - Tina Weymouth’s bass is panned hard left - Byrne’s voice sits center. Etc etc. you have ears.
Wow, forty-six years ago today. Glad to see this in my recommendations.
Thank you for sharing this!
Good timing! I also rewatched the video earlier today (well, yesterday now, since it's after midnight) to celebrate the 46th anniversary of such a legendary performance
Man i dare anyone to be as talented as these guys i dont know if htey created it but they certainly are the ramones of new wave music and its so great digging into there discography finding little gems that I feel i have to myself becuase not as manny people like as much as I do. Thats not to say that I cant find this in any other discography would be wrong but how much i love and admire and respect these guys it feels special to sy the least. I'm very partial to david byrne as a person but stuff like this just makes me think more about the music which could be considered a reflection of who he is in one sense but nonetheless i dont know if Ill ever admire such a groundbreaking influential and im willing to say it genius of this band. Also if anybody wants to hear a good hidden gem in there discography listen to paper and sugar on my tounge both amazing soungs that are contenders for my favorite songs by these guys and gal. nothing but love and admiration from over here.
Paper is also one of my dark horse favorites from what I’ve listened to so far. Gets into my head all the time. I’m saving my ears for the upcoming theatre re-release of SMS or else I’d binge all their music!!
Can’t wait for Peter Jackson to clean this up
Are you hallucinating it's almost perfect
what episode of blue's clues is this
She caught on to the bass pretty quick
That’s for sure. I also wonder how long David had been playing guitar in order to settle into that style.
I live in Rhode Island, minutes from where they formed RISD, this is epic
Cool,Vinnie Paz.lives in Rhode Island too,good friend of mine.
This video could be renamed Talking Heads: 76.
6:05 Tina, shut it!
Thank you
David Byrne = underrated guitar player
This is just like me…. Like ; totally missing out on this.
What like being 8 years old and living somewhere else in the wold when this happened.
Finding out 40 years later… Clueless as always.
Thanks a lot YT
This is absolutely incredible. What an incredible band. Many forget they were writing popular 80's songs back in the 1970's. Thanks for posting!
Tina Weymouth incredible
Imagine going there and seeing James Chance and Contortions and so many great experiments.
This makes me realize how much I f'd up by not going to see them at a small theater in my home town that same year. Luckily, I made up for that 7 years later. You can see hear that remarkable concert at SPAC in 1983. Sadly, there's no visual. Of the hundreds of concerts I've attended over decades, that SPAC show is my number one show ever. Check it out!
Frigg'n *AWESOME* Bro! 👍 The sound is excellent!
Sounds like demos but its gr8 thank you so much for this piece of history before Jerry joined them.
Thank you, I can't find words..., superb !
Ye gods, their look and sound... Nearly 50 years ago, it must have seemed to the average Joe like they'd just stepped out of a spaceship!
A rare clip when you can enjoy the bass
Insanely awesome! Thanks for posting!
I saw TH in a small club near Albany NY right after the first album came out in 77. Jerry Harrison was part of the group then. After his addition and months of playing, they were a tighter band. Lotta fun. So much nervous energy. I think David Byrne wore the same shirt. lol
I didn't want this to end. There's obviously more to this and from a historical perspective this needs to be remastered and released properly.
Damn. What talent to be so raw and pull off that...
Gear used in this performance:
(I greatly appreciate any corrections or other help identifying gear, thanks!)
Whole Band:
Coca Cola, with cane sugar to improve the tone of course.
David Byrne:
Fender Duo Sonic II in Olympic White with a Gibson humbucker in the bridge position.
Unknown acoustic guitar equipped with some sort of pickup.
Orange Phaser
Vox Super Twin amp head with matching cab. The amp head is turned away from the camera and the cab is flipped on its side.
Tina Weymouth:
Fender Prescision Bass with what appears to be a custom dark grey finish.
Mu-Tron Phasor II
Chris Frantz:
Rogers drum kit
Vibraphone
EXTRAS:
Tina's bass can be seen in present day in this video clip: th-cam.com/users/clipUgkxxAvEOagEZv97vqFpS5hPrfGUgL-Rpir2?feature=share9
Chris plays a Rogers Kit
and looks like a kustom amplifier with it's bass cabinet for bass guitar
The keyboard percussion instrument is actually a vibraphone, not xylophone.
DAVE, I KNOW YOU ARE READING THIS & I GOTTA TELL YOU THIS GIG IS AS OLD AS MY WIFE. PHYCO KILLER YOU PERFECTED INTO MY NO.1 BEST EVER SONG. THANKS MORE THAN WORDS ❤
Back when Dave used to borrow Chris's shirts.
Somebody buy those guys a sandwich.
Good Lord, he's using one of the American solid state Vox Beatle heads... They're craptastic.😂
Thank you for uploading this!! So cool to watch. I love that "Thank you very muuUucch" has been around from the beginning
I probably would have just thought "Man he's weird, and their songs are terrible!" Lol, I certainly wouldn't have guessed they'd be one of the biggest bands in the world in a few years. 😅 Also shows the genius of Brian Eno in turning them into the slick, hard hitting band they were by the next year.
Eno is a genius but "77" is genius album too. There's a reason HE wanted to work with them. In other words they were genius before Eno already.
imagine being there
Oh how I miss college
The MR ROGER'S BAND.
Embrace the suck.
It develops over many, many many years
This performance of I Want To Live is everything
Blew their own minds quite shortly thereafter.
I just realized How much David looks like “Norman Baits” anyone else? Or is it just a great song?😊
*Bates. And yeah, same, I got into the Talking Heads through that connection as a superfan of the film. I don’t know for a fact, but I suspect Byrne took Perkins as an icon because the timeline makes sense and they both have similar builds and personalities/outlooks/experiences. Songs like Houses in Motion, Crosseyed and Painless, Psycho Killer obvs., and more of Byrne’s solo work share themes of gendered conflict and stress with Psycho. I get a vibe.
Ted Bundy?
It's a shame they never went anywhere...
Surreal. Had no clue who they were in 1976. Thank god someone gave me a copy of talking heads 77 ... mind blown
fyi ages in 1976: david 24, chris 25 & tina 26 (jerry 27)
No wonder Jerry was the most mature of the lot it seemed
Harrison,was playing in the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman. Before he got into Talking Heads,off course.
At 13:40 he sings something that I heard in an REM song on murmur... Michael Stipe must have been listening.😂
You kind of get the feeling like Chris & Tina aren't quite sold on David yet lol.
Rocket from the Tombs/Pere Ubu showed them how to be cool on stage as Pere Ubu would play in NYC in 1976
I always loved what Tina said in an interview in about 1993, where she was remembering when Bernie Worrell was trying to explain that "uhhh" in funk/bass playing. She wanted it in musical notation or something.... And she says "he said, honey it's like when your lover is coming up to meet you and you just go uhhh". 😂
She also talks about how people got so excited when her fingers used to bleed playing the bass so hard. They all learned and grew as they went. This is rarely given the space to happen now.
I love their earlier live performances of Psycho Killer when it was just the three of them (no harm to Jerry at all!) but it was just much more fluid. Then in the late 70s it became more jumpy - what Hilly Kristal called "David's chicken phase.. when he was jerky. (His playing, I didn't know him personally)😂". Great great days.
Is that Steve from Blue’s Clues?
Note to All novice musicians...
NEVER GIVE UP!
Never thought of this comparison before but watching this I kept thinking of David as a modern quirky Buddy Holly
interesting thought . but not nearly the talent.
@@jtb1649 Sarcasm Alert! I guess if BH lived longer he might equal the talent of DB...
@@daskitten1 Okay, break it up you two! Buddy Holly and David Byrne were both musical innovators of the highest degree.
@@Anthony-hu3rj I totally agree. That's why I prefaced my comment with "Sarcasm Alert" lol
Elvis Costello took the Buddy Holly crown
David Byrne = Pee Wee Herman + Andy Kaufman + Lou Reed + David Bowie
...and Sheldon from Big Bang Theory!😅
Looks like David Byrne has a cracked or broken tooth. Guess he made enough money to get it fixed. Most important band of the late 70s to mid 80s, imo.
I first encountered this band on the radio in the UK and then on vinyl.
I grew to love the music by immersion and repetition.
Many of my favourite sounds are their songs...
But... as someone who went to countless pub and club gigs in my youth, I wonder whether I might have heard this live performance and forgotten it.
This is a sort of embryonic TH.
What they became is clearly audible, but also not quite reached yet.
A wonderful piece of video.
I like to think I'd have recognised their genius from this performance... But perhaps I would have strolled off and forgotten them.
Having said that, Psychokiller is mesmerising, even as unpolished as it is here.
David Byrne looks like an emaciated Travis Bickle.
Thanks for finding and posting this!
Fantastic. Outstanding guitar work by David to fill the sound without Jerry. Saw them in 79 at Berkeley at lunch time - weird. Maybe 20 people standing around going what is this? The performance was much like this but Jerry was there. The originality and talent really stands out in the stripped down and up-close performances.
So cute!!!! What i love the most is; Back then making a recording was a big thing, and you can see that in their faces and postures. And another greatthing is the sharing of the bottle. Whoever could have thought that David wassuch a shy guy.