I played this song for my dad as he died. He always told me that he thought this is what heaven would be like, a place where nothing ever happens. I'm learning to sing and play this on guitar so I can play it at his memorial next month. he's been gone for almost a year. I miss him so much. The Talking Heads were a huge part of our relationship.
@@haggishead7558 “heaven is a place where nothing ever happens”. a poetic way to say that all happening towards death, is done with. This life is a journey towards death. Inevitably. Space between those advances, room for boredom I suppose- but “when I’m done dieing, I’m gonna bust out of my grave”.
No band like Talking Heads ever existed before, and no band shall come close to their unique musical and visual style. They're like a little short-lived galaxy.
Remain In Light is a milestone in Rock history. I also love the albums which followed it. Their early punk/new wave work, does not appeal much to me musically speaking, although i like some of the lyrics.
Tina Weymouth is absolute killer on bass which is shocking because she never saw the bass guitar until she got in the band because she was the drummers girlfriend. Imagine youre dating a drummer and suddenly youre ranked as top30 bass player OF ALL TIMES out of the blue
Tina knew how to play a guitar but she had never played a bass guitar till her and Chris joined up with David to form the band. Her influence for her bass playing was Motown.
Damn I hear you. We are the same age. I was just thinking this is why I never saw them. They toured world. Though I did get to see the Who in 1982 . Saw Stones twice. 1981 and 1999. Nothing can compare to the who although I would give all of them except the who to see Foo Fighters.
00:00 Overture 00:40 01 Psycho Killer 05:42 02 Stay Hungry 09:48 03 Cities 15:56 04 I Zimbra 20:07 05 Drugs 24:41 06 Take Me to the River (Al Green cover) 30:29 07 Crosseyed and Painless 37:10 08 Life During Wartime 42:17 09 Houses in Motion 49:05 10 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) 57:10 11 The Great Curve
The number of musicians on that stage is astonishing. What Talking Heads were able to do is so different. Instead of being annoyingly manic, they made it come together. Like Frank Zappa with a dance groove. Very unique and polished.
Friend im agreed with you, but you forgot Parliament Funkadelic , all members in Talking Heads love them like musicians, Bernie Worell playing with Talking Heads on the keyboards.On the stage Parliament Funkadelic is more than 20 members. ; )
brings me right back to the true 80s, when music was writhing and flexing to get out of the box--and this band was one of the true flagships of the future!
David Byrne I met you at City Lights Bookstorre. I gave your signed True Stories to Wendy Brinker. I wish I could go with ya'll on the next tour. May the listening wind guide ya'lls way. I'm from somewhere in South Carolina. Bought some property in Old Fort, NC so I'm staying here for a while, so stab the backs of heros and hope to meet you again. Tom Pickett from where gravity don't mean a thing.
Meerkat? I could have sworn those were his marmot bleats. Hard to tell, though. He has a little trouble distinguishing between the various members of the Weasel family. He should try a Humbucker at the bridge position. Might help.
This whole show is spectacular. Byrne lets the whole band just soar...supporting vocals of Dolette McDonald, Belew, Weymouth, Harrison, Frantz, Jones are full of quirky, imaginative sounds, especially Belew. The entire spectacle is absolutely astonishing...start to finish just a raging inferno. You can really see how Talking Heads just exploded on the scene and became a must see event...Cross-eyed and Painless and the closer, The Great Curve, are mind bending...
@@fosmith61 I noticed some of that too, but her voice is also quite prominent and a distinctive counterpoint to Byrne. Neither of them have pure, classical tones, nor does the music itself, which is really a deconstructive form of rock music. Byrne and the band were so original and innovative, evolving increasingly with a theatricality to their shows. Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel also featured interpretive movement, dance, etc. to accent their performances. Here, with McDonald, she performs along that continuum, and is fully on board. In my view, though I don't particularly enjoy her singing individually, I think it works quite effectively with the band. That dystonic sound pairs well with Talking Heads dystopian vision...Belew's cacophony is marvelous...
Saw them perform at Pine Knob (Michigan). Phenomenal. People dancing until they passed out. One of the greatest, most original, talented and influential bands ever.
@@rman52 Amen to this. Newsweek or Time had him on their cover one week and called him a musical genius; that was the beginning of the end for real news journals from my perspective, I doubted most of what I read after that; and since then they have all gone to rot completely.
Her look is absolutely perfect for Rome in 1980. I have to imagine her stylist left her with the words, "They will LOVE you dahhling!" as she left to go on-stage.
And the B52's hairstyles were also great. Great times for music and art, especially from Talking Heads, my favorite band, along with The Beatles, David Bowie, Blondie and The Clash.
@@drea4195 "had" does not equal "his"... you inferred that reading of one possible meaning all on your own. Just because Tina "had" David as a band member does not infer someone is claiming being possessive. It seems as though you managed to take a kind compliment from someone who may not be as familiar with band member names as yourself and infer a connotation that is not likely intended to be derogatory in any way... Relax! ...say something once...why say it again!
I love how kinetic he gets with his guitar. It's like he has bridged the gap between self and object, and has become one with it, just absolutely manhandling it, but with such grace and precision but still forceful. It's wonderful to watch how he makes that guitar submit to his will.
One of the greatest bands of all time at the top of their game playing to a bunch of crazy joyous Italians in fucking Rome in the 80's - what a moment. what a privilege to have been there. The talent packed on that stage is mind-boggling.
Truly one of the greatest, iconic, and most influential bands. They created what we used to call "New Wave" and changed the course of modern music ever since.
Dude I am not sure if you were getting over prescribed with recreational drugs at the time but Talking Heads had about as much to do with creating New Wave as I did.
@@glenchapman3899 Yes, they were far too original to be placed in any "scene". They could never be slotted into punk, either. CBGB's (to their historical credit) was an available, welcoming venue.
She has some of the edgy rocker persona, yet exudes a striking refinement, intelligence/intellectuality (they kind of all do, in this band) and real feminine elegance: pure artist with no affectation or evident ego. Her appearance generally conveys this, but most especially as she moves with the instrument. The effect is *mesmerizing*.
Definitely one of the bands near the top of my list of bands I regret not going to see when I had the chance. In the 80s as a teenager was doing whatever necessary to hit shows all around my hometown. Passed on an '82 Heads show down in Atlanta thinking I had all the time in the world to catch them next time. Never did. There is no next time so when you get that first chance to see a band you really like you gotta go. Like right then. I'm old now and my list of 'bands I love but 'will catch next time' yet never did got way too long. Don't be me.
Its nice to be able to jump from bowie to zappa to the talking heads to king crimson, and hear the same riffs. the music world owes adrian belew a debt.
@@karlwebster5438 Nope you're wrong, everything after Remain in Light was increasingly substandard/mediocre and the giant suit David Byrne show Stop Making Sense is lesser compared to this. this was when Talking Heads were a band and not just the David Byrne show.
David Byrne- lead vocals and guitar Jerry Harrison- guitar, keyboards, backing vocals Tina Weymouth- bass guitar Chris Frantz- drums Adrian Belew- guitar and backing vocals Bernie Worrell- keyboards Busta Cherry Jones- bass guitar Steve Scales- percussions Dolette McDonald- vocals and percussion
I saw them during this tour at Radio City Music Hall in November 1980. They had never had an ensemble like this. The acoustics at Radio City are fantastic. It was overwhelming, the best concert I ever went to, and I've gone to many. It was definitely better than a few years later at Forest Hills, which was the tour that they filmed Stop Making Sense, and that was damn good. The next morning I did something I had never done before, or since, I bought tickets for their second show, which was that night. Incredible.
Forest Hills was great, didn't catch Radio City, but caught the Ice Rink (Central Park) a few months earlier. What made THeads so appealing to Deadheads was how dance oriented they were. Adrian Belew had an incredible run Zappa, THs, Crimson, Bowie
Adrian Belew has brought outstanding new elements to the Talking Heads' already virtuosic concerts. If we don't watch the film, just listen to it, we often get the impression that King Crimson is playing.
So cutting-edge it still shocks here in 2024 ...a total classic what a line up / two basses ? Only Ornette would come up with that innovation as well ( & I believe later !) Stone cold shit indeed . worthy of multiple watchings for sure oh & Bernie Worrell ( RIP ) is so fab , so major here
Wow I must say, I stumbled across this after watching a Police vid. I'm 55 and admit I never really gave the Heads the time of day growing up. Sure I knew the songs from the radio play. But after watching this I have a new respect for the Heads. I loved it. Never knew Adrian Belew played with them at any point. I sure heard the King Crimson sound come out in I Zimbra. Awesome. Priceless video to have now and look back on those days. 80 and 81 were some of the best years ever in music.
@@dabneyoffermein595 I saw him with Zappa and Bowie both before he was with the Heads. He was great in both cases but did not come close to stealing the show from the stars as he does here.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Adrian Belews guitar is a major part of the "Remain In Light" album sound. Those songs couldn't be played live without his very idiosyncratic chops. After Talking Heads he was with King Crimson(singing also) from 1981 onward. The "Discipline" era of KC. His guitar do the trumpeting elephant in "Elephant Talk", a sound akin to his in this vid.
In my not so humble opinion, this particular group "cooks" better than Bowie or Frank, but Zappa and Bowie had other things going for them. (saw both twice.)
I saw the Talking Heads on the Stop Making Sense tour in 1983 in Eugene Oregon. Amazing show! One of the best I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of shows.
This concert video is an amazing piece of visual art in and of itself. I strongly believe "Stop Making Sense" would not have been made if this concert wasn't filmed. It's like their "Rubber Soul" or "Revolver" before they made their "Sgt. Pepper".
Even dougth already in the 80`s, nothing could take them in front of the many bands of that time!!!...Special band!!... Now, like them even more!! Why??!!
Great band, I'm happy to say that I saw them on what was probably their first UK tour in 1978, when hardly anyone knew who they were, and no one knew what they were to go on to achieve :)
They opened with psycho killers,amazing. Then I just kept getting better. What a great band.❤ Thanks for bringing me a experience that I would never had the joy 🤩 without you sharing with the world 🌍 😮.
Holy shirts! Crosseyed and Painless, they were on FIRE! What an amazing performance and moment in time that RAI captured. Chris and Tina were in a flow that night, such solid work.
Adrian is such a ripper. Having Bernie there is such a pleasurable departure from his day job. Not that his day job wasn’t pleasurable but seeing everyone get in where they comfortably fit in was something overlooked by most back then. So ahead of their time. While everyone else’s sound still resembled the blues even when they tried not to this bands jump off point never consisted of them tired blues licks.
They were a very good musician,s...Burning down the house. Was the best song to listen to .On a marantz stereo.Back in them days with 4 speakers they killed it .with drum s turn on 10. Last of the 1970s
Everything Belew played on Remain In Light was recorded in that one day. That’s the kind of spontaneity and creativity you might expect from a musician who was discovered playing his unique, angular, atmospheric lead guitar just a few years earlier by Frank Zappa in Nashville and soon found himself playing with some of the most interesting acts in popular music: King Crimson, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock and, yes, Talking Heads.
Saw Talking Heads 1986 Burning Down the House was opening song. At end of the show, I screamed out Burning Down the House. ? And they played it as the Closing song. Show was in Philadelphia at the Mann Music Center in Fairmont Park.
I have probably watched Stop Making Sense over 20 times through the years, about 5 times in theaters and the rest on video. I love that film. Maybe it's because I've seen it too many times, but actually, I think this is better. Certainly I prefer this now.
I played this song for my dad as he died. He always told me that he thought this is what heaven would be like, a place where nothing ever happens. I'm learning to sing and play this on guitar so I can play it at his memorial next month. he's been gone for almost a year. I miss him so much. The Talking Heads were a huge part of our relationship.
Won't it get a little boring ?
Sorry for your loss Deva, i'm sure wherever your dad has gone to has plenty going on.
lull
@@haggishead7558 “heaven is a place where nothing ever happens”. a poetic way to say that all happening towards death, is done with. This life is a journey towards death. Inevitably. Space between those advances, room for boredom I suppose- but “when I’m done dieing, I’m gonna bust out of my grave”.
Very touching
No band like Talking Heads ever existed before, and no band shall come close to their unique musical and visual style. They're like a little short-lived galaxy.
Remain In Light is a milestone in Rock history. I also love the albums which followed it. Their early punk/new wave work, does not appeal much to me
musically speaking, although i like some of the lyrics.
EXACTLY PROMITRA SAW THEM 4 X religious experience
I was born in 1977, I think they are the most influential band of my lifetime.
They’re so tight, yet so loose.
@@theo9952One of my favorite records of my lifetime, FEAR OF MUSIC comes close, but REMAIN IN LIGHT is my darling, live versions are a real treat❤❤
Missed so much in my 70 years, not enough me time: like listening to these talented performers!
This concert BLEW my mind.
BELEW, there fixed it for you 🤣
I love this guitar player from King Crimson. He breathes music and rhythm. Killer.
... Adrian Belew...
@@C00ltronixa genius...
I too remember him from K. Crimson- recognized him instantly- brilliant and a master of “noise guitar” - always performed at 110%!
We must clone him! I thought it was Adrien Belew ft Talking Heads
I first saw Belew playing with Bowie on the Station to Station tour. I had no idea who he was but was blown away!
Tina Weymouth is absolute killer on bass which is shocking because she never saw the bass guitar until she got in the band because she was the drummers girlfriend. Imagine youre dating a drummer and suddenly youre ranked as top30 bass player OF ALL TIMES out of the blue
I was a bassist from 1980 to 2007 and Tina was my biggest influence.
A Great Time with Bands from another Star,what a Tragic Time was this When you look at now this Desert .
...Sonic Youth, B52s, Talking Head ans many others..
Tina knew how to play a guitar but she had never played a bass guitar till her and Chris joined up with David to form the band. Her influence for her bass playing was Motown.
Yeah. She's got great legs.
I was there. Before them The Selecters. And i was 19. All Rome was there.
Tempo
@@rosselladidio2060 Fugit
Damn I hear you. We are the same age. I was just thinking this is why I never saw them. They toured world. Though I did get to see the Who in 1982 . Saw Stones twice. 1981 and 1999. Nothing can compare to the who although I would give all of them except the who to see Foo Fighters.
Good memories I pray.
38 special..you and your twin!!! I remember
00:00 Overture
00:40 01 Psycho Killer
05:42 02 Stay Hungry
09:48 03 Cities
15:56 04 I Zimbra
20:07 05 Drugs
24:41 06 Take Me to the River (Al Green cover)
30:29 07 Crosseyed and Painless
37:10 08 Life During Wartime
42:17 09 Houses in Motion
49:05 10 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
57:10 11 The Great Curve
THANK YOU for the Song List Buddy.
Thank you friend. ✌️❤️
Thnx!
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I wish people would hide the spoilers... i mean tracklist.
I m listening to Talking heads since im 14 and im 52 now they are great forever !!!!
I just don't like how David Byrne broke up the band. No forward knowledge. No notice. Just "I fucking hate this, I quit" Really. Its documented fact
62,and now very sorry I never saw them live but thanks internet, Stellar exponential
Still listening to Talk Heads on october 2024!!!🇧🇷
you forgot to ask “who else is here in 2024”
Till 20124 will be very timely music
yep killer lead guitarist, nobody gets those freaky sounds like he does. There all ace. One concert i would have loved to be have been at
Watched this so many times and always coming back 🎉
Oh yeah
The number of musicians on that stage is astonishing. What Talking Heads were able to do is so different. Instead of being annoyingly manic, they made it come together. Like Frank Zappa with a dance groove. Very unique and polished.
Friend im agreed with you, but you forgot Parliament Funkadelic , all members in Talking Heads love them like musicians, Bernie Worell playing with Talking Heads on the keyboards.On the stage Parliament Funkadelic is more than 20 members. ; )
Your Frank Zappa reference is accurate as one of the guitarists,Adrian Belew, was in Zappa's group in the 70's
Frank Zappa with a dance groove…great comparison!
Unsinn!
GREATEST CONCERT EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFETIME AND I'M 63 SO BEEN TO A LOT
brings me right back to the true 80s, when music was writhing and flexing to get out of the box--and this band was one of the true flagships of the future!
As "they" try like hell to put more "in the box". And caskets. Just like in the volatile warring past.
Of course the more in the box meant the digital age was on the way!
And this was embraced by the heads in the way they structured their music. Don’t you think christyl?
amazing guitarist, one of the best
how well said!
(they can put what's out now back in the box with the auto tune software)
this my friends, is one of the greatest bands of all time
In one of their ultimate performances! ❤
Yes so
Much so it’s weird
David Byrne I met you at City Lights Bookstorre. I gave your signed True Stories to Wendy Brinker. I wish I could go with ya'll on the next tour. May the listening wind guide ya'lls way. I'm from somewhere in South Carolina. Bought some property in Old Fort, NC so I'm staying here for a while, so stab the backs of heros and hope to meet you again.
Tom Pickett from where gravity don't mean a thing.
@@johnhirtle4300 They're ridiculously tight here!
Once in a lifetime there's a band as good and different at this
Hmm, I dunno, Roxy Music were comparable in their originality. Might not be your thing, though.
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If I could choose one band I never got to see, I would choose them.
@@miameramusic Did you ever see Miles Davis during the Bitches Brew era?
@@tonymiller6847 Really special from the get go -- utterly unique and brilliant, it was obvious from the first minute
Holy Moly....Whew!!!!!!! Just unbelievably tight and in the Groove! Always a fan but this knocks me out.
🎶🥰🎶😛🎶😍🎶
the wobbling hips of tina weymouth on the starting chords of cities are worth living a life
Agreed, when I saw them in early 80's she was 8 months pregnant, so a little different vibe, but one of the best shows I've ever attended.
I felt kind of dirty, wanted to apologize to the drummer
@@jnergesnaah, Chris said in his book he is proud of Tina's beauty being apreciated
@hombrerusode40anos72 Thanks, man, I feel better!
smouldering fabulousness
Tina's naïve bass is soooo much of the sound. Love it all.
OMG, imagine seeing and hearing that live in 1980! Mindblowing!
I saw them in 1982 at a small place in Staten Island and then in 1984 in Forest Hills (stop making sense tour)
1981 for me, 14 years old. Ruined me for concerts for life.
Whew!!! Nothing like a few of Adrian Belew's squeals and meerkat barks to ramp up the eccentricity. A natural born Talking Head.
Meerkat? I could have sworn those were his marmot bleats. Hard to tell, though. He has a little trouble distinguishing between the various members of the Weasel family. He should try a Humbucker at the bridge position. Might help.
The energy expended in this performance continues to reverberate and will for all time.
This concert might be my favorite thing on TH-cam.
The Sound of a Great Band Firing on all cylinders.... How could anyone in their right mind give this a thumbs down?
Interdimensional shape shifting lizard people hate anything that brings us joy.
@@mrjon75 you hit the nail on the the head.
This whole show is spectacular. Byrne lets the whole band just soar...supporting vocals of Dolette McDonald, Belew, Weymouth, Harrison, Frantz, Jones are full of quirky, imaginative sounds, especially Belew. The entire spectacle is absolutely astonishing...start to finish just a raging inferno. You can really see how Talking Heads just exploded on the scene and became a must see event...Cross-eyed and Painless and the closer, The Great Curve, are mind bending...
theyve been doing this for 4 years! more songs about building & food album was amazing!
Agree except I don't think Dolette McDonald contributes much. She's off key a lot.
@@fosmith61 I noticed some of that too, but her voice is also quite prominent and a distinctive counterpoint to Byrne. Neither of them have pure, classical tones, nor does the music itself, which is really a deconstructive form of rock music. Byrne and the band were so original and innovative, evolving increasingly with a theatricality to their shows. Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel also featured interpretive movement, dance, etc. to accent their performances. Here, with McDonald, she performs along that continuum, and is fully on board. In my view, though I don't particularly enjoy her singing individually, I think it works quite effectively with the band. That dystonic sound pairs well with Talking Heads dystopian vision...Belew's cacophony is marvelous...
They needed to turn her volume down. Hard to hear Byrne sometimes.
Yep, a tiny bit for sure. But for a life concert in the 80' it sounds amazing.
Tina, a goddess of the bass! Terrific performance and the recoding also
She is a great bass artist! She has come up with some amazing bass lines that you hear in every song!!
I never really new how good this band really was, till I watched this live recorded video, just now!
Same here
They were amazing!
Me also... Ive got a couple of studio CD's but this rocks!!!
Their live performances are great.
This and ' Stop Making Sense ' are the greatest
Saw them perform at Pine Knob (Michigan). Phenomenal. People dancing until they passed out. One of the greatest, most original, talented and influential bands ever.
Completely forgot Adrian Belew's time with Talking Heads. What a talented guy. Brought great guitar, effects and musicianship to everything he did.
Still does!
dirty...in a great good way...
He added a lot to this group of talented musicians. You can tell the songs he plays on in "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads"
For sure.....saw him with Bowie in Toronto. Wicked tones and inventive guitar work.....no wonder Zappa had him in the band too.
This performance is stupid good! They were amazing!
My favorite version of Cities! This entire concert is a real gem, but then again so is the whole band.
Same on Cities
Tina, that smile, that bass line.. love it
The beauty and the bass. It’s a classic hofner club single cutaway. Sweet.
SAW THEM IN THE LATE '70'S MORE THAN ONCE @ NYC'S MUDD CLUB OR CBGB DON'T RECALL...BUT THIS IS MUCH MORE LAYERED PRODUCTION
cross eyed and painless the greatest life performance ever
that band had so much energy, it was electrifying
The energy channeled in this show is beyond words
Really glad I was young enough to dance back then because the rhythms were just awesome.
David Byrne is a musical genius 🎵🎶🎵
One of my favorite bands ever. But Byrne isn't even close to a musical genius. It's 5 chord at best pop music. Geeeeze.
@@rman52
Amen to this. Newsweek or Time had him on their cover one week and called him a musical genius; that was the beginning of the end for real news journals from my perspective, I doubted most of what I read after that; and since then they have all gone to rot completely.
Tina Weymouth: the only woman whose 1980s haircut looks fantastic in 2022
Her look is absolutely perfect for Rome in 1980. I have to imagine her stylist left her with the words, "They will LOVE you dahhling!" as she left to go on-stage.
She is beautiful ❤️
And the B52's hairstyles were also great. Great times for music and art, especially from Talking Heads, my favorite band, along with The Beatles, David Bowie, Blondie and The Clash.
@@georgeduquette8832Absolutely!
David had the sweetest and coolest base guitarist in the history of music. I can't believe this is over 40 yrs old. Where has the time gone?
If you mean Tina, she wasn't *his* base guitarist. Talking Heads were all equals.
@@drea4195 "had" does not equal "his"... you inferred that reading of one possible meaning all on your own. Just because Tina "had" David as a band member does not infer someone is claiming being possessive. It seems as though you managed to take a kind compliment from someone who may not be as familiar with band member names as yourself and infer a connotation that is not likely intended to be derogatory in any way... Relax! ...say something once...why say it again!
Tina isn't a "base guitarist"; she is a bass guitarist.
@@nunyabizness3777One of the very best!
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Adrian Belew is unreal on the guitar 🎸 the whole band is so tight their about to snap from the tension
I love how kinetic he gets with his guitar. It's like he has bridged the gap between self and object, and has become one with it, just absolutely manhandling it, but with such grace and precision but still forceful. It's wonderful to watch how he makes that guitar submit to his will.
Nice description
Also AD is a guitar 🎸 beast.
One of the greatest bands of all time at the top of their game playing to a bunch of crazy joyous Italians in fucking Rome in the 80's - what a moment. what a privilege to have been there. The talent packed on that stage is mind-boggling.
Truly one of the greatest, iconic, and most influential bands. They created what we used to call "New Wave" and changed the course of modern music ever since.
It still gives me a boner, and I'm old now.
Dude I am not sure if you were getting over prescribed with recreational drugs at the time but Talking Heads had about as much to do with creating New Wave as I did.
@@glenchapman3899 What did they create? alt-rock? LOL!
@@rcdlaing They created an incredible catalogue of songs to listen to. Beyond that you are really pissing in the wind.
@@glenchapman3899 Yes, they were far too original to be placed in any "scene". They could never be slotted into punk, either. CBGB's (to their historical credit) was an available, welcoming venue.
Luv em
Timelessly classic. 40 years old and the grooves are still fierce. Often imitated (hello LCD Soundsystem), never equalled.
A manifestation of collective musical intelligence. Impossible to not being caught by the flow the band gets into.
Los Talking grandiosos y Adrian Belew un super guitarrista !!
I could watch Tina play all day.
Me too.
She has some of the edgy rocker persona, yet exudes a striking refinement, intelligence/intellectuality (they kind of all do, in this band) and real feminine elegance: pure artist with no affectation or evident ego. Her appearance generally conveys this, but most especially as she moves with the instrument. The effect is *mesmerizing*.
This was great! A punk, funk, soul, blues rock band! Wow!
can't get enough of that funky stuff
@@phillipnations5482 do not forget Afrobeat as a massive influence!
Definitely one of the bands near the top of my list of bands I regret not going to see when I had the chance. In the 80s as a teenager was doing whatever necessary to hit shows all around my hometown. Passed on an '82 Heads show down in Atlanta thinking I had all the time in the world to catch them next time. Never did. There is no next time so when you get that first chance to see a band you really like you gotta go. Like right then. I'm old now and my list of 'bands I love but 'will catch next time' yet never did got way too long. Don't be me.
What a great concert thanks for downloading......1980 this ain't no disco......Adrian below smoking guitar!!!!!!!!!!
Adrian Belew was really blessed in the early eighties. He got to play with so many great artist.
fantastic guitarist.. he was playin' the heck out of that old thing
I'm going to say the people he played with were blessed too. They were all better with him than without him.
@@Clearanceman2they all wanted him
Its nice to be able to jump from bowie to zappa to the talking heads to king crimson, and hear the same riffs. the music world owes adrian belew a debt.
Belew was with Zappa first. Bowie poached him away. Frank wasn't pleased.
holy crap! remain in light was always my favorite talking heads album. now i know why. belew is just incredible here.
This show rocks, weirdest funk you can imagine. I ZIMBRA is insane,so many sounds,3 guitars,2 basses etc.
Wow what a performance, and live too.
Holly crap!! Amazing document!!Talking Heads in their absolute prime of creative electrically charged ENERGY!! Just WOW!!
Damn! No group of musicians should be this good! But here they are...
Talking Heads at the height of their powers. They never got any better than this.
Yes, they did.
@@karlwebster5438 Nope you're wrong, everything after Remain in Light was increasingly substandard/mediocre and the giant suit David Byrne show Stop Making Sense is lesser compared to this. this was when Talking Heads were a band and not just the David Byrne show.
@@Darrylizer1 Thanks so much for putting me right. I really appreciate it.
@@karlwebster5438 Haha, happy to do so! Cheers.
@@Darrylizer1 I was being sarcastic. I think you're a misguided fool in danger of disappearing inside your own rectum.
adrian belew on guitar is insane never knew he played with them these solos are carrying the concert
I had never heard this - Absolute musical euphoria!
David Byrne- lead vocals and guitar
Jerry Harrison- guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Tina Weymouth- bass guitar
Chris Frantz- drums
Adrian Belew- guitar and backing vocals
Bernie Worrell- keyboards
Busta Cherry Jones- bass guitar
Steve Scales- percussions
Dolette McDonald- vocals and percussion
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EPIC!!!
yea i disagree lead guitar was i guesss Jerry Harisson David burn was playing rhtyum
wrong
thats not true im a musician and David is playing rythum
In '79 saw them at Sun
Devils stadium in Tempe
@ ASU.... Cutting edge,
Timeless....
Gosh darn, this was funky and clean, what a solid live performance.
The whole band is at their peak. Belews feedback playing is awesome
Belews is amazing.
I liked his work with Laurie Anderson the Most!
@@markmower6507 He was great with The Mothers and King Crimson too
@@markmower6507 OMG yes, that variation he did of what became "I am what I am" with her was too good.
That is the one thing that can be translated into different languages, but really good music can reach many boundaries.
I saw them during this tour at Radio City Music Hall in November 1980. They had never had an ensemble like this. The acoustics at Radio City are fantastic. It was overwhelming, the best concert I ever went to, and I've gone to many. It was definitely better than a few years later at Forest Hills, which was the tour that they filmed Stop Making Sense, and that was damn good. The next morning I did something I had never done before, or since, I bought tickets for their second show, which was that night. Incredible.
I saw the Stop Making Sense show in Berkeley. Spectacular. Just regret not having seen them earlier in looser settings.
Almost as good as Miles, Dizzy, Duke, or Grateful Dead in concert, but I show my bias.
Forest Hills was great, didn't catch Radio City, but caught the Ice Rink (Central Park) a few months earlier. What made THeads so appealing to Deadheads was how dance oriented they were. Adrian Belew had an incredible run Zappa, THs, Crimson, Bowie
I can't imagine contemporary bends sound like this. Best musical madness ever!
Incredible Concert by An Incredible Band.....Black and White Grainy Film is Awesome.....David Byrne is Simply a Brilliant Showman.....
It’s not black and white. But I do appreciate the visual aesthetic.
incredible performance......each song better than the last.....top of their game here.
Adrian Belew has brought outstanding new elements to the Talking Heads' already virtuosic concerts. If we don't watch the film, just listen to it, we often get the impression that King Crimson is playing.
Especially I Zimbra - as it was Fripp that played the guitar arpeggio on the studio album.
Massively great concert, Stellar exponential, would have loved 2b there, but now I have🎉hooked up and space bound..
So cutting-edge it still shocks here in 2024 ...a total classic what a line up / two basses ? Only Ornette would come up with that innovation as well ( & I believe later !) Stone cold shit indeed . worthy of multiple watchings for sure oh & Bernie Worrell ( RIP ) is so fab , so major here
Groovin' on it right now ... this just in, the aliens have landed!!! ;-)
Wow I must say, I stumbled across this after watching a Police vid. I'm 55 and admit I never really gave the Heads the time of day growing up. Sure I knew the songs from the radio play. But after watching this I have a new respect for the Heads. I loved it. Never knew Adrian Belew played with them at any point. I sure heard the King Crimson sound come out in I Zimbra. Awesome. Priceless video to have now and look back on those days. 80 and 81 were some of the best years ever in music.
Adrian Belew probably deserved top billing on this tour. Kind of amazing that he wasn't even an official bandmember yet he dominates this show.
really, i didnt know that......holy crap...who was he with before this?
@@dabneyoffermein595 I saw him with Zappa and Bowie both before he was with the Heads. He was great in both cases but did not come close to stealing the show from the stars as he does here.
@@dabneyoffermein595 Adrian Belews guitar is a major part of the "Remain In Light" album sound. Those songs couldn't be played live without his very idiosyncratic chops.
After Talking Heads he was with King Crimson(singing also) from 1981 onward. The "Discipline" era of KC. His guitar do the trumpeting elephant in "Elephant Talk", a sound akin to his in this vid.
It's amazing that Tina and Chris stayed married with how much she is vibing with Adrian
In my not so humble opinion, this particular group "cooks" better than Bowie or Frank, but Zappa and Bowie had other things going for them. (saw both twice.)
What a smokin' tight band they were. Tina W. on that Hofner Club bass is killer...
Never really cared for Talking Heads but this concert has changed that. This stuff is off the hook yo.
same. Im gonna go with that its all about this line up and recording tho
@@UFOsirREAL Fair assessment.
Adrian Belew was a big part of it.
I liked them but not the way I do now, after viewing this. I seriously can't get over how absolutely DOPE they played Stay Hungry
Same emotional journey here. I mainly tolerated them in the past, but just had never gotten past the hits.
I saw the Talking Heads on the Stop Making Sense tour in 1983 in Eugene Oregon. Amazing show! One of the best I've ever seen and I've seen a lot of shows.
This concert video is an amazing piece of visual art in and of itself. I strongly believe "Stop Making Sense" would not have been made if this concert wasn't filmed. It's like their "Rubber Soul" or "Revolver" before they made their "Sgt. Pepper".
So much sound going on by true artists. Amazing.
Even dougth already in the 80`s, nothing could take them in front of the many bands of that time!!!...Special band!!... Now, like them even more!! Why??!!
Great band, I'm happy to say that I saw them on what was probably their first UK tour in 1978, when hardly anyone knew who they were, and no one knew what they were to go on to achieve :)
Haven't seen or heard anything this perfectly spectacular in so long. Thank you for uploading this.
David's Google autocorrect questions was great. Such a unique, brilliant artist.
Great live performance.
Saw Adrian and Jerry Harrison last night in Cincinnati. Had seen the Talking Heads many times since 1980 as well. Always brilliant.
Thank goodness this was recorded!
Love the fact this was LIVE.
They opened with psycho killers,amazing. Then I just kept getting better. What a great band.❤ Thanks for bringing me a experience that I would never had the joy 🤩 without you sharing with the world 🌍 😮.
Incredible! David felt the spirit that night.
Holy shirts! Crosseyed and Painless, they were on FIRE! What an amazing performance and moment in time that RAI captured. Chris and Tina were in a flow that night, such solid work.
Add Steve Scales into the flow. The whole rhythm section was amazing.
Talorc I don't understand.....I thought I was watching a video of this.
Chris holds the whole thing together.
When in Rome. Tina's outfit deserves this bandwidth in recorded history. Wowza
Adrian is such a ripper. Having Bernie there is such a pleasurable departure from his day job. Not that his day job wasn’t pleasurable but seeing everyone get in where they comfortably fit in was something overlooked by most back then. So ahead of their time. While everyone else’s sound still resembled the blues even when they tried not to this bands jump off point never consisted of them tired blues licks.
They were a very good musician,s...Burning down the house. Was the best song to listen to .On a marantz stereo.Back in them days with 4 speakers they killed it .with drum s turn on 10. Last of the 1970s
Everything Belew played on Remain In Light was recorded in that one day. That’s the kind of spontaneity and creativity you might expect from a musician who was discovered playing his unique, angular, atmospheric lead guitar just a few years earlier by Frank Zappa in Nashville and soon found himself playing with some of the most interesting acts in popular music: King Crimson, David Bowie, Paul Simon, Herbie Hancock and, yes, Talking Heads.
Had never seen a performance with Belew with the Heads what a monster.....always.
love it ,,belew is amazing as is david and the whole band..and tina is just wow ...
So blessed to have these recordings... huh. a phenomenal group of an awesome spirit manifesting such a musical truth.
Oh yeah, I felt those guitars on Stay Hungry, truly amazing
Saw Talking Heads 1986 Burning Down the House was opening song. At end of the show, I screamed out Burning Down the House. ? And they played it as the Closing song. Show was in Philadelphia at the Mann Music Center in Fairmont Park.
Such Brilliance will never be seen these days!
Great camera work. Great show. Adrian Belew is a friken laser beam genius.
I have probably watched Stop Making Sense over 20 times through the years, about 5 times in theaters and the rest on video. I love that film. Maybe it's because I've seen it too many times, but actually, I think this is better. Certainly I prefer this now.
Holy cow. So amazing.
They are quite a unique band - always pushing the boundaries.