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”.
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
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.
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. ; )
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.
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.
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!
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...
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.
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.
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.
@@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.)
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.
@@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!
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.
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 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.
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.
How Chris & Tina tied it all together with their bass & drum lines is fantastic on its own. Life in Wartime would be a lot less without that solid as rock bass bottom
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
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??!!
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 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.
I saw them three times and it still wasn't enough ...sad to think they'll never play together again on stage ......Never sat down once to any of their concerts, and crazy enough I tripped for the first one .....that was unbelievable
Top gig by a massively creative band in all its pomp & glory; one of those "I was there!" concerts to treasure for those that were lucky enough to get a ticket.
We just didn’t know how good we had it. Almost every week in New York we had great bands to go see live. For an affordable price. I mean, 60 bucks to see a show was a lot at that time. This band was amazing and I got to see them.
60 bucks !!!! I paid less than $20.00 to see the Bad Brains, Butthole Surfers, Prince, The Cure, New Order in the 80s and you are sooooo fuckin right we had so much great, ORIGINAL, DIVERSE music coming at us. Everything from Lou Reed, Blondie, Bad Brains, Fugazi, X, Simple Minds, Bowie, Prince, Kenny Rodgers, Dolly to Steven Vai, Van Halen, Police, Tears for Fears, Madonna, Springsteen, Doobie Bros, Monie Love, Tito Puente, Special ED, Teena Marie, Poor Righteous Teachers to Cher, Elvis, the Stones, Led Zep, Sabbath, Santana, Stevie, Marvin, Rufus, Commodores, Isleys, Hall and Oates, Talking Heads, Whitney, Donna, we had the icons, the legends, pioneers and it was fucking wonderful
Led Zeppelin 12 bucks, stones 20 bucks, dead 4 bucks, Television 8 dollars same as the THs on the Bowery. Mahahvishnu 3 dollars same for every concert at college. Stopped jitterbugging after Pearl Jam…50 bucks. Heads in Poughkeepsie 83 one of my top three all time and heaven knows I have been around. Used to see Twisted Sister for two dollar cover at local watering holes. The burbs of NYC was a great place to grow up and be educated. Peace
I remember hearing that in the early days the band Genesis always loved playing in Rome. After seeing this video I now know why. What a great fan base.
I was turned on to Adrian in 1982 The Lone Rino. Love "Big Electric Cat". Saw the heads in 81. Great show. They blew both generators and had to do 60% of the show with house lights. Diminished, but still great. "Lone Rhino "Lone Rhino" "Lone Rhino"
Ya Lucky Lil Guy!!!! I was very lucky too because it was my younger Brother who got me in to almost all the concert we went to & introduced me to music as a whole. My God, i miss him. Still cry for him every single day. Hope you have the greatest memories with yours.
Saw them on the tour after this one, but this was the one I really wanted. We played the shit out of RIL, plus Fear of Music, ....Bush of Ghosts .....loud. Just a house full of college kids, study, party, sleep, repeat.
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
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
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.
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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Cool 😎!!! Yu da Man !!!
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I wish people would hide the spoilers... i mean tracklist.
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❤❤
Tina Weymouth: the only woman whose 1980s haircut looks fantastic in 2022
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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 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.
David Byrne is a musical genius 🎵🎶🎵
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.
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!
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.
Holy Moly....Whew!!!!!!! Just unbelievably tight and in the Groove! Always a fan but this knocks me out.
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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.
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
What a smokin' tight band they were. Tina W. on that Hofner Club bass is killer...
cross eyed and painless the greatest life performance ever
This concert might be my favorite thing on TH-cam.
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!!
The energy expended in this performance continues to reverberate and will for all time.
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.
Tina, that smile, that bass line.. love it
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.
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
that band had so much energy, it was electrifying
Talking Heads at the height of their powers. They never got any better than this.
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.
My favorite version of Cities! This entire concert is a real gem, but then again so is the whole band.
Same on Cities
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.
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.)
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.
I had never heard this - Absolute musical euphoria!
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!
Los Talking grandiosos y Adrian Belew un super guitarrista !!
Missed so much in my 70 years, not enough me time: like listening to these talented performers!
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!
The energy channeled in this show is beyond words
I could watch Tina play all day.
Me too.
What a great concert thanks for downloading......1980 this ain't no disco......Adrian below smoking guitar!!!!!!!!!!
Really glad I was young enough to dance back then because the rhythms were just awesome.
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.
incredible performance......each song better than the last.....top of their game here.
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.
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.
GREATEST CONCERT EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFETIME AND I'M 63 SO BEEN TO A LOT
Man, Adrian's King Crimson guitar work feels right. Fits right in.
This is before he joined Crimson.
This concert BLEW my mind.
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
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.
Damn! No group of musicians should be this good! But here they are...
Gosh darn, this was funky and clean, what a solid live performance.
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.
Great live performance.
Had never seen a performance with Belew with the Heads what a monster.....always.
04:26 fucken awesome.... Tina's rocking #Waaaayahead !!
How Chris & Tina tied it all together with their bass & drum lines is fantastic on its own. Life in Wartime would be a lot less without that solid as rock bass bottom
Tina so chill - Mona Lisa smile ❤
Holly crap!! Amazing document!!Talking Heads in their absolute prime of creative electrically charged ENERGY!! Just WOW!!
Le Teste Parlanti all'EUR 43 anni fa...c'era davvero tanta gente! Non pensavo fossero già così famosi da noi nel 1980.
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
Thanks for that information 😀
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
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??!!
I can't imagine contemporary bends sound like this. Best musical madness ever!
HOLY SHIT what an unstoppable lineup.
Such Brilliance will never be seen these days!
Tina veymouth grande bassista 😀😃❤
Haven't seen or heard anything this perfectly spectacular in so long. Thank you for uploading this.
The band sound is very good, Adrian is a star player - love this period
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.
They are quite a unique band - always pushing the boundaries.
WOW WHAT A GREAT MIX UP THANK You for this awesome era of music
Lucky enough to have seen them back then...Sunrise Musical Theatre Ft.Lauderdale Fl.....the whole place up and dancing!!!!Great ,unique band.
they played at SMT? what? i grew up there
They played the Sunrise MT on Sept. 21, 1982.
Thank goodness this was recorded!
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.
I saw them three times and it still wasn't enough ...sad to think they'll never play together again on stage ......Never sat down once to any of their concerts, and crazy enough I tripped for the first one .....that was unbelievable
Top gig by a massively creative band in all its pomp & glory; one of those "I was there!" concerts to treasure for those that were lucky enough to get a ticket.
I was lucky enough to see them at the Stop Making Sense shoot in Berkeley. One of the greatest shows ever and I've seen a lot. 👍
We just didn’t know how good we had it. Almost every week in New York we had great bands to go see live. For an affordable price. I mean, 60 bucks to see a show was a lot at that time. This band was amazing and I got to see them.
60 bucks !!!! I paid less than $20.00 to see the Bad Brains, Butthole Surfers, Prince, The Cure, New Order in the 80s and you are sooooo fuckin right we had so much great, ORIGINAL, DIVERSE music coming at us. Everything from Lou Reed, Blondie, Bad Brains, Fugazi, X, Simple Minds, Bowie, Prince, Kenny Rodgers, Dolly to Steven Vai, Van Halen, Police, Tears for Fears, Madonna, Springsteen, Doobie Bros, Monie Love, Tito Puente, Special ED, Teena Marie, Poor Righteous Teachers to Cher, Elvis, the Stones, Led Zep, Sabbath, Santana, Stevie, Marvin, Rufus, Commodores, Isleys, Hall and Oates, Talking Heads, Whitney, Donna, we had the icons, the legends, pioneers and it was fucking wonderful
@@tonygajate5780 maybe I overstated the price. But I do remember going to Central Park to see headline acts for 5 bucks in the 70’s.
@@tonygajate5780 and it’s awesome you appreciated such a wide variety of music. Good music is my kind of music.
Led Zeppelin 12 bucks, stones 20 bucks, dead 4 bucks, Television 8 dollars same as the THs on the Bowery. Mahahvishnu 3 dollars same for every concert at college. Stopped jitterbugging after Pearl Jam…50 bucks. Heads in Poughkeepsie 83 one of my top three all time and heaven knows I have been around. Used to see Twisted Sister for two dollar cover at local watering holes. The burbs of NYC was a great place to grow up and be educated. Peace
I paid $15 for the Woodstock weekend and never paid more than 40 big ones for any concert on the East Coast in the 60's and 70's.
Steve Scales was a helluva percussion player!
Talking heads, capable of doing a proper stage act as well as getting it right in the studio too. professional and real entertainers.
Great energy throughout and what a joy to watch! I want to have some of whatever they had before they went on stage!
Apenas me entero de este concierto... uf... que espectáculo!! Gracias por haberlo subido!
What a great band. Thanks so much for sharing. Had a great time watching and reminiscing.
My love for all thing Talking Heads began around this time. Just a tad before😎 heading to the Yuba River listening to…Well you know😜
Wooow. Absolutely great "move-your-body" feel. TH at their best, Adrian doin the blip-blip magick
love it ,,belew is amazing as is david and the whole band..and tina is just wow ...
I remember hearing that in the early days the band Genesis always loved playing in Rome. After seeing this video I now know why. What a great fan base.
Absolutely wicked. Fripp just held his sway in amongst the Groove of the Heads. Class act band all the way around.
Ain't no Fripp here, Peter! - that's Adrian Belew, who was with King Crimson. Close,...but NO Cigarillo for You!
Belew’s solo starting at about @23:26 is the some of the best, weirdest and most astonishing guitar playing I’ve heard ever
sounds like bagpipes!
Thanks - reading this as it is beginning....
WHAT became of Yo Adrian ?
Sounds like bagipes
Adrian Belew… you can hear Zappa in his playing…
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
Excellent band!! One of the best of the "new wave " groups from great Britain, and New York in the early 80' late 70'
I was turned on to Adrian in 1982 The Lone Rino. Love "Big Electric Cat". Saw the heads in 81. Great show.
They blew both generators and had to do 60% of the show with house lights. Diminished, but still great. "Lone Rhino "Lone Rhino" "Lone Rhino"
wonderful stuff, grew up during this time.
Thank you to whoever made the decision to film and for the poster... This is absolutely f$%king amazing!!!
Absolutely.
Fecking awesome.
Kick'n off the 80's with Talking Heads. Very cool!
I saw them on this tour in London at the Hammersmith Palaise in 1980. My big brother got me the ticket.
Ya Lucky Lil Guy!!!! I was very lucky too because it was my younger Brother who got me in to almost all the concert we went to & introduced me to music as a whole. My God, i miss him. Still cry for him every single day. Hope you have the greatest memories with yours.
Saw them on the tour after this one, but this was the one I really wanted. We played the shit out of RIL, plus Fear of Music, ....Bush of Ghosts .....loud. Just a house full of college kids, study, party, sleep, repeat.