Comments on: Talking Heads Live in Rome, 1980

By: Orly MacGregor

Orly MacGregor — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:49:00 +0000

I was lucky enough to interview Belew when he was playing lead for Bowie on the Sound+Vision tour. He told me that he hated Chris and Tina because he helped them write much of the first Tom Tom Club EP. But when he returned to Jamaica (where they were recording) after a brief trip back to the US, they had overdubbed all of his parts and rewritten everything in his absence. Don’t know if the story is true, but he basically backed up everything bad Byrne had to say about them.

By: W Thomas

W Thomas — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:22:00 +0000

Here’s the entire digital rebroadcast of a 1980 Germany show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFWZRA7d_ME
They unfortunately don’t ogle Tina like the Rome cameramen did. Yowza.

By: Jason Weisberger

Jason Weisberger — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:18:00 +0000

Thanks, I’m now walking around LAX singing “Wild Wild Life”

By: Jim Saul

Jim Saul — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Man alive that’s good. The Stop Making Sense DVD is like mirror-universe clockwork, this is like witching-hour smoky jazz.

The mention of Adrian Belew made me want to hear his local-band hit here in Cincinnati – “Fear is Never Boring.”

Definitely not a video for epileptics, or for anyone who doesn’t want to see Belew and the rest of The Raisins in early-80′s short-shorts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsFTi1DuZ8U

By: capnmarrrrk

capnmarrrrk — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:41:00 +0000

Thanks for the link Cory! I can’t wait to check it out. However, this is my go to for Psycho Killer, a multicut spliced together version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eeX9rdmld0

By: bluest_one

bluest_one — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:15:00 +0000

The songs not heard in Stop Making Sense include “Stay Hungry,” “Cities,” “I Zimbra,” “Drugs,” “Houses in Motion,” “Born Under Punches,” and “The Great Curve.”

Small addendum: I Zimbra and Cities appear in the DVD release of the movie.

Man, I wish they’d done more with this lineup. Like a couple of full albums more.