A followup to this 2007 post about the handful of clips from Talking Heads' Live in Rome concert footage: the whole movie is now online in one big, 1:05 YouTube clip. The 1980 concert is a kind of precursor to the spectacular Stop Making Sense tour, and is a perfect delight for a Sunday morning.
Colin Marshall at OpenCulture writes,
Talking Heads enthusiasts, note that Live in Rome features the group's full "Afro-Funk Orchestra" lineup. Additionally, you'll see on guitar a certain Adrian Belew, who would begin fronting King Crimson the following year. (As he might, in another reality, have fronted the Heads themselves; in our reality, he turned down an offer to take Byrne's place.) 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." No die-hard fan will feel completely satisfied with this concert, of course, until someone remasters it on Blu-Ray with a complete surround sound mix. But if you simply need a hit of a pack of art-school rockers unlike any others America has produced, this Remain in Light-era hour merits a permanent bookmark. H/T Biblioklept
Live in Rome, 1980: The Talking Heads Concert Film You Haven't Seen
(via MeFi)
