After the first Talking Heads show in Austin, I hung around until the crowd at the Armadillo thinned out, eventually getting backstage. In their dressing room, Tina rolled joints on a paper plate and passed them around. They were very nice. I invited them to the Tlkng Hds Prty that Roland Swenson, David Fox, & I were having at our place on Woodrow.
When re-emerged into the hall, everyone was gone; the place was empty. Seriously high, I hitchhiked home, running the last couple of blocks. Breathless, I burst in to tell my got-high-backstage-with-Talking-Heads story. About the time I caught my breath, there was a knock at the door and David Byrne & Jerry Harrison came in.
D-Day opened for the Talking Heads in Austin and at The Bronco Bowl in Dallas. In Dallas we got to hang out with the band. When David was running around the stage, he got a little to close to Tina's bass guitars in their stands, Tina was not happy. She was also pregnant. Later while smoking a joint in Bernie Worrell's room, the rhythm section collapsed into laughter at the classic "stink eye" Tina gave Dave over the bass guitar affair. Meanwhile, our bass player John Keller tried to explain, to David Byrne, what he thought "water flowing underground" meant. This went on for 30 minutes, at the end of which David informed John he was not even close. Classic.
I was at the 82 show at fiesta gardens and the 83 show at Palmer. I think dday opened in 82. They did like 3 songs off of Catherine wheel. The 83 show you had Jonathan demme running around looking for angles to shoot from. It was basically a practice run for the film crew happening during the show. It was very similar to the movie with Byrne coming out and opening with psycho killer with the boom box. The 79 show as a 4 piece there is video shot from the sound booth on tripod single camera. The version that circulates is from my source, it was a reasonable upgrade from the previous circulating copy. Performance wise, I think the 79 show is the most inspired of those 3. The 80 lineup was their best, and I agree remain in light is their masterpiece. There is a German tv show called rock pop and that has the single best pro shot document of that lineup. Amazing version of crosseyed and painless. There is another pro shot from rome but the rock pop is better. I recently got a master copy of their performance at montreux. Some great montreux stuff I’d out there. I recently sourced master quality of roxy music from 72 or 73. It was like 9 shows before eno left. Belew was only briefly in the band. In 4 years he made his mark on Bowie, Frank Zappa, talking heads, and then king crimson. It was an amazing run, and I love everything he did from that era. I wish he was still in kc. I think I offered you access to my video collection previously, we have some reasonable similar interests. I have about 30,000 shows catalogued. I can send you my list if you like.
What an amazing show! Went with my brother and sister, so sardines in near the stage, all we could do was bounce up and down. I decided to pass out but couldn’t even fall down. My brother picked me up and shoved his way to the back of the crowd where I quickly came to and really danced. I remember those busted out windows and spray painted cars on the long walk back to ours.
Saw the Talking Heads on tour in 1982 (I think) in Houston when the B-52s opened for them.
Sorry, but the B-52s blew them off the stage, IMO. No one knew who they were, but when they opened with "Planet Claire" we knew we were seeing something we had never seen before. Kinda lost interest in the Heads after that. But that's just me.
There is great early b52s footage from Athens ga in a small club. It’s an early video format called 1/2” open reel. Once you know the format it’s easily recognizable. During rock lobster for the down down part everyone dancing all dances Lower and lower to the floor. I think it’s from 78. I was lucky to see the b52s a few times In the 80s. They were one of the funnest and most joyous bands live.
Saw them at least 6-7 times, particularly in their early days, with Ricky Wilson on guitar. The Talking Heads had no idea what happened when they took the stage that night.
When I lived in Austin, I doubt anyone would have missed part of an Armadillo concert for some crappy-a**ed TV show, but especially that dallas junk. Maybe that's why the Dillo closed.
After the first Talking Heads show in Austin, I hung around until the crowd at the Armadillo thinned out, eventually getting backstage. In their dressing room, Tina rolled joints on a paper plate and passed them around. They were very nice. I invited them to the Tlkng Hds Prty that Roland Swenson, David Fox, & I were having at our place on Woodrow.
When re-emerged into the hall, everyone was gone; the place was empty. Seriously high, I hitchhiked home, running the last couple of blocks. Breathless, I burst in to tell my got-high-backstage-with-Talking-Heads story. About the time I caught my breath, there was a knock at the door and David Byrne & Jerry Harrison came in.
The party was a success.
Damn. I lived on Grover. Wish I had known ya.
D-Day opened for the Talking Heads in Austin and at The Bronco Bowl in Dallas. In Dallas we got to hang out with the band. When David was running around the stage, he got a little to close to Tina's bass guitars in their stands, Tina was not happy. She was also pregnant. Later while smoking a joint in Bernie Worrell's room, the rhythm section collapsed into laughter at the classic "stink eye" Tina gave Dave over the bass guitar affair. Meanwhile, our bass player John Keller tried to explain, to David Byrne, what he thought "water flowing underground" meant. This went on for 30 minutes, at the end of which David informed John he was not even close. Classic.
I was at the 82 show at fiesta gardens and the 83 show at Palmer. I think dday opened in 82. They did like 3 songs off of Catherine wheel. The 83 show you had Jonathan demme running around looking for angles to shoot from. It was basically a practice run for the film crew happening during the show. It was very similar to the movie with Byrne coming out and opening with psycho killer with the boom box. The 79 show as a 4 piece there is video shot from the sound booth on tripod single camera. The version that circulates is from my source, it was a reasonable upgrade from the previous circulating copy. Performance wise, I think the 79 show is the most inspired of those 3. The 80 lineup was their best, and I agree remain in light is their masterpiece. There is a German tv show called rock pop and that has the single best pro shot document of that lineup. Amazing version of crosseyed and painless. There is another pro shot from rome but the rock pop is better. I recently got a master copy of their performance at montreux. Some great montreux stuff I’d out there. I recently sourced master quality of roxy music from 72 or 73. It was like 9 shows before eno left. Belew was only briefly in the band. In 4 years he made his mark on Bowie, Frank Zappa, talking heads, and then king crimson. It was an amazing run, and I love everything he did from that era. I wish he was still in kc. I think I offered you access to my video collection previously, we have some reasonable similar interests. I have about 30,000 shows catalogued. I can send you my list if you like.
What an amazing show! Went with my brother and sister, so sardines in near the stage, all we could do was bounce up and down. I decided to pass out but couldn’t even fall down. My brother picked me up and shoved his way to the back of the crowd where I quickly came to and really danced. I remember those busted out windows and spray painted cars on the long walk back to ours.
Saw the Talking Heads on tour in 1982 (I think) in Houston when the B-52s opened for them.
Sorry, but the B-52s blew them off the stage, IMO. No one knew who they were, but when they opened with "Planet Claire" we knew we were seeing something we had never seen before. Kinda lost interest in the Heads after that. But that's just me.
There is great early b52s footage from Athens ga in a small club. It’s an early video format called 1/2” open reel. Once you know the format it’s easily recognizable. During rock lobster for the down down part everyone dancing all dances Lower and lower to the floor. I think it’s from 78. I was lucky to see the b52s a few times In the 80s. They were one of the funnest and most joyous bands live.
Saw them at least 6-7 times, particularly in their early days, with Ricky Wilson on guitar. The Talking Heads had no idea what happened when they took the stage that night.
When I lived in Austin, I doubt anyone would have missed part of an Armadillo concert for some crappy-a**ed TV show, but especially that dallas junk. Maybe that's why the Dillo closed.