From 77 to More Songs, through this and into Remain in Light, I thought David Byrne was God. He was up there with Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan in my mind then. I remember seeing them for the first time in a small theater in San Luis Obispo live on the More Songs tour in '78 or '79, and then the next two times I saw them was at Red Rocks in 1982 and again in 1983, and it was then that I realized how much he needed Chris and Tina and Jerry. His solo work has been too academic, too pretentious and pretty self-indulgent, without heart and soul.
As an aside, the oldest T-shirt I own is a red t-shirt I made 35 years ago with iron-on green letters that read "Talking Heads: 77", I made it right after hearing 77 for the first time and it's only one of 5 band shirts I have ever worn. ( Ramones, Dead, Stray Cats, Gang of Four and Moth Wranglers are the others).
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Date: 2012-12-02 01:51 am (UTC)As an aside, the oldest T-shirt I own is a red t-shirt I made 35 years ago with iron-on green letters that read "Talking Heads: 77", I made it right after hearing 77 for the first time and it's only one of 5 band shirts I have ever worn. ( Ramones, Dead, Stray Cats, Gang of Four and Moth Wranglers are the others).