As much as I love David Byrne, as a musician, as a producer, as a visual artist, as a discoverer of other interesting artists, the Talking Heads, as a unit, was a better band.
For the moment anyway, here are a couple of YouTube gems from a 1980 edition of the Talking Heads, live in Rome.
Featuring:
David Byrne
Tina Weymouth
Chris Frantz
Jerry Harrison
Steve Scales
Burnie Worrell
Dolette MacDonald
Buster Jones
Adrien Belew
(Stay Hungry)
(Cities)
(Drugs)
(Life During Wartime)
(Born Under Punches)
(YouTube extremely slow for me at the moment)
The entire concert is actually available
01 Psycho Killer.
02 Stay Hungry.
03 Cities.
04 I Zimbra.
05 Drugs.
06 Take Me To The River.
07 Crosseyed And Painless.
08 Life During Wartime.
09 Houses In Motion.
10 Born Under Punches.
