Tom Tom Club (Chris and Tina of Talking Heads) (RBMA Tokyo 2014 Lecture) | Tokyo
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This talk was held on November 14th as part of RBMA Tokyo 2014. 画面右下のアイコンから、日本語字幕をオンにしてお楽しみください! ------ Visit our official website: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RBMA Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedBullMusicAcademy Visit our Japanese website: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.jp ------ Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/10OyDHc ------ As Tom Tom Club, the husband-and-wife team of Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth have had a wild career, from being in the center of the downtown New York scene in the early '80s — the crucible where punk, new wave, and hip-hop melted together — to playing in the Talking Heads and working with everyone from Lou Reed to Grandmaster Flash to Sly & Robbie. And over 30 years after its release, their "Genius of Love" still has one of the most distinctive melodies in pop music, the kind that maybe transports you to the Bahamas (where it was recorded) or maybe even Mariah Carey's "Fantasy" (one of the many songs to sample its hook). Listen in as they talk about how they were inspired by Soul Train and Zapp & Roger to to what CBGB was really like.
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Yeah, these guys are still cashing in on David Byrne's genius, Pretty pathetic, boring posers...
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They wouldn't be sitting there if it wasn't for David Byrnes genius.
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Sad to see Tina aged to be quite a sour person.
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"Remain in Light" is a masterpiece. Still enjoy that Tom Tom Club album. Thank you.
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Baritone45 I am speaking specific to the creation of genius of love that they lied about.I would love for them to see this post and challenge what i said,because it would be long over due for the real creator to get his due.
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These people are liars as it relates the a lot of what really happened in the recording of genius of love in particular, that now famous phrase,they were not even in the studio when it was recorded they came the following day and heard it , Steven Stanley is a genius, and at the time did not know how to play the keyboard well and that was why he would not have allowed any one in the studio while he was working out the sound that he wanted, looking at this so called lecture i could see that the woman is the real bare faced liar and as for the gentleman, he was not at all comfortable
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I wonder what Tina would think if she knew that I am a 25 year old mother of a year old girl and a 4 year old girl.... and in a drunken night of release I watched Talking Heads Stop Making Sense and cut my hair into bangs because of her... :) She was so cute.
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LOVE tom tom club. Love Tina!
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Exceptional story tellers.
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I listen to all this and my heart has opened up like a flower and I feel very happy! Back then, we only got a record. Zero info, just songs. And we loved them and continue loving them to this day!
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THAT'S DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE RAPPING
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Your voices blew your cover
we knew I were a white band sorry -
Zapp feat Roger Troutman. I had no idea that the song More Bounce (to the ounce) was the catalyst for Genius of Love
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remember!
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fleetwood mac took me to Christie and stevie nicks presenting an award to talking heads who won for wild wild life..then I watched wild wild life and bought back all my memories as me as a sixteen year old....you forget so much.....then hear a song that brings back memories.....now watching talking heads I then type in 2015 to see how they look now...3 hours later im looking at everything...so here it goes...watching the stop making sense concert,,,im thinking who does jerry Harrison look like? think think...I got it ...one of the marx brothers the mute one....jerry i could imagine the girls that would of thrown themselves at you.........david byrne ,,,mysterious? but loving his work with st Vincent,,,what a brilliant voice......tina you look fantastic for your age ,,,hottie then ...hotttie now!!! WHICH LEAVES CHRIS the drummer...chris you face and your expression looks like your smiling all the time...its so uplifting...look at his wild life video and his part as a cowboy,,,i can see what tina saw in you...and the amount of people over the years responding to your face if that makes sense.???.gees I sound like a blabbering fan..but im 45 married male who has been effected by the whole persona of talking heads...the energy of burning down the house live song at the stop making sense concert is one of the best performances ever.....it is so sad you guys split up......would love to know if you guys are friends or at least talking? from peter ,,,thanks
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i love benji b. great interviewer and dj
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I want to say on the front end this is a great interview, to hear about the creative processes Chris, Tina, et al used to make some seminal records and about the individuals involved in the making of them.
Did Tina have a cocaine problem back when? She's sure talked a lot about it during the interview. -
we met at the wag in london in 1988. ursss.com
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Tina is the greatest creative unique bassist of all time! just listen on stop making sense
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Funny seeing Tina suck down that sponsor drink [ yuk ] [ tsk ]
Listening here , you see that these two are the nucleus of rhythm ideas , hqwie MAC!
..... and your with .....? Love the multi layered polyrhythmic from these
Tom Heads over the decades. Can't say much about the body laungauge of the
host . Kraftwerk Girls , nice .