A couple of recently discovered early demos of The Artistics, as they named themselves back then, plus early Talking Heads demos have been rounded up for an LP + single. Tentative Decisions: Demos & Live, will be released on Black Friday (November 28). 7500 copies worldwide.
The Talking Heads show at the Agora in Cleveland on December 18, 1978 was recorded professionally. Their label released it as a promo album in 1979 for a radio broadcast and three tracks (The Girls Want To Be With The Girls, Electricity, Found A Job) would later pop up on The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads 2CD. in 2004. Psycho Killer got an outing on a 7" promo single in UK. Widely bootlegged, it will be finally available officially on the Live on Tour '78 2LP for Record Store Day (April 12). 8000 copies worldwide.
Adrian Belew & Jerry Harrison bring their Remain in Light to Europe next year, playing the clubs circuit in May and June. They will play all of that fabled Talking Heads album, plus a few other gems from their back catalog, including Thela Hun Ginjeet from Belew's stint with King Crimson. They are joined on stage by funk band Cool Cool Cool, the band that came out of Turkuaz.
Tyler Jakes reimagined the Talking Heads classic Psycho Killer as a take-no-prisoners nightmare in slow motion. It is a track from his covers album Tequila Marijuana Sextura Rock N' Roll.
English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted a new episode of their podcast The Album Years. They talk about 1985, discussing albums by Kate Bush, The Cure, Thompson Twins, Talking Heads, and a whole lot more. This is part #3 about this year. The pair can be watched on YouTube as well.
Watch Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew perform the Talkng Heads album Remain in Light in full @ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA on October 1st. Thye opened with the Heads's debut single Psycho Killer and inserted a cover of King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet.
The core band - Harrison, Belew, bass player Julie Slick and percussionist Yahuba Garcia-Torres, was joined on stage by former Turkuaz members. That NYC funk rock band ceased to exist in November 2021, citing musical differences. A 2021 tour with Belew and Harrison was cancelled after a couple of shows, because of the pandemic.
Brooklyn based funksters Turkuaz have teamed up with Talking Heads founder member Jerry Harrison and guitarist Adrian Belew for a short tour to perform Remain in Light plus a couple of other Heads' songs. The debut performance was at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA, on July 3. The show was taped by Jeff Travitz and can be downloaded from the Live Music Archive.
Brooklyn based funksters Turkuaz teamed up with Talking Heads founder member Jerry Harrison and guitarist Adrian Belew (who performed on the Remain in Light tour) for an episode of Bonnaroo Virtual Roo-ality. They kick off with Psycho Killer, followed by Houses In Motion and their own song Ophidiophobia, and signing off with Crosseyed And Painless.
Watch Widespread Panic perform the Talking Heads classic Life During Wartime. Recorded live at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic during Panic en la Playa Tres on March 20, 2014.
P-funk pioneer Bernie Worrell us dead at 72, He succumbed to stage four lung cancer. The founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic was one of the first musicians to play the Moog synthesizer and the Minimoog.
He was an unofficial member of the Taking Heads throughout the Eighties. Late he joined Black Jack Johnson, Baby Elephant, and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains. His own bands Bernie Worrell and the Woo Warriors and Bernie Worrell Orchestra were festival favorites.
Watch him perform Sco-Mule with Gov't Mule in New Orleans on May 3, 2003.
HCTF review of Baby Elephant - Turn My Teeth Up!
