Roxy Avalon video

[jerry]

Hmm, never thought about that, my impression of at least Byrne’s guitar style was that he was doing a frantic version of Jimmy Nolen’s classic chicken scratch with James Brown. Or…if Phil Manzanera was any kind of influence, I hear more of it from his playing on Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain album, plus Brian Turrington’s bass work. Then, of course, Eno eventually caught up with Byrne and the band.
One more quirky thing about the Heads(as if there weren’t enough already)…I saw them in a small club on the MSABAF tour; for an encore they did an earnest cover of the 1910 Fruitgum Co.’s “1,2,3, Red Light”. Somehow, it made perfect sense.

I also always thought Ferry's vocal delivery was a precursor of Byrne's, they both made great use limited vocal ranges. I would dig hearing the Heads version of 123 Redlight, I have a soft spot for 60's bubblegum.

 

[Michedelic]

I also always thought Ferry's vocal delivery was a precursor of Byrne's, they both made great use limited vocal ranges. I would dig hearing the Heads version of 123 Redlight, I have a soft spot for 60's bubblegum.

I thought Ferry had a decent range, highly unique and so different from all the watered down blues grunting/shrieking that was prevalent in those days. I heard traces of Scott Walker, Dean Martin, and Charles Aznavour in what he was doing, but a little off-kilter, as the entire group was. Byrne, well, he just kinda sounded like if Norman Bates was fronting a band, but it fit his onstage persona. Tom Verlaine of Television had a similar style, and having seen Taxi Driver just before that whole scene happened, I got it. It wasn’t the NYC that my mom dragged me to for the World’s Fair a decade earlier when I was a kid.

Bubblegum? Oh yeah, all the hipsters of the day bashed it, because, well, rock was so deep and important then and all, but they seemed to overlook the fact that there was a group of much younger kids that just couldn’t care less about Woodstock, and anyway, it was catchy. Sure, it was dumb pop stuff, but there has always been catchy dumb pop stuff, they grew up on “We Like Short Shorts” and the like, after all. My fave was a slightly different take…

I had a bit of a MILF crush on her.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Byrne, well, he just kinda sounded like if Norman Bates was fronting a band

Are you saying Psycho Killer is autobiographical?

 

[Michedelic]

Are you saying Psycho Killer is autobiographical?

You’ll have to ask Mother.

 

[jerry]

I thought Ferry had a decent range, highly unique and so different from all the watered down blues grunting/shrieking that was prevalent in those days. I heard traces of Scott Walker, Dean Martin, and Charles Aznavour in what he was doing, but a little off-kilter, as the entire group was. Byrne, well, he just kinda sounded like if Norman Bates was fronting a band, but it fit his onstage persona. Tom Verlaine of Television had a similar style, and having seen Taxi Driver just before that whole scene happened, I got it. It wasn’t the NYC that my mom dragged me to for the World’s Fair a decade earlier when I was a kid.

Bubblegum? Oh yeah, all the hipsters of the day bashed it, because, well, rock was so deep and important then and all, but they seemed to overlook the fact that there was a group of much younger kids that just couldn’t care less about Woodstock, and anyway, it was catchy. Sure, it was dumb pop stuff, but there has always been catchy dumb pop stuff, they grew up on “We Like Short Shorts” and the like, after all. My fave was a slightly different take…

I had a bit of a MILF crush on her.

Oh, I've bashed bubblegum, but I've had a lot of dumb opinions over the years, a few on this very board. London? I'm old, used to watch Emergency and its wasn't because it was a good show.

 

[Michedelic]

Oh, I've bashed bubblegum, but I've had a lot of dumb opinions over the years, a few on this very board. London? I'm old, used to watch Emergency and its wasn't because it was a good show.

Got back into it(and Adam-12)in the past few years as it’s been on nostalgia themed channels like KAZA and METV, and yes, the dialogue and certain situations depicted are pretty cringeworthy(hey, they were Jack Webb productions), but those two shows were landmarks in TV portrayals of cops and first responders/medical(and their techniques), and were highly regarded.
Plus, it’s a kick to see certain actors at the start of their career…like John Travolta as a whiny teenager who had fallen down a hill, is injured and had to be pulled up, Jodie Foster as a lost little girl, and Tyne Daly as a wacky sculptor. But the biggest laugh for my wife and I is that we lived for a few years in the general area where both shows did location shots, North Hollywood/Toluca Lake/Studio City(and elsewhere), so it’s alway fun to spot notable places in the old neighborhood. IMDB usually lists them in the episode page, and once there was a car chase that was staged on what turned out to be our old street. I’ve caught what is now the back of the Guitar Center on Ventura Blvd. as a backdrop for a suspicious driver pullover.
What was mindblowing were scenes(of Adam 12)in a storefront that was eventually the place where I worked some 20 years later, in Venice Beach. During the episode, I kept thinking how familiar the view out the front window was, looked it up, and sure enough…