Tina Weyback…

[ElectroVibe]

I love this song. Her meditative bass line in that song dances beautifully with the high hat and is one of the best layers of that mellow, polyrhythmic groove. Fun vid, too. Thanks for posting.

Yes. But I'm not sure who played bass on this track.

 

[DrThumpenstein]

Yes. But I'm not sure who played bass on this track.

It just always felt like one of her lines to me; I assumed it was Tina. But I just wiki'd it up, and it says Jerry Harrison played that line on a Prophet synth. I've played it on BG as a meditative exercise many times over the years; it's one of the first songs I recorded myself playing on bass, years ago.

 

[dalkowski]

"Found A Job" off of More Songs About Buildings And Food is the one that always strikes me as the proto-seed that eventually blossomed into all of Byrne's subsequent P-Funk wacka-wacka/bow-chikka-BOW-bow rhythm guitar excursions:

And that bass line, cot day-um Tina! Can you imagine coming up with that part?!?!

Arguably my all-time favorite TH side.

 

[ryco]

Cool band. GREAT rhythm section! Chris Franz was spot on solid, and Tina always came up with interesting parts. Like the story where she'd lay down bass parts and later Brian Eno would erase and play over them, then Tina would come back and erase Eno and put her parts back down. True ot not I don't know, but funny story.

 

[ElectroVibe]

It's sad that David no longer wanted to play with them because they seem like pretty cool people. They were essentially a band without a singer when he left.

But he was on SNL or some show recently and what did he perform? Songs from the Talking Heads done with his new band. Totally boring. I would have rather heard new stuff he had written.

 

[hrodbert696]

"Found A Job" off of More Songs About Buildings And Food is the one that always strikes me as the proto-seed that eventually blossomed into all of Byrne's subsequent P-Funk wacka-wacka/bow-chikka-BOW-bow rhythm guitar excursions:

And that bass line, cot day-um Tina! Can you imagine coming up with that part?!?!

Found a Job is one of my all-time favorite tracks. Criminal that it isn't better known.

 

[DrThumpenstein]

Found a Job is one of my all-time favorite tracks. Criminal that it isn't better known.

I’m with you on that! Between “Damn that television!” and “If your work isn’t what you love, then something isn’t right.” there’s both wisdom and a nice, funky groove.

 

[dougjwray]

There was a funny moment in a Bass Player interview with Tina, around 1997, where the interviewer asked her about about one of her most famous bass parts. She admitted that she was too tired at the recording session, and the engineer wrote it and played it! I give her credit for her honesty. It's also kind of a great punk story.
In the same interview, she said that David has a beautiful baritone voice, and why did he have to use that silly, nerdy one? (I'm paraphrasing.) (Anyway, that silly voice was the "face" of the band!!)
But I love her playing, and while I'm no Talking Heads expert, I love everything I've ever heard by them.