The new memoir from Chris Frantz (Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club drummer, and the lucky guy who's got Tina Weymouth to wake up to every day).
A pretty good read about the evolution of Talking Heads, covering lots of shows, lots of parties, interesting stuff about their writing/recording process, etc.
Some great behind-the-scenes detail about life as a musician, touring on the road with the Ramones (Johnny doesn't come out of that looking too good!) and others.
Chris seems like a very nice guy, although you could sense he felt hard done by regarding his (and, more so, Tina's) treatment by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
He seems very willing to excuse Byrne's behaviour at times, too willing, in my opinion, but then that's his prerogative. He certainly does his best to clarify that Talking Heads was not just Byrne's backing band, despite Byrne's obvious belief that this was the case.
Eno comes off as an egotistical money-grabber with far too high an opinion of his own worth, and I know U2, to name one other band who worked with him, share that view.
Definitely worth a read, and it's got me listening again to Talking Heads and other bands mentioned...always a bonus from reading music biographies.
A pretty good read about the evolution of Talking Heads, covering lots of shows, lots of parties, interesting stuff about their writing/recording process, etc.
Some great behind-the-scenes detail about life as a musician, touring on the road with the Ramones (Johnny doesn't come out of that looking too good!) and others.
Chris seems like a very nice guy, although you could sense he felt hard done by regarding his (and, more so, Tina's) treatment by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
He seems very willing to excuse Byrne's behaviour at times, too willing, in my opinion, but then that's his prerogative. He certainly does his best to clarify that Talking Heads was not just Byrne's backing band, despite Byrne's obvious belief that this was the case.
Eno comes off as an egotistical money-grabber with far too high an opinion of his own worth, and I know U2, to name one other band who worked with him, share that view.
Definitely worth a read, and it's got me listening again to Talking Heads and other bands mentioned...always a bonus from reading music biographies.
, I don't like having to decode a book. Was it written back then (probably not)
