Talking Heads - I Zimbra

[choad1976]

Great footage. I've got most of the T.H.'s concerts that are out there and the video quality of this ranks up there with Stop Making Sense. Unfortunately the audio is lacking. Thanks for the post!

[FriendlyShadow1]

Tina is a great bassist, I wonder why they have that other guy there. Weird.

[zabrak999]

who is the guitarist with the shirt? IS THAT FRIPP?

[noisesmith]

@zabrak999 the guy in the yellow shirt is Adrian Belew (you may have heard him play with Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, David Bowie, or with Fripp in their band King Crimson).

[gtrrobster]

@noisesmith

zappa too!

[gxtmfa]

I love the Heads' humility, stepping aside and having better musicians provide the backbone of their performances, but considering how Tina Weymouth became a very capable bassist in order to be a member, getting Busta Jones to sit in on a few concerts really proves how dedicated the band was to putting on the best show possible. Or maybe Tina wanted a break?

[fruitbatrepublic]

@gxtmfa tina weymouth is on the right side of the stage playing along, they just don't focus on her in the video

[MrSKINFLICK]

@fruitbatrepublic: Tina is a bass god !

[TheMaggylu]

30 years ago the WDR-TV-Station recorded lots of Concerts and it was originally named ROCKPALAST

People usually met at somebodies Place...and made big TV-Parties, to watch together.

Me myself missed the Livecast... cause i had the Luck to have a Ticket for the Dortmund-Westfalenhall.

Thanx to the Uploader for this fantastiques Memory!!!!

There is a spain Page where you can get the whole Show in DVD-Quality!!! 1.67Gigs big.

tip: Page starts with kigonjiro...then search for Talking Heads 1980

[RyDawg084]

I love the video to go with the great song!!!!...

[ElectricAnimations]

Sick of people commenting on how many thumbs down people 'have no' whatever the song is about...SHUT TF UP and enjoy the music already

[gptvproductions]

@ElectricAnimations No doubt. Who gives a rats ass about thumbs down or dislikes. When I leave a similar comment as yours people comment back that I must care cause I left a comment about it. If I could turn off comments on You Tube videos I would. You used to able to do that. A million people could like a song and all people care about are seven people who didn't like it. LAME

[meetdiamond]

7 people have no rhythm

[mrphic69]

putain comme çà déménage!!!!!!!!!

[spazola789]

@jaffacakesarenice 99% sure that's Tina on the right side of the stage at 1:52. Don't know why she wasn't featured along with everyone else though.

[krzyac]

DADA!! Hugo Ball - "Gadji beri bimba"

[WemmyWemington]

<3 <3 <3

[BucksStudent]

Adrian Belew said every member snorted cocaine before most of the shows, and every set, which would originally clock in around forty minutes or more, was reduced to twenty to thirty minutes. All the original tempos were brought up significantly.

[jabaltar84]

@BucksStudent Co-Sign.......I read that somewhere in the past about Talking Heads during this era.......

[Huttekoetoer]

epic

[vierkese]

boah hotten totten musik

[ihasch]

This was co-written with Brian Eno.

[jaffacakesarenice]

Where in the world is Tina Weymouth?

[MawoRinnGun]

masterpiece

[REBrandenburg]

bad ass shit when byrne was hungry

[floydfanTN]

Sounds like this song was an influence for Belew, I can hear a bit of Discipline in this song (though that came out 2 years later)

[thenameisbond]

man, this brings back some crazy memories!

[dmitrikatz]

Lyrics are an adaptation of Dadaist Hugo Ball’s poem “Gadji beri bimba.”

Gadji beri bimba clandridi

Lauli lonni cadori gadjam

A bim beri glassala glandride

E glassala tuffm I zimbra

[n6ne]

Yes, Adrian Belew.

[bckm54]

is that adrian belew in the red pants and yellow shirt?

[ikilevap]

@bckm54 yes

[aniballazzart]

COOL...

[markerblogger]

Oh yeah, TH at its full power!!!

[MrHighmax]

They definitely blazed a trail for Paul Simon to later come and glom onto African poly rythms for commercial success - Osibisa was way first to introduce it to the west I believe - Hope it gets more recognition due to WC!

[gtrrobster]

@MrHighmax

aw dude...to say PS glommed on is pretty inaccurate on your part.....

byrne is not the only genius open creative person north of the equator.

[kneejerker]

Although the video is crisp, the sound mix is simply awful.

[takjizai]

かっこよすぎ！

so! wonderful! fantastic!

[mrphic69]

fabulous!

[gunnymorales74]

where´s Tina????

[Baritone45]

@gunnymorales74 I think Tina can be seen in the purplish brown outfit way in the back/right at 0:03 and near the end. Apparently she' s far to the stage left (right as you're facing the stage), being the shy mousy thing she is, so she doesn't show up in most of the shots.

[animal90sFreak5]

Great,just dig this band,good stuff,they were just having the days of their lives back then.

[sponooch]

kiks

[donaldb1]

This is very strange. It doesn't look as if the music is synchronised with the visuals. I don't mean it's slightly out of synch. I mean it looks like they're playing a completely different song. None of the movement or dancing is in time with the music, the hand movements of the guitarists don't correspond with the music and most of all the close of the vocalists don't correspond at all the lyrics we hear. Maybe it's just me, but this looks really wrong.

[sucramnormark]

Yeah, that happens sometimes when uploading clips.

[IDCMI]

That's Dadaism :P

No just kidding.

It's slightly out of sync. You can easily see this from 1:04 to 1:10 - when he sings an "I", he actually shows his teeth. So not a totally different song.

[MrSKINFLICK]

absolutely right!!! check out my channel mrskinflick, thankya!!!

[sonofnothing]

they're all bouncing up on the upbeat. this is.. um real? what else can i say

[RichardBLongly]

there's so many people i want on that stage. B\

[onoplastic]

tina looks different for some reason.

[kreed1]

Great live vid~!

[xyaqua]

Thermonuclear cool song. Even better in 'stop making sense'. This is really the best combo of punk/pop/world music. So cool. Precursor to bhangra which followed 20 years later.

But try getting folks in rural wisconsin in the 70's and 80's to listen to this.

Probably gave them a mental hernia.

[DJName76]

It will always kill me that I never got to see this line-up live. I doubt there was a better live band in the world at this point.

And I agree that new 'indie' bands could learn from these guys.

The only band I've seen of late that even has the potential of getting this funky is the Dirty Projectors. Those kids can PLAY. And Byrne has already given them his blessing. See them live. Seriously.

[fag0tron]

i like how belew's mic is off, but he's so intensely into singing the nonsense lyrics... haha.

[luthierjustin1]

Nonsence lyric?

[MrSKINFLICK]

DADA lyrics by german DADA-lyricist HUGO BALL, BLOCKHEAD!!!!!!!!!!

[Lyktwz]

@luthierjustin1

Its a poem from Hugo Ball (dadaist poet)

[Lyktwz]

(From Wikipedia) Hugo Ball created the Dada Manifesto, making a political statement about his views on the terrible state of society and acknowledging his dislike for philosophies in the past claiming to possess the ultimate Truth. The same year as the Manifesto, in 1916, Ball wrote his poem "Karawane," which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words.

[tomtom5592]

hugo ball had made his dada mark with these talking heads.

[louiseduvee]

Do I detect a little Frank Zappa influence here? I LOVE this performance, 'cause I can hear past the sound problems.. Thank you!

[WrBinITA]

lol belew :D

[therealsoulproduct]

Who would've guessed at the time that a bunch of nerdy, white, art school kids could turn out some funky shit like this? See, Talking Heads had the funk!!!! These new indie rockers should take notes.

[AdamantFinn]

There is no new indie

[therealsoulproduct]

What are you talking about? Indie is still around and still producing new artists. I'm talking about younger generations of indie artists who should leanr from the greats.

[OGITISM]

@therealsoulproduct there wasnt much funk till they added alll of the other band members tho... and most of them arent white nerdy art school kids :)

[groovebassist]

@OGITISM

They have always had tons of groove. Remain in Light

is pretty funky and poly rhythmic and it was just them..no one extra

[erinmerle]

@therealsoulproduct Fun fact: they are reciting a sound poem written by a German Dadaist in 1916.

I agree that there is a strong racist element in "indie rock". Complex rhythms, the ability to sing or play an instrument well, improvisation, and emotional sincerity is dismissed as somehow inauthentic. Anything in that direction would first have to be coated in irony to pass.

[KingCast65]

@therealsoulproduct It was all there back in the day too.... remember how mind followed this on the album? What a bassline. But when you added Bernie and Crew, well, shit the rest is history.

[cquiec]

quoi de mieux? heu si, avec son compère brian eno

[Camel48]

I remember very well the first time I heard this group was in Guadalajara in 1980, this issue is the announcement of its first LP and I heard on Radio Universidad de Guadalajara. Certainly what I recorded in a cassette. Since then he became one of my favorite groups.

[wildcatter63]

I first heard them at the 1st US Festival...Blew me away

[GraceToGo]

Chris Frantz good Drummer!

[Lyktwz]

Byrne, Harrison & Belew. WOOOOOOOOOOOOW

I ZIMBRA!

[YHVH72]

I liked the Letterman Show version better. Guess that's copyrighted bullshit or I'd up it. Could have done without Belew's guitar animal sounds too. Thanks for the vid.

[aliensatemybrain2]

yeah i preferred the letterman version as well,the sound here isnt what it could be either,wasted opportunity i think.

[Brock2097]

yeah bad sound mixing, but you can still tell they were kicking ass.

[werexninja]

no gene wilder, booo

[joconnell128]

wow

[trollfinger]

i want this at my funeral ! even the priest will be getting his boogie on.

[lerpwlambyth]

Is that Brian Eno in the yellow shirt?

[lerpwlambyth]

Wait, forget it - it's Adrian Belew.

[handsomerob48]

Punishing rhythm. So tight.

[mmiaxx2002]

yup

[narozzz]

Where the heck is Tina Weymouth?!

[Zzz80]

She's right there on the right