Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980 - 05 Drugs

[NeutronDance]

How does Belew get that thing to sound like bagpipes at the end?

[jinkblade7]

The Talking Heads Live in Rome is the single greatest piece of live music ever.

One of the best bands at its peak. Adrian Belew in amazing Belewness. If you don't like it, you're lame.

[TMWS1Y]

inb4 the lady ruins it 0:40

[flinkinyc]

Saw them from the second row at Radio City Music Hall the month before this. Still one of the greatest shows I've ever seen.

[joshandersonmusic]

6 people dont take drugs

[floramarge]

immense geetar solo there at the end!

[peterikarlstad]

iesus68 you are truly blessed!

[hiddenfire65]

Yeah it sounded better on this tour than it had before. Always thought so. Adrian adds a lot here.

[dansaghin1]

crazy song...loving it

[iesus68]

once or twice per year, I found myself hypnotized watching this concert and thinking when I was 19 years old, looking to this outstanding tour in the middle of the crowd in Rome. And makes me think about which privilege I had being there. Believe me when I say this gig will never be forget by every single human being attending it 

[maclennan73]

@iesus68 Oh you lucky thing.....I regularly watch this footage and wish I was there, you can actually remember it. I also don't doubt that ALL there were amazed at how special this event was!

[kraken58]

Yeap a Piece of Rock History...Byrne -Belew and ALL the others on stage. Was'nt Laurie Anderson on stage as well? Saw them in Montreux in the 80's Will NEVER forget what I have seen and heard. Many thanks for posting this clip. MAGNIFICENT as well as the other clips of that Rome show!

[MrDeconblue]

I saw them on this tour or at least with this lineup at the ocean state performing arts center, best show I have even seen, and Ive seen alot

[TheHAPIplanet]

According to Brian Eno's autobiography, Belew was made to improvise over the existing backing tracks. Doesn't that make him a co-composer as opposed to someone told what notes to play ?

[Zento1000]

Brilliant......

[Raymantico]

I saw them with Adrian Belew in Berkeley...he's been called an idiot savant...just sayin

[vegimite2010]

this is from another universe !

[AvirtualSwitzerland]

Is Tina fixing during this song?....Who's the brother?

[JeffWeavil]

@AvirtualSwitzerland

Tina's on keys, there's several shots of her.

[4tuneagent]

This album and especially this song are phenomenal...Also "No Compassion" , off the '77 album..

[ihateaaronanderson]

the ahhhhhhhhh person misses that sweet spot note thats in "The Name of This Band..."

it throws it off just one step

[rzid]

This song freaks out my cat. If I whistle the guitar riff she angrily meows and bites me.

[theevindave]

fuckin ace version

[stilodrom]

I`VE BEEN TO THIS CONCERT!

!!!BOOM SHIVA!!!

[sstyblo]

goddamn nuemana!

[RobertoTifi]

Fear of Music is surely my favourite! And Adrien Belew is just great. On YouTube you can also find Belew performing with Frank Zappa in "City of Tiny Lights" and others. Talking Heads, Frank Zappa, King Crimson... I agree: Phew! Can this guy play!! And David Byrne is just pure genius. Nothing less.

[init4datoons1]

@RobertoTifi

that zappa is from baby snakes the whole thing is amazing

[Conduit13C]

I feel like I'm drugs just listening to this. David Byrne accomplished what he set out to do...:P

[pitbullexpress]

One of my all time favorites!

Thanks for posting it!

Great groove, hynotic!

Kick ASS chorus!

[xxBIRDY]

white mans afrofunk

[travisrlel]

They should get back together with this lineup and tour.

[lespaul7458]

David Byrne is one of the most great compositor in the world.. a genius! i've seen him last year in Turin.. very very intelligent concert

[fleshtax]

That's the late Busta Jones on bass.

[Rawblah]

dude, that's Doug Wimbush ain't it?

on bass

[QuornRecords]

How would you describe this, there is nothing we can do.

[ThePistolPedro]

Brilliant. Better than the studio recording. Thanks for posting!!

[8699]

check out the funkadelic synthesizer by P. Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell (to the right of Jerry Harrison). Jerry's like wtf are you doing on the keys!!?

[sydbarret1973]

dark dark dark

[maclennan73]

More ideas than most had hot dinners, groundbreaking over a whole decade.

[thedjmic]

My god this is beautiful

[mriseborough]

Yes...

[zaezen]

words are not good enough,to describe this !!!!!!!!

[WakeUpPunks]

This is about MUSIC! Stay focused. Leave personal attacks out of this guys. A million thanks for this wonderful, WONDERFUL piece of history :)

[mothrastewart]

the solo/outro gtr part is beyond belief

[shadowboxingfool]

geez, tina had a great pair of arms, put a man to shame

[RKM52925]

Adrien is AWESOME on this track...

Feel like murder but that's alright!

[kimonui]

Adrian is amazing. read interviews; he sez he tries to make instruments, his guitar etc. sound like other things. Notice the bagpipes there towards the end? what creativity!

[spreadneck7]

Check his stuff with Zappa.

[FishTreeEstates]

so does anyone else think this version is basically way better than the one on "Fear of Music?" More energy, anyway

[venturieffect]

The Talking Heads have amazingly energetic live performances from what Ive seen on youtube. Makes me wish I'd gotten the chance to see them live, as it is really different than the album. Hard to say if it's actually better though.

[floramarge]

@FishTreeEstates T.Heads consistently better live lah



[JivemasterJ]

@FishTreeEstates As good as their first 3 albums go, the live versions of those tracks kill the studio ones...I think the reason remain in light is considered their best is because it's tracks capture their live scope. Easily one of my favorite bands

[surivirus]

Adrien Belew takes it to another dimension. whoo

[MrSkaterich]

all i see is little dots...

some are smeared,

and some are spots...

[ajbellis]

I'm charged up...DON'T put me DOWN

Don't feel like talking...Don't mess around

[Basie10]

genius

[lordzhuge]

amazing song, great performance.

[dunbar9finger]

It's annoying how the sound is mixed such that the background vocals are louder than the lead vocals. Whenever the background singer kicks in, I can't hear David Byrne at all.

[purpledynasty]

Why is there a 2nd bass player in this lineup? What's the point besides expanding the payroll? This material is fine for TIna's expertise.

[juuttuuppi]

Buster Jones

[sealerchant]

more bass rythem sound its not about payroll there all milionaries its about the music

[MattHood]

your answer lies in the last song, the great divide

[MattHood]

tina was also probably so coked up she needed a break lol

[dannytdot]

hey matt - watch all the way to the end b4 you comment - she was playing a keyboard

dumbass

[MattHood]

that doesn't change the fact that a) i was joking and b) tina was a coke head, so no need for rudeness and insults... take a chill pill, buddy.

[dannytdot]

its totally funny to joke about drug addiction

ha ha ha

i am totally addicted to chill pills

it is totally not rude and insluting to say that someone was too coked out to play the bass

when they were clearly on stage playing another instrument...

i am so sorry

you are very very funny and also very courteous and polite - thanks for the talking head check

i will be sure to seek out other comments of yours to learn good internet comment etiquette

[MattHood]

you are one intense guy. thanks for the laughs!

[sparklingdark]

the first time i listened to Fear of Music I was tripping. Can you imagine?

What a great experience....

[ooziewoo]

crikey no i can't imagine!!

[rainingcolors]

What are drugs?

[illegalsmirf]

Little pills you put up your bum so the chemicals can be absorbed by your rectum. :-)

[TehEMan]

I love the way they incorporate all these different artists

[checkoutniandra]

this is the best song to describe drugs to sober people in an understandable great context. after this song you are either that naive person taking them because of the minorchange in the woman's voice or you are that arrogant person that leaves them because of the minorchange in the woman's voice.

[vulgarvulcan]

im like the only kid in high school who even knows who these guys are and i say SKREW 'em coz they are missing out on the best sound ever

[funny0000000]

How true.

The funny thing is even when this was the new music on the radio people did not admit to liking it. Back in 1983 when "Burning Down the House" was near the top of the charts people acted like they did not know the song. I think back then people didn't want to admit the like Byrne because of his weirdness. Some people might have also assumed he was gay and back then it was bad to admit to being gay.

Wish there was stuff like this on MTV today....

[cheezer57]

Not true about the gay thing back then.....In fact, with the music community, the public back then was much more accepting to the gay movement than we are today..We have regressed in that area...Case in point...Bowie, Jagger & Rod stewart was perceived to be Bi....Elton john....Mark Bolin and all the Glam rockers of those days, (which there was many), and even prior to that, you had Liberace and Little Richard...No one really had a problem with it...Now, the acceptance is lesser to a degree.

[funny0000000]

In the early 80's if a person was wearing a Twisted Sister shirt or a Motley Crue shirt they were considered "cool". If you has a talking heads shirt on people called you a fag.

cheezer57 your profile says you are 52 years old so I must assume you were talking pre-1980 with your statement .

I was talking about the 1980 to 1987 era.

Maybe in 1977 or so when you were 20 years old you were cool but once people saw the videos in the 80's that was the case.

I love talking heads BTW.

[cheezer57]

You're correct..I'm 52...And I remember it very clearly... And I can't remember a solitary person who thought David Byrne was gay...But I can tell you, with great confidence, that even if they had, they wouldn't have given 2 shits....Okay ..Maybe lame Motley crue, or Twisted sister fans might have, but that only would have helped to solidified Byrne's allure, and not detracted from it...By the way...In my world, if you wore a Crue, or sister t, you were Fag squared.....No offense.

[RadiantEclipseBand]

same here man!

Kids these days listen to garbage!

THis is real music!

[1snazzyg8r]

Truly psychedelic.

[BEARSY79]

"feel like murder but thats alright"... how many bodies out by the highway are there Mr. Byrne?

[funny0000000]

Not too many I bet. Did you ever see the interview where he said "I either sing or I kill people"? So there could be a few I guess.

[TheFunkyAlchemist]

I'd let Byrne kill me any day ;D

[iloveitwhenitssunny]

This sounds so good live

[sconeofark]

I study myself, I moove myself

[stivnik]

"I'm barely moving, I study motion"

I love it.

[innerspace428]

innovators,the sound track to my teens,and now

[lonfia]

I'm charged up happiness !!!

[aquabone81]

Drugs!

[cuddy62dj]

Al concerto a Bologna c'ero TALKING un mito...

[DrygaYes]

man i wish talking heads would sound anything like this on record.

[Frithyfrith]

Get "Name of this band is..."

[HabibTh]

I really suggest you do get "Name of this band is..." it's not only my favorite Heads album, it's also one of the best live albums ever made...

[aliensatemybrain2]

yeah isnt it just,simply amazing.

[spotswoodthenewt]

How right you are!

[trollfinger]

I have it on vynil. it's great.

[awesomedan157]

i saw them in 78, this tour and 82. this was the first concert i had to stand and dance for in my life (2nd and final was 82). they blew me away. i saw adrian a couple times before this with frank zappa in 76 but he really tore the roof off at these shows. never saw anything like this. and busta, well, thank you for these videos.

[skunkamaug]

excellent

[dinnerbucket9]

What? The entire conception belongs to Byrne, Belew is a hired hand.

[jojojigaboo]

@dinnerbucket9

right in. i just read a post by a kid in his 20's who thought this was an offshoot of king crimson or some shit - i mean what???

and u notice crosseyed gets the most views because of fich or some shit trash "band"

anyway - thanks for the DRUGS post.

Fear Of Music is my favorite

[stabbitystyle]

@jojojigaboo I actually think crosseyed gets more views because it has such a cohesive groove to it. That's why I like it so much, at least. Also, the crazy amount of energy to it, especially once the song kicks in after the opening.

[Questpeace]

@dinnerbucket9

Brian Eno kindly disagrees.

[jtomasik]

@dinnerbucket9 True. But ya gotta admit Belew adds an element that wasn't there before. The guy kicked butt whether it was with Zappa, Talking Heads, or King Crimson.

[manferot]

Byrne was probably feeling a bit overstaged by belew in this tour.

[squonkamatic]

Actually from what I have read the real tension was between Tina and Belew and it was because Belew was a bit too overzealous at times and people started overlooking Jerry's contributions in particular. I think at this stage though they were all getting along swimmingly. It was only after making the Tom Tom Club album that it boiled over when Steven Stanley erased some of Belew's solos from the masters. They are just gone, lost to all eternity.

[internetmale]

I was under the impression that at this point Tina and Belew got along fine, to the point that she was lobbying for him to join the band full time (and according to David Bowman's book Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa Fa - suggested that he replace Byrne in the band, which Belew understandably balked at). they later fell out over the writing credits on Tom Tom Club's self-titled debut

[squonkamatic]

I do agree however that the cinematographers are spending a bit too much time concentrating on what Adrian Belew is doing. There are like 8 other people onstage and every time you hear a weird little noise they cut to Belew, as if he is the only one doing anything of interest.

[MattHood]

lol "Hey, look at that zany guy!" feel the same about crimson dvd's :(

[ZimmerWelles]

y pensar que por temas asi king crimson se redefinio en los ochenta!!!! todo por belew

[dskiraider]

This shit is NASHTAY!!!

[threeleggeddog1]

That is Belew sounding pretty awesome. I wish they hadn't done the slow mo at the end so you could see him playing that bagpipe sounding lead section. Very cool stuff.

[dskiraider]

Agreed re: slo-mo. That almost killed it. But boy is he killing at this show. Goddamn!

[juiceTAP]

what a great fucking version of this song. I believe thats adrian belew on guitar with them

[botchbud]

mm sexaaay!~

[resacarat]

Huichol appetite suppressants

[auzio]

WONDERFUL, MAN!!!

ahhh there so good

[dinnerbucket9]

Compared to what? No one, then, made more exqusitely dark music.

[Intravert]

what do u mean, 'dark'..?

[oleshatterbutt]

the talking heads lasted for 4 albums only

[cracklydubplate]

i've owned fear of music for 14 years and i never liked this song that much until i saw this version of it and now i recognize that it's seriously real bizness

[dinnerbucket9]

Not so oddly enough, I think this represents the kind of ragged avant-garde funk Byrne was always shooting for. Sometimes it only wants to collapse, all in on itself, all broken and disarticulated....but, you know, the longing underneath holds the day.

[Tonyzzamora]

Put this way: only 3 years after "77" they played to a crazy crowd in Rome with Adrian feeling very happy. Sometimes those "associations" don't work very well, not here.

Regards from Brazil.

[Zzz80]

Grreat version!!

[mrakenator]

belew is a madman!!!ahahahaha

[alino82]

QUESTA ERA LA RAI!Maledetti farabbutti!Quando avremmo rivisto queste MERAVIGLIE senza la rete??Chi gestisce la televisione pubblica italiana adesso dovrebbe vergognarsi!!

[mutobare]

IS that NONA backing vocal?

[gsyme66]

Dolette McDonald.

[classof77]

2:59 -- Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, baby! Aw yeah.

Jesus, even synthesizers were at their coolest then.

[lordoid]

Oh yeah...they used this babys many years. Mostly 2 of them. Must be a fat fat sound ;)

[royalviking04]

Funky. Cool. Dark. Ageless. Byrne when he was the coolest dude in rock. Handsome. Skinny. Monochromatic. And I agree about Tina. And, shit, Belew, wow!

[YRSAL]

Fear Of Music - is my favorit album....hmmm? ok, Also - Remain In Light - ! Thanks for posting..Cheers!

[YRSAL]

SuperFantastic!

[Tonyzzamora]

I agree with you, guys, Tina is cool, and a great bass player, by the way.

regards from Brazil

[boogerbenson]

Wow Tina! I love you!

[TrippingOverGod]

Tina Weymouth - too cute.

[unfrozencaveman02]

That is thee best screen name evuer !

[MNHJUZ]

Tina Weymouth is a goddess of bass guitar and sex appeal.

[dead675]

No it doesn't.. true to life

[BOXSECTION]

it really doesn't get much better.....and 27 years ago !!

[jofrecarlos]

Everytime I listen this song it sounds different!!, and that´s really good!!.

[davideirth]

This is a version of :drugs" off "The Name Of This Band Is tAlKINg heads:: My fav album of all time. Im glad there are humans out there loving this ,like im am after 20yrs.

[smirnovsky]

I love,just love

[PeterMayer]

Adrian was his best when used effects and not that busy guitar synth he does now.

[kenrubes]

yeah, this is award winning shit. Belew just kills this tune... and that solo at the end....damn.

[duncan4942]

fucking awsome

[2Dance4U]

Awesome...

[ihtfk]

Adrian Belew... fucking ace!!! This has to be their peak. David even looks comfortable on stage!

[idealobserver]

Amazing.

[mattycfox]

Easily one of the most underrated bands of all time.

[slowandcrystal]

Absolutely fucking brilliant!