BIRTHDAYS - TINA WEYMOUTH : PSYCHO KILLER TALKING HEADS

Happy birthday to Tina Weymouth, born as Martina Weymouth in Coronado, California on this day in 1950. 

Say something once, why say it again?

SONGS OF THE DAY (& birthdays!) Dr John to Tina Weymouth

 BIRTHDAYS LATELY

EARLIER THIS WEEK

& TODAY!

Dr John would have been Eighty last week and we miss the good doctor when there are times around the planet when we need a good doctor hey?!

Right Place, Wrong Time

Happy Birthday Tina!

Inducted into the Hall of Fame 

Heaven

STOP MAKING SENSE!

HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY!

TINA WEYMOUTH

A very happy 70th birthday to Tina Weymouth, bassist with Talking Heads, born as Martina Michèle Weymouth in Coronado, California on this day in 1950. 

Cool babies, strange, but not a stranger.

365 degrees!

TALKING HEAD

Chris Frantz :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview

Posted on August 28, 2020

With his new book Remain In Love Frantz continues his search for different approaches. It’s a look at his time in Talking Heads and his marriage and creative partnership with Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club bassist Tina Weymouth. He doesn’t entirely shy away from rock bio requirements—if you want dirt, it has enough of a dark dusting to satisfy—but it’s more a document of extraordinary shows, recordings, and the early days of punk when he, Weymouth, singer/guitarist David Byrne, and Jerry Harrison cracked open the template, building one of the most expansive discographies in all of art-rock history

Tina and Chris - a Love Story 

Chris Frantz - The Aquarium Drinkard Interview 

TALKING HEADS - LITTLE CREATURES

again another in a series of sounds purchased when they came out and the Talking Heads were no exception and I determined to buy every album as they came out. This their sixth  is still one of my favourites and the single from this 'Stay Up Late' about babies and parenthood is presumably the little creatures they speak of . . it always made me smile and musically is exceptional as ever 

On this day in music history: June 10, 1985 - “Little Creatures”, the sixth album by Talking Heads is released. Produced by Talking Heads, it is recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in New York City from October 1984 - March 1985. Following the tour in support of “Speaking In Tongues”, Talking Heads spend much of 1984 writing and rehearsing material for their next studio album. For their next project, the band work with engineer Eric “E.T. Thorngren after mixing the audio for their live concert film and album "Stop Making Sense”. Recorded under the working titles of “Wild Infancy” and “In Defense Of Television, "Little Creatures” marks a shift away from the poly rhythmic sound of the previous album and its predecessors “Remain In Light” and “Fear Of Music”, instead writing material that explores elements of country music and Americana. The albums colorful and idiosyncratic artwork is illustrated by artist Howard Finster, a Baptist minister from Georgia who has also painted the cover art for R.E.M.’s second album “Reckoning. "Creatures” is another critical and commercial success for Talking Heads, becoming their best selling studio album. It spins off two singles including “Road To Nowhere” (#105 Pop) and “And She Was” (#54 Pop). The album is remastered and reissued in 2005 as a DualDisc CD with the standard stereo redbook CD on one side, and a DVD-A side with a 5.1 surround mix of the album as well as the music videos for “Road To Nowhere” and “And She Was”. “Little Creatures” peaks at number twenty on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA.

David remains a major influence like Brian Eno and Gavin Bryars but artistically the whole band influenced me and I bought all their work separately and together, the husband and wife team of Tina and Chris but Jerry's solo stuff also . . . . . .I miss the height of their creative output and still listen to it all now. Rea Momo anyone? I think so but mean time here's 'Stay Up Late'!
with thanks to Jeff Harris' wonderful blog 'Behind The Grooves  On this day in Music History