Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980 - 11 The Great Curve
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2007
- Live TV Concert Footage
of The Talking Heads
Featuring King Crimson's
Adrien Belew.
01 Psycho Killer.
02 Stay Hungry.
03 Cities.
04 I Zimbra.
05 Drugs.
06 Take Me To The River.
07 Crosseyed And Painless.
08 Life During Wartime.
09 Houses In Motion.
10 Born Under Punches.
*11 The Great Curve
Featuring:
David Byrne
Tina Weymouth
Chris Frantz
Jerry Harrison
Steve Scales
Burnie Worrell
Dolette MacDonald
Buster Jones
Adrien Belew
Wiyh special thx to ' tpatgod2007 ' who uploaded all others tracks from this great show!! 
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The energy in this is just unrelenting, like a race horse that doesn't know he's already won the race and keeps on going around and around the track in front of an astonished crowd.
Yeah, those energy pills in the late 70s and early 80s were something else.
I was lucky enough to see a lot of Heads shows. No video has ever captured what it was like to be at a Heads show better than this! In NYC, we were astonished and couldn't sit still. This tour was raw energy.
Marching Powder
That's an awesome analogy. It fits with the narrative of the character in this song thinking that they have ascended (Belew's solos represent this) but the government still has their hooks in them.
ha great description... an incredibly, maniacally energized track.
among music lovers in Italy, this concert had a legendary status. something to compare with. "yeah, it was a good concert, but certainly not like TH in Roma...". I knew a guy older than me (i was 10 in 1980 ) who went to this concert. he spoke of it like he saw Moses coming down the mountain
Belew was like the Hendrix of the 80s. Frickin' Awesome!
Dear Lord - I just posted that same thought on the "Great Curve live in Dortmund" video...
70s and 80s, Belew just dominated the sound. He inspired so many who followed. Think etc.. slovac....rhcp?
He definitely took what Hendrix had done with feedback....and further elevated it.
I seen Jimmy in 69
Who knew about Adrian Belew before 1980s King Crimson?? Well not Me The BEARS were a side project. Then his solo career was/is simply awesome
This might be the best song ever composed in rock history. Two bass lines!
Cop shoot Cop
@@jmpsthrufyre That's too funny.I think this and Cop Shoot Cop are the 2 best rock songs ever written .
@@terryblake5076 There's was a band with 2 bass players called cop shoot cop
@@jmpsthrufyre Thought you were referring to his 'the best song ever' line. King Crimson had two bass players back in the 90's as well.
@@terryblake5076 what band plays Cop Shoot Cop?
I think Belew should get a Guiness award for craziest sounds without an effect pedal. He is a genius. This is insane ear candy goodness.
Adrian IS King !
I mean I think he's still using an effect unit, it almost reminds me of a PLL harmonizer like whats in the Data Corruptor. Hes probably putting it through a synth.
@@matthewtopfrom what I've seen it's a foxx tone machine and a compressor with the mids up overloading the chorus on his JC-120 and he changes the warbles with the speed/depth knobs, cool stuff
I have maintained that these guys could be the best rock band ever, whatever that means. As a Civil Rights guy it's also the message of unity that this band brought to the table. Truly uncanny.
And they had fun together which is what it's all about at the end of day.
Very true... This the best example of Energy, Intensity, and unity! I love this band, just wish they still loved each other
Youre not related to that OTHER civil rights guy named king are you?
@@antelope316 Well you know that's all down to David. Shit happens, at least we have what we have.
@@ciaranward3559 He-heh no. You mean the one with all the money and the power? No. christopher-king.blogspot.com/2020/07/kingcast-explains-why-why-blm-must.html
Behind all the mayhem lest we forget is Frantz's total kick-ass power drumming!
He’s so tight
Frantz was the beat and Tina the soul
@@sdanen4 Adrian and Gerry are touring.
@@sdanen4 The most underrated rythym section in the bisso
Tina Weymouth is a fucking God on bass. Stalwart, steady, with endurance and taste. She holds it down. I wish more bassist played like here.
So true
adrian belew is awesome because he was in king crimson and played in frank zappas band, having this on your music resume means you can literally play anything.
Bowie too
@@adderon7476 ...and he worked with Laurie Anderson, too!
And Paul Simon's Graceland
Do t forget Bowie
So true; I am happy to have been a part of this
If I could go back in time to be at any gig it would be this one. High-powered tribal funk with insane noise/electronic guitar solos?? Black and white; male and female This Is God.
Me too so well said...i watched this whole concert in a trance cant put into words❤😎😃🙏
Check out Stop Making Sense. One of the greatest concert films ever and all the awesome ingredients you mention.
@@IAmTheHound Oh I have. I somehow persuaded my whole family to see it with me when I was 14 when it came out.
stop making sense was the best concert i ever attended. Gabriel in Spain was second place.
That is the perfect description of this band: tribal funk. The fusion of sound here is so fresh and innovative, just bursting with raw energy and individual creativity. All members of the band soar with a freedom of spirit, becoming a wonder to behold. It struck me that the unique essence of Byrne, with his Asperger's-like qualities, fosters unbridled responses in others, plainly displayed in his band. They are a continuation of his vision, offering a unique and boundless interpretation of life. Remember the line from the Crosseyed and Painless track, "Facts cut a hole in us." It is almost like Byrne transcends reality, revealing something about ourselves that we weren't aware of, but was always there. His ability to recognize those subconscious ideas, describe them in his lyrics, then express them in his music, is astonishing. Perhaps we should consider the notions of other similarly affected people, such as Greta Thunberg, and take them a bit more seriously. Differences can be bazaar, but they can also lead to new ways of doing things. We are often so afraid of change and reluctant to do things a different way. However, as Talking Heads revealed, new ways can be downright glorious!
Look at the audience losing their sh*t. Beautiful.
This fucking performance is unbelievably good. This song is criminally underrated.
Not by myself.. :) This is the pinnacle..
It was rated in flying colors in my circle. And I mean colors
In an interview, Byrne said that The Great Curve was inspired by Fela Kuti's riffs and rythms.
This is why, the song is good : art that comes from two genius of music
yes! (Y) Fela Kuty's riffs and rythms (Y) (Y)
Byrne took inspiration from many musicians. Anyone does. To say Fela Kuti is the reason for this being a good track is just shortsighted.
And Fela Kuti was inspired by greats before him, as they were inspired by greats before... etc.
Angélique Kidjo does a great cover of this - and includes a nod to Fela's Lady near the end.
Those who’d deny Fela Kuti’s influence just don’t wanna give a black man credit, I swear to fucking god. Byrne himself said it, y’all, fuck off.
That Adrian Belew solo, though.
Tina's on bass, the guitar solo is by Adrian Belew.
+Paul Done Busta Jones is doing the real bass playing here. He's the funk Tina is filling in space.
+audleylibrary That's Italian 'art house' film for you! More interested in filming the woman with the split in her skirt than the person actually putting on a masterful performance.Same as the shots from 20 feet behind the drummer and through the drum kit. Great, just how i always wanted to watch an AMAZING band, from 20 feet behind the drummer. Still a fabulous performance.
+terry blake hey, some of us only ever get to see the show from behind the drum kit! /drummersunite
+terry blake a bit dismissive. I suppose the other two guitarists besides Belew are surplus too? Or... maybe it's an amazing groove that the whole band is contributing to?
This is RIDICULOUS. They start off great and it just becomes more and more and more infectious as it goes on, they could still be playing this in an alternative dimension, it'd be the best thing ever.
How in the world can electricity produce so much fucking beauty?
Because it is life expressed through electric means : )
"Talking Heads in Rome 1980" with Adrian Belew it's not just a concert, It's a "milestone"! It is a mystical experience, ten artists in a state of divine inspiration who play as they have never done before and will never do after, and a gigantic and monumental Adrian Belew who finds creative solutions that make the pieces of Remain in Light unique and different from the studio album , he engages in explorations of sounds that will make him cited as the white Jimi Hendrix and gives the band's sound openings, electric landscapes and languid reverberations to the amplifiers that will inspire future generations from Japan to Guns N' Roses! The songs from "Remain in Light" without Adrian Belew will never sound like they did on that tour again.
I can only imagine what it must have been like to have seen Talking Heads on this tour had one not gotten the album first.
I mean, the Heads were great before this, but not like THAT. If you were just expecting Psychokiller and Take Me to the River and then they come onstage with Belew and a full band, playing this and Crosseyed and Painless, you probably got your pants blown off.
Holy shit!
This isn't a concert, this is a soccer championship!
Wow, the audience loves it and so do I.
the audience is going fucking crazy - they almost drown out the band at times.
The 25 dislikes are flat earthers
True, sadly.
Who ever likes your comment is clearly a globe earther, smh
Flat-earthers should find no fault in the *Great Curve*: all they have to do is go to Antarctica and look at the world's rim; one great curve.
@@AngelEllena flat brainers turning up here;
...ha ha ha! that's hilarious! 😂🤣👍
Jaw dropping good. I prefer this Rome concert to Stop Making Sense in many ways, and I thought that Stop Making Sense was the coolest thing ever when it came out.
Yes...this is less polished and more out on the edge. I love them both, but this is insane at a level the Stop Making Sense tour (which I saw and loved) wasn't.
@@michaelalex6480 Exactly!
in fact at this time talking heads were a band from another universe. you can feel this even 30 years later .... intelligence and magic!
No key changes with everybody completely kicking ass including the audience! Album version on Remain In Light is superb as well.
Oh my God! I was 19 and I was there. Not more than a mile from my home, in front of Tina Weymouth. Unforgettable moments. What a fucking band ! I am so touched...
Thanks a lot for this post.
Where in Rome this concert was held?
@@tizianalancia7679 At Palazzo dello Sport EUR that was the main sporting indoor venue built for the Olympic Games in Rome 1960, later often used to host the most important concerts of pop rock bands, but with not good acoustics, obviously. Anyway, great times ... And I realized just now that we are responding to a comment of mine from about 14 years ago! 😲😲😲
I think what's amazing about this is not only the energy.. but how tightly synchronized.. this is - what - a dozen people? - in perfect sync with some manic energy. Could so easily be mush/chaos. Everyone - wired as they are - knows where they are in the song, and whose part it is...
Current favorite TH song. There is so much going on and in perfect complimentary harmony. Can't hardly think of a comparable song by another artist. Brilliant and trance inducing.
Bloom by the Radioheads?
Always pointed out to my young son when this song played while in the car. Later when he was a bit older I would ask him "What's daddy's favorite song?" And he would say "The Great Curve."
The rhythmic layering in this is fantastic, as well as the vocal counterpoint. I believe Eno conceived all the 'response' backgrounds against which Byrne wrote the main vocal.
Probably one of the most underrated tracks on the album. Belew's two mind bending solos are like nothing... nothing... ever put to vinyl. And no click track to keep it boring. The tempo increases as the song progresses. That is REAL music.
Adrien Belew is a monster
I love how after his first solo, Adrian Belew does a little victory dance.
how can so many intricate parts interweave w/out turning into a hot mess?
EXACTLY.
Byrne brilliance
Bernie Worrell, Brian Eno, Adrian Belew, Talking Heads
Klasse
Months of practice and years of mastery.
Everything everything Im hearing seeing here is mindblowing beautiful cool groovy its too good I love The ❤ Talking 'Heads ' how could u not.! We miss u David Byrne u blow our minds again & again & again.😂😊😂😂😂😂😂 😂😂😂😂❤
Watch them bring the crowd up to a near boil and then hold that obnoxious energy for 5 minutes. Incredible
I saw them on this tour (Remain in Light) at Radio City in NYC. It was apocalyptic. People in the audience were looking at each other with a look of "Is this actually happening??" Nona Hendrix,Patti LaBelle(I think). Busta Cherry Jones bass, Belew...don't remember everyone...it was a big band. It was like the Martians had landed. And it was LOUD!! The concert got more and more amazing as it went on, the pacing was perfect. They really hooked into the hypnotic African roots of the music.
I was there, and you aren't exaggerating in the least.
Sami Lucky you...
It’s Dolette MacDonald on backing vocals here.
Damn, I've been at some great gigs but this would have been amazing.
Best performance ever. In Rome!
I play this song basically everyday and I imagine myself in the corner unplugged just in the moment there lol, and at the end I give everyone in the band a high five haha.
Belew absolutely ripped through the guitar solo, no breaks at all, ripping from start to finish.
Arguablly the best version and et best lineup
The greatest art punk/funk band the world has ever seen.
A woman's hips define the absolute limits of reality. I love this!
Probably the single best track ever recorded! The energy is staggering. My favourite band of all time.
No one plays guitar more inventively and joyfully than Adrian Belew.
Tina Weymouth!
Yes!!!
YES!
i agree
Supported by the great Busta Jones!
I was there, the best concert of my life
me too
That Dolette Mac Donald is special. This is better than the studio version! Flipponomenal!
Adrian Belew. We are not worthy.
This has got to be one of the most amazing lineups ever assembled onstage, and with some of the most amazing content. I've probably watched this entire show a thousand times and it still blows me away every time.
I saw them that year in Albany, NY and this number was the best part of the show, which was absolutely phenomenal. Adrian Belew blew everybody away that night. Nona Hendryx was in the lineup too. This ranks as one of the best concerts I ever attended and I saw the Heads, Zappa, King Crimson and Adrian's band The Bears, several times, along with many other acts over the years., This particular Talking Heads concert was about the most memorable ever. They did 3 encores. They actually went out the side of the theater to their limo, crowd was so loud shaking the entire building, they came back inside to do another one.
Come back to this about once a month..... Never gets old.
OMFG SO MUCH ENERGY GEEZ I START CRYING IVE NEVER SEEN THIS MUCH POWER AND LIFE MANIFESTING IN MUSIC
Have more fun on a stage then 1st graders have on a playground! The musical chemistry within this band is unlike any other!
Rome makes for a crazy audience, listen to them roaring through the whole song! :-D
Utter genius. Untouchable.
Whenever I watch this video on RUclips, it's really hard to know watch to watch after.
hot damn this lineup was incredible
When they were at their peak, Talking Heads were as good as any band that EVER walked the face of the this Earth. Thanx for the memories guys.
a crazy, unbelievable amount of talent on that stage.
Wow. You wouldn't think one chord could be so good. Seriously.
Belew, Frantz, Byrne, Harrison, Weymouth, the choir, the entire band, the song, make speechless in their perfection.
Busta Jones on second bass, Bernie Worrell on backing vocals, percussion and keyboards, Dolette McDonald on vocals, Steve Scales on percussion.
This is another example of something that was under-appreciated artistic works by much of the world at the time + many years later - but will go down as a complete Masterpiece of it's era!
It was appreciated by those who knew.
Um, what's your definition of being "under-appreciated" then? As you can see here, they played in friggin STADIUMS in Europe...
Under appreciated? Everybody bought the record Remain in Light...
I am a huge fan of Belew's work, and am consistently amazed with his creativity, but let's not over-emphasize his role in this. What makes it work so well and makes it so exciting is that it is very, very much a collective - not a showcase for one player or another. With that said, I wish I'd seen this tour! Unbelievable.
Never realized it before but I can hear some King Crimson in this. Top stuff!
That's probably because of Adrian Belew.
The minimalism and polirhythm helps too
Mike Page Belew definitely learned a lot from Talking Heads that he brought to Crim. I think it really helped him hone his vocals. I’ll be seeing KC tomorrow for the first time. No Belew, but that’s a concert for another time!
Vitor Moura Bolzan Moreira wtf about this song is minimalist
@@zacharymorin5696 - KC was *about* to play the Detroit Metro area, & I was *about* to bring my son to see them for the first time, but with this %$&?! coronavirus quarantine going on, *that's* not gonna happen...
Man, music hit different back then...mind blowing. Every players part added perfectly to the whole and I absolutely love how the drummer just held them all together with that simple, solid af beat.
It makes you really appreciate the time when people were actually trying to push back music's limits. I miss the 80s
I blame Reagan and Thatcher.
@@andrewwilliams9599 real
two bassists. BOOM
Stereo!
who? I only see Tina.
Dave Anderson ...oh, my.
@@daveanderson718 I love me some Tina also, but Busta Jones is tearin' it up here.
Totally agree, one of the greatest songs done live by the Talking Heads. I also have it on "The Name of This Band is the Talking Heads" and it is really excellent. Having different people sing different parts is not done much anymore, pity, as it worked so well.
I don't know if I enjoy anything more than this
This live version has more of a Krautrock vibe than the studio version. Groovy as hell.
I just shed a tear, I wish I was there so bad :(
Have to agree. If I had a time machine that could take me anyplace, it would be Rome in 80
love Dolette Macdonald's smile at 24 seconds. says it all. i wish they would've kept pushing the edges of the groove as they did here. didn't hurt that busta jones, bernie worrell (of p-funk!) dolette, and steve scales funkify it. and adrian takes it into hyperspace! , though i believe they kept bernie, busta, and steve for stop making sense. this is their last collaboration with adrian belew and brian eno, who also retreated from the groove after this. a once in a lifetime synergy!
Adrian ended up playing on solo records by all of them, though. He's on the first Tom Tom Club (that's him playing that weird "steel drum" guitar riff on Genius Of Love), Byrne's Catherine Wheel project, and I forget what the name Jerry Harrison's record was, but apparently Ade's on that too. That was the stuff they did during the gap between Remain In Light and Speaking In Tongues.
One of da greatest bands ever no flash clothes no piro no dancers just musionship #long livedat
Don't forget: All songs on 'Remain in Light" written and composed by David Byrne and Brian Eno.
Hey i might be 10 years top late but Jerry Harrison, Chris Frantz and Tina Heyworth composed it too and probably Adrian Belew
@@ciaranward3559 Absolutely
Ciaran Ward Tina Weymouth
@@ciaranward3559 Yeah, I suspect most of the Heads music was group written. I remember Belew saying that he contributed to some of the songwriting on the Tom Tom Club record, but he kinda stiffed out of his credits (and I guess, publishing). Not sure what he would have contributed to Remain In Light, as I kinda had the impression that he went and did some guitar overdubs, so I gather most of the material was already written.
@@Kohntarkosz no clue about the tom tom club but my understanding was Remain In Light was done Miles Davis style big long jams edited down to coherent songs. The song writibg credits was very controversial. Simon Reynolds book rip it up and start again is well worth a read for this
This rhythm section is amazing!
Weymouths baselines stick in my head for a lifetime
Kenne ich seit 1981.... Cool, gesehen in monteux 81/82
This is the best live music video on RUclips.
100%. It is utterly stunning.
only thing that compares to this is Byrne's own dancing in life during wartime
Do it groove? It do
Seriously when I heard Adrian Belew everything changed for me. I didn't know you could create such beautiful controlled chaos with the guitar
transcendant... incendiary... amazing... The Heads at their peak... what an incredible band....
I was there. All Rome was
Jesus!! Why did I cry watching that!?!? Amazing
"The world moves on a woman's hips."...indeed!
Bass is hypnotic
There is a video from the same tour, the same song from the Netherlands, but the energy here is another level. The band feeds and feeds off the audience!
The performance from Dortmund also lacks energy, although picture quality is better (the Dortmund show was videotaped; the one in Rome was shot on film and transferred to video).
Great !!...so glad they made the movie....1980 what a year
This footage is without doubt one of the highlights of you tube...thank you!
Im still madly in love with David Byrne
Talking Heads is the best band ever to hit planet earth
This performance is just fucking electric! The crowd is justifiably going apeshit! Brilliant!
a fine concerto....quanta energia !!!!! troppo bravi !!!
probably the noisiest audience that the Talking Heads never have listened to !
go ahead Roma !!
It’s sounds like completely chaotic song being pulled in all kinds of directions( alternative, pop, metal, punk, soul , funk) perfectly!!! Amazing !!!
Bingo!!! 🎉
Adrian Belews guitar solos are amazing in this. He is probably the most underrated session musician in rock history.
The man's played with Talking Heads, King Crimson, AND Zappa.
Not by everyone he played with....
talking heads were already four very accomplished musicians; by inviting these amazing people to play with them on the RIL tour they created such a tight team, still unmatched in mainstream music today. imho their best tour
What a piece of the peoples we have on earth cranking out the tunes
so good i cried
Possibly one of the greatest songs ever composed/arranged.
My favourite guitar solo ever
Adrian guitar playing sends chill through my spine from 1:58 to 2:50 on the energy he puts out into this song! Adrian is one of the best underrated guitar players ever.
Adrian Belew... a true guitar innovator.