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Precisely. I mean she probably doesn't have as many squares who know of her by name as say, Flea. But I can assure you without checking that Flea knows her name and he may have even acknowledged her as an influence.
She is the bass equivalence of Ringo Starr. No Ringo, No Beatles. Not technical virtuosos on their instruments, but know exactly what to play to bring the songs to the next level without getting in the way. And they have in common that they are more respected by the pros in the know than the public.
Only because it is the 'done thing'. In assessing people like Ringo, Tina, Keith and some other mediocre musicians, you are not allowed to be truthful. You are expected to see them all as part and parcel of iconic names and bands, absolute no-go-areas for any criticism, however true and founded. I think Jimi Hendrix is an 'all right' player, but very sloppy, but you should see the venom I get greeted with in talks when I come up with such appraisals. And I find this oh so sad.@@bjornlangoren3002
I never realised how much of a genius she was. I have loved talking Heads since 1980, especially Tina's funky Bass, but when you understand WHY she was playing what she was playing, wow, I had no idea.
All hail Tina! She is definitely Talking Heads' not-so-secret weapon. Thank you for this thoughtful look at her contributions to my favorite genre of music.
@@derekpierkowski7641 - she was probably getting a bad monitor mix. It happens... especially if you've got the drums and bass up loud. Her singing in the studio is on point and they didn't have autotune in the 80s.
Never showing off, always functional. That's a hard thing for many bassists. Btw, I enjoyed the quotes you had of her. Clearly she has thought about everything deeply and any limitations that people see in her playing are completely intended.
What are you talkin about? She wasn't Johann Sebastian Bach.😂 She already knew how to play the guitar before she picked up bass, btw, which is something she doesn't want a lot of people to know because it wouldn't be too self-promoting obviously. And a lot of bass player start out with the guitar because the strings of a 4-string bass guitar are the same as the lowest four strings of a 6-string guitar so it's not like you're starting from scratch either. And you don't have to have an exhaustive knowledge of "music harmony"😂 to do what she did with talking heads, etc. What she learned from playing guitar would have been enough to allow her to adapt both technique and theory without having to start from scratch. And some of those lines which everybody assumes she wrote herself were not always written by her. 😂😂😂😂
@@meself349 I’m in the business as a pro bass player! Old school is a disciplinary term! Something a lot of todays “musicians” know not much about practice practice practice! 😂
The reluctant genius. I can see the look in her eyes in the early clips,where she is just hanging on to it. And then,simply and simple solid stuff. Outside the box.
I don’t like the adjective “underrated,” because first, it’s often not true (I recently saw John Entwistle called underrated, which is like saying Michael Jordan was an underrated basketball player), and second, it’s meaningless unless you consider who is doing the rating. But I agree Duck Dunn isn’t as widely known as he should be. I also consider David Hood insufficiently well known. He was one of the Muscle Shoals guys and has probably played on more hits than anyone but James Jamerson. Chuck Rainey and Leland Sklar are right up there too.
I have long thought of Tina Weymouth's style as "I'm Learning as I Go:" the longer the performance, the better she got. My favorite example: live performance of Houses in Motion.
When Talking Heads came around it was like nothing I'd heard before, and Tina's basslines were a major part of that uniqueness. The way my brain works the bass guitar in a song barely registers, I can't seem to pick it out, but Tina's playing burst through clearly, much to my delight. I've answered "Best Bass Guitar Player" polls with "Tina Weymouth" plenty of times. Love her work.
Thank you for that bio on Tina!! I've kind of been a misfit when it comes to knowing where I fit musically. I've always enjoyed several of the Talking Heads songs but I had no idea about Tina and I'm so glad that you shared this with the outside world. I love the bass guitar! Between the drums, bass and vocals, it's beautiful to hear them synchronize. I'm 58 and probably too old to be joining a band by by God, I'm going tear it up on the bass even if it's in my own living room! Thank God for Tina Weymouth and Johnette Napolitano. Talent and style 💯
Thankyou it is sooo inpotertent, to wimen revolution. And nice to No more about Tina. Ik liked her and do. She is/ was the STIL POWER of TH. Ik think.THANK you an Tina.
Right--she played folk guitar, which influenced her early bass playing, using her thumb, for instance, to play an open E on the "Psycho Killer" riff, which was unconventional in rock bass. You can see this in the OGWT performance of the song.
I saw Talking Heads at UCLA in 1978 (or 1979?) when the only song I had ever heard by them was Take Me to the River on the radio. What is the one thing from that show that I remember most clearly to this day? Tina's bass line on Found a Job. Been a fan from that day forward.
She is a huge part of their sound. So few people seem to realize that. Check out Burning Down The House in the live movie. She completely dropped the bass and made a simple line that's both funky and mechanical on a keyboard. The song has incredible drive.
Adrian Belew might be famously from King Crimson but he toured with Talking Heads before joining with KC. I'm not sure Genius of Love is Tom Tom Club's biggest hit, I think in most places Wordyrappinghood was a higher charting single, although GoL is their most famous song as it's one of the most sampled records in music.
I heard Genuis of Love bass line is not done by her ( if I'm wrong please correct me)...if this is so really hurts the argument of how great she was.....
😂😂😂 you're never going to hear Ringo say that. He was much more humble, honest about his abilities and down-to-earth than Tina Weymouth has ever been.😂😂😂
"Once In A Lifetime" has a repetitive bass line that is simple yet indispensable to the song's arrangement. Tina's lack of formal training prior to joining Talking Heads allowed her to develop a unique style that wasn't beholden to conventional playing techniques.
I saw a video recently about meg from the white stripes, and this video reminded me of it… That they are both women is the obvious thing, but the important thing is the untrained, unaffected natural creativity, unblemished by copying other’s lessons and training… and the ability to do what is good for the song, rather than what strokes the ego or is technically impressive. I love musicians who have those traits
😂😂😂Actually, it was the opposite. Have you seen interviews since the band after the band broke up with her and hubby narcissistic supplier? Trashing DB while putting herself on a pedestal? 😂😂😂. Always got a kick about how she always related that story about how she never knew how to play bass until a couple of months before she joined talking heads... when she actually knew how to play guitar before that... but she always seems to leave that part out for some reason. Most bass player start out playing guitar. It's not exactly like starting from scratch to switch from one to the other. No, much ego there. 😂😂😂
@triple5762 have you listened to his music? Familiar with his other body of work? His creative writing? His videos? Live performances? Definition of quirky: often denotes eccentricity that is not offputting but rather charming and whitty. Quirkiness is in the eye of the beholder. I consider quirky his style, his musical/stage persona. I like David Byrne, by the way, but I wasn't a big fan of his music.
Always liked Tina Weymouth. When you listen to the records, "you" me or anyone won't be likely to think, "That bassist is a girl!" That's the best thing we get out of music. Then you see Tina, Susanna Hoffs, Jane Wiedlin or Zooey Deschanel and go...talented *and* lovely? Hmmm...
Time for the obligatory mention of the fact that Tina did not play the bass line for genius of love on the Tom Tom record. Not that she couldn’t she had just played herself out. Her hand cramped up after hours of playing, and the studio engineer was recruited to record the bassline.
She's awesome. But it's noted that she didn't come up with the bassline for "Genius of Love." That was another musician playing. She was incapacitated at the time with bad hand cramps and the studio clock was ticking.
Underrated? I don' think so, anyone who knows knows she's a phenomenal bassist. That being said she's not in my top 10 or 20 bassist just like she wouldn't be in most. Does that mean she's underrated? Maybe, it's subjective. Who would you substitute her for in your top 10/20?
One unfortunate thing that can not be forgotten is that she is a horrible person, she has made several bizarre claims that byrne killed a brazilian child with voodoo, that he has some kind of psychic firewall, and that people should "watch out for that autism". she also tried to kick byrne out of the band in 1980 and replace him with Adrian Belew but belew declined the offer of a band coop.
I’m female, so context…. Weymouth was not officially accepted into the band, and the writer of this video claims that she says it was because she was female. Then goes onto to say that she doesn’t actually know how to play the bass. So… WTF?
@thermodynamics5951 But she didn’t actually play an instrument. That’s far more critical to being accepted as a band member than her gender. Evidently she learned the bass and all was fine.
I don't think she is underrated at all. Anyone who knows music would hold her in very high esteem. She pathed the way for the likes of women bassists such as Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Paz Lenchantin and many more. Personally I think the last quote in this video was spot on "If it weren't for Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads would be just another band"
She really seems to hate David Byrne. I don't think I've seen an interview with her where she doesn't launch into some kind of character assassination of him. Once I read her complaining that some of Byrne's solo albums could have been Talking Heads albums, and it was really selfish of Byrne not to cut her and Frantz in on them, jeez Tina I wonder why he doesn't call you?
I have no idea why David Byrne spent half of his professional life stating Martina Weymouth wasn't a skilled enough musician. Dude, really? And it was with the complicity of producer Brian Eno that he hired B.C. Jones to play on Remain In Light, both the album and the tour (although sometimes Jones would also nicely slap his bass, a technique Tina doesn't [know how to] use). But then again, what can you expect from a guy who said he used to have Asperger autism but has eventually overcame it!? Sure, Dave, like it's the flu, right? And don't get me started on royalties. One day TH manager told Chris & Tina that Tom Tom Club were #1 in whatever chart. Byrne looked outside the Rolls Royce window pretending he hadn't heard the news, only not to greet his two mates. Too bad cause I really admire the man as an artist but, gee...
What is this "underrated" nonsense? Who exactly is doing the rating? Bollocks. Tina Weymouth has $20 million. The bass players who really have an effect on large numbers of young bass players, tend not to be the highly technically proficient cats such as Jaco Pastorious, Stanley Clark, et al, but rather such characters as Tina Weymouth, Jah Wobble, & Sarah Lee. Think about it.
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Genius in love was later homaged in Uk commercials for Jaffa fruit biscuit cakes with British DJ and presenter Chris Tarrant doing the voice over .
Tina may be underrated in some circles, but from what I have seen on youtube she is very well respected among bass players.
Precisely. I mean she probably doesn't have as many squares who know of her by name as say, Flea. But I can assure you without checking that Flea knows her name and he may have even acknowledged her as an influence.
She is the bass equivalence of Ringo Starr. No Ringo, No Beatles. Not technical virtuosos on their instruments, but know exactly what to play to bring the songs to the next level without getting in the way. And they have in common that they are more respected by the pros in the know than the public.
Only because it is the 'done thing'. In assessing people like Ringo, Tina, Keith and some other mediocre musicians, you are not allowed to be truthful. You are expected to see them all as part and parcel of iconic names and bands, absolute no-go-areas for any criticism, however true and founded. I think Jimi Hendrix is an 'all right' player, but very sloppy, but you should see the venom I get greeted with in talks when I come up with such appraisals. And I find this oh so sad.@@bjornlangoren3002
@@bjornlangoren3002 good Point
The term “underrated” is a lazy person’s adjective. Drives me nuts 🥜.
Tina is who every bass player should be using as their gold standard in a band. She’s the quintessential bassist. You can sing all of her lines.
I never realised how much of a genius she was. I have loved talking Heads since 1980, especially Tina's funky Bass, but when you understand WHY she was playing what she was playing, wow, I had no idea.
Anyone who doubts her melodic genius should check out her bass line on born under punches
I love that song
All hail Tina! She is definitely Talking Heads' not-so-secret weapon. Thank you for this thoughtful look at her contributions to my favorite genre of music.
Her bass playing in 'Take Me to the River" is SO groovin' and addictive!
She adds SO much to that song, it's better than the original.
oH wow, great shout, I forgot about the bass on that, awesome !
She became an integral part of the band. Not too shabby to then have Tom Tom Club on your résumé.
I saw a vid of the Tom Tom live.
She was out of tune.
It was painful.
@@derekpierkowski7641 If only the world would recognize your genius, right?
@@marks.3303
Nah, I'm OK just pointing out the obvious.
@@derekpierkowski7641 - she was probably getting a bad monitor mix. It happens... especially if you've got the drums and bass up loud. Her singing in the studio is on point and they didn't have autotune in the 80s.
@@AnthonyFlack
Not her voice.
Her bass.
And it was an MV Pedulla.
One of the finest crisp sounding basses around.
I named my bass Tina.
She’s fantastic.
Never showing off, always functional. That's a hard thing for many bassists. Btw, I enjoyed the quotes you had of her. Clearly she has thought about everything deeply and any limitations that people see in her playing are completely intended.
Thank God for all the 'someones' on RUclips. Nothing like a nameless hero
She did the old school real school study of music harmony! Brilliant creativity
What are you talkin about? She wasn't Johann Sebastian Bach.😂 She already knew how to play the guitar before she picked up bass, btw, which is something she doesn't want a lot of people to know because it wouldn't be too self-promoting obviously. And a lot of bass player start out with the guitar because the strings of a 4-string bass guitar are the same as the lowest four strings of a 6-string guitar so it's not like you're starting from scratch either. And you don't have to have an exhaustive knowledge of "music harmony"😂 to do what she did with talking heads, etc. What she learned from playing guitar would have been enough to allow her to adapt both technique and theory without having to start from scratch. And some of those lines which everybody assumes she wrote herself were not always written by her. 😂😂😂😂
@@meself349 I’m in the business as a pro bass player! Old school is a disciplinary term! Something a lot of todays “musicians” know not much about practice practice practice! 😂
@@meself349bro is butthurt gawddamn
The reluctant genius. I can see the look in her eyes in the early clips,where she is just hanging on to it. And then,simply and simple solid stuff. Outside the box.
Tina is an absolute unit
Tina is the very paradigm of the underrated but brilliant bass player. Duck Dunn would be another example.
I don’t like the adjective “underrated,” because first, it’s often not true (I recently saw John Entwistle called underrated, which is like saying Michael Jordan was an underrated basketball player), and second, it’s meaningless unless you consider who is doing the rating. But I agree Duck Dunn isn’t as widely known as he should be.
I also consider David Hood insufficiently well known. He was one of the Muscle Shoals guys and has probably played on more hits than anyone but James Jamerson.
Chuck Rainey and Leland Sklar are right up there too.
Being a musician myself, I love Tina's bass playing.
I have long thought of Tina Weymouth's style as "I'm Learning as I Go:" the longer the performance, the better she got. My favorite example: live performance of Houses in Motion.
Always enjoyed Tina's bass lines. So important to the band. I wish you have shown more examples.
Honestly, I like the sound of the line in the song Once in a Lifetime. She she had a solid harmony groove on it
She is so wonderful ❤
When Talking Heads came around it was like nothing I'd heard before, and Tina's basslines were a major part of that uniqueness. The way my brain works the bass guitar in a song barely registers, I can't seem to pick it out, but Tina's playing burst through clearly, much to my delight. I've answered "Best Bass Guitar Player" polls with "Tina Weymouth" plenty of times. Love her work.
She does have a great sound, she's a natural.
Saw the Tom Tom Club at a Reggae festival twenty years ago. They were the hit of day filled with excellent music.
Happy Belated 🎉 Birthday Tina!!!
They were playing at the Greek theater in Los Angeles, I had front row seats and I yelled " Tina! Marry me" she got the biggest smile!
Thank you for that bio on Tina!! I've kind of been a misfit when it comes to knowing where I fit musically.
I've always enjoyed several of the Talking Heads songs but I had no idea about Tina and I'm so glad that you shared this with the outside world.
I love the bass guitar! Between the drums, bass and vocals, it's beautiful to hear them synchronize.
I'm 58 and probably too old to be joining a band by by God, I'm going tear it up on the bass even if it's in my own living room!
Thank God for Tina Weymouth and Johnette Napolitano.
Talent and style 💯
Totally Enjoyed Tina's Bass Playing
Thanks
A Brilliant artist 🎉 with amazing talents .
She’s great. And some would say she the underachiever in the family. Seriously, she has quite a family of successful people. Dad, brother, sister…
Tina-love you! I miss records like REMAIN IN LIGHT
Tina’s basslines are downright addictive and a lesson to wannabe virtuoso pretentious bass players
I’m surprised you didn’t mention that she didn’t record the bass part on Genius Of Love.
Great point! I did come across that but couldn't find an organic part to slot it in - great trivia!
The bass line In Speaking in Tongues' I Get Wild is totally out of nowhere. Holy crap what an amazing invention.
Thanks for sharing.
There is no talking heads without Tina she was and inspirational influence on 80s music and female guitarist Mushlove tina
Thankyou it is sooo inpotertent, to wimen revolution. And nice to No more about Tina. Ik liked her and do. She is/ was the STIL POWER of TH. Ik think.THANK you an Tina.
One of my two favorite bassists. The other played bass for Savoy Brown. A bass with no frets on the neck. Never knew his name.
2:45 That's definite.That's the cause why she was so astounding.
Her playing is why I play the bass guitar she is awesome on bass
Really enjoyed this, I've always overlooked TW as a bassist, will have to give her work more of a listen.
*Tina will always be underrated. Rightfully so*
The most frequently self-rated top bass player in the history of music bar none.
Why is it 'rightfully so' that Tina must always be underrated?
There's some things wrong here. She did know how to play guitar, piano and flute. She even played in bands before.
Right--she played folk guitar, which influenced her early bass playing, using her thumb, for instance, to play an open E on the "Psycho Killer" riff, which was unconventional in rock bass. You can see this in the OGWT performance of the song.
Great story, Subbed. Thank you!
Luv me some Tina
Great info. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
I saw Talking Heads at UCLA in 1978 (or 1979?) when the only song I had ever heard by them was Take Me to the River on the radio. What is the one thing from that show that I remember most clearly to this day? Tina's bass line on Found a Job. Been a fan from that day forward.
She is a huge part of their sound. So few people seem to realize that. Check out Burning Down The House in the live movie. She completely dropped the bass and made a simple line that's both funky and mechanical on a keyboard. The song has incredible drive.
Yes, yes and yes. But it didn't hurt that she was adorable.
She was a brilliant player. Most top end rock bass players are self-taught with no formal training.
{:o:O:}
Great video!
The Ringo Starr of Bass
Yes ... or Charlie Watts ...
Adrian Belew might be famously from King Crimson but he toured with Talking Heads before joining with KC. I'm not sure Genius of Love is Tom Tom Club's biggest hit, I think in most places Wordyrappinghood was a higher charting single, although GoL is their most famous song as it's one of the most sampled records in music.
"The Great Curve" is torrential. I love that track.
I heard Genuis of Love bass line is not done by her ( if I'm wrong please correct me)...if this is so really hurts the argument of how great she was.....
She wrote the bass part but wasn't able to be there the day it was recorded, so another player played it.
It’s true, if you listen to he play it live she couldn’t actually play the bass line correctly
Tina is my favorite member of Talking Heads, she brings such a unique approach to their sound, and she still looks good too (:
She's a masterful player, like Ringo's drumming in The Beatles.
😂😂😂 you're never going to hear Ringo say that. He was much more humble, honest about his abilities and down-to-earth than Tina Weymouth has ever been.😂😂😂
Tina Weymouth is a fantastic bass player, but I wouldn’t call her an “unsung hero”, as she’s garnered the utmost respect in the music industry.
Not a musician so I don't know if TIna is an icon or not. I do know I really enjoyed her bass playing and seemed to be a perfect fit in the band.
vERY nice
Alongside John McVie, Geddy Lee and John Paul Jones in my list of best bass players. 😊
That's a joke, right? Of course it is.
and John Entwistle
Weymouth was a DIY Goddess!
"Once In A Lifetime" has a repetitive bass line that is simple yet indispensable to the song's arrangement. Tina's lack of formal training prior to joining Talking Heads allowed her to develop a unique style that wasn't beholden to conventional playing techniques.
Very perceptive.
But she didn't play bass on "Genus of Love". She was injured.
I saw a video recently about meg from the white stripes, and this video reminded me of it… That they are both women is the obvious thing, but the important thing is the untrained, unaffected natural creativity, unblemished by copying other’s lessons and training… and the ability to do what is good for the song, rather than what strokes the ego or is technically impressive. I love musicians who have those traits
Yes. We all know how totally lacking in ego Tina is.
Saw them in 1977 in a small theatre venue. Thought they were awful lol they got better
In
The
Pocket, solid lady bassist…
Putting ego down and playing for the song was easy for her, but harder for her bandmates
😂😂😂Actually, it was the opposite. Have you seen interviews since the band after the band broke up with her and hubby narcissistic supplier? Trashing DB while putting herself on a pedestal? 😂😂😂. Always got a kick about how she always related that story about how she never knew how to play bass until a couple of months before she joined talking heads... when she actually knew how to play guitar before that... but she always seems to leave that part out for some reason. Most bass player start out playing guitar. It's not exactly like starting from scratch to switch from one to the other. No, much ego there. 😂😂😂
She is great from learning the bass like that
Wild Wild Life - all you really need to know about how good she is…
Wonder how Tina Weymouth thinks about being referred to the 'rug in a dude's room'?
Everybody loves a female bass player
By the way her dad was a world war 2 us navy pilot flying in the Pacific.
Shes also one of the writers on some of the best hip hop songs!
Like what?
She was more than proficient in acoustic guitar going back to her HS days…. So there was a musical foundation there…
Every rock band has an “unsung hero“ it seems:
Beatles: George Harrison
Stones: Brian Jones
Led Zepoelin: John Paul Jones
Etc...etc...etc
You had to be different to play bass for Talking Heads. David Byrne was one eccentric, quirky, and funky dude.
What were his quirks?
@triple5762 have you listened to his music? Familiar with his other body of work? His creative writing? His videos? Live performances? Definition of quirky: often denotes eccentricity that is not offputting but rather charming and whitty. Quirkiness is in the eye of the beholder. I consider quirky his style, his musical/stage persona. I like David Byrne, by the way, but I wasn't a big fan of his music.
@@michaeldevose8923 I’m not arguing, just thought you might have some inside knowledge.
@@Bluepillphil-d1w David has stated he has 'borderline Aspergers Syndrome'.
@@Bluepillphil-d1w😂 yeah. What were they? He was an individual? Damn, how quirky is that!
Always liked Tina Weymouth. When you listen to the records, "you" me or anyone won't be likely to think, "That bassist is a girl!" That's the best thing we get out of music. Then you see Tina, Susanna Hoffs, Jane Wiedlin or Zooey Deschanel and go...talented *and* lovely?
Hmmm...
Time for the obligatory mention of the fact that Tina did not play the bass line for genius of love on the Tom Tom record. Not that she couldn’t she had just played herself out. Her hand cramped up after hours of playing, and the studio engineer was recruited to record the bassline.
She's awesome. But it's noted that she didn't come up with the bassline for "Genius of Love." That was another musician playing. She was incapacitated at the time with bad hand cramps and the studio clock was ticking.
She did write the part, she just didn't record it.
Hopefully she never gets treated like the Dude's rug!
So why did they want her to join for 2 years before she did if she couldn’t play bass or had any musical training?
That's completely wrong. She did play guitar, piano and flute.
Ahh! Expected so. People like to make these claims for dramatic effect.
Functional and as a bsnd front man for many years, I would have had her in a band. GREAT? Not.
Really ??? 🤔
Chris Squire/ John Wetton/ Geddy Lee/ Les Claypool/ John Entwistle are Bass Icons !! 🎶🎼
Can we hear her play..........
Underrated? I don' think so, anyone who knows knows she's a phenomenal bassist. That being said she's not in my top 10 or 20 bassist just like she wouldn't be in most. Does that mean she's underrated? Maybe, it's subjective. Who would you substitute her for in your top 10/20?
All the Dude wanted... was his rug back.
There is a lack of examples of her music for all the chat
One unfortunate thing that can not be forgotten is that she is a horrible person, she has made several bizarre claims that byrne killed a brazilian child with voodoo, that he has some kind of psychic firewall, and that people should "watch out for that autism". she also tried to kick byrne out of the band in 1980 and replace him with Adrian Belew but belew declined the offer of a band coop.
I’m female, so context….
Weymouth was not officially accepted into the band, and the writer of this video claims that she says it was because she was female. Then goes onto to say that she doesn’t actually know how to play the bass. So… WTF?
@thermodynamics5951 But she didn’t actually play an instrument. That’s far more critical to being accepted as a band member than her gender.
Evidently she learned the bass and all was fine.
Talk about a phenomenal WOMAN??!!!
I don't think she is underrated at all. Anyone who knows music would hold her in very high esteem. She pathed the way for the likes of women bassists such as Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Paz Lenchantin and many more. Personally I think the last quote in this video was spot on "If it weren't for Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads would be just another band"
She's an amazing player, but honestly the David Byrne hate that her and her husband spew has got a bit old
She really seems to hate David Byrne. I don't think I've seen an interview with her where she doesn't launch into some kind of character assassination of him. Once I read her complaining that some of Byrne's solo albums could have been Talking Heads albums, and it was really selfish of Byrne not to cut her and Frantz in on them, jeez Tina I wonder why he doesn't call you?
Who cares? DB is a weirdo anyways.
she once claimed he killed a child in brazil with voodoo
Please join my band, and by the way, could you possibly learn how to play an instrument just a thought!
You left out their best songs and best bass lines, just so you could have something muso bore to say that you thought was _"clever clever."_
{:o:O:}
I have no idea why David Byrne spent half of his professional life stating Martina Weymouth wasn't a skilled enough musician. Dude, really? And it was with the complicity of producer Brian Eno that he hired B.C. Jones to play on Remain In Light, both the album and the tour (although sometimes Jones would also nicely slap his bass, a technique Tina doesn't [know how to] use). But then again, what can you expect from a guy who said he used to have Asperger autism but has eventually overcame it!? Sure, Dave, like it's the flu, right?
And don't get me started on royalties.
One day TH manager told Chris & Tina that Tom Tom Club were #1 in whatever chart. Byrne looked outside the Rolls Royce window pretending he hadn't heard the news, only not to greet his two mates.
Too bad cause I really admire the man as an artist but, gee...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !
I think that may be the best reply to this over-the-top and oh so misguided musical appraisal.
What is this "underrated" nonsense? Who exactly is doing the rating? Bollocks. Tina Weymouth has $20 million.
The bass players who really have an effect on large numbers of young bass players, tend not to be the highly technically proficient cats such as Jaco Pastorious, Stanley Clark, et al, but rather such characters as Tina Weymouth, Jah Wobble, & Sarah Lee. Think about it.
How many rock musicians have an "academic training"? Being formally self-taught is just as valid as being "academically trained."
Sixto Rodriguez is worthy....
"The Sugarman"......