Showing posts with label Talking Heads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Talking Heads. Show all posts

Friday, 17 October 2008

David Byrne and Brian Eno...Fantastic!

I remembered recently, that David Byrne and Brian Eno released their latest collaboration, Everything that Happens will Happen Today, a little while ago, (which would make a nice Xmas prezzie for SOMEONE! As would some tickets to see them in the UK. Not that my partner even reads my blog, so no chance there!)
Maybe next year.......


DavidByrne.com - Performances + Talks

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Tuesday, 30 October 2007

David Byrne Journal

When I came across Talking Heads front man David Byrne's online blog the other evening it felt like meeting up with an old friend and spending time catching up on the past few years.

I have been playing music, guitar, blues harp and percussion for quite a few years and I spent hours going over the video of the live acoustic version of Psycho Killer and My Girlfriend is Better, so that I could get the chords and the difficult strumming technique right.
Those two songs provided some income when I was unemployed, flat broke and busking to get me and my ex-wife through a lot of financial hardship.

I still love those tracks and still I play them, assaulting my old guitar with the heavy, staccato thrashing with lots of damping palm techniques, a fantastic way to relieve stress, tension and frustration.

And, on those occasions when my head exploded with dark forebodings, and all I thought I knew had taken on an fearful aspect, repeating David Byrne's lyrics, like a mantra, preserved my sanity through some very troubled, bazaar and emotional situations.

'Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was.'


David Byrne Journal

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