Talking Heads
02/27/81
Sun Palace
Tokyo, Japan
Psycho Killer
Stay Hungry
Cities
Drugs
Once In A Lifetime
Houses In Motion
Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Crosseyed And Painless
Life During Wartime
Filler (unknown date):
The Great Curve
The Book I Read
Girls Want to be with Girls
Mind
I’m once again in travel mode. Me and the fam are taking something like two weeks to roam across the Western US. Over the last two days I did upload a bunch of shows and I’m thinking I’ll slowly pace posting those out so that you guys will get a show or two a day. Or I might get bored and post them all at once. Either way I’ll most likely run out before I get home.
Once do get home I’ll have maybe two weeks before we take off to Europe for three months. All of which is to say my days of posting regular are coming to an end. But we’ve gone over that before.
Several of you have recently sent me shows and I want to give a great big thanks for that. I’m also going to put out a general request for more. When I’m in Europe I’m really not going to have the time to upload shows. I’m going to try to link to various bootleg sites with cool shows as often as I can but it would be tremendous if some of my readers could send me shows and allow me to post them. I love the idea of the Midnight Cafe becoming more of a community site than just me posting shows.
Anyways, as always, thanks for reading. Enjoy the Talking Heads.
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Comments from a deleted repost:
La Piazza Gancio says:
May 13, 2016 at 5:20 am Edit
They got better and more-interesting with every tour, until there was seemingly nowhere to go but down.
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Nikos says:
June 4, 2016 at 12:40 pm Edit
I agree with La Piazza Gancio – this time was a kind of peak for the Talking Heads. The part of the Tokyo concert here was recorded during the legendary 1980-81 Remain In Light Tour, when the core quartet was augmented by extra musicians and vocalists to create a thundering 9- or (on some songs) 10-piece band. The extra musicians include the great Adrian Belew on guitar and P-Funk maestro Bernie Worrell on clavinet. Belew is of course a master virtuoso guitarist, but a word too for Byrne’s choppy, angular, post-funk chording – an essential part of the soundscape. Some of the songs from this Tokyo show (Psycho Killer, Stay Hungry, Once In A Lifetime, Born Under Punches) made it on the expanded CD edition of the live album “The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads”.