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	Chris Frantz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chris Frantz (born Charlton Christopher Frantz, May 8, 1951 in Fort Campbell, KY, United States) was the drummer for both the Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.
		Frantz also convinced his girlfriend Tina Weymouth to join the band as bassist.
		Frantz and Weymouth formed the Tom Tom Club in 1980, which kept them busy during a fairly long hiatus in Talking Heads activity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chris_Frantz (274 words)

	CNN.com - Coming at rock from odd angles - Dec. 4, 2003
		Chris was held up at gunpoint, and I had an incident with the Hell's Angels," she said.
		Frantz notes the band was much more of an equal partnership than the reports of the time would say.
		Frantz said the timing is right for a boxed set (notwithstanding the group's early-'90s collection, "Sand in the Vaseline"), now that Talking Heads have been inducted into the rock hall.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/04/talking.heads/index.html (987 words)

	Pearl - The Best Reason To Play Drums
		Chris was born in May 1951 in Fort Campbell Kentucky into a military family.
		After five years of touring and four albums written and recorded with Talking Heads, Chris and Tina were signed in 1981 to Island Records by music industry legend Chris Blackwell, one of the first people to fully appreciate the value of a great rhythm section in and of itself.
		Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth created by the Tom Tom Club and its eponymous first album was released in 1981.
	www.pearldrum.com /c_frantz.asp (681 words)

	Chris Frantz Interview - One on One
		Just in time for the holiday season ex-Talking Heads turned Tom Tom Club alumni Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth are filling their fan's Christmas stockings with two new downloadable holiday chestnuts from their website, http://www.tomtomclub.com.
		Chris: Well, as much as you wouldn't think so, I think Mariah Carey did a pretty amazing job with that song "Fantasy," which is basically a re-write of "Genius Of Love." We're very grateful that she did it, to be honest, because it's helping to put our kids through school.
		Chris: Some of it is, yes, and some them are paintings done by a friend of ours.
	www.concertlivewire.com /interviews/tomtom.htm (2540 words)

	T A L K I N G - H E A D S . N E T
		Charton Christopher Frantz was born on 8 May 1951 at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, into a military family.
		Chris Frantz was drummer of Talking Heads since the very beginning.
		Remixer (with Chris Frantz) of Zita Swoon's "Bananaqueen"
	www.talking-heads.net /chris.html (267 words)

	Contact Chris Frantz
		Chris started formal organ instruction at the age of 7 and acquired his first church organist position at the age of 14 with St John's UCC, McEwensville, PA. Training continued with various prominent instructors in Central Pennsylvania as well as extensive voice training through 1984.
		Chris has had the honor of singing with the Pennsylvania Choral and participated in a 1985 European tour encompassing four countries; singing a solo in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, France.
		Chris enjoys working with churches helping them explore state-of-the-art technology available in digital and digital/pipe combination organs.
	dafferorgans.com /Ccontact.htm (271 words)

	T A L K I N G - H E A D S . N E T
		When we spoke to Weymouth and Frantz, they were celebrating their 24th anniversary, a long union for anyone, much less musicians tested by the hardships of touring.
		Musictoday talked to Chris and Tina about their background, the Tom Tom Club, the Talking Heads, performing live, and the overriding passion that these two continue to have for music.
		Chris Frantz: We met in a painting class when we were in the Rhode Island School of Design.
	www.talking-heads.net /geniuses.html (3064 words)

	hip online: artists:
		Laura's co-write of "Suboceana" with Chris and Tina was a happy success on the dance floor, but with a new baby of her own, nothing could entice her to join a tour that began with a well-remembered three-week residency at CBGBs.
		Chris and Tina veered off in search of a new form, surprising everyone who saw the quartet perform with their raw, stripped-down, 'garage band' sound, several years before the grunge movement would re-popularize that 60s sound.
		We be musical vegetables In 1998, Chris and Tina began writing for and with the newest member of the Tom Tom crew, soul singer extraordinaire Charles Pettigrew, formerly of Charles and Eddie, who sang their hit singles "Would I Lie To You" and "Shine" in the Tom Tom Club Oktoberfest tour later that year.
	www.hiponline.com /artist/music/t/tom_tom_club (1336 words)

	Tom Tom Club to drum up support for Haiti at benefit - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Yeah, they're still around, even as Frantz admits it was something of a struggle in the 1990s, when the group's profile waned.
		Which is sad considering that Frantz and Weymoth were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year with former bandmates David Byrne and Jerry Harrison as members of the Talking Heads.
		Frantz and his wife, bassist Tina Weymouth, have visited the island a few times.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_93399.html (1132 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Time to Bounce: Heads Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz Keep Their Tom Tom Club 'Funky'
		Nearly a quarter of a century later, Weymouth reflects on days long past from the sprawling, barnlike home in Connecticut she shares with two teenage sons and husband/drummer/fellow Head Chris Frantz, the other core member of the newly revitalized Tom Tom Club.
		"Chris realized it was a good idea to have me in the band, but that was always a problem for David," recalls Weymouth.
		On the other hand, credit Weymouth and Frantz for adhering to their long-held belief that art -- be it a coloring book or the Sistine Chapel -- ultimately comes from people feeding off one another's ideas.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:79216 (1701 words)

	Chris Frantz
		Born into a military family at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Chris Frantz was moved frequently around various areas of the Southern U.S. during his youth, his parents finally settling in Pittsburgh when he reached his high school years.
		For the next three years Frantz abandoned the drums in favor of painting, but his love of music inevitably got the better of him once again.
		The result was The Artistics, a primitive-sounding ensemble created in 1973 with former fellow student David Byrne that would dispense songs by The Troggs, The Knickerbockers, and several other bands (punctuated by a couple of their own compositions) at extremely high volume.
	www.nndb.com /people/978/000093699 (875 words)

	Tina Weymouth - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Byrne and Frantz began playing music together again, and when they found it hard to find a bassist who shared their admiration for such cult groups as the Velvet Underground and the Modern Lovers, Weymouth picked up the bass herself and signed on.
		Frantz and Weymouth continued to issue albums with the Tom Tom Club during this time (1983's Close to the Bone, 1988's Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom), but none proved to be as commercially successful as their debut.
		A bid in the late '90s to reunite the Talking Heads fell short when just Weymouth, Frantz, and Harrison agreed, who were soon met with a lawsuit by Byrne, when the trio decided to call their name the Heads.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,508931,00.html (900 words)

	The Future of Music Distribution (washingtonpost.com)
		Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz: Tina Weymouth: Luckily for us, we started writing songs 30 years ago, so those and others we wrote at least 20 years ago are still earning fractions-of-pennies royalties that began to trickle in some years after we wrote them.
		Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz: Chris Frantz: I dig the old punks and the new punks.
		Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz: TW: At this time I am liking iTunes and it presents are pretty fair model of the evolving future: Getting the music to the consumer easily and affordably while paying the creators fairly.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A44961-2004May21.html (3008 words)

	And We Danced - Talking Heads Profile
		David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth all attended the Rhode Island School of Design in the early 70's.
		Shortly after its release Talking Heads announced they were going on 'hiatus.' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth continued their work with Tom Tom Club.
		Various compilations have been released since and an album by Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison and Tina Weymouth under the name The Heads, but the full band has reunited only for their performance at their 2002 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
	www.andwedanced.com /artists/theads.htm (864 words)

	Talking Heads
		But like similar unpunky bands such as The Police and Elvis Costello in the UK they would have been unlikely to achieve the success they did without punk.
		Formed for their own amusement at the Rhode Island School of design by Frantz, Weymouth and the itinerant Byrne as The Artistics in 1974.
		The trio moved to New York in early 1975 becoming part of the nascent CBGB's scene along with Television, Patti Smith and Blondie.
	www.punk77.co.uk /groups/talkingheads.htm (307 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: Tom Tom Club
		"We were waiting for Grunge to die," says Chris Frantz, when asked why the Tom Tom Club took eight years to release a new album.
		On The Good, The Bad and The Funky, the 80's rhythm masters have teamed their beats with an eclectic range of artists to create a funky and psychedelic tour de force.
		Midler on the Mic - Chris Frantz says this album might never have been made had it not been for Bette Midler.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/tomtomclub.html (164 words)

	Tina Weymouth: Ahead of the Game
		She met fellow Talking Heads: David Byrne and Chris Frantz while attending art school in Rhode Island.
		Although Tina was not visually in the forefront of the band, she wrote, produced and arranged a number of the band's tunes before they went their separate ways in the late 80s.
		Along with husband/drummer Chris Frantz, she later formed The Tom Tom Club and created the killer dance song "Genius of Love" (which was sampled on Mariah Carey's hit tune "Fantasy").
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/11390/57403 (467 words)

	TALKING HEADS PAGE
		David Byrne,Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth all attended the Rhode Island School of design in the mid-seventies.
		Byrne met drummer Chris Frantz at Rhode Island, and together they put together a band called the Artistics.
		Weymouth put her musical education to good use by learning the bass, and the three ex-students moved to New York's Lower East Side, where they followed the route of countless other art graduates by living in a loft apartment and considering where their art would lead them.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/baccarach/41/talkpage.htm (669 words)

	Jambands.com \| Features \| Grooving with the Tom Tom Club (Part Two: The Tina Weymouth Interview) \| 2001-06-21
		Tina Weymouth and her husband/fellow Talking Heads founder Chris Frantz formed Tom Tom Club in 1981.
		I did it one time only when we were a trio and our singer had broken not one not two but three strings on his guitar and had to stop to restring in the middle of the song.
		That was a group that inspired Chris and I, gave us the idea when we did Tom Tom Club- we’re only two people basically, we’ll make music that’s avant-garde but still can be played on the radio.
	www.jambands.com /Features/content_2001_06_21.00.phtml (2287 words)

	Tom Tom Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tom Tom Club is a New Wave band set up by Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz, who were also members of the Talking Heads in 1981.
		Although originally established as a side project, The Tom Tom Club enjoyed early success with hits such as "Genius of Love" and "Wordy Rappinghood", which were taken from their self-titled first album which was released on Sire in the US and Island Records elsewhere in 1981.
		Whereas the previous two albums had been recorded by a loose collective of a dozen musicians, the Tom Tom Club was now reduced to the trio of Weymouth, Frantz and Weymouth's sister Laura Weymouth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_Tom_Club (668 words)

	Upcoming.org: Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth of Tom Tom Club ( & Talking Heads) DJ set at Guest House (Wednesday, October ...
		Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth of Tom Tom Club (& Talking Heads) DJ set
		And have we got an opening party for you - with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth of The Tom Tom Club (and Talking Heads), 33Hz, Drinks Specials and a two hour Open Bar...
		Chris and Tina's DJ performances are very rare, so as major fans of both Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads, it is particularly difficult to put into words quite how excited we are to have them play for us for the Cheeky B*stard re-launch party.
	upcoming.org /event/35940 (311 words)

	yore
		They have often been stuck as taking most of their musical cues from early Talking Heads, which made sense, since lead singer Roddy Frantz was the brother of Heads drummer Chris Frantz.
		Singer Roddy Frantz, who's worked in the film and video business since leaving the band, and synthesizer player Robin Rose, an..
		Roddy Frantz is still doing sound scores for movies and has done some collaboration projects with other bands as well.
	thisismyhole.homestead.com /yore.html (1292 words)

	Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food ---Ink Blot Magazine
		As students at the Rhode Island School of Design, David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, and Chris Frantz founded (in this case, it is more appropriate to say "founded" than "formed," given the frequent coming and going of additional members over the years) the Talking Heads.
		Those who are desperate for more can check out Byrne's occasionally brilliant solo releases or the Weymouth and Frantz's pop-dance side project the Tom Tom Club (though everyone should stay away from their work as The Heads).
		This is just as much Frantz' album as Byrne's or Eno's; Frantz was tearing it up on Kurtis Blow albums in his spare time, and he uses those hip-hop chops to make these songs into concise spicy little jams of his own design.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Talking_Heads_More.htm (871 words)

	Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Vibes: Feature: Tomboy
		Weymouth and Frantz performed Tom Tom material during the filming of Stop Making Sense, the 1984 Talking Heads concert movie, as a favor to Byrne (giving him time to change into his famous "big suit").
		Today Weymouth characterizes Byrne as "a high-functioning autistic" and scoffs at the widespread notion that he is an intellectual, noting that he dropped out of college after his freshman year.
		Abbreviating the group's name to simply the Heads, Weymouth and Frantz recorded with fellow alumnus Harrison, using an assortment of singers.
	atlanta.creativeloafing.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:2072 (1085 words)

	Jambands.com \| Features \| Grooving With The Tom Tom Club (Part One: The Chris Frantz Interview) \| 2001-05-23
		Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth are musical innovators and heroes.
		Graduates of the famed Rhode Island School of Design, Chris and Tina continue to devote their life to all forms of art.
		Tour dates, music and band’s fabled message board (in which Chris and Tina actively participate) appear at http://www.tomtomclub.com.
	www.jambands.com /Features/content_2001_05_23.01.phtml (2664 words)

	Stop Making Sense: Re-release
		Though a surprising amount of the film is shot in soft focus (a euphemism for "not really in focus"): a decade and a half later, the music and brash presence of creative genius still byrne down the house.
		Starring The Talking Heads: David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, Edna Holt, Lynn Mabry, Steven Scales, Alex Weir, Bernie Worrell.
		Produced by Gary Goetzman and presented by Palm.
	www.rossanthony.com /S/stopsense.shtml (373 words)

	Tom Tom Club : A Wordy Rappinghood
		And we decided rather than separate solo projects (laughing) we would do something together along with friends and various members of our family.
		So Chris Blackwell said by all means, make a whole album.
		Seymour Stein and the people at Warner Brothers sort of said “Oh, maybe Chris and Tina are on to something.
	www.freeassociationradio.com /tomtomclub.htm (3748 words)

	washingtonpost.com: The Future of Music Distribution
		Editor's Note: Washingtonpost.com moderators retain editorial control over Live Online discussions and choose the most relevant questions for guests and hosts; guests and hosts can decline to answer questions.
		I'm sure you are asked this all the time, but is there any chance of a T.H. reunionand#63; Any chance you might show up at a David Byrne show at the Birchmere next weekand#63;
		Arlington, Va.: Any tales you can share of your band or friends in the music business who have had success selling their music online or giving away some songs online for free, in lieu of working through a labeland#63;
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44961-2004May21?language=printer (2868 words)

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