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 Release "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads" on CD!! Petition
We the undesigned ask you to release on Compact Disc Talking Heads' 1982 live masterpiece, "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads".
The Release "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads" on CD!!
Release "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads" on CD!!
www.petitiononline.com /tnotbith/petition.html

  
 Francey's TALKING-HEADS.NET
The eight individual DualDiscs in the upcoming Talking Heads "Brick" boxset will be available separately in January 2006, at least in the US (first four at the beginning of the month, second four at the end of the month).
The exclusively designed shirts -in oldschool Talking Heads style- are at the screenprinter right now and expected within a few weeks.
Rhino Confirmed that the upcoming Talking Heads boxset with 8 remastered albums in DualDisk format is called "Talking Heads Brick".
www.talking-heads.net

  
 These Talking Heads have plenty to say
Three members of Talking Heads, David Byrne, Chris Frantz, and Tina Weymouth, were students at the Rhode Island School of Design before teaming up with Harvard grad Jerry Harrison to form the band and release their first album in 1977.
Talking Heads inarguably had one classic live soundtrack, Stop Making Sense, and one good live album, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads.
The expansion of the band, its new direction towards polyrhythmic funk based on improvisation, and its bright arrangements, in effect put Talking Heads in a category of its own, thus separating them from their former peers although its roots had been strikingly similar.
orient.bowdoin.edu /orient/article.php?date=2005-04-29§ion=4&id=3   (626 words)

  
 CBS News Heaven For Dead Heads August 6, 2002 01:30:11
A slice of the Dead's long-ago abandoned repertoire emerged to much delight on Saturday as the band ripped through a near-studio quality "Born Cross-eyed," a jumble of vocal hairpin turns the Dead almost never played.
And while the music has all the Dead's bombast and psychedelic power, The Other Ones still have only the Dead's songs, which means for now they're a Grateful Dead cover band of the highest possible order - and not much more.
It was the first time the original band members - Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir - joined forces for a major concert since the death of band founder and lead singer Jerry Garcia in 1995.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/08/03/entertainment/main517438.shtml   (794 words)

  
 Time & Again - Jerry Garcia
In making this announcement, the band members were especially mindful of their partners in adventure, the Dead Heads, urging them to remember the music, values and spirit of their marvelous shared journey.
After four months of heartfelt consideration, the remaining members of the band met and came to the conclusion that the “long strange trip” of the uniquely wonderful beast known as the “Grateful Dead” was over.
But there was another band with that name - they found a new name in the dictionary, The Grateful Dead.
www.msnbc.com /onair/msnbc/TimeandAgain/archive/jgarcia?cp1=1   (285 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: One More Saturday Night: Reflections With the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads
With varying degrees of success, Troy attempts to articulate the Dead experience through 16 interviews with the Dead cognoscenti, including former managers, promoters, Dead Heads, and the band members.
Until the definitive Grateful Dead story is written, this book stands in line with David Gans and Peter Simon's Playing in the Band (LJ 7/85), Blair Jackson's Grateful Dead: The Music Never Stopped (LJ 8/83), and Hank Harrison's The Dead (LJ 12/15/80) as a rock reminiscence of interest to fans; a luxury acquisition.
What emerges from the dull introductory historical narrative of the band, liberal photographic assortment, and question-and-answer interview collage is a scrapbook of the Sixties and the band under whose aegis psychedelic and improvisatory rock music has flourished since 1965.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0312059388   (292 words)

  
 Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority
Talking Heads ask Jerry Harrison to join them as a keyboardist; he shows up for practice with a guitar and agrees to join the band if they let him finish the semester at Harvard.
The double live album The Name of This Band is Talking Heads traces the evolution of the band from a four-piece in 1977 to the big band of 1980-’81; it has never been reissued on CD.
Talking Heads spend springtime in Paris with producer Steve Lillywhite recording what will be their final album.
www.exclaim.ca /index.asp?layid=22&csid1=2128   (2718 words)

  
 JS Online: CD Review: Talking Heads' 'The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads'
CD Review: Talking Heads' 'The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads'
A stellar disc in its initial form, the new-to-CD reissue of the band's 1982 live album doubles the original by adding 13 previously unreleased tracks along with a trio of rarities from a 1979 promo disc ("The Girls Want to Be With the Girls," "Electricity" and "Found a Job").
The truth is, the music of Talking Heads holds up, surpassing in wit, imagination and humor most of today's endlessly hyped musical ploys.
www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/aug04/252081.asp   (2718 words)

  
 T A L K I N G - H E A D S . N E T
With no likelihood of a Talking Heads reunion that year and growing rumours that the band was done for, Sire released this live album, made up of performances from different stages in the band's career.
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
The double live LP 'The Name Of This Band' was released in 1982, after the release of solo albums by David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, and The Tom Tom Club.
www.talking-heads.net /name.html   (2718 words)

  
 furth071
Black Crowes drummer Steve Gorman admits band members were never really Dead Heads, but feels - like the Dead - they are a band where the ''jam'' is what matters.
Dead Heads for me were people who came to the pizza place I worked at and used the bathroom when the Dead was in town,'' said Gorman.
It's summer camp for Dead Heads at Riverbend Wednesday, as the Furthur Festival comes to town.
www.cincypost.com /living/1997/furth071097.html   (451 words)

  
 NPR : Talking Heads: 'Once in a Lifetime'
Talking Heads drew an even wider audience with songs like 1983's catchy "Burning Down the House." Byrne explains the band's appeal: "We felt it was possible to work within a kind of pop song format and kind of do what you wanted as long as you stayed within that format.
The original trio who formed the band in 1974 -- Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth -- attended the Rhode Island School of Design, giving Talking Heads an art-school mystique.
Morning Edition, November 18, 2003 · Their distinctive mix of rock, funk and world beats earned Talking Heads a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1505240   (426 words)

  
 mtv.com - News - New Releases: 213, Ryan Cabrera, Saliva, Talking Heads, Northern State, Rilo Kiley
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, the group's 1982 double live album, becomes available on CD for the first time, while The Best of the Talking Heads, the band's first single-disc greatest-hits album, includes hits "Psycho Killer," "Once in a Lifetime," "Burning Down the House" and 15 others.
Original A-list alternative band the Talking Heads have two releases this week.
Hitting stores this week are albums by two rap trios, a pop star's ex-boy-toy, angry hard rockers and one of the preeminent original pop-punk bands.
www.mtv.com /news/articles/1490255/08162004/rilo_kiley.jhtml   (962 words)

  
 Figgle: Music. Stuff. For You.
Talking Heads, like the Beatles, the Police, R.E.M. and Radiohead, were a true album band, where each record could be counted on to feature great songs and dramatic growth in equal measure.
With 33 tracks of eccentric, beautiful music, "The Name of This Band is Talking Heads" is one of the best reissues to come out in a long time.
Finally, 22 years later, "The Name of This Band is TALKING HEADS" is available on CD.
www.figgle.com /reviewCD.php?CDID=169   (962 words)

  
 11/11/97 - Talking Heads' Byrne brings show to Indy - IDS Online, A&E
Byrne told the Star he still plays Talking Heads material, but don't count on a reunion tour anytime soon (the remaining three members of the band toured last year as The Heads and released an uninspiring album with a rotating band of lead singers).
Byrne might be best known for his quirky career guiding the Talking Heads into one of the most popular bands of its era.
The former leader of the Talking Heads, the seminal brainy punk/new wave band of the 1970s and '80s, will perform at 8 p.m.
www.indiana.edu /~ids/archives/1111byrne.html   (427 words)

  
 ipedia.com: David Byrne (musician) Article
David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads.
David Byrne is a musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads.
He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended the Rhode Island School of Design for one year before dropping out and forming Talking Heads in 1974.
www.ipedia.com /david_byrne__musician_.html   (427 words)

  
 Fallacies [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Get up here with us on the wagon where the band is playing, and go where we go, and don't think too much about the reasons.
The assumption that it's a fair coin is important because, if the coin comes up heads five times in a row, one would otherwise become suspicious that it's not a fair coin and therefore properly conclude that the probably is high that heads is more likely on the next toss.
If you suggest that someone's claim is correct simply because it's what most everyone is coming to believe, then you're committing the bandwagon fallacy.
www.iep.utm.edu /f/fallacies.htm   (427 words)

  
 Deadhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because of this, and the fact that the Dead's music is being continually re-archived, it is taken as an article of faith by some that the band will "live forever".
The Dead's extended jams could sound like random noise at these times to those who were not "connected." Rock producer Bill Graham once said that the Dead were "...
They follow the band's tours, record their live shows, trade tapes of concerts and hold the Grateful Dead's music in a place above all other bands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deadhead   (1045 words)

  
 To Mega Therion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Revelation 13:1 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast [θηριον, therion] rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
To Mega Therion - an album by the Swiss thrash metal band Celtic Frost
The name does not actually occur in the form "To Mega Therion" in the Greek text of the Book of Relevation, but the title was taken by the English occultist Aleister Crowley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/To_Mega_Therion   (248 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Talking Heads
From the outset, it was clear that, although the Heads shared an attitude and commitment to self-expression with the other bands then on the New York scene, they were charting a course all their own.
The core of Talking Heads additionally consists of bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Frantz (now her husband) and ex-Modern Lover keyboardist/guitarist Jerry Harrison, who joined the trio in time for their first album.
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads (Sire) 1982
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=talking_heads   (1053 words)

  
 HomePage.deadhead.html
Some "tape heads" own hundreds of hours of concerts on cassette, a practice that was openly encouraged by the band.
Grateful Dead Productions had been incorporated in 1976 and Rolling Stone magazine reported that the band pulled in $52.4 million in 1994 concert revenues.
The Dead scene is very much alive and well after the passing of "The Fat Man." The news group you posted to (rec.music.gdead) is a prime example of the Dead Head community living on in cyberspace after Jerry's death.
www.ncf.carleton.ca /~bz811/HomePage.deadhead.html   (1466 words)

  
 Prindle Record Reviews - Talking Heads
Talking Heads were nifty, but IMHO they were severely overshadowed by another NYC class of '76/'77 band-- Television.
The Heads remembered that they used to be supposedly a world-beat band and decided to pull off a whole album of it, but the songs all sound the same and are BORING.
Talking Heads are artists transplanted from the tangible to the audible.
www.markprindle.com /talkinga.htm   (13115 words)

  
 Official Nickel Creek Website
From there the band heads a little further south to Charlottesville VA, Washington DC, Baltimore, Charlotte, NC and will be at the Fox Theater in Atlanta on Oct 14.
Then the band heads to the central part of the country with stops in Nashville, Lexington, KY, Columbus and Cleveland OH, Yspsilanti MI, Indianapolis, St.
The band's first tourstops are in the Northeast--South Burlington VT, Portland ME, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City.
www.nickelcreek.com   (13115 words)

  
 Simple Machines Records Other Projects
The Mommyheads was an amazing band that lived in New York City in the late '80s/early '90s.
Three virtually unknown bands decide they're going to go on tour together in the summer, despite the fact that none has a record out.
Necklace of Heads was the debut full-length from Baltimore's Lungfish, who have since released over 9 albums on Dischord.
www.simplemachines.net /otherprojects.html   (409 words)

  
 Other Promos
The band plays with their heads disappearing into a low ceiling; lighted halos encircle their heads and feet.
The video is mostly close-up shots of the band, their instruments, and singer Claudie Sarne in a wedding dress.
While his other early work had, yes, the band playing, there was at least a simple twist..
www.director-file.com /cunningham/other.html   (635 words)

  
 Bent
Heads rock, feet stomp and everything moves in sync with the thickness delivered from Bent.
Heads spin with all eyes peeled as the mesmerizing sounds surround everyone with the thickness...
The radio pumping with the bone crushing forces of the music from Bent.
www.mbus.com /bands/genadm/Bent.htm   (79 words)

  
 St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead, with its notorious founding member Jerry Garcia&; was a band that epitomized the psychedelic era of American rock 'n' roll music from the 1960s to the 1990s.
The Dead fans who answered received concert updates and news that would eventually result in the band& formation of Grateful Dead Ticket Sales, which successfully bypassed music company and corporate control by selling up to half the tickets to concert venues by mail.
Some of the Grateful Dead's first concerts were known as the Acid Tests of the San Francisco Bay area where psychedelic music, visuals, and hippies all came together as harbingers of the raves of the 1990s and the Dead's concerts between the 1970s and the 1990s.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200481   (926 words)

  
 Dixons - Portable Autoclaves - Support Documents - Thermostat Adjustment
This is covered with a protective cap and is again mounted between two pop rivet heads in the skirting band.
The first is a recessed 'D' shaft, which is mounted internally between two pop rivet heads in the skirting band.
The working temperature is adjusted using a potentiometer mounted on the skirting band.
www.dixons-uk.com /autoclaves/support/thermostat.asp   (926 words)

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