I saw the remastered Stop Making Sense last week and now I’m obsessed with the Tom Tom Club! It only took me 2 decade of loving Talking Heads to discover them.
What I always like most about Tom Tom Club is it always seems like so much fun. Also, while Tina looks as good as she's always done. Chris has grown from a rather cute boy into a very nice silver haired man.
I fell for Talking Heads in 1977. The band went to RISDI, and the band needed a bass player. Tina had never played one before but she was up for anything. She showed up for rehearsal the next day with a bass and just had at it. T.H. were playing CBGBs early on and Seymour Stein loved them and signed them to Sire that night. As they were a 3 or 4 person band, it was easy to hear why David Byrne flew with the band idea. After 5 albums, he had some solo projects on the stove and Tom Tom Club was born. It was amazing how fast they caught on with a weird set of songs and compose it as you go music. Wordy, I believe, went to #1 and T.H only reached that peak twice or thrice. David was silently pissed; but it's a fun, happy song and T.T.Club deserved to be a hit. That is one reason punk & grunge became so big so fast. What a great time. Steven Petttinga, Indianapolis
