Dude PULL UP THE ROOTS OHH MAAAN

As a teenager (in the ‘90s) I used to collect Talking Heads bootlegs. I had about 40 in the end I think, but only one from this tour (and that was missing Psycho Killer 😡). We’re so lucky to have access to all these amazing recordings nowadays. Thank you for putting this up, it’s the first time I’ve heard a live ‘Pull Up The Roots’ and I’m delighted. It’s always been my favourite off Speaking in Tongues.

The backing vocals timbre and harmonies 😱🔥

Pitch is slightly over a half step sharp so probably recording got sped up a little somewhere along tge cassette lineage

EVERYTHING IS JUST SO FAST IN THIS ONE! MAGNICIFICENT!

@lextual

3 жыл бұрын

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I love these Book I Read versions in 83. Great show! Thanks

This was my forth time seeing them on this tour Springfield MA, NewHaven, Cape Cod, then Providence Cape Cod was killer

@yourfairyking

3 жыл бұрын

Can you remember which moves David did during Pull Up the Roots?

Love -> Building on Fire and The Book I Read are two of my favorite Talking Heads songs. Getting another live recording of them outside of The Name of This Band is Talking Heads is amazing. Brings me back wearing my dad’s sport coats and dancing with David as I played my dad’s vhs of Stop Making Sense

Looking for Pull Up The Roots is so hard! Thank you for this!!

@Blank_Frank

5 жыл бұрын

They only performed it a couple of time during the last months of this tour as an encore. The Burlington version was already on youtube, so I uploaded the Providence version.

@davidbadiola3005

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah sadly there isn’t video footage of it anywhere though

@turdferguson1214

6 ай бұрын

@@davidbadiola3005 yeah that’s a shame, I’d love to see it it’s always been one of my favourites. The speed they’re playing it at is amazing, right at the limit, a few more bpm and it’d fall apart into chaos. It’s beautiful 😢

With shows of this band I only skip ahead to songs that interest me like Life During Wartime, Cities, Pull Up The Roots and that's about it but i had a migraine recently and I was just laying in bed trying to feel better and decided to listen to a show in full. One of the coolest things ever. I never wanted to move around and dance so much until this show. The sound is amazing, vocals are amazing (especially Holt and Mabry's on Big Blue Plymouth, Life During Wartime, and Pull Up The Roots) and they it sounds like a blast to be there. So the lesson I learned is that there is cool gems in these shows and I will look for them now. Thank you.

@Blank_Frank

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it ! That's why I like to upload full shows ;-)

Wow this is a gem. Such a great movie and now this. 😂great Cities..

I feel blessed by finding this video. All my appreciation to the one who recorded

1:00:13 This moment is just pure musical euphoria.

I was at this party concert. Great to experience it again! Good times.

Went to this as a senior in High School, LaSalle. One of my top 10 concerts...out of hundreds!

@johnbrinz3684

Жыл бұрын

I was a junior at Roger's great show. Tom Tom club opened

@theresajdevine1701

8 ай бұрын

Did a band call the Erinoids also play that night?@@johnbrinz3684

@theresajdevine1701

8 ай бұрын

Did a band call the Erinoids also play that night?

WTF i had no idea this version of pull up the roots existed! it sounds like techno music it's crazy

@Blank_Frank

3 жыл бұрын

The song was only performed live 3 time, and we are lucky to have a bootleg recording for each : Burlington (Talking Heads channel uploaded it on youtube); Providence (might be the best quality) and Plattsburgh (not the best quality but might be the best performance of the 3). Those 3 are on youtube ! ;-) The band dropped the song shortly after, although it appeared on the setlist for a couple of more shows, the first time an electrical problem stopped the show early, the second time it was just not performed.

Houses in Motion is CRAZY groovy in this. Love it!

drove from Maine for this show!

00:00 - Psycho killer 05:21 - Heaven 09:23 - Thank you for sending me an angel 11:41 - Love-building on fire 14:53 - Book I read 19:38 - Slippery people 25:02 - Cities 29:48 - Big blue Plymouth 34:21 - Burning down the house 38:14 - Life during wartime 44:00 - Making flippy floppy 50:12 - Swamp 55:27 - What a day that was 01:02:01 - This must be the place 01:07:08 - Once in a lifetime 01:12:47 - Big business/ I Zimbra 01:21:19 - Houses in motion 01:27:51 - Genius of love 01:34:10 - Girlfriend is better 01:39:58 - Take me to the right 01:48:49 - Pull up the roots 01:54:26 - Crosseyed & Painless

@jacobharrison8064

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, my favourite talking heads song, *Take Me to the Right*

Watching from Rhode Island-nice post-Ha! Must admit though-wish there was video-but fair enough. Peace yo!

Some of those synths in Pull Up The Roots blasting out some "You Spin Me Round" vibes

Saw the first show on this tour, Hampton Coliseum. Man oh man, what fun.

blessed be the soul that recorded it!!!

Thank you so much for finding another Heads concert from 1983!

@Blank_Frank

5 жыл бұрын

With a very rare live version of "Pull Up The Roots", I might add ! Cheers ! ;-)

absolutely superb recording here! amazed at how fast this tempo is compared to stop making sense, thank you so much for uploading

@Blank_Frank

9 ай бұрын

it might also be a tape issue, running a bit faster than expected, David Byrne's voice is a little bit pitched up as is most of the music But they were definitely playing faster here than when they were recorded

@Shakooba

8 ай бұрын

I think it is a tape issue! They're in a higher key as well, so the performances are fast forwarded slightly.

@somervillegrooves9872

4 ай бұрын

The second half of this show, pre-encores (starting with Making Flippy Floppy) is played to a click-track so the band can sync with the video projections; the real live show on the night would have been the exact same tempo as the nights of filming. (I saw this show 2 nights earlier in Billerica, Mass--amazing)

I was there.

@matthewoshea687

2 жыл бұрын

Me too :)

@Merely

2 жыл бұрын

Me three

@ethanfranklin_official

2 жыл бұрын

You were lucky to experience Pull Up The Roots live.

Maravilloso!

Never heard Houses before on this tour ,thanks.

@Blank_Frank

4 жыл бұрын

"Houses In Motion" was a regular song on the "Speaking In Tongues" tour... it wasn't included on "Stop Making Sense" because Jonathan Demme thought it was breaking the rhythm of the whole movie...

Blank Frank is the best

@Blank_Frank

10 ай бұрын

Thanks ! 😀

No way they did Houses In Motion AND Pull Up The Roots and NEITHER of those made it on the record It ain't fair

@Blank_Frank

8 ай бұрын

They dropped "Houses In Motion" (as well as "Love / Building On Fire", "The Book I Read" and "Big Blue Plymouth") for the film shooting because Jonathan Demme wanted the film to have more rhythm, as in, this song was maybe too long. As for "Pull Up The Roots", the band only performed it 3 or 4 times as a rare encore...

Curious where the tape came from? I was there myself and also brought a recorder

@Blank_Frank

5 жыл бұрын

Somewhere on the internet (can't remember if it was on Dime or elsewhere)

The encore is amazing. It's really too bad _Stop Making Sense_ didn't even hint at their ability to do this

@Blank_Frank

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, but I'm sure even if they were able to perform those songs for the "Stop Making Sense" performances, Jonathan Demme would've edited those songs out, just like he did with "I Zimbra", "Cities", "Big Blue Plymouth" or "Houses In Motion"...

@mirandac8712

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blank_Frank why? why do you think he did that?

@mirandac8712

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blank_Frank I didn't see you posted this, thanks so much for these fantastic recordings

@Blank_Frank

2 жыл бұрын

@@mirandac8712 for rhythm purposes, to keep something going through the film without any song going against the whole movie thing (I guess)

hey! glad to find this. i was at this show. drove from Boston. they were at the very top of their game for this. who was opening act(s)?? i remember seeing Elvis Costello here about same year....

@matthewoshea687

2 жыл бұрын

Drove from Boston this night too :)

This show is fucking lit. 1:53:04

41:39 Byrne said the wrong lyric and waited lol. Easier to spot when you're not energetic

@yourfairyking

3 жыл бұрын

1:10:10 as well.

It sounds like Byrne is playing acoustic guitar on Building On Fire and The Book I Read here. Is that true?

@seosine8480

5 жыл бұрын

I don't know if it's too late, but yes it is

@jaredbrogdon1323

5 жыл бұрын

jazzy That’s weird, he usually played his Roland Electric for those two on this tour?

@seosine8480

5 жыл бұрын

@@jaredbrogdon1323 well idk, for the early part of the show he would play an acoustic guitar for a couple songs

do you know if david byrne played guitar on pull up the roots

@Blank_Frank

2 жыл бұрын

The way it sounds to me, Jerry is on keyboards, Tina is on keyboard bass so David might play guitar along with Alex

@somervillegrooves9872

4 ай бұрын

Sounds like he picks one up at the end; you can hear his signature noisy lead playing over Alex Weir's rhythm part

This is Stop Making Sense Live in someplace else. THIS DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE

How much money trash like that need from me?

@davedillon1372

4 ай бұрын

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