What strikes me as a minor revolutionary act in the year 1975 is wearing your hair short enough to show your ears. That and collared shirts. Nobody outside the military had short hair in America in the mid 1970's. And everybody at concerts wore t-shirts. These guys were deliberately uncool, which is really cool.

@soakedbearrd

9 жыл бұрын

yeah it anti anti or counter counter-culturalist

@doorswhofan

9 жыл бұрын

So true, Mark Brown. Imagine how Iggy Pop & the Stooges must've felt back when they started in the late 60s. Same thing, only more so.

@nellolombardozzi26

7 жыл бұрын

Mark Brown davidbowie

@ryckybo66

7 жыл бұрын

it was deliberate and a well studied outfit, Byrne tells about it in his book

@daverice2426

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I cut my Frampton-length hair in '78 right after seeing the Dead Boys; lost track of how many people said "You look like you escaped from a mental hospital!" Couldn't get straight-leg jeans anywhere either, had to alter flares/bellbottoms. In late '70s-early '80s Detroit boot-cut Levis and short hair were enough to make people slow down their Camaros to gape at you/want to kick your ass

If he doesn't sound nervous, he's not David Byrne

@flanplan5903

3 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair, his nervousness here is completely genuine; it was the band’s first time ever performing publicly, and the band were in their early mid 20’s at that time, and they had only rehearsed for a month or so. Wouldn’t you be nervous if that happened to you?

@Leapless

6 ай бұрын

​@@flanplan5903 Even if I had to play my own song in front of my family and friends for the first time I would've been pretty much nervous as well!

@jgunther3398

28 күн бұрын

If I walked in and saw somebody singing like that about a psycho killer, I'd think I was looking at one. 🤣

@Madrrrrrrrrrrr

28 күн бұрын

@@flanplan5903 you are missing the point here ;)

Holy shit, this is history. This is the history of the "heads," rock 'n roll, New York City music scene, CBGB's, new wave, etc.

Pretty crazy you had Talking Heads, Ramones and Blondie, 3 bands who totally changed music history playing for handfuls of people at CBGBs in 1975

@Hard-Verano

Жыл бұрын

and Iggy Pop 👌

@chip1354

6 ай бұрын

@@Hard-VeranoIggy from ihio

@TheCuthere

6 ай бұрын

The Police played there to about 20 people, imagine??

@MiaBerwick

3 ай бұрын

And Patti Smith

I guarantee if I had been in the audience I'd have scratched my head thinking "who the F are these clowns?" They were like no other band at that time. No offense to them by this comment. Talking Heads are my all time favorite band for over 40 years!

I love how they were an unknown support act and there's about fifteen people clapping at the end because the crowds hadn't arrived for the Ramones yet. TH were ten years ahead of their time here. Kudos!

It's not that often you get to see video footage of a band like this from their earliest days, when they were just another band in New York... polite applause, mistakes and all. Awesome.

That's the best version of Psycho Killer I've ever heard!

@ergbudster3333

7 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. The hardest thing for a musician to keep is rawness.. and yet rawness is rock'n'roll itself. What I say now? Stop trying to be perfect! You're just neutering yourself. If you want perfection go the symphony then. Go to the opera.

@louisskulnik7390

2 жыл бұрын

@@ergbudster3333 by the time the album is cut, a band loses a lot of magic. Happened to Pink Floyd.

@PiperAtTheGatesOfYourMom

Жыл бұрын

@@louisskulnik7390 ehhhh idk about that. DSOTM and WYWH have some very very complex mixing and editing that gives it such a magic and experience. If you we’re talking about the Syd Barrett era id agree with you a bit more but I think 1971-1976 they were 100% a studio-strength band. Not saying they were great live; they were fuckn incredible, but imo the studio only helped their vision. Unlike if The Beatles did shows in 67-69, it wouldn’t sound nearly as good

@beastieboy9286

Жыл бұрын

@@PiperAtTheGatesOfYourMom Piper at the gates of dawn is an incredible album masterpiece

@krollpeter

Жыл бұрын

@@louisskulnik7390 Nowadays I am not sure anymore, if producers should generally not much more keep their hands out. In '73 / '74 Pink Floyd played DSOTM much bluesier and more rock-coloured life, as compared to the brushed up and polished version which appeared on the album. I personally prefer the bluesier, rock, and jazzy-er renditions. Us And Them for example is gorgeous at Wembley, stronger rhythm, jazzy saxx and the back- and forth singing in between Mr. Gilmour and the singer ladies - brilliant!

Before he knew how good his voice was.

I could see myself there that night after the show, drinking with my friends, “Yeah, they’re okay, but I don’t think they’re going anywhere.” Then I bought Talking Heads ‘77. Oops, my favorite album.

@Leapless

6 ай бұрын

I wish I was live around 70's then I can relate to this. Just finished listening Talking Heads 77 for like 10 times repeatance and wish I had their original copies cause they blew me away.

Basically 1980's alternative being played in 1975. Terrible and incredible all at the same time.

I think David Byrne defined the '80s long before the '80s.

@mrmackee123

3 жыл бұрын

Spot on 👍

@jasonsphinx8461

2 жыл бұрын

Heh..

@michaelfschein2

2 жыл бұрын

The three best years of '80s music were '77, '78, and '79.

@EdgarMendoza-sv6jh

2 жыл бұрын

True dat !

@kevinelliott5823

Жыл бұрын

Great comment!!

what a country this once was. So much talent and so little hype. A lost piece of America today

The beatnik era of the punk scene. Great songwriter and amazing band

Less intensity seems to convey the psycho more.

Such an amazing band dynamic with the Talking Heads. Anti social lead singer/player (basically a genius). Self-taught bass player who ends up blazing her own unique styles. And a drummer perfectly suited to support those two. And Jerry, who was able to work with all of them! Listen to David's 'How music works' audiobook and Chris's audiobook and it gives a good view of the starting point of the group. I just find it interesting to research how groups evolved and started. So many groups start up...not many make a mark in music, takes perseverance, talent, luck and just the right combo of people. Then sad when it falls apart. But so many bands end up with complicated histories, band member changes and heartache. Have to learn to enjoy things when it's good and accept change.

@alexmagureguiloyola6776

10 ай бұрын

No estás mal suena bien siempre me ha gustado

@jgunther3398

28 күн бұрын

they really aren't that good at this point. they must have had some powerful coaching from somebody just after, maybe a producer. what they had going for them was decent original songs, the most important thing

Talk about a freaking legendary place. In the span of about 1 year you had Blondie, Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, The Ramones, Patti Smith.... and thats all before 1976. Then those acts got huge. Mustve been a hell of a scene. Totally different sounding bands, Talking Heads (like college dork rock but awesome), Blondie with that very poppy proto punk, and The Ramones just blowing the roof off with what we consider now the modern punk sound...... Probably the best music scene ever.

Fantastic material! A quiet Byrne and Tina with her gray green Jazz Bass... Almost made me cry. Regards from Argentina.

The CBGBs movie did such a great job portraying that whole thing!! The sound is more real seeing it exactly the way I imagine a fledgling band with a new sound, should be. Raw. And still finding their sound. And in black and white. Cause, who had the money for color back then? Fucking love it!

I always thought Byrne was simply playing a part. I never ever thought he was ever showing his true self. In other words, the joke was on us and still is.

Next time you hear a garage band that doesn't quite have it all together yet - they might be the next TH. There was still a little magic in that clip. Lovely to watch that.

I remember when this song came out. I was 6 years old. Still listening after 50 years.

wow, 50 years ago already.

He looks like my Uncle Tristan. We committed him to the Dryden Psychiatric Institute in June of 2008. It was for the best.

@ergbudster3333

7 жыл бұрын

OK. Best comedy comment of the week.

@Whatsahandle4

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha. Damn

I love this band. saw them at the fox theatre in Atlanta 1982. I wish I had a dollar for every time ive played remain in light! tina was 8 mos, pregnant when I saw them. its one of my favorite shows still. and ive seen everybody. from ABB to zappa.

I saw T Heads about a year later, at Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, RI. I thought they were terrible, particularly the bass player. By the next time I saw them a few months later, they were an exciting and sublime experience. Saw them many times after, every chance I had.

Such a sexy and sad version of this song somehow..

Saw them in college in Buffalo, N.Y. Their LD had one of the first computerized lighting consoles. I stood behind him and was so blown away that he could control the lights with a computer. The whole experience was amazing. I might add that I saw them for like $5.00 So many great acts did the college circuit in those days. Great times!

That was worth watching, glad I clicked that. I saw the band not long after this and was mesmerized as I still am when I listen. Psycho Killer and Life During Wartime are two of the best songs to come out of that era of music.

David Bynes Vocals changed over time but it's very cool how Tina's baseline stayed the same....a perfect line that needed nothing.

I was there that night. Fabulous fun.

1975. CBGB. Talking Heads warming up for The Ramones. Those were magic times in NYC.

What a metamorphosis. From a shy kid to a magnificient confident stage animal haha

This is amazing... 1975 - any guess as to how many Quaaludes David has taken to calm his little nerves before this performance? Love this bit of history that's taken 39 YEARS to get to me. Thank you PRI!

What an amazing original 👏 band

49 years ago. Fuck.

Absolutely amazing

I've loved this song for 40 years and just started learning the bassline so I've been watching different liver versions. I love how Tina gets lost a couple of times in this one but it stays together. Amazing to see them in early days. lovexxxxx

Love this video. Lots of great bands played at CBGB.

love this song

Great old footage!..Always loved this song..!

Love seeing how long the process of crafting a great song can take. Took them 3(ish) years to craft this into the percect single they released in '77

Vintage and super classic. How the stars are born

I Hung out there at CBGB for 4 years from 77 on up met lost of bands backstage but didnt think Talking Heads played there regularly.

this made me like this song to a completely different degree. i have a whole new appreciation for this song by having seen this!

It's cute to see how stage killers in their genesis were so nervous on stage in 1975. Tina Weymouth was all over the place on her bass parts. And this for a such a well rehearsed band like the Heads. But the CBGB crowd could be a feisty one if they didn't like you. Screw up and you get a beer shower and eternal shame as you weren't to play in any other clubs in NY with this kinda sound. Even though all that, and mind you, this is one of my favorite versions of Psycho Killer. Hearing where it come's from it's great. The version from 1977 is great but this is better.

@matttownsend305

3 жыл бұрын

They were all trying different versions as players in their initial live renditions, I note all three are loose and adventurous here.

Wonderful band and great version.

I wasn't there at that particular gig but I lived in the neighborhood from 1978 through 1989 and caught many acts at CBGB. What a place and what a blast the whole area was then not like now -- full of shiny towers and NYU dorms! Shame!

@TheVedder11

9 жыл бұрын

MT Yankin rite . how times have changed .

The Talking Heads and the bands that came out of CBGB saved music in the late seventies and eighties from the cooperate crap and the glam rock of the 70's. Three chords played poorly on crappy equipment in a dirty $#!thole bar in the Bowery. Now that's rock and roll. God, I miss those times.

@delfindraupnir4855

8 жыл бұрын

and how oldie you sir?

@gcampa

8 жыл бұрын

"saved music"... music is doomed since Schoenberg and his dodecaphony shit, music stopped right there, mr.

@ergbudster3333

7 жыл бұрын

Wha?

I saw there. Saw them the first time in spring of '75, and quite a few times in the next couple of years. First time, there was 12 people in the audience, with them opening for The Ramones.

AMO ESTE TEMA...

Thank goodness for producers and engineers

Best ever to take that stage.

Cbgb best time of my life

in august of 81 ,I was in drug rehab in N.J. . My roommate for about a week was a member of the Talking Heads , out of respect im not going to say who it was . I was a kid {15} to young to realize how big of a deal it was . every nite in the room he would play , I look back now at how lucky I was .

@ergbudster3333

7 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Now which ones play guitar? Yeah, guitar. Obviously it ain't drums or piano, not in 1981. Therefore guitar. Not bass so it wasn't Tina. So it was...

@oest2029

6 жыл бұрын

Nah it was Chris who wound up in rehab. Tina says so here: www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/how-we-met-chris-frantz-tina-weymouth-8533427.html%3famp

@todddavis9437

3 ай бұрын

I was in rehab with a member of the band hole

I was there, not that particular show, but that place, that time. My dad got pissed at UMFUG on my t-shirt until I explained what it meant 😂😂

Love this, always based my own cover off the much later radio edition, and I think I might dial it back a little then ramp it up. Sort of a transition from this laid back feel to a more manic one.

Too bad Byrne didn't wake up before he got to the club that night.

@Ginevive

8 жыл бұрын

+richard speck lol right? lol

@swami1

8 жыл бұрын

He was in his "laconic rock star" mode.

@krollpeter

6 жыл бұрын

I expect him every second to throw his guitar onto the floor and run away from stage fright.

Love this version, almost melancholy with the different note

Nossa que raridade!! Abraços do Brasil

Amazing!

love Talking Heads😍

hahahaha! Love this! Look at Chris, Dave, and Tina. She looks so adorable with that hair!

Three years before I saw them the first time, in Portland, OR.

I love it.

I recently spent 10 days getting to know my son's fiance. She picked this as her first song at Karaoke. I started to think of her as like me.

Wowww So Pure !

Wonderful.

this whole thing used to be on youtube ages and ages ago. Like with mic check and everything. as well as a performance of warning sign at CBGBs. but its probably on some obscure ass dvd boxset where no one can see them

excellent!

Unbelievable band

Awesome stuff

The best live of Psycho killer.

The bass player stuff up so many times during the song is hillarious.

@matttownsend305

3 жыл бұрын

They were all trying different versions as players in their initial live renditions, I note all three are loose and adventurous here.

@MauriceMossisitnot

Жыл бұрын

I think Tina learned bass from David in two weeks before joining the band.

100 years ahead of their time.. or well, they were exactly right at the time.. same goes for the Ramones

David Bynes, Tina weymouth and Chris Frantz are three of my favorite artists.

I LOVE this clip. Pure luck they caught it. That groove at 3:45 ish too!

TRES BONNE MUSIQUE j'ai TOUJOURS AIMER TALKING HEADS SUPERBE

Rockin tune!

incredible talent really shines in acoustic set esp w/Davids amazing vocals

NY,1975,an early reserved performance of a song that would inite Beautiful

THE PRETTIEST AND CUTEST BASS PLAYER EVER!

Cool Version!!!

I just need desperately this version on a recording.

I love♥

Yes, Tina's bass sounds hypnotized

So interesting to see early TH. For comparison, check them out three years later: Talking Heads - Psycho Killer Live on stage Old Grey Whistle Test 1978 Weymouth is really confident and sounds fantastic, very well recorded and up in the mix. You can also get a sense of how much Harrison added to their sound. And Byrne, well, continues to evolve.

Best Rock song ever written

Saw them in the early years but not this early, touring Nz , Pretty sure it was just after more songs about buildings and food , and they were a 4 piece , Then saw them again years later , when they had the big band , Both were great

poor david sounds so shaky up there. who knew he'd be where he is now

Fake it until you make it. To think this band would turn out to be so revolutionary.

CBGBs the place to be on the East Coast. A few years previous to this, I saw the Eagles as bottom bill to Jethro Tull on the West Coast. So much great music everywhere and so much diversity. Funny how in my memory, it seems like almost a decade before but I'm sure it wasn't. Jimi had only been gone five years. Oh, to bring back the days of 3 nights of music with four bands for only $3.00 (each night). Am I old?

Best version of Psycho Killer ever? Could well be!

I Was There!!!!!!! BRILLIANT!

@ergbudster3333

7 жыл бұрын

OK. Which one are you? The tall skinny wierd singer guy? Or the serious looking short blonde woman?

nice upload cheers

I used to like this song until I saw this. Excuse me... gotta fall asleep now. I will say, they got amazingly better later on...

Man do I miss cbgbs

Got the peanut butter? Rock on ... to a better day ! Guys inside my HEAD. 👀

If I had a time machine. No doubt this would be my first stop. I mean CBGC

I know what the guy means,🤩 I was hit by the Talking Heads the first time I heard them not in 1975 but some years later 🏁❤️🌊🎵💎🎤