@@chuckschillingvideos There's footage on UA-cam of Alice Cooper doing repeated takes trying to get 'Under My Wheels' right on The Old Grey Whistle Test. I think they try four times before it comes together.
It really does make the song. It's good without it, but it's beyond great with it. She knew how to really make it effective. Doesn't have to be fancy to be brilliant.
Blondie, Ramones, ZZ Top, Talking Heads, U2 amongst many others, Annie Nightingale, Tuesday Evening BBC 2 late 70's early 80's what a great time to be alive!
@@shrimpfleaeveryone really likes thick crunchy bass, and the audio quality was a lot worse back then on amps and mics, which ironically made the bass feel and sound much better
This has a delightfully raw aspect to it. It is so good that the parts that are a bit off add to the intensity. It was obviously very well rehearsed evidenced by the tightness of the music but the harmonies being slightly out at times just does it for me. Live music, you just can't go past it.
There is great wisdom in this observation. The current fad is to be pitch perfect and right on the metronome. But such performances leave me cold. The most exhilarating performances are played right on the jagged edge, mere millimetres from an utter train wreck. Depends on the music of course. I wouldn't apply this principle if asked to do the Last Post on Remembrance Day for example.
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Absolutely love this version.. especially the bass, I feel you can’t hear it so well on the recorded version (only in the beginning). When the French speaking bit starts, put it on full volume, Tina is INCREDIBLE here!
I love how Tina starts off almost dwarfed by that bass - like she's too small to command it, but then absolutely owns that pulsing, stalking bass line by the end 😎
And that's a short-scale Fender Mustang "Competition" model. The red finish was only produced from 1969-1971 until being reissued 2013-2014 as the "Pawn Shop Mustang".
Back in the mid-late 80's, I was in college, and was taking a philosophy required course, and I remember the instructor was a HUGE David Byrne fan, and a lot of the the stuff we did in that class was actually taken from Byrne's lyrics. Interesting course.
@@lesterpittenger5992 Ah, good ole trash talk about which musician hits notes better: always appreciated, sometimes even on point, never quite right though
@@lesterpittenger5992 well, you know what they say about opinions. They're much like a****les: everybody's got one, and they worth pretty much the same, too.
@@Tineluss Maybe youtube should do away with the comments, lest someone gets offended and lose their erection once they realize that not everyone thinks that Tina is the greatest bass player ever.
This is one of the Heads best songs and my fav on my very first Talking Heads album Talking Heads 77. They approached the rock scene in a unique way usually with killer bass lines. Their cover of Take me to the River is great too. They were trail blazers for 'new wave' music and years ahead of their time.
I think nowadays they will make anyone famous and milk off them but back then you had to be good to get a record deal and when ya sold the records everyone got paid, the music business has change so much. But with talking heads you can watch them over and over and not get board they were sooooo good, and that bass 👏
I love this performance: strung halfway between the album and SMS versions, it combines live rawness with a clean sound you just never got back in those days.
Honestly I only l watched this for the first time 2 weeks ago and I think it's changed my life. What a song, what a performance, what a band. Thanks for the upload!
Robert E Roman - My brother joined a band in 1982 as well, and joked that playing bass on Psycho Killer guaranteed he wouldn't go home alone... (Yep, he was a tramp)
I bumped into David Byrne a few months ago when i was out shopping , wow i thought , all i could say was " how are things ,David " ,he smiled and said " i,m ok , things are the same as they always were , same as they always were , same as they always were " i thank you !
Talking Heads was one of the very first albums I bought as a teenager. Everything else before that, I inherited from my older siblings, who turned into born again Christians and gave up on rocknroll. I traded a lot of their albums for Blondie, the Ramones, Iggy and the Stooges, the Damned. However, I kept all of the David Bowie albums! This was the first album I purchased with my allowance! The whole album Talking Heads 77 is awesome!
You have a Jezebel spirit within you You have a spirit of grief You have a spirit of destruction. Jezebel, Spirit of destruction, Spirit of grief, I bind you with chains of iron I bind you out of that bounded heaven.
I love watching Talking Heads perform. They started out just as I was hitting my late teens. It was perfect timing for this loyal fan. Tina on bass was unique and very sexy. This coming from a woman. She was the reason my Mom let me take guitar lessons - she knew I was serious after I raved about Tina.
Tina Weymouth is the star in this. The bass line IS the song, and she is so intense, playing it with such conviction.
Graham Black Damn right! :)
Yeah, she drives this.
Calm down.
Up yours.
Yep she is !!!
Whistle test, probably the greatest music show of all time
Yep. No lip-synching allowed!
Niiice
I was in the UK then,
It was something else !!
Totally (when I could get away with staying up for it or sneaking down.) Normally John Peel in bed with a "wireless!)
@@chuckschillingvideos There's footage on UA-cam of Alice Cooper doing repeated takes trying to get 'Under My Wheels' right on The Old Grey Whistle Test. I think they try four times before it comes together.
I don’t think enough people realize how good this band was live or in studio.
When I was in college in the mid 80's, this was the band everyone listened to. Only R.E.M. was close in popularity.
Just need to watch the concert film, Stop Making Sense from 84 (?). It removes any and all doubt.
Totally agreed Mr Keasey. There is so much great music out there. Just enjoy it
Saw Byrne back in 2009. Hair was silver, Suit was silver. Music was fine, mighty fine.
oh yes , saw David a bit later in Brussels & it was fantastic
sometimes the simplest tunes and lyrics are masterpieces of music
TOTALLY ACORDING WITH YOU
This woman can play just a few notes with such an incredible groove. It's amazing....
I'll agree with that!!✌️✌️👀👀!! That looks like, a iyayayayayayoung david getting a little wild with his guitar 🎸!!!✌️✌️✌️
She was probably the best there had been since Carol Kaye
so short...a teaser
Actually its a quite shitty bass to be honest, and she knows that. But song is so awesome that it could be played on vargane and still be good.
To hear the other side of that listen to "Cities'. Tonnes of notes. She is on fire.
By far my favourite version of the track. The bass-forward mix and extra embelishments during the intro add a ton to an already brilliant song.
I love how Talking Heads encapsulate the punk ethos without engaging in the punk aesthetics
You are the only person I've ever seen use the word "ethos" other than Walter Sobjak, and I appreciate it haha.
@@uberhuber1152 shut up donnie
Avant garde punks
Always hated shallow aesthets.
DEVO dressed like DeVry students as well.
Hard to believe this is 40 years old. I'd forgotten how sexy David Byrne was. Gotta love Tina Weymouth's intensity - such a killer bass line.
True.
Killer - yup. 😅
You mean a Phycho killer bass line 😂
My God the bass.....fucking love the bass line in this song
david giving this performance his all is one reason i love him
That bass is hypnotic. And a favourite version of a brilliant song. When I have nothing to say my lips are sealed.
Totally nailed it.
It really does make the song. It's good without it, but it's beyond great with it. She knew how to really make it effective. Doesn't have to be fancy to be brilliant.
That little sister is packing HEAT with her bass.
Tina's bassline simply splitting open the Earth.
1978? This DECADES ahead of its time.
Blondie, Ramones, ZZ Top, Talking Heads, U2 amongst many others, Annie Nightingale, Tuesday Evening BBC 2 late 70's early 80's what a great time to be alive!
The, Best, Times. 🥳
Tina Weymouth is a dynamic and beautiful bass player. She is dynamite in a small package!
Absolutely
What a privilege and treat to see and hear this from true artists.
The intense look of concentration on Tina's face.
That bass sounds phenomenal, warm and and full and this was the 70s
IMO bass tones in the 70s sounded best.
@@shrimpfleaeveryone really likes thick crunchy bass, and the audio quality was a lot worse back then on amps and mics, which ironically made the bass feel and sound much better
OGWT had great-sounding mixes.
the bass carries this song and David Byrne just OWNS my attention
How good is this just stumbled onto it wonderful find wonderful
Saw this in my early teens on British TV and have never forgotten it.
This has a delightfully raw aspect to it. It is so good that the parts that are a bit off add to the intensity. It was obviously very well rehearsed evidenced by the tightness of the music but the harmonies being slightly out at times just does it for me.
Live music, you just can't go past it.
There is great wisdom in this observation.
The current fad is to be pitch perfect and right on the metronome. But such performances leave me cold.
The most exhilarating performances are played right on the jagged edge, mere millimetres from an utter train wreck.
Depends on the music of course. I wouldn't apply this principle if asked to do the Last Post on Remembrance Day for example.
Was in the toilet in caethelonia (fish bar) when a cover band done this song and couldn’t wait to get out to watch this. Perfect.
Brilliant..... in 1978,, and still brilliant today. And, wow, do I love me some Tina Weymouth.
Tina Weymouth is a rock goddess, sometimes the ingredients just came together. Maybe it's the CBGB thing but this group are legendary
Completely agree
the bassline in this song drives it. Tina your awesome.
What a solid bass player - the small woman!
BEST PERFORMANCE!!!!
THE GREY OLD WHISTLE IS THE BEST MUSIC SHOW EVER!
STAY
HUNGRY
Chris Frantz looks like he's waiting for summer to end so he can move back to the dorms when the semester begins.
Tina Weymouth was quite the pioneer for the times. Oh, so was Susan Cowsill at age 12 playing bass ten years before this.
Before it's time brilliance
the bass is amazing!
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Tina is a Bass Goddess.
That bass is so loud. I love it!!!
Shoutouts to whoever mixed this performance lmao. It really does poke out at you.
The concentration on Tina's face is the soul of this track!
Such a kick ass bass line
The base is awesome and makes the piece/music memorable.
I love seeing Tina rocking out at the end...
Off their heads. By far the best version of this song they have ever done
Absolutely love this version.. especially the bass, I feel you can’t hear it so well on the recorded version (only in the beginning). When the French speaking bit starts, put it on full volume, Tina is INCREDIBLE here!
Sin autotune, sin gran producción, sin guapura... Sencillamente un artista.
They all did great
She is hitting it hot with the bass!!!
One of the best performances on the OGWT ever. Brilliant
Bass is AMAZING one of the best choirts I have even heart
Love those distinctive basslines
Gives me the chills watching them play. Wish I could've seen them live but I was 2 years old when they stopped touring.
amazing band , amazing song .
HES AS MAD AS FUCK BUT GREAT LIVE
***** yes,LOL,great bass line
I cant get enough of the song!!!!
Love watching the Old Grey Whistle Test repeats at night.
What a belter of a song.
I love how Tina starts off almost dwarfed by that bass - like she's too small to command it, but then absolutely owns that pulsing, stalking bass line by the end 😎
And that's a short-scale Fender Mustang "Competition" model. The red finish was only produced from 1969-1971 until being reissued 2013-2014 as the "Pawn Shop Mustang".
Back in the mid-late 80's, I was in college, and was taking a philosophy required course, and I remember the instructor was a HUGE David Byrne fan, and a lot of the the stuff we did in that class was actually taken from Byrne's lyrics. Interesting course.
I once had a World Geography teacher who spent most of an hour dissecting Don McLean's "American Pie." Again, _geography._ 🤣
Your instructor probably had an autistic obsession with him
That's got to be one of the most intense bass lines ever.
Seriously? She's cute. But if John Entwistle played it we would be asking if he had a stroke.
@@lesterpittenger5992 Ah, good ole trash talk about which musician hits notes better: always appreciated, sometimes even on point, never quite right though
@@Tineluss Yes, thank God we all have different opinions. Pretty boring if we didn't.
@@lesterpittenger5992 well, you know what they say about opinions.
They're much like a****les: everybody's got one, and they worth pretty much the same, too.
@@Tineluss Maybe youtube should do away with the comments, lest someone gets offended and lose their erection once they realize that not everyone thinks that Tina is the greatest bass player ever.
love the way Tina plays the bass her intensity is very attractive ha! ;-)
when I saw them perform she threw down a square piece of cardboard, stood on it and didn't move the entire concert
@@hans2157 I can imagine, many of their songs rely on precision.
She's a Scorpio!
@@grantkitchener9487 Not that surprising Tbh!!!
Scorpio rules! (yeah yeah I'm a fellow scorpio as well).
This is one of the Heads best songs and my fav on my very first Talking Heads album Talking Heads 77. They approached the rock scene in a unique way usually with killer bass lines. Their cover of Take me to the River is great too. They were trail blazers for 'new wave' music and years ahead of their time.
Agree.
The Bass player rocks these guys
It´s David
Best version ! I dig the hell outta this !!!
Magical combination of musicians. Absolutely timeless!
crazy and briliant performance. and davids vocal use... just unbelivebly splendid!
Intelligent message delivered with SKILLZ
My best compliments for the sound and to David for his way to play guitar!
Sweet baby jesus this is truly awesome. I love it that the base is truly rocking!
Just listen, the bass & drums drive on & on. The singer & guitarists seem to accompany them. What a great group🙌🙌
I didn’t realise how tight this band were until seeing this video. As other comments suggest Tina Weymouth steals the show in this performance.
THAT bass line! Awesome
Sheer BRILLIANCE THIS WAS THE KICK OFF 4 talking heads ! It was no accident and they deserve big credit 4 a different way of rocking the planet
What an incredible performance. No one plays like this anymore.
Pixies and LCD Sound System
Yeah but they shouldve stopped a long time ago
I think nowadays they will make anyone famous and milk off them but back then you had to be good to get a record deal and when ya sold the records everyone got paid, the music business has change so much. But with talking heads you can watch them over and over and not get board they were sooooo good, and that bass 👏
Thee Oh Sees are like if the last minute of this performance was made into a band and then amped it up to 11.
Me and my band do, and better
An absolute banger
I'm a fan of live versions, the artist could be at their peak or playing in their home town, some live performances are special.
Awesome.
Best Psycho Killer cover ever' :)
An all time classic - saw this mob in 1980 in the Hammersmith Palais in London with U2 as their back up band - gr8t gig.
That bass is so good
Still sounds amazing!
Great show,great band,great song,bloody awesome bass line
The drummer kicks ass too, under-rated musicians all the way around
its all awesome, the tele playing, burns funky staccato on the semi acoustic. Always loved this track, now i understand why.
I love this performance: strung halfway between the album and SMS versions, it combines live rawness with a clean sound you just never got back in those days.
Honestly I only l watched this for the first time 2 weeks ago and I think it's changed my life. What a song, what a performance, what a band. Thanks for the upload!
Simon Mustard - I love reading posts like yours, where someone connects to a song, video they just came across. Thanks for making me smile
How has it changed your life?
@@nudal9993 not gonna lie in retrospect I don't think it did good song tho lol
@@myswanktrendz snap.
Tina kicks axe! Still have my original vinyl LP from when it just came out, and it still sounds amazing as ever!
I never tire of listening to the Talking Heads
Of course....one of the first songs I ever learned & sang live in my first band in 1982. So amazing. Good times!
Robert E Roman - My brother joined a band in 1982 as well, and joked that playing bass on Psycho Killer guaranteed he wouldn't go home alone... (Yep, he was a tramp)
Tina Weymouth - Heartbeat of the song 💗
The bass & drums kept that together 🙌
I remember watching this when it was 1st aired on the Whistle test Superb and still stands up today !
Tina's bass is unreal
Awesomely tense in a loose kind of fashion. Love it.
If you don't know what this is, "Talking Heads Psycho Killer Old Grey Whistle Test" is a really chaotic title for a video.
It sounds like someone is playing a word association game.
Well, as I scored two rock buzzword bingos off the title, so it'd be unfair to complain too much.
The programme was called the old grey whistle test.
Kaichou
I bumped into David Byrne a few months ago when i was out shopping , wow i thought , all i could say was " how are things ,David " ,he smiled and said " i,m ok , things are the same as they always were , same as they always were , same as they always were "
i thank you !
If you listen to thus often enough, you won't give a fuck about anything. It's the way to go.
What an amazing band
What a great band.
Saw them perform this live back in the day. Fabulous !
BEST LIVE VERSION.
Wszystko , OK - lubię i podawał Dalej !!!
Nope you need find the one with the main singer with the boom box. It's way better.
Katherine Canon that’s the stop making sense film version 👍
Unbelievable guitar playing and vocals out of this guy. Blows me away to see this played live.
Fun, catchy/ mind interning tunes...
What else did my growing up years need. ?
GAWD, this was a long time ago. 🥹
Talking Heads was one of the very first albums I bought as a teenager. Everything else before that, I inherited from my older siblings, who turned into born again Christians and gave up on rocknroll. I traded a lot of their albums for Blondie, the Ramones, Iggy and the Stooges, the Damned. However, I kept all of the David Bowie albums! This was the first album I purchased with my allowance! The whole album Talking Heads 77 is awesome!
You were a lucky person at the expense of your elder siblings!!!!!!!! X
Awesome is the RIGHT word!❤️
You have a Jezebel spirit within you
You have a spirit of grief
You have a spirit of destruction.
Jezebel,
Spirit of destruction,
Spirit of grief,
I bind you with chains of iron
I bind you out of that bounded heaven.
@@user-hr8pz6lh5w calm down jim
What a great tribute! I loved and bought vinyl Bowie and played it to death in my 95th St apt in Manhattan....sigh
tina just fuckin slays this. never gets old
First thing I did when I finally got a bass was learn this track. Solid gold.
I love watching Talking Heads perform. They started out just as I was hitting my late teens. It was perfect timing for this loyal fan. Tina on bass was unique and very sexy. This coming from a woman. She was the reason my Mom let me take guitar lessons - she knew I was serious after I raved about Tina.
This is the best version of this song I have ever heard.
The first OGWT clip I ever watched. And man, seeing David Byrne before he started wearing the fun costumes is just something else.