Talking Heads live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1982) [FULL]
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- NOTE: WATCH • Talking Heads live at ... INSTEAD - IT HAS BETTER QUALITY.
I recommend watching the other version, but I'll leave this one up since it's already been shared quite a lot and I don't want to mess with that. Just keep the other version in mind.
When I uploaded this video, it suffered from some UA-cam downscaling that I didn't anticipate - it went from approximately 540p to 480p, making it a little bit more blurred.
The other version avoids this issue.
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This is full footage of Talking Heads performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, July 9th 1982. Originally broadcasted on Swiss TV and radio, but this footage is from an archive of the master tapes (except the last song)
Important notes:
Psycho Killer has some pretty weird mixing issues, but it sorts itself out after a minute, so just bear with it.
Everything else sounds and looks amazing, until the encore (Take Me to the River) which was missing from the rest of the footage, so it was edited in from a low quality recording of the TV broadcast.
It had very crackly audio so I synced the broadcast footage with superior audio of Take Me to the River taken from a recording of the radio broadcast, and I think it turned out well. (You can still hear about 25 seconds of the original audio at the very end, but I turned the volume down to spare your ears)
Setlist:
00:00:00 crowd
00:01:30 Psycho Killer
00:07:10 Cities
00:12:10 Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) [DB]
00:17:05 Once in a Lifetime
00:22:40 Mind
00:27:20 My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks) [DB]
00:33:15 Big Business [DB]
00:38:15 I Zimbra
00:42:15 Swamp
00:48:05 Slink [JH]
00:53:15 Houses in Motion
01:00:25 What a Day That Was [DB]
01:06:35 Life During Wartime
01:13:30 Take Me To The River [AG]
All songs are by Talking Heads, except noted:
[DB] - by David Byrne, from his 1981 soundtrack album The Catherine Wheel
[JH] - by Jerry Harrison, from his 1981 studio album The Red And The Black
[AG] - originally by Al Green in 1974
The setlist is fairly typical for their 1982 "The Name Of This Band is Talking Heads Tour" (to promote their first live album) between the Remain in Light tour and the Speaking in Tongues/Stop Making Sense tour.
It includes an early version of Swamp since they were in the process of making Speaking in Tongues while touring. They also often played Love → Building on Fire near the start of the set, but unfortunately didn't for this show.
I can't remember where, but I think I saw somebody say they intended to play Crosseyed and Painless for a second encore (which they often did on this tour) but decided to end after the first encore due to the overwhelming heat.
Talking Heads:
David Byrne - Guitar, Vocals
Tina Weymouth - Bass, Vocals
Chris Frantz - Drums
Jerry Harrison - Keyboards, Guitar, Vocals
Touring band:
Alex Weir - Guitar, Vocals
Raymond Jones - Keyboards
Steve Scales - Percussion
Dolette McDonald - Vocals, Percussion
Appearing only for the encore:
Tyrone Downey - Keyboards
Lani Weymouth - Vocals
Laura Weymouth - Vocals
Tom Tom Club (composed of Tina, Chris, Alex, Steve, Tyrone, Lani, and Laura) also performed a set as the opening act before Talking Heads, which you can watch here: • Tom Tom Club live at M...
Here's a Google Drive where you can download the Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club sets, including edited .mp4 versions that I uploaded to UA-cam + the unedited .mpg files I started with: drive.google.c...
NOTE: WATCH ua-cam.com/video/ldwpwrW6tno/v-deo.html INSTEAD - IT HAS BETTER QUALITY.
When I uploaded this video, it suffered from some UA-cam downscaling that I didn't anticipate - the other version fixes this issue, so I recommend watching that instead. But I'll leave this version up too since it's already been shared quite a lot.
bro just delete the video come on
When in 1982 was this? I saw them at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta in early September of ‘82. A fairly similar show, although Tina was way pregnant when I saw them…
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@@richardbilger2334 9 july 1982
what a surprise...this was my first live concert...i was working 1982 in montreux...during the jazz festival...on the 2. or 3. day , talking head was the headliner...since then talking heads is one of my favorite band...now i am 62...what great memories...i was in the crowd...
Awesome!
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To those asking about the sound mix: it’s most likely a recording from the sound or monitor board. And the engineer is ‘soloing’ certain instruments to get them sounding right. So what your probably hearing is a headphone mix of the sound engineer. The front of house audience wouldnt hear this,though.
stupendous!!!!!! at 69 with all sorts of silly woes this helps me see I AM ALIVE with all sorts of VIBE . Thanks to ALL
1979 Patrick Gym at UVM. Unbelievable show. At the time I had just seen Elvis Costello and little did I understand in both cases it was musical genius at work. There’s only 3 in my mind over the decades, write it, produce it and perform it. Meanwhile all were musically gifted and could play several instruments with ease, oh yea they were also the front man of their perspective bands and had great vocal ability, oh yea, seldom did they ever cover any other band, 90% of their songs were theirs and original. All 3 leveraged a multitude of supporting instruments and musicians to support the multi layered sound each created. Oh yea, each were able to evolve over decades 52:27 and stay relevant, except Prince with an untimely passing. Yes Prince, Elvis Costello and David Byrne. I’m 61 and appreciate masterful musical minds like the aforementioned and trying to avoid the “get off my lawn” label or perception, but hey music in my era lives on while todays Disney, Nickelodeon and I heart music created pop stars never endure the test of time when measured on their pure musical acumen and talent.
Youth today should see this and experience what a true live show experience was like! And look! No phones all sticking up the entire time blocking everyone’s view.
Talking Heads were one of the best to ever do it!
a very large amount of today’s youth is into the talking heads
Facts 😅 ahead of time
Same as it ever was!!! ❤❤❤
The audio on this starts off dodgy af and you're like "fuck the audio is dodgy af". But you keep watching because it's Talking Heads. Then you're like "holy shit this is great!". Thanks for sharing.
Ya it def gets better!
All agreed! I wish I had been there.🙃
Exactly
Lmao
Real 😂
I’m 23 and love Talking Heads. I showed my 10 year old nephew “What a day that was” live and he said he added it to his 4th grade class playlist. That song is so catchy and the live version is just perfect. Wish I could have taken him to a concert…
This is music , real Goodyear music, it will always be there for peiple Who really like music, not the shit that are selling now..
If you are 23 years old and yo found and enjoy tjis kind of music...is because you really like music❤
Awesome seeing Jerry Harrison singing “Slink”... great tune...
how good is his Melodica solo? insane
@@chemistryset1 Jerry is a very talented multi-instrumentalist. It doesn't seem to get brought up too much when people are discussing the band
Wow, what a show--I had no idea Talking Heads played live between their 1981 Remain in Light tour and the 1983 Stop Making Sense tour. Fascinating look at the band in a transitional point in their career. And of course the music is amazing.
WOW can't believe this footage surfaced. What a great document of the band pre-Adrian. Some very unique parts of this performance: 4 songs from Byrne's work with Twyla Tharp on The Catherine Wheel and a song from Jerry Harrison's first solo album. Thanks a bunch for this one.
Not pre-Adrian, post-Adrian.
@@oa9002 You are correct. He joined KC in 1981.
‘82? This is post-Adrian. He toured on Remain in Light, And then I think essentially got booted. This performances is between records, pre- Speaking in Tongues…
Amazing that this got out. I worked at MJF for 5 years right after they moved from the casino. Everything, and I mean everything, was filmed when I was there. Claud Nobs was a genius and the vaults are SICK. What a gem. Thanks for posting!
Stumbled upon this after seeing a video for someone else at Montreux. So glad I did. Not my favorite tour but the rhythm section was tops. That is how you take the studio on the road!
I never even knew they toured in '82. Great vid. those rhythm devils. Nice to see Tina boppin'
I saw them in Los Angeles in 1982 . First time was 1978 at UCLA outdoors for free . One of a kind band .
One of my favorite groups, and live are even better. David Burn is a genius. And what can I say about Tina? She is an awesome bass player, one of the best.
Very cool. Weird mix with most of the audio...but pretty great to be able to see something like this from such an awesome group.
They seemed to pull the mix together for What A Day That Was👍👍👍
Sounds like it was pulled off the direct feeds to the board, so vocals and drums are high but amplified instruments are running in part on stage volume. Definitely not mixed for a live recording.
Thank you very much for the fantastic upload!
I was born exactly three weeks after this show. Thank you so much for posting this! :)
You made me check and I was born 9 days before this show.
I was maybe around 17 or 18... I was way into the grateful Dead... Took a while for me to get hip 2 these guys.,,..
Thanks so much!!!
nice name
I saw this tour at Forest Hills tennis stadium in NYC. I loved that all the different side projects got their moment, as Tina brought out a few of her sisters and they did Genius of Love.
The child of Stop Making Sense
What a gem
@@bobwoww8384 More like the parent of SMS, since it came first.
@@oa9002 ok u got me lol
Fantastic! I'd never seen this footage.
One-of-a-kind musical brilliance.
Art…from seizure like activity… he is the best!
Never seen this footage before, super sick, thanks!
I've seen it live on Swiss-TV then! And recorded it on Betamax .
Legend, thanks for this.
so beautiful
sweaty, frantic, young david byrne strangling his microphone like his life depends on it has got me… feeling some things and thinking some thoughts
in those days bands were genuine the lyrics were not controlled ,like they do control every thing these days ,old school you sang from your heart and what you said were more expressed ,the crowed were different and their were no Mobil phones to disturb the concerts
What a gem !!!!!!!!! What a band !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are just one big suit away from greatness!
Oh very good footage. Thank a lots
Ahh, my first "favorite band". Bought Stop Making Sense on tape with my grass mowing money at age 9 , then Remain in Light, Little Creatures, 77, Fear of Music...
Never could find that "Name of this band is Talking Heads" but luckily was able to make a dub of it.
Bought True Stories when it came out as a birthday present for my 7th grade girlfriend. As soon as she opened it, i pulled out my blank TDK and asked if I could run up to her room and copy it on her stereo.
Thanks for posting!!
Very profound. Thank you for sharing Sensei 😊
Gracias por subir esta joya!!! Amo a los TH y no dejan de sorprenderme... no conocía este concierto. Gracias!!!
Right before they hit it big with burning down the house. So awesome!! The afro influence at its peak!!
Bravissimi dal vivo!❤️
Great gig. Thanks for uploading.
so epic thank you
Great recording, good set thanks
Beautiful! I saw them just a month after this and Tina was even more noticeably pregnant, what a trouper
One of the things that I like the most, is to See the people right on the stage without the nowdays area for "security "
I just watched the show at cbgbs in '75 right before this when they were a 3 piece, what a transformation into this huge ensamble!
What a fantastic version of My Big Hands
What a band… incredible
Definitely the best version of Cities I've ever heard. David screaming his (talking) head off is never not entertaining.
Nope. Rome's version is more massive and melodic. Thi sonee is tight, "cheap" but good toot
@@johnsloane8523 That shit from Rome and the other European shows then were exemplary! I think Rome must have treated them very hospitable and they were appreciative!💫🎉🎩
@@johnsloane8523 For my money, Rome captures the band at its live peak
Often imitated, never duplicated
OH MY! Thank you so much for posting this! I was there!!! One of the best concerts of my entire life!
(Laurie Anderson was supposed to show that night--she didn't, and they substituted the Steve Miller Band🙄. The crowd almost rioted at that inappropriate substitution! I almost felt sorry for Steve Miller. Someone had not read the room!!
The Steve Miller Band? What a wonderful substitute ✌️✌️
Amazing he can remember the lyrics while partaking in such an elicit substance. Good band for sure.
expound. David high? spill. what do you know? I 'know'..he admitted on the liner notes to the best-of 'Vaseline' cd (1990?) that he tried Heroin once. David was a pretty hyped guy back then
According to Chris Franz's book, they all did some blow now and again but David wasn't a big user. David was just a natural weirdo. Coke was just everywhere back then but none of the band would be considered strung out heavy users of anything.
Yea, looks sort of into something doesn't he, and I don't mean his antics, in his eyes and face. Saw him in Vegas 2020 or so and waited by our parking spot which just happened to be by his tour bus for an autograph but he never came out of the door. Then we were like, oh ya he's ply at the Bellagio by now, like he cares about the tour bus tonight.
Nah … Byrne was never much into drugs: he supposedly tripped a couple of times, and smoked a tiny amount of weed at parties way before Talking Heads got famous, but is otherwise just a delightfully peculiar person. Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth are who famously got addicted to cocaine and did mountains of blow, from around Talking Heads’ second album through about the middle of Tom Tom Club’s career. Their drug use was a big part of why Talking Heads broke up so acrimoniously, Byrne just wanted nothing more to do with them and basically informed them of the breakup via press release-not the height of tact, but it’s somewhat understandable. Then Weymouth, still pretty strung out, accused Byrne of everything from witchcraft-like actual witchcraft, taking part in human sacrifices in Haiti while gobbling hallucinogenic plants, really nutty accusations-to mind control … to just being kind of a dick. How much of her accusations were due to drugs is debatable: Weymouth is supposedly now sober, yet still comes across in interviews as kind of unhinged. And how Byrne handled band relations may not‘ve been great, but they were all kids then … and since then I’ve not heard anyone in music say he’s anything other than delightful and kind and polite. And he and Weymouth have since buried the axe. Regardless, the point here is: no, by most accounts Byrne was not a big part of the ‘80s drug scene.
@@MrTgrewell "back then" bro, today is the day with the most amount of cocaine on the streets.
This version of Slink rocks!! 👌🏻👌🏻❤️
yeah Jerry shines here, best use of a Melodica by a white man until Bluey came along.
Awesome thanks
Amazing footage. Fuck yes!!!!
Thanks 👍😘🇸🇪
Amazing.
"Fall Through the Cracks" from The Catherine Wheel is stupendous.
David is a crazed man on 🔥
I love how Chris grins like he has just won the Special Olympics. It is very endearing.
this must be the place💜💜💜
La version de Houses in motion es realmente increible!!!!
This is really cool, thank you, but TURN UP THE VOLUME DAMMIT!!!
❤ pure fun
Love
These
Guys
Where Did
You
Go?
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Wow! Never seen this before!
The sound is also typical of console recording from loud (or small venue) shows.
The guitar and drum is usually low in the mix, because this is exactly what is sent to the main speakers in the venue, and they need less of the naturally loud in the speakers. Simple math really.
WONDERFUL BAND................❤
SRV played at this festival the same year🎉💪🏾
Love this concert! I would've been jumping like a fool in there. The performance of Once In A Lifetime is the best!!!! I love David Byrne's energy! He is the coolest! Alex Weir the guitarist and cousin of the Brothers Johnson is jamming! #70sBaby
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Estaban todos Punquis, de verdad 💪💃💯💪🥰⚽
I'm dancing !!!
I love how all of DB's solo stuff literally sounds better with everyone else. Like if my big hands was made with them it would have easily been a hit, it's so so good compared to his solo variation. It's so unfortunate how they're all still around to still do things, but he let ego really get the best of it.
22:46. DEEP CUT: MIND ! You'll never hear that again in a concert !!
You know your a great band when you can open the show with your one big hit (at the time) most bands lead up to their big song well done now put away all your personal bullshit David and get this band back together ! We the fans DESERVE at least one more tour outta ya all !!
Deserve? We don't deserve anything. Talking Heads are done, and have been for decades. Byrne has gone on to make a ton of great music on his own, why would he go backwards? Byrne is 71 years old, and his last tour win awards. After what Tina and Chris have said about him, it's surprising he even talks to them. Just get over it, they won't tour again.
The noisegates threshold is not set right so they don't 'open' when they should, to let the sound of drums vocals etc pass when they are supposed to. This causing chopped sound.
My sound engineering teacher once said : "Those damn noise gates, they're like children. You cant leave them unchecked."
We here have an example of this in the beginning.
どうしようもなく天才
"I got it figured out yeah I got it figured out!"
They go back as far back as 1974 ,they were more than rip by the early 80s
Genial 👍❤️
Il senso della musica..🔝
Una pietra miliare!
♥️♥️♥️♥️
Dolette McDonald is beautiful 😊
What a find! Great set. I think this is a transition period for TH though....post Belew era and pre Bernie Worrell. Still great but not as explosive as the previous tour with Adrian Belew and not as slinky perfect as Stop Making Sense.
Especially adding the second backup singer on SMS. Those two low-key stole that movie.
Good way of putting it.
❤️💯🥂
Look at all the corny looking early 80s people in the audience. All us guys thought we were so cool with our feathered back hairstyles, pop collars, and high top Nikes. 🤣🤣. I can't believe I used to look like that!
What I noticed were the lack of cell phones held in the air.
Just pick up Talking Heads and Devo from the box and you get the best rappresentation of those years... and miss Tina, so bad...
im pretty sure we alllll like the gng show
SIII PORFIN
Chris Frantz on I Zimbra is tighttighttight
Dude is nuts
Motherf****r they were good.
Recordings just don't do these concerts justice.
Are there any recordings from the Fox Theatre in Atlanta from that September? My first Heads show and it was AWESOME!
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Dead heads prepare yourself as this is the real, real deal, jam session.. W/ meaning
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When you accountant drops acid.
nice..but it's nothing after the remain in light tour
its ok 1982 you still didnt come to winnnipeg
If Chris, Tina and Jerry could do this AMAZING job on Catherine Wheel material, why was it David, and not Talking Heads with Twyla Tharpe ?
They do an amazing job playing the songs but it would be strange to get the entire band involved on the full thing - I can't imagine the others being very interested in making a soundtrack to a dance project compared to David. Although Jerry/Brian Eno/Adrian Belew/Bernie Worrell/Steve Scales/Dolette McDonald all contributed a little bit to a couple of tracks so it did have some crossover with Talking Heads besides David anyway. Just that David was the main one interested in making it.
I believe that David was the only one of the four dating Twyla Tharp. 🤣