There were like eight or 10 basketball courts on that corner. Tina and I made a conscious effort to sound different with the new band, so people didn't think we were riding on David's coat-tails – and we've sold more records than Talking Heads ever did.We're now in our golden years, but instead of buying a nice boat to sail off in, we have created a new studio, because we enjoy working together. We did a lot of counselling together.Tom Tom Club was a breath of fresh air musically and for us personally. We still adore Tom Tom Club, particularly working on the new album, but now we want to fool around and do other things too.Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists?

Not only has she been the love of my life and the love remains very strong for me, but also, she was just so great on the bass guitar as a musician and as an artist.

Fortunately, to us, he was mostly sweet.”A person who was sometimes not so sweet, as Frantz points out while describing tensions over the songwriting credits for 1980’s “It was completely unfair and unethical, but a lot of things in the music business are unfair and unethical. In 2002, Frantz was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Talking Heads. The best is yet to come! The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to “I noticed that Tom Tom Club had an enormous effect on R&B music,” he says.

And sometimes it comes out unique, and sometimes it comes out not so great.

We were very conscious of making Talking Heads music, and the whole demeanor of the band, unique unto itself. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post And when they broke up, I was able to console her and woo her.During that time I'd formed a band called the Artistics, with [fellow RISD student] David Byrne, in the winter of 1974. In fact, she liked it very much.” “Genius of Love” would go on to be sampled and repurposed for dozens of remixes and bootleg versions after it was released, including by GrandMaster Flash & The Furious Five in 1982’s “It’s Nasty/Genius of Love.” It wasn’t intentional, but Tom Tom Club got in on the ground floor of early hip-hop.

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He co-wrote many of the songs, came up with the style and the rhythm ideas. I said, "Oh, six months." I think he still will. The trio eventually moved to New York City and began playing music together with Frantz on drums, Weymouth on bass and Byrne on guitar and vocals. “Who knows? It was more than one person. With Tina and I, the key is to . We wanted to look, basically, like everyday people. The Q&A session is scheduled for this Wednesday, August 12, at 8 p.m. Microsoft may earn an Affiliate Commission if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. And what is the sound that sounds kind of like it's coming from the Twilight Zone? Once … Son frère Yann Weymouth est marié avec Lally Weymouth.

There's nothing more thrilling than hearing a new song we've created, and I think it's something we will be chasing together for the rest of our lives.I was trying to paint this model in a class at Rhode Island School of Design, and at the end a young man came up and rather cattily said, "Eugh, you really don't know what you're doing." En 1975, elle rejoint le groupe Talking Heads comme bassiste.

“We didn’t even know it was called hip-hop. . try again, the name must be uniquePlease

When the band started to get better, the audiences got bigger. They also shared a 2,700-square-foot loft on Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side that cost $289 per month.“We would go to our day jobs in the morning and come home and make a little bit of dinner and sit down and rehearse for hours,” Frantz tells InsideHook. Ils auront deux enfants, Robin et Egan. “Having been in the band since its inception, I’m aware of a lot of things that maybe were not ever divulged, and I think fans are interested in little details,” he says. They said to me, "Chris, how long do you think it'll take you to write this book?"

The audiences at CBGB grew with the bands. We knew that we weren't going to be able to beat The Who or The Rolling Stones or even the New York Dolls at their own game. And most of them agree that she was a very important part.I felt good about working with David when I played music with him. Yes, give her flowers. A lyricist and drummer, Frantz was a founding member of US art-pop group Talking Heads, along with singer-songwriter David Byrne and bassist Tina Weymouth.

During their time at the school, Frantz and Weymouth also met another former RISD student who cut his own hair, wore secondhand clothes and sported a Rasputin-esque beard: David Byrne.