In the midst of the yacht rock explosion of the mid-70's, the musical vision of David Byrne was as courageous as it was different.
Here he is on November 17th with the rest of Talking Heads.
They are doing what used to be called "an in-store." A band would go to a record store and hang around and sign their record albums and talk to their fans if there were any. You may recall the scene in Spinal Tap when the band does an in-store where nobody shows up and the record company promotion man played by Paul Schaeffer asks the band to kick him.
There wasn't much drama on that memorable afternoon, but precious few people were aware of Talking Heads at Just a Song Records on Central Avenue in Albany, New York. I was a record store clerk and a part-time D.J. at WQBK-FM. That's why I'm in the photo. The same night a bunch of us went to see Talking Heads open up for The Good Rats at Page Hall.
40 years later, David Byrne joined me on the air to talk about his new album, his upcoming XRT shows at the Auditorium Theatre and what to expect if he threw a party.
