Jonathan Demme	...	(Director)
Jonathan Demme, Talking Heads	...	(Writer)
Bernie Worrell	...	Keyboards
Alex Weir	...	Guitar and Vocals
Steven Scales	...	Percussion (as Steve Scales)
Lynn Mabry	...	Backing Vocals
Ednah Holt	...	Backing Vocals (as Edna Holt)
Tina Weymouth	...	Bass, Percussion and Vocals
Jerry Harrison	...	Guitar, Keyboards and Vocals
Chris Frantz	...	Drums and Vocals
David Byrne	...	Vocals and Guitar
Jordan Cronenweth	...	Cinematographer

Comments: 1 Psycho Killer
2 Heaven
3 Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
4 Found a Job
5 Slippery People
6 Burning Down the House
7 Life During Wartime
8 Making Flippy Floppy
9 Swamp
10 What a Day That Was
11 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
12 Once in a Lifetime
13 Genius of Love
14 Girlfriend Is Better
15 Take Me to the River
16 Crosseyed and Painless

Extra songs available on the DVD and Blu Ray (as a bonus feature) and on the original VHS and LaserDisc (edited into the sequence):

Cities (Byrne)
Big Business

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David Byrne has a much better sense of rhythm than you'd think a nerdy guy like that would be entitled to. And stamina out his ass

I've often wished they would have filmed this with Adrian Belew as the hired guitar player, but re-watching it now I think Alex Weir was the right choice. Belew adds high octave surrealist attention piquing child's play, while Weir is pure motor, a rhythm machine, and doesn't take attention away from David

I feel kinda bad for the Tom Tom Club portion of the Heads. They look like tag-a-longs. It's the hired guns who propel this music along

I watched a 1080 x265 rip on my computer so I can't say if this "reissue/remaster" is all new and improved, but damn it's a lot of fun, and Demme had a great vision of how and what to shoot

I met David Byrne once. I'm kind of a social inept but found him difficult to talk to because he seems like he's not listening to you. He is, but he's also listening to everything else going on in the room while reading a newspaper and watching a movie. When he responds to you it's shocking, and well considered. The handful of people I was with all had this same experience of him


Summary: David Byrne walks onto the stage and does a solo "Psycho Killer." Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz join him for two more songs. The crew is busy, still setting up. Then, three more musicians and two back-up singers join the band. Everybody sings, plays, harmonizes, dances, and runs. They change instruments and clothes. Bryne appears in the Big Suit. The backdrop is often black, but sometimes it displays words, images, or children's drawings. The band cooks for 18 songs, the lyrics are clear, the house rocks. In this concert film, the Talking Heads hardly talk, don't stop, and always make sense.