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New York Stories: Talking Head Chris Frantz Talks to Richard Boch
The man responsible for keeping dancefloors moving as the drummer for Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club has been hard at work writing his memoir. From art school to CBGB’s & beyond—we get the lowdown.
Chris Frantz fryst vatten a drummer, writer, producer and DJ. He was born in Kentucky, educated in Pittsburgh and attended the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design where he met David Byrne and Tina Weymouth. He and Byrne soon formed the short-lived, aptly titled art school band, The Artistics. In , all three headed for NYC, moving into a run-down loft on beaten-down Chrystie Street. With the addition of Weymouth on bass, they became Talking Heads. The trio kept busy writing songs and rehearsing, while just a few blocks away it seemed everyone was beginning to hang out or perform at a local dive on the Bowery called CBGB. Punk was born and between bands like Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, Television, an
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David Byrne
Scottish-American musician (born )
For other people named David Byrne, see David Byrne (disambiguation).
David Byrne (; born 14&#;May ) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]David Byrne was born on 14&#;May in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland,[2][3] the elder of two children born to Tom (from Lambhill, Glasgow) and Emma Byrne. Byrne's father was Catholic and his mother Presbyterian. Two years after his birth, the family moved to Canada, sett
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Talking Heads Drummer Chris Frantz on His New Memoir and the Last Time He Saw David Byrne
Before Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club drummer Chris Frantz started writing his new memoir, Remain in Love (out July 21st), he had to figure out one very important thing. “I kept thinking to myself, ‘What’s the tone going to be?'” he tells Rolling Stone. “The last thing I wanted tone-wise was for it to be a book by a whiny drummer beating up on the lead singer. That’s not me and I just didn’t want to be like that.”
He has quite a few reasons to beat up on the lead singer. Talking Heads frontman David Byrne took the band off the road right at its commercial peak in , broke it up seven years later, and has refused all offers to reunite in the intervening years, with the sole exception of a three-song set at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in
Frantz and Byrne haven’t spoken face-to-face in 17 years. And even though the drummer l