Talking Heads live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1982) [FIXED]
NOTE: This is a fixed-quality reupload of Talking Heads performing in Montreux, 1982. The previous version(s) I uploaded had issues with resolution/quality - I recommend watching this version instead! Some details below:
The video itself is 540p, but the original original version I uploaded became a slightly blurred 480p instead, since YouTube doesn’t support 540p. This version is upscaled to 1080p to fit with the standard YouTube resolutions to avoid the quality getting messed up.
Just in case for some reason you want the original version, here’s the link:
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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)
This version is technically a 1080p file, but it’s really just the original 540p video upscaled using ffmpeg (due to YouTube not supporting 540p).
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:
Here’s a Google Drive where you can download the Talking Heads & Tom Tom Club sets, including edited .mp4 versions that I uploaded to YouTube the unedited .mpg files I started with:
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