Tom Tom Club live at Montreux Jazz Festival (1982)
Tom Tom Club performing live at Montreux Jazz Festival on July 9th 1982 as the opening act for Talking Heads
You can watch the full Talking Heads performance from the same night here:
Setlist:
00:00 intro
01:06 On, On, On, On *
05:04 L’Elephant *
10:31 Under the Boardwalk
14:29 Wordy Rappinghood
20:14 Genius Of Love
27:06 crowd
(* significant issues with audio mixing)
This is most likely the ONLY existing footage of a Tom Tom Club concert during the era of Talking Heads touring. Unfortunately the audio mixing for is really bad (even worse than Psycho Killer does at the start of the Talking Heads set from this same night), but it gets less intrusive after the first two songs. Still not perfect, but better.
The main reason for me posting this video 2 months after the Talking Heads set is that I was hoping to find a better audio source I could sync with this - but it seems that nothing better exists, so I gave up and posted it this way. Some people may find the mixing annoying or unlistenable - personally I just find it funny how bad/abrupt it is.
Tom Tom Club started as a side project for Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth in 1981, and during most of the 1982 Talking Heads world tour TTC did a small set as the opening act. A few TTC audio recordings exist from throughout the tour, but it seems very likely that no other video recordings exist.
Genius of Love was also performed by Talking Heads throughout their final tour (1983 and 1984 Stop Making Sense/Speaking in Tongues tour) while David Byrne went off stage to change into his big suit, but I’d just count that as a Talking Heads concert rather than a Tom Tom Club concert, so this is still the only footage.
The original video is 576p but I used ffmpeg to upscale it to 1080p to avoid YouTube automatically downscaling it to 480p - in my opinion, it’s better to have the resolution falsely doubled rather than poorly decreased
Since YouTube is quite annoying with ruining video/audio quality, you can experience the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads Montreux 1982 sets in their best quality by downloading the original unedited .mpg video files from this drive:
Tom Tom Club:
Tina Weymouth - Bass, Vocals
Chris Frantz - Drums, Vocals
Alex Weir - Guitar, Vocals
Tyrone Downey - Keyboards, Vocals
Steve Scales - Percussion, Vocals
Lani Weymouth - Vocals
Laura Weymouth - Vocals
Everybody except Tyrone, Lani and Laura are also part of the Talking Heads lineup (but those three also participate during the Take Me to the River encore)
The members of Talking Heads who were off stage during this set are David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Dolette McDonald (vocals), and Raymond Jones (keyboards)
Below is some more info about the video (the original .mpg, some of these properties no longer apply to this version on YouTube)
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TOM TOM CLUB
Casino
Montreux, Switzerland
1982-07-09
Source:
Swiss TV archive (unknown transfer)
Duration:
00:32:31
Video attributes:
codec: MPEG-2 (PS)
format: PAL (color)
aspect ratio: 4:3
picture resolution: 720x576
frame rate: 25
bitrate: 6000 Kbps
Audio attributes:
sampling rate: 48 kHz
bitrate: 224 Kbps
output: 2 channel
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