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Music Appreciation

appalachiablue

(41,146 posts) Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:08 PM Oct 2021

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (Live)

- Los Angeles, Live '83, Talking Heads. Album, Burning Down the House. Writers, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Chris Frantz.

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Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (Live) (Original Post) appalachiablue Oct 2021 OP

Saw them do that in Portland Maine jpak Oct 2021 #1

Covered That Song! ProfessorGAC Oct 2021 #2

jpak

(41,758 posts)

1. Saw them do that in Portland Maine

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Thu Oct 28, 2021, 01:20 PM

Oct 2021

Yup

ProfessorGAC

(65,076 posts)

2. Covered That Song!

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Thu Oct 28, 2021, 09:19 PM

Oct 2021

Our version was closer to the live version in Stop Making Sense than the studio version.
With only one guitar, that sound was crunchier and my keyboard parts are a little thicker, but we tried to stay true to the feel.
We played it on & off for 17 or 18 years.
Great song.

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