Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (live)

[cayugafalls]

Watching Stop Making Sense today....here ya go my DU fam...been awhile since I posted in here...heart attacks suck, lol.

But I'm back and music is what I got to help me heal.

[central scrutinizer]

1. Saw them live in Eugene, December 4, 1983

11 days before the concerts in LA when Stop Making Sense was filmed. Pretty much the exact same show, big suit and all. Awesome!

[cayugafalls]

2. Very cool...never saw them live.

It was a dream, but finances back then were sketch...lol

I hung around a lot of stadium parking lots back in the day listening to what I could not see.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Covered This For Years

One of my faves by TH.
We covered A LOT of their songs over the years. Might be as high as 15.

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[cayugafalls]

4. Very well done, wow! Reminds me of the bands I saw at First Avenue in MN, back in the day.

You guys killed it.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Thanks!

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Tomorrow I'm going to post video of 3 of the songs I wrote.
I finally got around to learning Wondershare so I can convert DVD to MP4.
I just have to transfer them to YouTube.

[cayugafalls]

6. You have a fan...my friends in MN had a band in the day.

Cant wait to hear more of your music.

[highplainsdem]

9. You have at least two fans here, and I'd bet lots of fans from back in the day. So glad you can

upload the video to YouTube now.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Stay Tuned Tomorrow For Original Material

I'm not sure what shows they were. Might be from the same night.

[highplainsdem]

8. That's an amazing cover. Perfect vocals and playing.

This was the band you were in the longest?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Yes

Based on the keyboard rig, this had to be '93 at the latest.
I bought my SQ2 in early '93. That 73 key rig went to the bottom, the DX7 went up, the ESQ got sold & replaced with a rackmount version. Other changes happened in '96 when I settled on my final setup.
So, this is from when we were together 5 or 6 years.

[highplainsdem]

7. Oh, no - you had a heart attack? I'm so sorry to hear that. Thank God you're better. And I agree

completely that music helps with healing.

I think I posted something about Stop Making Sense a while back. Yes...
https://democraticunderground.com/1034106653

[cayugafalls]

12. Cool link, thank you.

I watch that movie every year, sometimes more…lol.

Yea, 2 widow makers hit on the freeway at 75mph during rush hour in Texas.

I’m super lucky.

Needless to say, I still have anxiety if I get behind the wheel.

[highplainsdem]

13. That's terrifying! When did it happen? I don't remember seeing anything about it here on DU.

[cayugafalls]

14. In April. I might not have shared, I don't remember.

I thought I posted, but I’m not good with sharing my pain or such stuff.

It happened. I’m still here, somehow and I’m freaking thankful to wake up and see the sunshine each day.

Now, I do my part in the good fight.

[highplainsdem]

15. As far as I can tell, you didn't share. I used Advanced Search to search for every message you posted

in every forum here back through March, and you didn't say anything about surviving two major heart attacks.

Though I wonder about this post you made in April, replying to debm55 when she asked DUers in the Lounge, "What's your favorite item to go with a cup of coffee?"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182161847#post138

You wrote:

Sunrise by the pond after feeding my ducks.

Life’s too short to allow anyone or anything to steal my joy.

I am but a moment (tm

[cayugafalls]

18. Yup, that was me sharing...April 11th

That as a week after surgery.

90% in one and 86% in another, I was the walking dead. Somehow I survived the heart attack.

I spent 30 minutes shouting as much of ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ as it could remember and to be honest it was mostly just my own version with that refrain stuck in.

The Ambulance drivers were more interested in my 90’s Dodge Ram than they were me, but that was a ruse to get me focused on something else.

My apologies for not sharing sooner.

To be honest, I didn’t think I would be here today back in April.

The event happened the day before my birthday.

My present this year was a wake up call.

[highplainsdem]

19. Major arteries blocked 90% and 86%? It was a near-miracle you survived that. I'm so glad we have

so many advances in surgery and other medical treatments that there are many more near-miracles than there used to be.

My apologies for not sharing sooner.

No need to apologize. DUers, like everyone online, vary tremendously in terms of what they reveal about themselves. I was worried that I might've missed earlier threads about your heart attack and recovery.

To be honest, I didn’t think I would be here today back in April.

The event happened the day before my birthday.

My present this year was a wake up call.

Thank God you weren't farther from good medical care when it happened.

[cayugafalls]

20. My Dr is the prodigy of one of Houston's top cardiologists.

He told m his father would not have been able to do the surgery.

My life was saved by a young man half my age.

Now I’m learning to fly again.

[highplainsdem]

21. We all need to learn to fly, though it often takes a wake-up call.

Love that song and video. Which for some reason has been posted only once in an OP here as far as I can tell using search (the Tom Petty song, which I also love, has been posted fairly often).

[PufPuf23]

17. Wow. Good to persevere. Thank you. nt

[PufPuf23]

16. Stop Making Sense is best concert movie ever.

In 1980s, the University Theatre on University Avenue in Berkeley played Rocky Horror and Stop Making Sense on Fridays and Saturdays IIRC midnight. The crowd participation alone made for a good experience.

Saw Talking Heads play free show on Lower Sproul Plaza when a Cal undergrad in late 70s, then say them again that weekend at Keystone. Walking past the Harmon Gym, told David Byrne how to find the Lower Sproul Parking garage. Got lunch and a place to watch whatever band was going to play that Friday at noon. Voila. Learned about Talking Heads and went and bought their first album and went to the Keystone show that weekend.

Have not been in Berkeley since 2003.