Movie poster tagline: ""Why stop making sense? Why a movie? Why a big suit?"
Posted on 05/24/2010 7:04:28 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
David Byrne is suing the governor of Florida, alleging that he used the Talking Heads' 1985 single "Road to Nowhere" without permission or proper licenses.
Byrne is seeking $1 million in damages from Gov. Charlie Crist, who's also Florida's former Attorney General, and his senatorial campaign for use of the song earlier this year in a website and YouTube ad attacking his then-Republican primary opponent, Marco Rubio. Crist has since changed his campaign and is running as an independent candidate.
The suit (Case Number 8:10-CV1187-T26 (MAP)) was filed early Monday afternoon in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa.
Byrne tells Billboard.com that he became aware of the Crist ad from a friend in New York, where the Talking Heads co-founder resides. "I was pretty upset by that," says Byrne, who had Warner Bros. Records contact the Crist campaign, which subsequently stopped using the ad. But, Byrne contends, "in my opinion the damage had already been done by it being out there. People that I knew had seen (the ad), so it had gotten around. The suit, he adds, "is not about politics...It's about copyright and about the fact that it does imply that I would have licensed it and endorsed him and whatever he stands for."
(Excerpt) Read more at billboard.com ...
And you might ask yoursel
“Where is my beautiful house?”
And you may ask yourself
“ Where is my savings account? “
And you may ask yourself
“ My God! What have I done? “
I like him because he produced the b-52s album, Mesopotamia. It has a definite Heads feel to it.
And you may ask yourself
'Where is my tanning bed?'
I LOVE that track! Thank you very much! I never knew what the hell to search for on youtube for that song.
Thank you again.
He should have used a Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) song.
Bryan Ferry, believe it or not, is pretty conservative.
“And you may ask yourself
‘Where is my tanning bed?’ “
LOL!
I think maybe it went the way of the house ;-)
Crist should have used “Burning Down The House”...he’s quite the flamer you know.
Great band, and musician.
“He should have used a Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music) song.”
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This one might have been apropos.
QueerCrist aside, a primo, relentless moving bass line:
It was quite a pity that New Wave music self-destructed. It seemed to have a lot more potential, opening a whole bunch of avenues, most of which mysteriously turned into dead ends.
A lot of it came to the fore hand in hand with MTV, music that would never have seen the light of day otherwise, and a TV channel that needed constant new content, both visually and musically interesting.
Unlike Punk, New Wave had to be pop, which kept it commercially grounded and viable. Plus the visual angle of a video artist made it special.
It is understandable why the Talking Heads split up, though. While that much creativity resulted in some groundbreaking concepts, the instability and ego of especially Byrne could not work and play well with others for very long.
Well Charlie, this ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco...
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This other article (I was going to post until I found this thread already on FR) still calls Crist a Republican even though they acknowlege he’s an INDEPENDENT.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/05/25/2010-05-25_heads_byrne_sues_fla_gov.html
New wave broke through in America because of MTV but it was already underway in England without it.
It was the second british invasion of rock and roll.
Movie poster tagline: ""Why stop making sense? Why a movie? Why a big suit?"
That is a GREAT album!! +11
Years ago David Byrne made a Latin album. Coming off the Talking Heads he was able to get the best NY Latin musicians to play on it. To function as his session musicians following his lead.
A few months after it came out I read an interview by a Latino guy who worked on it. His words were roughly “We Latino guys couldn’t stand working for that effete skinny faggot but the money was too good to turn down. We were relived when it was finished”
I like it more as the years go by. I have the original LP somewhere also.
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