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From: cv@linus.UUCP (Chris J. Valas)
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Subject: Re: What is David Byrne doing?
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 10:59:34 EDT
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In article <1798@ukma.UUCP> edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>
>	Whenever I have seen The Talking Heads performing 'Once in a
>Lifetime', David Byrne makes a chopping motion along his right forearm
>with his left hand. Is this geture supposed to be significant of something?
>Where did he get it?
>
>-- 
>edward
>

He probably 'got it' where he 'gets' everything else:  he creates it 
himself.  Byrne has a VCR and camera set up in his apartment, which
he experiments with, taping himself and examining various body movements.

I believe he first started playing with this stuff while collaborating with
Eno during the 'construction' of the Bush of Ghosts effort.  He discussed it
on one of his appearances on Late-Night with David Letterman.

The movement probably has significance only to Byrne, and maybe not even
him...

For those of you interested in Byrnes' non-THeads music, I recommend 
picking up his latest lp 'Music from the Knee plays/cIVil War plays'
or something like that.  There is a lot of brass (!?), no guitar, and some
great throw-away Byrne lines, similar to the stuff in the booklet which
accompanied the 'Stop Making Sense' lp.

Check the album cover before flaming me for "cIVil", OK?


Chris J. Valas         {decvax,utzoo,philabs,security,allegra,genrad}!linus!cv
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