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Tom Tom Club을 시작했을 때의 David Byrne과 Chris Frantz의 갈등

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Tom Tom Club을 시작했을 때 이미 당신 둘과 David Byrne 사이에는 갈등이 있었는데, 그럼에도 Talking Heads가 10년이나 비틀거리면서도 지속되었습니다. TTC의 초기 싱글들의 상업적 성공이 TH를 지속시켰다고 생각하세요?
There were already tensions between you two and David Byrne when Tom Tom Club started, and yet Talking Heads still managed to stumble on for another decade. Do you think the commercial success of those early Tom Tom Club singles helped prolong the Heads?

CF : 네. 정말 그렇습니다. David이 언제나 TH 바깥에서의 경력을 추구하고 있었다는 것은 비밀이 아닙니다. 그는 그것을 그의 발전의 한 단계로 인식했을 뿐이죠. 그리고 난 우리가 첫 앨범에서 엄청난 레코드를 팔아치웠고, 방송을 많이 탔고, 사람들이 우리 노래들을 샘플링했다는 사실 때문에 David은 ‘오~ 이 친구들이 아직 내게 쓸모가 있구나’라고 생각했을 겁니다. 하! 그러나 David의 마음에 축복을. 우리가 함께 해낸 것은 정말로 놀랍고 뛰어난 것이기 때문에 난 정말로 그를 폄하하고 싶지 않아요. 그러나. 알잖아요. 누구도 완벽하진 않아요.
CF: It actually did, yes. It’s really no secret that David always had his sights set on a career outside Talking Heads – he felt like that was just one phase of his development. And I think the fact that we were selling tons of record on our first album, and getting lots of airplay, and having people sample our songs – that made David think, ‘Oh, maybe these people are still of value to me.’ Ha! But bless David’s heart, I don’t really want to disparage him because the stuff that we did together was so remarkable and outstanding… but, you know, nobody’s perfect.

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Tom Tom Club 공연 리뷰 中에서

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Which brings us to the aforesaid hit, “Genius of Love.” This song was an absolute knock-out. What was formerly a love song to puppy love and youthful inspirations (like “James Browwwwn”) has now been imbued with a sense of reminiscing, of realizing how much they’ve grown even while they sing about “walkin, rockin and talkin” with boyfriends. This cute wrapper filled with serenity matched its singers–Weymouth and Clamp hopped around the stage in matching sequin mini-skirts and sneakers, but every time they came back to the chorus, they summoned a stately power that no schoolgirl could match.

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Tom Tom Club highlights final night

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Tom Tom Club의 한 뮤직페스티발에서의 공연이 극찬을 받았다

The final night of this year’s MidPoint Music Festival belonged to Tom Tom Club, the most high-profile band that the event has booked to date.

Led by drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth, a married couple who served as the rhythm section of Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club drew a large crowd to its Saturday-night outdoor show at Grammer’s in Over-the-Rhine.

The seven-piece band offered up crisp renditions of 30-year-old hit songs and other selections from a catalog in which the reverberations of both the new wave of the Talking Heads and the funk of George Clinton can be heard.

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Tom Tom Club: Heads Above, Groove Below

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This year, Frantz and Weymouth are taking Tom Tom Club — including two additional singers, Victoria Clamp and Jamaican-born Mystic Bowie, scratcher Kid Ginseng and keyboard/percussionist Bruce Martin — out for a few fall shows in advance of next year’s big 30th anniversary plans. The group is doing just 10 dates on the East and West coasts, including a headlining gig Saturday night at the MidPoint Music Festival.

How’d Cincinnati get so lucky? It turns out Frantz has close roots in the region. He and Weymouth even got married at a Presbyterian church in Washington, Ky., a historic settlement along the Ohio River near Maysville, in 1977.

“I was born in Fort Campbell because my dad was in the Army — he was a West Pointer,” Frantz says by phone from his home. “My mother is from Kentucky and my grandfather and grandmother retired to Washington. My grandfather was born and raised there, and he went back and bought the house he grew up in and restored it. My mom donated it to some people who were starting a museum.”

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The Beat Of The Tom Toms

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If you’re a music lover, you’ve probably had the chance to experience brainy lyrics and brawny music. But rarely at the same time. Troubling, right? It’s cool. The Tom Tom Club has your back. They’ll be bringing their genius for funky rhythms, kooky, thought-provoking words and the best party atmosphere this side of George Clinton, when they rock the Fairfield Theatre Company on Sept. 21 and 22.

According to drummer Chris Frantz, this gig and tour will also right a record-release wrong.

“We recorded a live album in October 2001, not long after the horrible events in September,” Frantz said recently. “We thought it would be a good way to do something positive and fun and might help counteract the sadness and confusion after 9/11.”

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