Talking Heads + Television - CBGB, New York City, July 29-31, 1976

Talking Heads + Television - CBGB, New York City, July 29-31, 1976A little expanded 50th anniversary repost! I first shared these recordings … 15 years ago?! Let’s take a trip back in time, shall we? Not too long a trip, just 35 50 summers ago, to NYC’s Bowery, where great rock ‘n’ roll was being created on a frighteningly regular basis. This particular run featured two sets apiece each night from Talking Heads and Television. We don’t have every last note played, but it’s an embarrassment of riches anyway. The Heads in the summer of ‘76 were still in their lean/mean trio phase, still a bit of a work in progress, but pretty incredible nonetheless. Judging from the audience response here and the shouted requests, they already had plenty of die-hard fans. Could any of those fans have predicted that just a few years later, this little Bowery band would record Remain In Light? Probably not.Television, meanwhile, is god-like (duh), as we hear the band just a few short months away from…