Comments on: David Byrne + Brian Eno

By: Grady Haynes

Grady Haynes — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:44:43 +0000

A nice video (transcript available) segment of conversation between David Byrne and sound engineer Daniel Levitin on The Seed Salon.

By: rafalski

rafalski — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:51:17 +0000

I was always surprised with how people not realized what impact Eno had on U2. To me, he was a genius who found an instrument to play: a brilliant and presentable host band.
Take “Zooropa”, the album where Eno’s influence was so strong that the next record they released as “Passengers”, who were U2 and Brian Eno together. It wasn’t as good though, Eno is best when in the shadow and U2 in the limelight.

Zooropa’s “Numb” is so reminiscent of “Mea Culpa” from “Bush Of Ghosts”, that we once used to call Eno with my friends “a man who knows how to sell a song twice”.

http://www.la...ic/U2/_/Numb
http://tiny.pl/23gh

By: Ramune

Ramune — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:30:15 +0000

David Byrne’s organ reminds me of the Great Stalacpipe Organ in Luray Caverns in Virginia. It is the largest instrument in the world and it uses the stalactites to make the sounds. It’s fantastic but sadly you can’t just go play it like you could play David Byrne’s.

http://www.lu...r/organ.html

By: Juan Marin

Juan Marin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:28 +0000

Amazing how the love for music and abundance of creativity can lead to.

Great post Scott.

Juan

By: Jason Lenox

Jason Lenox — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:54:42 +0000

Thanks!!!! Always good to see what ol’ Byrne is up to. I’m a big fan of the Talking Heads!

By: Corby

Corby — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:15:16 +0000

Hmmm. I really like “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” which I bought around 2000 I think. It’s very rhythmic and there’s something about using all those televangelist preachers that’s pretty catchy.