{"id":23713,"date":"2020-07-09T12:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23713"},"modified":"2020-07-09T12:55:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:55:19","slug":"hero-or-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hero-or-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"Hero or Villain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following assorted links I came to this interview with <strong>Chris Frantz<\/strong>, who has an autobiography coming out later this month:<br \/><br \/><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/talking-heads-drummer-chris-frantz-memoir-david-byrne-reunion-odds-1023773\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/talking-heads-drummer-chris-frantz-memoir-david-byrne-reunion-odds-1023773\/<br \/><\/a><br \/>Very interesting with, unsurprisingly, much to say about <strong>David Byrne<\/strong> and his refusal to reunite <strong>Talking Heads<\/strong>. And there are lots of great video clips \u2013 from 20 minutes of the three-piece Talking Heads at CBGBs in 1975 through to their only \u201creunion\u201d for the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame up to Byrne\u2019s <em>American Utopia<\/em> on Broadway. I\u2019ll let you decide which ones to watch rather than embed something here.<br \/><br \/>Are artists like Byrne or <strong>Robbie Robertson<\/strong> or <strong>Paul Weller<\/strong> (to name two more that come to mind quickly) heroes or villains? Sticking with Byrne, he owes his success to Talking Heads; he surely wouldn\u2019t have a hit Broadway show without that on his CV. Does he owe it to Frantz, <strong>Tina Weymouth<\/strong>, and <strong>Jerry Harrison<\/strong> to reunite for the type of tour Frantz mentions in the interview for a \u201ctreasure trove\u201d of money? Should he at some point have \u201ctaken one for the team that used to be\u201d? Or is he to be admired for walking away from a successful band to pursue his other artistic ambitions and not looking back? (As a side point, I wonder if Byrne wishes he had taken that treasure trove given the shut down of Broadway; maybe his Utopia is gone for good.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following assorted links I came to this interview with Chris Frantz, who has an autobiography coming out later this month: https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/talking-heads-drummer-chris-frantz-memoir-david-byrne-reunion-odds-1023773\/Very interesting with, unsurprisingly, much to say about David Byrne and his refusal to reunite Talking Heads. And there are lots of great video clips \u2013 from 20 minutes of the three-piece Talking Heads at <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hero-or-villain\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}