Any Intrusion Is Met with a Heart Full of the Good Thing

More video posting . . . Talking Heads edition . . .

A point from an LJ friend led once again to spending too much time with old clips of the Heads. For some reason, there seems to be more interesting live footage of them from their early days available on YouTube than any of my other favorite bands (except maybe Roxy Music at times when their clips aren't being vanished).

Today's focus was the 1978 Heads live -- one album out, another about to come out, three years of playing live behind them, 26 (Byrne) to 29 (Harrison) years old, knowing EXACTLY what they want to do and FOCUSED.

I used to be especially fond of the even earlier, almost acoustic, mainly 3-piece Heads, or the final immense Big Band Heads and tended to ignore the '78-79 era (and the More Songs About Buildings and Food album), but that time may have been the best for the Heads as a unified statement, rich and undiluted.

From that year, in England, on The Old Grey Whistle Test, doing "Psycho Killer":

Two songs in the sunshine - "Warning Sign" and "Pulled Up" - from Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, CA:

Finally, courtesy of that point by imomus, a 12-song set in its entirety (brief pauses between songs as it loads), gloriously recorded on appropriately stark Sony Portapak video, from My Father's Place, Roslyn, NY, May 10, 1978 (and if this is indeed the complete set as advertised, it must be one of the 3 or 4 occasions on which the Heads didn't play "Psycho Killer" at a gig, though Tina flirts with the bass line a few times between songs):

Enjoy.