I’m waiting for Clementine to fall asleep, drinking a well-deserved beer, and skipping around the internet, looking for archival footage from the early days of CBGBs. And, in the process, I happened across this segment from the 1995 PBS documentary entitled Rock and Roll. I think I saw it when it was first broadcast, but I’d completely forgotten about it. Among other things, it contains some incredible footage of the painfully awkward Talking Heads at the beginning of their career. Looking back on the CBGB scene at that time, David Byrne had the following to say… “Punk wasn’t a musical style. Or, at least, it shouldn’t have been. To many people it turned into a particular musical style. (But) it was more like, a do-it-yourself – anyone can do it attitude. If you could only play two notes on the guitar, you could figure out a way to make a song out of that. And that’s what it was about.”
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