The second Talking Heads concert at Forest Hills Stadium took place just two days shy of exactly one year from the first; I guess the band liked the venue as years later David Byrne brought his pre-Broadway run of his American Utopia show there also (a truly exhilarating and joyful concert experience in and of itself). The two Queens Talking Heads concerts have blended together in my mind through the years and I have written about them before; the urinating on a security guard’s head, the getting removed from the tennis stadium but making it back to my seat as the lights went down and the Talking Heads hit the stage, and a stuffed animal tossed out the car window onto Queens Boulevard on a ride home. This particular tour became the “Stop Making Sense” concert movie and album which ranks up there with the best rockumentaries. I have loved the band since the third album arrived and have seen them live many times in a number of variations through the years. David Byrne broke off and went solo and never looked back; the now 72 year old Jerry Harrison has been off my radar screen for years and the married duo Tina Weymouth and drummer Chris Frantz continued on with the Tom Tom Club project with some success.

The Name of the Band is Talking Heads

Rock on!

GQ