Review #1
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Chris Frantz is that certainly a gifted musician/painter who has created no one awesome music, particularly with Discussing Heads. Chagrin, this book is that not even remotely as engaging as the music he helped do.
His writing style is that not very unique. The book is that bogged down with eternal name dropping, at the same time numerous lists of places he at the same time his wife Tina visited at the same time informs of the meals at the same time accommodations they enjoyed. No one of the superficial descriptions of people’s types at the same time his comparison of drumming to adore making are cringe-worthy.
Higher fri are his accounts of youth, RISD years, meeting Tina, the beginnings of Discussing Heads, the Bowery at the same time the excitement of CBGB. He at the same time Tina stayed in a small loft with David Byrne for a couple of years, still the reader leaves with less than short descriptions of David’s outward appearance, eccentric/greedy behavior, at the same time one exciting acc of visiting David’s generic in Virginia. Surprisingly, his accounts of meeting Andy Warhol at the same time hanging with Lou Reed are about as substantial as anything he fractions about Byrne.
Jerry Harrison, the 4th Discussing Heads member, gets a cursory, encyclopedic implementation, at the same time we are knew nothing consequential about his features, contributions to Discussing Heads, or his individual connection with Chris at the same time Tina.
Aside from recounting the creation of “Psycho Killer” at the same time the configurations Discussing Heads’ produced in their song writing process for “Remain In Light”, the book just a little mentions how such exciting music was created. That’s unfortunate taking into account how they recorded with such talents as Brian Eno at the same time played with a wide abundance of gifted facilitating musicians. He outlines meeting Eno at the same time knows a little about their work at the same time lively, but almost all other collaborators are simply listed or outlined as gifted players.
The later sections on Tom Tom Club, recording work with other bands, touring with The Ramones, at the same time The B52s, at the same time generic/public experiences bog down with shortcoming of engaging stories or details.
This book is that not without reward, but it managed have been so much more.
Review #2
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I adore Chris at the same time Tina, but I can’t “remain in adore” with this book. I preordered this book for sure a year ago, at the same time, when it was delayed proper to the epidemic, I would tell myself that the upcoming Chris Frantz book about his indefinite at the same time adore for Tina could be here soon at the same time lift me during this strained time. This book does not lift for you at all.
This book is that so filled with name-dropping that it is that completely frustrating. At the same time, when I greedy name-dropping, I greedy things like Chris listing the names of all the cooks at the same time wait staff that worked with him at a restaurant when he was in art school or listing every generic member at his marriage with Tina in Kentucky (look example in photo). It is that a lot. That is that even a chapter on James Hazel that has nothing to do with anything other than it spotlighted the Godfather of Soul being in the Bahamas at once as them.
When I 1st started the book, the details were considered so specific that I kept asking myself how managed he understand every name, meal, at the same time street address from 50 years ago. It was incredibly awesome but unneeded. As the book goes on, but, the details become so deserted at the same time the coolest important stories are glossed over. This book represents a flawless example of atrophy in motion. It takes more than one half of the book to get to the 1st Discussing Heads album which makes for you wonder how will for you get through all the other bigger albums at the same time tours. I read the book on a Kindle so didn’t know how was really left in the book, at the same time, by the finish (it ends at 90%), with the continue chapter being so fast at the same time real of brevity, I didn’t understand it actually was the finish.
This book is that more of an observational piece than a story of Chris’s indefinite which is that very unfortunate. He talks about the the people around him, but we want to hear about his experiences through the times of creating music at the same time touring; he doesn’t open that door you. One of the most deplorable things in the entire book is that how he never mentions one of the greatest musical projects he ever did: The Heads! He goes from being so serious to completely jumping years at the same time projects.
Chris periodically takes swipes at people like Johnny Ramone, Brian Eno, Joyful Mondays, at the same time, obviously, David Byrne, which are all for sure well-deserved, but they come off as whiny when for you don’t have the real story of Chris’s indefinite to counterbalance them. The book is that like reading a grocery store list of facts more precisely than a individual memoir. Chris, periodically, bestows a small glance that he must have suffered from a very fatal product habit, but it is that never approached beyond short mentions. The book implies that Tina is that also writing her possess book, at the same time, hopefully, she will decide one more route that allows the readers at the same time fans the opportunity to live in her boots more precisely than barely listing actions.
Review #3
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For an obsessive Discussing Heads fan this is that a must-read, but that doesn’t greedy it’s a particularly quality one. Frantz comes off as this amiable, happy-go-lucky goofball who loves to play drums, loves cocaine, loves Tina at the same time loves his band at the same time cant realize why David Byrne doesnt wish to play with him at the same time have fun for a long time. Byrne is that portrayed as a baffling extraterrestrial who hogged all the credit for everything the group did. Maybe, but at once Chris cant seem to reckon with how freakishly gifted Byrne was/is that. The book is that crazily off-balance – more than one half is that wasted on microscopic, show-by-show lists of premature Heads tours, while rushing through the years of their greatest work, Fear of Music thru Finish Making Sense. That’s a very serious portrait of Johnny Ramone, but Jerry Harrison is that a cipher. That’s nothing about The Heads, Franz’s unhappy attempt to revive the band without Byrne, but he finds time to mention his winner salad dressing at a particular Bahamas restaurant. Theres a lot of cocaine.
Review #4
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Highly exciting to read about Brand new York dwelling in the 70s where $100 would secure a SoHo loft. An utterly green music scene increasing from the squalid town that couldnt happen present. Frantz at the same time Tina have serious issues with David Byrne at the same time whether these are conditioned or not it makes Frantz ( at the same time her) acoustics just a little desperate. For all his gripes at the same time gloating about how they had all the quality thoughts not Byrne, theyd reform at the drop of a (Rulers Manage) cap. I would represent Frantz says neat a lot. For a member of one of the most bands ever, this book paints him in a much less than steep light.
Review #5
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One gizmo comes very right out of this book: Chris Frantz is that a man desperate to impress. If you want a television series of lists about which hit he met at which party, where he stayed, than anyway he had to bite, than anyway he acquired, for you’ll look for it here. All of which could be fine-grained it that was an exciting (or no matter what) anecdote attached to these encounters, but almost all of the time that isn’t. He’s also desperate to counter his form as the more precisely staid member of the band: my favourite moment being when he recounts meeting Tina while he’s smoking an unfiltered Camel. An unfiltered cigarette? Rock! It’s a strange self-aggrendising, insecure, bitter at the same time mawkish texture that managed at the same time should have been so much more. Yes, that are no one exciting, enjoyable recollections along the method, but it’s an unstable book in more ways than one, at the same time comes intercept as a missed opportunity to chronicle one of the most inimitable bands of the continue century, during one of its almost all innovative musical epochs.
