How to make a scene
Mat is reading How Music Works, Php1495 at National Bookstores. The cover is upholstered so he can use it as a pillow.
We just got a copy of How Music Works, the new book by David Byrne. It’s a memoir, a treatise, and a guide to the music business. While flipping through it we came upon Chapter 8: How to Make A Scene.
1. There must be a venue that is of appropriate size and location in which to present new material.
Remember Club Dredd? (And its precursors Katrina’s and Red Rocks.) Is Mayric’s still around? Hair product was a class issue. The kids with money used Dippity-Do gel, the kids with no money used paste. As in the stuff in colored tubes that you use for art class in grade school. (Some used egg white, toothpaste, whatever was available.) So when it rained, they would run for shelter to keep the gunk in their hair from washing off.
We weren’t in the scene, we were living in the stacks in the library, but many of our friends started bands and we got the stories.
2. The artists should be allowed to play their own material.
Ah. There are eight points, all of which apply to the Pinoy rock scene of the 90s.
David Byrne and Talking Heads in Stop Making Sense. From Music History in gifs
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December 29th, 2012 at 05:25
Got to see David Byrne and St Vincent on the Love This Giant tour at a local Broadway-style theater (a production of Book of Mormon will be doing a run there soon–so psyched!). Both musicians did songs from each other’s individual catalogue aside from their collaborative effort. Much as I loved the set list, the crowd really went wild when Talking Heads classics like This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) and Road To Nowhere were played. That was when the crowd started dancing along the aisle. It’s perhaps the closest thing I’d ever get to experiencing what it must have been like to attend the shows that Demme shot for Stop Making Sense.