Word: keyboarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cyclical song that continuously repeats the same sinister keyboard sequence behind David Byrne's neurotically high-pitched vocals, "Life During Wartime" pictures was as an inalterable given, a backdrop to the singer's life that he can no more protest against than escape...
...Talking Heads album is called Remain In Light. There's a nice computer graphic on the back, showing Russian warplanes over a mountain range. You can tell that the original members of the band--Byrne, guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Harrison (late of Harvard), Bassist Tina Weymouth and Drummer Chris Frantz--met in art school. They're joined on this album by Adrian Belew, Jose Rossy, Jon Hassel, Nona Hendryx and the omnipresent Eno. Robert Palmer is among the many given credit for percussion but he probably just hit a bottle with a spoon on one song...
Geoff Downes brought texture to the keyboard station at the expense of Wakeman's flash and fun. Downes' solo was a medley of "Man in a White Car," from Drama, and the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," which drew absolutely no recognition from the audience. Perhaps Downes didn't realize the difference between FM and AM tunes in this country. Perhaps the audience didn't realize that Horn and Downes were the Buggles...
...vice president for corporate marketing: "The office has not changed its essential procedures for over 100 years, and particularly the professionals become a bit wary when anyone tries to change what goes on." Managers have been reluctant to use the new machines, especially if they involve a keyboard. Says Phil Roybal, marketing manager of Apple Computer Inc.: "Most managers wouldn't have a typewriter in their office. A lot regard a keyboard as something that doesn't suit their status...
Taylor spoke of his career and his experiences in the music industry. He treated the enthusiastic crowd to a few selections on the guitar and fingered the keyboard of a nearby piano several times during his talk...