S1E59: Chris Frantz
Rockonteurs with Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt
Rhino UK
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week Guy and Gary return with Rockonteurs and are joined by Chris Frantz from Talking Heads.
Chris is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, a drummer with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and an acclaimed record producer too.
With stories that range from the NYC punk scene with Blondie and The Ramones to working with Brian Eno and even producing Happy Mondays…it’s another epic set of stories and a great listen.
Rockonteurs is produced by Ian Callaghan for Gimme Sugar Limited.
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| 0:32.0 | Hello Gary. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello Guy. |
| 0:34.0 | Have you ever met Chris France? |
| 0:36.0 | No, I haven't, I don't think, unless he's going to sort of tell me some terribly embarrassing thing that happened in the 80s. |
| 0:43.0 | No, I never met any of them except for David Byrne. |
| 0:45.6 | Right, where did you mean David? |
| 0:47.3 | I met him at a dinner party at Timothy Leary's house. |
| 0:50.6 | Were you tuned in or were you dropping out? |
| 0:52.2 | I was tuned in, turned on on and then I did drop out. Yeah, no it was a ridiculous guess this thing. But we're known a rider. Oh yeah. |
| 1:00.2 | Because I went with David Gilmore. It sounds like the early 90s. |
| 1:03.3 | Late 80s. |
| 1:04.3 | Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:05.7 | But Chris is interesting obviously, because he comes out |
| 1:07.4 | the whole New York scene, that mid-70s art scene. |
| 1:11.1 | It's so, so interesting, the genesis of the New York punk scene and how I don't want to say anything about it. There's so much I want to touch on on this. It's from reading his book. It's fascinating. |
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