Chris Frantz
Chris Frantz
Charlton Christopher "Chris" Frantzis an American musician and record producer. He was the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth8 May 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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We're at a crossroads at our, whatever you want to call it careers,' ... Every 20 years or so you have to kind of step back and say, What should I do next?'
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We're at a crossroads at our, whatever you want to call it careers,'
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We have such a good band and we wanted to record while we were all still together, before anybody went off to work with some superstar, or whatever.
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It was a happenin' place -- the Ramones lived there, Debbie Harry, Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsburg. ... It was a time when we just went for it.
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Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.
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If a band is really good and the chemistry is unique, it should continue. But I guess David is just very happy doing his solo career. He's got a different band every time he goes out.
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I don't know how much influence we really had, because we never put our pictures on the albums or anything and we never really promoted the Talking Heads connection, because we wanted to keep it separate from Talking Heads.
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We used to really feel like the band was our family.
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As much as we love playing the small clubs, we'd really like to get ourselves in front of a larger audience. I'm not talking about arenas or anything, but nice theaters and larger clubs.
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We're the Tom Tom Club and our studio is the Clubhouse. It a way of making it a little more personal.
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There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
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Afterwards, David said, 'I can play something other than cacophony,' ... I'd been in a band in high school, and I'd been missing it.
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We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It's happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.