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The idea
for Talking Heads tribute project originated in 1996 while cooperating
on a similar project for the Dutch band Nits. Fans of the band,
who were all subscribed to the Nits mailing List, contributed
their versions of Nits songs for a 60 minute tape that was released
on a small scale in December 1996.
While
working on the Nits project, the plan for a Talking Heads Covertape
was launched on both the Talking Heads mailing list and francey's
talking-heads.net website. The goal was to collect 60 minutes
of covers, but by the time the covertape came out (July 1, 1997),
over 30 coversongs had been submitted, with a running time of
over 110 minutes. A selection of 90 minutes was made and put
out on covertape 1: "The Name of None
of these Bands is Talking Heads".
The
leftovers of covertape 1 were, completed with new covers by
new contributors, put on covertape 2
("Letting the Tapes go By"). This second Talking Heads covertape
was ready 11 months after the first one came out.
Both tapes
have been sold at costprice on the talking-heads.net website
and were sent to the contributors for their own collection and
discographies. Copies of both tapes have also been given to
the former members of Talking Heads. Nothing was done to sell
a lot of tapes, as dubbing the tapes and printing the artwork
for both cassettes cost a lot of time. Meanwhile, both tapes
are "out of print", as there are no J-cards (tape inlays) left
of either of them. Consider them collectors items -copies of
both tapes are circulating among Talking Heads fans right now.
We
could have gone on forever putting out tapes filled with coversongs
from enthousiastic contributors from all around the world, but
after the two tapes, I thought I should try to put out a `best
of` on CD. After all, cassettes are a
little bit old-fashioned these days, and CDs are just easier
to handle and sound better.
As usual,
the plan changed a few times (going from CDrecordables to real,
officially released and pressed CDs, to name a major change),
but now, more than two years after the release of covertape
1, the first (and probably last) Talking Heads Tribute CD is
ready to be shipped !!
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COVERTAPE
1
"The
Name of None of These Bands is Talking Heads"
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