David Byrne's gear on "More Songs About Buildings And Food."

[Bozrahindrid]

Hey everyone.

I'm a huge fan of David Byrne and Talking heads and my favorite album by them has got to be "More Songs About Buildings And Food."

Does anyone out there know what Guitar pedals and effects he used on that album? Just a curious fan. I love the guitar rhythms and textures used between him and Jerry harrison.

Thanks in advanced.

[Hand of Doom]

[snarkle]

Best use of the conceptualist "grid" ever! (And I'm not surprised...)

[seiko]

Doubt there was much Boss on his board in 78 or 79. My guess would be a dynacomp, distortion plus and phase90.

[seiko]

Probably no board per se either...

[Bozrahindrid]

I saw that pic and checked it out before this..and it was an exhibit of his in japan..it wasn't very helpful.

[Custom Deluxe]

Originally Posted by sangre azul

That is great. Typical him. I remember reading a People magazine back in the '80's and there was a two page spread on him. Not really his music, but his house.

He had thousands of pink plastic flamingos everywhere. His neighbors thought he was nuts.

Nuts, who's to say. An artist, damn straight.

[tkozal]

I used to see him riding his bike around Manhattan a lot, I haven't in awhile.

[Jahn]

Hmm I think around that time he was still using his Duo Sonic with the humbucker in the bridge, most likely just using a roland jazz chorus amp or a fender twin. Not sure about pedals.





This thread also sheds some remains of light:

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...d.php?t=895535

[seiko]

Originally Posted by Jahn

Hmm I think around that time he was still using his Duo Sonic with the humbucker in the bridge, most likely just using a roland jazz chorus amp or a fender twin. Not sure about pedals.





This thread also sheds some remains of light:

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/sho...d.php?t=895535

He had the 60s strats by '78.



So I reckon:

Strat-few MXR pedals-Fender amp, probably a Twin Reverb.

[Bozrahindrid]

Ahhh..ok I see..it looks like he just used His mustang and plugged her right in his fender twin reverb. Byrne probably didn't get pedals and such till later..ok cool! And I love all the pics of them playing and all.

[Bozrahindrid]

Are the Duo Sonic's cheaper btw?

[Bozrahindrid]

Thanks for the comments! Keep them coming!

[loudboy]

Strats and "Road" solid-state amps, at least live.

Probably SF Fenders in the studio.

[Bozrahindrid]

In his later career I believed he used them a lot more.

I guess in their early days and judging by the pics, they didn't use a lot of effect/guitar pedals. They just used their guitars and the amps on clean. And maybe all the flange and phase they used on songs like "Found a Job", "Girls want to be with the girls" was also on the amp.