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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It was daunting at first. I did have insomnia for two weeks.
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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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I'm horrified. I know that Charlie had some pretty big disappointments in his life. The world of Hollywood movies and television can be pretty rough for a person.
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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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We enjoy traditional music, ... but we like the stuff that is a little bit challenging and edgy. You can also say that a lot of the Tom Tom Club stuff has a real sweetness to it. We're certainly not opposed to sweetness in music.
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We have a large band with eight people.
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We've lived here for 20 years, so it's about time, ... Seriously, it's a great honor and it's a good way for us to promote the arts in Fairfield County, and promote the town of Fairfield in particular Without art, we're just another white bread community. These people who are working are mostly volunteers and it's nice that they're doing that instead of just being another person at the soccer field.
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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.
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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.