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Article: Attesting to David Byrne's world vision.
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- Orange County Register (Santa Ana, CA)
- Article date:
- August 30, 2004
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Byline: Ben Wener
I owe David Byrne an apology. I've owed it for years, actually.
I once asked the former Talking Heads frontman, boutique-label honcho and world- music aficionado a very stupid, offensive question. It was 1997, he was touring behind his fourth proper solo album, the still-underrated "Feelings," and I was a young, inexperienced snot who thought he knew a thing or two about the guy because I had almost all of his records and had bought a couple of Luaka Bop collections.
"What do you say to those who suggest you're a cultural carpetbagger?" I asked.
Nobody was saying that, mind you. If anything, they had stopped saying ...