{"id":855604,"date":"2025-06-14T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/i-really-like-the-end-of-and-she-was-with-that-distorted-guitar-ithought-it-sounded-like-neil-diamonds-cherry-cherry-jerry-harrison-on-the-outtakes-and-off-brand-inspirat\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T00:12:46","slug":"i-really-like-the-end-of-and-she-was-with-that-distorted-guitar-ithought-it-sounded-like-neil-diamonds-cherry-cherry-jerry-harrison-on-the-outtakes-and-off-brand-inspirat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/14\/i-really-like-the-end-of-and-she-was-with-that-distorted-guitar-ithought-it-sounded-like-neil-diamonds-cherry-cherry-jerry-harrison-on-the-outtakes-and-off-brand-inspirat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI really like the end of And She Was with that distorted guitar. Ithought it sounded like Neil Diamond\u2019s Cherry, Cherry\u201d: Jerry Harrison on the outtakes and off-brand inspirations behind Talking Heads\u2019 Little Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Among all of Talking Heads\u2019 other talents \u2013 from fearless musical invention to killer fashion sense \u2013 the New York band had impeccable timing. A decade earlier, in the mid-Seventies, the lineup had formed in time to lead the New Wave scene from the sticky stage of CBGB to the global charts.<\/p>\n

Now, in June 1985, David Byrne (vocals\/guitar), Jerry Harrison (guitar\/keys), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Chris Frantz (drums) would release the most commercial album of their career just as music became a visual commodity, vying for the eyeballs of America\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Little Creatures<\/em> is the best Talking Heads record,\u201d says Harrison, four decades later. \u201cBut I\u2019ll tell ya, one of the reasons it\u2019s our best-selling record is that it\u2019s the beginning of MTV.\u201d<\/p>\n

Certainly, it was hard to escape the two heavy-rotation hits, in the form of Road to Nowhere<\/em>\u2019s gospel\/accordion-bolstered hoedown and the twitchy alt-pop shimmer of And She Was<\/em>. Yet neither song is representative of the Heads\u2019 evolving playbook.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle Creatures<\/em> was the beginning of Americana for us,\u201d says Harrison of an album that finds his guitar lines jousting with Eric Weissberg\u2019s pedal steel on cuts like Creatures of Love<\/em> and Walk It Down<\/em>. \u201cThat record was basically short, melodic, succinct, straightforward songs once again. It wasn\u2019t \u2018African\u2019-sounding at all. And it wasn\u2019t the big band we\u2019d been exploring for about four years. In a way, it was fun to once again have the pressure back on the four of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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