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Brian Eno and David Byrne working on the cover art for My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts at Byrne's loft at Greene St & Houston St in NYC. Boombox looks like the same JVC/Victor RC-646 that achieved celebrity in Stop Making Sense a few years later. Photograph by Ebet Roberts ebetroberts.com

Photograph by Ebet Roberts of Brian Eno standing operating a video camera on a tripod and David Byrne crouched looking at a video monitor and polaroids on the wooden floor of his large loft space at Greene St & Houston Street in New York City. In the background is a JVC/Victor RC-646 boombox that later made an onstage appearance alongside Byrne in the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. Date unknown, probably circa 1979/80.
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When people became curious about this unreleased mix of his that featured in an old documentary about Tony Humphries and New Jersey house music, he very kindly shared the audio file around. Recently launched a new website: kerrichandler.com

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In retrospect wish we'd asked to take a peek in the garage, but I guess people might've been using the studio. I think Grant Gilbert was slightly nervous about renting to teenagers, but the standard thing back then was you left a passport as security until the gear was returned.

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Believe this was recorded at Guerilla Studios, 16 Blomfield Rd in London, it was in a garage next to a nice house which you can still see on Google maps. Visited once to rent their Linn LM-1 for a few days circa 1984 (after seeing an ad in a music mag), Grant Gilbert handled the transaction.

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URGH! A MUSIC WAR screens Monday 10/12 at Nitehawk Prospect Park, with a presentation by The Professors Of Urgh!, Chaki & Chris Slusarenko, and special guest Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four

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