Pullin’ ‘Tubes: Stage Presence Edition

• My roommate unearthed the ultimate Talking Heads stash recently — almost and entire show from Rome in 1980, with future King Crimson guitarist Adrian Belew sitting in with the band. It’s delicious, and you oughta check out Belew’s craftsmanship on Life During Wartime. Then move onto Crosseyed and Painless, I Zimbra, Cities and the rest.
• Since I got RAQ on the brain following their show on Saturday, here’s a pretty sick cover of Living Colour’s Cult of Personality from 3/24/07 at the Park West. (Coincidentally, Vernon Reid from Living Colour and Adrian Belew will be playing at the just-announced School of Rock festival.)
• Even though they’ve already done it once, we’ll do just about anything to see Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings back on a Rocks Off Cruise. It’s been a year, and I’ve heard no reports of her seasickness, so get her and those funky bastards back on the boat. That’d be hot as fuck. In the meantime, let’s watch this performance in Brooklyn from early 2005.
• Lastly, Widespread Panic played a hot JB-infused version of Sympathy for the Devil in Raleigh on Saturday night, and thankfully someone was there to record a bit on video. Of course they were, this is America, and these are concerts, and everything’s recorded now. Well, parts of everything…

Let’s end on with an oddly staged but strangely compelling Jane Says from the Lollapalooza ’03 presser. Perry’s a pretty cool dude. Cooler’n me, at least.