At the height of this now defunct band’s success, the most famous member, the public face of the group, stopped talking to the other members and instead started communicating with them in a combination of gibberish, baby talk, and fart noises. This was part and parcel of the manipulative behavior he regularly engaged in.
What was funny was he continued to talk normally with the extra musicians the band had taken on tour with them. Their more recent albums were bigger and more complex and needed additional players to present the songs live.
Finally after a month of this, two other members, who are very close off stage, told the other member to knock it off or they would walk out. The member agreed although he always found other ways to irritate his band mates and they would break up later that decade.
David Byrne, Chris Weymouth/Tina Frantz (Talking Heads)
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