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Talking Light, Santa Cruz, January 23rd 2010

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On January 23rd 2010, The Residents performed the first show of their Talking Light tour at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, California. As the first performance of the tour, the Talking Light show was still at a very developmental stage, lacking most of the monologues that would become mainstays in the later shows of the tour.

Promoted as "an experiment in new directions", the show was also the public introduction of The Residents' new, individual personae, Randy Rose (The Singing Resident), Charles Bobuck (the group's keyboardist) and Lionel Bob (the group's guitarist, and the first performance of the "Randy, Chuck and Bob" era which would span the next six years. This show also featured the first performance of the song "Pudding in Disguise", which would later be heard as part of the soundtrack to the DVD release Randy's Ghost Stories.

A recording of the full performance, titled Talking Light Live Santa Cruz, was released digitally via The Residents' online music download platform Robot Selling Device the day after the show, as the first part of the Talking Light (Live) download series, which would ultimately encompass sixty releases.

Set list

Differences from other Talking Light shows

Monologues

Introduction to Talking Light

Randy Rose: Hi! It's me - uh, Randy, singer for The Residents! This is, uh - Chuck over here on keyboards, and Bob on guitar. I'm sure that most of our long-time fans remember that there was always four of us. Well, I'm sorry to say, but Carlos has retired. He got tired of show business, and Carlos went back to Mexico, and now he's taking care of his mom. Okay, so, we wanted to invite you into our living room here so we could tell you... a few stories, and some of them get kinda spooky. The first one, now, is the Talking Light.

Digital release

Talking Light Live Santa Cruz is a live recording by The Residents, featuring the debut performance of their Talking Light tour at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz, California on January 23rd 2010.

It was released digitally the day after the performance via the group's Robot Selling Device online store, as part of the Talking Light (Live) series of releases. It was the first of sixty live recordings of Talking Light to be released,

History

The first public performance of Talking Light, this recording shows the show in a very developmental stage, lacking the "Mirror People" monologues of later shows. It was recorded at the Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz, California on January 23rd 2010, and released through The Residents' Robot Selling Device website the next day.

Talking Light Live Santa Cruz is the first Residents release to feature the personae of Randy Rose, Charles Bobuck, and Lionel Bob, as well as the first release of the song, "Pudding in Disguise." A studio recording of the song was later heard on the Randy's Ghost Stories DVD, and an instrumental mix was featured on the DVD's soundtrack album, Chuck's Ghost Music.

Track listing

  1. TLSC 1 (32:09)
    1. Black Scars (Excerpt) / I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (Excerpt) (1:53)
    2. Demons Dance Alone (4:22)
    3. The Sleepwalker (3:10)
    4. Monologue (1:02)
    5. Talking Light (11:02)
    6. Six More Miles (7:21)
    7. They Are The Meat (3:14)
  2. TLSC 2 (31:05)
    1. Pudding in Disguise (10:28)
    2. Semolina (3:42)
    3. My Window (4:17)
    4. Death In Barstow (3:46)
    5. The Unseen Sister (8:47)
  3. TLSC 3 (27:27)
    1. The Old Woman (7:14)
    2. Lillie (6:15)
    3. Applause (1:34)
    4. Bury Me Not (6:58)
    5. Die-Stay-Go (4:16)
    6. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (Instrumental Excerpt) (1:04)

Credits

See also

The Residents live albums

Oh Mummy! Oh Daddy! (1976)
Oh Mummy Oh Daddy Can't You See That It's True What The Beatles Did To Me I Love Lucy Did To You (2010)

The Mole Show (1982 - 1983)
Mole Show (Live At The Roxy) (1983) · Mole Show: Live In Holland (1989)

The 13th Anniversary Show with Snakefinger (1985-1987)
The 13th Anniversary Show - Live In Japan (1986) · Live In The USA! 13th Anniversary Tour (1986)
13th Anniversary Show - Live In Holland (1987) · 13th Anniversary Show - Ritz NY - Jan 16, 1986 (2010)
The 13th Anniversary Show - Cleveland (2014)

The Snakey Wake (1987)
Live At The Snakey Wake (2010)

Cube-E (The History of American Music in 3 E-Z Pieces) (1988 - 1990)
Buckaroo Blues & Black Barry (1989) · Cube-E - Live In Holland (1990)
Cube-E Dynasone 3EZ (2011)

Disfigured Night (1997)
Live At The Fillmore (1998) · Adobe Disfigured Night (2009)
The Marlboro Eyeball Experience (2009) · The Fillmore Dress Rehearsal (Act One) (2009)

Wormwood Live (1998 - 1999)
Wormwood Live 1999 (1999)

Icky Flix Live (2001)
Brava (2010)

Demons Dance Alone (2003)
Demonic! Demons Dance Alone Live In Oslo (2012)

The Way We Were (2005)
The Way We Were (2005)

The Bunny Boy (2008)
Bunny Boy Live In Frankfurt (2021)

The Randy, Chuck & Bob Trilogy (2010 - 2016)
Talking Light (Live) series (2010 - 2011) · Talking Light Live In Rehearsal, Santa Cruz, California (2010)
Talking Light Bimbo's (2011) · The Wonder of Weird (2014) · Shadowland (2015) · Sam's Enchanted Evening (2023) · Shadowland: Live in Fribourg, Switzerland (2024)

In Between Dreams (2017 - 2019)
In Between Dreams Live (2019)

God In 3 Persons - Live! (2019 - 2022)
God In 3 Persons (2020)

Dog Stab! / Faceless Forever (2021 - 2023)
Secret Show Live in San Francisco (2024) · The Residents are Faceless! (2024)

Live in the studio
Assorted Secrets (1984) · Roadworms: The Berlin Sessions (2000) · Mole Dance 82 (2021)

Related articles
The Residents discography · The Residents live shows

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