In 1990, when the concert that would become this week’s video was performed I was in my last year getting my B.A. in Journalism at Cal State Fullerton. Around that time I was writing for the Back Pages (film, music, culture) section of the Daily Titan newspaper. I got to see whoever was playing on campus for free and got to interview Thomas Dolby who was touring in support of his album, Aliens Ate My Buick (1988). Rolling Stone had just panned the record as just another White Brit pretending to have rhythm. When I did the interview, the young reporter from the Orange County Register who was with me in the interview was more than a little startled when I asked Dolby to respond to the Rolling Stone assessment. Fun times… having spent many days this past summer pulling previous work onto my website, I really need to find that interview…
Anyway, the Back Pages editor (whom I didn’t get along with to the point where Professor Berman, who ran the paper, had to intervene and told us more or less to get over it…), she got a chance to interview Tears for Fears founding members, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith. Apparently she was hoping to use one of the printed headshots that were at the venue for her article, but the gents kept drawing on them before handing them to her, such that she couldn’t use them for her story. I don’t remember when I got into them, but I absolutely loved the vibe and feminist stance I detected in their Seeds of Love album, which would have been the album they were promoting and playing from in today’s video concert. Enjoy.
