During a short break after the release of this last record, Weymouth and Frantz (who had married in 1977) founded the dance-oriented side project Tom Tom Club, issuing a self-titled debut at the end of 1981.
In the remainder of the decade, Talking Heads expanded upon their reputation for audio innovation with the Brian Eno produced albums More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978), Fear of Music (1979), and Remain in Light (1980). A bit of internal tension was generated when Byrne then insisted that Weymouth audition in order to justify her continued membership, but, with the addition of fourth member Jerry Harrison, the band's popularity continued to surge forward with the subsequent release of their first album Talking Heads: 77 and the single Psycho Killer. The fortunes of the band took off quickly enough that all three could dedicate themselves to their music full-time within a year of this first performance, and had secured a record contract with New York-based label Sire Records by the end of 1976. After six months of rehearsal this line-up, under the name of Talking Heads, made an auspicious public debut opening for The Ramones at the Bowery's CBGB club. Byrne and Frantz eventually resumed their musical collaboration - joined shortly afterwards by Weymouth, who took up bass playing duties simply because no one else could be convinced to join. The Artistics dissolved in mid-1974, after which Byrne moved to New York City to concentrate on songwriting upon receiving their RISD degrees a month later, Weymouth and Frantz followed him there, the three taking up residence together in a loft on the city's Lower East Side. Weymouth was a dedicated fan of the noisy ensemble, attending every performance and assisting in the composition of one of their few original numbers, an early version of the song Psycho Killer. In the early 1970s Weymouth enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design, and it was here that she became entangled with fellow student Chris Frantz - another lapsed musician who was about to take up his drumsticks once again in The Artistics with singer/guitarist David Byrne. At the age of fourteen she taught herself to play folk music on the acoustic guitar, but this direction was abandoned later in her high school years, and more than a decade would pass before playing music once again became a major part of her life. Her life as a musician was launched at the age of twelve when she became a member of a medieval-themed touring handbell ensemble, with whom she performed at churches, schools and - on one occasion - at the New York World's Fair. Born in California to an American father and a French mother, Martina Weymouth was frequently relocated to different parts of the world during her childhood as a result of her father's duties in the Navy.
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