I was watching this performance of Boy George called "Freedom" on Youtube. I think it was some benefit concert? Anyway, there is a woman in the background playing percussion in a blue sequined dress that resembles Sheila. E. Also on stage was Herbie Hancock, and if my memory serves me, I believe Sheila played with him too. Anyone know if it's her or not? I would post the video, but I don't know how to.

I don't think that's her. It might be one of the Pointer Sisters, though.

Efan said:

Ha ha! The Pointer Sisters do not play drums or percussion.

Wowugotit said:

I know. I was just making a joke about this thread.

Yeah, I don't think that's her either.

Don't know if that's her but I know that bobby Z produced some tracks of a Boy George's album, (Tense nervous headache).

Efan said:

Good one!

yankem said:

Or on the American version called "High Hat"

benjaminira said:

? You mean there was another version of the album for the US ? Can you explain it to me a little please ? Thanx !

yankem said:

High Hat is a US album compiling tracks from Boy George's second and third UK and European solo albums, Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend. Since those two albums are no longer available, High Hat remains the only place to find any of Boy George's songs from 1988-89, though High Hat, like Tense Nervous Headache and Boyfriend, is very difficult to find. While High Hat only has 10 tracks, the two other albums together included 18 tracks: 9 on the vinyl and 12 on the CD and tape for Tense Nervous Headache; just 8 for Boyfriend, 1 of which (the hi-energy remix of "No Clause 28", also known as 'Pascal Gabriel Mix') will later re-surface on Jesus Loves You's The Martyr Mantras album. Tense Nervous Headache was shelved in the UK shortly after release of the first single due to lack of interest (or, as George put it in his autobiography[1], after it "died a solitary death"), despite the singer getting to #1 in the UK Singles Chart the previous year with "Everything I Own". Half of the ten tracks on High Hat were quite unsuccessful singles either taken from Tense Nervous Headache or Boyfriend: "Don't Cry", "Whisper", "Don't Take My Mind on a Trip", "You Found Another Guy" and "Whether They Like It or Not". The only one track actually taken from High Hat as an independent single in America was the U.S. remix of the opener "Don't Take My Mind on a Trip", the version of which included on High Hat is slightly different from that originally opening Boyfriend.

"Don't Take My Mind on a Trip" was a club hit in Canada and USA, charting at #5 on the Billboard R&B charts. "You Found Another Guy" went into the top 40 of the same charts also.

Boy George was not proud of many of the tracks on that release, especially the tracks on the Boyfriend album, which he first rejected. Finally, after the flop of Tense Nervous Headache, Virgin Records didn't ask him about the track listing of Boyfriend and High Hat

benjaminira said:

Didn't know that. I've got the tense nervous headache LP, I did listen to it only once I think...