i wish i would have been able to see the pixies back in the day. i was watching a show of theirs from 91, wow so different. not really but seeing the pixies live in 2004 is almost as exciting as watch a video from them in the late 80's early 90's. i can only imagine what it would have been like back then.
so who wants to help me build a time machine?
yeah I know what you mean. I think it would be really cool to see them in their hayday, b/f there was tension ya know. I had "river eurphrates' live from 1990, i believe, and man that energy the band had on that stage, I could only imagine how it was like back then. Of course, I'll see them live again, if i can. Seen them 3 times on the last tour, so I am sort of making up for lost time. By far, the best show I went to was Coachella. the energy of the crowd that night could not be matched to the crowd of the Berkeley shows I went to. You can SO feel the love that night. Shit, I can't believe it is going to be a year on Sunday. Crazy!
Speaking of shows, it has been reported that the pixies will be adding shows. They are coming to San Jose...YEA!! I hope they will go there when I am there.:)
pittsburg not bad, not bad. but philly is closer. besides they never really played philly last time. camden is across the water.
is the river eurphrates video the one where the stage light is blue or whatever. i use to have that a while ago, got it off kazaa. if its the same video.
i was thinking the other day (it happens sometimes) and it got me wondering if the pixies hadnt broken up would they have become as popular as they are now sooner, or is their fame mostly due to the fact that they were broken up? i remember a time only a few years ago when not many people knew who they were, even after the fight club movie.
but looking at frank blacks first solo album i think three songs are rumored to have been pixies tunes. surf epic which was a b-side for the album, hang on to your ego, and brackish boy. take it that some people dont like trompe le monde another non-pixies-ish album may have hurt the legacy. everyone still thinks surfer rosa and doolittle are the bread and butter.
so if the pixies would have released another album would it have put them in the mainstream? or would it have made the pixies another band that could only make a few good albums (i think frank blacks s/t is awesome so im not knocking it and everything the pixies did is A+)?
good question. I have been thinking about that too. But if they didn't break up when they did, they would have probably kicked Kim out of the band by then, and probably would have a replacement, since there was tension among the band. But then again, we may never know, b/c I know Kim wanted to be in the band for a long time, it was just frank that was burned out by it all. If they would have released another album, they might have become big, but then we would not have the reunion tour and legions of fans to see them now:)
Have you listened to the Hang On To Your Ego verison that the pixies did? i prefer that verison than to the FB verison.
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i think i like fb version better, but it took awhile. the first time i heard it i was like what did he do. its all techno and crap. but its kinda like comparing surfer rosa to doolittle, right? atleast for me. the one im listening to at the time is my favorite.
someone just posted three pixies bbc session songs on dimeadozen. ones that arent on the bbc cd. and hang on to your ego was one of them. so i can now get rid of that crap mp3
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - How do you come back from a comeback? Alt-rockers the Pixies are doing it by mixing it up.
The influential quartet, which reunited last year for its first tour since 1992, will be back on the road beginning in late spring. The band will play festivals, one-night-stands and, in some markets, two shows per night.
"It's a radical difference from last year, because there was no way you can top (a reunion tour)," says Marc Geiger, the band's booking agent at the William Morris Agency. "There can only be one great reunion tour."
The 2004 trek grossed $6.5 million and drew more than 185,000 people, according to Billboard Boxscore. The 50-plus-date tour concluded with a sold-out (24,000 tickets), eight-night run at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Geiger says his first instinct for the Pixies -- vocalist/guitarist Frank Black, vocalist/bassist Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering -- was to book a nine-week tour stopping in small halls in many markets.
"A cool, underground thing to do would be to do two shows a night," he adds. "B-sides and rarities in show A and hits in show B."
Because of band members' other commitments -- including a new Breeders project for Deal -- the tour's time frame got compressed, Geiger says. But the two-show-a-night concept was still possible in some markets.
The 21-date tour will begin May 26 with two nights at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Ore., and end June 15 at the Agganis Arena in Boston. In addition, the Pixies will headline at Lollapalooza July 23 at Grant Park in Chicago.
Originally, Geiger expected to book two shows a night in at least 15 markets. Instead, there are four: Portland (the tour's opening dates), San Francisco (May 30 at the Warfield), Los Angeles (June 2 at the Wiltern Theatre) and Cleveland (June 8 at the CMJ Rock Hall Music Festival and later at the Scene Pavilion).
These double-doses are geared to the "super fan" who wants to enjoy two full sets, Geiger says. Combination tickets cost $65-$75, and tickets to individual shows are $35-$40.
For the nights with single shows -- which will focus on hits and are also selling for $35-$40 per ticket -- Geiger reconsidered the target markets.
Because last year's reunion tour ran for multiple nights in major markets, the Pixies did not play at least 25 big cities, including Indianapolis and Raleigh, N.C.
For the upcoming tour, Geiger also wanted to stop on the outskirts of major cities. For example, the Pixies will not play New York but will be at the Jones Beach Amphitheater in Long Island June 14. As with the reunion trek, most dates are at medium-sized venues that seat between 2,000 and 7,000.
"It's a way to return to a market after people were turned away last year," Geiger says. "But it's also a way to underplay. We know there are a lot of legs left to play in the future."
Expectations for the dates are high. Geiger notes that the Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles double-shows have sold out, and more dates will be added. Tickets for most stops will be on sale by May 7.
Reuters/Billboard
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I am SO excited...new Breeders' album!! wohooo. I think it is SO cool that the band is working on their other projects, Frank doing Honeycomb and Kim doing the Breeders...this is going to be one rad year!!
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outside of the at the bbc i have this bbc
John Peel Session 20/8/1990
1. Allison
2. Velouria
3. Hang On To Your Ego
4. Is She Wierd? (broadcast but not included) this was on at the bbc
i havent heard the into the white bbc, i dont think. whats the date for that?
franks second disc from honeycomb will come out early 2006 or something. read it at frankblack.net.
Man i sooooooooooooooooooooooo must be out of the loop, for while i was aware of the reunion tour ... but unable to snag tix to all the small venues ... i HAD NO IDEA they were currently on tour.
"luckily" it's an ampitheatre show,
so there were still tix.
I also bought lollapalooza pre-sale tix,
but am not sure i will be able to make the treck.
This is turning out to be a concert intensive year for me.
DOUBLE YEY!
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
outside of the at the bbc i have this bbc
John Peel Session 20/8/1990
1. Allison
2. Velouria
3. Hang On To Your Ego
4. Is She Wierd? (broadcast but not included) this was on at the bbc
i havent heard the into the white bbc, i dont think. whats the date for that?
franks second disc from honeycomb will come out early 2006 or something. read it at frankblack.net.
i don't know. it didn't say when I downloaded it. But I looked it up and it was from April 16th, 1989. It can be found on the Rough Diamond bootleg.
what is w/the delay of his album? hmmm.
~*~*~* DriftingByTheStorm congrats on getting tixs to the show. Man, you must have been living under a rock to not notice the Pixies reuniting it is all good though. At least you are going to see them this time around. is it a 2 show within the same day?
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bump for the pixies. once i stop being so lazy ill have to check if the river eurphrates kazaa video is the from the 1991 show i have. cause they look alot alike.
i know one is out there of two,right? these are not disclive right?
here is a pretty good place to see what is out there on shows http://db.etree.org/bs.php
i must once again recommend the pixies hub. though there isnt many users im sure some would have it. besides some of the other hubs have people with pixies stuff also. just download dc++ and here is the pixies hub address planetofsound.no-ip.org:2010. just know no sharing mp3 or copyrighted stuff or porn.
saw the pixies last night in DC\ Merriweather Post ...
FUCKING AMAZING >>.
they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on fire ...
everything i could have possibly wanted to hear
OPENED WITH IN HEAVEN\WAVE OF MUTILATION (SURF) ... omfg ...
also of note:
Levitate Me
Planet Of Sound
pretty much everything you would have thought, excepting velouria i believe:
ed is dead
debaser
bone machine
ISLA DE ENCANTA ! ! !
broken face
yep yep yep
i could go on and on
this guy in the parking lot after the show was talking to his girls and said "Yeah but they only played for an hour and ahalf, it was kinda dissapointing" ...
so i blurted out with alochol in my system "YEAH BUT DUDE, ITS THE PIXIES< there songs are only like a minute and a half a piece!" seriously ... they wer ON FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE!
so nice to see.
If I was to smile and I held out my hand
If I opened it now would you not understand?
i bought Un Chien Andalou yesterday. i dont know what to say about that frank hasnt already sung. if you havent seen it its a strange little film. its like watching someone elses dream.
i bought Un Chien Andalou yesterday. i dont know what to say about that frank hasnt already sung. if you havent seen it its a strange little film. its like watching someone elses dream.
So good for you!!! Pixies or not, that's a great watching experience!! Everyone should see some Bunuel in a lifetime.
Concerning the Pixies... can't wait for my boot of the acoustic show!
Stone: Thanks for the pick and the night of complicity, you rock!
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"There is a rose that I want to live for
although, God knows, I may not have met her"
-J. Strummer
"And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
I bought Trompe Le Monde today after falling in love with Debaser. It is sooooo awesome!!!!!!!!!!:D:D:D:D:D ITS EDUCATIONAL!!!!!!!!... I also love besides Pearl Jam, Faith No More and Sonic youth...
doolittle or surfer rosa is where most people start. debaser is off of doolittle but i like surfer rosa just a bit more. they also have a greatest hits. but its not so special. if you can find the now out of print death to the pixies greatest hits get that. one disc is a live show and the other is the greatest hits disc.
doolittle or surfer rosa is where most people start. debaser is off of doolittle but i like surfer rosa just a bit more. they also have a greatest hits. but its not so special. if you can find the now out of print death to the pixies greatest hits get that. one disc is a live show and the other is the greatest hits disc.
letter to memphis is a great song.
I doubt I'd be able to find the death the the pixies greatest hits especially as I'm in Australia. I recon I'll get Doolittle next and then Surfer Rosa. I'm addicted to Trompe Le Monde at the moment! Awesome stuff!!!
Is there anyway to get that "Bam Thwok" song if your in a country thats not compatible with buying songs of itunes?
I don't know if this recommendation is TOTALLY off the wall, but I suggest, Bossnova. I know a lot of fans don't like this album, but I LOVE it!! I don't know, I tend to like things that are rather trippy/odd
oh btw, TOMORROW the Pixies DVD "sell out tour" is coming out!! WOHOHOOO. Too bad I won't get paid til Wed.:(
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bossanova is my favorite also just seems that its always doolittle or surfer rosa.
since you started with trompe le monde you could just go backwards and get bossanova which was the album before. no matter what you pick its gonna be good.
bossanova is my favorite also just seems that its always doolittle or surfer rosa.
since you started with trompe le monde you could just go backwards and get bossanova which was the album before. no matter what you pick its gonna be good.
I haven't seen Bossanova anywhere and I know they've got Doolittle at my nearest CD store. I think i'll get that. I think I'll have to save up for it though... I'm babysitting all day one day soon so I'll have enough to buy it then:D:D:D
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yeah I know what you mean. I think it would be really cool to see them in their hayday, b/f there was tension ya know. I had "river eurphrates' live from 1990, i believe, and man that energy the band had on that stage, I could only imagine how it was like back then. Of course, I'll see them live again, if i can. Seen them 3 times on the last tour, so I am sort of making up for lost time.
Speaking of shows, it has been reported that the pixies will be adding shows. They are coming to San Jose...YEA!! I hope they will go there when I am there.:)
http://www.livedaily.com/news/8085.html?t=98
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is the river eurphrates video the one where the stage light is blue or whatever. i use to have that a while ago, got it off kazaa. if its the same video.
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
but looking at frank blacks first solo album i think three songs are rumored to have been pixies tunes. surf epic which was a b-side for the album, hang on to your ego, and brackish boy. take it that some people dont like trompe le monde another non-pixies-ish album may have hurt the legacy. everyone still thinks surfer rosa and doolittle are the bread and butter.
so if the pixies would have released another album would it have put them in the mainstream? or would it have made the pixies another band that could only make a few good albums (i think frank blacks s/t is awesome so im not knocking it and everything the pixies did is A+)?
Have you listened to the Hang On To Your Ego verison that the pixies did? i prefer that verison than to the FB verison.
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
someone just posted three pixies bbc session songs on dimeadozen. ones that arent on the bbc cd. and hang on to your ego was one of them. so i can now get rid of that crap mp3
oh btw, I read this today:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=769&e=3&u=/nm/20050507/music_nm/pixies_dc
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - How do you come back from a comeback? Alt-rockers the Pixies are doing it by mixing it up.
The influential quartet, which reunited last year for its first tour since 1992, will be back on the road beginning in late spring. The band will play festivals, one-night-stands and, in some markets, two shows per night.
"It's a radical difference from last year, because there was no way you can top (a reunion tour)," says Marc Geiger, the band's booking agent at the William Morris Agency. "There can only be one great reunion tour."
The 2004 trek grossed $6.5 million and drew more than 185,000 people, according to Billboard Boxscore. The 50-plus-date tour concluded with a sold-out (24,000 tickets), eight-night run at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
Geiger says his first instinct for the Pixies -- vocalist/guitarist Frank Black, vocalist/bassist Kim Deal, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering -- was to book a nine-week tour stopping in small halls in many markets.
"A cool, underground thing to do would be to do two shows a night," he adds. "B-sides and rarities in show A and hits in show B."
Because of band members' other commitments -- including a new Breeders project for Deal -- the tour's time frame got compressed, Geiger says. But the two-show-a-night concept was still possible in some markets.
The 21-date tour will begin May 26 with two nights at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Ore., and end June 15 at the Agganis Arena in Boston. In addition, the Pixies will headline at Lollapalooza July 23 at Grant Park in Chicago.
Originally, Geiger expected to book two shows a night in at least 15 markets. Instead, there are four: Portland (the tour's opening dates), San Francisco (May 30 at the Warfield), Los Angeles (June 2 at the Wiltern Theatre) and Cleveland (June 8 at the CMJ Rock Hall Music Festival and later at the Scene Pavilion).
These double-doses are geared to the "super fan" who wants to enjoy two full sets, Geiger says. Combination tickets cost $65-$75, and tickets to individual shows are $35-$40.
For the nights with single shows -- which will focus on hits and are also selling for $35-$40 per ticket -- Geiger reconsidered the target markets.
Because last year's reunion tour ran for multiple nights in major markets, the Pixies did not play at least 25 big cities, including Indianapolis and Raleigh, N.C.
For the upcoming tour, Geiger also wanted to stop on the outskirts of major cities. For example, the Pixies will not play New York but will be at the Jones Beach Amphitheater in Long Island June 14. As with the reunion trek, most dates are at medium-sized venues that seat between 2,000 and 7,000.
"It's a way to return to a market after people were turned away last year," Geiger says. "But it's also a way to underplay. We know there are a lot of legs left to play in the future."
Expectations for the dates are high. Geiger notes that the Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles double-shows have sold out, and more dates will be added. Tickets for most stops will be on sale by May 7.
Reuters/Billboard
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I am SO excited...new Breeders' album!! wohooo. I think it is SO cool that the band is working on their other projects, Frank doing Honeycomb and Kim doing the Breeders...this is going to be one rad year!!
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
John Peel Session 20/8/1990
1. Allison
2. Velouria
3. Hang On To Your Ego
4. Is She Wierd? (broadcast but not included) this was on at the bbc
i havent heard the into the white bbc, i dont think. whats the date for that?
franks second disc from honeycomb will come out early 2006 or something. read it at frankblack.net.
got my tix to the DC show.
Man i sooooooooooooooooooooooo must be out of the loop, for while i was aware of the reunion tour ... but unable to snag tix to all the small venues ... i HAD NO IDEA they were currently on tour.
"luckily" it's an ampitheatre show,
so there were still tix.
I also bought lollapalooza pre-sale tix,
but am not sure i will be able to make the treck.
This is turning out to be a concert intensive year for me.
DOUBLE YEY!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
i don't know. it didn't say when I downloaded it. But I looked it up and it was from April 16th, 1989. It can be found on the Rough Diamond bootleg.
what is w/the delay of his album? hmmm.
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DriftingByTheStorm congrats on getting tixs to the show. Man, you must have been living under a rock to not notice the Pixies reuniting
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
here is a pretty good place to see what is out there on shows http://db.etree.org/bs.php
~*STONEY PONY all the WAY!*~
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"For the world, not for the war"-Neil Finn
FUCKING AMAZING >>.
they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on fire ...
everything i could have possibly wanted to hear
OPENED WITH IN HEAVEN\WAVE OF MUTILATION (SURF) ... omfg ...
also of note:
Levitate Me
Planet Of Sound
pretty much everything you would have thought, excepting velouria i believe:
ed is dead
debaser
bone machine
ISLA DE ENCANTA ! ! !
broken face
yep yep yep
i could go on and on
this guy in the parking lot after the show was talking to his girls and said "Yeah but they only played for an hour and ahalf, it was kinda dissapointing" ...
so i blurted out with alochol in my system "YEAH BUT DUDE, ITS THE PIXIES< there songs are only like a minute and a half a piece!" seriously ... they wer ON FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE!
so nice to see.
If I opened it now would you not understand?
http://wickedsons.com/newportfolk/
short clips of the acoustic show, i might have to do more digging over there and see if i can find more cool stuff.
So good for you!!! Pixies or not, that's a great watching experience!! Everyone should see some Bunuel in a lifetime.
Concerning the Pixies... can't wait for my boot of the acoustic show!
-The crazy guy with the Ramones t-shirt.
Mexico C. 12/10/05.
"There is a rose that I want to live for
although, God knows, I may not have met her"
-J. Strummer
"And you'll never know just how dark this screen could be"
What Pixies album do you recon I should get next?
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letter to memphis is a great song.
I doubt I'd be able to find the death the the pixies greatest hits especially as I'm in Australia. I recon I'll get Doolittle next and then Surfer Rosa. I'm addicted to Trompe Le Monde at the moment! Awesome stuff!!!
Is there anyway to get that "Bam Thwok" song if your in a country thats not compatible with buying songs of itunes?
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oh btw, TOMORROW the Pixies DVD "sell out tour" is coming out!! WOHOHOOO. Too bad I won't get paid til Wed.:(
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since you started with trompe le monde you could just go backwards and get bossanova which was the album before. no matter what you pick its gonna be good.
Thanks for all your advice:D:D
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