{"id":13942,"date":"2011-11-09T11:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2011-11-09T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T15:36:19","slug":"pixies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13942","title":{"rendered":"Pixies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo!<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pixies.jpg\"><br \/>\nCanon SD630\n<\/p>\n<p>I finally got to check the Pixies off my list of bands to see. And, through the magic of the internet, I ended up with front row seats (not counting the three rows in the little \"pit\" area in front of the front row, ahem) !<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pixies_charles_david.jpg\"><br \/>\nCanon SD630\n<\/p>\n<p>They played all of Doolittle, in order, which was pretty great. That's not my absolute favorite Pixies record (Surfer Rosa), but it's certainly a solid one, and it was even better live. In addition, they played a half-dozen B-Sides from the Doolittle era (all of which, I believe, can be found on their Complete B Sides compilation): Manta Ray, Weird At My School, Into The White, the slow acoustic version Wave Of Mutilation, etc.. And to finish off, they played a few early songs, including Gigantic - which meant Kim got to sing two songs (Gigantic, Into The White)! <\/p>\n<p>Plus, the giant LED screen thing they had in back, showing groovy Dali-esque clips, funky 8-bit space-warp stuff, etc. the whole time, was really sweet. <\/p>\n<p>So, <em>complete success<\/em> IMO.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pixies_kim.jpg\"><br \/>\nCanon SD630\n<\/p>\n<p>Frank Black \/ Charles Thompson \/ Blackie Francis \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Francis\">Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV<\/a> or whatever he goes by these days, sounded exactly as he did on those records - his voice hasn't changed a bit in 20+ years. He didn't back down from any of it and every scream, rasp, growl, note was exactly as how it was recorded. Very impressive. <\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pixies_joe.jpg\"><br \/>\nCanon SD630\n<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, they did the songs completely straight - no rearrangements, no tempo changes. So, except for a bit in Gigantic, where they \"brought it down\" so Kim could say goodbye to everyone, the only moment of spontaneity was during Vamos, when Joe Santiago attacked his guitar with a white face towel, and his shoe, and one hell of an angry overdrive pedal.<\/p>\n<p class=wp-caption>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pixies_joe_towel.jpg\"><br \/>\nCanon SD630\n<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, t'was a great show. Very glad I finally got to see them. Now, if the Talking Heads would just reunite...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pv_LlFI0EMo\">Surfer Blood<\/a> opened, and they were pretty good. Kind of an updated Pixies feel. They did something I don't think I've seen an opening band ever do: they arranged their set list to put their better songs towards the end, so that more people would hear them. Or maybe it wasn't intentional. Either way...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo! Canon SD630 I finally got to check the Pixies off my list of bands to see. And, through the magic of the internet, I ended up with front row seats (not counting the three rows in the little \"pit\" area in front of the front row, ahem) ! Canon SD630 They played all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}