Charles has the broad strokes, I make these little splatters. Scoring film, after a while they take these paintbrushes outta ya. As time went forward and backward simultaneously, it clashed the day that we met. I feel that all of my life I was made to fit in this exact scenario, and something that just happened fluidly, fluently. Was it during her first shows in January , or during the recording of Head Carrier? She remembers her very first rehearsal with Santiago and drummer David Lovering, very vividly, as the moment her transformation started.
I took a deep breath, turned the knob and when I opened and stepped through the door I just started to shrink in size and my ears started to point out and I was looking at my hands and I thought, I am turning into a Pixie! Lenchantin came up with the melody and asked Francis to write lyrics, telling him she wanted him to write a thank you letter to Deal that she could sing.
Pixies mastered the idea of a full-thrust, drop-back, then even-more-raging climax. There was a lot of violence and morbidity in Thompson's songs, but also tongue-in-cheek humor and a good deal of cryptic thought. There was substantial hardcore-inspired frenzy in the music, but also surf music and pure pop and skewed love songs, as well.
We nailed it! We never want to scare anyone or make anyone sad. Theirs was the art of noise, the joy of noise, and the love of pop. Pixies offered bite-size chunks of punk-pop bliss: anguished, but shimmering, nuggets rooted in some twisted, B-movie, bloody-minded subconscious and unblemished by commercial concerns.
There's a Silver Jews line, one of the many aphorisms that David Berman seems to have plucked pre-written from the air, that goes, "All my favorite singers couldn't sing. They both liked Iggy Pop and the Violent Femmes, and they both had vague dreams of being in a band. They could play guitar, kind of. They knew more or less what a song was supposed to sound like.
Kim Deal, who remembers the ad also specifying "no chops," was the only one who replied. She showed up to audition and agreed to play bass, having never played one in her life. She knew a drummer, David Lovering, who had shelved his drums years ago, so she looped him in, too. The four of them started playing together with Francis at the mic, and what came out of their sessions was as feral as you might expect. There was no one to impress, no arbitrary standards to meet.
The Pixies made noise until it took the shape of a song. It's not that the Pixies reinvented the wheel. They just started rolling it down a street no one had visited before. During their year hiatus, drummer Dave Lovering indulged his love of conjuring. Backstage at Pixies gigs today, Dave will always have a trick or two at the ready, and while he might not be levitating his drum kit across Brixton Academy, can David Blaine or Dynamo drum like a demon?
Joey Santiago plays guitar like most people wrestle hyenas.
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