| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 12:10:21
I like...
True beauty NEVER smiles at the camera
- Melody Maker
and from the king holds court:
i feel like i can't remember anything. you ever feel like that?
and
ah. the demos. must get back down there. songs. more songs. i must have more songs...
- posted on forum 24th Ferbruary 2006
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| Carl |
Posted - 03/24/2006 : 12:20:59
 pas de dutchie! |
| VoVat |
Posted - 03/24/2006 : 12:19:31
Yeah, and then he took the words right out of Meat Loaf's mouth.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/23/2006 : 10:51:32
He spat them out?
pas de dutchie! |
| VoVat |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 15:15:52
quote:
Okay, so I'm putting words in his mouth...
Be careful. You remember what happened the LAST time someone did that, right?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Doog |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 02:17:18
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
Stopped by the Hard Rock Cafe and showed 'em my tour laminate for a little VIP treatment. I got my own corner table and I let everyone look at my pop genius penis.
Hahaha, awesome.
www.myspace.com/doog = music
www.myspace.com/doogdoogdoog = emo |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 22:54:12
"New Pixies album on the way, and I'll be playing Dublin with The Pixies and solo."
Okay, so I'm putting words in his mouth...
pas de dutchie! |
| fbc |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 10:00:26
by Ken Switzer
"I'm not usually a gambling man, but if you've listened to Frank Black's music and you're not convinced that he's one of the greatest songwriters of all time, then I'm willing to bet my life that you've got shit for brains."
(probably unusable, but funny 'cause it's true) |
| fbc |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 09:47:03
http://www.chartattack.com/DAMN/2002/10/2812.cfm
"Occasionally you end up putting something out you wished you hadn’t released a couple of years later. "I write better than that, why would I release that?" Whatever. It’s only music.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/B/Black_Frank/2002/10/31/743355.html
"A lot of The Pixies' material is actually a country-rock thing. Nimrod's Son, Vamos... they were cowpunk."
http://www.recoilmag.com/interviews/frank_black_0905.html
"I don't know if I feel like anywhere feels like home to me. I've adopted the personality of a troubadour, so home is where my family is."
http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1505652/07132005/black_frank.jhtml
"Changing of the Guard"- we really butchered that little baby. And then I've done a "Belle Island" from Self-Portrait - that was a little bit better.
http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3189
HARP: What musician would you want to be in another life?
Stuff Smith. Jazz violinist.
http://lunakafe.com/moon54/usma54b.php
Black: I think even in the time of the Pixies there were times when I tried to do songs that we a bit more traditional sounding, or Americana-sounding. A good example for that is the song Blown Away from the Bossanova album, which I know many don't consider to be the best Pixies album, but anyway...
http://www.riverfronttimes.com/Issues/2001-04-25/music/music2.html
It's inexplicable. It's mysterious. It's strange. It's wonderful. And you know what? It's a special club. You either get it or you don't get it, you know what I mean?"
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/B/Black_Frank/1999/07/13/743358.html
"The Pixies were literally referred to as the greatest rock 'n' roll band on earth. So how do I go from being the leader of the greatest rock 'n' roll band on earth to, like, a piece of s--t. You telling me my sound has changed that much?
(Lost the URLs but i'll find them)
"It's like a lifelong obsession with rock music that I've had since I was very young. I don't know what it is, but I like it and want to be around it and participate in it. It's the same today, a very youthful kind of feeling."
"There wasn't really any ice to break," he said. "It was: 'Hey, how's it going? Whoa! Here we go. Next song!"
quote:
Pistolero is a great album, my personal favourite tracks being "I Switched You," and "I Love Your Brain." Those back-up vocals are just beautiful.
Frank Black: When we recorded that, I had no idea. It was one of the newer songs that we were kind of running through. I had sent a tape to the other band members the previous week, and it was kind of a last-minute session. I wasn't really expecting those background vocals; I didn't know they were going to happen. We didn't discuss it. We ran through the music. When we went to do the number with everyone singing, I had no idea that I was gonna hear [singing] "I love your brain" right back at me. I was doing the vocal, and it totally surprised me, but it was instantly good.
"Look, I'm no Renaissance man. I don't sit around and read books. I don't go to the museum. I'm not really an intellectual giant, am I? But I do write songs and what do I know about? Well, besides Spongebob Squarepants, I know about the road." |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 05:37:59
she rocks. you rock. thanks.
I got some heaven in my head
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 05:32:25
Here you go
Intreview transcribed by the lovely dayanara, the actual link is down. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 05:23:13
tre i've never seen a frank interview in the onion! can you please post the link? thanks.
I got some heaven in my head
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/21/2006 : 04:53:02
No Problem! I've been searching through all the interviews posted on site (archived or no) and stumbled across it.
Some more...
TOURING:
I love it. I think that's probably half of a musician's addiction to the lifestyle. There's the romance of being in a place: "Hey, here I am. I've just come off the long, winding, mysterious road." Then: "Oh, gee. I must be going now. The wind is calling me." There's a romantic concept and you feel it.
- Birmingham Alabama Interview - October 08 2004
MUSIC:
Kurt Cobain liked us. Nothing against him - that's great that he liked us - but we're a quirky band and a bunch of people liked us. I don't know that we really changed anything.
- Salon.Com 21st October 2004
ALTERNATIVE ROCK:
I'm thinking, what alternative rock music? You mean that masculine new heavy metal - and I got nothing against heavy metal, mind you - that's just a more macho upgrade of the glossy, hairspray, effeminate heavy metal that was in the mainstream when we were coming out? I don't know, man. Maybe I'm just getting old, but mainstream music now seems so much more soulless than it was back in the '80s.
- Salon.Com 21st October 2004
VENUES:
Big cement buildings are not great for rock shows
- ecentral November 2004
REPORTERS:
This is supposed to be a romance ... and I can tell they're not there, they're just reading off of a piece of paper or something. So I have no problem with dull little questions, but the dull little questions really drive you nuts if you feel like the other person on the other end of the line is not really curious. They are just going through the motions and its like, no, I need more cuddling than that. We gotta spoon a little bit, I don't just want to (fornicate).
- ecentral November 2004
MONEY:
It's not just about money in the most evil sense of the word; it's about being an artist as opposed to being the manager of a warehouse.
- Village Voice December 2004
SCREAMING:
I would say that shouting, or screaming, or whatever you'd want to call it, is suited to my physique. I'm kind of big-chested, and I have strong neck muscles. I'm loud, and--at least in part--it's because of the way I'm built. I'm not sure that's 100 percent what the answer is, but if you're not built for it, you don't do it. Some people aren't built for shouting.
- Live Daily News
WOMEN:
We may have been reacting in part to the phenomenon of diary-rock, or whatever: really shitty female vocalists who can't write songs, who are basically skating by on the fact that they have breasts and they sing like babies.
- The onion
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| ScottP |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 13:22:25
That's the one! How cool is that? Thanks SMK.
I have LeeAnn Tweeden's poop in my freezer. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 08:22:51
quote:
Originally posted by ScottP
I remember reading a quote of Charles' where he said he was having a difficult time keeping a pet dog from escaping his fence or pen. For some reason that really stuck with me. I think because it was such a regular guy problem.
It made me think, "Hey, if I could write hugely smart and importantly kick ass songs that packed world-wide critical acclaim and if I wasn't such a big loser idiot, me and Frank would really have quite a bit in common". Good feeling.
I found it: Nude as The News 2002, is this the right one?
FB: Hi Troy, it's Frank. Sorry about that. One of my dogs is a real escape artist, and it's an ongoing kind of thing.
NATN: What kind of dog?
FB: Oh, just a slender white mutt. She's probably got a lot of greyhound in her. Anyway, she's a real beautiful dog, and I have a pretty big backyard, but she inevitably, no matter how much dog-proofing I do, sooner or later she figures out how to make the great escape. And she only does it when I'm not home, you know. She gets stressed out cuz we're not here. She's got a lot of anxiety issues. So sooner or later she makes a breakout, and she doesn't really get into trouble, but you know I just dont want her to get hit by a car or something. So anyway, we have the guy putting in a giant, you know, dog kennel-style dog run for her that's escape-proof. I have another dog that's fine, she's kind of fat and lazy, you know, but we've had her since she was a pup so she doesn't have any psychological issues really. Other than the ones we've presented her with. So she's fine, I don't need to tie her up or anything like that. But the other one, man she's just ... I can't leave her in the house, cuz eventually she gets mad enough, and I'll come home and the door jamb will be ripped out of the wall (laughs). Just like something really super destructive. The house will be trashed, and like the wall will be damaged. She'll start gnawing through a wall. This dog, I just can't keep up with her. The only thing I can do with her is to just keep her at my side for like 24 hours a day. And I just can't do that. I even try to take them into the studio sometimes, and they're pretty good at the studio, but there's always a lot of people coming and going, and they're always worrying about where you are, and always want to be by your side. And when there's people coming in and out of the soundproof doors and there's cables everywhere, dogs just kind of end up stepping on em a lot, so I just leave them at home. But I digress. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 08:18:23
Actually because I don't know where to put these either...
BLAST OFF/THE SWIMMER/ DITS
And somethimes you play around with an idea for five years, jam it with the band, play it at soundchecks, the song doesn't make it on an album, doesn't make it on another album and then finally it makes it. There's a few of those on this record. The opening song Blast Off has been around for years, The Swimmer as well. Dog In The Sand even since the times of The Pixies.
CHANGING OF THE GUARDS
don't think the version was very good, at least not my singing. That was a song I was obsessed over for a while... Bob Dylan is such a great singer. When I had to learn this song, I tried to learn exactly how he was singing it and the melody is very, very complicated. It's not just la-la-la-la-la, there are very subtle changes here and there and it has a lot of words as well! I still don't have it memorized. The band is waiting for me still, because we like to play it live.
We tried to cut it again for Pistolero [Black's 1998 album], not more polished, just with better vocals actually, but it wasn't quite good enough. We're gonna try it again on our next session. I wanted to have sax on an album of mine for a long time and I finally met this singer/guitarist from L.A. and it turns out he plays saxophone too, so I'm gonna invite him to our next session and we might use him on that tune to give it the 70s Bruce Springsteen And The E-Street Band feel... I don't know. I have a lot of respect for musicians who do good cover versions, like Bryan Ferry, because I discovered how difficult it is, even if you have a really simple song. We attempt to learn a few cover songs for every album, but usually they don't make it.
VELVETY
It was an instrumental before. I think it originally had words when I wrote it when I was a teenager. I may have incorporated a line or two from the original lyrics when I was fifteen. I know why! I'm glad you asked that question. I just remembered why it was around. We had started to play it when we were touring on Dog In The Sand, just the instrumental version. It was a loud, open the set, "Hello! We're here!" kind of rave-up. It was kind of around. One day I had a session, and I didn't have a new song to present to the band and I said "Okay, I'm gonna write some lyrics to this song." As a matter of fact, that was the first thing we recorded for Devil's Workshop, I believe, on the first day
FW: Is "Velvety," the sister to "Ramona," personifying the Velvet Underground instead of the Ramones?
FB: No, although I had called it "Velvety Instrumental Version" because at the time I thought it sounded like the Velvet Underground, which, of course, it doesn't, in hindsight. So then I was kind of stuck with that. Okay, I called something "Velvety Instrumental Version" so now I've got to write the lyricized version of "Velvety." So I had to think about what "Velvety" meant to me, and it's really lyrically the sister song of a Pixies song called "Velouria." It's the same character, the same imagery. Part of the same lore of Northern California, and Mount Shasta. This woman that I have in mind she's covered in velour. She's like a lemur. She's human, but she's kind of like a cat. She's feline, because she's covered in this short soft hair. Velvety. I suppose it's partially based on my wife, mixed in with lots of other things, things that I've read and things that I've seen when driving around that part of the world, that area of Mt. Shasta. Weed, Eureka.
FW: So Weed is an actual town? You're not just throwing in some drug reference in?
FB: Merle Haggard lives around there, actually. It's a funny area. It's a real New Agey area. I don't know if you've heard of Sedona Arizona, but it's similar to Sedona in that it has these vortices that new agers believe in. I might even kind of believe in them. It has to do with magnetic fields in the Earth's crust. Some are negative and some are positive, some are neutral. I don't really understand it. It's a weird area and the Rosicrucians, that is, the modern cult of Rosicrucians, based of course, in California, published a lot of crack-pot books earlier in the twentieth century including one about this kind of Atlantis continent in the Pacific off the coast of Alaska, Canada or Washington. Up there. Like Atlantis, it sank to the bottom of the sea, and everyone died, but of course, in California many of these beings that were somehow superhuman, or I don't know, they're aliens or something. They're humanesque, but they're not like you or me. They went to Northern California and moved into the hollows of Mount Shasta, which is where they lived in these tunnels. I'm blabbing on, aren't I?
- Free Williamsburg Press November 2002
Wrote the song when I was 15, ditched the shitty lyrics, recorded it as a b-side because I was hard up for a scrap of music for a b-side in the middle of a tour sometime or something. And I thought at the time that I was probably listening to a lot of Velvet Underground, and was doing my own piss-poor version of a Velvet Underground vibe, and called it "Velvety Instrumental Version." And so I'm stuck because someday I want to add some lyrics to it, but what am i gonna call it? I called it "Velvety Instrumental Version," right? Well, fuck, I gotta call it "Velvety" now. What the fuck? I gotta write a song about the Velvet Underground now. You know what I mean? I painted myself into a corner. Well, I didn't really. 'Cause now I think it sounds a lot more Velvety, I think, actually, and a little bit Stonesy too. And I rewrote the lyrics from the 15-year-old version, and you know, I'm pretty happy with it. So that one had a pretty oddball, a very long experience, you know. And even sort of a partial unveiling via a Pixies b-side. And you'll hear that on Lou Reed records. Songs that he did when they were instrumentals with the Velvet Underground that later he put lyrics on as Lou Reed.
- Nude as The News 2002
It's kind of a loud Stonesy/Velvet Underground kind of (hums the opening riff) and we just had fun playing it. It was a way to break the ice sometimes because we'd just walk on and play it. Once we started playing it I said, "Well I should probably put some lyrics on it." I was trying to remember some lines because I did have some lyrics for it when I was fifteen, but I don't really remember all of those lines and I'm sure they weren't very good. I remembered a certain couple of lines and the vibe of it, so there it is.
- Music Revue August 2002
TRUE BLUE
On the song "True Blue," there's this repeated phrase "In a little while." What happens is, in the following line, after "In a little while" the last syllable always is a syllable from that phrase, "in a little while." For example, "in a little while," the following is "I'm gonna do some wanderin." "In a little while" the next one is "so let's pass the narghile" Then the second half it does the same thing, and it may do it in reverse. The music is in reverse too. There's the "A" section, then the "B" section. It goes back to the "A" section, but then the "C" section is really the "B" section played backwards. There's this whole theme in the lyric, what it's all about, and there's a whole frontward and backward kind of thing there. There's one-this is all theoretical-strain of humanity which devolves, if you want to call it that, and returns to the sea, from whence we came. Maybe tens of thousands of years from now, maybe people will hang out more by the seaside and gradually begin this march back to the ocean. The singer of the song is of that strain in the second half, but in the first half the singer is that strain of humanity that moves away not only from where we are on the land, but away from planet Earth. They go up. Up and out as opposed to the other direction. It's all tied in with the frontward backwards of the lyrics. It's just this incredibly overcomplicated neurotic kind of thing. That's just some little ditty on the record, but sometimes that's what you do when you write a ditty. You become consumed by some little game you're playing. It's almost like it's not in your own control. It's happening very quickly.
- Free Williamsburg Press November 2002
ST. FRANCIS DAM DISASTER
It was a grey and windy day.... Scott and Dave had been trying to get me to put lyrics on that one for years. Lyrics are, you know, about stuff.
- Blog Critics September 09, 2002
GOUGE AWAY
"Gouge Away" is a telling of Samson and Delilah. It's a story that has anger. Do I purge via a song? I don't know. I suppose it's possible.
- Blog Critics September 09, 2002
LLANO DEL RIO
Yeah, I read about it in the Davis book. But the fact is I'd been driving through Llano for years and not realized the significance until I read the book
- Blog Critics September 09, 2002
(refering to City of Quartz by Mike Davis and a search within he book throws up ...Huxley moved his family to a ranch in the desert near the ruins of the original `anti-Los Angeles' of Llano del Rio. 79 Here, while he searched for the `godhead' in the silence of the Mojave...)
BLACK RIDER
Well, it's in our repertoire. We play it a lot. That's the reason we did it. The two versions came from the fact that there was a lyrical omission in the first version, which was the preferred version. I was frustrated that the preferred take had this lyric missing, because of my mistake. Everyone liked this other, sillier version as well. We weren't in the mood to record it more, so we were basically stuck with the two takes, so what do we do? Somehow someone had the idea, let's just put them both on. It was like scratching everybody's itch.
- Splendid 2002
BLACK LETTER DAY
Ahhm. You know, yeah, it's about resignation. Acceptance of the rut that you're in. Your station in life.I don't know if it's a bad thing or not. You know what a red letter day is? Well, you know, it's like all the other days, the black letter days, not the special days, but the unspecial days. The days that make up our lives are mostly black letter days. There are more of those than the red letter days. Perhaps they're days we would prefer to forget.
- Splendid 2002
HELOISE
I didn't know about Heloise and Abelard, you know, until I sat down to write the song, and I had to figure out who this person Heloise was. I had to stumble around and stumbled on this Heloise and Abelard, and was kind of like, oh, it's obvious. You're looking for your story. There it is.
- Splendid 2002
The song actually had other lyrics, probably once or twice before, over the last four or five years. So that's one of those songs that you just kind of -- you fortunately have enough -- what's the word I'm looking for? The smarts to edit yourself. You say, okay, this is not done. This stinks. And you just kind of withdraw it from the selection, and every couple of years you dig it up and try writing new words to it.
- Splendid 2002
HORRIBLE DAY
"Perhaps one of my favourite tracks is Horrible Day. It's very traditional sounding, with country and rock elements. It might be sad but there is some optimism there. It's a beautiful day, it's a horrible day. I like that!"
- Virgin Megastores Online July 2003
DARK END OF THE STREET
"I don't even know the soul version; I only know the country rock version. So I was able to ignorantly go there, and I had that band, so at least the band is right."
- Now Toronto 07/07/2005 |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 07:55:05
Denis, I love you I truly do. I'll make sure those get in. After they have been spell checked of course, hehe.
I'm just a college dropout who always wanted to be in a band, when you start like that, you just kind of go for it. You figure, I'll be louder and faster and wackier than everyone else
" If anything is a big influence on me, it's David Lynch, He's really into presenting something but not explaining it. It's just " This is an image, this is an idea, isn't it cool? " The way I understand it, that's the only way to be surreal. To be not so connected with it, except that it came from your brain, somewhere way back HERE. "
- Rolling Stone, June 15th 1989
"I don't think enough people have been asking me about how it feels to have been enjoyed by Kurt Cobain. I think people have really overlooked that fact. It's sad. It's sad."
"I suppose it's nice that we could accommodate that dream or wish for some of the fans. But I'm far too cynical and egotistical to really say that was why 'm just far too mean-spirited to say, 'Oh yeah, we did it for the kids.' That's not who I am."
- Rocky Mountain News September 2004
English pop stardom has its perks and our Mancunian tour manager gets us in to see Tom Jones and his unfeasible large testicles at the Manchester Apollo. The man is a professional, no matter who says what.
Someone also gives me one of those reversible Morrissey tour jackets. I look rained on and trodden, yet sharp. I would duet with that guy in a second. No lie.
Strange. Bought strawberries off a gypsy. Cheap, too.
In Nice they drill a hole down a baguette and stick a hot dog in it. Frickin' great.
Forgot my passport or driving license or ID and can't prove I'm over 21, so the ex-Angels security staff at the door won't let me in. They say they understand I'm 24 and headlining tonight, but I still can't get in. Finally, reason arrives, but I'm still the only person who's ever been barred from their own gig.
Stopped by the Hard Rock Cafe and showed 'em my tour laminate for a little VIP treatment. I got my own corner table and I let everyone look at my pop genius penis.
- THE DIARY OF BLACK FRANCIS
By Black Francis during The Pixies' 1989 tour
Melody Maker, December 1989 |
| vilainde |
Posted - 03/20/2006 : 07:28:56
Not sure this is the best place to put this, but I've been listening to the 1993 CFNY radio show and there are some interesting and hilarating quotes about the 1st album songs. It would be interesting to have this in the song db. Here they are, complete with typos and blanks where I didn't understand what was said:
Old Black Dawning:
"I was down in Tucson Arizona visiting the Biosphere II project last year; it's a big greenhouse, they have some scientists that are living inside the sealed environment. It's about a $10 tour. And they're gonna let them out next month and send some more people in. I have a cryptic song about that, this is called Old Black Dawning."
Czar:
"Back in the 70s a fine songwriter named John Denver built his own gas tank in his frontyard, although he was very involved with the (milieu?) of the green political thinkers of that time, he was highly criticized for it. I don't know, I guess I would build my own gas tank if I had a choice. But I don't know. Then he offered $10 million to NASA and $10 million to the Soviets for a ticket to ride into space and they denied him that.
This is called Czar cause it rhymes with 'bar' but it's really about John Denver, who has similar yearnings for space as I do, but we'll see what happens. I'm younger than him so I might have a better chance but probably not."
I Heard Ramona Sing:
"Way back in 1916, when music was first appearing on cylinders, an english rock group called Mötörhead did a song, a sort of a futuristic song about the Ramones, who of course weren't even born, they did a song called The Ramones. And inspired by this original cylindrical recording, we at the FB Experience did a song on the record called I Heard Ramona Sing, and this is our cryptic love song for the Ramones, probably the finest example of pop music. I was discussing this with a musicologist from Venus or somewhere, it was probably further away from that actually, and he only had a few minutes with this planet, and he said "Play me the best example here on your little boombox of rock'n'roll", and I thought about it, I thought about, you know, Gene Chandler, and I thought about Little Richard, we thought about the Beatles and the Stones and the Who, and I decided that probably the Ramones would play the best example in that 5 minutes stand."
(in the middle of the song) "There used to be a group from Porto Rico called Menudo, and when you were 16 you were out, and you would sing your last concert on your 16th birthday. They had a sort of an elevated portion of the stage where you would stand, and it would sink beneath the stage, and all the girls would cry, and you would sing your last song and say goodbye, and then your replacement, who was about 12 or so, would come up and replace you. And I have suggested this method of self-perpetuation for the Ramones."
Brackish Boy:
"In these *** times in Porto Rico I had this Norwegian dorm pal, that was down in Porto Rico at the men's dormitory. The women's dormitory was inside the University, it had a wall running through the University and it had men's dormitory just outside the wall, and that's where the men had to live. Well I was a boy but the boys had to live there too. And this is a true story about his adopted brother from Mexico, kind of a sad story but you know, you need sad stories to have funny ironic tales to tell."
Fu Manchu:
"I stole this song title from Desmond Dekker who wrote a great song called Fu Manchu about the english litterary character, criminal man with a moustache *** we call the fu manchu. I uderstand there's actually a French Canadian star from the late 60s called Charlebois. Anyone knows Charlebois? No one knows Charlebois? I know this is Ontario but... Anyway he's got a song called Fu Manchu also. I just thought I'd throw that in there to kill time."
Parry The Wind High, Low:
"This is a song about a UFO convention I went to down LAX airport."
This Is Where I Belong:
"I'm leaving you today with a song by the very talented Ray Davies of The Kinks. I need to do this song because I'm gonna play it tonight and I keep messing up the words. So if you don't mind I'll rehearse it on you."
Denis
I love Guitar Wolf from the Erath! |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 21:43:48
"I once had a dog
Who ran from his home
But that wasn't even close
To your cold heart of stone"
pas de dutchie! |
| ScottP |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 18:56:08
I remember reading a quote of Charles' where he said he was having a difficult time keeping a pet dog from escaping his fence or pen. For some reason that really stuck with me. I think because it was such a regular guy problem.
It made me think, "Hey, if I could write hugely smart and importantly kick ass songs that packed world-wide critical acclaim and if I wasn't such a big loser idiot, me and Frank would really have quite a bit in common". Good feeling.
I have LeeAnn Tweeden's poop in my freezer. |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 18:34:49
That Francis/Mould interview is good stuff!
pas de dutchie! |
| VoVat |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:39:31
Having signs directing people to the "egress" was a well-known trick of Barnum's, so I'd say this is a pretty definite reference.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:32:58
hehe, from http://membres.lycos.fr/alec/bf_bm.html
Fatty and skinny went to bed Fatty rolled over and skinny was dead. But she kicked my ass in chess.
and
John Lydon can suck my dick any time.
much funnier out of context me thinks |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:27:25
Frank in Oct. 21, 2004 interview with salon, re: the Pixies:
"I don't know that we really changed anything."
When asked by MTV if he's a Nirvana fan: "I don't really know their records. I know their hits when I walk into a grocery store.
Also, from a Feb. 1992 interview in Musician w. Frank and Bob Mould (cough).
When asked if he gets nervous doing a gig, Frank says: "Sometimes in the middle of a set I kinda feel like, 'Am I here? Am I really seeing what I'm seeing?' I quickly try to get rid of that stuff. I find the exit sign in the back quite soothing. I look right at it, do my thing."
Bob Mould replies: "I like watching you coz you look up a lot. It's really neat."
Frank: "Well, it's the 20-yard stare in the 10-yard room. No one home."
Bob: "You're such a focal point."
Frank: "That's what it is. I think, 'I'm just a fat dude with a guitar and I don't want to be here'."
Also from that same interview, Frank: "Part of the beauty of the guitar is that it's somewhat easy, accessible. Everyone knows a couple chords, and if you don't, you can learn a couple chords quickly."
Musician: "Are you interested in becoming a better guitarist?"
Frank: "I make it more a joke than I probably should, but I just want to be honest about it. Joey and I started out quite rudimentary. Thankfully my mother's sister taught me G-B-A. But yeah, we try to get better. Joey works at it more than me. He gets to stretch his fingers wider. We had a rehearsal space at a heavy metal place this year. It was Ratt or Ozzy next door. You inevitably pay attention to them after a while. And they look at you. Of course you're not playing things you're good at, that you already know. You're rehearsing and you feel silly. But we did go for the drop-D tuning so we could riff with a little bit of heaviness for them. It gave us an extra foot or so of breathing space. "
and
"I also become offended at the old cliché that says 'rock music is sex.' Maybe it is to some people, but I was only 8 years old when I first said, 'what is this great stuff?' It was just a little world I could enter if I wanted to."
and
"There's an attraction to volume. Sheer volume is a good thing. I've developed a lot of ear wax, but it's neat."
and
"I have no idea about what the art of music television should be. And I think someone should: set up something to aspire to and go for it. But it's usually like, 'ok, we got a week, let's go' and we just slap something together. We've blown a lot of money on something that didn't get the payback, that's for sure. The record companies are charging you for half of it. It's paid advertising, but they're not taking care of the whole bill. I think the next time I sign a record contract, it's going to be, 'Look, if you're going to twist my arm to do videos every time I do a record, then you have to pay for those damn things'."
I got some heaven in my head
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:16:53
If you are passionate, chances are good that you won't be boring, and even if you are boring, at least it's damn passionate.
couldn't agree more! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:10:45
right, given what the rest of the song appears to be about
I got some heaven in my head
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| Carl |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:05:21
..As a matter of fact, that also occurred to me. And it sounds more plausible.
pas de dutchie! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 10:03:55
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
It's funny when Mark Radcliffe asks him what his Mother calls him and hee says 'CT', I remember thinking before that when Frank sings 'Then PT said see the egress' in Superabound, he could be referring to one of his brothers, or a relative!!
I thought he meant PT Barnum. I could be wrong.
I got some heaven in my head
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| Carl |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 09:25:42
quote:
Originally posted by fbc
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/drumandbass/1266/pixiessplit.htm
"I got my usual restaurants that I hit, I don't think I'll go into that Chinese place anymore after those little machete guys..."
"My last experience in Manchester was a sort of painful one. I was out in Redittch, in one of those old converted mills. they turned this mill into a paint-ball place."
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Bistro/7063/frankblack.html
From JVHV2: Frank, Macintosh or PC?
Ffrraaaank: Mac, of course.
Cool, thanks for posting those, Soren. I think I've seen the cyberchat thing before, or maybe it was a transciption of a different cyberchat thing! It's funny when Mark Radcliffe asks him what his Mother calls him and hee says 'CT', I remember thinking before that when Frank sings 'Then PT said see the egress' in Superabound, he could be referring to one of his brothers, or a relative!!
pas de dutchie! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 05:03:08
"...There are two kinds of artists. Thieves and fakes. Okay? Thieves and fakes. I'm a thief, you know?" 2/19/98
Also on 2/19/98:
Sir Lloyd Webber: "Listen, my lawyer is on it."
Frank: "I will eat your lawyer."
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"Who doesn't like the fucking Who? That's always there, you know? I thought I wouldn't be that good at making a hip-hop record, 'cause I don't really listen to it, you know? It's not really my thing. But I've grown up listening to guitar-based rock 'n' roll, so I'm better at making those kinds of records."
I got some heaven in my head
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 04:28:11
People wanna be perceived as cool, they wanna be Elvis. And that's fine. I have no problem with people saying, "Hey, my band is totally sexy and cool and has sunglasses." |
| fbc |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 13:49:16
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/drumandbass/1266/pixiessplit.htm
"I got my usual restaurants that I hit, I don't think I'll go into that Chinese place anymore after those little machete guys..."
"My last experience in Manchester was a sort of painful one. I was out in Redittch, in one of those old converted mills. they turned this mill into a paint-ball place."
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Bistro/7063/frankblack.html
From JVHV2: Frank, Macintosh or PC?
Ffrraaaank: Mac, of course. |
| pixiestu |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 13:33:30
Frank said that?
"The arc of triumph" |
| Nemesis |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 13:24:16
"When you're tired and weary, your heart may skip a beat,
you'll get your fucking head kicked in when you walk down Filbert Street,
You'll walk into the Spion Kop, you,ll hear a mighty roar,
Fuck off you forest bastards, we are The Leicester Boys". |
| matto |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 13:17:35
"it didn't have anything to do with anything" |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 12:32:31
"And on bass, Mister Dave McCaffrey. Say hello, Dave."
and
"... I get a kick out of this site." (From his first post on his "The King holds court..." thread.
and
" I chew candy. I do not lick or suck." (same thread)
I got some heaven in my head
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