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| ramona |
Posted - 03/25/2004 : 07:24:06
Cause I still need quotes. 
Where's my Quote Team at? Our other topic is archived, which shows you how long it has been!
I am going to be adding a few things to the QRT (quote randomizer thingy) from the GQ article, but it seems like there must be other things coming out in this Pixies Reunion era, so keep your eyes open.
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| big_galoof |
Posted - 06/11/2004 : 04:58:01
"You think 'Oh my gosh, I was right. The world really is full of stupid
motherf*ckers.' Am I just getting old? Is that what it is? And I'm
just not relating to some of these younger kids? No, they're getting
dumber. It IS happening." - Frank Black
TBG |
| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 07:34:06
i 've ordered the french pixies special issue magazine thing. i'll try to translate anything interesting from there since googling gives no new results. it will be hard tho due to "position de cheating" kind of stuff. whatever
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| ramona |
Posted - 06/07/2004 : 07:01:21
I haven't seen that before. Thanks! I REALLY need to update the quotes, but looking for a job (and then finding a job! and starting the job!) have been taking over my life. I will get to it soon. Don't demote me, Dave!
Thanks to y'all for still continuing to find things.
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So if you're lonely
you know i'm here waiting for you
I'm just a crosshair
I'm just a shot away from you...
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| IceCream |
Posted - 06/05/2004 : 21:26:00
Ramona, do you have any quotes from the following website?
http://lawrence.com/news/music/story/41220 |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 05/10/2004 : 07:15:47
about not being as famous solo as with the pixies:
people want to consume massproducts. People want Starbucks
and McDonalds. What are you going to do about that? Make laws against
Starbucks? No it doesn't bother me at all [that he's not that famous anymore-Bill]
 "I joined the Cult of Frank/Nobody wanted to join my Culf" |
| ramona |
Posted - 05/09/2004 : 07:26:33
I have most of the Freewilliamsburg stuff already, but thanks. I do appreciate it. I have been pretty lax on the QRT lately - but I will get some more in there soon. By the end of the month, I swear!
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| The Holiday Son |
Posted - 05/09/2004 : 06:30:11
2 quotes I didn't see in the song database
from freewilliamsburg.com, late 2002 :
* 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.
* Velvety :
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.
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.
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?
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From the same interview (I don't remember those 2 quotes being posted but I could be wrong) :
* When I see him playing with other guitar players, sometimes those other guitar players have a lot of technique. Joey is a very natural guitar player. He has technique, but it's his own kind, completely naïve, or free. It's not a style that came out of sitting around practicing scales all day. It's very much like his personality. When he's in the studio, I get to see the reaction of the other guitar players, who all like him very much, but they're always just blown away by him, because they can't believe that he does what he does, and how good it sounds. If you see what he's doing, you can say "Wow. That's so simple," or "That's so weird." He doesn't have all these preconceived notions about what he's supposed to do or not supposed to do. He doesn't have a lot of baggage affecting his style. He's very spontaneous. He's a very interesting guitar player.
* What's the hardest thing about writing a song?
FB: I guess, getting myself up to sitting down and composing lyrics. That's fun and easy to do once I get going, but until I actually break the ice, it's like some algebra homework assignment that's hanging over my head. "Aw, shit, I still haven't done my homework. Oh, man, I'm gonna get in trouble." It's like this chore. I always forget how much I enjoy it. Then when I actually sit down and do it, it's like "Oh yeah, I love doing this!" You'd think I would learn after so many years that I like doing this. I should just do it. For some reason it just isn't like that for me, as opposed to picking up a guitar, which is way easier. I enjoy doing that. Even before I sit down to do it, there's no impasse. There's no forcing myself to pick up a guitar and strum on it. That comes really easy. I guess because it's less intellectual. Writing lyrics is a more intellectual thing, and I have to force myself to do it, because I'm not an intellectual. I'm much more likely to sit in a movie theatre or cook on a stove than I am to sit and write poetry. |
| IceCream |
Posted - 05/08/2004 : 18:52:05
Ouch, it's been almost a month since this thread has been posted in. |
| IceCream |
Posted - 04/17/2004 : 00:41:21
http://www.knittingfactory.com/articles/get_feature.cfm?feature_num=42&head=Feeling%20California%3A%20an%20interview%20with%20Van%20Dyke%20Parks%20and%20Frank%20Black%20PART%201%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
Just testing to see if the link worked. Lots of nice quotes in there. I can't go to page 2, though.
Like this one on Teenager:
"You mention a record I did called Teenager of the Year and there was a guy named Eric Drew Feldman, producing the record with me. I think we were able to achieve a greater height because there was a little bit of a team thing going on there. I’m not saying it always works like that, but sometimes it does".
-Sorry, I have no idea the date of this interview; but I think it happened after the Catholics.
ON FRANK BLACK AND THE CATHOLICS ALBUM
"No instrumentals, no psychedelics. It´s recorded live, no overdubs. It´s very low-tech. The lyrics are more direct, in-your-face. Focused. It´s not an album based on technology, but on songs. This is a song-oriented album. And that´s what lifts this above my previous records, I´d say".
-DeadBeat Magazine
ON THE NAME 'THE CATHOLICS'
"The name came up one night, when the guys we´re talking in the car about their catholic upbringing, and I didn´t get it, cuz I´m not religious, and suddenly my girlfriend suggested that we should call ourselves F.B.A.T.C. and that sorta stuck with us."
-DeadBeat Magazine
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| NimrodsSon |
Posted - 04/06/2004 : 20:13:40
Here's some song quotes from 6-13-93 on CFNY radio in Toronto
Old Black Dawning:
I was down in Tucson, AR visiting the Biosphere 2 project last year, and, uh, it's a big green house; they have some scientists that, uh, are living inside, uh, the sealed environment and um,they-it's about a ten dollar tour. And they're, uh, gonna let them out next month and, uh, send some more people in, but, uh, I have a cryptic song about that.
Czar:
Back in the 70's a fine songwriter named, uh, John Denver built his own gas tank in his front yard and, uh, uh, although he was very involved with many 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, uh, if I had the choice, but I don't know. Then he offered ten million to NASA and ten million to the Soviets for a ticket to ride into space, and they denied him that. And, uh, this is called czar 'cause it rhymes with bar, but it's really about John Denver who, uh, has similar yearning for s--similar yearnings for space as I do, but, uh, we'll see what happens. I'm a little 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 Motorhead did a song, a sort of, uh, futuristic, uh, futuristic song about the Ramones called, uh, who of course were not even born, uh, but they did a song called, uh, the Ramones and inspired by this, uh, in--in--original cylindrical recording, uh, we at the Frank Black 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, uh, pop music. I was discussing this with a, uh, musicologist from, uh, Venus, or somewhere -- it was probably further away than that actually and, umm, he only had a few minutes with this planet and he said, " Give me the best example--play me the best example here on your little boom-box of rock-and-roll," and, uh, I thought about it, I thought about, uh, you know, Gene Chandler, and I thought about, you know, Little Richard, and we thought about the Beatles and the Stones and the Who, and I decided that probably the Ramones are probably the best example i--in that 5 minute span
Brackish Boy:
I had this Norwegian dorm pal that, uh, was down in Puerto Rico, uh, at the men's dormitory. The women's dormitory was inside the university and they had a wall around the university and they had the men's dormitory just outside the wall, and that's where all the men had to live, and, uh, well I was a boy, but the boys had to live there too, and, uh, this is a true story about his, uh, adopted brother from Mexico. Kind-of a sad story, but, you know, you need sad stories to have funny, ironic tales to tell.
Parry The Wind High, Low:
This is a song about a UFO convention I went to down at LAX airport.
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| Dave Noisy |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 22:22:21
Keep 'em all together Jim, we'll label them all 'Quote Accumulators'. =)
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| ramona |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 16:06:59
Also, it doesn't matter what the subject of the quote is - I have (and will continue to) put all different Frank quotes in the QRT. There are even two I can think of about certain songs.
Over and out. |
| ramona |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 16:04:30
Yes, I would say all quotes should go here. Then everyone knows where they're at. Thank ya. |
| IceCream |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 13:41:32
quote:
Originally posted by ramona
If they are quotes you can put them here. Is that what you meant?
Oh they most certainly are quotes, but they're all song-related, so I didn't know if I should just put them in the 'song database' thread, as Jim likes to collect FB quotes about specific songs for his database.
Anyway, I've decided to put all quotes - regardless of the subject - in this thread.
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| El Barto |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 11:12:51
*whipcrack* HOP TO IT!
Take your time :)
I've taken your guys' names down to add to the credits in the future so you don't go uncredited for your hard work. IceCream's quotes from this thread have been input...I need dates and sources for quotes, for future reference...thanks guys.
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| ramona |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 11:01:31
*meekly* - I still have some I need to send you, Jim. Will work on that ASAP. |
| El Barto |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 10:46:11
More more more! More song and album related quotes!
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| ramona |
Posted - 04/04/2004 : 10:36:39
If they are quotes you can put them here. Is that what you meant? |
| IceCream |
Posted - 04/01/2004 : 22:36:12
more to come. I don't know what thread I should put these in.
SIR ROCKABYE
That’s a pretty mellow song. Although, (I and my co-producer have had this discussion a couple of times) that even though it’s the mellowest song (so to speak) on the record, in a way, we feel it’s the most rockin’ (not any pun intended by the title), but in a way it’s sort of,.....it’s the most..i don’t know what the right word is. I wanna say macho, but that’s not really the right word either. It’s the most something. It’s the most rockin’ number for us on a much higher lever, on a more base level, yes, it’s mellow, but on a higher level..uh.....you know, whatever that’s called, it’s rockin’. I really wanted Ray Davies to write the lyrics to that song. I had had a connection to his former manager, and I sent him the song without lyrics, and I never heard back form him, which is fine.
CALISTAN
My Calistan, playing on the whole “Stan” suffix, you know, Turkistan, Afghanistan; this is “california-stan”, which sounds a little silly, so Calistan. It sorta takes us into the future sometime between now and bladerunner.
MEN IN BLACK
It’s about the men in black who come and knock on your door when you know too much about what you’ve seen. If you’ve seen, for example, a UFO, and you start to talk about that. The men in black are intimidators. Some claim are aliens. Some claim are...feds. G-men.
-----May 18, 1994. Glr Radio interview
DOG GONE
I’m avoiding the space themes/astronomical themes in Frank Black and the Catholics except this one. Sounds like a religious song, but in fact... it’s inspired by religious music, but it’s not exactly a religious theme.
HUMBOLDT COUNTY MASSACRE
I have a new song called HUMBOLDT COUNTY MASSACRE about some Indians who were living in a little Island off of Eureka, California. There were some bad men in the area from the Eastern part of the United States that moved there and killed them all. Typical story from about a hundred years ago. The Indian Tribe is called the wiots. I don’t know if I’m saying it right.
STEAK ‘N’ SABRE
I think the [song] that has the most groove [on the album] is the one called “Steak ‘n’ Sabre”. It has a funny time signature, but it has a lot of groove. “Steak ‘n’ Sabre”, I would say, is an abstract song.
--------march 23, 1998 interfm radio interview
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 09:46:54
Yep, thanks IceCream. My search function is f***d up. Anyway there are many links there that have never been explored. I suggest to divide them and see if anything interesting comes out.
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| IceCream |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 09:37:03
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=3120
is this the old thread, munchien? with all the links?
Anyway, thanks for reminding me, emily. 2/14/2004 is longer ago than I thought...
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| ramona |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 09:34:54
Sorry, mun chein, I didn't see you there! (we overlapped) Anyway, thanks. I know I have the first two already but the others are new to me. |
| ramona |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 09:33:21
Ohmigoodness, IceCream, that is a very long quote. I like the part about Rich. I will use some of it in the QRT but it would be hard to put all of it in. As for people losing their titles, I have to mull that over. I feel bad taking them away from people, but I guess having it does imply that you will continue to accumulate quotes. Hmmm...
Oh, and thanks to Ten Percenter for emailing me some quotes. Yay, Andy! |
| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 09:31:20
I can't find the threads were the links to the interviews were posted. All that work... Gone... Anyway here's a couple of new quotes:
About releasing many records:
The loyal patrons are pretty good. I try my best not to give them every little piece of drivel that goes through my mind. I try to edit myself, I don’t put out board tapes from my European tour from last year. Not yet, anyway.
About Sunday Mill Valley Groove Day:
We made a record called Sunday Mill Valley Groove Day, and it was just an OK session but in general it was not an album. I had a few copies of it in my pocket and I was on tour and a couple of super-excited kids who seemed like they deserved something special happened to be there and I said, “Here you go,” and they posted it, like, the next day. I didn’t ask my audience to buy it. It’s a freebie, I’m not going to sell it.
About Tom Waits parallels (both released two albums simultaneously this year, FB covers Waits’ "The Black Rider" and (Waits guitarist) Moris Tepper plays on the new records)
Everything is connected. There’s a big conspiracy going on, I’m not sure what it is. I’m a big part of it, but ultimately I don’t know if I’m the one who’s controlling it. It’s funny how things are connected sometimes
From an interview at MCM.com DITS era
About recording albums fast:
"Look at Frank Sinatra, he buckled his albums in one evening, so fast that he can't be compared to other artists. It is really very exciting. It is very representative of what I do."
About radio airplay:
"It is true that my songs often do not pass to the radio but, frankly, do you listen to the radio? i don't, except the stations of classical music. If I do not listen to the radio, it is not because of the music that they pass. But quite simply because I hate these fucking commercials. I am not able to pass my music there because there is much too much of it."
About aliens
"I really saw UFOS with my own eyes twice and i have a scar behind my cranium. I believe that they operated me and that they injected me a small radar to see where i go and to supervise me (...) Fortunately they did not use an anal probe. It is not my kind of entertainment, that thing doesn't look funny at all."
About acoustic solo shows
"I leave home and i roll towards San Francisco or San Diego to give acoustic concerts. It is a little thing that amuses me. It is very gratifying but it's also a challenge,to find youself on the stage alone and face to face with the public and to try to be real. Without group, battery, anything."
About Dave, Joey, and Kim:
Joey Santiago plays on my last album but he will not be touring with us because he works on an film soundtrack in Los Angeles(...) I do not have any contact with Kim Deal whatsoever. In fact, this is so true that it's incredible."
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| Dave Noisy |
Posted - 03/28/2004 : 00:16:55
I'm gonna let Ramona be the judge..tho i'm gonna make one rule - once you lose your title, you can't get it back. I really don't want to be swapping people in and out all the time!
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| IceCream |
Posted - 03/27/2004 : 20:32:22
Dave, If I post 23 quotes by April 4, 2004, may I please still keep my title?
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| IceCream |
Posted - 03/27/2004 : 18:44:18
I think the quote team members shall not be allowed to go any more than a whole month without posting any quotes. Anyway, here's a REALLY long quote on Pistolero:
Depending on how you count, Pistolero is my 10th record (counting Pixies), my 5th record (just counting solos), or my 2nd record as El Jefe for the Catholics. It is the 2nd record that I have recorded live to 2-track, which I am very proud of, perhaps too proud. I mean, who cares how I recorded it? Either it's good or it stinks. For those of you who want to write the bad, brief review, there you are - you can say something like "Frank writes in his own bio 'either it's good or it stinks'. It stinks." I don't mean to start off on such a seemingly defensive note; it was just a thought that popped into my head. Of course, I'm very appreciative of most reviews, even the bad ones, publicity being what it is. All right, for those who think Pistolero merits a word or two let me see what I can tell you about it. It was meant to be a larger production, but still recorded live to 2-track; we were going to bring in additional musicians to play the parts that normally would have been overdubbed, and my old drummer Nick Vincent (on Frank Black and Teenager Of The Year) would be producing and acting as a kind of musical director for all the different musicians, writing charts and arranging, and basically being our Phil Spector; The Catholics would be the band at the core. Well, I kind of fucked up that concept. It ended up just being the core. I finished a batch of songs and got all excited. I called up the band, who all live on the East Coast, and asked if they could come out to L.A. in a few days. I overnighted them a hastily recorded demo of all the songs, some of which they had never heard, and I called Nick Vincent, who lives here in L.A. and begged him to get together with me the very next morning to hear all my precious, pretty little numbers that we were going to record the following week sans orchestra. The recording went smoothly, done during two sessions totaling 10 days, longer than Frank Black And The Catholics which was a four-day session. The longer session allowed us to play the new material over and over while the tape ran. About half the songs were grown out of riffs and chord progressions that we'd been playing around with for months or even years, so it wasn't all new material, except to our new guitarist, Rich Gilbert (Ex-Human Sexual Response, Ex-Zulus, Ex-Concussion Ensemble), who had only just started playing with us. But the situation suited Rich just fine. He is a wild, spontaneous player, who Scott Boutier (drums), Dave McCaffrey (bass) and I had been admiring for years. Nick Vincent managed to squeeze in some great intuitive thought and extremely subtle direction and knew instantly which of the many takes we did should be on the record; so the sessions simply consisted of us playing, Billy Bowers recording, and Nick Vincent cracking the whip - no video gaming going on at a Catholics session. I know it doesn't fit in with what's happening in the charts, on the radio, in the typical, well-produced scene, but we love this whole live recording thing. And it seems appropriate for a band like us so stuck on the guitar, which by the way is a Spanish instrument that has been around since the early 1600's for those naysayers who are so quick to damn the guitar every time there is an innovation in automated music (hey, the metronome has been with us since the early 1800's). Personally, I think pop music grown out of a computer is a great advancement that brings more people to music, both artists and patrons. But is rock dead? Such a negative place from which to ask such a pointless question. Who knows how long music has been with us? That is a true mystery.
-iMusic Modern Showcase
more to come
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| Dave Noisy |
Posted - 03/25/2004 : 10:05:43
Maybe some people need to lose their titles to be reminded of what these things mean..
(Sad. I know. I think i need children to punish.)
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