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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 06/04/2005 : 21:06:08
Wow... the coolest thing happened to me today...
I met a cousin (once removed) I haven't seen in 20 years. He happens to be an even bigger Pixies and Frank Black fan than me!!! He's been to a ton of shows and has so much knowledge about the band. I was amazed! lol.
It's weird to think that we were both at the Fineline and the Roy Wilkins shows but didn't even know it!
It's definately going to be the beginning of a great friendship.
So, does anyone else have a common bond of Pixies/Frank Black fandom in the family?? I am new to this but it is just the coolest thing to bond over family get togethers! |
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| Crispy Water |
Posted - 06/16/2005 : 08:49:51
I love the topic because I've managed to convert a couple family members. My youngest brother absolutely loves the Pixies, one of his favourite bands. Really likes the early Frank Black stuff as well. His first show was Frank Black & The Catholics on April 5, 2003. My mom likes the Pixies too, but she likes the stuff with the Catholics the best. Black Letter Days is her favourite album (not just of his, her flat-out fave) and Bullet's her most adored song. Following the aforementioned show in '03, I stupidly rushed off to go party, but both the mother and brother hung around and got to meet Frank Black. My mom talked with him for awhile and was telling him about how her oldest son is just a huge fan. She said he seemed surprised and impressed that I got her into his stuff, rather than vice versa; she thinks he must have figured she was a Pixies fan from the old days. She got me an autograph too, it's the only one I've ever held on to from anyone.
Anyway, I've got another brother who isn't exactly a fan (both bros are commercial rap fans), but he digs some songs too - Billy Radcliffe in particular. It's really cool having a family which largely shares my enthusiasm for these bands; I wouldn't want to be subjected to Cool Jazz Vol. 633 or whatever most moms listen to when I go visit her.
Nothing is ever something. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 06/13/2005 : 17:19:26
Hey welcome Mass Please :) Sorry I was so on a high that I have a Frank Black/Pixie Fan as a cuz. :) Glad to meet you! |
| Mass Pleeze |
Posted - 06/13/2005 : 10:48:42
Thanks Old Man in a coffee can. Everyone here is very cool and alot of interesting facts reveal themselves.
T Fet good comment on the lucky strikes. Sixty-one was a pretty good movie.
can you swing from a good rope? building jumper |
| frank_black_francis |
Posted - 06/13/2005 : 10:28:14
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
Wow... the coolest thing happened to me today...
I met a cousin (once removed) I haven't seen in 20 years. He happens to be an even bigger Pixies and Frank Black fan than me!!!
Barring blood-test results, you could conceivably marry him. |
| tobafett |
Posted - 06/13/2005 : 08:40:54
Maris did without steroids...if the kids these days would only go back to drinkin' bourbon straight and smokin' 2 packs of Lucky Strikes a day=more home run kings, I say. |
| OldManInaCoffeeCan |
Posted - 06/13/2005 : 06:30:06
quote:
Originally posted by Mass Pleeze
Watching Fight Club - the ending comes on and I ask my 16 year old daughter. Who is that? <Where is my mind??> The Pixies" - and so it started - Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Scientific Phenomenalist, Breeders, B Sides and soon Honeycomb."
Remembered Bone Machine and Here Comes Your Man from the radio back in the day and remembered the name but it all comes together the deeper you dig (for fire).
It is educational manta.
Rick Kline
Hey Mass Pleeze, now that's very cool, watching Fight Club with your teenage daughter and she helps you on your journey to get reaquainted with the Pixies and The Man!
Welcome aboard, it's always nice to get new posters when they're cool (as opposed to being mean-spirited and anti-social). I've enjoyed your posts so far and I look forward to more.
And, it doesn't hurt that you bring to the forum 6 decades of life experiences. Hey, I've got 5 decades of baggage, and there's just a few years difference in our ages. I was born in '61, you know, the year Roger Maris hit 61 homeruns sans steroids I assume.
Anyway, see you around. |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/12/2005 : 08:22:53
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
[brI can't wait to get together with him soon and start hearing his stories of going to shows and seeing his collection!!!
Ahhh. |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 06/11/2005 : 09:52:30
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
Nice story, Daisy! I wonder if I have a distant cousin who loves Frank and The Pixies....;)
you never know... it was totally out of the blue!!!... I can't wait to get together with him soon and start hearing his stories of going to shows and seeing his collection!!!
lol everyone with the all in the family stuff... that cracks me up!!! |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 06/08/2005 : 15:09:37
I like that serie
 "I joined the cult of Jon Tiven/Bye!" |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/08/2005 : 10:40:46
quote:
Originally posted by number 13
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
Same here. It was my brother who first introduced me to the man.
Good times in the 90s.
__________
Don't believe the hype.
Yep... The Pixies, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction... I feel like an old angry man who doesn't appreciate his current time... 
Yeah that sounds about right.
__________
Don't believe the hype. |
| BLT |
Posted - 06/08/2005 : 08:32:40
Little
Goil |
| tobafett |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 20:15:00
ding
bat |
| BLT |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 12:32:43
MEAT
HEAD |
| tobafett |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 09:37:03
quote:
Originally posted by Daisy Girl
So, does anyone else have a common bond of Pixies/Frank Black fandom in the family?? I am new to this but it is just the coolest thing to bond over family get togethers!
no . they don't like the pixies.
not even sure if they like me.
*sigh*
[edit]
I TAKE IT BACK!
i have a really cool cousin who digs the Ps...totally forgot bout him. he went to see FB+Cs with me...i'm NOT alone!
[edit #2] he was the cousin who David chose to act as his assistant for one of his prognostication acts...so i've a cousin who was on-stage with a pixie! |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 08:56:09
Nice story, Daisy! I wonder if I have a distant cousin who loves Frank and The Pixies....;) |
| tobafett |
Posted - 06/07/2005 : 08:42:16
quote:
Originally posted by BLT
Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade
Guys like us we had it made
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
Didn’t need no welfare state
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days
had to add the visual, BLT... |
| Mass Pleeze |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 15:16:51
Watching Fight Club - the ending comes on and I ask my 16 year old daughter. Who is that? <Where is my mind??> The Pixies" - and so it started - Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, Scientific Phenomenalist, Breeders, B Sides and soon Honeycomb."
Remembered Bone Machine and Here Comes Your Man from the radio back in the day and remembered the name but it all comes together the deeper you dig (for fire).
It is educational manta.
Rick Kline |
| BLT |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 14:21:28
Boy the way Glenn Miller played
Songs that made the hit parade
Guys like us we had it made
Those were the days
And you knew who you were then
Girls were girls and men were men
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
Didn’t need no welfare state
Everybody pulled his weight
Gee our old LaSalle ran great
Those were the days |
| charlesthompson |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 12:04:43
hhmmm, my dad listens to bowie, my brother listens to genesis, my mother listens to "clasic flute tunes" and my sister listens to nursery ryhmes...i can't see any patern there...except bowie was influenced by the pixies...and them by him.. i hate my brother and his taste in music and my mother...well, let her listen to clasic flute themes..
ive tried them with the pixies..my dad wasnt too impressed, my mother they were good..but i think that was only cos i was near at the time..:P and she didnt wasnt to hurt my feelings :P anyway...not that any of you really care what i have to say anyway :D |
| number 13 |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 11:24:42
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
Same here. It was my brother who first introduced me to the man.
Good times in the 90s.
__________
Don't believe the hype.
Yep... The Pixies, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction... I feel like an old angry man who doesn't appreciate his current time... |
| Carolynanna |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 10:13:46
Same here. It was my brother who first introduced me to the man.
Good times in the 90s.
__________
Don't believe the hype. |
| number 13 |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 07:35:14
My brother likes a lot. It was him who introduced me to the Pixies in 1991. But I was a little too young (11) and then he bought the first Frank Black lp and I was enjoying Los Angeles, Fu manchu, Parry The Wind... So I dig deeper the Pixies (mostly Trompe in the first case) and fell in love with Alec Eiffel. So my brother was a big influence and now, I'm more into this stuff than him. |
| Doog |
Posted - 06/06/2005 : 04:55:04
My old lady quite likes the Pixies, the more poppy stuff anyways. I was packing up some junk (moving house on Wed!) and had Motorway To Roswell on.. and she thought it was Supergrass..?!
 "Join the cult of Ray/He was the best Ghostbuster"
www.myspace.com/doog - www.doog.tk |
| Ronzilla |
Posted - 06/05/2005 : 10:43:05
No one in my family likes the Pixies or Frank Black, and when I listen to either of them, they give me strange looks. My mom once asked me why can't I just listen to normal music...
Think about world peace...
While you are doing that, I will be over here stealing your stuff. |
| sombrero11 |
Posted - 06/05/2005 : 08:29:03
My older sister is the one who introduced me to the Pixies. Now I'm a bigger Pixies fan than she is. Unfortunately she lives in rural Maine and has a baby now, so she hasn't been able to go to any of the reunion shows, but I've been burning CDs for her of the shows I've been to. |
| onemoreover |
Posted - 06/05/2005 : 04:41:47
Unfortunately not here. My family's common denominator is the Beatles.
 lots of guys who shook their heads |
| ElevatorLady |
Posted - 06/05/2005 : 04:29:19
My mum and brother both adore Pixies. My brother saw Pixies live 12 years before me in the exactly same venue! He didn't go to the reunion show though, for some reason. |
