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| buffalo burger |
Posted - 04/27/2004 : 19:45:27
im curious as to if anyone on this board was and early EARLY pixies fan. Like someone who was truly "a fan since the beginning" back when they were just starting. what has become of the people that were at the pixies very first show? Or that saw any of them pre-pixies.
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| porkbone1 |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 19:56:43
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Originally posted by mrgrieves1971
I've been a fan since Surfer Rosa. I grew up in Cambridge and it kills me to know that they were playing on a weekly basis down the street from me and I was just sitting at home doing my homework.
In fact, when I bought Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim, Black Francis was standing in front of me in line. When I went up to the counter (Newbury Comincs in Harvard Square), the guy rang up the CD and said, "Hey the lead singer was just in front of you in line." I was just like "Wow, that's interesting." At the time I just considered them a local Boston band and that kind of stuff could happen, you know.
I wanted to see them, but I wasn't 18 so I didn't attempt to go. Now I know that as long as you don't drink (and don't look 9 years old) anyone can get into an 18+ show.
It just kills me that these shows were going on and I could have been there, but wasn't.
Reminds me of being 13 in Seattle, 1989. I saw Soundgarden just standing outside a bar, hanging out. Only reason I knew it was them is because my girlfriend at the time had a crush on Chris Cornell and recognized him. Back then everybody looked like Soundgarden.
Then another time in 1992 my wife was in Bellingham, Washington and saw Nirvana driving a Jeep through town. Went to a Mudhoney concert that night and turns out Nirvana was the surprise opening band.
Thing was, if you weren't 21 you couldn't see most the best shows.
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| Domestiques |
Posted - 05/02/2004 : 14:43:19
hmm probably since the tail end of cmon pilgrim, its a long time ago and I didnt get the date tattooed on my ass.
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| frank_black_francis |
Posted - 04/30/2004 : 03:38:47
quote:
Originally posted by mrgrieves1971
I've been a fan since Surfer Rosa. I grew up in Cambridge and it kills me to know that they were playing on a weekly basis down the street from me and I was just sitting at home doing my homework.
In fact, when I bought Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim, Black Francis was standing in front of me in line. When I went up to the counter (Newbury Comincs in Harvard Square), the guy rang up the CD and said, "Hey the lead singer was just in front of you in line." I was just like "Wow, that's interesting." At the time I just considered them a local Boston band and that kind of stuff could happen, you know.
I wanted to see them, but I wasn't 18 so I didn't attempt to go. Now I know that as long as you don't drink (and don't look 9 years old) anyone can get into an 18+ show.
It just kills me that these shows were going on and I could have been there, but wasn't.
 
wow....the 'neighborhoods' that takes me fucking back....of course i was 14 at the time but my brother was a big fan (and I was the second-hand fan with no money to buy records).....and the 'miamis' i am wondering if that is in fact Lou Miami's band....you know its funny, but they always talk about 'scenes' in music, Manchester, Seattle, but no one hardly ever mentions the scene in New England in the early 80s..... |
| buffalo burger |
Posted - 04/29/2004 : 16:49:45
thats what i wanted to hear. : )
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| peter radiator |
Posted - 04/29/2004 : 12:39:36
A friend from the Boston area was a fellow student at art school with me from 1986-1989.
Within a week of their first 4AD release, he saw them play an in-store in the Boston area. He had no idea who they were, as he'd been down in Georgia most of the time they were getting started in the local clubs up there.
He dug it immensely, and bought a copy of the disc that day, as well as spoke to the band, which left quite an impression on him. When he brought it back to Savannah and excitedly played it for me, it significantly changed the way I viewed rock music.
I hadn't had that big of a jolt since discovering The Velvets, Patti Smith, Dylan, Television and Talking Heads. In many respects, I place the Pixies in the same category as those folks (although in a slightly more narrow perspective).
I was already involved in doing the underground band thing, but that Pixies record really forced the issue with me as far as looking at live music like an art project as opposed to a gut-feeling type of thing.
I devoured and dissected the songs and the work that surely went into them, and some of that stuff doubtlessly filtered through to my own musical projects.
He and I turned probably dozens of people on to both that album and the band down here, as we had no college radio, no indie record stores, and no internet at the time. Through word of mouth we pressed tapes on people, and more often than not, they became converts as well.
Though my friend went through some very trying times later on nd ultimately took his own life, I still have the same CD he bought at that in-store, and I've followed the group and collected their rare recordings since that day.
~ Peter Radiator
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 18:45:31
Wow Mr. Grieves... you're the man... wait that's someone else on this board...hehe.. Seriously, thank you so much for sharing your story and the flyers... that is so cool 
I have been a fan since I heard the first three seconds of "Monkey Gone To Heaven" when it debuted on 120 Minutes. It was the first time when I actually waited for the commercial, rewound the tape just to play it back. I rushed out the the next day to buy the tape and have been hooked ever since. |
| faskner |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 14:00:24
I'm a fan since 1988, when I heard Where is My Mind? on a local radio station here in Brazil. Bought the record the next day, put it to play and... I couldn't understand all that screaming, the way those guitars sounded... songs like Something Against You, Broken Face and Vamoswere completely bizarre to my ears at that time - let's say I was 12 an the time, I guess that mekes me quite of an early fan :)
But the thing is that couldn't stop listening to that record, and day after day it became more understandable. It still is becoming, actually. |
| mrgrieves1971 |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 10:07:13
I've been a fan since Surfer Rosa. I grew up in Cambridge and it kills me to know that they were playing on a weekly basis down the street from me and I was just sitting at home doing my homework.
In fact, when I bought Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim, Black Francis was standing in front of me in line. When I went up to the counter (Newbury Comincs in Harvard Square), the guy rang up the CD and said, "Hey the lead singer was just in front of you in line." I was just like "Wow, that's interesting." At the time I just considered them a local Boston band and that kind of stuff could happen, you know.
I wanted to see them, but I wasn't 18 so I didn't attempt to go. Now I know that as long as you don't drink (and don't look 9 years old) anyone can get into an 18+ show.
It just kills me that these shows were going on and I could have been there, but wasn't.
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| mereubu |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 08:17:47
Proud patron since 1989.
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| Steak n Sabre |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 08:12:36
I guess I picked up on them around '88. Then when Doolittle was released I was totally hooked...
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| misleadtheworld |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 02:57:46
I don't think the guys from Radiohead would have been 'early EARLY' Pixies fans. I guess that would only be Boston folk.
Do we have any circa '86 Pixies fans here?
 It's getting colder.... |
| lonely persuader |
Posted - 04/28/2004 : 02:22:58
well some of them are in bands, i guess.... i.e. radiohead
but come on im 25 and would have been about 10 at their begining.... don't think me ma would have liked some of the lyrics if i was in to them at that young age.... blasting pixies from me room......
tis wan is for all da oldies |
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