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Posted - 12/19/2004 : 13:59:53
The Pixes Recieved a four Star Review from Rolling Stone for the 12.5 Camden Review. December 30th to January 13th
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THE PIXIES
Tweeter Center at the Waterfront, Camden, New Jersey
December 5 2004 ****
The acclaimed reunion tour roars into the homestretch
Early in the second of two Camden, New Jersey shows, after the pixies finished a cover of teh Jeasus and Mary Chain's "Head On," bassist Kim Deal had a question. "Charles, is that song in C or C sharp?" Frontman Frank Black (a.k.a. Charles Thompson) told Deal that the song is, in fact, in the key of C. Deal confessed she had played it in C sharp. "We have to to do it again," Black said. "We're not going to move on until we play the right key." Plenty intense the first time around, the song became a blistering roar in reporse - an indication that evne though the pioneering indie rockers have spent most of this year on a guelling reunion tour they admit was financially motivated (the T-shirts they're selling are emblazoned with the word SELLOUT), they still care about the music.
The fussiness that surrounded "Head On" didn't infect the rest of the set - for a long stretch beginning with "U-Mass," every selection was on the verge of spinning out of control. All four Pixies seemed to enjoy the raggednesss. Though they've been doing the same basic set (a lot of Doolittle, not much Trompe le Monde) since returning to active duty in May, nothing about this performance feld perfunctory. The band's oft-intimidated one-two punch - needlepoint-percise verses followed by gleefyl chourses of nuance-obiterating noise- remains as thrilling as it was in its late-Eighties heyday.
Black leered with delight as he sang the the girl-group homage "Here Comes Your Man," summoned a menacing bellow for "Gouge Away" and reached a personal geek-rock peak by singing a "Where is My Mind?" that was even more determined than the recorded version. The burly singer remains the Pixies' focal point, but he clearly needs every kilowatt generated by this particular combination of musicians to fully realize his lunacy. Deal, drummer David Lovering and guitarist Joey Santiago didn't just provide the necessary smak-building backseat support - they divedall the way in, and it was their energy, Not Black's agitation, that took "Velouria" and the blitzing-fast "Vamos" to places those miniture epics hadn't visited Before.
TOM MOON
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