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| surferben |
Posted - 11/10/2004 : 08:51:55
i think that it was a very good performance. maybe not out of this world great, but probably pretty close. in my opinion it started out really strong and ended with the same intensity, but for a stretch in the middle they seemed to lose a little steam or something. anyways, it was only the second time i have ever seen them, the first being in winnipeg earlier this year, so needless to say it was a very special experience for me. as far as the setlist goes, it was very much the same set of songs. i didn't write down the setlist because i was sure someone else would, so hopefully i didn't let the forum down. i would say that i bleed, wave slow, and no 13 baby were my personal favorites last night. also, somebody two rows ahead of me was taping the show, so it is recorded somewhere if disclive didn't record it.
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| sidnanc |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 13:59:19
I was quite disappointed with this performance. I broke the bank to get 5th row, a little off center to the Kim side. The first noticable problem was that the sound was completely imbalanced and I think actually got worse towards the end of the show- it was all bass. TO the contrary, the sound was actually fine for the warm up act.
I also found it interested that Joey is never in the spotlight- literally (except for vamos, and I don't think fiddling about with the knobs on the foot pedals a "guitar solo". He seemed rather oblivious. Either he or Frank blew the guitar interchange that finishes # 13 baby, and terminated the song early. There was simply something off about this show, perhaps it was the 2 week sabbatical that preceded it causing a need to "regroup" at this audience's expense.
I saw Frank and the Catholics about two years ago in a small venue in Indianapolis and that show far surpassed this performance. In fact, he was kind enough to sign autographs and I got a picture taken with him. Believe me- I am tremendous fan of the Pixies and will continue to one, but this show seemed objectively lacking.
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| darwin |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 13:55:31
And, "Deal, who left the band to play in her own successful indie-rock unit, the Breeders" isn't correct. |
| al fresco |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 13:47:37
I live in Milwaukee, and that reviewer is notoriously lousy. Kim definately DID NOT sing lead on Caribou. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't even at the show. All of his reviews sound like somebody phoned him up and told him the name of a couple of songs that were played and he made up some b.s. to go along with it. |
| dayanara |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 11:23:08
I'm sorry - Kim wailing on lead vocals during "Caribou"? Was the reviewer just drunk, or are they switching around again? I know he describes Frank's voice as "near-feminine sounding," but I hope not so much that he sounds like Kim!
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| Steak n Sabre |
Posted - 11/11/2004 : 10:39:04
Here is the Milwaukee Journal's review. Not exactly Nick's best work....
Pixies remember how to rock by pulling out old favorites
By NICK CARTER
ncarter@journalsentinel.com
Posted: Nov. 9, 2004
Indie-rock nostalgia swept over the Milwaukee Theatre Tuesday night, where a crowd of a few thousand - mainly around their late 30s - took in a show by the recently re-formed pioneering rock outfit, the Pixies.
The band is among the few underground-rock bands to form in the mid-to-late '80s and stay on the radar of rock history. The band's tour this year is the most critically and commercially hyped of several high-profile '80s reunion tours.
The Pixies, formed in Boston in 1986, are driven by lead singer, rhythm guitarist and main songwriter Frank "Black Francis" Black and feature Kim Deal on bass, guitarist Joey Santiago and drummer David Lovering. (Black's birth name is Charles Thompson; go figure.)
The band may not cut quite the same physical impression it did back in its heyday, with its collective hairline having receded an inch or two and its waistlines increasing. Yet the mood, energy and intensity of the performance Tuesday matched its level 12 years ago, when the band last performed together.
The first half of the concert included both obscure and better-known tunes, with "Wave of Mutilation" from the band's '89 album "Doolittle," and the Theremin-keyboard-sample-driven"Velouria" from its follow-up"Bossanova" capturing the band's signature moody but bombastic sound.
"Ed is Dead" portrayed the band's straight-ahead punky and playful side, with Black's raging, near-feminine vocals driving the tune alongside Deal's simple but throbbing bass fills.
The next number,"Caribou," had Deal, who left the band to play in her own successful indie-rock unit, the Breeders, wailing on lead vocals, with her pipes alternately urgently guttural and ethereally high-pitched. She later took on the lead vocal for "In Heaven," a whimsical ballad that had her singing in an even higher register.
After a few slower numbers, filled with Santiago's grungy guitar fills and Lovering's manically pounding rhythms, the band again indulged its lighter side on the light and rompish "Here Comes Your Man," another tune from "Doolittle."
The regular set ended with "Vamos," with Deal's and Lovering's bounce-shuffle rhythmic bottom layered with artfully distorted guitar wails.
The encore featured a song from the Pixies' '88 debut, "Surfer Rosa": a high-energy rendition of the early cult favorite, "Where is My Mind?"
 The Cult of Frank: It's not the coming of the aliens or anything... |
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