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a man with no little toe
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Ireland
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 Posted - 11/19/2003 : 06:18:45
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Apologies if this is already out there, but I only have a few minutes at lunch time & couldn't find anything (having a quick look & using the search).
Anyway, whilst perusing a Morrissey site I noticed Frank Black was mentioned, and is causing quite a stir....just thought I'd share the love.... 
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On a Pixies website, former Pixies frontman Frank Black (aka Black Francis) comments on the possibility of a Pixies reunion next year. Amongst his comments as to whether or not they will reform (he is currently with the 'Catholics' group), he said: "It is hard to say whether it will happen. It may or it may not. We are as unpredictable as Morrissey."
On the same website, he listed 'How Soon Is Now?' as one of his favourite songs. He further confessed that the video for Pixies classic 'Here Comes Your Man' was a copy of 'This Charming Man', with all of the flowers and his rip-off Morrissey quiff! Way to go Frank!
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In a 1992 or 1993 interview in French mag "Les Inrockuptibles", Frank Black said he would have loved to write songs for Morrissey (as a huge fan he was and still is), but Moz didn't want them since F.B. had stupidly told mean things about him in some previous interview... (If anyone has kept this interview or a translation, I'd love to read it. Same for the 1992/93 interview.)
I really don't know what kind of music could have emerged from a Frank Black/Morrissey collaboration at the time, but I would have loved to hear it ! The Pixies were such a fantastic band
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Here is an excerpt from an interview filmaker Caveh Zahedi did with Frank Black where Frank mentioned how he offended Morrissey:
C: You also mentioned in an interview years ago that you would love to do a duet with Morrissey. Did you ever pursue that at all? Or meet him?
F: No. I have met him actually, but I don't think that'll happen. (Frank laughs)
C: Did you like him?
F: Yeah, he's a very nice guy, super nice, yeah.
C: Why do you think it's not going to happen?
F: I just think that I'm probably not his cup of tea.
C: Right. (We both laugh)
F: And there's nothing wrong with that, you know what I mean?
C: Yeah, sure.
F: I had said something when I was very young, or younger I should say, and very new at doing interviews, and I had said something negative about his first solo album in an interview. And I wasn't even that serious about it, you know, I was probably smoking pot at the time. Anyway, Morrissey reads all of his music press religiously, and I think he read that. And that kind of... because there was some talk about us working together. I don't think it was his idea but it was someone at the record company... Anyway, that's how I got to meet him.
And I think that he sort of nixed it because I had made this comment, and rightly so. I mean he was just defending his own art. He didn't need some little like punk rock guy telling him that his record was no good. (Frank laughs) So I don't really blame him at all. Anyway, I feel bad because I didn't really mean it. I was just shooting off my mouth and I had probably heard his record one time and you know it didn't turn me on right then and there so... But anyway, I've learned a lesson ever since and I don't say negative things about other artists anymore, even artists I truly don't like, and I happen to like Morrissey a lot, but even artists that I really can't stand. I definitely don't say anything negative about them in interviews because it might get back to them. Some people get really offended because it's close to them and they can't help but being offended. I suppose I'd be offended too.
C: Really, that seems strange to me. I mean, someone might not like something you do and you can still be friends with them.
F: Yeah, but it's not like that I think with making music. I think it's a lot more personal for people. It's their baby. It's what they're most paranoid about. It's what they love the most but it's also the thing that they're afraid of the most: "oh am I really any good?" So it's really hard to hear something like: "oh so and so can't stand you're new record." You're just totally getting them in the Achilles heel.
C: That's true.
F: Anyway, once again, for the hundreth time, I totally apologize. If Morrissey is reading "Mommy and I are One" right now, again I'm totally sorry. (Frank laughs)
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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Posted - 11/19/2003 : 07:04:48
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Hey, that's funny! Thanks for posting, David (hope you don't mind, I find your actual name easier to handle than "AMWNLT"  ).
Frank and Morrissey... I wouldn't have thought of bringing them together, really. Dunno why - after all I like both, although I'v lost track of Moz a long time ago.
This in particular made me smile:
Morrissey reads all of his music press religiously
Tell me why I'm not surprised...
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Edited by - jediroller on 11/19/2003 07:40:27 |
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a man with no little toe
- FB Fan -
Ireland
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Posted - 11/19/2003 : 07:33:12
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Can you imagine Morrissey fronting FB&TCs? Ha ha, it'd be madness (not the band!).
There's the Bowie link between them both as well, Morrissey & FB both were friendly with Bowie in the early 90s. Although it wasn't to be between David & Steven. |
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
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Posted - 11/19/2003 : 09:14:34
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Radiohead, well at least Thom Yorke
cites Morrissey as their biggest influence.
We could start a 7 degrees of Morrissey thread ;) |
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the swimmer
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1602 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2003 : 10:38:56
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I would hope Frank Black would eat Morrissey.
"Get in mah belle, sensitive boy" |
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Itchload
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 11/19/2003 : 12:17:17
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| Thom Yorke is kind of like Kurt Cobain, he changes his favorite influence every other week, I've also heard him give the honor to Frank, Neu, Can, Joy Division... |
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