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Body Massage Machine
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 Posted - 10/24/2004 : 17:07:34
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| Does anyone know why when they played Trompe le Monde, Frank played acoustic guitar, Kim played guitar, David played the shackers, and members of the late show band played bass and drums?? This has been bothering me for some time now. I NEED ANWSERS. |
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OldManInaCoffeeCan
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 10/24/2004 : 19:52:53
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[I first put this reply on the Pixies forum where this topic also appears, however I wanted to put it here also, so that you can finally get some peace. Thanks for bringing it up. I had forgotten about those shows.]
Yeah, in fact, I've got the tape. It was of course, their touring for Trompe le Monde, and unfortunately I didn't write down the date on the tape. A few days, or even the next day, I'm not really sure, but soon thereafter they appeared on the Dennis Miller Show and I've got that on the same tape.
As you recall, they played Trompe le Monde on Letterman. And you are correct about the lineup, Frank on accoustic, Kim on Accoustic, David on the shakers, one light colored and the other dark and slightly smaller (he is really shaking the hell out of them), Joey on electric guitar, and the Latenight band with Paul Shaffer on Keyboards, Anton Fig on Drums, Will _____ on bass, and ________ on guitar (I can't remember their names). Toward the end of the song, Paul plays a bluesy organ solo, followed by ________ with a guitar solo, and then Joey with a guitar solo that includes playing with both hands on the neck of the guitar similar to Eddie Van Halen. It's really quite a performance.
Then, they do two songs on Dennis Miller. The first is Head On, which was written by William Reid and Jim Reid and is Trompe, and after the next guest they finish with Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons. Both really rock out. David is great on Head On. And Black Francis' voice on Bird Dream is the Bomb, "Spead leaving without warning, i need som place to sleep tonight, blowing in the rocking of the pines,...." Absolutely some of my favorite vocals by Charles. So deep and resonate.
Wow, great flashback. You know, I got in a lot of trouble for making that tape. I used a tape that belonged to my wife and it had some important golf lesson on it. It really could have been anything, the point was it was important to her and I thoughtlessly recoreded over it.
Oh well, I can always get her some new golf lessons and video them, however the tape is pricless. |
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
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Posted - 10/24/2004 : 20:02:15
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Anton also played drums on Honeycomb, no?
Around here, intolerance will not be tolerated |
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OldManInaCoffeeCan
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1467 Posts |
Posted - 10/24/2004 : 20:04:17
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| Yeah, pretty cool, huh? |
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peter radiator
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 10/24/2004 : 21:04:41
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It was a well-known "rule" on the old Letterman show that any musical guests HAD to use the house band. In general, you were only allowed to have your own lead guitar player or background vocalist.
They made a few exceptions for big-time cats like Dylan (who insisted on using his own band back in 1984), but for the most part everybody back then did that so they didn't have to have a whole other drum set and montior mix setup, and Anton didn't have to let anyone rearrange his drums.
Looking back, it was actually kinda cool that they let all the members of the Pixies appear together, even though David was reduced to shakers. And Paul's keyboard solo was OUTTA SIGHT.
Plus, Dennis Miller was so thrilled with the Pixies' performance that he invited them back unnanounced for the next night's show and he got so riled up by their tune, that he threw his chsir into his desk like some kind of yuppie punk rock maneuver.
hahahahahaha
~ Peter Radiator
"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder |
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Body Massage Machine
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Posted - 10/25/2004 : 08:59:04
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| THANK YOU SO MUCH |
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Hatchetman
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 11/02/2004 : 02:44:33
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Hey Body Massage Machine, is your name taken from a GI Joe spoof cartoon?
Ade
As the air conditioner hummed.... |
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dyperman
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Posted - 11/17/2004 : 05:58:22
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| I saw them do Tame on letterman and I still talk about the primal screaming of that performance to this day ( I think it was letterman) what a song to play on national television!!! |
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tobafett
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 11/30/2004 : 08:48:41
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Ever think of digitizing that video???
and putting it on the net???
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Bathsheeba
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Canada
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Posted - 12/12/2004 : 21:13:46
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Yeah! that would be so cool for someone to put that out on the net...Maybe release it with the upcoming appearance on letterman
that might just be a cool thing to do. I strongly suggest someone get on that
I'm All For Good Will. I'll Just Wait for someone else to start. |
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frarosano
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Italy
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Posted - 01/27/2005 : 05:29:11
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is it possibile to see this video on internet?
can you give me a link?
in 90 i can't see letterman in italy, nowday yes |
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Sam
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
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tofuescape
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Posted - 07/20/2005 : 08:13:37
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Wow, great videos Sam. My place of work will love me downloading all these on their bandwidth. Would be good to see some Frank Black solo vids...especially early solo stuff. Any ideas?
Thanks again...Javascript:insertsmilie(' ')
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Originally posted by Sam
http://www.broszkowski.com
ENJOY
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
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Posted - 07/23/2005 : 13:01:00
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
http://www.broszkowski.com
ENJOY
I finally get to see it after all these years...this is a damn fine Saturday. |
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Body Massage Machine
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Posted - 01/02/2006 : 20:41:38
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| sweet, i forgot about this thread |
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Sam
= Cult of Ray =
Ireland
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Posted - 01/05/2006 : 08:08:08
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| Don't thank me guys, thanks the legendary Matt Brozkowski with a fat donation to his paypal account, i see some mercenary u2 fan is trying to sell Matt a rare handycam film of Pixies opening for u2 right around when the end was nigh. I might drop him a tenner but i reckon its a good deal if we all chip in. |
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Bernie
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Posted - 01/08/2006 : 12:28:05
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| Thanks for sharing. Great Stuff. |
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Pixies on Letterman in the early 90s
