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Broken Face
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 Posted - 11/12/2004 : 09:45:24
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From Billboard.com - http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000718558
Nashville Sessions Generate Two New Black CDs
As the Pixies' reunion tour plows ahead, singer/guitarist Frank Black plans to release two albums' worth of material recorded earlier this year in Nashville, with a solo trek to follow. As tipped here this summer, the first release will be titled "Honeycomb" but the second has yet to be named.
"In the spring maybe, but the labels take f*cking forever," Black tells Billboard.com of a potential release date for the first set. "It's not like the old days when everyone use to release a record every five months. Now, everything is so calculated and so precious and so careful."
The Nashville sessions, which were literally finished days before Black joined his former Pixie bandmates on the road, feature an array of legendary players, including the Band's Levon Helm, Bob Babbitt, Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn, Duane Jarvis and Steve Cropper.
While Black says "Honeycomb," which is finished and contains such songs as "Lone Child" and "My Life Is in Storage," is "magic," the remaining album "has so many people playing on it, we have to kind of wade through it to find the magic." As for the creative direction of the sessions, one word describes the entire project.
"Mellow," says Black. "It's just the way it came out. Maybe I wrote a little bit in anticipation with playing with those kinds of guys. But they are definitely pre-punk, these guys. So it's not like they don't get it, it's just that they come from a different world, where it's a little more groove-oriented. They don't necessarily play loud."
"It's not necessarily not tough or not aggressive but it's just... I think of Leonard Cohen as being mellow but I don't think of him as being wimpy," he continues.
As for the Pixies, the band is currently being followed around by a camera crew for an eventual DVD release. Black hints a possible summer 2005 street date for the set, documenting the reunion tour, as well as backstage interaction between band members.
Black remains elusive when asked if a new Pixies studio album could be in the offing. "I don't even know," he says. " I think the next time we go out, if we go out next summer, there won't even be the record out yet. Like I said, these record companies take forever."
-- John Benson, Cleveland
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 09:50:17
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I think I'm gonna cry. Solo tour? Pixies DVD? This too f***ing good to be true.
Denis
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dayanara
* Dog in the Sand *
Australia
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 10:29:27
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Originally posted by Broken Face
Black remains elusive when asked if a new Pixies studio album could be in the offing. "I don't even know," he says. " I think the next time we go out, if we go out next summer, there won't even be the record out yet. Like I said, these record companies take forever."
Hmmm....interesting. I guess they're dealing with record companies after all. That sounds like a lot of touring next year, solo + Pixies. But I guess he's the one person I shouldn't worry about burning out.
Did I tell you guys that I'm just stupidly excited about this DVD? Cause I am. Yep.
Is it time to start up the FB DVD petition again?
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 12:01:20
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this is great news!
I wonder which labels he is talking about
I don't think he means cooking vinyl/spinart
on the other hand he seems a bit angry
why would he be angry at a new label?
or maybe he was talking about the fact
that they don't have one yet for honeycomb
another intreseting bit:
the two nashville sessions are seperated
there's no mention of a double album
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Skatealex1
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 12:13:35
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WOW A fucking Pixies dvd will make me go insane :):):):)
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Adam
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 13:04:46
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Is this list correct, or did I misread: Honeycomb (2 discs), another FB solo disc, and a Pixies dvd? Not sure if I understood the Nashville sessions conversation. Couldn't tell if he is talking about two or three discs.
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 13:07:24
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Great news!!! A DVD and a SUMMER TOUR? I hope that includes Europe Festivals...
No peito dos desafinados
Também bate um coração
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theFILLshow
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Posted - 11/12/2004 : 14:17:28
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Originally posted by Adam
Is this list correct, or did I misread: Honeycomb (2 discs), another FB solo disc, and a Pixies dvd? Not sure if I understood the Nashville sessions conversation. Couldn't tell if he is talking about two or three discs.
Free the Heel!
No, there's "Honeycomb" the first Nashville session, then the unnamed second.
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