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Originally posted by Carl

"One had the sense that most of the crowd would have applauded the band just as wildly if the Pixies had stood on stage and read the phone book - except, perhaps, for a few glum Weezer-only fans who spent the set sitting on their hands."

Well, each to they're own, I'm sure they found The Pixies a little too obtuse.

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Review: Pixies steal Weezer's spotlight
00:00 am 7/08/05
Adam Malecek For the State Journal

MILWAUKEE - Based on Thursday's concert at the Marcus Amphitheater, here's some humble advice for Weezer: the next time you're co-headlining a show with the Pixies, you might, in an act of deference or self-preservation, take the stage first.

After all, the Pixies virtually set the musical template for Weezer back in 1990 with the song "Velouria." And in the late 1980s, the Pixies paved the way for grunge and alternative by basically inventing the song structure in which a softly played verse is followed by an explosive chorus - think Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Indeed, the band's influence has been so pervasive that it's hard to fathom what bands as disparate as Nirvana or Radiohead would sound like without the Pixies. Having the Pixies play before Weezer is sort of like having Pearl Jam open for Creed.

And yet the average age of the audience members (approximately 16ish) and the ubiquitous Weezer T-shirts suggested that the evening's primary attraction was Weezer. So the Pixies took the stage first and launched a blistering, hit- heavy set in which they proved that, even though they reunited just last year, they're in top form and still deserve all their hard-earned rock credibility.

The band began its set on a strong note with "Bone Machine" followed by "Wave of Mutilation." Over the next 70 minutes, the Pixies blasted, rapid fire, through a set list that drew heavily from their acclaimed first three albums, playing nearly all of 1989's "Doolittle" and much of "Come on Pilgrim" and "Surfer Rosa."

Although Frank Black, the band's frighteningly intense lead singer and guitarist, never addressed the audience during the show, he seemed especially keyed up Thursday. Onstage, as on the band's records, Black comes off as somewhat deranged. His singular vocals often leap from a hiccup-y delivery to a sinister whisper to a chilling capital S Scream in the course of one song.

Bassist Kim Deal's smooth backing vocals were the perfect counterpart to Black's unfettered howl, and many of the highlights were songs that featured duets between the two. The surprisingly poppy "Here Comes Your Man," with its opening surf-rock guitar riff, was one such high point. Hits such as "Debaser," "Gigantic," "Gouge Away" and "Monkey Gone to Heaven" also sounded especially good live. And in an interesting move the band played "Wave of Mutilation" again later in their set; their second take was the slower, B- side version of the song.

Weezer's legions of fans seemed to be enjoying much of the Pixies' set, but it was the band's rendition of "Where Is My Mind" that easily garnered the biggest crowd reaction - many of the younger audience members undoubtedly recognized it from the ending of the film "Fight Club." As the amphitheater grew dark with nightfall and Black strummed the song's acoustic chords, Deal leaned back from her microphone and let her haunting backing vocals soar. Finally, after playing virtually every Pixies song you'd want to hear live, the band simply waved and disappeared into the wings.

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Originally posted by PsychicTwin

You'd think they'd maybe not open with "Say It Ain't So" considering its basically is a total, complete rip-off of the chord pattern (albeit somewhat inverted) of Where Is My Mind?

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