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PixieSteve
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what if frankblack.net goes dead? i hope you're keeping a back up of all of these on your hard drive! god forbid these reviews ever become lost for eternity!
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Carl
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Ha ha, that'll never...whoops!!
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/15/223419.php
Article posted here:
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?whichpage=1.65714285714286&TOPIC_ID=15210&
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/7324/pixies-the-pixies-club-date-live-at-the-paradise-in-boston-dvd/
Pixies
The Pixies - Club Date: Live at the Paradise in Boston [DVD]
(Eagle Vision USA)
US release date: 3 October 2006
by Zeth Lundy
PopMatters Music Columns Editor
In the wacky world of arts and leisure,
“retirement” is often just another word for
“indefinite period of self-imposed silence
during which an audience saves a special
corner of its wallet for an inevitable, Jesus-
esque homecoming”. You know, kinda like
the period between the final song and the
encore at a rock concert, only with
prolonged, hopeless years piled up in
between. This explains why particular
“retirements” come across as transparent
publicity stunts; after all, who didn’t expect
Jay-Z, the Roger Clemens of hip-hop, to
tire of lounging on sun-soaked yachts?
Pixies, arguably Boston’s most influential
rock band from the late ‘80s / early ‘90s
(next to Mission of Burma, perhaps),
weren’t just living the proverbial retired
life—they were dead. At least that’s what
the T-shirts and posters promoting the band’s final slogan had us believe:
DEATH TO THE PIXIES read their loveless goodbye. They served the
noblest of indie-rock lives—coined an iconic brand of dissonant
“alternative” rock with tugging dynamics, had a near-hit with a pretty little
out-of-character pop song ("Here Comes Your Man"), saw said iconic
formula shamelessly co-opted by a band (Nirvana) that became impossibly
famous, and, throughout it all, never compromised their poker-faced
weirdness—only to die just as profoundly as they had lived.
The relationship between singer / screamer / songwriter Black Francis and
bassist / singer / rock-geek fantasy girl Kim Deal had become so
tempestuous that, post-break-up, the subject of the band became one to
avoid: Francis would dodge reporters’ Pixies-related questions, while Deal
would simply hang up the phone. Francis reversed his fake name to make
another fake name, Frank Black, and pursued slightly pleasanter power
pop; Deal formed the Breeders, whose 1993 hit “Cannonball” charted
higher than any Pixies song ever did; drummer David Lovering became a
magician, as many drummers do; and no one knows what happened to
guitarist Joey Santiago, but he was reachable when it came time for that
fated reunion.
In the ensuing commercial wake of Pixies’ surprising and successful 2004
reunion tour comes the DVD Live at the Paradise in Boston, which
documents a show the band performed that year at the titular club in the
city of its origin. While it is yet another entry in a rash of recently
released Pixies concert DVDs (The Pixies Sell Out, Acoustic: Live in
Newport, the upcoming loudQUIETloud documentary) that capitalize on the
reunion’s endless buzz, Live at the Paradise benefits from its nostalgic
angle (band plays for rabid hometown crowd), intimate / unique setting
(200 lucky fans crammed into a tiny rock club, the size of which is a
fraction of what the band now commands), and anything-goes
atmosphere.
The latter is an apt description of the show itself, which opens not with an
expected one-two bomb of ruthless disharmony like “Bone Machine” or
“Debaser”, but with the sweet and playful “La La Love You” and a
requested cover of Neil Young’s hazy “Winterlong”. Moderate b-sides like
“Into the White” and “In Heaven” follow closely behind, long before the
real aural bloodletting begins. After these initial curveballs in the set list,
a bit of predictability sets in: yes, “Monkey Gone to Heaven” and “Where
Is My Mind” are featured, as are a majority of Doolittle‘s and Surfer Rosa‘s
tracks. (Their prickly swan song, Trompe le Monde, is noticeably
underrepresented, and only one song ["Alison"] is drawn from their surf-
rock-on-Mars masterpiece Bossanova.)
Maybe it’s age or maybe it’s just the hurdle of re-learning forgotten roles,
but it takes the band a little while to reach its abstract plane of whacked-
out wickedness. On a thrasher like “Something Against You”, they seem
to be delivering the thunder rather than really channeling it; by the time
the convulsive “Crackity Jones” is tackled, however, everyone’s warmed
up and back in their old molds: Lovering plows ahead at full-steam,
Santiago stands motionless like a deer in the headlights, Deal offers
plentiful smiles of defiance between requisite smoke breaks. Black
eventually gives in to his possessed, tongues-speaking alter ego, which he
appears unable to hold back after so long—not even a pair of respectable
glasses can repress the primordial voice that his eerie songs summon.
When the band finishes its set, throwing sweaty arms around the bipolar
closer “Caribou”, we’ve been given two glimpses of Pixies: the
kindler,
gentler manifestation, and that kinder, gentler manifestation’s rough
estimate of past incarnations now distanced by time, age, forgotten roles,
and so-called “retirement”. If that’s a reasonable delivery of the best we
can expect, it’ll have to do.
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As an added bonus, Live at the Paradise contains newly discovered
footage from a 1986 show at the even smaller T.T. the Bear’s club in
nearby Cambridge, billed as one of the band’s first live appearances. The
home video is crudely shot and blurry at times, but it manages to convey
a solid picture of Pixies at their onset, rampaging through early material
like “Ed Is Dead” and “The Holiday Song”. Seeing Black wield and batter
an acoustic guitar, both in 1986 and 2004, is a reminder of the
instrument’s once-crucial role in provocative and punk-descended rock
music, not to mention its routine and ridiculous banishment from the realm
of “loud” music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV_GcYm4LpY&eurl=
The Pixies Live at the Paradise in Boston teaser clip
RATING: 
— 19 November 2006
http://www.caughtinthecrossfire.com/music/dvd/2520
The Pixies - Live in Boston
Club Date: Live In Boston/Acoustic: Live In Newport
(Eagle Rock Entertainment)
If you're not familiar with the Pixies, then stop
reading this and don't come back until you've at
least got your grubby little paws on a copy of the
'Death To The Pixies' compilation, and listened to it
repeatedly. Been there, done that, you say?
Good - then go and read about how this Boston
quartet became one of the most influential
alternative bands of the late 80's/early 90s,
arguably paving the way for Nirvana and their ilk
with classic albums like 'Doolittle' and 'Bossanova'.
Having originally split in 1992, they reformed in
2004 for a hugely successful world tour; and these
two DVDs catch the band at two performances in
their native New England.
For such a revered band, there's a refreshing lack
of egotism or grandstanding from Black Francis and
co on these performances; just a few snippets of
endearingly amateurish between-song banter that
lend the outdoors Newport performance a certain
intimacy, and give the impression of a band playing for a couple of hundred close friends (as
opposed to lucky fans) at the tiny Boston show.
There's nothing amateurish about the music though. Sure, the Pixies were never the most
accomplished of musicians, but that didn't (and still doesn't) stop songs like 'Nimrod's Son', 'Bone
Machine', 'Wave Of Mutilation' and the more well-known 'Monkey Gone To Heaven' sounding like the
bonafide alt-rock classics that they are. The lengthy set-lists on both DVDs are guaranteed to keep
most Pixies fans happy, and the sound and video quality is excellent throughout. There's also a
mini-documentary and a recording of an early 1986 performance on offer in the 'Extras' sections.
Many of the songs featured on 'Acoustic: Live In Newport' have never officially been recorded in an
acoustic form, and hence this DVD will probably be of most interest to the seasoned Pixies
aficionado. Nevertheless, 'Club Date: Live In Boston' serves as a fine document of a classic band who
have managed to bury their creative differences and re-emerge sounding as great as ever. If
you've managed to catch them live over the past couple of years, you'll no doubt agree; and these
DVDs are sure to bring back some fond memories.
Check www.pixiesmusic.com and www.ilovepixies.com for more info.
Alex Gosman
www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid29424.aspx" target="_blank">www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid29424.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid29424.aspx
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
Three DVDs capture the Pixies’ reunion
By TED DROZDOWSKI
December 12, 2006 1:25:43 PM
SLOW LEARNERS: The Pixies needed four or five years to become exceptional.
The Pixies have always been an electric band. Nothing balances well-rounded frontman
Black Francis/Frank Black/Charlie Thompson’s yowling about the numerology of God and
the Devil and waves of mutilation like grinding guitars and the heavy snap of an amplified
drum kit.
Hell, when the group started in 1986, they barely played well enough to hammer out their
songs on stage. That was shortly after Thompson, an anthropology major, dropped out of
college to form a rock band, apparently after digging up the demon Pazuzu and becoming
possessed. Early on, Thompson, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago, and David Lovering were
passionate little devils when they took the stage at Boston area clubs like the Rat and T.T.
the Bear’s. But they lacked the blend of technique and panache that makes a rock band —
even a primitive punk-rock band — good, not to mention the precision that acoustic
arrangements demand. The truth about the Pixies is that though it took them just two
albums and an EP to become influential, they needed four or five years of playing to
audiences to become true performers. And then, after their 1992 tour, they broke up.
So it’s odd that a pair of DVDs capturing the reunited band in semi-acoustic and acoustic
performances would be released within the past month. Pixies Acoustic Live at Newport
(Eagle Rock Entertainment) is fascinating, even when the framework for their songs turns
weak. Pixies — Live at the Paradise in Boston (also on Eagle Rock) is hideous and
uncomfortable until Thompson puts down his acoustic guitar and hefts a Fender Telecaster
to join his mates in plugged-in-ville. Then it’s exceptional — an electric Pixies concert that
captures the group’s balance of musical passion and mad lyric prophecy. And for those
curious as to why the Pixies are playing together again at all, there’s loudQUIETloud; A Film
About the Pixies (MVD Visual), a behind-the-scenes documentary about their reunion that’s
the finest of these releases.
What’s best about the Newport show is that its 22 tunes set Thompson’s lyrics in sharp
relief. Biblical imagery bumps bellies with dark absurdism and contemplations on fate with
absolute sonic clarity during their performance on stage at the famed Rhode Island folk
festival on a sunny August 2005 day. The summery setting adds some innocence to a set
list that’s a fan’s dream. Alterna-hits like Deal’s vocal feature “Gigantic,” “Monkey Gone to
Heaven,” “Where Is My Mind?”, and “Wave of Mutilation” are balanced by thornier numbers
like “Gouge Away,” “Subbacultcha,” and “River Euphrates.” The well-directed multi-camera
shoot puts you right in the midst of the Pixies, and that makes it easy to see Santiago and
Thompson exchange half-bemused/half-resigned glances whenever the usually bellowing
guitar lines don’t make the transition to tinnier acoustic tones. When an audience member
shouts for the group to jam, Thompson replies, “We’ve never jammed.” But a few songs
later, on “River Euphrates,” he shoots Santiago a sly look and they do just that. Deal
appears as nonplussed as ever behind her blimp-sized mariachi bass. Lovering has it
easiest; his instrument’s always acoustic, and as usual he provides the Pixies’ pounding
heartbeat with methodical grace.
Pazuzu’s curse is in effect during the early portion of Live at the Paradise. The band are off-
balance: Thompson’s acoustic-guitar playing is lackluster, and Santiago seems reticent to
blast over the frontman’s strumming. So the rocket fuel the audience is craving the moment
the band take the stage is missing. The Pixies’ reunion was still very much a novelty at this
point, and expectations for this semi-secret home-town show were high. Slow tempos and
muffed song starts deflate the occasion, even if they seem a bit calculated on Thompson’s
part. Maybe it was the cameras, since the group also have that deer-in-the-headlights look
until Thompson straps on his Telecaster.
As any nervous club musician can tell you, there are two brands of courage: liquid and
sonic. When Thompson begins to rumble through his amplifier on “Gouge Away,” he and
Santiago provide a potent flaming double shot of the latter. And the Pixies find their wings,
delivering the kind of rock-and-roll orgy they grew into before calling it quits.
Good as the Paradise concert becomes, fans may get a bigger turn-on from the disc’s
bonus show: a 1986 set from T.T. the Bear’s. It’s bootleg quality, so the sound and the look
aren’t as impressive as Thompson’s hair, and his thinness, and the pleasure of witnessing
the Pixies when they were truly tiny.
LoudQUIETloud is an impressive little beast. Besides giving fans a chance to see
Thompson in his skivvies, Steve Cantor and Matthew Galkin capture the band on stage at
their best, thriving in the just-reignited spotlight during their first returning tours of Europe,
Canada, and the States. Although the filmmakers’ contention that the Pixies are among the
most influential bands of all time is dubious, they get into their subjects’ craniums with
unforced effectiveness. Deal comes off as the most soulful and complex. (“She needs
something to do besides making poetry, snowflakes, and sleeping all day,” her mom says
of the reunion.) And who knew that after the band broke up, Lovering became a struggling,
couch-surfing magician?
Incidental music by Daniel Lanois fills in the quiet spaces. Since the Pixies aren’t Chatty
Cathys, there are lots of these. Then again, on the early comeback tours, the band had
much to brood about. Deal was one year sober; Lovering’s dad was dying of cancer;
Santiago and his wife had another baby on the way; Thompson was struggling with an
impasse in his solo career. LoudQUIETloud is also a wake-up call to all the dipshits who
slag bands like the Who for reuniting to harvest a cash crop on tours. Terrific as they are, it’s
obvious early on that the Pixies are back in it only for the money. Frank Zappa would be
proud! |
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Levitated
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| Wow I had never seen that picture before! Thanks Carl |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
11546 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2006 : 08:51:06
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Yeah, me neither, I love BF's expression and Kim's just like "Whatever!!"
Saw this on another forum-it's a promo sampler for Live At The Paradise and Newport. The track listing is:
1. Here Comes Your Man
2. Monkey Gone To Heaven
3. Debaser
4. Gigantic
http://www.concertlivewire.com/pixiesdvd1.htm
Pixies play with fire
Pixies - Live at the Paradise in Boston DVD
(Eagle Vision)
4 stars (out of 5 stars)
Reviewed: Dec. 21, 2006
Review by Andy Argyrakis
Since reuniting, The Pixies haven't put out a project filled with entirely new material, but the group
has released a slew of products, especially under the DVD umbrella. First up was 2004's Pixies
(4AD), which complied vintage concert clips, music videos and documentary footage, followed by
2005's Sell Out (Rhino), bringing the tour from the same year to home viewing audiences. Then
there was early 2006's self-explanatory Acoustic: Live in Newport (Eagle Vision), the predecessor to
the same label's brand new Live at the Paradise in Boston as part of its "Club Date Live" series.
While the group is almost wearing out its welcome on the small screen, the latest installment has an
especially intimate feel, simultaneously capturing the group's genuine joy performing for a hometown
audience. Whether it be the sparse acoustics of "La La Love You," the quirkiness of "Monkey Gone
to Heaven" or the searing "Subbacultcha," there's plenty for die-hards to devour, especially those
who weren't able to attend this highly coveted appearance.
But the real treat is a twelve track bonus set filmed in 1986 at TT The Bear's (also in Boston).
Though the production is extremely sketchy, it complies a much younger, grungier group performing
the cryptic and chaotic likes of "Rock a My Soul," "Ed Is Dead" and "Down To the Well." Even with
this insertion, the project doesn't quite measure up to the exceptional Sell Out experience, though it's
still serves a worthwhile purpose.
The Pixies Live at the Paradise in Boston Set List:
1. La La Love You
2. Winterlong
3. Into the White
4. Vamos
5. All Around the World
6. Mr. Grieves
7. Nimrod's Son
8. In Heaven
9. Where is My Mind?
10. Gouge Away
11. Something Against You
12. Dead
13. Isla De Encanta
14. Crackity Jones
15. Monkey Gone to Heaven
16. Wave of Mutilation
17. Subbacultcha
18. Planet of Sound
19. Bone Machine
20. River Euphrates
21. Allison
22. Sad Punk
23. U-Mass
24. Broken Face
25. Debaser
26. Tame
27. Gigantic
28. Hey
29. Caribou
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ATBNG
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I've watched this several times over the past week. I've come to this conclusion. "All Around The World" is a great song and really benefits from Kim's second vocal part. I strongly prefer the Pixies version to the Jarvis/EDF/Block ensemble. I also love the live version of "Winterlong."
The older I get, the more I love "Planet of Sound." They seemingly nail this song every time live. This performance is no exception.
Frank is very funny on the DVD; I enjoy when he gets chatty and the other three members look like they're afraid of him. "Two-Three-FOUR!!!!"
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Ziggy
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Posted - 12/25/2006 : 16:46:22
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Posted - 12/27/2006 : 07:56:49
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| You're not wrong, Ziggy. I'd have paid the asking price just for the '86 bonus gig. I've never seen some of those songs performed live before, just heard them. To think fB was only 20 when it was recorded. Inspiring to say the least. |
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mrgrieves1971
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Posted - 12/27/2006 : 10:26:50
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Originally posted by fbc
You're not wrong, Ziggy. I'd have paid the asking price just for the '86 bonus gig. I've never seen some of those songs performed live before, just heard them. To think fB was only 20 when it was recorded. Inspiring to say the least.
And that gig was only about a mile from my house and I was probably just sitting at home doing my high school homework.
It's a shame ... |
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fbc
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Posted - 12/27/2006 : 11:09:38
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Yeah, I was 8, probably listening to Shakin' Stevens while playing my Uncle's Atari.
"There's an old piano and they play it hot behind the green door" |
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chineselover
= Cult of Ray =
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| Great DVD.. esp the bounsu footage.. in fact, its all about that bonus footage really - what a bonus! |
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -
Ireland
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Posted - 05/29/2007 : 16:15:15
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Talking Pish: Films, Films, Films.
The Pixies Live at the Paradise in Boston. This is a concert film of
The Pixies playing a 200 capacity venue in their hometown last year. The
band seems quite relaxed and chatty with the audience as they play
through faves like Nimrod’s Son, Monkey Gone to Heaven, Debaser and
Gigantic. The DVD also features a 12-song set from a Boston show in
October 1986, filmed on a shaky camcorder and transferred from a bad
quality video tape. |
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