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courtneyriot

courtneyriot

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

AUG 09, 2006 06:00 AM

In the past few months I’ve spoken with a number of incredibly talented and iconic musicians including Mike Patton, Les Claypool and Page Hamilton. All three of these men have made their nut and name with super cool yet somehow popular music, oftentimes carving out their niche by paying for their music themselves. Frank Black definitely ranks right up there with these unique performers. Black first cracked the music scene wide open with his preeminent band, The Pixies. In addition to making music...

doolittle

doolittle

Mesa, AZ
December 2004

AUG 09, 2006 09:44 AM

love excellent interview.

jaggy

jaggy

Austin, TX
October 2003

AUG 09, 2006 12:08 PM

excellent chat.
And his previous one, Honeycomb, is pretty damn mellow. Luckily im growing old with Mr. Black so I like "Fast Man Raider Man" as well. I could care less if there's another Pixies record. I love the Pixies but I think some of the stuff he's done with the Catholics is as good and if not better than the Pixies. Gasp! blasphemy!

Ribena

Ribena

SUICIDEGIRL

Italy

AUG 09, 2006 02:35 PM

I've been fed up with Pixies sound...I'm proud of that, I'm glad for the new Mrlove: Black's album, his voice is always in my heart but....God I want Pixies back
excellent interview....I'm here with my dictionary.... :

Elisabeth

Elisabeth

Atherton, CA
December 2002

AUG 10, 2006 12:04 AM

Rock. Great interview, thank you.

PixieVonDust

PixieVonDust

Ireland
July 2006

AUG 10, 2006 02:30 AM

That was a cool interview. Fingers crossed for Pixies album but like Frank Black said, there's pressure to match their past recordings.

Kit

Kit

SUICIDEGIRL

United Kingdom

AUG 10, 2006 05:37 AM

I have been a massive pixies fan for years, but only managed to see them live thanks to the reunion tour they did over here, and i thank my lucky stars because i've never heard live music like it before inmy life, i would LOVE the pixies to put out some new material, just so i can see them again.

I changed my surname to Rosa for god's sake.

robjimmy

robjimmy

Sherman Oaks, CA
December 2005

FEB 12, 2007 04:20 AM

Though I'd be curious, it would probably be better if there wasn't a new pixies album. Frank Black is a great solo artist, and The Pixies sound awesome live after all these years; I never expected to see them live, much less with Mars Volta opening... but I feel like if they made a new record, it would be more of an excuse to tour than an album that compares to the glory days. Although, it'd be great to see em again!

EnnuiWarrior

EnnuiWarrior

Seattle, WA
OLD SKOOL

MAR 03, 2007 11:47 PM


The main thing the band is wrestling with is that we haven't put out a record in 12 years but the records that we did put out are held in fairly high esteem. ... You don't want to screw it up by putting out a bad record or even a record that's really great but everyone says it's bad.



This pretty much sums up how I feel about any defunct band reuniting and writing new material. I think maybe if they changed the band name (cause time changes things) then they could viably release an album without affecting the "fairly high esteem" that the originals are held.

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

APR 03, 2007 03:17 AM

i think this is the first interview i've seen in which DRE actually puts someone off their ease (referring the first question about how mellow the new album was). it's kinda surprising because DRE's usual style is really smooth, like he's known the interviewee all his life and they're just talking 'bout stuff. good read!

smokebombhill

smokebombhill

Providence, RI
January 2008

JAN 24, 2008 07:47 PM

I love a lot of what Frank Black has done "post-Pixies," and I also love Kim Deal's terrific Breeders stuff, but those two in collaboration have always been the absolute best. I'd love a new Pixies album, or at least some kind of collaborative project between those two.

Jena

Jena

New York, NY
June 2003

NOV 08, 2008 07:34 PM

love

PyramidScreen

PyramidScreen

San Jose, CA
March 2008

NOV 27, 2008 04:41 PM

As a musician who grew up in the 60's and 70's, and mostly suffered thru the 80's, my mind was blown by the Pixies when I first heard them. Black Francis was writing something NEW. Actual new music (at the time.)
NOBODY (in my mind) was doing what he was doing. I tried to get my friends to understand, they didn't.
They were mostly into Jane's Addiction (another great band.)

From my first show in 1989 at the Warfield in San Francisco, I've loved their musical ideas, was thrilled (though not surprised) to see the following year that David Bowie was a huge fan of theirs, and thanked god (or someone like him), to see that Kurt Cobain was hip to, and influenced by them.

Thanks for the interview.

As loud as hell
a ringing bell
behind my smile
it shakes my teeth
and all the while
as vampires feed
I bleed